A road allows driving your car all around the Simpson Bay Lagoon; two drawbridges cover the channels which connect the lagoon to the open sea. At different scheduled hours the bridges open for the sailboats transit and thus the car traffic is stopped. This is important to consider when you have to reach the airport.

St. Maarten (Dutch Side - Simpson Bay)

• December until April
  9.00 and 9.30, 11.00 and 11.30, 16.30 and 17.30

• May until November
  9.30, 11.30, 17.30

St. Martin (French Side - Sandy Ground)

• January until December
  8.15, 14.30, 17.30