Nassau excursions: Atlantis?

[jbatdlrc]

Are the Atlantis excursions available on Nassau at the moment? Deciding on booking a 3-day or not.
Thanks!

 

[MomOTwins]

No.

 

[yfamdiscruise]

I am almost positive I saw them listed for a February cruise the other day.

 

[Cheburashka]

Are the Atlantis excursions available on Nassau at the moment? Deciding on booking a 3-day or not.
Thanks!

You can book Atlantis Aquaventure directly via the Atlantis website, fyi. I did this for my October cruise, and it was a great experience as so few people were at Atlantis. It was very beautiful and fun. I strongly recommend it if you're interested. You will need to have a photograph (no hard copy needed) of your vaccination card on your phone for them to look at when you arrive at Atlantis. The fine print said that they would also want to see a photograph of a rapid Covid test result taken within the past few days, as well, but I wasn't asked for that. Given Omicron, it's not a bad idea to rapid test prior to leaving for your cruise, anyway, and you could just keep the photo of that test result on hand in case Atlantis wants to see it.

It's easy to get to Atlantis independently. You just go to the taxi dispatch area upon disembarking from the ship (it's right at the port so no worries), tell the dispatcher you want to go to Atlantis, and they'll have you wait until a group heading to Atlantis is formed. It took about 5 minutes for my group to form. Then they'll put you in a shared taxi, and you pay cash to go to and from Atlantis. I forget the taxi price, but it's not expensive at all. When you're finished at Atlantis, you go to the same spot where you were dropped off, and a taxi will soon show up to bring you back to port. They have dispatchers there, too.

Your risk in booking independently is that if Disney isn't able to dock at Nassau, then you'll probably have to eat the cost of your Atlantis tickets. You might be able to pay for a day pass onsite with no prior reservation, but I can't vouch for that. I just remember that when I went to the Atlantis Aquaventure desk at Atlantis, they looked a bit surprised that I already had a reservation, so it seemed that people might be able to buy them on a walk-up basis.

One other note is that when I was there, the lockers were closed, so you had to either keep items with you or leave them unattended at your lounger. I kept my phone, ID & money in a waterproof case that hung around my neck as I did the rides. I left my other items at the lounger and nothing was disturbed. It isn't cheap to get into Aquaventure, so it isn't nearly as risky as leaving your bag out at a public beach. I don't leave my money or iPhone unattended anywhere, though.

 

[yorkieteacher]

This is showing for our February 28 Dream cruise- it is for the beach/pool areas only and doesn’t include any part of the hotel-

 

[Colo17]

Our February cruise now has an Atlantis lazy river/beach excursion available. No access to slides and exclusive access to the river and an area of the beach. About the same cost as past Atlantis ship excursions that included access to the entire Aquaventure water park. Currently Nassau does allow vaccinated to tour independently but if Disney has this weird excursion set up for your sailing you might be able to use the water slides/pools/casino but not the lazy river. So booking independently may get you a lot less than you planned. I would hold off on Aquaventure for a few months - they are just starting to open up to non-hotel guests.

 

[Timandalicia]

Are the Atlantis excursions available on Nassau at the moment? Deciding on booking a 3-day or not.
Thanks!

yes. We just booked ours today. Oh crap. Maybe you mean slides. No slides. Just pool and beach.

 

[MomOTwins]

Our February cruise now has an Atlantis lazy river/beach excursion available. No access to slides and exclusive access to the river and an area of the beach. About the same cost as past Atlantis ship excursions that included access to the entire Aquaventure water park. Currently Nassau does allow vaccinated to tour independently but if Disney has this weird excursion set up for your sailing you might be able to use the water slides/pools/casino but not the lazy river. So booking independently may get you a lot less than you planned. I would hold off on Aquaventure for a few months - they are just starting to open up to non-hotel guests.

I've seen that. If you read the find print and look at the pictures, it is not the big lazy river in the Aquaventure park. It is a TINY half-circle lazy river attached to the pool at the Beach hotel wing area--looks smaller than the lazy river at the Beach Club hotel at WDW, and not even a complete circuit so you can't go round and round like a true lazy river. So if Aquaventure becomes available, Disney's "exclusive" access won't interfere with it because it is nowhere near aquaventure.

I priced out the excursion. For a family of 5, $650 ($130 each), and you get one pool, the attached "lazy river" semicircle, and a portion of the beach, and you can't leave the excursion area to see anything else at the resort, and no food or drinks included. Decided I won't even bother trying for it when my window opens up next week. My kids can swim in the pool in the ship and ride the shipboard water slides for free, and will probably have more fun doing that than going to a hotel where they have to walk by all the water slides and other attractions and be told they are off limits and they can't leave the one little pool/beach area.

 

[Cheburashka]

I would hold off on Aquaventure for a few months - they are just starting to open up to non-hotel guests.

I booked them independently as a nonhotel guest in October 2021 when I sailed the Disney Magic. It was great. It's even better to go there now than it was pre-Covid, because it's less crowded.