I would really love a second day there. We spent the day as a family on the family beach. My husband and I never even got to peek at the adult beach. We wanted to share the day with the kids, so they didn't go to the kid's area. With a second day, we'd get the best of both worlds. Plenty of family time, but also a chance to nap on the beach and enjoy the adult area knowing the children were safe. I love to be lulled to sleep on the beach, but with children to watch....you just can't do that. We are a family of bike riders, but with only a day on the island, we didn't want to take the time to do that. We'd all rent bikes with a second island day.
One thing I do wish the island had was a water area for the children in the program. I understand the safety issue of putting the kids in the ocean, but surely there is some solution. Maybe an area for water play with jets that squirt up, an obstacle course type of place where buckets of water would dump on your hear or water cannons would shoot spays out...I don't know...but at the beach the kids ought to have water!
To cut down on the staff necessary for the island, maybe one of the days would have less places open.....maybe only the main dining area instead of that and the one on the adult beach. Have all the bar business consolidated into one place. Life guards, of course, aren't optional, but some things might be able to be cut back. The people that want to stay on the ship could enjoy the pools, but maybe programming is a little more limited than other days since there is a choice to go ashore. Same with consolidation....lunch only available at Topsiders buffet. A limited number of bars and snack places open on the ship. Everyone both places could get food and drinks, just not as many options either on land or on ship. Pingpong, shuffleboard, the pools, movies, arcade are all available and don't require much staffing.
What a delima to have....stay on the beautiful ship or enjoy the beautiful island.
One thing I do wish the island had was a water area for the children in the program. I understand the safety issue of putting the kids in the ocean, but surely there is some solution. Maybe an area for water play with jets that squirt up, an obstacle course type of place where buckets of water would dump on your hear or water cannons would shoot spays out...I don't know...but at the beach the kids ought to have water!
To cut down on the staff necessary for the island, maybe one of the days would have less places open.....maybe only the main dining area instead of that and the one on the adult beach. Have all the bar business consolidated into one place. Life guards, of course, aren't optional, but some things might be able to be cut back. The people that want to stay on the ship could enjoy the pools, but maybe programming is a little more limited than other days since there is a choice to go ashore. Same with consolidation....lunch only available at Topsiders buffet. A limited number of bars and snack places open on the ship. Everyone both places could get food and drinks, just not as many options either on land or on ship. Pingpong, shuffleboard, the pools, movies, arcade are all available and don't require much staffing.
What a delima to have....stay on the beautiful ship or enjoy the beautiful island.
However, both days we didn't leave the ship until at least 10 am and never saw any bugs. It seems they were only out early. 
. I did notice as far as the bugs were concerned on that first day that they seemed to stay close to the water. we had the first row of chairs closest to the water, I noticed alot of people along the front itching away, but not so many people in the back. as far as I was concerned they were there as long as we were (till about 1)
