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Tortola and the British Virgin Islands have a reputation among seasoned travelers as the creme de la creme of the Caribbean, but legions of cruise passengers calling at Tortola have responded with a collective shrug and a hearty, "What's all the hoopla about?" As a matter of fact, at one point, Tortola was scoring so low on passenger comment cards that many cruise lines dropped it as a port. The reason is that the assets of Tortola proper are limited in size and number, and the presence of even one large cruise ship in port puts enough visitors on the ground to overwhelm and overrun most of them. By way of example, passengers might take a shore excursion to Cane Garden Bay on Tortola's north shore, lauded by all the major travel journals as one of the top 10 beaches in the Caribbean, only to find a beach jammed nearly as elbow-to-elbow as Coney Island. |
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