# Day trips from Anguilla

> Day-trip range from Anguilla is genuinely tiny: the 20-25 min public ferry (Blowing Point <-> Marigot) puts French St Martin/Dutch Sint Maarten within reach, and a ferry change at Marigot onto the Voyager fast ferry (~60 min) reaches St Barths. There is no scheduled inter-island flight worth using for these distances. Big caveat: the last public ferry FROM Marigot back TO Anguilla is 18:00 and the last FROM Anguilla TO Marigot is 17:15 - Caribbean ferries do not run after dark, so any evening event (fireworks, night fetes) on St Martin or St Barths means either a private water-taxi/charter back, or an overnight stay. Plan the return leg before booking anything with an evening finale.

Canonical: https://rockhopping.com/anguilla/day-trips  
Source: Rockhopping (rockhopping.com) — a what’s-on guide for 55 island and low-tax jurisdictions.

- **Buss Di Chains Cooler Fete (Emancipation weekend)** — Sint Maarten (Dutch side, Simpson Bay area), SX · 2026-07-04 · ~1h door to door each way
  St Maarten's marquee Emancipation Day soca/dancehall cooler fete - the loudest, most local party of the SXM summer calendar
  Getting there: Ferry Blowing Point-Marigot (25 min) then taxi/bus across the border to the Dutch side (15-20 min)
  https://www.facebook.com/bussdichainscoolerfete/
- **Bastille Day fireworks and festivities** — Marigot, French St Martin (also Gustavia, St Barths), MF · 2026-07-14 · ~30 min each way
  France's national day gets a proper Caribbean send-off - live music, food stalls along the waterfront and fireworks over the bay; the same night lights up Gustavia harbour on St Barths
  Getting there: Ferry Blowing Point-Marigot, 25 min, walk into town
  https://hauteretreats.com/st-barts-calendar-of-events/
- **Fete de Sandy Ground (Assumption Day village festival)** — Sandy Ground, French St Martin (fishing village on Marigot's lagoon side - not to be confused with Anguilla's own Sandy Ground), MF · 2026-08-15 · ~40 min each way
  A genuinely local fixed-date fete (not a tourist event) with music, street food and community sports in one of St Martin's oldest fishing villages
  Getting there: Ferry Blowing Point-Marigot (25 min), then a short taxi/walk to the Sandy Ground district
  https://www.st-martin.org/us/its-all-happening-on-st-martin-in-august-open-air-cinema-and-the-sandy-ground-festival/
- **Fete de la Saint-Barthelemy (Gustavia) and Fete de Saint-Louis (Corossol)** — Gustavia and Corossol, St Barthelemy, BL · 2026-08-24 to 2026-08-25 · ~1h30-2h each way with the connection each way
  St Barths' biggest local festival of the year - a genuine patron-saint weekend of harbour racing, church processions and two nights of fireworks, well outside the yacht-charter high season
  Getting there: Ferry Blowing Point-Marigot (25 min), change at Marigot ferry terminal onto the Voyager fast ferry to Gustavia (~60 min)
  https://hauteretreats.com/st-barts-calendar-of-events/