Le Papillon Residences

30/11/2023

I am not sure if I mentioned it before but we have a boat that our guests can rent for a private trip. It comes with a skilled captain. Today was such a gorgeous day so we took the boat for a ride. Our favorite is Tintamarre Island to see the turtles and sting rays, followed by lunch on Pinel island and slow ride over Simpson Bay back home. It always amazes me what a great day it is. I am including few pictures from the trip.

27/12/2022

Greetings to all of our friends, guests, and followers. I would love to share with you few pictures of our 2022 accomplishments. While the extensive cleaning of our septic is not exactly attractive to share, I am happy to post pictures of the beach and our completely redone roof top terrace. I hope you will like it even more this way.
Also the beach looks better than ever. The palm trees grew a lot this year and make really nice shade to sit under. And we planted more orchids and flowers in the garden which seem to make our turtle residents really happy.
As the year ends, I would like to thank all of you for your support. We love to create this beautiful place and you make it possible.

04/03/2022

A little bit of morning rain before the sunny day starts ❤️

08/12/2021

Greetings to all our friends and guests.
It seems the travel requirements have changed and a Covid test is once again required when returning to US and to some European countries. There are many places where it is possible to get tested on the island. I am including some of them here.

21/03/2021

Big thank you to all those who did not give up!

The Sint Maarten Tourism Bureau (STB) says that the number of stay-over visitors to the destination is on the increase and this is a sign that recovery of the tourism sector is underway.

In the months of November, December, and January the destination welcomed 32,669 stay over arrivals. December being the month that recorded the highest number of stay-over arrivals, welcoming 13,488 visitors in total.

The breakdown of the arrivals of November, December, and January showcases that 55% of all arrivals were from the US, and 23% from France.

March 2021 marks one-year since the country closed its borders due to the COVID-19 outbreak which later became a global pandemic.

“The restart of tourism started back in the summer of 2020 when we re-opened the Princess Juliana International Airport to visitors based on COVID-19 public health and safety protocols. Our airline partners have been slowly increasing the number of flights to the destination.

“Tourism is the economic sector that has been hardest hit by COVID-19 around the globe including here. 2020 was the worst year in tourism history where there were one billion fewer international arrivals.

“We must be thankful for what has been achieved so far to date based on the on-going pandemic and what is currently happening in our main travel markets. Based on our managed re-opening, our recovery is slowly making progress even though travel restrictions remain in place in many countries.

“Sint Maarten is resilient, and we will continue to do what is necessary to maintain the growth in collaboration with the private sector and other stakeholders as we continue to be able to compete with the business regionally and globally and emerge stronger from this,” Minister of Tourism & Economic Affairs Ludmila de Weever said on Monday.

Director of the STB May-Ling Chun, said the past year has been like no other. “The destination was well on its way to recovery after the hurricanes of September 2017. A lot of progress was made in 2018 and 2019, until the pandemic brought global tourism to a standstill which also included Sint Maarten from March 2020 to July 2020, a five-month period.

“The pandemic is now in its second year, but there is much hope with respect to the roll out of vaccines around the world including Sint Maarten. Every destination around the world is facing the same challenges, but we are all working diligently towards recovery,” Chun said on Monday.