Sometimes waiting until the last minute to book a hotel can leave you sleeping on the beach. It’s true that we like to leave things to chance, but there are varying degrees of that practice. Case in point; we’re traveling to the island of St Maarten / St. Martin in the Caribbean, thanks to a kind offer from a friend to use his timeshare there.
Le Reve in Baie Rouge through luxuryretreats.com
However, the accommodation doesn’t cover the full stay – so we were still in need of a place to stay. As hotels can get pretty expensive on the island and, although the $7000 a night villas look lovely, we wanted to make sure we grabbed a reasonably priced place before they were all gone. But, we weren’t prepared to completely give up on our favorite pastime – Zufall. So, we pulled up a Google Maps shot of the island and imagined we were right in the middle. We set our base value at 1km as the crow flies. We rolled an E/4 … so directly east from the centre (Dutch Cul de Sac) we ended up at Oyster Pond.
Pool side with a view at Les Balcons in St. Martin
We found a great little place on line that is right up our alley (not a big hotel resort) It’s called Les Balcons and it’s a small, family run establishment with bungalow style rooms equipped with a kitchen. The interesting thing about Oyster Pond is that half of it is on the Dutch side of the island and the other half is on the French side. It’s a less touristy destination and I doubt we would have bothered to look there for accommodation if we hadn’t rolled our way there.
Our reservations are set, and we’ve got our fingers crossed that the dice are leading us to yet another great adventure by chance.
January 4th, 2010 at 11:55 am
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