So Disney has their own Island in the Bahamas called Castaway Cay

All the big ones do. They have Figured out they make more money if they keep the passengers in there area. Carnival owns an island and several of the port areas you dock at

Disney lets the little girl wave the magic wand and think that her action produces results. When she is older she will feel cheated and empty.

Pedophiles can get away with a lot of misbehavior on an island it seems.

Fun fact: Disney cruise line ships are registered in the Bahamas so they don’t have to pay workers US minimum wages or benefits. Employees work 70-90 hours per week but get paid very little. Most workers like dining and housekeeping are only paid through tips given by guests.

It really is that simple. I've been on 4 Disney cruises, and all 4 stopped at Castaway Cay. It's a nice place. Nothing sinister.

We've been on several cruises, most of which have private island resorts (Carnival's Cocoa Cay in the Turks, and Royal Caribbean's tiny corner of Haiti -- yes, Haiti).

The adults-only areas on the ships are a true godsend, I tell you. The regular pools are crazy loud and overrun with kids. I have one child so we spend some time in the regular pools, but I don't want to hang around a bunch of other people's rowdy kids with their varying levels of manners or not.

We don't do Disney cruises because they are considerably more expensive, and we've heard the passengers can be a little too strangely gung-ho for Disney stuff. And there are too many kids for our taste.

Another tip is to go in off-season. We homeschool, so a mid-January cruise is mostly kid-free except for our daughter and a few others. Christmas cruises are also quieter.

I don't see a conspiracy with Disney's island or their adults-only areas. I'm sure especially on a Disney cruise, that would be quite a relief.

Are the employees still alive? How many Diz shareholders on this thread?

these poor people did not ask to be born there nor that some shitty animation film studio use their island to refuel at

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l'antic who?

Lantic Ocean washing over you!

We have not been on a Disney cruise, but on all the others we've done...

The ships give passengers tip guidelines for all of these people, which adds up to almost more than what we paid for the cruise. You are made to feel like this is obligatory; they put it on your final bill unless you specify not to (meaning you will pay with cash, which you can then do or not do as much as you like).

I'd be curious how much the workers actually get in tips. If even half the people on board follow the guidelines, it's a lot.

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True story. HOWEVER, almost all of the housekeeping and dining staff come from very poor countries. I think they work 6 months on, 2 months off. They also work an incredible number of hours per day. The waiter on our last cruise was from Romania. He told us that he can make enough money in tips on the cruise ship in just 6 years to retire wealthy in Romania.

It IS a lot!! Read the post that followed yours. AND the service is so phenomenal that we always tip more than the recommended amount.

True depending on the exchange rate. For American workers though it is actual slavery as wages come out to about $6 per hour.

Right. I have been on about a dozen cruises and have never seen an American as a member of housekeeping or dining staff. Americans are in management or entertaining which I'm sure are well paid.

Are you including the tips? My first waitressing job in the '80s paid $2.10 per hour (well under minimum wage) because we were supposed to make at least minimum wage with the tips (and yes, we did, and then some).

I think low base wages are standard in tip-based jobs, right?

Reminds me of Matt Bracken's book Castigo Cay. It has an Epstein Island type story.

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Castigo Cay by Matthew Bracken
Background and synopsis
Dan Kilmer is a former Marine sniper in his early thirties. He returned home from military service in the Middle East and gave college a try, but his combat experiences prevented him from fitting into campus life. In a South Florida boatyard, his uncle was attempting to refurbish an old cargo schooner, and Dan left college to help him finish the flagging project. After two years of work but before the sixty-foot boat was relaunched, his uncle fell from a scaffold and died. While still in his twenties, Dan inherited the schooner Rebel Yell. Soon after, he left the United States to embark on a series of voyages, mostly in pursuit of beautiful women and good times. While he was away from America, new federal taxes were imposed on luxury property, including privately owned yachts. Dan cannot pay these or other new taxes, so he can’t return to the States without risking confiscation of his schooner. Instead he must always fly under official radar and earn a living by his wits while staying one step ahead of the IRS and other government agencies. He must navigate the reefs of government control while always searching for a way to make money without the permission of the local authorities. This usually requires some type of shady dealing, subterfuge, and stealing from thieves as Dan moves from port to port. A shifting cast of crew members inhabits Rebel Yell, but the novel is about Dan Kilmer and his quest to live as a free man in an increasingly unfree world.


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Correction....Disney had their own Island in the Bahamas called Castaway Cay.

It was at least 15'-20' surge; they did have employees, there were there and are not now.

Is there affirmative action hiring for heterosexual men at Disney?

Just file your docket of discrimination @ Brief's desk and Goofy will follow up as soon as he is done with Winnie the Poo.

Carnival cruise has 2 islands there as well
Half Moon cay and Princess cay

Castaway Cay --- the Key to Cast Away a spell

First movie from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series was "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" and part of the film was filmed there.

The beach where Tom Hanks (the pedo) first encounters Daryl Hannah in "Splash" is on the island.

"Cast Away" also is a movie with Tom hanks-the pedo.

I was thinking of Cay/Quay/Key.

So many words for one word the English language!

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1. Marlon Brando – Tetiaroa, French Polynesia, Tahiti Island

2. Nicholas Cage- Leaf Cay, Bahamas

3. Johnny Depp – Little Halls Pond Cay, Bahamas

4. Leonardo DiCaprio – Blackadore Cay, Belize

5. Celine Dion – Ile Gagnon,Quebec

6. Mel Gibson – Mago Island, Fiji.

7. Ricky Martin- Island in Angra dos Reis, Brazil

8. Michael Schumacher – An artificial island in Dubai.

9. Robin Williams – an island in the Pender Harbor, British Columbia.

10. Shakira – Bonds Cay, Bahamas

11. Eddie Murphy – Rooster Cay, Bahamas

12. David Copperfield – Musha Cay, Bahamas.

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us gov is seizing Dis assets for human trafficking. The World is about to change.

Stranger than strange, MsMc...

"Castaway" my all-time favorite Tom Hanks movie (second
only to "The DaVinci Code" which inspired about a dozen
threads for me personally)...is THIS TID-BIT on Hurricane
Dorian.

"Castaway Cay" is either connected to or very close to
the "apocolyptic scene" at Abaco Island in the Bahamas,
worst hit of all the areas with 70,000 people now in dire
need to humanitarian relief according to the United Nations
report today (9-05-2019.)

IT WAS THE ISLAND USED TO FILM THE TOM HANKS MOVIE
"CASTAWAY."

Below is the haunting theme music from the film which
really captures the mood now that we are seeing some of
the new images coming in from the Hurricane damages there.
Very sad...Listening to the music (below) it is almost
prophetic....


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4 Minute length. Theme from movie "Castaway"
with the island in the pictures "Castaway CAY"
close to the Abaco Island disaster area.

Disney announced its first installment for humanitarin
aide today will be over $1 million.


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One can only hope.

Interesting if you zoom in far enough, part of the island is blacked out in google maps.

Did you say they have small subs?

Mind stretching here a bit but what if they had underwater caves