I am heading to St. Maarten on September 8, 2012 and staying near Dawn beach. Any work on the seaweed issue. I saw a vacation video someone posted from July and looked pretty bad. Thank you.

Don't have an answer for you . I am going again in June of 2013,and would like update

Seaweed seems to come in seasons... I'd call the hotel at Dawn Beach and ask them their opinion on it. They may even regularly clean it up.

Seaweed generally comes ashore when the swells from storms in the Atlantic churn up the sea bottom. There was a period this past winter (late February and early March) when there were several severe storms in the North Atlantic and the swells eventually worked their way toward the Leeward islands. The result was some excess sea weed on the beaches of many islands. That situation is now long gone and you'd be hard pressed to find any appreciable amounts of seaweed on the beaches of any of the Leeward Islands, including St. Martin.

Of course, that's the situation as it is today - there's no way to predict what it might be like three months from now in June. That said, waters are usually quite calm in June so odds are you won't see any seaweed.

There is no more Seaweed in St.Maarten since end of 2015.