Great Stirrup Cay Silver Cove Lagoon Villas, Parent Review | Norwegian | NCL

welcome to D guide I'm Cooper and today we are talking about cruising and specifically norwegian's Private Island Great Stirrup key and we're going to focus in on the Silver Cove Lagoon Villas so are these worth it is it worth it for your family to spend that extra money to book one of these so to start off you have to Tender to the island so it's about a 20- minute tender from getting on the boat to coming over uh unloading it does take a little bit of time and once you're on it's very quick you basically walk through the front gate to your right right there's a little Hut talk to them they'll give you some bracelets for everybody in your party that's going to the Silver Cove Lagoon Villas and then they'll call a golf cart you just walk up The Path get on the golf cart take it to your Villa you'll go past a special Reception Area they have for the Villas and when you get checked in you'll be introduced to your room attendant uh they have some things lying around the room for you um they do have some champagne from away but that is an extra charge if you do open it but they have full service so the room tant will come down probably about every 30 minutes uh give them a key card they'll take it to the bar and pick up your drinks for you they are very attentive great service so once you get in the room uh you basically have your common area in the front with a table a couch and a TV uh which was great and then on the other side when you come in directly to your right you'll have a bathroom a shower and then a bedroom so overall very nice all of these do have the full glass so you can see out to the Lagoon or you can close them uh if you're trying to have a nap and that was one of the biggest things cuz these rooms are air conditioned our son was about two at the time we took this cruise this was on our last day before we headed back so we wanted to get the most out of it and having to Tender back in fourth for a nap time just was something we didn't want to do uh to Lo lose probably close to two hours between the nap and both tenders it just didn't seem worth it for us so we did end up uh going for the extra Villa so we could have him go to sleep in a nice air conditioned room we put a camera on him and he was able to get that nap and that was great so we were still able to go to the beach uh we would cycle in with the camera on them check on them have some drinks on the patio just out in front and he slept great so this was definitely worth it for us depending on your circumstance it's going to depend on if it's worth it for you the Villa itself looks over the Lagoon there's quite a few of them around it there's about 50% full when we were there so it was very private there was not a lot of people on the beach uh they have beach chairs there's no toys so if you have a kid or a family and you are wanting them or they're wanting to have some beach toys you're going to have to bring that with you that's just not something they have there they weren't able to get us any which was okay we did have a handful of toys and he had fun chasing the fish there was some Bone Fish some stingrays uh and some minnows so he was chasing those around and had a riot there is a spot you can swim out to a little dock you can go out there and catch some rays or or uh just chill out if you want to now when you think about snorkeling this spot isn't the best for it because it's so Sandy uh it's gorgeous but it's not the spot for snorkeling because the water is a little cloudy the room attendant did say they could call a golf cart for us and they would take us to a spot to snorkel about 10 15 minutes away that was really good we talked about it but we never ended up doing it cuz we were having so much fun at the beach that day now the buffet very close by it's only about a minute walk from the closest side to it if you're on the far side it's going to take a little bit longer but still it's only going to be a 2 to 3 minute walk so nice and convenient for food and drinks come to you so you don't have to worry about that and they were very attentive couple spots to take photos of there's the Great Stirrup key uh swing so you can go go on the swing you can stop by take some pictures uh there's a little hedge made out of wood our son took some pictures there was really cool uh and then on the far side there's a little river that comes and goes uh for the water so that was a very pretty pretty the Lagoon itself is absolutely gorgeous uh we enjoyed our experience and for us it was worth it because even though it did cost some extra money we were able to get the most out of our day which was our entire goal from doing that having a 2-year-old and not having a vacation for a bit it was definitely well worth for for us for you it's going to depend on your family is this something that you want do you want to have that little bit of break so you can have an air conditioned space uh if one of your kids is getting tired out there's a TV in there uh you can put movies on it goes to the Norwegian channel so you have uh the same movies you would have on the cruise ship you can have on the beach so that was really nice as well and for us just to have a nice chill relaxing day at the Villa was well worth it so overall we had a great experience if you have any other uh question about cruising with Norwegian with families we went on the prea and I'll put the link to that at the end of this video so you can check it out if you've enjoyed this video if you like it please leave a like Please Subscribe and we'll see you next time