St Maarten is a great country, and we get questions all the time about crime etc. St Maarten is safer than most countries, and the rule is, if you don't do it in your country, don't try it when you come to St Maarten. I was on location of a movie set, that filmed a TV mini-series back in St Maarten several years ago. I was going home at around dusk, when the sun has already set, but there's still light. I saw a woman jogging, down the beach, headphones on, thong bikini, no care in the world.
That's not a smart thing to do anywhere in any country, and I doubt that she jogged in her New York parks when it was dark in a thong, with headphones so that she couldn't even HEAR the muggers coming. What you have to do in St Maarten, is use common sense. Yes we are a liberal Dutch Island, but we are also made up of every country in the world, so nobody can predict anyone's actions. The same with visiting parents who let their teenagers run amok on the island where there are NO alcohol laws. I see enough tourist go about their own vacation, while their teenagers are all over the place looking for fun, and finding trouble. If you monitor your kids at home, you certainly want to monitor them in a strange country, no matter how nice it is. And if you don't do stupid stuff like jogging alone in a thong in the darkness, don't do it in St Maarten, there's a lot of stupid people out there.
Enjoy 2014
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