Brandi Czajkowski

The most picturesque island of them all, but by far the rudest. People did not want to help you at all and they barely spoke English. We walked from the cruise terminal to the water ferry. The ferry then took us to the other side of the island where we went in search of a beach. Found some, but they all said private. We finally found a public beach and felt very out of place there. No one spoke any English at all. It seemed like a local hang out with no tourists. We then went back to the private beach area which belonged to La Kalenda hotel. There we found our fellow cruisers and could enjoy ourselves. The beach was just gorgeous. We had to be back on the ship by 1:30 and thought we had plenty of time until we tried to get the ferry back. The boat that brought us over was now sitting in a dock space getting some engine work done. We asked when the next ferry would be and he told us 10 minutes. When it came, they told us we had the wrong tickets and we could not get on without paying another fee. They told us our ferry would be coming in 10 minutes. This happened four times, our ferry never showed up. We were getting a little worried however since we had to be back on the ship in 30 min. Finally, we told the guy working on our boat that we had to get back to the ship because it was leaving. He begrudgingly took us and about 20 other passengers back after some yelling. We made it back, but I do not recommend the SomaTour Ferry to anyone. They were terrible. Our experience on Martinique was less than desirable. I will never come back here again.

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