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Anybody stay at B.O. Paradis SXM??? Reviews?? TJTrippe 3 hours ago Anybody able to give a review of this place?

B,O, Paradis SXM
18 lotissement Baie Orientale, Orient Bay, 97150, Saint Martin

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Sargassum Update Simpson Bay Whale Tail 4 hours ago I looked out at the Bay earlier today with my binoculars and the bay looked like people have been busy cleaning it up. Except along the airport stretch where nobody cleans it up

Then we came home from Rendezvous and went out to the balcony to check out the neighborhood and then we saw it!!!!

No longer are there streamers going by. But instead there are huge and I mean really huge mats of it just off shore to the south approaching Simpson Bay. Where it will go I don't know but I'll check in the morning. It doesn't look good.

The pictures might not represent what I saw but it is there.

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Rendezvous Last Visit This Trip Whale Tail Yesterday at 11:38 PM Well it was a good one!! We met up with WWll also known as Warren a long time visitor to the island and we gained the knowledge of his years visiting. I think that he enjoyed himself as he was singing along and I don't think that he has ever been to the Rendezvous brunch. And Warren you shouldn't have not done that and next time it will be our treat, thank you. Warren did not know how to attach pictures to his posts and I think that I have him straightened out on doing that. Post away Warren. Then we had a nice lady that came over to our table to meet us as she saw my Whale Tail necklace and wanted to meet us, kind of embarrassing. She has been a member of TTOL since 2013 and has a total of 2 posts. Very nice to meet you.

The band was awesome as usual but was missing Ronnie Santana this week as he wasn't feeling well. Whatever bug is going around down here is still around. We had friends come in from Halifax last week and 3 out of 5 got it and they were only here for 1 week.

WendyK was present as always and was having a good time dancing, always good to see her. We also thanked the owner of Rendezvous Nathalie for looking after our reservations and changes every year we come. We book months in advance and she is in a picture with the 2 horn players with their arms up.

Rendezvous has a new menu for the Sunday Brunch which is scaled down from their new menu that I posted maybe a couple of months ago. I think that with the expanded seating and limited staff they could not keep up with a large variety of food orders and my sliders are no longer on the Brunch menu. D*m!!
But I figure that during the week you would get the full menu. We just had an order of wings and fries to share and they were dry crunchy and big.

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Day 3 and 4 eilandmens Yesterday at 09:32 PM Contential breakfast for 2 on patio. $10/person includes orange juice, coffee, yogurt, butter, jelly, 2 pain au chocolat, 4 mini croissants.. very good and served to room. Went to Orient lots of sarragasum but the breeze was great. We did not find 14mph breeze sandblasting. It was cooling. Relaxing day. Wine, complimentary for our stay (repeat customers )on porch. Later we went to Rancho del Sol for dinner. A first for us,made reservations online, ( all in French). My wife taught French so we were cool. Menu online is French with no English translation. My wife came through again.we had Jack Daniels on the rocks, a very generous pour for both of us. I had flank steak with “smashed” potatoes; she was not hungry and had an app -roasted oysters, (never heard of it) not oysters Rockefeller, but oysters roasted in oven. She liked them. I recommend the place.

Next day going to timeshare on KimSha beach. Traffic not too bad on a Saturday. Check in about 2:30pm.went to Carol’s favorite place Garden Market for supplies. Gin and tonic on patio. Then walk to BBB for dinner. Walked on Welfare road to avoid beach which is dicey since Roxy left. Buccaneer Beach Bar was crowded. It was our fave night reggae night. A fun night. The food was disappointing though. Had better there in recent past. Hamburger over done, fries ok, same with my wife’s Maui Maui burger overcooked. Reggae night was fun however. Love that music. January our food was great.

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Vintage Yacht - “Talitha” Teresasxm Yesterday at 07:55 PM A beautiful old yacht has pulled up in front of Mary’s Boon in Simpson Bay. Built in 1930, it was originally owned by J. Paul Getty and served in World War II as the USS Beaumont. The 262 foot yacht was refitted in 1993 and currently is owned by Mark Getty, co-founder of Getty Images.

It’s been a luxury yacht show in Simpson Bay recently and it’s so cool to lay on a beach chair and read up on them. I love history.😊

p.s. In honour of Pat’s recent birthday, I took the photo in front of Saba - one of her favorite islands.

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Takeaways from our Spring Break Charter Matt W Yesterday at 03:03 PM Hey all - just back from a fantastic week in the windy BVI. I took my two kids (age 5 and 9) and 5x adult family members that were charter first-timers. Kids punched their first ticket last year in the Exumas.

This was my first time chartering in more of the high season and wow was it windy and crowded. 20 knots most of the week with two days of 25+. Had to re-work the itinerary a bit so we weren't sailing to Anegada on those windier days. I was determined not to reserve a Boatyball all week, and managed to pull it off. Here's where we ended up each night.

