Please help, folks, because I've had a very frustrating day. I headed for Cupecoy and just couldn't find how to get to Cupecopy Beach. So we headed back to Simpson Bay and up to Marigot then round anti-clockwise, over the bridge expecting to find access to the beaches oin the right. Problem was -- no access! I saw a sign for Nettle Bay Beach with access only through Nettle Bay Beach Club. I eventually found Prune Bay only by following the road that was marked as Private. It was too hot (and I was not tanned enough) to stay so we continued on and finally found Mullet Bay -- again unmarked and again found by accident.

This is driving me crazy! Can anyone please help with insider knowledge of where the beach accesses are?

Hmm Interesting.
Mullet is nice. You should have stayed there. Easier! Good ribs. LOL
Cupecoy? Hard to say with all the building there. Maybe by Ocean Club?
Simpson Bay Beach is easy. As you head towards Simpson Bay from the airport, make a right at the end of the runway. Go straight ahead, you will see Sister Modesta Drive on your left. Keep going. Last cross street, Old Simpson Bay Road, you will see Robert's Drive. Go there and park and walk to the water. You will see Azure SXM on your left at the sand line.
Baie Longue? Go past Cupecoy towards french side and head towards La Samanna Hotel. Make a right at the gate to the hotel and park at the next access path.
Even a map wouldn't be much help. Just keep trying!
Cheers
irina

I can help you get to Baie Rouge and Cupecoy

Take the road toward Marigot if you are coming from Maho/Simpson Bay. You will pass the Atlantis Casino on your right and Cupecoy Beach Club on your left. Then on the left you will pass The Cliff and Rainbow Beach Club. The road will bend to the left and next you will pass the Sapphire BC and finally the Ocean Club. If you made a left immediately after the Ocean Club's last building, that road would eventually lead you to Cupecoy Beach. I have never done this but I have read numerous times that this is the way to get there. There are a few places to park but be careful and leave nothing in your car! Also, they say that as you are exiting back onto the main road to be VERY careful as it is hard to see oncoming cars coming from the Marigot side due to the foliage.

Now..onward...you will follow the main road past the Ocean Club and you will go around a new roundabout. Then you will go up a winding hill and eventually be on a road that winds left and right, up and down. This road will take you past many private gated estates. THEN...and very important...the road will turn a sharp right to a straightaway as you go toward Nettle Bay. AT THAT TURN, if you make a left rather than stay on the main road to the straightaway, this bumpy short road will take you to the Baie Rouge parking lot. If you go down the long straightaway on the main road, then you've gone too far. Turn around and when the road turns sharply left, instead, just continue to go straight onto the short road leading to the beachparking lot. Baie Rouge has steps leading down to the beach and there is usually someone in the parking lot watching over the cars.

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thanks for the pointers,folks.
Lost today to weather. 12 metre regatta tomorrow
Back on the beach hunt tomorrow