5-night DCL Bahamas cruise + WDW: A 25th Anniversary Celebration - Day 8 - Disembarkation, Mini Golf, Disney Springs

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Disembarkation, Mini Golf, Disney Springs

We had arranged the night before to come to first seating breakfast. Did we want to? No, but we had transfers we had to catch earlier than second seating breakfast would allow. I don't know how other people handle it. Maybe they also try to make a similar deal? Go to Cabana's? Our usual table wasn't going to be occupied so it wasn't an issue to show up for first seating. 

We had breakfast and said goodbye to Jay and the team and disembarked. Re-entry was super easy and we didn't even have to get out our passports. They have some new facial recognition system. It made things go really quickly. We found our bus and thankfully, everyone was pretty much on time for the transfer with some folks sliding in right at the last second.

It was an uneventful ride back to Orlando and we arrived at our resort (Riviera) at around 10:30 and then we...didn't have anything to do. So we hung out in the lobby, did a little shopping and went on a scavenger hunt around the resort. We had originally been hopeful that we could take advantage of the new offer that Disney had to visit a water park on day of check in. Unfortunately, it was chilly, in the low 50s with a cold wind.

Instead we ate some lunch on site at Primo Piatti (I just love their vegetable skewer). After we finished lunch we got a Lyft over to the Winter Summerland mini-golf course. They have two 18-hole courses: winter or summer and both have a Christmas theme. We played all the way through winter and when we were returning our clubs, the CMs working there asked if we wanted to play the other course. There was practically nobody there. We didn't have anything better to do so we played all the way through the other course.

When we finished our mini golf, we got another Lyft over to Disney Springs for some treats and a little more shopping. We grabbed some coffees and got in the line for Gideon's because it wasn't too long. We probably only waited for 15 minutes or so. The interior decor was really cool but the cookies were just, well, cookies. I've made better ones at home. I'm not sure I understand all the hype. 

We did some more shopping before grabbing a bus back to the resort right around 4 PM. I hadn't gotten the text that our room was ready so we checked at the front and just as we did, the room was ready. We went to our room only to hear crazy drilling noises coming from above us. Apparently the restaurant was getting a refurb. The noise was insane. I called guest services and asked them if there was another option and they got right back to us and offered to move us to the other side of the resort where it was much quieter. 

We unpacked and got ready for our park day the next day and then hung out for a bit before going over to Caribbean Beach Resort next door to try dinner at Sebastian's Bistro. It was really quite good and we'll definitely be back. After dinner we went back to our room to find that the view we had during the day of the parking lot was actually a view of the sky over Epcot by night and we could see the fireworks! 

We watched an episode of "What If?" on Disney+ before getting to bed so we could get a good night sleep before our day at Epcot the next day. 

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