by Sean | May 24, 2019 | Disney Cruise, Favorite Food Friday
Our Favorite Food This Week: Ice Cream Cone – Disney Cruise
Location: Disney Cruise Line
Price: Cost of Cruise 🙂
Welcome to Favorite Food Friday where we share our favorite foods. We have been back from our cruise for a week now and how I miss just walking up to deck 11 and grabbing a soft serve ice cream cone. You all know how addicted I am to Ice Cream, so having these machines available whenever you want is like living a dream or a fantasy :). Our week on the Fantasy was met with my son and I catching a bug on the boat, but we did our best to push through and do everything we had planned to do, and one of those things was visiting deck 11 for as much ice cream as we could take in. For those who have not had a chance to experience a Disney Cruise, there is soft serve ice cream available for cones or cups – our cruise featured – vanilla, chocolate, twisted vanilla and chocolate, banana, strawberry, and twisted strawberry and banana. As you can see from the pic, twisted strawberry and banana was a favorite of mine. So let’s hear it, how many cones do you eat on a 7 day cruise????
by Sean | Feb 26, 2013 | Castaway Cay, Disney Cruise, Tips and Tricks
Did you know?? 
Disney’s private island Castaway Cay features an airplane landing strip. Why is this here? Was it added by Disney to add to the island’s story? Nope, not at all. You see mon, this island has a colorful history. The island was called Gorda Cay and had many uses: Pirates frequented the island in the 1700’s, farmers then used the island because of the fertile soil, and later drug smugglers discovered the island. Yes, drug smugglers. In the 1980’s the island was so overrun by these smugglers that property owners on the island were no longer welcome and would be run off by the smugglers with their guns and dogs. 
Wow, but back to where the landing strip came from. In the 1960’s a man by the name of Alvin Tucker owned around 150 acres of the island and he built the landing strip so that he could easily travel to his island getaway. It was too bad that this landing strip made it very attractive to the smugglers.
Years later, Disney purchased the island and spent 1 ½ years along with $25 million dollars to turn 55 acres of the 1000 acres into an island paradise. Today around 70 cast members live on the island maintaining everything for the cruise ships that stop throughout the week. If you do get a chance to visit, be sure to stop by the post office and send off a postcard home with the Castaway Cay post mark! 
