This morning we woke up early again and had breakfast at Royal Court. Then we went back to our room to change into our swimsuits and apply sunscreen. It’s another beautiful day! And today we are visiting Disney’s newest private island Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas! Lookout Cay opened about 8 months ago and we’ve been dying to explore it!
We disembarked and took in the sight of the pier from the ship to the island. YIKES. It’s a half mile long with no shade or benches. There is one water station. Not that much of a problem in late January, but imagine walking back to the ship in July with small, tired, HOT children in tow. Again, I say YIKES. Do better Disney!
Once you walk the pier, you get to the entrance.
Beautiful colors! We went through the entrance and walked to the tram stop after consulting a map of the island.
Our first stop was the gift shop so we could get a magnet.
Then we toured around the family beach section and got drinks at the family beach bbq area called True True BBQ.
We then walked over to Serenity Bay, the adults only section.
You get around Lookout Cay by walking on boardwalks, which is nice because you’re not trudging through sand. But they need more signage. We constantly got turned around trying to find our way to Serenity Bay (and CSP is great with directions).
We then went to check out the beach at Serenity Bay. The sand is powder soft! And the water is a beautiful turquoise.
This part confused me ^^^^^. pictured above are the 2nd through 5th rows of chairs and umbrellas at Serenity Bay. WHY would you want to sit here? You can’t see the ocean from these chairs!!! You can only see the dune in front of you. Odd.
It’s just gorgeous here! Only downsides are – limited shade. You only have your umbrella, which is fixed and can’t be adjusted. I burn to a crisp so we didn’t stay long on the beach. Other downside is if you don’t get here quickly enough, you can’t find a chair with an umbrella so you’re relegated to the behind the dunes section. Lame.
We stopped by the Serenity Bay BBQ for a quick snack. Lookout Cay has a more varied menu than Castaway Cay, which is nice. But there aren’t very many tables.
After our snack we went back to the ship. BTW, the tram ride back to the ship is about 20 minutes. Then add in the 10-15 minute walk on that long pier. If your goal is to spend time at Serenity Bay, you’re going to spend a good hour just getting to and from where you’re trying to go! Didn’t like that.
On our walk back to the tram we spotted this cool looking bar.
When we were on our way back to the ship we saw a dad with his wife and 2 young daughters who were also heading back to the ship. Dad said “Take a good look around girls because we’re NEVER coming back here again!” Bahahaha!!! I’d say he wasn’t a fan of the island!!! Oh, and I just realized we didn’t see a single character on the island today! That’s odd, especially with the amount of characters we normally see on Castaway Cay!
We went to the room and dropped off our souvenirs, then went up to Satellite Falls. Satellite Falls is our favorite feature of the Fantasy. It’s like you can hang out in a giant white noise water feature! So relaxing! There was NO ONE there! It was awesome!
CSP loves sitting in the water at Satellite Falls. I like it too, but it was a bit on the chilly side so I wrapped myself up in towels and listened to my book, The Housemaid by Freida McFadden.
After a while we went to Cove Cafe and the bev station for drinks and snacks.
The Cove Cafe is right next to the Quiet Cove pool and bar.
At about 5:30 we went back to try and get CSP a ride on the Aquaduck again. I found a chair on deck 11 by the giant movie screen that gave me a great view of the Aquaduck. But, just like yesterday CSP appeared again at my side in less than 10 minutes! There was a 45 minute wait to ride the Aquaduck and then they were closing it for maintenance. Whomp whomp. We didn’t have time for CSP to wait the 45 minutes because we had a dinner reservation at Palo tonight for 8 pm. Palo is the adults only Italian restaurant. We love it!
Our room is near the aft elevators, which bring you straight into Cabanas buffet on deck 11. This pelican ^^^ greets you as you exit the elevators. On our way to the Aquaduck we were able to take a close look at this huge mosaic in Cabanas while it was empty.
So we went back to the room to shower and change for Palo. I brought a Spongelle sponge with me on this trip. If you aren’t familiar, Spongelle makes body wash infused sponges that last at least 14 showers/baths. They smell great and save on packing space because you don’t have to pack a shower poof and body wash since the Spongelle combines the two! Today is day 7 of our trip so my Spongelle should have been in great shape as far as how much body wash and lather it was giving. While I was showering I noticed I couldn’t smell the Night Jasmine scent anymore. Weird. And there was VERY little lather. Odd. Luckily Disney provides a very nice body wash as well as shampoo and conditioner in large pump bottles in the shower. So I used the body wash and finished my shower. Then it was CSP’s turn to take a shower. When he was finished he commented to me that he really liked the flower sponge I brought on this trip. What, now??
I said “You’ve been using my sponge?” He said “Of course!” OF COURSE??? I had no idea! After some more questions, I found out that my knucklehead husband had not only been using my sponge (which I didn’t mind), but he was loading it up with the H20 body wash Disney provides, and then AGGRESSIVELY rinsing the sponge at the end of his showers. He couldn’t figure out why the sponge wasn’t rinsing clean of body wash and lather!!! He was spending a good 15 minutes in the shower and it wasn’t just because he was enjoying the water pressure that we sadly lack at our house. He was busy rinsing my yummy smelling body wash down the drain!!! 😂😂😂
We got ready and went up to Palo and checked in for our reservation. They had us wait in Meridian, the bar between Palo and Remy, until our table was ready.
Our table was ready so we made our way into Palo.
I ordered a La Margarita martini. I’m the worst alcohol drinker. I hated it. It tasted like ethanol. So they gave me a new cocktail, which I can’t remember the name. But it was much better! And it was pink!
You start your dinner at Palo with an amuse bouche, which is a little one bite of mushroom gnocchi. It was delish!
CSP had cioppino, a seafood stew. Mussels, and shrimp, and scallops, oh my!
Then he had osso bucco.
Our server was Gagi from Serbia and he was wonderful! Again, I forgot to get a photo. Ay chihuahua!
For my dinner I chose the seafood appetizer.
Look at the size of that shrimp! I ate him but CSP ate the rest of the items. Calamari, etc.
My entree was the scallops over risotto. OMG. SO good! Scallops melted like BUTTAH!!!
Pro tip: at Palo when you ask for salt they bring you fancy salt with a tiny wee spoon.
The smoked salt is our favorite. For dessert we both ordered the chocolate souffle. It comes with 2 sauces- a chocolate and a vanilla. CSP likes chocolate more than I do so he gets my chocolate sauce and I get his vanilla sauce.
The souffle comes with a scoop of vanilla gelato.
Tonight was Pirate night. So after dinner we went out onto Palo’s secret verandah where there were only about a dozen people, including us, to watch the fireworks. It was funny, 4 other cruise ships circled us to watch our fireworks since DCL is the only cruise line that is allowed to shoot fireworks at sea.
Here’s a snippet of the fireworks:
For Pirate night DCL give you a bandana for each person in your party. Also pictured below are the gratuity envelopes. We pre pay our gratuities so the green paper is how much we paid to each crew member. You can tear the perforated paper and put each slip in their corresponding envelopes then present them to the crew. You can also add some cash to the envelopes if you’d like.
Time for bed! Tomorrow is a sea day and we have lots of plans!
Bless Your Heart 