9-night Southern Caribbean Cruise on the Disney Fantasy Day 10 - Castaway Cay
Friday July 29 - Castaway Cay
We were originally scheduled for 9:30-4:45 at Castaway Cay, but then the night before they said we would arrive at 10 AM (with no explanation) but then we didn’t actually end up being cleared to get off the ship until 10:30 so they said we could stay ashore until 5:30. All the early excursions before 10:30 were canceled and that was that. (We didn’t have one of those excursions.)
It didn’t matter to us, this was our 5th time to CC (2014, 2015, 2017, 2022) and we aren’t as crazy about it as many are. (Blasphemy, I know.) So we woke up later than usual and had a leisurely breakfast. At 10:15 Emmaline and I went to Animation Class in D Lounge (drawing) and Roger watched some TV (he watched a lot of cricket). This was actually the first time we went to one of the animation classes on this sailing, which is funny because we did a ton of them back in November on the Wonder. We drew the Genie with a fair amount of success considering we were told he’s a more advanced character to draw.
After that we went back to the room and put on our running clothes (well, Emmaline didn’t because she can’t run with her ankle) and set off to do the CC5k. We decided to rent a bike for Emmaline so she could ride along with us as we ran since her ankle was mobile enough to do that.
We disembarked at 11:15 and waited forever for a tram. Then once we were on the tram, we waited forever just sitting there. It was the slowest tram transport we’ve ever dealt with at CC. We finally arrived at Pelican Point 45 minutes later (no joke). So we started the 5k at noon with Emmaline on the bike. After we finished (it was hot and I was on the struggle bus) we went over to Cookies. We didn’t want lunch on account of our late breakfast and being hot and tired from the run so we just ate some snacks.
We got back onboard the empty ship (pretty sure a tumbleweed rolled through the atrium) and Roger got cleaned up. Emmaline and I changed clothes and reapplied sunscreen to prepare for our parasailing excursion. We had a little time before that so I did a little more packing to prepare to leave the ship the following day.
At 2:00 Emmaline and I left for our excursion and checked in at Marge’s Barges. It started to sprinkle a little and a black cloud rolled in overhead as the winds picked up. At around 2:20 guy came over and announced the 2:30 parasailing (our timeslot) was canceled and likely all of the others for the rest of the day would be, too. He said that it was getting way too windy and conditions weren’t safe.
So we got back onboard and went up to deck 11 to eat…whatever meal it is that you eat at 3 PM in the afternoon. I had a veggie hot dog/sausage thing and it was really good. I like having an additional veg option at Flo’s.
Since it was pretty empty onboard, we decided to go on the Aquaduck a few times, then Emmaline did some swimming in the pool while Roger and I returned to the room and I showered. Emmaline came back to the room after a bit and changed to go to one last karaoke, which was sparsely attended on account of everyone still being on the island. While she was there, Roger and I began packing in earnest.
After Emmaline returned from karaoke, she decided she wanted to go see the show that evening, Believe. It’s a good show but we had just seen it the month before on the Dream and given how crowded Frozen was, Roger and I decided to skip and go play mini golf instead since we hadn’t done that yet. We arrived at 6 PM to find that mini golf closes at 6 PM. Lame.
Instead we finished the scavenger hunt for the day, which was brutally hard due to the fact that one of the photos taken earlier in the week was of a section of Animator’s that changes depending on the theme of the night so it didn’t look the same. Not sure if the person on the entertainment team didn’t realize that or if it was purposefully meant to be hard as nails.
We completed it and went back to the room where I worked a little on my trip report and Roger flipped through some TV and relaxed until Emmaline returned. We finished up our packing and organizing, which is a lot more complicated with 9 days worth of stuff to deal with so things got a little harried in the end.
Dinner our final night was Royal whatever (I can't keep straight which one is on the Dream and which is the Fantasy, I look it up and then just promptly forget again) and it was the second rotational menu for that restaurant and I’ll be honest, by this point, I was sort of done with cruise food and ready for something simple and uncomplicated. And maybe tacos or something.
We stayed overly long at dinner because our servers were awesome and we were chatting with them and also with the dining room manager who had a friend seated one table over from us. We had sort of inadvertently made her acquaintance earlier in the cruise when we had a problem with the app not showing the correct menu for one of the nights. We had asked our server (Jay from Jamaica who we’ve now had three times because of his aforementioned awesomeness) and he was like, “I dunno, let’s ask the dining room manager over there.”
So anyway, we sort of said hey and a couple of pleasantries from that point on and I thought she was the dining room manager, like managed THAT rotation or something, but I asked her more about her duties and it turns out she is the officer in charge of ALL the food on the ship. From Cabanas to Flo’s to the MDRs, all of it. Whoaaaaaaaa…. So we chatted with her a little bit and I told her I wanted chocolate chip cookies at Flo’s like they have at Daisy’s on the Classics. She told me to put it on the comment card. Well, I guess cookies on the pool deck are above her pay grade. She was super nice and we enjoyed getting to know her.
Roger and Emmaline returned to the room to put our luggage out and I had to wait in the stupid line at Guest Services because the app wasn’t showing me any appointment times available all day like I was able to get on the Dream the month before. I finished up dealing with some bill-related stuff and went back to the room and we all fell into bed with mixed feelings about our last night onboard.
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