Thanks for the replies. I will check those places out.
Through the ship is usually a big premium to doing on your own. If cabs go where you want life is good.
Obviously, the first time you visit a place you don’t know how easy/hard things are to piece together yourself.
The big thing I dislike about ship tours is often the late start time, waiting at the pier, then loading of a bus, and then all the conservative return times. I remember first SXM trip we just got settled at Boo Boo Jam, had lunch drink and back to the pier. We took a cab to Maho and Mullet for the 2nd half of day.
It often leads to paying a lot more for a lot less time where you are going.
And finally, especially in Turkey, you always get taken and blow an hour in a rug shop and you always walk out with a rug you just met and cost a lot of money.
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