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Does anyone know how far the cruise ships are from the Osprey beach House Hotel?
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The cruise ship dock is not within walking distance of the Osprey Beach Hotel, but it's an easy ride on a motor scooter. I'm sure the ships will have shore excursions that offer scooter rentals, island tours, bus transportation to the museum, etc.pilot fish:Does anyone know how far the cruise ships are from the Osprey beach House Hotel?
tvictory:The cruise ship dock is not within walking distance of the Osprey Beach Hotel, but it's an easy ride on a motor scooter. I'm sure the ships will have shore excursions that offer scooter rentals, island tours, bus transportation to the museum, etc.
When I was last there (11/04) there were only about 75 hotel rooms on the entire island, and I really can't imagine how the tourist infrastructure can accomodate 2,000 day-trippers and 24 ships per month.
Amy WJ:Just got back from a week in Grand Turk. Two cruise ships were there on Saturday: one arrived early and left early; the other arrived later and left later. We dove that day with Oasis and, as reported, they did not mix cruise ship people with other divers. Even though the weather was bad that was our best day of diving. Frankly, for all the hype we heard from locals and from people on this forum, it wasn't much of an event. We were there a week with great weather every day except the day the cruise ships arrived when it rained most of the day (some will take that as a sign). Perhaps the rain discouraged folks from leaving the ship but I doubt it. Most likely those we saw already had reservations for activities they couldn't cancel. The island is certainly small and not prepared for lots of cruise ship visitors but I suspect it will be a very long time before those cruise ship passengers have much of an effect on the island. We did visit Margaritaville the day the cruise ships arrived, on the advice of a local, to see what all the hype was about. The pool, the largest in the Caribbean supposedly, was semi-filled with locals who also occupied the bar area. Not many cruise ship passengers were seen. In fact, the last time a cruise ship docked on GT, other bars on the island lost money hoping to cater to cruise ship passengers (and locals) who were all at the pier. I'm sure that will change over time but it will be slow.
Don't know about the Arawak, but there is now a hotel next door called the Ocean Sands that will be expanding to accommodate cruise ship passengers with a beach bar, etc.
Time will tell.....
reeldive:My .02 We are trying to turn the whole damned Carabian into a North American " Disney Land" for the rich!!! All you poor proud people get out or suffer the consequences!!!
Can any one spell ugly American??