No passport, no vacation in paradise
US Passport requirements go into effect January 8, 2007 for air passengers

Planning to travel to St. Maarten by air before January 8, 2007, and return to the US on or after that date? If you are a US citizen, you need to make sure you have a valid US passport, so that you could re-enter the country. If you do not have a valid US passport, you may, in fact, not be allowed to start the journey.

The implications of the extension of the passport requirement deadlines under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), only for land and sea passengers, has the Caribbean tourist industry, including the St. Maarten, very disappointed to put it mildly. Read more