We were looking for a little R&R, and so it was that the Norwegian Sky<\/a> took us to Great Stirrup Cay, which became our good fortune.<\/p>\n Last week, NCL<\/a> announced its newest "shore excursion" called Cabanas on the Cay<\/em>. They've built 10 of them, for up to 60 passengers who want to be on the beach in luxury. The cost is $250 a day (okay, $249) but it's not as costly as it sounds.<\/p>\n First of all, take five friends and it's only $41.50 each. Throw in a $10 all-day pass to the Hippo Waterslide, and you're down to $31.50. Then there's a $50 food credit for you to While it would be nice to experience cabanalife for a day, that's not the only reason we'd like to go back to Great Stirrup Cay.<\/p>\n We'd like to go back to see…<\/p>\n • If the building with x-ray security and the four tender docks that were being built to make it an easy on\/off tendering process are functioning<\/p>\n • If Kent Albury still runs around the island he manages on his ATV with more phones and pagers ringing and beeping than you'd hear on Wall Street<\/p>\n • If the flushing channel that splits the island in half changes the water in the tendering bay four times every day, like it was designed to do<\/p>\n • If the beach is still as relatively pristine as it was, or if all the new additions have turned it into an amusement park on sand<\/p>\n NCL usually has five ships a year stopping at Great Stirrup Cay. The Sky and the Pearl<\/a> from Miami<\/a>, and the Gem<\/a> from New York<\/a>, are all still making it a port. The Jewel<\/a> starts a New York-to-Bahamas<\/a> run in October. Next year, the new ship Breakaway<\/a> will visit during 7-day cruises from the Big Apple.<\/p>\n Norwegian was the first cruise line to buy its own island. That was almost 42 years ago and, like many NCL innovations, it prompted other cruise lines to follow suit.<\/p>\n You know what they say about imitation…<\/p>\n Norwegian <\/a>Sky<\/a> One day, we'll go back to Great Stirrup Cay, a private island we visited a couple of years ago. We were going to be in Florida, and we were looking for a short cruise to…anywhere…after almost a month of writing about being on ships. We were looking for a little R&R, and so it… Continue reading Cabanalife new at Great Stirrup Cay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,31,36,15],"tags":[170,912,72,438,126,721,424,307,425,375],"class_list":["post-12977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-reviews","category-stories","tag-bahamas","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-great-stirrup-cay","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-breakaway","tag-norwegian-gem","tag-norwegian-jewel","tag-norwegian-pearl","tag-norwegian-sky","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GStirrupCay.jpg\" "\\"The")
<\/a>share (?) with your cabanamates and a large float that goes for $25 for the day. And for your bottom line of just over $20 you get priority tender service, a fruit basket, bottled water and an exclusive menu of seafood, charcuterie and sushi.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
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\n\t3 nights
\n\tJuly 13, 2012
\n\tMiami<\/a> (return): Great Stirrup Cay<\/a>, Nassau<\/a>
\n\tInside: $249
\n\tCost per day: $83<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"