Bachelorette and Bachelor Transport

What actually goes wrong

Not the venues. The gaps between them.

A group of eight tries to move from dinner to a bar using taxis. Two cars turn up, four people get in, the rest wait. Twenty minutes later the group is in two places and somebody is annoyed. By the third stop, half of them have gone back.

One vehicle and one driver removes all of that. Everyone moves at once, arrives together and leaves together.

A night that works

Collected from the villa or hotel, everyone at once.

Dinner — usually Grand Case, occasionally Simpson Bay if you would rather the evening were closer together and started later.

Somewhere after — the Maho bars run late, the casinos later still, and Simpson Bay sits between the two.

Home, whenever, in one vehicle, with a driver who knows which villa and which gate.

Ground rules, said plainly

We would rather set these out now than have an awkward conversation at midnight.

Drinks in the car are fine if you tell us in advance, so we send a vehicle where that is not a problem. Nobody stands up while we are moving. If someone is genuinely unwell we will stop, and we will get them home rather than leave them.

We are not going to lecture anyone. We do this most weeks and it is almost always straightforward.

Sending someone home early

On a one-vehicle booking the driver can take one person back and return within half an hour. It happens on plenty of nights and it is a normal part of the evening, not a failure of it.

With a second vehicle running it is easier still.

Why not taxis

The tariff charges per person above two passengers, so eight people making three journeys pays twenty-four per-person fares. Per vehicle, eight pay what two do.

After ten at night the Dutch rate rises 25%; the French side rises 50% after midnight, which is when you would be coming home from Grand Case. See the full tariff.

Part of a longer trip

Most bachelorette groups are here for several days. The girls' trip package covers the airport at both ends, the beach days, the dinners and the big night as one booking with the same driver throughout — which by the second day means you stop explaining where you are staying.