we"reofftoneverland
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 5, 2015
Day 6: Nassau
We ordered continental breakfast to the room again. They always call about ten minutes after they deliver it to make sure everything is as ordered and to ask if you need anything else. They did this for us on the Vista too. Very good service. Our ship was first in port but not for long-- DCL Magic was pulling in. We got ready quickly and got off the ship at about 8:30 am. It was a gorgeous day. We walked to the queens staircase (free) and up to the fort (can't remember, but about $3 pp to enter). We have done this before but maybe 4 years ago when we left the younger kids in DCL kids club. So it was new for them. We originally got the "self walking tour" idea from the DCL unofficial guide. They have a Nassau self walking tour in there which is great. The unofficial guide tour goes beyond the fort and continues to other sites... but today one of the kids said he had had enough and wanted to go to the kids club. Of course! So we walked back to port, stopping at a gift shop to get a mini snow globe made in China that said Nassau on it and had a dolphin inside ($4.50). Junk! When we got back to port, the party had begun. DCL Wonder was now also docked (those pushy DCL ships got the first 2 slots closest to the city. lol), along with CCL Liberty and NCL Escape, which DH said, "looked right out of the box." Talk about a pristine looking ship. They were next to us and getting their party music and red carpet set up! Funny, because people on Dis always say that everyone not on the DCL ships wishes they were on the DCL ships when in port with them. Well... After walking past all the ships, I could tell we were all thinking the same thing, and finally the 8 year old busted out with it. "Boy, I'd love to go on that ship," he said, pointing at the NCL Escape, "Book that one for our next vacation." Lol, Disney, you've lost the 8 year old boy market. So we dropped him off at kids club and took off again for Nassau and the Pirate Museum (about $13 adults, $6 kids up to 18- love that). This was new for us and if you have younger kids, I recommend it. The museum is in a beautiful building and very well done, but it is a short exhibition and if you are just going with adults you may feel like you did not get your money's worth. The theme continues with an attached bar/restaurant, Smuggler's Bar, and also a Starbucks. We did not go to them, but they looked cool. The entire area is nice. After the museum we decided to call it a day and headed back to the ship. We stopped at a place that had 3 for $25 t-shirts and Tortuga Rum shop to buy a cake ($20). The shopping streets were packed at this point and we headed back for a Guy's burger and the Chocolate Dessert bar on our last day.
I just want to mention if you do the Queen's Staircase on your own, you might get people trying to appoint themselves to be your tour guide. They do not work there and are just entrepreneurial (gotta love it). Both times we have walked the staircase, we just said that we were fine alone, thank you. No issue.
That night we hit one more comedy show, mdr which had prime rib and baked Alaska (waitstaff did fire show with Baked Alaska-- awesome), picked up a couple of photos at Pixels, watched the balloon drop where "Harvey" from a room on deck 1 won the giveaway even though my kids had stacked the deck and did 3 balloons each. lol. The kids went to the kids club at about 8 and came out at about 9 with a bunch of swag, saying they were "so sad." It is awful, that last night, and the only thing that makes it better is booking another cruise, or thinking about the one you have already booked. We went back to pack and gave our Jordan Schlansky type (Conan Obrien utube) steward an extra tip (not huge $40 total for 2 rooms) because he was also awesome and he said, "God bless you," which a steward has never said to me and made me want to cry even though I am not really religious because it was so sweet of him to say and I was going to miss him and the ship and all of it.
We ordered continental breakfast to the room again. They always call about ten minutes after they deliver it to make sure everything is as ordered and to ask if you need anything else. They did this for us on the Vista too. Very good service. Our ship was first in port but not for long-- DCL Magic was pulling in. We got ready quickly and got off the ship at about 8:30 am. It was a gorgeous day. We walked to the queens staircase (free) and up to the fort (can't remember, but about $3 pp to enter). We have done this before but maybe 4 years ago when we left the younger kids in DCL kids club. So it was new for them. We originally got the "self walking tour" idea from the DCL unofficial guide. They have a Nassau self walking tour in there which is great. The unofficial guide tour goes beyond the fort and continues to other sites... but today one of the kids said he had had enough and wanted to go to the kids club. Of course! So we walked back to port, stopping at a gift shop to get a mini snow globe made in China that said Nassau on it and had a dolphin inside ($4.50). Junk! When we got back to port, the party had begun. DCL Wonder was now also docked (those pushy DCL ships got the first 2 slots closest to the city. lol), along with CCL Liberty and NCL Escape, which DH said, "looked right out of the box." Talk about a pristine looking ship. They were next to us and getting their party music and red carpet set up! Funny, because people on Dis always say that everyone not on the DCL ships wishes they were on the DCL ships when in port with them. Well... After walking past all the ships, I could tell we were all thinking the same thing, and finally the 8 year old busted out with it. "Boy, I'd love to go on that ship," he said, pointing at the NCL Escape, "Book that one for our next vacation." Lol, Disney, you've lost the 8 year old boy market. So we dropped him off at kids club and took off again for Nassau and the Pirate Museum (about $13 adults, $6 kids up to 18- love that). This was new for us and if you have younger kids, I recommend it. The museum is in a beautiful building and very well done, but it is a short exhibition and if you are just going with adults you may feel like you did not get your money's worth. The theme continues with an attached bar/restaurant, Smuggler's Bar, and also a Starbucks. We did not go to them, but they looked cool. The entire area is nice. After the museum we decided to call it a day and headed back to the ship. We stopped at a place that had 3 for $25 t-shirts and Tortuga Rum shop to buy a cake ($20). The shopping streets were packed at this point and we headed back for a Guy's burger and the Chocolate Dessert bar on our last day.
I just want to mention if you do the Queen's Staircase on your own, you might get people trying to appoint themselves to be your tour guide. They do not work there and are just entrepreneurial (gotta love it). Both times we have walked the staircase, we just said that we were fine alone, thank you. No issue.
That night we hit one more comedy show, mdr which had prime rib and baked Alaska (waitstaff did fire show with Baked Alaska-- awesome), picked up a couple of photos at Pixels, watched the balloon drop where "Harvey" from a room on deck 1 won the giveaway even though my kids had stacked the deck and did 3 balloons each. lol. The kids went to the kids club at about 8 and came out at about 9 with a bunch of swag, saying they were "so sad." It is awful, that last night, and the only thing that makes it better is booking another cruise, or thinking about the one you have already booked. We went back to pack and gave our Jordan Schlansky type (Conan Obrien utube) steward an extra tip (not huge $40 total for 2 rooms) because he was also awesome and he said, "God bless you," which a steward has never said to me and made me want to cry even though I am not really religious because it was so sweet of him to say and I was going to miss him and the ship and all of it.
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