Dear Editor,
I spent two weeks in St. Maarten/St. Martin in the end of February and wrote a travel story for the Austrian daily newspaper KURIER. I also read articles in your newspaper there, that you need tourists. Well, before, during and after this trip I doubted that you want any (European?) tourists. Despite the extremely high prices for hotel rooms (prices for which I get luxury rooms at luxury destinations worldwide) there is no service, but only cheating and lying. There is also no interest of your tourism boards to help journalists with information or anything else – I mean, I bring you tourists! None of them answered my questions before and after the trip.
I know that you had a terrible hurricane. And that there are construction sites. But some hotels do not tell it on their homepage. And some are just cheating. I send you my private report of three hotels in the attachment. My first hotel, which is not mentioned in the report, was ok, good beach, good restaurant, but very bad service and overpriced like everywhere on the island.
Wolfgang Godai
A very disappointed journalist
Austria
