TravelTalkOnline Forums Travel and Vacation Forums St. Maarten - St. Martin Are cruisers good for the island, or an evil ?

When a large enough part of your economy depends on cruise ships, you do pretty much whatever the cruise lines want. And that clearly is quantity.

Back in the day, one of the amusements was sitting at Sam's at lunch watching the cruise passengers lugging their duty-free booze back to the ship and thinking how harried they looked and how nice it was to be able to take in the island at leisure.