Philipsburg
Worth seeing in and around Philipsburg
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Great Salt Pond
Great Salt Pond is a 188 ha 465 acres water body in the country of Sint Maarten on the island of Saint Martin in the Dutch Caribbean. It has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports a large seasonal aggregation of laughing gulls.
900 m · salt lake on the island of St Martin · Wikipedia - 02Fort Amsterdam
Fort Amsterdam is a historic fortress on the island of Saint Martin, near the Sint Maarten town of Philipsburg.
1.9 km · 17th century Dutch fort near Philipsburg, Sint Maarten · Wikipedia - 03University of St. Martin
The University of St. Martin is a university in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, founded in 1989.
200 m · university · Wikipedia - 04St. Martin of Tours' Church, Sint Maarten
The St. Martin of Tours' Church is a religious building is located at 51 Voorstraat, Voorstraat, in the city of Philipsburg, Sint Maarten on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of St.
200 m · church in Sint Maarten, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 05Pointe Blanche Naval Support Point
Pointe Blanche Naval Support Point is a base of the Royal Netherlands Navy that is located on Sint Maarten. Since 2014 a detachment of the Netherlands Marine Corps is permanently stationed at the base.
1.7 km · building in Kingdom of the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Philipsburg
- Airports
- Princess Juliana (SXM), 7 km · Robert L. Bradshaw (SKB), 87 km · John A. Osborne (MNI), 164 km
- Basseterre → Philipsburg88 km · quickest by ferry, 4h 54m · $86–149
- Gerald's Park → Philipsburg5727 km · quickest by air, 14h 6m · $890–1,380
- Beef Island → PhilipsburgTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Philipsburg
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Philipsburg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inEmmaplein bus terminal is the main bus terminal on island and right were cruise and ferry visitors arrive.
- Get inMakana Ferry runs services to Saba, Statia and St.
- Get inThere is also inter-island day trips and private yacht charters departing and returning to the marina, like PYC and Eagle Tours .
- Go nextFrom Philipsburg's Marina, boats depart for day trips or Caribbean island hopping to Anguilla, St.
From Wikivoyage: Philipsburg, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Philipsburg
- Lower Prince's Quartersettlement in Sint Maarten3 km