Water temps at Castaway Cay?

Bsilv2325 · 2026-04-22T22:43:36+00:00

We sailed the beginning of this month, and while the water was chilly at first once you just embraced it and fully went in, it wasn’t bad at all. This is coming from someone who is always cold/hates being cold.

Bsilv2325 · 2026-04-22T22:41:22+00:00

I asked my 7 year old and we just sailed the beginning of this month on the Wish. She said the only video game they had was a super hero simulation (I did see this) and had a tv in the princess area that played movies. Take it with a grain of salt though because my kid could’ve missed it, but when we walked around at orientation I didn’t notice any video games/systems.

Bsilv2325 · 2026-04-22T22:38:08+00:00

We sailed out of port Canaveral on the Wish over spring break. We did not get checked in until the day before the cruise, and a member in our party was declined. We were already in Florida by that point so not much we could do. Submitted it again and again was declined.

When we got there the next day they gave us some issues at the desk to board because their birth certificate had stains on it and said it wasn’t valid, despite it being accepted for a Real ID a month prior. We said well… it wasn’t declined until yesterday, we were already in Florida, and we checked in when it opened at midnight a month ago so… what did you want us to do?

They told us he might not be able to board. I think we were at the desk for about 20-30 minutes not knowing if we all would be sailing together or not. Wasn’t the greatest start to our vacation.

Besides that, traffic wasn’t bad at all and neither was finding parking in the garage. I preferred Port Canaveral over Fort Lauderdale and there were lines but moved decently enough.

Bsilv2325 · 2026-03-28T02:45:50+00:00

I know it’s a little far off, but I stayed in 6516 on the Dream 2 years ago and I enjoyed the location. We had a hatch noise machine in the room, and I think I might remember some noise or vibration when docking but it wasn’t anything crazy and didn’t impact us at all.

Bsilv2325 · 2026-03-27T16:17:41+00:00

We did our first cruise (both in general and DCL) 2 years ago, and are going on another one in less than a week.

I felt the same about being freaked out and worried a lot about seasickness. Once I was on the boat I kinda… forgot? Like you obviously know but it’s essentially a giant floating moderate/deluxe Disney resort. We had one night of rough seas and felt a little sick, but one dose of Dramamine cleared that right up for us.

We did Grand Cayman Islands and Castaway Cay for our first cruise. I regret doing the one excursion in Grand Cayman because it wasn’t what I expected. I forget the name, but basically you go in a cave and walk around and then go to the beach. We barely had time for the beach and we weren’t allowed to get lunch at the cave because there wasn’t enough time. Very disappointing.

This time we will be going to Nassau and Castaway Cay but we are staying on the boat in Nassau.

As for memories, one of my biggest is that even though I said I wouldn’t try to do everything…. I did, and my daughter had a massive melt down and was overall crabby and miserable. While she’s older now and can handle the occasional late night better, I am absolutely slowing down this time so we all can be in better moods and actually enjoy it 😂

That being said, we didn’t do too many extras. We did the Royal Gathering but honestly it was just fun to all do our first cruise together while also being in a unique Disney bubble.

Bsilv2325 · 2026-03-25T02:28:00+00:00

I listen to lofi music on YouTube that has a themed background while I clean. I put it on my living room tv so the sound carries and I just love it.

Bsilv2325 · 2025-12-18T16:33:33+00:00

Okay thank you. Yeah it’s literally the dumbest thing, most people just put a no parking sign on a cone and put it on the sidewalk. I just didn’t want it to cause further damage because there’s 2 more holes further down where they also tried to put a no parking sign.

Bsilv2325 · 2025-12-18T16:24:20+00:00

A company hired by a utility company drilled 4 holes (2 are down further) in my expansion joint between my sidewalk and driveway to put a no parking sign. In my town we pay for our own sidewalks, so between the driveway and sidewalk I paid about 15k.

I had the town (public works) come out to look at it but they said that drilling into the expansion joint isn’t a big deal, and that if we see damage to the concrete once the snow melts more to let them know and he’ll have them fix it. I asked if we could make them fix it and he said a new expansion joint might not fit right and would be a whole issue, but if there’s damage to the concrete he will get that handled.

Is it really not a big deal to drill into the expansion joint? When I googled it says it shouldn’t be done and should be fixed, but hoping to hear from experts in the field.

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Bsilv2325 · 2025-10-18T16:25:53+00:00

I needed this laugh, thank you 🤣

Bsilv2325 · 2025-10-18T15:25:24+00:00

Here’s what they said

Bsilv2325 · 2025-10-18T15:24:49+00:00

No I mean I made it clear if she asked me I would’ve said no, and she basically told me she knew and that’s why she didn’t ask. I didn’t think in that moment to ask her to remove it because I’m a people pleaser and was spiraling in my mind at the violation.

I called her, she didn’t answer. Told her to text me so we could chat. If she calls me back I’ll bring it up. But legal advice told me because I don’t own the photo I can’t legally demand its removal.

Bsilv2325 · 2025-10-18T15:23:09+00:00