Third port of 7 day cruise with Carnival. This island is owned by Carnival and breathtaking. The whole island can be viewed from the chairlift that carries you down to the beach where you can get off in the sand and play in the water or stay on and see the rest of the island. There are lounge chairs on sand near beach under coconut trees. There are bar waiters who walk by ad take your drink orders. There are paddle boats, water tricycles and kayak's for rent. The chairlift cost only $12 for unlimited rides. There are some shops with tshirts and souvenirs for sale.

Carnivals 65 million dollar campus... Docked and private area the keep the locals out kind of unfair but understood.. From the duty free shops to the chair lifts its set up nicely many choice of things to do fom fat Tuesday's to paying $1.00 for the country stamp in your passport. This place was clean enough to eat off the sidewalk.

Mostly clean in tourist area but like all islands there are the slums. Looked at retirement property and we were surprised at how cheap it is to live there. For a beachfront 2 bedroom condo you only pay between 330,000 and 400,000 and living is estimated at approximately 54/day. Can't beat that, if you can live in the heat. The water is beautiful and worth getting used to the heat.

We went on a Carnival Cruise and you pull in to the "cruise compond" which is all nice shiny and new. There is a small beach and a chair lift to take you to and from the dock. The compound has little shops and overpriced tourist stuff. We opted to take a catamaran/snorkeling excursion and were quite disappointed. The water was clear but the location we snorkeled the reef was mostly dead and there were tires on the ocean floor. After snorkeling we motored through a channel and got to see all the shacks, trash, filth and abject poverty lining both shores and little kids trying to swim out to the boat to beg for money.