October 24th, 2019
The BVI Tourist Board and Film Commission (BVITB & FC) is requesting proposals from ferry companies for a late ferry-run between Red Hook on St Thomas to Road Town on Tortola. Currently visitors whose flights arrive late in the day and are unable to make the 5 PM ferry out of Red Hook must either hire a water taxi or overnight in St. Thomas.
According to the Tourist Board, “This is an untenable situation for our guests who are usually anxious to proceed to their BVI destination and avoid the costs associated with overnighting in St Thomas. As such, the BVITB & FC wish to realize a service expressly to address this situation with a view towards enticing more guests to visit the BVI in the coming years.”
The Tourist Board indicated that their goal is to establish a reliable ferry service to consistently transport guests traveling to the BVI arriving early evenings. If implemented this would be good news for those visitors whose flights arrive too late to make the last ferry.
Stay tuned for more updates…
BVI Traveller was created in September of 2017 to help tourism in the British Virgin Islands recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma.
To that end, we met our goals. In the past 7 years there have been over 1.2 million visits to the website and over 3 million pages have been viewed. There are over 1,000 pages on the site featuring news posts and detailed listings on all hotels, villas, restaurants and sailing charters located in the BVI. The BVI Government and many business, hotels, villas and sailing charters have all agreed that the site “moved the needle on tourism” after Irma.
The site, however, has run its course. It has served its purpose by bringing visitors and local businesses together to rebuild the tourist industry and it is now time to shut down operations for good.
I want to thank everyone for your help and support.
Chuck Metter