The last time most of us heard of Bimini was reading Ernest Hemingway’s accounts of sailing to the Bahamian island in a boat called Pilar in the 1930s to match wits against big fish.
But now the reef-fringed sandbar 50 miles from Miami is showing up on cruise itineraries as an alternative to Nassau or Key West. The late lamented Crystal Cruises started the fad, adding Bimini to its Bahamas itineraries. Virgin Voyages is making a hedonistic beach stop on the island part of its sailings from Florida, And now we’re arriving on Holland America Line’s new flagship Rotterdam as the first stop on a Caribbean cruise from Fort Lauderdale.
So, is Bimini about to become the next “in” destination?
Read it all in The Cruisington Times: