Finally got to Maho Beach, St Maarten a few weeks back. Stopped there for a day on a cruise ship and it was awesome!
The airport was amazingly busy with a real varity of traffic! We saw 737,757,A330,A340,A319,A320,A310,MD80,ATR,DHD8 and plenty of private jets including a lovely Citation X. All of that was in the space of around 4hrs.
Standing behind them for take-off is great fun but rather painful, sand hurts when its blasted that hard!
I agree 100% with the original post though, its so frustrating that there are no longer roof teraces etc at our airports.
Matt.