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| Hi We are on N905 on 27th Feb. We are flying Thomsonfly. Sali
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| Does anyone know much it costs for a taxi to Maho Beach? Or does anyone do a trip specifically to there? I'd love to see the planes. Are taxis reliable on St Maarten? Last time we were there, we just chilled around the beach and town, so haven't tested them out.
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| Have a look at bernards tours if you are thinking of going to the airport beach. http://bernardstours.com/ Rob
R&DSunbird/Destinty, Emerald, Seawing, Carousel, Norway, Ocean Village, Oceana, Next Cruises: October 2009 - E928 - Oceana; October 2010 - N027A - Ventura
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If you have Google Earth on your PC (free download from Google if you haven't) then go to
Latitude:- 18° 0'40.31"N
Longitude:- 63° 2'50.86"W
You will see where the ships dock, in fact you can see one docked there already.
If you haven't got or don't want to install Google earth then an alternate is go to URL:-
http://maps.google.com/
and enter the following in the search box:-
18° 0'40.31"N, 63° 2'50.86"W
switch to satellite view and again you can see the ship docked in St Maarten.
I often use Google Earth or Google maps to research our various ports of call.
Derek
PS: does anyone recognise which ship is docked there?
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| Thanks for the Maho Beach info. I'll try bernard tours.
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| Hello again. I looked at the tours but really it's just a taxi there & back that we need. We wondered if it's feasible to go to Maho Beach just for an hour or so in the morning, but it depends on the taxi cost. Any ideas?
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Hi
We're heading that way in a few weeks on Oriana X920. I'm currently doing research on the web for what we can see and do in our various ports of call and will post full list of links against X920 shortly. However in the mean time for St Maarten I've currently got:-
http://www.cruisecritic.co.uk/ports/newport.cfm?ID=13
http://www.st-maarten.com/
Which you might find useful
Derek
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| The P&O ships dock in Philipsburg and we were there in April. The taxis leave from a very organised area right by where the ships dock, so you do not need to take the water taxi into town. The prices are controlled and are largely priced per person, e.g. a taxi for two to Marigot is about £10 one way - for four that would be nearer £20 one way. The beach by the airport is a similar distance as Marigot so taxis are probably a similar price. Regarding mosquitoes - the Dengue fever virus is transmitted by the aedes aegypti mosquito which usually bite during the daytime, so you need a reliable insecticide throughout the day to be completely safe (I am a biologist). We normally use the Boots Tropical Strength insecticide which is in silver coloured containers (unless the colour has changed) and contains 50% deet. The 'Jungle Formula' one I have seen is not strong enough - but they may market two strengths like Boots do (one for europe and they other for Tropical areas). Another point about Philipsburg - if you walk straight through the town going away from the water taxi pier you come to a road with the salt lake opposite. Along that road you will find a supermarket selling tourist clothes and souvenirs cheaper than the touts you have just walked past. It also has a clean loo which is always useful! Happy holiday PS Has anyone tried using the P&O spell checker - it wanted me to change 'coloured' to 'colored' - shame on you P&O you may be owned by an american company, but do standards have to fall that far!
The crow(cruise history in member's interests)
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If you have Google Earth on your PC (free download from Google if you haven't) then go to
Latitude:- 18° 0'40.31"N
Longitude:- 63° 2'50.86"W
You will see where the ships dock, in fact you can see one docked there already.
If you haven't got or don't want to install Google earth then an alternate is go to URL:-
http://maps.google.com/
and enter the following in the search box:-
18° 0'40.31"N, 63° 2'50.86"W
switch to satellite view and again you can see the ship docked in St Maarten.
I often use Google Earth or Google maps to research our various ports of call.
Derek
PS: does anyone recognise which ship is docked there?
I have just downloaded google earth, and copy and pasted your latitude and longatude into it, for the St Maartan port, but I have never used google earth before and wondered where you got the longatude and latitude to put in the search?
Thanks
Sara
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Hi Sarar
I got the longitude and latitude by telling Google earth the place name (i.e. island) then moved around the display to find the docks. On some islands you can actually see cruise ships docked. At the bottom of the Google Earth screen it shows the longitude and latitude values, it was these I posted. I use Google quite a bit and have various "pins" stuck in the map around the world.
As well telling it place names and coordinates you can also tell it postcodes. So I can also see our house from space.
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