Port vs Starboard for ocean view room to Bermuda ?

[dkitty]

I am interested In the Grandeur to Bermuda - looking at an ocean view room .  Does anyone know how the ship docks . Would one side face the water and the other the town .  Thanks !

[1025cruise]

Doesn't matter. No way to predict which way the ship will dock.

[biomedbob]

Depends on the weather.  There is no town, just a bunch of shops.

 

[alevyinroc]

3 hours ago, 1025cruise said:

No way to predict which way the ship will dock.

 

Yep. We've been to Nassau 3 times. The first 2, our cabin was on the port side and the ship docked such that we were facing the ocean. For our most recent cruise, we switched sides and had the same view as the previous visits.

[maryred]

Ships are required to test at least 1 lifeboat every week and tend to alternate which side of the ship that lifeboat comes from. So most ships that call on Bermuda alternate which side faces the port area and which side faces Pembroke Parish across the sound.

[mk-ultra]

Doesn't really matter in Nassau.  Even if your side of the ship is facing the ocean, the cruise docks are in a protected harbor between Nassau and Paradise Island.  If you look towards the ocean, you're looking at Paradise Island.  For what it's worth, our ship pulled into the harbor, did a 180, and backed into the docks... so the starboard side would have been the notional "ocean facing" one.

 

https://goo.gl/maps/P1f8H8vijpiWfU3C9

[zooma]

1 hour ago, alevyinroc said:

 

Yep. We've been to Nassau 3 times.

 

1 hour ago, mk-ultra said:

Doesn't really matter in Nassau.

 

Just a heads up .... OP asked about Bermuda, not the Bahamas.

[mk-ultra]

10 hours ago, zooma said:

 

 

Just a heads up .... OP asked about Bermuda, not the Bahamas.

 

LOL.  My bad 😛  Thanks.

[PelicanBill]

Something else to know about Bermuda:  The long winding channel includes a continuing view of Bermuda and a close pass to St. Georges and is a full hour long.  So on the way in, the Port side gets the view, on the way out it's the Starboard side.