From: Sherman Rootberg
Date: Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 9:34 PM
Subject: Sunday, March 02,
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Grand Turk, Bahamas
We didn’t get in until about 1:30 this afternoon. I was very surprised. We have been to this island many times, but not this spot. We had always tendered in to a place about three miles down the coast.
Having the dock was mixed emotions. It is always much easier and quicker to get on and off when docked. However, the waters are shallow here and the ship has to be quite far from shore. It is a fairly long walk where the other spot gets you right to the beach.
This dock and area is only two years old and can only handle one cruise ship at a time. It is very pretty. There are thousands of nice lounges on a white sand beach and clear turquoise water. There is one main building full of junk to buy at the end of the dock. You must walk through to get to the island. Outside there are many more stores and stands. Prices are very high. All is very new and tastefully done. At one end is a Margaretaville overlooking a huge free form pool. It too was beautiful and hardly used. It looked like there was no charge.
Further down there was a covered area with benches. There were huge parking lots where you would pick up vehicles for tours. The taxis were from only one company or organization. They were highly overpriced and they wanted to cram in as many as possible.
We just walked around everything, took a walk to the beach, and went back after an hour or so.
At the other location, they had a few stores and some more rustic buildings. One was a big kitchen that the ship had used for a BBQ lunch that had been a lot of fun. I forget which cruise we last did that on.
Grand Turk, Bahamas
We didn’t get in until about 1:30 this afternoon. I was very surprised. We have been to this island many times, but not this spot. We had always tendered in to a place about three miles down the coast.Having the dock was mixed emotions. It is always much easier and quicker to get on and off when docked. However, the waters are shallow here and the ship has to be quite far from shore. It is a fairly long walk where the other spot gets you right to the beach.
This dock and area is only two years old and can only handle one cruise ship at a time. It is very pretty. There are thousands of nice lounges on a white sand beach and clear turquoise water. There is one main building full of junk to buy at the end of the dock. You must walk through to get to the island. Outside there are many more stores and stands. Prices are very high. All is very new and tastefully done. At one end is a Margaretaville overlooking a huge free form pool. It too was beautiful and hardly used. It looked like there was no charge.Further down there was a covered area with benches. There were huge parking lots where you would pick up vehicles for tours. The taxis were from only one company or organization. They were highly overpriced and they wanted to cram in as many as possible.
We just walked around everything, took a walk to the beach, and went back after an hour or so.
At the other location, they had a few stores and some more rustic buildings. One was a big kitchen that the ship had used for a BBQ lunch that had been a lot of fun. I forget which cruise we last did that on.
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