Adventures on my holidays. Think to check before you arrive.

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I have gone several times to Aruba where I have my timeshare, so I know my way around. As St. Maarten is a lot smaller, I thought we would not have much problems. I was wrong. Taxis are VERY expensive there. And they charge for the amount they drive and also for the amount of people. And as we had to take the children with us, before we discovered what to do, we had to pay to learn. The first day we had to go to the supermarket. The super was not very near and as the driver counted noses (even Sofía´s small one), we had to pay $100 to go and return there. The whole cart full meant arount $300 and that included salmon, meat, shampoos, you name it. So the real pain was the cab. There were 2 things to do in the future. Either stay at the pool the 2 weeks or find a less expensive way to travel. We went once to Phillisburg by bus, but buses did not go to many places. It was then that we saw light. We had to RENT a car. So we did. We went to places that we could not even have gone on a taxi. Unless of course, we paid for the cab to wait for us. Car rentals are not expensive in places where there is tourism. That way we took the children to a mini zoo and to a pint size butterfly farm. Beaches were not awesome as Eagle Beach in Aruba, so we stayed by the pool many days.