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Does NCL's private island have waterside. Royal Caribbean does. If so, did anyone use the slides nude?Royal Caribbean has slides on Coco Cay now, but when we stopped there on the 2015 Bare Necessities cruise it was just an empty island with beach chairs at 3 beaches, and a few buildings for souvenirs and for the ship to bring lunch items (all food and drink had to be brought ashore from the ship). We've been back a couple of times on textile cruises and I keep saying I liked it better when we could walk around the whole island nude. The two islands (RCCL's and NCL's) are literally right next to each other.Most of the ships we've been on had slides and yes, everyone uses them nude. You go a lot faster without a bathing suit.
Yes, I saw the Norwegian island from Coco Cay. I assume that there are no water slides on it since you didn't mention it.
Does NCL's private island have waterside. Royal Caribbean does. If so, did anyone use the slides nude?Royal Caribbean has slides on Coco Cay now, but when we stopped there on the 2015 Bare Necessities cruise it was just an empty island with beach chairs at 3 beaches, and a few buildings for souvenirs and for the ship to bring lunch items (all food and drink had to be brought ashore from the ship). We've been back a couple of times on textile cruises and I keep saying I liked it better when we could walk around the whole island nude. The two islands (RCCL's and NCL's) are literally right next to each other.Most of the ships we've been on had slides and yes, everyone uses them nude. You go a lot faster without a bathing suit.
I haven't used any nude but did notice that I go faster in swim briefs than swim shorts.
Does NCL's private island have waterside. Royal Caribbean does. If so, did anyone use the slides nude?Royal Caribbean has slides on Coco Cay now, but when we stopped there on the 2015 Bare Necessities cruise it was just an empty island with beach chairs at 3 beaches, and a few buildings for souvenirs and for the ship to bring lunch items (all food and drink had to be brought ashore from the ship). We've been back a couple of times on textile cruises and I keep saying I liked it better when we could walk around the whole island nude. The two islands (RCCL's and NCL's) are literally right next to each other.Most of the ships we've been on had slides and yes, everyone uses them nude. You go a lot faster without a bathing suit.
Never used a slide nude, but I did notice that I go faster in swim briefs than swim shorts.
Does NCL's private island have waterside. Royal Caribbean does. If so, did anyone use the slides nude?Royal Caribbean has slides on Coco Cay now, but when we stopped there on the 2015 Bare Necessities cruise it was just an empty island with beach chairs at 3 beaches, and a few buildings for souvenirs and for the ship to bring lunch items (all food and drink had to be brought ashore from the ship). We've been back a couple of times on textile cruises and I keep saying I liked it better when we could walk around the whole island nude. The two islands (RCCL's and NCL's) are literally right next to each other.Most of the ships we've been on had slides and yes, everyone uses them nude. You go a lot faster without a bathing suit.Yes, I saw the Norwegian island from Coco Cay. I assume that there are no water slides on it since you didn't mention it.
We havent been on any of the Bare Necessities cruises since they switched to NCL so I cant say for sure, but I think their island does have water slides. It is getting built up to match Coco Cay, which is why it is pretty amazing that BN is still able to charter cruises that go there and get exclusive access to the island. I doubt we will ever get to go back to Coco Cay on a nude cruise.
Does NCL's private island have waterside. Royal Caribbean does. If so, did anyone use the slides nude?Royal Caribbean has slides on Coco Cay now, but when we stopped there on the 2015 Bare Necessities cruise it was just an empty island with beach chairs at 3 beaches, and a few buildings for souvenirs and for the ship to bring lunch items (all food and drink had to be brought ashore from the ship). We've been back a couple of times on textile cruises and I keep saying I liked it better when we could walk around the whole island nude. The two islands (RCCL's and NCL's) are literally right next to each other.Most of the ships we've been on had slides and yes, everyone uses them nude. You go a lot faster without a bathing suit.Yes, I saw the Norwegian island from Coco Cay. I assume that there are no water slides on it since you didn't mention it.We havent been on any of the Bare Necessities cruises since they switched to NCL so I cant say for sure, but I think their island does have water slides. It is getting built up to match Coco Cay, which is why it is pretty amazing that BN is still able to charter cruises that go there and get exclusive access to the island. I doubt we will ever get to go back to Coco Cay on a nude cruise.
