Phil Reimer--Although you cannot call it a private island, when Carnival docks at the Turks and Caicos, you will find the port and the stores were all built by a consortium of groups, one being Carnival for all their branded cruise lines-carnival.com. When you step off the ship, you're at the beach.
At their new port in Roatan it’s different. It’s referred to as the Mahogany Bay Cruise Center. The centre is there, but the beach is a bit away. So—how to solve the problem to get you to the beach. Simple, build an elevated chairlift. A new chairlift—offering a round-trip transfer between the new Mahogany Bay Cruise Center and Mahogany Beach—will debut in conjunction with the cruise facility’s grand opening next month. It will take cruise ship guests on an exciting, fun-filled six-minute ride across nearly 1,200 feet of cables, suspended 67 feet above a lush canopy of trees to the 825-foot-long white sand beach.
Called the “Magical Flying Beach Chair,” it will be the first chairlift that transports riders from a cruise ship terminal directly to a beach. It will be one of the marquis features of the modern $62 million Mahogany Bay Cruise Center, which will welcome its first cruise ship, the 2,124-passenger Carnival Legend on Friday, November 20.
I'll be there in December and let you know. And yes, if you want to go to the beach it's $5 for the day.
The “Magical Flying Beach Chair” was designed and installed by Rain Forest Trams, a company that owns and operates five world-class adventure parks in Central America and the Caribbean. Rain Forest Trams also operates Mystic Mountain in Jamaica, one of the Caribbean’s top attractions. The beach chair was manufactured by Salt Lake City-based Dopplemayer, a world leader in ropeway engineering.
All for now.