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| Re: best shore excursions/activities for San Juan, St Thomas, St Maarten........
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Posted on: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:28:04 -0700
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Bill wrote:
>"Rosalie B." wrote:
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>> What I did was hire a guide with a van and she took us (and three more
>> pax) to El Yanque Rainforest, and then a short city tour and ended up
>> at Fort Cristobal. But that is a drive out of town and cost us about
>> $45 @.
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>We will have several hours free (flight home not until 6:50pm)
>in San Juan after our Galaxy cruise next month. I was thinking
>of renting a car at the airport, hopefully after checking our
>luggage, although it seems like we might not be able to check it
>that early. I was planning to drive to El Yunque.
The traffic is terrible - especially on Friday. Our guide Miriam said
it was Sociable Friday when everyone leaves work early to start
partying for the weekend. If you rent a car, you can put the luggage
into it.
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>> St. Maartin - I have not been to the beach here but that is what most
>> people do. You can rent a car right at the cruise ship dock (which
>> makes it one price for all of you rather than paying per person for a
>> taxi) and the island is pretty easy to get around. The place I liked
>> best on St. Maartin was the zoo.
>> http://www.stmaartenpark.com/english/map.htm
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>We will be in St. Marteen and have a car rented (although it is
>much more expensive than last time we were there, I have to
>email them and try to get a better price).
I did it by email and made the mistake of renting from Alamo, and they
don't have a rental kiosk at the cruise ship pier. And it was more
expensive than it was supposed to have been from the internet.
>Missed the zoo last
>time, will have to check it out this time. Sadly, we will be
>there on a Sunday, and most of the stuff on the French side is
>closed on Sundays (hopefully not quite as bad as the last time
>when it was a religious holiday and almost EVERYTHING was
>closed). What's amazing is that there will be *4* ships in port
>that day. Don't the cruise lines realize that Sunday is a really
>bad day to be there?
>
>Bill
I think that it just works out that way. We were there on a Sunday
the time we went to the zoo also. The Dutch side doesn't seem to
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