Native Way Sports Private Excursion Details (Grand Cayman stop):
I guess it would help if I actually gave the details on the Native Way Sports Private Excursion so folks actually know what the heck I am talking about....
http://www.nativewaywatersports.com/ is the website that gives quite a bit of information. We have opted to go for the full day private charter - this is $650.00 for the first 12 people and then $50.00 per person after that. Additionally there is a $10.00 charge per person for lunch on all full day private charters (they apparently call ahead to the restaurant and put the orders in so that when we get to the restaurant its ready to go and we don't have to eat - I believe this is at the Rum Point stop as that is the restaurant they do business with).
The full day private charter meets the Native Way folks at 915 on the pier. They provide all the transportation to the boats (
http://www.nativewaywatersports.com/our_boats.htm) and back to the ship. The full day private charter is approximately 5+ hours and they have a guarantee to get us back to the ship by around 3-330.
The private day charter is somewhat flexible in where we can go but I know one thing that everyone has wanted to do was stingray city. Additionally we would probably need to include a stop at Rum Beach as that is the restaurant stop. The third or so stop is up to us (the group) and no one has had any definite thoughts on that yet. An example of some of their tours can be found at
http://www.nativewaywatersports.com/tours.htm.
I had to put a guarantee down on my CC several months ago for the December timeframe. We decided to do this soon as many reviews stated they fill up quickly and months in advance so I wanted to make sure we got a boat. We pay the amount once we meet the native way representatives for our excursion and if for some reason the boat cannot dock my cc will NOT get charged. If we pay with CC when we get down there they do add the 5% or so service charge but if we pay with cash there is no service charge.
Some comments from their website
http://www.nativewaywatersports.com/customer_comments.htm and you can go to cruisecritic and look them up as they have quite a few comments.
At this time the party size has fluctuated a tad bit due to folks not being able to cruise with us...
But right now this is what I have for groups going:
Aisling - 4 total people from party going **Aisling correct me if this has changed
Anjelica - 4 total people from party going
Disneykelly73 - 2 total people going **Tentative
Definetly let me know if you are interested in doing the excursion so I can get the party sized a tad bit more firmed up. I just need to send final numbers to Nativeway within the next couple of months but regardless of sending in numbers we have a guaranteed boat for us.
Additionally, I wanted to do this excursion because it gets us away from the big crowds and allowed me to bring both of my children (even if they don't get into the water) and I wanted to enjoy this with the whole family. It was also quite a bit cheaper than going through
DCL and we had more choices in what we wanted to do. We also got to be around our DIS friends instead of total strangers.
Just checking in to spill the beans regarding new developments in my life.
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