Port St. Maarten was voted #1 Best Caribbean Shopping Port in the Readers Choice Awards 2020 of Porthole Cruise Magazine, one of the world s leading cruise publications. This in a year in which the Coronavirus pandemic shut down the cruise industry for practically the whole year. There is a good reason for this.

Shopping remains the number one activity most cruise visitors engage in during their relatively short stay on the island. Welcomed by the sounds of steel pan music as they step onto the grounds of the ultra-modern port terminal, many have a first chance to check out the various duty-free and souvenir items offered by the quaint shops at the Harbor Point Village. These stores offer passengers to make last-minute purchases before their ships sail away.

With Philipsburg, the capital city, just a 10-minute ride by water taxi, or a 15-minute walk to the Boardwalk, visitors can quickly find themselves in the duty- free shopping capital of the Eastern

The Cruise Terminal Shopping