Nice studio, good located, 3 minutes walking from the beach, with supermarkets, bars and bakeries and a pizzeria right underneath and plenty of free parking spaces next to the apartment, but no sun on the terrace late afternoon.
The bed is very large. It could do with spare bedding though, for guests like us, staying 3 weeks.
Mimi, who welcomed us, is very friendly and helpful.
We do regularly come to SXM and specially love Orient Bay.
There is lots of necessary reconstruction and building work going on all day long and we could cope with the noise, but:
Wifi was an important issue for us to book this apartment(as in the description), as we both needed to work during our 3 week stay, which was not possible with the provided wifi.
The internet, if it worked(occasionally during the day), had a MAXIMUM download speed of 0,89mb/s. Upload was always between 0,15 to (1-record day value) of 12mb/s(tested twice per day).
To whom this doesn´t mean anything: Sending a photo by whatsapp was desperating. Telephoning almost imossible,
We had to buy 1 GB at Orange for xxx.- every few days, plus the cost of the sim card.
Satellite Tv was, apart from 3 uninteresting channels in English language, only in French.
The option to change the audio on Canal+ to the original soundtrack does not work.
Needless to say, that our Netflix did not work due to low internet speed.
The refrigerator opposite the bed makes disturbing noise, when you want to sleep.
The owner was not cooperative at all, and does not seem to read emails.
The one and only reply to my daily complaint emails came 4 days later, stating no interest in our problems.
Also an orange juice squeeze would be handy in the apartment. We bought one for us.
The apartment would have deserved more stars, but our expectations, based on the uncorrect description, were not met. It said "wifi" which apart from being useless, on 6 days was not connecting at all, the TV was not US cable TV, but almost pure french TV and the owner non- cooperative regarding our complaints.