Castaway Cay Sandbar Excursion

[sweetpee_1993]

Not sure why but I've never noticed this offering before! Has anyone done it? What were your thoughts??? With the size of that smaller boat going over, it looks like there won't be many people in the group. Is this correct???

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

I do not know this one but we did a small boat tour up the sandbar and it was crowded and you went up and down and saw nothing new, it was a complete waste of time IMHO.

 

[sweetpee_1993]

[GALLERY=][/GALLERY]Very interesting! Thanks @DISNEY FANTASY. It does, indeed, sound pretty off from the rest of the people.

http://disneycruise.disney.go.com/c...way-cay/castaway-cay-sandbar-beach-adventure/


I also found this video which looks pretty off from the rest of the humans.

At first I was thinking maybe they took you to that little spot where the waverunner excursion beaches for a break. But this looks different to me.

 

[The Sasquatch]

I actually never noticed this but its seems like a waste of money. so you ride out, get on the sand and then what? There is literally nothing to do for two hours. I mean not even a chair to sit in.

 

[Bdunn]

At low tide, you can walk/swim to a sand bar in SB.

 

[Quellman]

I guess it really is up to what you want to do and what you are comfortable with. I don't have much desire to ride on a boat to a sandbar where there isn't any option for doing anything else. Some people may really covet the opportunity to "be in the middle of no were" not surrounded by people, or do something they have never done before.

But for me, meh. I've been on boats (in fact I'll have spent my vacation on one to get to CC). As @Bdunn said, you can walk to the sandbar at SB. And @The Sasquatch nailed it. No chairs? So I just sit in the sand? Float around on my own? What happens if you have to use the bathroom, and by that I mean the solid bathroom, not the liquid? None of that seems particularly fun.

To top it all off, I get Rum only at the end of swim time? No thanks. I'll take the 2 for 1 drink specials on land from the servers who walk about all day.

 

[sillecruisers]

At low tide, you can walk/swim to a sand bar in SB.

Do you have a pic of this? I would ditch my kids for a few minutes to go check it out (don't worry, they are teens and will probably ditch me first).

 

[sweetpee_1993]

Do you have a pic of this? I would ditch my kids for a few minutes to go check it out (don't worry, they are teens and will probably ditch me first).

I don't have any pics of it but I've been to the sandbar referenced here a few times. I've not seen it so shallow that there was sand out of the water but it was about 9 inches or so deep when I went out there once. I sat for a few minutes but it was a windy day with some chop/wave action. I was getting bounced around some so we didn't stay.

 

[Bdunn]

Do you have a pic of this? I would ditch my kids for a few minutes to go check it out (don't worry, they are teens and will probably ditch me first).

First pic is daughters on the sandbar; second pic, sandbar is in the background.

 

[jrabbit]

This show "about how far out" the sand bar is
most of the walk was knee deep or less, sometimes waist deep. there was another sand bar out there that was parallel to the beach that we decided to walk to. Most of the way it was 3 to 4 feet deep. in a few places over 8 feet deep - so a little swim. DW made it OK so it's not an issue even if you are a weak swimmer.

First picture is zoomed in a bit. Shows some of the rocks between the beach and sand bar.





This picture is not zoomed in at all - you can see the sandbar in the foreground (still under water)