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Poll: Do you stay on French or Dutch side?
#77360
12/03/2015 11:29 PM
12/03/2015 11:29 PM
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Joined: Apr 2014
Posts: 46 Raleigh, NC
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(I don't believe this forum has a tool for polls, so we will have to manually do it. At the end of each day, I will post the new French/Dutch side tally.)
Please post if you stay at lodging on the French side, or the Dutch side. If you stay on both, please pick the one you stay at the most. This is only for your lodging. Residents of the island are welcome to indicate your side as well.
As a secondary poll, please indicate, in the same post, if you spend more of your time away from your lodging on the French or Dutch side. Again, I realize this is going to be tough for many of you, as reading the trip reports it sounds like many of you spend a lot of time on both sides. Again, pick the ONE side where you feel you spend the most time.
Hopefully this is a fun exercise, and one that gets a large number of responses.
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Re: Poll: Do you stay on French or Dutch side?
[Re: RaleighToSXM]
#77365
12/03/2015 11:54 PM
12/03/2015 11:54 PM
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Lodging on the french side and spend time mostly on the french side !
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Re: Poll: Do you stay on French or Dutch side?
[Re: RaleighToSXM]
#77372
12/04/2015 02:05 AM
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We stay on the French side, and mostly eat there. But, usually one trip to Front Street and several Dutch side restaurants, especially Cupecoy.
I'm going where the weather suits my clothes.
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Re: Poll: Do you stay on French or Dutch side?
[Re: GaKaye]
#77379
12/04/2015 06:38 AM
12/04/2015 06:38 AM
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Joined: Jul 2012
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Normally we have stayed on the Dutch side, and spent our beach days mostly on the French side, except for maybe one day per trip which we stayed around our resort. This year we stayed part of the trip on the French side, and the rest on the Dutch side. Eating is about 70% Dutch Side and 30% French side.
Wayne & Lynne
Wishing I was knee deep in the water somewhere
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Re: Poll: Do you stay on French or Dutch side?
[Re: beachbum1313]
#77380
12/04/2015 06:45 AM
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We always stay on the French Side and also spend most of our days on the French Side as well. We always also spend one partial day on the Dutch Side shopping on Front Street in the morning followed by lunch before returning to the French side.
Bill
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Re: Poll: Do you stay on French or Dutch side?
[Re: RaleighToSXM]
#77383
12/04/2015 07:12 AM
12/04/2015 07:12 AM
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Posts: 14,671 Brookfield, CT.
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Great idea for a poll. it would also be interesting to know how many have based their choices on the acceptance of nude beaches on the French side and/or timeshare purchases on the Dutch side and if neither option were available, how many would still keep coming back anyway.
We've probably made seventy trips to the island over the years and purchased timeshare weeks here after about fifteen years worth of annual trips. Finally, a year and a half ago, we stayed in the French side for the first time at GCBC, thoroughly enjoying our stay but still being more comfortable over all on the Dutch side.
We move around the island and enjoy beaches on both sides but Mullet still is and has always been our favorite, and the huge majority of our dining is still done on the Dutch side with the occasional trip to the other side.
Respectfully,
pat
"Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them."
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Re: Poll: Do you stay on French or Dutch side?
[Re: RaleighToSXM]
#77389
12/04/2015 07:56 AM
12/04/2015 07:56 AM
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...actually, we DO have a mechanism for polls, it just has to be done by an administrator..
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Re: Poll: Do you stay on French or Dutch side?
[Re: cacapasa]
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12/04/2015 08:58 AM
12/04/2015 08:58 AM
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Posts: 46 Raleigh, NC
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So the tally after partial day 1 is:
36 responders (not everyone responded to both questions)
17 stay on the Dutch side 18 stay on the French side
9 spend the majority of their time on the Dutch side 21 spend the majority on the French side. Most everyone visits both sides frequently it seems.
Keep those responses coming.....
Last edited by RaleighToSXM; 12/04/2015 08:59 AM.
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