1. Diamond Cay - FCFS ball
2. Benures Bay (Bight was full at 2:30) - FCFS ball
3. BEYC - anchored
4. Leverick - anchored
5. Pomato point - anchored
6. CGB - ball
7. Peter Island - slip

The only anchorage I didn't particularly care for was the one at BEYC since we were in 50 feet and it was pretty crowded at 2:30 when we arrived.

A few firsts...

As I mentioned in another thread, we rented a safari truck and did the Baths via land and it was really enjoyable day. VG has great views and it's really a fun drive. Those views at Hog Heaven alone are worth it.

I've always wanted to try Pomato Point and frankly it's unclear to me if that area is redlined, but I dont see why it should be. With how crowded Setting Point was (~75 boats), there was really no reason to try and get in there and anchor. I've also had a FCFS (non-boaty) ball fail on me in the Setting Point anchorage. The Pomato Point anchorage is easy to approach, has excellent holding, and has a lot of space. There were 6x boats with room for plenty more. We arranged a truck delivery from Dean, and later that evening dined at Sid's which was excellent. Great vibe, friendly staff, and the food was really really good. Downside is it's a beach landing, and we had a little bit of wind swell to deal with. Perhaps others can comment on how this is in different weather conditions. We had east winds of 18-20 knots and it was a little bit rolly.

I reserved a slip at Peter Island a couple weeks before the trip for our last evening. First time ever being on the dock during a charter and we also wanted to check out the new marina facilities. Beautiful setting and the facilities are really well done - perhaps they could use some more seating area at the pool. Crew enjoyed coming and going as they pleased. 30 min motor the next am back to Nanny Cay. We had planned to just grab some pizzas at the Drunken Pelican but I wasn't aware it was bbq buffet night and at $70/pp that added up quickly! A word of advice - be floating outside the channel entrance 20 or so mins before 1:00. I arrived right on time and had to wait for 4x boats which took over an hour and a half to get in.

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Saba Whale Tail Yesterday at 12:30 PM This is the clearest Saba has been in a month and the sea is calm and it's hot at 8am.
This is the type of weather we would expect at this time of the year but for the past month it's been very windy and cool in the evenings.

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Catch 21 Whale Tail Yesterday at 12:18 PM We went to Catch 21 last night and the traffic was awful. We left SBR at 5:28 for a 6pm reservation to go to
Port de Plaisance on the other side of the causeway. It took use 1 hour and 15 minutes to get there. We had a hard time just getting off of Billy Folly Road. Then got through Simpson Bay only to park on the causeway for ever. When we got to Catch 21 the waitress told us that there was a motorcycle fatality in front of the Cinemas on Welfare Rd which stopped all traffic leaving Simpson Bay on Welfare Rd and the alternative is to go over the causeway and down Union Rd which was our direction. This is at least the 3rd scooter fatality since we arrived on island.

Catch 21 is an open air restaurant located above the Mandarin right beside the Princess Casino and has plenty of parking. This is a sports bar/restaurant but is very high end with 8 big screen TV's. The service was exceptional partly because at most there were about 16 patrons.

My wife ordered the Meat Lover pizza with tomato mozzarella pepperoni spicy sausage and bacon that was cooked in their wood fired oven. I had, yes Carol you guessed it the 8oz meat by Linz Black Angus Burger with caramelized onions mushrooms and lettuce and tomato. With a big basket of home cut fries that I could not finish. The burger would finish a very close 2nd to Orange Fever.
Then for dessert I had the Chocolate Mousse and I was stuffed.

Then at the end of our evening one of the waiters came over with a post card and said that you can fill it out and send it to anyone and they would mail it for us. We mailed it to ourselves.
Well JD with you and I being retired postal worker's let's see how long this takes!!!
I figure it will have to go through the SXM postal service then the US postal service and finally the Canadian
postal service. I'm thinking not before July

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Simpson Bay/Sargassum Walk Whale Tail 03/21/2026 05:56 PM Mother Nature will spare no beach. The winds and currents have been out of the south east lately which doesn't bode well if there is sargassum floating by out there.

After breakfast at Tortuga we decided to do our favorite walk on Simpson Bay. We parked at D's and saw the mess. The sargassum stretched from the western corner all the way past Mary's Boon. About 3/4 of the beach is affected, the farther east you go the better it gets.

K's had a fair amount Babacool's had cleaned up most of it and at Mary's Boon they had at least 3 workers raking and burying it in the beach. There was still a lot in the water waiting to come ashore. I just checked the Great Bay cams and it appears to be okay.

So if you want a beach day Mullet beach Friars Bay and Happy Bay should be ok. Or any other beach along the west coast should be fine.

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Breakfast At Tortuga Whale Tail 03/21/2026 05:20 PM Since there are no big ships in port today we headed off to Maho. No problems with traffic at 9am and parked at Sonesta. Beautiful view very good service and even better a very good price for breakfast. Breakfast for 2 with 2 orange juice came to $44 no service charge added.

Then we thought we would check out the new observation deck at the Driftwood but we were so early that they weren't even open yet. I can't believe that we have been on island for 4 weeks and have not had 1 Driftwood Rum Punch yet!!!!

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