Who Runs This Catalog

This catalog has one job: putting every bookable ferry day trip from the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area to the Bahamas in one place. The scope covers 8 tours across 2 categories, Bimini ferry trips and Bimini or Grand Bahama sailings, with from-prices running from $270 to $299 per person. Each write-up is built from the listing a traveler would actually book through, and the tone stays flat and factual on purpose.

What Gets Compared

Every entry pairs a from-price in USD with the ferry crossing and the hours on the island, so the tradeoff shows at a glance. A rating always sits beside the review count behind it: the Miami Beach roundtrip carries a 4.1 across 681 reviews, and the Bimini or Grand Bahama island day cruise carries a 3.5 across 26. Five tours sail to Bimini only, while three choose between Bimini and Grand Bahama depending on the sailing date. Where a tour serves two islands, the entry describes both ferry legs rather than pinning one duration.

How Fares Are Shown

Prices are shown in USD per person. The floor across the catalog is $270, set by the Fort Lauderdale day trip to Bimini and the ferry-tickets-only Bimini sailing, and the ceiling is $299 on the Miami Beach roundtrip with hotel transfers. All 8 tours publish a from-price, so no entry has to estimate. One listing also shows a Premium fare tier at $309 beside its $270 Economy price, and that tier is noted where it appears. Operators adjust schedules and fares through the year, so the live booking page is the current authority whenever it differs from a figure here.

Booking, Plainly

Nothing is booked on this site. Every tour links to its live listing, and the booking happens there under the operator's own terms. When a reader books a sailing after arriving through a link here, the operator pays this site a referral fee for the introduction. That fee funds the catalog and keeps it free to browse, and it never changes the fare: travelers pay the same arriving through a link or booking on their own. Tours are ordered by route, sailing length and departure terminal, never by which operator pays more.

How This Site Pays For Itself

Each number printed here, whether the $299 ceiling on the Miami Beach roundtrip or the 4.1 rating carried by 681 reviews, is taken from the same listing a traveler books through. Nothing is pulled from a brochure or a secondhand roundup. No operator can buy a position, and a larger referral fee never moves a sailing up the page.

Where The Figures Come From

The scope stays deliberately narrow: eight ferry day trips, two categories, nothing that cannot be booked today. All eight publish a starting price, from $270 on the Fort Lauderdale day trip to Bimini to $299 on the Miami Beach roundtrip with hotel transfers. Fares shift with the season, so the live booking page outranks anything printed here.

The Source For Every Fare

• Bimini Ferry Trips: 5 tours, from $270 per person.
• Bimini Or Grand Bahama: 3 tours, from $279 per person.

Choosing A Sailing

• Miami Beach Hotel Pickup Included, from $299 , 2-hour ferry each way, about 6 hours on Bimini (about 15 hours door to door), rated 4.1 across 681 reviews.
• Economy Or Business Class Ferry, from $270 , 2-hour ferry each way, about 6 hours free time on Bimini (about 11 hours door to door), rated 4.1 across 402 reviews.
• Fort Lauderdale Cruise, Miami Transfer, from $289 , About 11 hours, rated 3.5 across 70 reviews.
• 12-Hour Ferry From Miami Area, from $284 , About 12 hours, rated 3.5 across 63 reviews.
• Ferry Tickets Only, Non-Refundable, from $270 , Check-in 6:15-8:15am, departure about 7:00-9:00am (about 15 hours door to door), rated 3.3 across 15 reviews.
• Two Islands, Hotel Pickup, from $284 , Bimini: about 2-hour ferry each way plus 5.5 hours island time. Grand Bahama: about 3-hour ferry each way plus 4 hours island time (island depends on sailing date), rated 4.5 across 453 reviews.
• Express Ferry, 15 Hours Door-To-Door, from $282 , About 15 hours door to door, rated 4.0 across 63 reviews.
• Optional Pig Beach Add-On, from $279 , About 12 hours, rated 3.5 across 26 reviews.

