Eagle Taxi

Friendly, courteous service offers island tours, will take you to and from the ferry, beach, and anywhere you want to go at anytime. Please email or call for rates.   Julian Ollivierre Eagle Taxi #2234 Paget Farm, Bequia VHF: 68  Cell: 593 9639 eagletaxibequia@yahoo.com

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Gideon's Taxi

   Several car and jeep rental companies operate on the island, offering both daily and weekly rates. If you want to have the freedom to explore at your own pace and in your own time, renting a car or jeep is the choice for you. Some vehicles are open topped, some are air-conditioned. 

Car rentals can usually also be arranged through your hotel, apartment, or villa.  

B&G (Gideon) Jeep Rental
Tel/Fax: (784) 458 3760 
gideontaxi@vincysurf.com
www.bequiajeeprentals.com

Challenger Car Rentals
Tel: (784) 458 3811 
challengertaxi@yahoo.com
www.Bequia.net/challenger.htm

  Often crowded, never dull, these closed vehicles are the cheapest way to get around to most parts of the island. Pick them up in Port Elizabeth (enquire at the Tourism Office for the regular routes and stop-offs) or simply hail one as it approaches and ask them if they are going you way! 

   Fares vary from EC$1 to EC$4 per person (payable once on board) depending on the length of journey.

  

A popular way to get from Admiralty Bay to Princess Margaret or Lower Bay beaches, or even just across Admiralty Bay.    You will normally find a water taxi operator on the dock at the Frangipani or Gingerbread docks, or if there are none in sight just stand at the end of the dock and one will soon appear!    Cost about EC$15 one way, to the beaches, less for a trip across the harbour. Make a note of the name of the water taxi so you can ask for him again.  All water taxis stand by on VHF CH 68.

African Pride ("African")
 
   Call "African" water taxi on CH 68 and he will find you a mooring for a reasonable fee (at your own risk), provide a water taxi, or simply give you good and useful advice about the harbour and its facilities. African (real name Winston Simmons, but known to everyone as African) is a mine of information, and knows how to make visitors, especially those on yachts, feel really welcome.

  Bequia to St. Vincent

Bequia has always relied on ferries to bring supplies and of course passengers to and from St. Vincent. Up until about fifteen years ago, the Friendship Rose, a Bequia built inter-island schooner was the only lifeline for Bequians to "the mainland". This handsome vessel, still with its same skipper Captain Lewis, now operates memorable day trips to the Tobago Cays.

 Today a regular and efficient ferry service operates between Bequia and Kingstown, St. Vincent, with two Bequia based companies - Admiralty Transport (784 458 3348) and Bequia Express (784 458 3472) - operating four boats between them. Together the two ferries lines offer seven sailings a day on weekdays, five on Saturdays, with morning and evening sailings only on Sundays. Each ferry has an air-conditioned saloon, bar and snack bar, or you can choose to sit up on deck and enjoy the sea air.

  The boats carry passengers and cargo, trucks and supplies from "the mainland" to Bequia and the arrival and departure of each ferry in Port Elizabeth is a lively buzz of activity even at 6.30am in the morning! 

One-way fares on all ferries are EC$20 per person, and EC$35 per person return (any time - with the same ferry company). 
 

Please call the ferry companies for the up-to-date ferry schedule!

Phone contact: Admiralty Transport 784 458 3348 and Bequia Express 784 458 3472

Schedules can be subject to change at short notice, so its sensible to check with the ferry companies or the Bequia Tourism Association before planning your journey - especially if you have a plane to catch!

Arriving in Bequia by ferry

  Ferries to other Grenadine Islands

 The vessel MV Barracuda, also known as the "Mail Boat", operates a twice-weekly (mainly cargo) run from Kingstown, St. Vincent through the Grenadines to Union Island, stopping Canouan and Mayreau and sometimes also in Bequia, although this stop is not fixed in the current schedule.

  This is an interesting, adventurous and inexpensive way to see the Grenadines, but the schedule, and Bequia stops in particular, are subject to change. Check at the Tourism Office when in Bequia for up-to-date details. 

  Connections to Carriacou and Grenada

   M.V. Jasper leaves Union Island for Carriacou at 6:00 a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays. It leaves Carriacou on the same day at 12:00 noon. The fee is EC$20.00. In addition various fishing boats leave Union at 7:30 and will drop passengers in Carriacou for the same price.

  From Carriacou you can get to Grenada via the Osprey Lines. See their ferry schedule at www.ospreylines.com/schedule.htm