Balmoral Island Beach Day Carnival Sail Card???

I was looking at things to do in Nausau and saw the Balmoral Island Beach Day. Not much information but it say use can use your ship card on the beach. How does that work? Has anyone gone on this? I am not a Nausau fan and was looking for something different. We live in FL so go to the beach every week.....so I am looking for a nice clean beach.

I haven't heard of it but I don't know how you would use your ship card... Is it through carnival ?

Yes.....it is on the 'Add Activities' under Nassau. Looks pretty but did not know if it is owned by Carnival??? Have been to Nassau many times and don't remember seeing this on listed. I did a site search and there is some nice pictures of the island but nothing about Carnival Corp. have a private beach there. Maybe someone will know the scoop!!!

Yes.....it is on the 'Add Activities' under Nassau. Looks pretty but did not know if it is owned by Carnival??? Have been to Nassau many times and don't remember seeing this on listed. I did a site search and there is some nice pictures of the island but nothing about Carnival Corp. have a private beach there. Maybe someone will know the scoop!!!

I have not been yet, but yes it's now a private island that Carnival has put a lot of money into. The back side is Sandals and Carnival has the front. No reviews posted yet, it's just opening. It's supposed to have a beautiful beach according to scuba girl on the Bahamas board.

I wanted to try it but for some reason it's not available on our cruise for Sept. 3rd. We are planning on going to Sandals partly because of the "private island" where there is supposed to be some good snorkeling. Might have to call my PVP and see what is up.

http://www.carnival.com/Activities/Excursion/424090

Above does say that SS card is accepted.

I have not been yet, but yes it's now a private island that Carnival has put a lot of money into. The back side is Sandals and Carnival has the front. No reviews posted yet, it's just opening. It's supposed to have a beautiful beach according to scuba girl on the Bahamas board.

I also read this about Balmoral/Carnival. As bobsfamily indicated, this Balmoral excursion is not available for my cruise in mid-October either.

Carnival is really slow in getting them added to each cruise - at least that's what I had been told. I'd continue to check since they're adding dates weekly. And yes, they will be accepting your ship card.

Now that might make a short cruise to Nassau worth while.

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Thanks for the information......I think we will give it a try on our Sept. 2nd cruise. I will take lots of pictures and try to write a review. Not sure I will be great at that part.

Balmoral Island is a new name for what was Blackbeards Cay. On my Bahamas cruise in 2010 I went to Blackbeards and snorkeled with stingrays. Here is a link to an article about the upgrades done:

http://www.tribune242.com/news/2013/apr/23/5m-blackbeards-cay-upgrade-eyes-100-jobs/

I called Carnival to find out why I could not find this excursion under my cruise... I found out that the Sensation is in Nassau at the same time and they have the excursion, guess it's capacity controlled. Dang!:eek:

Once onboard I may see if I can book it, if not we are headed to Sandals.

I called Carnival to find out why I could not find this excursion under my cruise... I found out that the Sensation is in Nassau at the same time and they have the excursion, guess it's capacity controlled. Dang!:eek:

Once onboard I may see if I can book it, if not we are headed to Sandals.

You might want to post this over at Carnival to Mary. She's the one who's said the person had been on vacation & she'd be updating etc.

This sounds promising - usually we stay onboard in Nassau, but this might get us off the ship!

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When does it open? I wonder if they will honor the cheers program like Half Moon Cay.

When does it open? I wonder if they will honor the cheers program like Half Moon Cay.

As of May the Cheers program was not good on HMC. Unless something has changed since then.:mad:

No replies as of yet. Alas on the wrong cruise... :D

Bobsfamily... is the Sensation, the Conquest and your ship all in port the same day in Nassau? That shore excursion was available on the Conquest for the 5th. Just curious why it would not be available for all of Carnival ships that dock in Nassau that day?

Bobsfamily... is the Sensation, the Conquest and your ship all in port the same day in Nassau? That shore excursion was available on the Conquest for the 5th. Just curious why it would not be available for all of Carnival ships that dock in Nassau that day?

Just the Fantasy and Sensation on Sept. 3rd...

It is not available for our cruise and when I called about it, they said it was sold out.

The beach looks really nice. Be sure to click on the photos tab after reading the details.

http://www.carnival.com/Activities/Excursion/424090

Not showing up on my cruise in November.

I thought I read Cheers was honored on Half Moon Cay, I will have to double check.

I booked this yesterday for our Sept. 2nd cruise. I am looking forward to doing something different for the morning. It is scheduled from 7:30am until noon. That should be perfect.......still time to walk around in the afternoon.

I just found this today on Carnival as an excursion. I don't usually book Carnival excursions, but this looks sooooo nice:) I don't even normally look at what they offer, but I'm going to book it. We thought about the Sheraton or Blue Lagoon, but this has no transportation cost and lunch is included, so would be about the same price...I just hope there isn't a TON of people. We won't be there until January, so if the reviews are bad I hope I can cancel....can I?

We r booked on the Dream out of Canaveral on October 5th and it was available on ours. We booked it so hope it is worth it.

I'm thinking of booking this for our cruse next monday

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