Reading The Price Tags

• No score appears without its evidence. The 4.5 on the Bimini or Grand Bahama day trip by ferry rests on 453 reviews, a far heavier base than most day sails can claim.
• Treat a from-price as a floor, not a promise. The cheapest trip listed here starts at $270 per person.
• Every fare here is quoted per person, but two prices close together can buy very different days. A Bimini ferry seat bundled with hotel transfers from Miami Beach and a bare economy ticket with six free hours on the island are separate purchases.
• Hours on the island drive the price more than anything else. The Fort Lauderdale day trip to Bimini gives about 6 free hours there from $270, while the Miami Beach roundtrip with hotel transfers runs about 15 hours door to door from $299. Weigh the whole day, not the sticker.
• Seven of the eight tours here advertise free cancellation, but each operator writes its own rules and cutoffs can change between departure dates. Check the current terms on the live listing before any money leaves your account.
• Scores print exactly as the listings publish them. A ferry-tickets-only day trip sitting at 3.3 from 15 reviews appears beside a Miami Beach roundtrip at 4.1 from 681, and the gap in evidence stays visible rather than smoothed over.
• No tour runs anonymously. Each listing names the operator behind the sailing, whether that is Admiral Tours Miami, Gray Line Miami or US2U Tours, and most of the trips ride the Balearia ferry.
• Small samples stay small. The Bimini day cruise from Fort Lauderdale shows a 3.5 from 70 reviews, a real score on a thin base.
• The catalog divides cleanly by route: five Bimini-only ferry runs and three sailings that pick between Bimini and Grand Bahama based on the date.

Where The Figures Come From

• Each rating, review tally, duration and fare on this site comes straight from the live listing, the exact page a traveler uses to reserve a ferry seat. Nothing is recycled from a roundup article or an aggregator feed. If a number is not on the booking page, it does not appear here.
• Every dollar figure on this site is a from-price pulled straight from its listing in USD, so the $270 Fort Lauderdale day trip to Bimini and the $299 roundtrip with hotel transfers can be weighed side by side without conversion.
• Sailing dates, departure windows and fares move with the seasons, and the Bimini or Grand Bahama trips can even land on different islands depending on the date booked. Treat every figure here as a snapshot. The live booking page is the authority, and where the two disagree, the live page wins.
• Ratings travel with their review counts exactly as reported, so the US2U Bimini or Grand Bahama day trip shows as 4.5 across 453 reviews while the Bimini Express ferry reads as 4 across 63, with no rounding applied here.
• Entry rules and ferry route details come from official operator sources, not guesswork.
• Take the roundtrip Bimini ferry with hotel transfers: the listing reports a 4.1 rating across 681 reviews, and both numbers appear here unchanged, alongside the 2-hour crossing each way.
• From-prices appear in USD as each listing states them, which is why a $284 Bahamas day cruise can sit beside a $309 premium ferry fare with nothing estimated in between.

Where Every Figure Originates

No operator buys a position on this site. A day trip earns its place by being genuinely bookable as a same-day roundtrip from the Fort Lauderdale departure point, and nothing else moves it up or down. A $270 economy ferry ticket to Bimini gets the same treatment as a $299 trip with roundtrip hotel transfers: duration, from-price and review count, each reported exactly as the live listing states it. When a figure is absent, the tour page says so plainly rather than filling the gap with a guess.

Moving Through The Site

• Start at the homepage, where the category block divides the roster into Bimini ferry trips and Bimini or Grand Bahama sailings; the guides and articles work through the decision points one by one, and the FAQ page answers what comes up before committing to a departure.
• Want the fuller picture? The about page explains what a sailing must offer before it appears here, the affiliate disclosure covers the money side when a booking starts from a link on this site, and the contact page along with the privacy policy fill in the rest.
• Every ferry and day-trip page here can be reached through the HTML sitemap, the llms.txt index and the XML sitemap, all generated from one shared source