We found the shopping for certain items very affordable after all we'd heard about how expensive things were. There is a great Mephisto store there that we highly recommend. There were three nice wine stores also. Recommend shopping in the morning, if you can bring it with you, then head to the beach. If waters are calm, you may even have time to tender back to the ship and enjoy the beach in the afternoon. I forget the name of the hotel/restaurant we rented chairs from, but it was on St. Jean beach and even though we weren't staying at the hotel, they treated us like we were guests, even helping us get a cab in the rain at the end of the day. Jeff