Southern Caribbean Cruise: Grand Turk

Our first stop was Grand Turk. Omar and I had been there before and liked it. I think now I would be okay going to a different port in the future.

We did the same excursion we did last time but this time they took us to different spots along “The Wall” and “Horseshoe reef”. I didn’t like these stops as much as the last time we did it.

 “The Wall” everything was too far away – last time we went there it was a coral wall that protruded much higher and closer to the surface of the water.

Horseshoe reef section we went to this time didn’t have as many neat things to look at. However it did have a nurse shark which was pretty cool to go down and pet.

After our excursion we still had a few hours left. We thought it would be nice to go downtown and check it out. There was a hop on/off bus that would take us to multiple places around the island and was $20/pp. We thought with the amount of time we had left it wouldn’t be worth it. We went and looked at the taxi fare and it was so high. To go to downtown would be $20/couple.

We tried to negotiate with them but they told us they can’t negotiate because they are government set rates. We gave in and did the taxi to downtown.

Little did we know we were basically tricked. The downtown area had a few huts that sold some cheap stuff in them and that was it! Extremely disappointing. I think next time if I go there I will probably do the hop on/off bus.

buying conch fritters in the downtown

Houses right next to downtown

All of downtown!

dancing at Margaritaville

You can see the rates for each stop below.

Total Cost of this Port of Call = $140