SABA

AIRLINE CONNECTIONS
Juancho E Yrausquin Airport:
✆599 416 2222
No international long-haul connections
Inter-island services Daily links with Sint
Maarten and Statia

FERRY CONNECTIONS
Regular ferries to/from Philipsburg and Simpson
Bay (Sint Maarten)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Calling from abroad: ✆599 + 7 digits
Local call: 7 digits
Public call boxes: cardphones and coins
(guilders)

TOURIST INFORMATION
Windwardside: ✆599 416 2231 Fax 599 41
62350
www.sabatourism.com

FESTIVALS/EVENTS
Carnival: end of July
Saba Days: first weekend in December (donkey
races)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
New Year’s Day (1 January), Good Friday, Easter
Monday, Queen’s Coronation Day (30 April),
Labour Day (1 May), Ascension Day (always a
Thursday), Saba Days (beginning December –
see Festivals above), Christmas Day (25
December), Boxing Day (26 December)

PLACES TO SEE
The Bottom
The Ladder and Old Customs House
The Harry L. Johnson Museum, Windwardside
Mt Scenery 877m: waymarked footpath

ROAD TRANSPORT
Drive on the right
Taxis (contact at the harbour office, fixed fares)

REGULATIONS
Saba Marine Park – VHF 16 ✆599 416 3295
Fax 599 416 3435
www.sabapark.org E-mail info@sabapark.org
Saba’s coastline is a marine reserve
Mooring and anchoring prohibited, except in
reserved areas where there are yellow and
blue buoys. White and orange buoys are
reserved for dive clubs.
Spear fishing is forbidden and subject to heavy
fines. Diving only with local clubs. For further
information, enquire from the authorities at
Saba Marine Park HQ

FORMALITIES
Arriving by air Immigration at the airport
Arriving by sea VHF 16/11
Fort Bay (W of the harbour)
Open 7 days a week 0730–1800, no overtime
Fees and taxes
Entry tax: according to length of boat
Marine Park: weekly charge for buoy use
Simultaneous entry/exit procedures
Saba is a free port, there are no customs

STATIA

AIRLINE CONNECTIONS
President Franklin D Roosevelt Airport,
✆599 31 82357
No international long-haul flights
Inter-island flights Daily Winair flights to Sint
Maarten, Saba and St Barts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Calling from abroad: ✆599 + 7 digits
Local call: 7 digits
Public call boxes: Caribbean Phone Card

TOURIST INFORMATION
Oranjestad, at Fort Oranje )/Fax 599 31 82433
www.statiatourism.com
St Eustatius National Park (STENAPA):
✆599 31 82884 Fax 599 31 82913

FESTIVALS/EVENTS
Carnival: end July/beginning August
Statia Day: 16th November

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
New Year’s Day (1 January), Good Friday, Easter
Sunday, Easter Monday, Queen’s birthday (30
April), Labour Day (1 May), Ascension Day, Statia
Day (16 November), Christmas Day (25
December), Boxing Day (26 December).

PLACES TO SEE
Fort Oranje (1629✆(restored)
Honem Dalim Synagogue (ruins)
Simon Doncker House (18th century), Museum
Fort de Windt (18th century)
Dutch Reformed Church (1775)
Fort Amsterdam or Concordia
The Quill: climb the volcano
Miriam Schmidt Botanical Garden
Berkel’s Family Museum (near Botanical Garden)

ROAD TRANSPORT
Drive on the right
Local licence obligatory
Hire car agencies in hotels and at the airport
Taxis: fixed fares

REGULATIONS
All of Statia’s coast is a marine park
Spear fishing and taking of stock is forbidden
Diving only with local clubs.
Ask the St Eustatius National Park authorities for
further details (VHF 17)

FORMALITIES
Arriving by air immigration at the airport
Arriving by sea (no overtime✆Oranjestad, the
port, weekdays 0800-1200, 1300-1600 and
weekends 0900-1100
Fees and taxes Entry fee: according to boat
length
Marine Park tax: buoy access
Statia is a free port, there are no customs.