St Maarten Shore Excursion: Orient and Maho Beach Half-Day Tour

The guide was incredibly knowledgeable, offering rich insights into the areas we visited and passed through. At each beach stop, you’ll encounter friendly local vendors selling handmade jewelry, accessories, hats, bags, and other artisanal items. If you’re interested in purchasing, be sure to bring cash, as most don’t accept cards. Maho Beach, while famous, is smaller and tends to be more congested. For a more relaxing experience, Orient Beach is the ideal spot to unwind. It’s a great balance!

Fun day!! Hard to find meeting spot, which we knew from reviews) and still had trouble getting to it. William was a great driver! Orient Beach was beautiful, he dropped us off by restaurants at the beach where you can rent loungers, he waited in the parking lot. We walked down a little and got two chairs, small table, umbrella, and two drinks for $20 at Le String Beach Bar/Restaurant- great staff, beautiful restaurant with bathroom. Nude beach down a little from drop off area if interested. Two hours there. After beach offered rum punch and waters for free. Then rode to Maho and dropped off in parking lot by Sunset Beach bar/restaurant/ perfect place to watch the planes without being right under. Flight times listed there. Or walk down (very close) and go on beach or in water and planes fly over you. Two hours there approx. One negative was a boss got on bus at Maho and said we had to change buses and driver to return. Gave us the bus # and where it would be parked. It was right near drop off and easy to find…but we liked our bus and driver. Turns out it was a bigger bus with more people added, like they joined two groups. And A/C didn’t work which was awful at end of a long beach day!!! Terrible ride back! (25min) Other than that it was a great day, organized and well worth the price!

The driver was very nice taking good care of us! We could feel jet engine air at Maho Beach! We only wanted to go to beaches without any shopping so this tour was simple and everything we wanted.

We had a fantastic time in beautiful st Maarten, our tour guide / driver was great fun and made the day even better. We visited both sides of the island including the infamous Maho beach, more than one small drink would have been appreciated ☺️

The beaches are very crowded due to the holiday season and that made it hard to enjoy the trip. Not that there was anything you could do about it.

The tour was great. Lots to see and explore. Sunset beach definitely did not disappoint. Humphrey our driver was the best. He made the tour real fun.

DO NOT trust Viator map. Said we would be picked up on the pier. You are not. Without directions it took us 30 minutes to find the pick up spot. We missed the bus. To their credit they paid for our cab to meet the bus. The guide was great.

Driver, Wellington, took great care and was very entertaining. Orient beach was very nice. Seeing the planes flying in on Maho beach was amazing.

Be sure to ask for specific instructions on where to meet. We got off the ship early to make sure we would be able to find where we needed to go, and we were thankful we did that. Once we checked in, we met our driver Wellington. He was fantastic!! He took us to Orient Beach first. We paid for our chairs and umbrella (which came with a free drink) and enjoyed our two hours at the beach. This beach is right next to a nude beach so be warned if it's not something you are wanting to see. After two hours we headed to Maho Beach. Wellington was a great tour guide and provided us with a lot of information about the local life. We were at Maho Beach for around an hour. It is a very busy beach! It is small and many people want to come and watch the planes take off and land. The waves were unforgiving and not something I would recommend for small children at all! We enjoyed our short time on the beach. The trip was as expected, and we were back in plenty of time to shop before we needed to be back on the ship. Highly recommend!

Great way to see the island. Loved both beaches. Would definitely do it again. It gives you plenty of time to see the island.