jjworm

Hi - I don't have any helpful tips, but we are also traveling to Bermuda with a 6 year old daughter on the Summit, 8/24. So I'm interested in these responses too! Is that the same sailing as yours?

Joining in....not because I have any input (this will be my 1st Celebrity Summit cruise with kids...) but I have 2 daughters 4&6, and I'd like to hear input from others who have kids who have done the Fun Factory. We did NCL Breakaway earlier this year, and my girls enjoyed the kid's program. I hope they will enjoy the Fun Factory this time around.

We booked it through Norwegian. I am sure you can call the resort and arrange for a deal with them.

The water taxis ran all day so you can come and go as you please. They seemed to leave every 15-20 minutes or so between the ship and the resort and then back again. The wait to get on the ferry in the morning was long (20 minutes for us) so get there early or late and you should be fine. The taxis hold anywhere from 50-80 people or so and they have several running.

So here's my two cents worth...

We did the Amatique Bay Beach Resort excursion through the ship. Had a good day. Took a water taxi about 10 minutes out of the harbor and headed south for another 5 minutes. Spent the day at the resort sitting by the pool (they have two pools, one from 5 to 8 feet deep and the other a kids pool) connected by a moat). The adult pooll has a swim up bar. There were two big water slides and a great kids pirates play ship. Lunch was a buffet style meal which was an average affair consisting of corn, meat, rice, vegetables and dessert and a coke or diet coke.

You can walk all around the resort, although nobody other than those from the Sun were there. People were horse back riding there too.

I saw people using paddle boats and kayaks too in the harbor area of the lagoon.

The beach area is OK with lounge chairs and ricketty hammocks, but the water is terribly dirty. There is no way you would ever want to swim in that water. However, the pools were very clean and they always had a person walking around skimming them.

All in all it was a good day. Got some sun, plenty of lounge chairs, nice grounds to walk around on (there is a little tower you can climb up on and look around at the grounds).

I went to www.amatiquebay.net for all the maps of the grounds and printed them out ahead of time. They actually gave us all the same exact copy of it when we arrived. Its in Spanish, so translate ahead of time.

The trip was probably overpriced, but it was a relaxing day and you could have stayed as long as you liked. The water taxis just kept on running.