Was the cruise when you went there a nude cruise?
Does NCL's private island have waterside. Royal Caribbean does. If so, did anyone use the slides nude?Royal Caribbean has slides on Coco Cay now, but when we stopped there on the 2015 Bare Necessities cruise it was just an empty island with beach chairs at 3 beaches, and a few buildings for souvenirs and for the ship to bring lunch items (all food and drink had to be brought ashore from the ship). We've been back a couple of times on textile cruises and I keep saying I liked it better when we could walk around the whole island nude. The two islands (RCCL's and NCL's) are literally right next to each other.Most of the ships we've been on had slides and yes, everyone uses them nude. You go a lot faster without a bathing suit.Yes, I saw the Norwegian island from Coco Cay. I assume that there are no water slides on it since you didn't mention it.We havent been on any of the Bare Necessities cruises since they switched to NCL so I cant say for sure, but I think their island does have water slides. It is getting built up to match Coco Cay, which is why it is pretty amazing that BN is still able to charter cruises that go there and get exclusive access to the island. I doubt we will ever get to go back to Coco Cay on a nude cruise.
Perhaps someone who went there on a recent
NCL cruise can answer this.
Does NCL's private island have waterside. Royal Caribbean does. If so, did anyone use the slides nude?Royal Caribbean has slides on Coco Cay now, but when we stopped there on the 2015 Bare Necessities cruise it was just an empty island with beach chairs at 3 beaches, and a few buildings for souvenirs and for the ship to bring lunch items (all food and drink had to be brought ashore from the ship). We've been back a couple of times on textile cruises and I keep saying I liked it better when we could walk around the whole island nude. The two islands (RCCL's and NCL's) are literally right next to each other.Most of the ships we've been on had slides and yes, everyone uses them nude. You go a lot faster without a bathing suit.Yes, I saw the Norwegian island from Coco Cay. I assume that there are no water slides on it since you didn't mention it.We havent been on any of the Bare Necessities cruises since they switched to NCL so I cant say for sure, but I think their island does have water slides. It is getting built up to match Coco Cay, which is why it is pretty amazing that BN is still able to charter cruises that go there and get exclusive access to the island. I doubt we will ever get to go back to Coco Cay on a nude cruise.Perhaps someone who went there on a recentNCL cruise can answer this.
I checked the NCL website. They are building a water park on their private island and it should be open for next year's BNB.
Was the cruise when you went there a nude cruise?
We have been to Coco Cay three times. 2015 for a nude cruise on Celebrity (the island wasn't built up at all and you had to take tenders to the island). 2024 and 2025 for textile cruises on Royal Caribbean (the island was completely built up and could dock 2 of their mega-ships at once).I checked the NCL website. They are building a water park on their private island and it should be open for next year's BNB.
NCL added a dock last year. Not sure if it supports more than one ship at a time. Once they have the water park finished, they may not want to deal with reserving the whole island for a nude cruise if the island can support 2+ ships at a time.
Even Carnival is starting to build up Half Moon Cay . It used to be tender-only, but now has a pier. We didn't stop there on our last two Carnival-based nude cruises and I bet it is because Carnival wants two ships there every day and that means no nudity on the island. Better to go to Mahogany Bay in Roatan where at least the port facility is private and we had access to their (nude) beach. Half Moon Cay was by far the best nude private island destination we have gone to (we went on the 2017, 2018, and 2019 nude cruises). Hopefully we will get to see NCL's island before it gets too developed to bother letting nude cruises stop there and we will be able to compare it to Half Moon and Coco Cay. If it already has the water parks and we can use them nude, it will go to the top of the list.