cabana rental on barefoot beach

[tommyj4]

We are going on the Navigator in March and staying in a grand suite. We emailed the concierge about renting a cabana on barefoot beach and she confirmed the B2 cabana for us. Question, do they provide towels or do we need to get them from the ship. Do they supply bottled water. Any other information would be great. Thanks

[megr1125]

towels-CHECK

Bottled water-CHECK

 

better food at the buffet-CHECK (steak, shrimp, prime rib.....)

 

spoiled forever...you betcha!!

 

you'll have comfy seating and a ceiling fan too...plus your attendant will get you drinks and restock the water if needed...and if you want floats for the water, s/he will get them too..

 

you'll get a lift in the Labadee limo over to the beach!

[MBMGWM]

We are going on the Navigator in March and staying in a grand suite. We emailed the concierge about renting a cabana on barefoot beach and she confirmed the B2 cabana for us. Question, do they provide towels or do we need to get them from the ship. Do they supply bottled water. Any other information would be great. Thanks

 

We reserved a cabana on Nellie's beach thru the Royal Carib'n website for our recent February 2012 cruise on the Enchantment and it was incredibly nice - - probably made Labadee my wife's favorite stop. An open-air trolley takes you to/from Barefoot Beach from the end of the pier. There are two sturdy, full-length, padded lounge chairs in the sun on your deck, plus padded seating in the shade under a ceiling fan inside your cabana. There was cold bottled water in an ice chest and towels available in the cabana upon arrival. There's an electrical outlet available if you need one. We had an incredible and very private view (from a hillside cabana). A request to our cabana guy for floating mats and snorkel gear resulted in everything being arranged on two beach lounges right at the edge of the water on Barefoot Beach within 5-10 minutes for our use all day. The "upgraded" beach buffett for lunch was actually quite good - - shrimp & fish skewers; steaks; bbq chicken; fruits, veggies, hot dogs, hamburgers, etc. ALL of the above was included in the fee for the cabana. Our only additional expense for the entire time we were there was for tips.

 

By the way, the Nellie's Beach cabanas are immediately adjacent to the Barefoot Beach cabanas and the same path that leads to the hillside Barefoot cabanas takes you to the Nellie's cabanas. We were able to reserve the Nellie's beach cabanas in advance on the Royal Carib'n website even though we were neither suite guests nor Crown & Anchor bigwigs. Not sure how long that will continue before they restrict the Nellie's beach cabanas the same way they currently do the Barefoot cabanas.

 

Purely personal note: We both vastly preferred the hillside cabanas to the beachfront cabanas because of the privacy. The beach cabanas are indeed handy for walking directly to the water, but people walk all around those cabanas and you have zero privacy. If you can tolerate a little walking and going up-and-down some stone steps, our rec would be to look into the hillside cabanas on either Barefoot or Nellie's beaches.

 

Garry

[CruisinDawn]

We reserved a cabana on Nellie's beach thru the Royal Carib'n website for our recent February 2012 cruise on the Enchantment and it was incredibly nice - - probably made Labadee my wife's favorite stop. An open-air trolley takes you to/from Barefoot Beach from the end of the pier. There are two sturdy, full-length, padded lounge chairs in the sun on your deck, plus padded seating in the shade under a ceiling fan inside your cabana. There was cold bottled water in an ice chest and towels available in the cabana upon arrival. There's an electrical outlet available if you need one. We had an incredible and very private view (from a hillside cabana). A request to our cabana guy for floating mats and snorkel gear resulted in everything being arranged on two beach lounges right at the edge of the water on Barefoot Beach within 5-10 minutes for our use all day. The "upgraded" beach buffett for lunch was actually quite good - - shrimp & fish skewers; steaks; bbq chicken; fruits, veggies, hot dogs, hamburgers, etc. ALL of the above was included in the fee for the cabana. Our only additional expense for the entire time we were there was for tips.

 

By the way, the Nellie's Beach cabanas are immediately adjacent to the Barefoot Beach cabanas and the same path that leads to the hillside Barefoot cabanas takes you to the Nellie's cabanas. We were able to reserve the Nellie's beach cabanas in advance on the Royal Carib'n website even though we were neither suite guests nor Crown & Anchor bigwigs. Not sure how long that will continue before they restrict the Nellie's beach cabanas the same way they currently do the Barefoot cabanas.

 

Purely personal note: We both vastly preferred the hillside cabanas to the beachfront cabanas because of the privacy. The beach cabanas are indeed handy for walking directly to the water, but people walk all around those cabanas and you have zero privacy. If you can tolerate a little walking and going up-and-down some stone steps, our rec would be to look into the hillside cabanas on either Barefoot or Nellie's beaches.

 

Garry

I have a hillside at Nellies booked for June (did online too), curious how far is it to the restrooms/buffet & beach? Did a cabanna boy come around to take drink orders?

 

BonVoyage

Dawna

[MBMGWM]

I have a hillside at Nellies booked for June (did online too), curious how far is it to the restrooms/buffet & beach? Did a cabanna boy come around to take drink orders?

 

BonVoyage

Dawna

 

(1) Bathrooms: From our cabana, probably a 2 minute walk to the bathroom on Nellie's, and a three-minute walk to the one at Barefoot. You have to leave the "private" area and cross the street to get to the Barefoot bathroom.

 

(2) Beaches/Lunch Buffett: About a one-minute walk to Nellie's Beach; about two minutes to Barefoot Beach and the lunch buffett there. We used Barefoot Beach almost exclusively because it was much less crowded than Nellie's, and that's where our floating mats and snorkeling gear were set out for our use.

 

(3) Drinks: We only had about 6 hours at Labadee on our cruise. Most of that time was spent on the beach, snorkeling, floating, walking about, or just resting/sunning at our cabana. Between having the cold bottled water already present in our cabana, and bringing back drinks with us at lunch, we never needed to ask our cabana guy for food or drinks. He checked in on us regularly, though, and I'd bet that he would have brought us drinks had we requested them.

 

Garry

[kleo30]

We are going on the Navigator in March and staying in a grand suite. We emailed the concierge about renting a cabana on barefoot beach and she confirmed the B2 cabana for us. Question, do they provide towels or do we need to get them from the ship. Do they supply bottled water. Any other information would be great. Thanks

We rented B2...loved it. Meg is right, you will be spoiled. We did make sure to tip our attendant.