Has anybody taken the sea plane?
- SOonthebeach
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Has anybody taken the sea plane?
Hey guys- have any of you taken the sea plane? We are looking into it to get from STX to STT (then to STJ) in February. We are a little chicken as we have never flown in a sea plane before. Would love advice to calm my nerves Thanks!
I wanted to take it in the past and looked hard at it for our upcoming trip as I know it would rock our son's world.
What has held me back is the luggage issue.
Someone on the forum, Gymnastika maybe?, took it to STX and they were charged hundreds for their luggage. It was a spur of the moment thing so they just rolled with it.
What has held me back is the luggage issue.
Someone on the forum, Gymnastika maybe?, took it to STX and they were charged hundreds for their luggage. It was a spur of the moment thing so they just rolled with it.
- SOonthebeach
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I've checked the luggage rules- they're here:
http://www.seaborneairlines.com/fly-with-us/fare-guide/
Not bad if you buy the right fare and plan right- we can do that. Just wondering about safety? I know I am a big chicken- you are right rpplano- they do float- if you land right I'm really not a huge fan of small planes in general, so may as well go for the floating ones
http://www.seaborneairlines.com/fly-with-us/fare-guide/
Not bad if you buy the right fare and plan right- we can do that. Just wondering about safety? I know I am a big chicken- you are right rpplano- they do float- if you land right I'm really not a huge fan of small planes in general, so may as well go for the floating ones
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Haven't taken "the seaplane", but have done trips in float planes Dehavilland Beaver's and 4 seat Cessna with floats in British Columbia. Such a cool way to travel. Would love to take the STX to STT float plane trip. We considered it the first time we went to the USVI's when we had originally wanted to get to Buck Island.
Float planes are great, just remember that they can land anywhere on the water.
We only had a couple of problems, we had to abort a landing (moose was swimming across the lake/runway) which shouldn't be a problem in the caribbean. And when they put us on the wrong lake. Wasn't big enough to get us all out at the same time.
again, not a problem.
No worries.
Float planes are great, just remember that they can land anywhere on the water.
We only had a couple of problems, we had to abort a landing (moose was swimming across the lake/runway) which shouldn't be a problem in the caribbean. And when they put us on the wrong lake. Wasn't big enough to get us all out at the same time.
again, not a problem.
No worries.
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Antilles Air Boats was the company that flew to St John - I think only from STX - Charlie Blair started this company - he lived in STX and was married to Maureen O'Hara - died in 1978 in one of his planes that crashed. I also used to take "The Goose" to Tortola - it landed in Roadtown where they had a ramp. They serviced STT - STX - STJ - Tortola and Fajardo as I remember and in STT used the ramp at Tortola Wharf where the present company , Seaborne operates out of. They stopped service after Hugo in 1989 I believe.
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