daniTS

As of this past Monday you had to go to your muster station (theatre, coffee shop etc) and stand there for 20 mins. Its boring and a bit chaotic, but fine.

I think flying and the actual ferry (https://www.baleariacaribbean.com) are both a little bit cheaper but not by much; you save a bunch of time tho!

Great review! Pretty much aligns with our experience too...I think they might try and time the jump across the Gulf Stream a little bit for weather--we had a decently rolly crossing in February and we were across and into the lee of GB by 8pm; I'm sure they wanted people feeling up to drinking and gambling! On the way back we floated around by GB until well after midnight and then popped back across, it was funny to keep looking out at the port's lights (and pick up Bahamian cell signal for so long!)

I have family that lives in Freeport and they use it like a ferry (as we do when we go visit them), so we've flown in/out on the day of the cruise. I think it's pretty common for people to live on GB to do it--you can even use it to transport cargo like furniture and whatnot from Florida via big crates at the Port!

We did cruise and stay (but with family that lives there, so no hotel involved, we/they just use the boat like a ferry), anyway, check in to return was definitely possible earlier than 3pm in February--I think we were on around noon (definitely in time for lunch), and told that it was as late as...4? Double check with them when you get off, though, I don't remember 100% but it was later than we thought. Check in in PPB was fairly slow for us (2.5 hours), especially after 27 hours of travelling from Vancouver, but checking back in on GB is super quick since not too many people are doing it, we didn't wait at all. Have fun! We just booked again for June, looking forward to it! Freeport is fun, especially if you are going to rent a car and can explore a bit more 🙂

I used it on Epic in 2017 (BCN-Orlando). It didn't work the first day or two but they flew in a tech and got it working. I had the unlimited plan and it worked well enough the whole way to stay connected to work (up and downloading small PDFs, email, etc). I don't think I streamed anything but I did voice call my husband a couple of times via whatsapp. I imagine it's only gotten better since then, but overall I thought it worked pretty well!