My family and I were in Tortola on the Fantasy last Tuesday. It was my 5th
Disney cruise, 3rd Eastern Caribbean, but 1st time stopping in Tortola. I just wanted to throw this out there...
We did the baths on our own and it was by far and away the highlight of the entire cruise. The ship docks between 7-7:30am. We were off the ship right at 7:25am (Cabanas is open early that day approx 6:30am). The 1st Ferry to Virgin Gorda is 7:45. My wife and 2 sons (9,11) easily made the walk from the ship to the ferry with time to spare (one family took a cab and it cost him $20). The next ferry after this one was about an hour and a half later. There were only 3 families from the Disney cruise on my ferry (we were the only ship in port that day)...the rest were locals. The Ferry cost $30 for adults and $20 for kids if I remember correctly (roundtrip). 30 mins later we are in Virgin Gorda and a 10 minute cab ride later we are at the baths and we are alone. And when I say alone I mean the employees were just showing up.
We walked down the rock step path to the beach. Again, completely alone and amazingly beautiful. Aside from the docked yachts and sailboats we the only ones there. Then we found the baths and we explored the different areas /rooms / rocks. There are yellow arrows painted on the walls to help you understand where to go, but exploring was half the fun. Room after room, all to ourselves. After about an hour or so, we started to make our way out of the baths when the excursions started coming through. One after another after another including the Disney one that had 150 people in it, The excursions reminded me of Dunns Falls in Jamaica, just a line of people filing through the caves. While I'm sure the people had a decent time walking through as a group, nothing will compare to exploring the caves on our own taking tons of pictures with barely another soul in sight. by 11:00am we had finsihed the baths and spent a decent amount of time at Devil's Bay (the other beach there) and had seen all there was to see and made our way back on the top where my morning cab driver was waiting for us (we prearranged an 11:00am pickup). He had us back to the ferry port with plenty of time to catch the 11:30 ferry back to Tortola.
Back in Tortola by noon and back on the ship by 12:15. Lunch on Deck 11 and the kids enjoyed an empty ship / pool / Oceaneer club for the rest of the afternoon, while the wife and I enjoyed an empty rainforest room.
I have tons of pictures of the baths if anyone is interested.
All in all I spent under $140 total for all 4 of us to experience the baths, and with no crowds and in probably half the time, when compared to a line of people.