Excellent  
    
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 Matthew F 
 
2024-01-19
 
 
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Informative Walking Tour
Had a very informative walking tour through Philipsburg viewing murals and local culture. This is the BEST way to get the real local experience. Thank you
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 Jayne S 
 
2023-02-03
 
 
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ARTIST TOUR
The tour guide was great and provided a historical perspective of the island and general vicinity. Some of artists were fantastic, giving personal accounts and that made it very special.
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 B W 
 
2022-09-14
 
 
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Great cultural and artistic experience
This was an amazing day. We toured 4 artists and met them in person. Johnnie, our guide was attentive and answered many questions about the cultures of both sides of the island. He is also involved in the art scene as a professional dancer and dance instructor. We met artist, Christiane Ladeon with her beautiful nature works. Also the daughter of Alexandre Minguet, who keeps her father’s art work alive. We were fortunate to be able to spend time with Ruby Bute, artist, writer, poet and storyteller, who had just been honored by the entire island for her contribution to the arts. She read some of her latest poetry and told us more of her background. It was such a wonderful day and yes, we did make some purchases but there was no pressure. We would recommend this tour to anyone interested in the arts and culture. Johnnie was on time and excellent company.
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 Yvonne S 
 
2021-07-11
 
 
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Great and inspiring trip to local gallery's and meet the artists
Our tourguide Nascha took me, my sister and 10 year old daughter on a great trip to visit different gallery's and local artists on the island. She took all the time to let us ask questions and listen to the stories of the artists and let us experience a great variety of work. We went to the Minguet Art Gallery, Ruby Bute's gallery and saw the great aquarelles from Christiane Ladéon. All artists have their own style and quality and each of them were very friendly. Nascha is a very enthousiastic guide and at Ruby Bute's place we sat down for a while to enjoy tea and bananacake and listen to Ruby Bute's great stories. At the Minguet Art gallery the daughter of Alexandre Minguet (passed away in 1996) Catherine showed us his impressionistic work of beautiful islandviews and flowers but also a great variety of other artists which made it very inspiring to look around in the gallery. The final artist Christiane showed us how she works with aquarel in quite a different way than most people work with aquarel. Very bright colours and beautiful blendings. So thank you Nascha for this great tour...we could not leave without purchasing some art to keep the memory of this day even more alive.
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 John N 
 
2020-03-14
 
 
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Interesting visit to local artists
We had a wonderful time with our guide David visiting 4 local artists. We had an opportunity to talk with the artists and enjoyed banana bread and lemon grass tea with Dame Ruby Bute. As we traveled around the island, David shared with us the history of the island and pointed out many points of interest. I would love to return and do his history tour. This tour was the highlight of our vacation.
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 Donna R 
 
2020-03-07
 
 
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Meet the real people of the island
If you haven’t had the pleasure of walking through Max’s gallery garden, perusing Zdenka’s pearl creations at the Art Box or having Dame Ruby Bute read you her poetry while you savour David’s own banana bread and lemongrass tea...you haven’t truly experienced this island’s gifts. David is not only your guide to these amazing artists and others but an awesome historian who will tour you around the entire island in 3 hours and provide access to places you would never find on your own.
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 Carol F 
 
2019-12-24
 
 
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Enjoyable! Recommended
We booked tour for our October cruise as we had been to St. Maarten/Martin on several occasions, and had seen much of both sides of island. We were looking for something a bit different an this was. We could not have visited the 4 widely spread out artists studios on our own. We particularly enjoyed Ruby Bute's gallery and bought several prints which now are on our wall. Also gallery and classroom of Tess Verheij. What was different in her studio was the adjacent "Waste Factory" where numerous items are crafted from waste materials. I bought several coin purses made of milk and juice cartons, very inventive. I was particularly interested as I have worked with some of the materials myself and learned some new uses for recyclable items like plastic bags, can rings, newspaper and the already mentioned containers. We saw 2 other galleries as well. A very enjoyable day and saw much of the countryside as we went from to St Maarten to St Martin. Right length of tour for us too, with a very friendly guide.
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 Steven B 
 
2019-10-19
 
 
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A very personal experience
We had a wonderful tour of four artists studios with David. He drove us over both the Dutch and French side of the island to make our visits, and gave us great history along the way. The artists were great, and we did end up buying some art, although there was no pressure to buy anything. We chose the the artists we wanted to see from a list of 8, and ended up with two French ex-pats, one Dutch and the wonderful local Dame Ruby Bute. Ruby has spent her lifetime on Sint Marteen and we sat and had a wonderful talk over iced lemon grass tea and banana bread. She loves people and has wonderful stories of the old days on the island. And her art is full of spirit. We highly recommend a tour with David.
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 rdezayas 
 
2019-10-08
 
 
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Great tour
My husband and I had a great tour with David on October 2, 2019. He took the time to show us the island (very informative) and stopped at four local artists. I would never be able to find the artists without this tour. Two of the artists' studios were in their homes, so it have us the opportunity to speak to them while we browsed there gallery. (no pressure selling) Ruby (artist) was my favorite.
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 Judy S 
 
2019-03-08
 
 
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Wonderful tour!
Lucinda ("Cindy")was our tour guide. She was very well informed and absolutely delightful. We visited 4 artists' studios/shops. All were excellent and there was no pressure to buy anything. This was a vastly superior tour to any offered by our cruise ship - we had taken a similarly described tour a few years ago from the cruise ship but there were some 25 people on our bus so a lot of time was taken up by getting people on and off the bus.