Update information on resorts in St. Martin
 

My wife and I are planning our honeymoon at the end of September. We are booking through RCI and considering The Towers at Mullet Bay, Divi Little Bay Beach & Racquet Club and Pelican Resort Club.

I am unable to fine recent updates on the conditions (quality of rooms, location near beaches, cleanliness) of rooms of each facility in order to decide which one to book. Will someone please post some recent trip reports in order to assist us in the decision making?

We are headed to Divi Little Bay the end of June. We'd be happy to report back after our vacation. However, it sounds like you may need to make a decision sooner than that. In preparation for our trip, I've talked to (or emailed with) a lot of people. We were nervous about Divi given some of the reviews that were coming out last year. However, if you are trading through RCI you'd be getting a "condo" not a hotel unit. About half of the timeshare unit buildings have already been remodeled and are reportedly fantastic. You are going during quiet season, so I'd bet you'd have a fairly good chance of getting a renovated unit. We've called ahead and requested one (crossing our fingers too). My brother and sister in law have been to St. Martin several times. They've stayed at Towers of Mullet Bay and Pelican. They recommended we try Divi give the resort's location and all they have to offer. Divi is right on a fabulous beach from what I've read. Another great website for St. Martin info and travel reports is
www.traveltalkonline.com
Good luck in your decision making.

I agree..go to TTOL, the St. Maarten forum, and post your question. it is a busy web site with a lot of information and there are people there who can answer questions about all those resorts.

TTOL is a good site. You should also check Tripadvisor website.

End of September is certainly a quiet season.....and it is also Hurricane season. You may get lots of rain during that time.

My husband and I stayed at the Pelican several years ago so I can't comment on the condition. However, I will tell you it have a nice stretch of beach with chairs and a bar for refreshment. Fairly well located in the Dutch end of the island.

My friend and I just returned from The Towers at Mullet Bay which we booked thru RCI also. It is nice - we had a large condo style room (living room, kitchen, large bedroom and bathroom, nice balcony).
The Towers is close to the beach which is wonderful!! And one of the nicest on the island.
Anyway, getting back to the Towers. It is away from the maddening crowds but for restaurants and night life.
The Towers is not grand but clean, the staff friendly, and we met people who have time shares there and enjoy it so much they go back year after year.

opps one sentence got partially deleted...."it is away from the maddening crowds but restaurants and night life are close by.

one more suggestion - we ate at a French restuaurant on the French side of the island that is so authetically French you will think you are in Paris.
Bistro Nu (Marigot tel: 87 97 09)
Call for directions we got hopelessly lost trying to find it!

Sorry me again - but after I looked at the website for the Divi Little Bay Beach & Racquet Club and it is far more resort like than The Towers. The Towers is like a apt./condo building in a quiet area - it is somewhat in need of a spucing up. The Divi looks like a fun resort vacation hotel. Let us know!

Bistro Nu is fabulous!

hi barbara:
i am so excited to talk to someone else who has been there. i'd go back to St. Martin's to eat there again!

Hey dd.....I always look for the good things wherever my wife and I travel and we have spent considerable time in the Caribbean and Central America. We canceled a trip to Panama just last week in favor of making our first trip to St. Martin/Maarten.....hot deal caught my eye and we just got back yesterday. We are "young 50's" and are not wild and crazy but don't go to bed at 9pm either. Here are my candid comments;

I'm glad we went to visit but we won't go back. We stayed at both Sonesta's on the Dutch side (Great Bay and Maho) and Maho has it over GB. At least there is the best casino on the island across the street! The beaches on both sides were just OK...the hotels seemed rather "Holiday Inn'ish" (not that there is anything wrong with that!)rather than 4 Star'ish and if this island is the "Culinary Center of the Caribbean", I'm a mid-wife. Bistro Nu was good but was not even close to many excellent bistro's in France. Jimbo's at Simpson Bay saved my sanity even tho it was Mexican fare! Chesterfiled's at the far end of P'burg had great atmosphere and decent food...fresh catch. The locals were very nice and you can't get lost...1 road around the entire island.
We were just disappointed in what we found. We spent 6 days and should have limited it to 3. Too many other neat islands to visit..... Happy honeymoon! It really won't make much difference where you stay! It will be ALL GOOD!!!

hansboomer- i didn't say Bistro Nu was better than some in Paris - just very authentic. your comment - "it won't matter where you stay" yes a honeymoon is what you make it no matter where you are. good thought!

My husband and I spent three hours on the beach at Divi Little Bay in early August. It was a beautiful serene beach - white sand, gorgeous waters, not crowded at all (it's the low season after all in August). We paid $5 for an umbrella, got 2 lounge chairs for free (had a coupon from the info desk at the cruise dock, although it may have been that the chairs were free anyway - hard to tell). There were banana boat rides for $10/10 minutes and we rented a jetski for I believe $50 for half an hour. No one came around to get drink orders, but there was a little bar with a thatched roof on the beach (perfect pina coladas! :) ). It was perfect for us - quiet, beautiful, relaxing. Can't speak about the hotel other than to say that there was a restaurant and a gift/jewelry shop and it was partly under construction in some parts. The hotel had numerous daily activities planned and posted as well.