Shore Excursions

Anybody want to share shore excursion plans? They are available here.For Cococay we are just planning to take advantage of a nude beach that we don't have to take a bus or cab to get to. For St. Martin, we are skipping the obvious trip to Orient Beach, where the nude portion in front of Club O will probably be swamped, and instead are booking the Peggy & Paul nude charter around the island. This tour is not through Celebrity. We always say we want to try either that or the Tiko Tiko cruise, but never end up leaving Club O when we are there. St. Barts is slim on shore excursions, anyone have ideas there? On Guadeloupe we are looking at the Castle Point & Distillery tour.We are planning to just play in the water at Coco Cay and enjoying the bbq. For St. Martins we will do a walking tour of Phillisburg we think (we think the beach at club o will be crammed if even 300 couples decide to go there) - we have done the Tiko Tiko with captain Phillipe it is pretty basic picnic lunch and dropping you off on Tintamarre island for a day of sun but would worry about the schedule pickup and getting back to the boat - also Phillipe only does the Tintamarre tour certain days of the week, have heard good things about Captain Alan's (Peggy & Pauls) tours - they have a calendar on their web site that will let you know the tours for that day. We are hitting one of the snorkeling tours on Guadeloupe and then doing a walking tour of St Barts shell beach and Gustavia town. You know as long as we have good weather and the water is warm anyplace will be nice to just sit and lounge. J&J

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The only downside to walking around in Philipsburg is the people trying to get you to come listen to their real estate pitch. We tell them we aren't interested in a time share... they swear they aren't pitching time shares. Guess what, they are pitching time shares. If you are in a large group it might be easier to shake them off. At least until they call in reinforcements to try to convince the whole group to come over to hear the pitch together. I guess you could scare them off by saying you are only interested if the not-a-timeshare is at Club Orient! Now we know to run (don't walk) from the tender pier straight to the taxi stands and catch a ride direct to Orient Beach, although the last several trips we've made to the island have been by air. But as you say, that might not be a great idea that particular day if you want to be on the nude end.
When we emailed Paul we joked that Wednesdays are usually the day trip to St. Barths and how convenient it was that they picked that particular Wednesday to switch to their around the island tour since we are arriving that day on a cruise ship and that we would be in St. Barths the day before anyway. He was well aware that the nude cruise was coming that day and had changed the day's schedule specifically for us! They are even holding one of the other boats that normally does textile cruises just incase they need a second boat for the nude charters.

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