Saba Island Netherlands Antilles
Netherlands

26 Cruises availables At departure or passage at this port

Emerald Waterways (9 Cruises)

SeaDream Yacht Club (17 Cruises)


Frequently Asked Questions

At Fort Bay, the island's only landing point, where expedition ships anchor beneath cliffs that drop straight into the ocean. Passengers come ashore by tender, and the switchback road then climbs inland.
No, no permanent beach — and it is worth knowing before booking. Saba is a vertical island: thirteen square kilometres, around two thousand residents, and everything here goes up or down. Anyone coming for sand will be disappointed; everyone else leaves won over.
The island's only road. Dutch engineers judged it impossible; a local carpenter, Josephus Lambert Hassell, took a correspondence course in civil engineering and, with his neighbours, spent twenty years cutting it into the cliff.
A village of white houses with green shutters and red roofs, set in an old crater a kilometre and a half from the pier. An unwritten convention imposes that colour scheme across the island, which gives the hamlets a rare harmony.
By taxi-minibus. They wait at the landing and happily act as guides, family anecdotes included. Many offer a detour past the airport, a local point of pride: its 400-metre runway on a promontory is among the shortest in the world to take commercial flights.
A craft brought from a Venezuelan convent around 1870 and long sold by mail order around the world. The needlewomen of Windwardside keep it alive: buying an embroidered handkerchief here means leaving with a piece of island patience.
Yes, but commit to it: 1,064 steps and about ninety minutes of climbing to the highest point in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, at 870 metres. Good shoes and water are required, and you must be back down before the last tender.
It depends on the clouds, which play hide and seek: when they part, the view sweeps across St Martin, St Eustatius and the blue immensity. The trail itself crosses a cloud forest where tree ferns, bromeliads and orchids cling to the mist.
Yes, for certified divers. The marine park that has ringed the island since 1987 protects volcanic pinnacles rising from the depths to within twenty-five metres of the surface, coral-covered and frequented by reef sharks and turtles. Dive centres at Fort Bay run half-day trips.
A local speciality of spices steeped in rum, with each family jealously defending its own recipe. Cafés in Windwardside serve it — ask to taste before buying, the variations are surprising.