2 of my 3 favoritest guys in the whole world....and that other ship waaaaaay off in the distance:
I know it's just Nassau but it's not home so I have to take a bazillion pics!
It was almost time to meet up for our Atlantis Aquaventure in Diversions. What's my favorite waiting activity??? Y'all know the drill!
Now, I know many of you who realize how much the Atlantis Aquaventure costs to book thru DCL costs are thinking, "Either these people are made of money or they're nuts!" For the benefit of those who have never looked, I believe the Aquaventure costs like $169 per adult/person over 10 or 11 yrs. If you do the calculation, it's more than we just paid for that sea plane tour. The way we looked at it, we didn't know how many more times we'd be visiting Nassau. It's something we wanted to see and not spend forever wondering or wishing we'd done it when we had the opportunity. We *did* get a great rate on the cruise. No, we aren't made of money either. So we splurged.
For those who've read about the "cheaper" route to Atlantis by booking a room at the Comfort Suites on Paradise Island right next to Atlantis with the full access to the Aquaventure, let me tell you why I did NOT book that route. Believe me, I poured over Atlantis & all the options to get there for days. When you book the room directly thru Comfort Suites it'll quote you the best nightly rate which isn't that terrible even with taxes. I think ours was coming out to $314. When you arrive in Nassau you need to grab a cab over to the hotel. For whatever reason, from my research I was banking on like $20 each way. Not sure how I got to that number. Once you get to Comfort Suites you have to go check-in and check-out at the same time. They'll give you your wristbands and then charge you the additional fine print fees you may not have noticed in that fine print on their website when you booked the room. It's like cleaning fees, some sort of utility fees, or something like that. Even if you don't ever step a toe in those rooms you have to pay. The fees alone added up to an additional like $175 for my family of 4 (due to the ages of my boys). Don't believe they do that??? Research it. I couldn't believe it either but I researched and found where they absolutely do this and there's no skirting it. So booking thru Comfort Suites would've cost me $529. We would've had to do the walk from CS to Atlantis (a little futher than the direct drop at Atlantis). Lunch wasn't included. I knew food was pricy so once you added in the cost of lunch we were still pushing $600. Comfort Suites would've saved a little over $70 but once you're up in that realm the assurance of booking thru Disney and knowing they aren't going to leave you behind if you don't make it back on-time if there's a problem between your ship, your destination, and back to the ship becomes more worth it to just bite the bullet. So we booked direct. I don't regret it one bit, either.
We were off the ship at about 9:30.
We had to follow the flag...which had my family of whack-o's chanting "Bra-zil! Bra-zil! Bra-zil!" We did get some laughs from others nearby:
See you later, our Magic love:
Tracey said, "Look, it's the Bahamian Navy!" I laughed. Pic to show my daddy:
This is the look I got from Chandler after the military guy with the machine gun let us thru the gate:
So we loaded onto the bus that was waiting for us. Wanna go for a thrill ride?! Book an Atlantis excursion! We were flying thru traffic on the narrow streets
in town zipping along, passing cars, etc. If anyone had made the mistake of stepping off a curb onto the street they'd have been toast. Of course we're all in the back of the bus with our arms in the air like idiots. :lol: And, OMG! Wanna hear something interesting?!?! Listen to Bahamian talk radio after a big election! Those guys didn't hold back talkin' about the island's dirty laundry all over the airwaves. We kept lookin' at each other wide-eyed. Even in paradise there's no escaping political BS. :lol:
