Sint Maarten

Unless you're staying for more than a weekend, I would suggest leaving your car at home or in a parking lot on the mainland for $13-15 a day. Otherwise, bringing your car along on the ferry will cost you nearly $150 plus the roundtrip ferry cost of $17 per person. If you're only there for a couple days, you might as well just Uber/Lyft around. It kind of depends on where you stay. Oak Bluffs is the more happening part of MV, so if you're staying there, your rides will be quick and low-cost. But if you're staying in Vineyard Haven or another part a little further out and think you'll be traveling across the island to Oak Bluffs often for the night spots, then those trips will probably be around $25 one way. At that point, maybe you just want to bring your car. And there's the bus as well for $2.50, which I have also used. Hope this helps!

There are no street signs in CR, and people give directions based on landmarks or bus stops, etc. Even though places have addresses, a lot of the time you can’t put that into a gps and find it. The best advice I can give is to find major landmarks and follow the road/highway signs.

I can only speak for Florence, since I've only taken the local bus there. I have to say I was so nervous about it. Normally I take the bus everywhere, but after doing some research, I decided to avoid it on my first go around to Italy. It seemed super daunting. For example, what I read said that the fare collector is usually in the middle of the bus, and if you failed to give your fare for whatever reason, you'd be fined an exorbitant amount. There were a few stories from tourists who had been fined for that reason, because they were confused about how to give their fare. The second time around in Florence, which was last year, I decided to give it a go. I went to the local station to buy my tickets in advance so as not to deal with any of that. When I got on the bus, the fare/ticket collector was in the front of the bus like in most buses. However, exiting the bus was kind of confusing because there's a middle door to exit, yet no one seemed to use it, nor did the drivers open it EVER. But the most confusing thing to me was the fact that there are at least 7 different bus companies. Usually there's one bus company per city or region. Like in southeastern PA, there's Septa, or in greater Atlanta, there's MARTA. So the fact that there were several options with different times and prices was hella confusing. So if you're going to take the bus, prepare yourself for all that.