29/05/2017
Who We Are and Why Choose Us?
Turks Island Tours (Fully Accessible Turks and Caicos Islands), is a Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands based company that is focused on providing specialized transport and sightseeing services to groups and individuals with accessibility difficulties and those requiring intimate tour settings. We pride ourselves in ensuring the highest levels of customer satisfaction – we will do everything we can to meet and exceed your expectations.
Tours can be customized based on request. Day Tours target persons visiting Grand Turk from Sister Islands,including Providenciales.
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Tours
Day Tour: US$300 per person
What to Expect
The tour begins with a pick-up from the Grand Turk Cruise Center or JAGS McCartney International Airport.
This tour allows you to take in the sights and sounds of Island life on Grand Turk and gives you a visual of the Island’s history and its people. You will have opportunity to interact with your guide in an intimate and air conditioned setting.
A historical overview of the Island will be given by the driver as you take your tour across the Island. Take in the spectacular Columbus Landing National Park views. You will view much of the Island and its wild life including the donkeys.
On this tour of Grand Turk Island, visit the historic Cockburn Town, and enjoy the scenic views of the North Creek, Turks Island Passage and Atlantic Ocean.
What You'll Do
Drive within proximity of Waterloo, the 1815 Governor’s Mansion named after the famous European Battle.
View the replica of Friendship 7 Capsule captained by the late Senator John Glenn and hear about our connection with the Mercury Space Programme.
Tour along historic Duke, Queen and Front Street and view homes and business places of former salt barons and Loyalists.
Opportunity to taste local food, drinks and shop for some souvenirs and pass through local communities.
Enjoy views from the Horatio Nelson Look out at the Grand Turk Lighthouse, one of the highest points on the island.
View birds in Salt Salinas along Church Folly.
Learn about island culture and get a historical overview from a local guide.
Tour concludes with opportunity for lunch and beach time (choice).
What's Included?
Round trip transportation to and from cruise ship/airport.
Stops will be made at the Governor’s Beach, St Mary’s Pro Cathedral, Local Craft Market, Turks and Caicos Islands National Museum, Grand Turk Lighthouse and Salinas for bird watching
Passes to Museum and Lighthouse.
Water
What's Not Included?
Gratuities for driver
Lunch
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Price: US$40 per person
Duration: 1 ½ Hours
Touring Grand Turk for the first time, especially with a rental and probably driving on the “wrong side” can be a challenge or even intimidating.
Planning a tour in advance with Fully Accessible Turks and Caicos Islands (Turks Island Tours) would eliminate these anxieties and ensure that you get to see and experience the best of the Island during your visit whether as a cruise passenger or while enjoying a long stay vacation within the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Fully Accessible Turks and Caicos Islands (Turks Islands Tours) can take you and your family to all the renowned and unusual places of historic, environmental and cultural interest on Grand Turk Island. We have fully accessible capability for two manual wheel chair persons and seven able bodied persons in an intimate setting.
The knowledgeable driver and tour guide will give narrative throughout the tour. You will navigate winding streets of Cockburn Town that date over 200 years and view buildings that reflect the Bermudian presence during the salt raking days that commenced in the 1670s.
Grand Turk is said to be a possible landfall to the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Your tour will include a drive along the Columbus Landing National Park which is not only breath taking but contains scores of world class dive sites and the 7,000 feet deep world renowned Grand Turk Wall.
The Island has significant connections to the Space Age as it was the splashdown and debriefing place for the late Senator John Glenn and astronaut Scott Carpenter in 1962. There will be a picture opportunity of a replica of Friendship 7 that landed near Grand Turk and was brought here for further shipment to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
What would be a tour of Grand Turk without visiting the 1852 Lighthouse? Along the scenic route you will get to see and hear about the vegetation of the Island. At the lighthouse you can view from Horatio Nelson’s look out the Atlantic Ocean and Turks Island Passage.
Your tour guide and driver, Derek is a student of Turks and Caicos Islands History, stamp collector, photographer and a former public servant. He is well equip to give you an experience to remember.
We are here to serve.
A member of the Grand Turk Taxi Association and Turks and Caicos Islands National Museum
