Seadream Calls on St Maarten

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - January 8th, 2018

By the Caribbean Journal staff

St Maarten’s cruise renaissance continued this week with a call by SeaDream Yacht Club’s SeaDream 1.

The unscheduled call on Port St Maarten was the first of what Port St Maarten officials said they hoped would be “future port calls.”

The boutique cruise ship bills itself is one of two innovative cruising mega yachts owned by the company: SeaDream I and SeaDrea II.

SeaDream sails through the Caribbean between November and April before reorienting to the Mediterranean for the summer season.

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