KevinS
Senior Insider
Day 0
Our travel to SBH has changed in recent years. Previously, we lived near a major Northeast city, and could easily make the trip from home to SBH in a single day. Now we live near a regional Mid-Atlantic airport, and an extra connection sometimes requires an overnight stop along the way. The overnight is sometimes required by airline schedules, and is sometimes required by choice - I don’t care to deal with the St Maarten airport until they get their act together, which, by the time that they finally finish, will be at least seven years after Hurricane Irma.
Instead, we fly to Puerto Rico and use Tradewind between SJU and SBH. Our current trip was Home-ATL-SJU on DL. DL’s F meals have definitely improved, and our choice on the ATL-SJU leg (Fox Bros BBQ Short Ribs) was enough to later just have appetizers for dinner.
We stayed in a beachfront hotel in Isla Verde, which is close to the airport. What makes that hotel work for us that it is beachfront, has a beachfront bar, and the casino is halfway between the beach bar and the elevator. We spend all of 5 minutes in the casino. Get in, win quick or lose quick, and get out. A quick stop at the lobby bar for a nightcap and a dinner of a shared Coconut Shrimp app (Thank you Fox Bros Short Ribs) and we’re done for the day.
The next morning it’s a 10-minute cab ride to the airport and the Tradewind counter, and we’re on to Day 1.
Our travel to SBH has changed in recent years. Previously, we lived near a major Northeast city, and could easily make the trip from home to SBH in a single day. Now we live near a regional Mid-Atlantic airport, and an extra connection sometimes requires an overnight stop along the way. The overnight is sometimes required by airline schedules, and is sometimes required by choice - I don’t care to deal with the St Maarten airport until they get their act together, which, by the time that they finally finish, will be at least seven years after Hurricane Irma.
Instead, we fly to Puerto Rico and use Tradewind between SJU and SBH. Our current trip was Home-ATL-SJU on DL. DL’s F meals have definitely improved, and our choice on the ATL-SJU leg (Fox Bros BBQ Short Ribs) was enough to later just have appetizers for dinner.
We stayed in a beachfront hotel in Isla Verde, which is close to the airport. What makes that hotel work for us that it is beachfront, has a beachfront bar, and the casino is halfway between the beach bar and the elevator. We spend all of 5 minutes in the casino. Get in, win quick or lose quick, and get out. A quick stop at the lobby bar for a nightcap and a dinner of a shared Coconut Shrimp app (Thank you Fox Bros Short Ribs) and we’re done for the day.
The next morning it’s a 10-minute cab ride to the airport and the Tradewind counter, and we’re on to Day 1.