I don't know anything more than what I wrote here, I didn't go to the beach myself, my friend did. Sorry. I do know that my daughter went to Atlantis for a week as a nanny of a main line family, and she said the beach was pretty bad.  She stayed at the pool all the time.

[quote user="cruise lover"]i truely believe in using the expensive carnival excursions rather than doing things on my own, but in the case of a beach.... you come and go at your own anyway.[/quote]   I agree, but if like you say,. if you arn't sure of the weather, I'd rather take my chances than pre-pay for an excursion ...

I don't know the name, she took water taxi to atlantis and walked past atlantis to get to beach. Then she found out a regular taxi car would have taken her right to beach for less money. Just need to ask taxi driver to take you to free beach next to atlantis.  As far as watching belongings, that you must do.  My friend found a family ...

I really lost interest in this thread already.  Does anyone know how to remove threads from your e-mail notifications?

[quote user="Darfoolie"]What's a ship card[/quote] your sign and sail card,it's the same thing as your key card for your stateroom.  No you don't need a passport on a closed loop cruise.  That means it starts and ends in the same US port. And you have to realize if anything happens, like someone misses ...

Be Pissed. She can't go into the pool or the hot tubs.  But that's not to say no-one does it.  Just be prepaired for nasty looks, there are health rules here for everyone.  The only thing there was for the tots on the Sensation last week was to be held under the sprinklres by the water slides.  After someone brought ...

[quote user="lindalou"]then I thought about when we get off back here we would have to stand in line to get the remander back. [/quote]   Just got back,  was told if you set up with cash you had 2 choces at end of cruise, if you went to information desk last night of cruise, and you were sure you were done spending ...

Well. just got back yesterday,  What can I tell you  about Nassau.  We went shopping in morning, but someone else in our party went to Hilton to 'check it out' while we planned to go there after lunch. They found out it's been raised to $40.00 per person. no smaller amount for our 5 year old.  That gets you a ...

just got back yesterday, boo hoo, you only need ship card and photo id. to get on and off ship in nassau.  I carried copy of passport front pages for DH and I, DD and DGD only have bc's and that got them on ship at port Canaveral, ship card and photo id was only thing we needed at ports I carried copy of their bc. never needed ...

and for those of us with kids left home, even though they are in late teens and twentys, we always buy it incase something happens to one of them and we can't go away. Not just worried about us.  We've bought the peace of mind, every year, and have never used it.  But I'm sure the time I didn't buiy insurance, I'd ...