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Morning walk dedicated to Scuba Alltech63 3 minutes ago After correctly pointing out that my dinning selections were high in calories and fat content which was 100% accurate 🤔.

I decided to walk up Rue Happy Bay to where the very nice villa's sit on top of the hill between Happy and Friars Bay.

I started cussing you Scuba halfway up

but I made it.
My thoughts were if I was going to do a major hill do 1 so if I passed out at least a car would see me on the side of the road instead of some less traveled goat trail.

The views were worth the hike so I did the hill first then down to the mud pit road where I came across a heard of Cows which did give a slight pause as 1 kind of eye balled me.

Once I completed the trail back to Happy I saw Danny and had a good conversation with him about what happened to the Dragon head statue that was there last year.

So now I will continue with my gastronomic selections as we only have a few more days to go and Le Cottage and Bistro are on the menu

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Short Term Car Rental from Orient Village sxmdon 10 hours ago Hi -

We are arriving the end of March and this year we decided not to rent a car for the full two weeks, as we mostly just go to the beach these days. I was wondering if there are any local car rental companies that would do a pick-up and drop off somewhere in Orient Village? We would just need the car for the day and likely on Wednesday, April 1 to go to the Market in Marigot, quick stop at Ma Dou Dou and likely some groceries on the way back to the Village. It's possible that we would want to go another day the following week but nothing is carved in stone at this point.

Thanks in advance!

Don

sxmdon

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Grand Case Christmas Parade Alltech63 11 hours ago Took a while to get us but well worth the wait unfortunately they had to March with off and on in the rain. But the show must always go on.

Plus fireworks and a very nice yacht in the bay.

Hopefully the pictures capture the event.

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Rainbow Cafe Brunch Alltech63 Yesterday at 04:45 PM Now you know why I try to walk everyday.

Great food with a view

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Morning walk Alltech63 Yesterday at 01:51 PM Some random pictures from my walk to Happy Bay and Friars Bay this morning

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Grand Case Christmas Boat Parade Alltech63 12/20/2025 10:45 PM So we can see boats coming in and lining up over by the dock by the Lolo's
Hopefully my pictures will be decent but at night and hold phone camera still will be a challenge plus the lights from hotel on beach are bright but here is the look before parade starts which we can see them lining up now

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Bleu Emeraude Alltech63 12/20/2025 07:39 PM Some shots of the room before .......I start drinking real stuff and trash the place

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The Final in-between Alltech63 12/20/2025 05:37 PM So we decided to have lunch at Rancho Del Sol that over looks Orient Bay.

Great service and views and the food was pretty tasty.

I had the smoked and grilled pork belly burger and the wife had a poke bowl.

Next stop the U-Save and then Bleu Emeraude

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2 WestJet planes overnight jeepers 12/20/2025 02:34 PM What's with the 2 WestJet planes overnighting? One Toronto & one Montreal left very early this morning. Both flight numbers starting with 4.

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Final Thoughts on L'Esplanade Alltech63 12/20/2025 11:45 AM It has been a wonderful stay and I highly recommend staying here. The room was very clean and modern great views and a nice breeze on the balcony. We were also provided an assortment of room beverages (coffee, soda and water with a few snacks)

The staff were top notch and very friendly and ready to help with any needs you might have. A nice touch for me was the laundry service you got a full clothes basket washed and folded for 20 USD.

The continental breakfast was spot on and self serve.

My favorite place was the pool and the service there was outstanding. The Spa was also very good and my wife enjoyed the Yoga class.

The only downside if you can call it a downside is you can hear people talking on the balcony at least my wife said the entire hotel could hear me

I think there are 24 rooms and it never seemed crowded but you did see people unlike Karibuni with only 6 rooms.

There is a shuttle service provide for Grand Case for those who do not like to walk you need to reserve it.

It was just under a 1/2 mile walking to L'Auberge and we did see security at night in-between hotel and town.

Today we move to our final stop on what so far has been a very relaxing and wonderful vacation the variety has been nice.

So Bleu Emeraude here we come a Xmas boat parade is tonight so we will have an ocean front view to watch it from.

Oh I forgot to mention my wife wishes to come back this summer for a milestone Birthday so will will do 5 days at Karibuni and 7 at L'Esplanade as they have a 7 days for the cost of 5 special in the summer.

Next year will be the 1st time we will not be in SXM for Christmas so the summer trip is a concession to that fact.

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