Official announcement of the increased ferry capacity from 50 to 65 starting today and 2 additional trips starting June 1. New trip times are 11am BVI-STT and 2pm STT-BVI.
Personal recommendation is to not book the new times until after June 1 to confirm they are operational.
I spoke directly with one of the ferry companies and they also said not to book until after 1 June. They are trying decide who will operate on which days and they do not like the 2pm departure out of STT as they feel it will run empty.
I spoke directly with one of the ferry companies and they also said not to book until after 1 June. They are trying decide who will operate on which days and they do not like the 2pm departure out of STT as they feel it will run empty.
It will have all the people who missed the 4pm boat the day before or planned an overnight to on purpose to break the trip up.
To me, they should have had an 8am and 12pm departure from Tortola and a 10am and 4pm departure from St. Thomas so the same boat/crew could run the whole schedule each day.
The problem with 8 am is that folks from Virgin Gorsa cannot make that ferry. Used to have a 10 am ferry which works for the folks on VG and gets you to the airport around noon in time for the early afternoon flight.
A ferry from STT should be around 4 pm so it gets to Roadtown around 5pm in time to make speedy ferry at 6pm
Has anyone heard of any changes to the current schedule? Landing at STT at 2pm Fri 7/2 and Native Son no longer shows the afternoon ferry (or ANY ferries between Charlotte Amalie & Road Town for the month of July). Smith is showing 2pm and 230pm which are a no go for us. It looks like BVI Ports has only posted the June schedule so not sure what to make of it?
Has anyone heard of any changes to the current schedule? Landing at STT at 2pm Fri 7/2 and Native Son no longer shows the afternoon ferry (or ANY ferries between Charlotte Amalie & Road Town for the month of July). Smith is showing 2pm and 230pm which are a no go for us. It looks like BVI Ports has only posted the June schedule so not sure what to make of it?
The Smith's times are probably a typo. The ferries from Charlotte Amalie to Road Town are at 2:00 and 4:30 so based on your flight, you should book the 4:30pm ferry.
As far as I know, the July schedule has not been released yet so I doubt you can anything now.
Thanks Jason, 4:30pm was (is) the plan. Native Son was allowing July bookings last week so I was a little concerned when it didn't appear yesterday and started contemplating changing flights to go thru SJU to EIS. I'll keep an eye out for the July schedule.
If you take the 4;30 PM ferry from STT to roadtown, there is no easy way to get to Virgin Gorda as the last ferry from Roadtown leaves at 4:30PM. The have got to do better with the ferry connections.
