About This Bahamas Ferry Comparison
Ferries to the Bahamas leave from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, a drive of roughly 30 to 45 minutes north of Miami, and they reach only two islands: Bimini and Grand Bahama. No scheduled sea service runs to Nassau from any Florida port, so a ferry day trip always means one of those two crossings. The quicker sailings take about two hours each way and leave roughly six hours on Bimini; the Grand Bahama route runs about three hours each way with around four hours ashore. Eight tours cover this whole market, and this page puts them side by side so nobody has to open eight listings to compare.
What Every Tour Card Shows
A card points to its listing rather than replacing it. Ratings travel exactly as published: the Bimini or Grand Bahama day trip by ferry shows its 4.5 across 453 reviews, and the ferry-tickets day trip keeps its 3.3 across 15. When a tour lists a second fare tier above its from-price, the way the Gray Line sailing shows a Premium tier at $309, the card keeps that detail instead of flattening it. Nothing here talks a trip up past what its own numbers say.
Pricing follows the same discipline. All eight tours publish a from-price, and each card matches the live listing, per person, with the basis named. The spread runs from $270 on the Fort Lauderdale Bimini day trip up to $299 on the roundtrip ferry with hotel transfers.
Grouping follows the actual sailing schedules. Five of the eight tours are straight Bimini ferry trips, and the remaining three leave the island choice to the sailing date, since the same ferry day trip out of Miami reaches Bimini in roughly two hours and Grand Bahama in roughly three. That split is why the catalog holds exactly two categories and no others. Nothing gets listed twice, and no product outside this roster is presented as something you can book.
Durations keep the operator's own wording. The Fort Lauderdale day trip quotes about 11 hours island time, while the ferry-tickets sailing shows its check-in window of 6:15 to 8:15am alongside a door-to-door total of about 15 hours. A traveler weighing a short crossing against a long one sees the real spread. Where a tour gives island time and total time together, the card carries both.
Where Every Figure Comes From
Every from-price, rating, review count and duration shown on a card comes from that tour's live booking page. Operator brochures and third-party directories never supply a figure here.
| What every tour needs to earn a card | Operator name, exactly as booked |
|---|---|
| Ratings and review counts | Star rating and review count |
| Prices | From-price and its per-person or per-group basis |
| Sailing duration | Duration in the listing's own units |
| Departure port | The real departure address, whether Miami Beach or the Fort Lauderdale area |
| Cancellation policy and refunds | Free cancellation, where it applies |
How Figures Get Handled
How This Site Earns
Money here works one way. When a reader books a Bimini ferry through a link on this site, the company behind the listing pays a referral fee after the booking is confirmed. Nothing else generates income. The traveler's cost stays untouched: the amount shown on the live booking page is the amount charged, fee or no fee. Those referral payments fund the upkeep of this catalog, from checking ferry listings to writing the comparisons. What they cannot buy is favor. Every rating, duration and from-price comes straight from what operators publish, and no tour company can purchase a better position, softer wording or a quieter flaw.
This site earns money through affiliate links on the tour listings. When a reader books through one of those links, the platform hosting the listing pays this site a fee for the referral, and the reader pays exactly the same price as booking directly. Nothing is added at checkout, and no operator can buy a better position in the comparisons. Rankings follow published ratings, review counts, price and route, not who pays what. The disclosure page lays out the arrangement, including which booking platforms take part.
Rankings on this site carry no price tag. The $284 US2U sailing and the $270 Gray Line day trip earn their spots through published details alone, nothing else. Selling placement would poison the whole catalog, so no such arrangement exists with any operator. The order you see reflects published figures, full stop.