We woke up after our first night on the ship. The beds are very comfortable, but it is a little different sleeping in a twin instead of my usual queen size bed, luckily I don’t move much at night, otherwise I may have fallen out of my little bed. After packing our bags and getting ready for our beach day in the Bahamas, we headed down to the Horizon court to get some breakfast. There are so many great choices for breakfast to meet everyone’s needs. Filled up our plates and headed to what would become our breakfast table, at the aft of the ship you will find Horizon Terrace, which is a lovely outdoor space where you can eat, there is also a bar out there. We found a little 2 person table and that became our spot every morning.
After breakfast we headed back to our rooms for a bit while the ship settled into the spot we would be anchoring at for the day. Princess Cays is a tender spot, which can take some time to get to shore. Once you are ready to go ashore head down to the dining room and get your tender ticket, then grab a seat and wait until they call your group. We didn’t have to wait too long this morning before we were called to head to our tender, they take you down to the 4th floor where you board the tender and they begin the short ride over to the island.
When you arrive at Princess Cays most people including us head towards the left and find a seat, as that is where most of the seating is. We headed over that way and found a seat close to the water and right by the beach volleyball court. We didn’t do too much during the day, we would go in the water to cool off or relax on the beach. A couple that we had met the night before at dinner found us and we spent some time together on the beach. I headed off to do some exploring with my camera and take a few pictures, I didn’t get pictures of all of the amenities, the scenery was so beautiful on this day, I couldn’t resist.
I did get a few shots of Grill Crazy, where they serve lunch when we went to get ours. I have to say it was the most disappointing meal that we had the entire trip, which is a little surprising since it is really only burgers and hot dogs. Oh well, we decided to just head for pizza again when we got back on the ship.
I also took some photos of the bungalows that you can rent, they are so beautiful and colourful. They are designed for 4 people and cost $199.95 for the day. You can also rent ones that are in a Sanctuary area for adults only. For the expensive price tag you don’t seem to get much, I believe it aside from the building you only get a couple of floats.
Princess Cays is also a great spot to do some snorkelling, they have a few areas with a lot of rocks around them which makes for some pretty good snorkelling. I left mom sitting on the beach while I went out for a couple of snorkelling sessions of about 45 minutes each. I could spend hours out there, it is so peaceful and such a beautiful different world down there.
Soon it was time to make our way back to the tender and head back to the ship. We waited until the beach had cleared out some before we headed back, however the line was still quite long to get back on the tender. While waiting in line they will come by and hand out a cool cloth. Soon it was our turn and we were back on the tender heading back to the ship. We boarded the ship on level 4 again and headed up in the elevator back to our cabin. We took some time to relax and enjoy our room and our balcony.
Around 6pm we decided to head down for dinner. As usual we headed to the Symphony dining room, said we would share our table. But it was a little busy tonight and there was a bit of a wait, so we got a pager and headed out to the Piazza Bar for a drink while we waited for our table. We were seated at a table for 8 (I believe), and we ended up with a wonderful group of people, we really did get lucky with our table mates on this trip. Tonight we met some sisters from Toronto that we ended up spending quite a bit of time with on this trip.
We then spent a bit of time hanging out in the Piazza watching some of the entertainment. I was pretty tired after the full day in the sun and a bunch of swimming, so I was ready for bed early.
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