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I'll start by saying I've never been on a cruise ship. The schedule below is during the start of our charter, the 28th we'll probably be somewhere between Norman and Cooper. What is their routine? seems like they arrive when passengers are probably just waking up, where do they typically send them off to explore? they don't seem to be in port very long.
Tortola Cruise Ship Schedule For July 2025
Day Cruise Line Ship Times Passengers
July
Mon 28
🧍 Disney Cruise Line logo Disney Magic a 0900 d 1600 1942
Wed 30
🧍🧍 Norwegian Cruise Line logo Norwegian Aqua a 0600 d 1230 3571
Thu 31
🧍🧍 Norwegian Cruise Line logo Norwegian Escape a 0600 d 1400 4248
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With these shorter and earlier port times most day visitors will just go to CGB or LB, Beef, while others will head for the Baths or White Bay, Jost. The only brave souls you may run into are those who book daysails with Kuralu, Sunshine, etc…
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The schedule usually works about like this:
Arrive 6am. Use massive thrusters to dock stirring up huge clouds of mud dropping water vis to nothing.
7am, start onboarding large amounts of cheap fresh water from the BVI even if the island is in a drought and locals can’t get water. Ships desalination plants are expensive to run.
8am, forget to switch to expensive low pollution diesel and keep burning super cheap bunker oil choking out Roadtown if no wind that day.
9am, drop a few thousand people onshore choking out the streets in Roadtown.
10am, cover all sand in Cane Garden Bay with human bodies.
11am, contest at the baths to see how many humans can be wedged in the rocks. Bonus points for people over 75! Remember the old VW bug challenges!
12 noon, lunch meetings and appropriate payments made.
1pm, ship bilge cleaning and assorted illegal dumping.
2pm to 6pm, depart with thruster use to keep the water vis low like it belongs. Tub boats would be expensive!
30 minutes after departure dump thousands of gallons of raw sewage!
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Tell it like it is George..thank you. I'd get flamed if I'd said that!
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I went on a cruise one time a few years ago with a friend. By the 2nd day I would have given everything I owned to be off that ship.
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