![]() Once you arrive on the island, there’s a service willing to store your bags until it’s time to check into your hotel, motel, or B&B, cabs willing to take you wherever you want to go, and other people willing to help you get where you’re going and find what you want, for a fee. Key West on the horizon! Note the slightly higher bulge of the cruise ship at the right. We were coming into Key West at about the same time as a cruise ship, and I discovered something I’d never really noticed before – cruise ships are taller than the entire island! Which I did spend a bit of time at, for research purposes of course. You can get various beverages, and they have a bar. ![]() You can also buy food – breakfast-type stuff on the way down, hot dogs, burgers, chicken strips and such on the way back. Truth to tell, I managed just fine for several hours without Internet or phone service. That’s on Verizon other carriers might have better coverage. Once you’re mostly out of sight of land, it’s two bars of signal at best and no 3G or 4G coverage. Speaking of your phone, there’s no Internet access and spotty phone coverage on the trip. Or you can read, play games on your phone, or just watch the water slide rapidly by. This trip, the focus seemed to be on science fiction and comedy I’m guessing that other trips might have other movies. But it’s worth noting that at least one hotel in town and the Conch Train have special deals for Express passengers.įor the rest of the trip, they’ve got movies playing. ![]() That didn’t bother me I was on my way to Key West. Once the boat gets under way, after the obligatory safety talk – where to find life vests and rafts in the “unlikely event of an emergency” – there’s a cute tourist video describing some of the wonderful attractions of Key West, most of which have probably paid for product placement.
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