Bimini

The clock, including one twelve-hour call

Fifteen calls. Fourteen are eight hours and one is twelve.

If yours is the twelve-hour call, you have a different island available — enough time to go south, spend real time there, and come back unhurried. Check which one you have before deciding the resort is the whole day.

All-aboard is normally about thirty minutes before departure and your ship's posted time is the only binding figure. The pier walk here can be long and exposed before you reach the road or the tram, so add time at both ends.

Two honest plans

**The complex.** Pools, beach, food, no transport, no return risk. On an eight-hour call with a long pier walk at each end, that is a defensible day.

Not a consolation prize.

**Alice Town and Radio Beach.** Two miles south by tram, taxi or golf cart. A small, real Bahamian town rather than a resort, and the reason some people pick this itinerary.

The failure mode is assuming the second is a stroll. It is not.

Settle the transport first, and treat the posted rate at the pier as the authority on a fare.

One thing, not an itinerary

Bimini is seven miles long and the temptation is to see all of it. You will not.

On eight hours with a pier walk and a transfer, you get one place and the resort.

Pick the place. Then keep the last hour clear, because the tram or cart back is the leg people misjudge.

Shaping the day around who you are with

**Solo.** The town is the better value and the tram makes it manageable without arranging anything.

**Couples.** South for the morning, resort beach in the afternoon, or the reverse on a 10:00 AM call.

**Families.** The complex, usually. Pools and a beach with no transport is the version that works with small children on an eight-hour clock.

**Anyone with limited mobility.** The pier walk is the first question, not the tram. See below.

Accessibility: the pier walk comes before anything else

The exposed walk from the ship to the road is the link most likely to decide your day here, and no listing describes it.

Ask the ship, in writing and for your sailing: the distance and surface from the gangway to the tram or road, whether shade and seating exist along it, whether the tram takes a mobility device and which kinds, the boarding step, and what the alternative is if it cannot. Then ask about the destination separately — a golf cart is not an accessible vehicle.

Where Bimini catches people out

**Assuming the town is walkable.** It is roughly two miles south.

**Underestimating the pier.** It can be a long, exposed walk before any transport.

**Treating a golf cart as transport for everyone.** It is not.

**Missing the twelve-hour call.** One of our fifteen runs to 8:00 PM, and it is a different day.

Devil's advocate: the resort is the right answer more often than not

We generally argue for leaving the terminal zone, because that is where the real place is.

Bimini is the exception on an eight-hour call. The complex has the beach, the food and no transport risk, and the two miles south cost a transfer at both ends plus the pier walk twice.

On the twelve-hour call, go south. On the others, a pool and an early return is no shame at all.

Verify before you pay

• Your sailing's **arrival, departure and all-aboard times** — one call is

twelve hours.

• The **pier walk** to the tram or road, and whether shade exists.
• **Tram, taxi or golf cart** availability and the posted rate.
• Whether a booking carries a **return-to-ship guarantee**, and what it covers.
• Your ship's **berth**, before relying on any meeting point.

What we checked, and what we would not

Checked against our own sailing capture on 2 October 2026: 15 tracked Bimini calls across Beachcomber, Paradise and Islander, the four call windows above, departures from Miami, Palm Beach, Galveston and Tampa between 9 February 2027 and 25 August 2028, and fares from $179 to $649 with a median of $469 per person at double occupancy, all-in.

The two-mile distance to Alice Town is from our own guide research rather than a published source. Deliberately absent: tram and golf cart rates, the pier walk as a measured distance, and resort day-pass pricing. Excursion prices below are the operators' published rates when checked and will move.

Options compared

Carried from our earlier guide for this port. Indicative prices and durations were accurate when checked and move; a guarantee column that says to verify at checkout means exactly that.