carmen
SBH Member
On this our 25th trip we sought the usual-peace, quiet, R and R, beautiful beaches, warm people and a respite from reality.
We got beautiful beaches, warm greetings and service from Hotel and Restaurant management school interns! Then: noise, noise, construction, excavation, construction traffic, more construction traffic, an opening editorial in PURE filing us in on what caused the spoiling of wild beaches (toiny), indifferent poorly prepared food at astronomical prices ( a certain to-go which is a branch of a love it or hate it main establishment wanted 18 euros for 220 grams of bad tomatoes and a few tiny fragments of feta) puking chefs and the smell of disease at our favorite restaurant now run by another, a pig wearing a camera in Gustavia Town center and wind, wind and more wind. Inconsiderate smoking in restaurants that ruined nearly every decent meal and except for Hafida no one sympathetic to the buzz kill and really harmful effects of second hand smoke. And what was with the camo wearing overly muscled mercenary appearing dudes we saw arming up in the rental car lot at the airport? Did we go to an alternate universe to another St. Barts or the one we had deluded ourselves into thinking was paradise?
Certainly there are exceptions and a few good times were had, but in the face of a rising market and generally favorable economy in many developed countries, the small crowds we saw spoke volumes.
We want the old St. Barts. Please let us know how your feel (with civility please) Hopefully it will return so our kids can enjoy it someday:bag-of-cash::bag-of-cash::bag-of-cash:ray1:ray1:ray1:ray1:
We got beautiful beaches, warm greetings and service from Hotel and Restaurant management school interns! Then: noise, noise, construction, excavation, construction traffic, more construction traffic, an opening editorial in PURE filing us in on what caused the spoiling of wild beaches (toiny), indifferent poorly prepared food at astronomical prices ( a certain to-go which is a branch of a love it or hate it main establishment wanted 18 euros for 220 grams of bad tomatoes and a few tiny fragments of feta) puking chefs and the smell of disease at our favorite restaurant now run by another, a pig wearing a camera in Gustavia Town center and wind, wind and more wind. Inconsiderate smoking in restaurants that ruined nearly every decent meal and except for Hafida no one sympathetic to the buzz kill and really harmful effects of second hand smoke. And what was with the camo wearing overly muscled mercenary appearing dudes we saw arming up in the rental car lot at the airport? Did we go to an alternate universe to another St. Barts or the one we had deluded ourselves into thinking was paradise?
Certainly there are exceptions and a few good times were had, but in the face of a rising market and generally favorable economy in many developed countries, the small crowds we saw spoke volumes.
We want the old St. Barts. Please let us know how your feel (with civility please) Hopefully it will return so our kids can enjoy it someday:bag-of-cash::bag-of-cash::bag-of-cash:ray1:ray1:ray1:ray1: