Another May 6th Western review UPDATED with final thoughts..

[MickeyD]

Background:

This was our fourth DCL cruise, third on the Magic. Sailing were, myself (on the lower 40 side), dh (also on the lower 40 side), and ds (16).

I will try and break it down so you can skip to parts you want to read about, and I will try and keep it all within this thread. I will warn you though: I don't mince words, if I found something offensive or distasteful, I will say so. No pixie dust here. :

Embarkation, or "How to cook a tourist in less than two hours"

Living on the West Coast definately merits a flight in day prior, so we booked our flights arriving Friday night. We were going to use Marriott points to stay at the new Residence Inn, however, with the fires in Orlando closing the roads intermittently, felt safer staying in Orlando for the night and driving to port in the morning. We still used Marriott points, but stayed at the Fairfield Inn. It was a nice hotel and offered a pretty good buffet in the morning. The buffet was very crowded and helped to prepare us for the crowds to come.
Since dh travels so much with work, we also had a free Avis rental and preferred membership, so picking the car up Friday night was a breeze.
We drove to port about 9:30, stopped at the grocery store for a few items, dropped off the rental car and took the Avis shuttle to port-arriving about 10:45. Check in was a breeze as well since we are Castaway Club members. We ended up with boarding number 5, which if you have read the others trips reports you know this ended up meaning zilch in the long run.
We had quite a good gathering of Dis-ers at the model ship, and since quite a few of us were wearing bright green, we had people timidly approach and ask if we were with the Dis boards. :)
Well as you already read, they evacuated the building and we were sent over to the far end of the parking lot to bake for a couple of hours until they could clear the building. On the plus side, this gave us some time to get to know some more of the people we would be sailing with for the next week.

Overall impressions: Since I have sailed Disney before, I know how painless embarkation can be. I don't hold it against Disney, they were being safe. That said, this is Disney and they could at least have covered areas in their parking lot and serve cold water instead of warm water to baking tourists! The part that got me was the couple that demanded, and I mean demanded that the cast members let them on the ship! They even strode up to the security and demanded it. How can some people be so full of themselves?

Stay tuned for Ports: "wet and wild days"...

Lisa

[MickeyD]

We have been to these ports before, but in staying with my creedo of "I want to try new things", we did some excursions I would never have booked before. Some of them ended up being the highlight of our trip.

Key West:

We knew this is an easy port to navigate so just got off the ship and did our own thing. First we went to the Pirate Soul museum. I was very thankful for the two for one coupons because I would have been highly :furious: if I had to pay full price! The only really interesting part is the cell that you go in. They have you put on earphones and then they darken the room (and I mean dark ) What happens is a recording starts and it is a reenactment of a pirate mutiny. The spooky thing is: you can actually feel the breath of the captain on your neck. I swear I thought someone was going to reach out and grab me during one chase part (clean up, aisle two please). :)

After shelling out money...or should I say "loot" for pictures and assorted pirate gear, we headed to the Blonde Giraffe for key lime pie on a stick. Then we decided to take the conch train tour and see if they changed anything up. Well, Key West is definately better than Disney at changing their entertainment, because the conch train tour was much different this time and much more informative. (check out my review of "entertainment" to get that comment). Ds spent most of the tour doing neck exercises though (read: sleeping) so I would say it wasn't a big hit for him. After the tour we headed back to the ship and once again, the phantom teenager disappeared in a swirl of mist. It seems that the Stack (the teen club) has a magical power to make teenagers disappear for long periods of time (more on that later). One of the only pictures I have of my son (to prove he was with us) was on the conch train tour.

