Getting on and off ship during port days?

[iswimforbrighterdays]

If DD takes to camp carnival and we decide to get off at the port without her, how hard will it be to go back onto the ship to get her and then come back to the beach? We're stopping at Grand Turk, HMC and Nassau. Does anyone have experience getting off and returning to the boat a couple of times a day? We're not going far from the ship so no worries about taking taxi's back and forth.

[cb at sea]

It's not hard at all! HMC is the private island, and it's tendered, so that will take more time than when you can simply walk off and on the ship. Usually, they have a "kid's club" set up on the island, so it may be more advantageous for all of you to go ashore, take your daughter to the club on the island, and do your "adult" things.

 

Nassau is a walk on/off...just like leaving and returning to a hotel, except you'll show your ship's card to leave and return.

[iswimforbrighterdays]

That is awesome news about CC on the beach at HMC. This way my daughter can play with kids her own age if she wants but still get to enjoy being out of the boat.

[sandytoes03]

It's not hard at all! HMC is the private island, and it's tendered, so that will take more time than when you can simply walk off and on the ship. Usually, they have a "kid's club" set up on the island, so it may be more advantageous for all of you to go ashore, take your daughter to the club on the island, and do your "adult" things.

 

Nassau is a walk on/off...just like leaving and returning to a hotel, except you'll show your ship's card to leave and return.

 

CB, do you know this for sure? We took Pride in June and they did NOT have a kids club on the beach, and it was about an hour round trip to take the tenders back to the ship, and then back to the island. In HMC it will be very easy, beach is right there.