Restrooms on St. John Excursions??

[crazy4cruises]

We will be on the 1/7 Magic, and we'd like to go to St. John on this trip. The problem is that my husband has ulcerative colitis and needs to have quick access to a restroom. We were thinking about the island tour, but we're worried about the restroom availability. Do the ferries have a restroom? Any information is greatly appreciated.

 

[crazy4cruises]

Just Bumping.. can someone help here?

 

[Jeanne B]

If you don't get your question answered about restrooms on the ferries you may want to post this on the cruisecritic.com boards under Ports of Call (there's a forum for St Thomas/St John). There's a member (screen name The Islander) who lives in St Thomas and answers a lot of the questions asked on that forum. If you're planning on going to Trunk Bay I'm pretty sure there are restrooms there.

 

[Jeanne B]

I just realized you said you were thinking of doing the island tour so I'm assuming you're considering a ship sponsored tour which means you probably wouldn't be using the public ferry system. If that's the case than posting on cruisecritic may not do you any good...you may want to call DCL and ask??

 

[DCL Repeaters]

Crazy4cruises: We took the St. John Island Tour via DCL excursions a few years ago and I can positively tell you that that there weren't many restroom stops. We were advised to use the restroom close to the area where we boarded the open air buses because there were no restroom stops. We did make a beautiful scenic stop where you could purchase souvenirs with an adjacent restaurant which wasn't open but the bus driver was able to let those who 'had to go' in to use the restroom. The boat over to St. John (not sure if they still use the same vendor) held about 100 people and it did have a restroom available. The St. Thomas Island Tour has many restroom stops (we last did this tour in Jan, 2005).