Day 2 - Nassau
We ate breakfast at Beach Blanket Buffet (deck 9 -
DCL Wonder). As it turned out, we ate breakfast there every morning. We ate enough to hold us over until lunch.
We left the ship later than I would have liked (around 10:30am), but we have 2 small children who don't move very quickly. Our excursion was full access to Atlantis. Instead of paying Disney $438, we booked a room at the
Comfort Suites Hotel for $283 total, using a
AAA discount (they never asked to see the card).
When you get off the ship you'll walk down the dock, through a building to get out into the main part of town. Before we got to the building, some taxi drivers were waiting. We told a taxi driver that we were headed to the Comfort Suites - she was wearing an official looking document around her neck, so we figured she was legit. She told us to wait while she found some more people heading to Atlantis. We must have waited 10 minutes while she asked every passenger walking by if they were going to Atlantis. I was about to go find another taxi, when she finally found another someone. I had read that taxi fees were $4 per person - I asked her how much it cost to go to Atlantis and she confirmed the 4 dollars. Meanwhile, I was carrying what looked like a small suitcase, so I was stopped twice by Bahamian customs who asked me what was in the bag (We had a change of clothes, water bottles, sunscreen, camera, etc.).
Check-in/out at the Comfort Suites went smooth. No surprises. I got the access cards to Atlantis with no problem. (I laminated the paper access cards with self-adhesive, which was a suggestion that I had read about in the main forum).
We walked from the Comfort Suites to Atlantis. It wasn't too far. Once there, as it turned out, we ran right into kiddie pool area - water slides, a giant bucket that dumps every 5 minutes, and water guns. We found the towel hut where they issued us 6 towels and a wrist band.
Finally we were ready to start our excursion. But, it was getting close to noon. The problem was we had to be back on the ship to either catch the show (Golden Mickeys) or eat at the early dinner. We wouldn't find out till about 4:45pm that we had in fact been moved from late to first seating. We would need to time shower and change clothes. So, getting a late start and all the delays (taxi, hotel check-in, walking) we weren't really left with much time. I had planned to let the kids swim a while and then check out the aquariums.
Atlantis is a big place. Be sure to wear comfortable walking shoes. It was busy, but that didn't bother us. We could have easily spent an entire week here.
The kids had fun at the kiddie pool and I rode the 'lazy' river - which wasn't so lazy on the rapids part. There is a fork in the river: one way to the rapids and the other to the "Power Tower." I never did find out what the power tower was.
Around 2pm, my kids were hungry. I had planned to bring some snacks from the ship, via room service, but that didn't pan out. I was thinking PBJ and chips. We ended up eating hamburgers/fries at a restaurant for $50. We finished eating after 3pm. There wasn't much time left to see the aquariums. We walked some more to see the Hammerhead sharks and some other fish, but we had no time left to visit the Dig.
We took a taxi back to the ship. We had to wait in line at the Nassau customs building. We were finally back on the ship about 4:30pm. Figuring we had time to relax, we laid around the stateroom. The sun tends to wear you out. Then the phone rang about 4:45pm. We were moved to early seating; "see you at 5:30pm." Oh S***, back to rush mode. We were 15 minutes late to dinner, at Animator's Palate.
...now, the Disney one does include lunch, but between you and me, I don't plan on eating $173 worth of food!
Everything was going so smooth. Then just a few days from sailing and we get all this craziness. Still, it's all good! 
I guess it hurts (I wouldn't know as I am almost bald). 
DD wasn't very happy during the procedure either.
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