Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 26.

On this week's show, we're going to be looking at the other private island where

Caribbean operates, which is Cocoa K in the Bahamas.

This island paradise is a favorite among Royal Caribbean fans, so we're going to discuss the beaches,

shore excursions, and pretty much everything else there is to do in Cocoa K.

We've also got a lot of great listener messages to share with all of you, so let's get right into it.

Here we go.

Coco K is Royal Caribbean's private island in the Pops.

It's actually known as Little Stir Up K, officially, and it's part of the Bary Islands, which is a collection of K's and small islands, located approximately 55 miles north of Nassau. It's basically a bunch of really, really,

really, really small islands. Royal Caribbean acquired ownership of the island way back when it acquired

Admiral Cruises in 1988 and renamed the island to be Cocoa K. Cocoa K offers activities

such as swimming, snorkeying, kayaking, parasailing, scuba diving, and even

wave runner piloting, but really what it's all about is a beach day.

Getting to Cocoa requires tenders from your Royal Caribbean ship, and often I've heard

a lot of cruises where they actually skip Cocoa because the conditions aren't favorable for

tender use.

Usually what's happening is it's too windy or the surface too rough for safe tendering.

And unlike Royal Caribbean's other private island of Labdadi, there's no dock here.

So it really depends on the weather.

And it seems like Cocoa suffers from poor weather conditions more so than Labadee.

And this usually is a problem.

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