Kralendijk's waterfront is close enough that the walking day needs no planning at all.
We track two Margaritaville at Sea calls, and they are nothing alike: **8:00 AM to 4:00 PM** and **9:00 AM to 8:00 PM**.
Eight hours and eleven hours. Check which one you have.
The second makes a genuinely different day available.
Bonaire
Landsailing Adventure · $119.99
Adults Only Coastal Sailing & Open Bar · $109.99The clock
| Arrive | Depart | Calls | Hours alongside |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | 4:00 PM | 1 | 8.0 |
| 9:00 AM | 8:00 PM | 1 | 11.0 |
Take 45 to 60 minutes off for getting ashore and back aboard. The eight-hour call gives you about six and a half usable hours; the eleven-hour call gives you about nine and a half, finishing in the evening.
All-aboard is normally about thirty minutes before departure, and your ship's posted time is the only binding figure.
Nine and a half hours on a small island is the rare case where you can do two things properly.
Shore diving is what Bonaire is for
Bonaire's marine park is shore-accessible, which is unusual and is the reason divers choose the island. That makes a self-planned water day more realistic here than at most ports.
Klein Bonaire, the uninhabited island opposite, needs a water taxi or an organized boat trip rather than a walk from the pier. On the eight-hour call that is most of the day; on the eleven-hour call it is comfortable.
Confirm your berth before relying on a walk time, and treat the posted rate at the pier as the authority on a fare.
Devil's advocate: the eight-hour call is a town day
If your call is the 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM one, the honest plan is the waterfront, a swim from shore, lunch and back aboard. Adding Klein Bonaire to it means watching the clock through the part you came for.
Save the boat for the eleven-hour call. On the short one, Bonaire is a pleasant walkable town.
That is enough.
Verify before you pay
- Which of the **two calls** you have — eight hours or eleven.
- Your sailing's **all-aboard time**.
- For Klein Bonaire, the **last return boat**, confirmed before you go.
- **Dive operator requirements** — certification, equipment and whether a guide
is required.
- The **posted taxi or water taxi rate** at the pier, not a quoted one.
What we checked, and what we would not
Checked against our own sailing capture on 2 October 2026: 2 tracked Kralendijk calls, both aboard Beachcomber, 19 February 2027 and 16 April 2027 from Miami, at $749 and $849 per person at double occupancy, all-in.
Deliberately absent: water taxi fares and timetables, dive operator pricing and marine park fees, and walking times from the pier. The marine park fee is a real cost for anyone entering the water and we have no current sourced figure for it — ask the operator. Options carried from our earlier guide are below.
This guide describes the port. Every tracked Kralendijk sailing carries its own call times, all-aboard and hours ashore — which is the half that decides the day, and it changes from sailing to sailing.
Excursion prices, durations and operator terms are as drafted and change without notice — confirm on the day with the ship's app or the operator. Figures here are planning guidance, not a quote. Not affiliated with Margaritaville at Sea.
