Tendering - life boats or boats from the island?

[Irishman45]

We've only been to GC twice the first trip we were tendered by lifeboat 2nd was a double deck almost like a small ferry/tour boat.

 

Do more ships use the lifeboats or the tour/ferry boats from the island as tenders these days?

 

We found using the lifeboats took a bit longer to get on and off.

[cruizer1001]

we were there last year and they had the ferry type boats (double decker) only took about 10 minutes :cool:

[cb at sea]

We, too, had the double decker big tenders....doesn't take long at all.

[drew sailbum]

The choice is up to the cruise line. Most ships use tenders which are based here in Cayman.

[Cya@Sea]

We were on the Freedom of the Seas in May, and we used the ferry type tenders as well.

[PBC29]

As a wheelchair user I found the boats from the island to be far better than when we had to use lifeboats 4yrs ago. I could roll myself onto the bigger boat tender, crew had to pick up my chair with me in it to get onto the lifeboat when used as a tender.

 

Getting off at the south terminal OMG :eek: they had to lift me like 2 1/2 feet up to get off the lifeboat very scary when the water isn't prefectly calm.