smaller beach accees through beach bar, parking a issue, open to more waves and rough water makes swimming less than ideal for children, several larger resorts on beach, but was not crowded.
Dawn Beach is a beautiful beach. It is a great place to spend the afternoon or even the day. But, I have reservations about it. There are so many great beaches on St. Martin, that Dawn Beach doesn't make the top seven (enough for one a day for a week). The reason is that the only way to Dawn Beach is through the Westin Hotel. As you know by now, all beaches on St. Martin are open to the public. If you want to use Dawn Beach, you have to drive to the Westin and park in their parking lot, which is free. However, you can't get near the Westin without being stopped by people with pamphlets. They are selling time shares. They try to get you to sign up to hear the sales pitch for the time shares. These people start by pulling cars over to the side of the road on Oyster Pond road, even before you take the cutoff to the Westin, that is, to the Dutch side of Oyster Pond. When you enter the Westin site, another group of these time share sellers descend on your car. When you get to the parking lot, you may see as many as two dozen of them standing around.
I don't begrudge anyone trying to make a living. But to say that this is intrusive is putting it mildly. You can get through this crowd by just saying "No thank you" a number of times and by just keeping the car moving.
Because of this, I would recommend other beaches over Dawn Beach (Orient, Mullet, Bay Rouge, Gallion, Anse Marcel, and the list goes on.)
We struggled on what beach to go to and Im so glad we did this instead of Orient. We were ported here for a cruise. It was spendy to get there by taxi but it truly was beautiful and you can walk to the end with no people especiallly if you dont want a chair. Big waves for the kids to boogie board and rental equipment right there. I felt that the people selling stuff werent as pushy here. Waves were definately too big for small kids.
On the Atlantic, but a wonderful beach. Whether at the Westin Resort or over at Oyster Pond and Mr. Busby's restaurant, this beach was beautiful.
Dawn is a very pretty beach, water is pretty blue. It can get very windy with rough waters on this side of St. Martin. Great Beach restaurant with good food and drinks.Worth a visit.
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