About a week ago, we felt like doing a little boat trip around the Simpson Bay Lagoon but did not want the hassel or cost of renting a boat. Doing a little internet surfing we found a link for the Explorer Island tour and cruise. This is geared toward the cruise ship folks and includes a bus tour and lagoon cruise on their double decker yellow boat that you've probably seen.

https://toursxm.com/explorer-cruise/

We definitely did not want an island bus tour but the cruise sounded nice. So we got a phone number (1-721-543-0068) from the link and called Eddie seemingly the organizer. He was fine with us doing just the boat cruise for $20 pp. It actually was quite good. The trip is advertised as 45 minutes but turned out to be a little over an hour. If you're so inclined, it also includes free soft drinks, beer, rum punches, rum & cokes etc.

The boat leaves from it's home in Simpson Bay near Astra, etc. Eddie told us to just show up about 10:15 for a 10:30 departure. This worked out perfect since we just had to walk a few steps from our condo rental at Simpson Bay Yacht Club. We boarded the boat, took some good seats upstairs and got a chance to chat with Iggy the bartender for a while before the cruisers arrived on the bus. The tour was narrated and had music as well. The music was just a bit louder than we would play it, but not annoying. The cruise ship folks were a pleasant older crowd which was obviously fine.

Turned out be be a good hack. I think it may leave at different times depending on the cruisers schedule.

Thanks for the report. Seems cheap enough, although I would prefer to leave the lagoon.

That's the boat that sails past our condo all the time, have often wondered about it, maybe we will try in next trip

We have tried to get information on that for some time now as we wanted to give it a try but were never able to find any details. Thanks.

Interesting. Will have to look into it when we return in July.