While people like to complain that the large cruise ships don’t take you to any exotic ports, that’s simply not the case.
On our recent Norwegian Epic cruise, Come Cruise With Me and PostCard Travel Planning hosted a group of 120 first responders. One of the Epic’s stops was in Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
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That’a a beautiful port in its own right, but we opted to charter three small boats and make our way to Jost Van Dyke.
“Although it’s one of BVI’s smallest islands, Jost Van Dyke (named for a Dutch privateer) still encapsulates an abundance of charm and history,” according to the BVI website.
We arrived at a near-private beach with just a handful of other ships at the beach. It was a magical experience that was well worth the half-hour ride on a small, very fast boat to get there.
A visit to Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands (1:53)
A visit to Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands
Transcript:
Daniel Kline: Hello, cruisers. I am Dan Kline.
You can’t see me. I am actually looking out at about 40 first responders, military veterans, their families, people that are here with me and Dennis Post.
Again, Dennis is holding the camera. We are here in the British Virgin Islands, on an island you can only visit by charter.
120 of us, not 120 of us, 48 of us, there’s 120 in the group, have come to this island today. And I have never seen a beach like this. You can see in front of us how absolutely blue the water is and just how good a time people are having.
There is nothing like this. Dennis, you’ve been here before. How did you put this together?
Dennis Post: So the first thing is you’ve got to be on a cruise. We’re on Norwegian Epic.
We came in about 10 months out. We started planning this because we knew we had a lot of heroes on here. And we wanted to give them something special, which is Jost Van Dyke, private beach area right here, White’s Beach, coming over from Tortola. So we set this all up and behind us is the Soggy Dollar Bar, world famous.
That’s how we did it. It took a long time, but we got it done.
Kline: I’ve been a lot of places. Travel is our job. I have never been to a beach like this.
Thank you. We want to thank all these first responders. There are people here who lost their spouses, their families.
Really, we’re with a bunch of heroes. We are thankful for that. I am Dan Kline.
He is Dennis Post. That is Amy Post.
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Post: Hey everybody.
Appreciate you.
You guys are on. The beach is full. Come to Jost.
Come to Jost Van Dyke. What about this group over here? I don’t hear.
They got flamingos. Amazing. And look at this.
The Soggy Dollar Bar. We can’t leave without saying great shout out to the Soggy Dollar Bar, the painkiller world famous here on Jost Van Dyke. All right.
Stay safe everyone.
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