Castaway Cay Private Cabanas

[ibouncetoo]

I never considered the swimming at Serenity Bay to be better than the family beach. In what way do you mean?

Agreed. I've never even been able to swim at Serenity, tide must have always been out on my visits. Had to walk a looooong way on rocks to even get to thigh deep water.

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[DVCconvert]

I never considered the swimming at Serenity Bay to be better than the family beach. In what way do you mean?

Specially I meant the "family beach" in front of the cabanas...talk about shallow! I thought serenity was shallow but not when compared to the area in front of cabana's 4+5. I found it really impossible to swim....a tube would be fine but at least at serenity if you walk out a ways you can get to neck deep water.

 

[Stefy]

Does anyone have the layout for the cabanas on Serenity Bay?

 

[DVCconvert]

Does anyone have the layout for the cabanas on Serenity Bay?

If you mean the floorplans...they're all the same - both at family beach and serenity. The lower the # at serenity, the closer you'll be to the air bar (not like I pay attention to such things! )

HTH

 

[Stefy]

If you mean the floorplans...they're all the same - both at family beach and serenity. The lower the # at serenity, the closer you'll be to the air bar (not like I pay attention to such things! )

HTH

Sorry I meant location wise. I think we are going to go for the SB ones and being that there is only four just wanted to get an idea of how far apart they are etc. Tried to look for a map but mostly are all of the family ones.

Is the air bar the one that does food as well?

 

[CarolAnnC]

For those who have rented the cabanas at Serenity - is the beach in front of them good for swimming? I mean, is it very rocky, sea weedy, etc.? Or is it sandy and easy to access?

Thanks all!

 

[DVCconvert]

For those who have rented the cabanas at Serenity - is the beach in front of them good for swimming? I mean, is it very rocky, sea weedy, etc.? Or is it sandy and easy to access?

Thanks all!

The Serenity cabana's don't have their own private beachfront like they do at the family beach. They set back a tad from the actual beach and have pathways that you use to get onto the beach - so basically, access is easy, it's mostly sandy bottom with some rocks, the only seaweed you'll likely see is what may have washed up on the shore just as you enter the water - I've never found that to be a problem. Personally I've always worn watershoes. There's deifinately more wave action on senerity than the family beach, but unless it's super windy not bad. I would say that adults of average height can wade out maybe 200' before getting to neck deep water.

HTH

 

[CarolAnnC]

The Serenity cabana's don't have their own private beachfront like they do at the family beach. They set back a tad from the actual beach and have pathways that you use to get onto the beach - so basically, access is easy, it's mostly sandy bottom with some rocks, the only seaweed you'll likely see is what may have washed up on the shore just as you enter the water - I've never found that to be a problem. Personally I've always worn watershoes. There's deifinately more wave action on senerity than the family beach, but unless it's super windy not bad. I would say that adults of average height can wade out maybe 200' before getting to neck deep water.

HTH

Thanks for the feedback! We are going to try this one out, I think.

 

[Stefy]

We just booked Cabana 19 on Serenity Bay. So excited to check these out in September and will take lots of photos for you guys

 

[WDWDeb]

For those that are interested. Here's the view from Cabana 11.

Thank you for posting the picture! We are in #11 on the 6/7 double dip and I have been wanting to know what the view was like. It looks like the chairs are not in front of it on the beach, but there is the volleyball court. Did you just use the chairs where they are on the beach or can you drag them over a bit in front of the cabana?

 

[fredms]

I was in cabana 7 on the 5/15 sailing and it was totally worth it! We had the concierge put a pack in play in the room so that Judah (1) could nap (which he did for 3 hours!). Highly recommended!

 

[1stDisneyCruiseForUs]

Hi all. I am really enjoying this thread and - gulp - kind of have my heart set on booking a cabana for our upcoming trip. I know they're ridiculously priced for what you get, but heck, you only live once!

Anyway, I do have a few questions that I was hoping you fine folks could help answer...

(1) What is the typical gratuity associated w/ a cabana? Do you tip per person? For your host? (I'm attempting to be very organized and have gratuity $ all put aside in envelopes ahead of time)

(2) Any recent Magic experiences? I hear the cabanas book up extremely quickly w/ Dream sailings, but has anybody had any experiences with availability on the Magic since the online booking opened up?

THANKS EVERYONE!!!!
Steph

 

[Friscorays]

I think this thread would make a good sticky.

 

[jilljill]

I think this thread would make a good sticky.

While that idea seems good, there are other that complain when there are too many stickies and they can't view the boards properly on a handheld device. Hard to please everyone all the time.


I have added a link to this thread in the FAQ sticky at the top of the boards. I thought it was already there.

 

[Alexander]

Do cabanas open up from time to time?

I was online right at my 90 day window and was hoping to get a cabana since my parents will be with us on the first of our B2B cruises and the none of the cabanas were showing available.

We will have to have a family beach one since we have two kids. Does a waiting list ever come through on the ship?

Maybe they have been booked, but people will cancel closer to that 3 day window?

 

[poohj80]

Back to reality after visiting Cabana 5 last week and it was WONDERFUL! Still not sure I coudl justify the price in the future, but it was such an awesome way to spend a family day!

 

[maryisme]

Back to reality after visiting Cabana 5 last week and it was WONDERFUL! Still not sure I coudl justify the price in the future, but it was such an awesome way to spend a family day!

Welcome back! We are in number for our August double dip. How was the service? Thanks!

Mary

 

[poohj80]

Welcome back! We are in number for our August double dip. How was the service? Thanks!

Mary

Service was great! Rodrigo was our attendent and he took good care of us without being overly pressing. He even offered us a golf cart ride to the snorkeling lagoon even though it wasn't far (we walked back). He actually had to wake us up at 415 to tell us we needed to get packed up as we had all sacked out. We woke up and all the beaches were empty...made for some nice photos.

 

[maryisme]

Service was great! Rodrigo was our attendent and he took good care of us without being overly pressing. He even offered us a golf cart ride to the snorkeling lagoon even though it wasn't far (we walked back). He actually had to wake us up at 415 to tell us we needed to get packed up as we had all sacked out. We woke up and all the beaches were empty...made for some nice photos.

Thanks for the update! I meant to say that we are booked in 5 also. Hilarious that you had to be woken up! Hope you had a wonderful cruise!

Mary

 

[poohj80]

Thanks for the update! I meant to say that we are booked in 5 also. Hilarious that you had to be woken up! Hope you had a wonderful cruise!

Mary

We did but 3 nights is WAY to short to explore the Dream!