点评:Shepler’s Mackinac Island Ferry June 2026
With friends from Albion and Grand Rapids, the four of us were heading from Mackinaw City to Mackinac Island earlier this summer. Parking was smooth – we would be on the island for three days and could leave the SUV in an adjacent parking lot.
Short line to the ticket booth, and seamless booking for our ferry, which would leave in about an hour.
Time enough for us to cross the parking lot (standard overnight parking - $25 per night; premium dock lot parking - $50/75 per night) and have a light lunch of fries and onion rings at The Dixie Saloon, accompanied by a Kentucky Mule.
The ferry was very well organized, from the ticketing to the lining up. The only downside was ferry staff required the 80 or so passengers who were not a part of a local tour group leave the protection of the covered queue: the unfortunates in the line (including my group) had to wait in the cold wind and rain for more than 20 minutes while a ferry boarded the fortunate (in the special tour group) in comfort, sans wind or rain. (Adult basic round trip $39)
Once aboard, the trip went great. This is not a slow boat – we were tooling right along for the 20 or so minutes it took to get from the City to the Island. Given the raw weather outside it was great to shelter in the covered seating below the outside seating.
Shepler’s crew also did their best to help with our luggage: they gathered our stuff when we purchased our tickets, so we were free to wander around Mackinaw City until it was time to board. (Tipping is appropriate.)
Offloading was a bit trickier, as we sought to have the luggage gathered by the horse-drawn taxis that would take us to our condo on the island. Took a while but ultimately Shepler’s crew got our bags and transferred them to a taxi.
Great service, good coordination, slight bumps making us wait in the rain so that the privileged few could board their own ferry ahead of us, but altogether a great experience.
翻译:谢普勒麦基诺岛渡轮,2026年6月
今年初夏,我和来自阿尔比恩与大急流城的几位朋友一同从麦基诺城出发,前往麦基诺岛。停车过程很顺利——我们计划在岛上停留三天,因此可以把SUV停在附近的停车场里。
买票的队伍并不长,我们顺利订到了大约一小时后发船的渡轮票。我们有足够的时间穿过停车场(普通过夜停车:每晚25美元;高级码头区停车:每晚50至75美元),然后前往迪克西酒馆享用一份炸薯条和洋葱圈组成的简餐,再配上一杯肯塔基骡子鸡尾酒。
从购票到排队,整个渡轮服务组织得井然有序。唯一的不足之处在于:渡轮工作人员要求大约80名并非当地旅游团成员的乘客离开有遮蔽的排队区。这些倒霉的乘客(包括我们一行人)不得不在寒风冷雨中等待了20多分钟,而那些幸运的旅游团成员则舒舒服服地登上了渡轮,完全不受风雨侵袭。(成人往返票价为39美元)
上船之后,整个旅程就顺利愉快多了。这艘船可一点也不慢——从市区到岛上大约需要20分钟,我们一路顺顺当当就到了。鉴于外面天气恶劣,能待在露天座位区下方的有顶棚的休息区里真是再好不过了。
Shepler号的工作人员也竭尽全力帮助我们搬运行李:我们在购票时,他们就把行李收集好,这样我们就能在登船前自由地在麦基诺城四处逛逛了。(适当给点小费也是合适的。)
不过卸货的过程则稍微有点麻烦。我们试图让马车出租车把行李送到我们在岛上的公寓。虽然花了一些时间,但最终Shepler的工作人员还是取回了我们的行李,并将其转交给了出租车。
服务很棒,协调得当;不过有个小插曲——为了让少数特权人士能抢在我们之前登上渡轮,我们不得不在雨中等待,但总的来说仍是一次很不错的体验。