Grand Caymen

We had booked the Thriller sand and sea adventure, which is a new excursion offered by Disney. There were only 6 other Disney people on the boat with us. The other 6 were from the Carnival ship. The Thriller Jet boat is 55 feet long with 900 horsepower. Let's just say that at 55 mph, jumping waves along the coast of Grand Caymen, ds was not sleeping through this excursion! We all had a blast! Our driver was John from South Africa and he was a hoot. Before he dropped us at Sea Grape beach he explained what "sand" really is. Let's just say it is something about the digestive process of the parrot fish. :rotfl2: We got to spend a couple of hours at the beach and then we raced back along shore for a bit then headed back to shore. John told us that we had the misfortune to pick a day with beautiful weather (read: no waves to jump). Darn it Disney can't you change the weather in port to accomodate these excursions? :teeth: I have to say, and both dh and ds agree; this excursion was the highlight of our trip.
Note that you will get WET on this trip. :)

Cozumel:
We booked the Fury Catamarn and snorkel trip because i wasn't too sure what the extent of the damage to Coz was. It was worse than I thought. Most of the vegetation is gone, buildings are still crumbled, the reef was stripped. It is very sad, but glad the cruise ships are going back to help with the economy there. The excursion was fun, but I don't like to snorkle in rough water and the current was so bad that people were being sucked under the catamaran. I am not a strong enough swimmer, so I stayed on the boat. The beach they took us to was covered in sticks and coral and not soft at all. Ds rented an ATV for $20 and enjoyed his beach day that way. Overall, I wished I had stayed on board or taken the Tropical Jeep tour again.

Castaway Cay:

Ok, I know I said in the Grand Caymen part I wanted Disney to control the weather-fully knowing that they cannot-but my main disappointment came at CC. I was so looking forward to parasailing and was psyching myself up for weeks to do it, and then because of choppy seas and wind, they cancelled excursions up to 2:30 pm. Mine was at 1:30! :( Ok, I know, wah wah...I still got to spend the day at CC. The weather turned out beautiful, despite the rain storm that blew through in the am. It was very hot and humid though and by 2:00 I was on the ship and looking for my ds. Yes, ds had disappeared again, this time to the teen beach. The fact that Disney has a seperate beach for teens, one for families, and one for adults is something that has brought us back four times. Everyone can do their own thing.

Stay tuned for Food, meals and much more....

Lisa

[pppiglet]

I've read all the 5/6 reports and am enjoying them all. They all have something a little different. This is the time of year we are going next year, so glad everyone is posting! Can't wait to hear the rest of your report!

[eeyoregon]

What you said about having only 1 photo made me crack up! I can sooooo relate! We were on the April 22 Magic and I took 42 pictures. DS 10 is in 25 and DS 13 is only in 1 :rotfl2:

Good thing I forced him to do some of the lifestyle portraits!

Thanks for your report - sounds like we got back before the humidity rolled in.

[Babs417]

Thankyou for your report.Where do you rent the ATVs? :moped:

[pearlieq]

Hey! :wave:

Glad to see you all made home safely and are getting back into the swing of things!

We had a great time meeting you and I can't wait for the rest of your report!

[MickeyD]

Thankyou for your report.Where do you rent the ATVs? :moped:

They were available at the beach that we went to. Only Fury Catamaran people went to this beach, so I am not sure which beach it is?

Lisa

[MickeyD]

Hey! :wave:

Glad to see you all made home safely and are getting back into the swing of things!

We had a great time meeting you and I can't wait for the rest of your report!

:wave: Ditto! We enjoyed dining with you and hubby. I was dreading having a table for four as I talk with dh and ds every day, so was very glad when you all moved over. :)

Lisa

[MickeyD]

Food, servers, meals and more!

Let me preface this part by saying that i am an extremely picky eater and the last few times we cruised I had a hard time selecting anything that I would eat. This time there were several nights I could find something, of course when all the menus contained beef tenderloin, chicken, steak or a fish, it makes it pretty easy as long as you like one of those. To say that Disney lacks variety in their menus is an understatement. The buffets for breakfast never varied and the gala menus (ie. the Captains gala, Til we meet again etc.) were much the same as the last 3 times we cruised. Glad they kept the choclate lava cake though! :banana:

I am not one of those people that can remember every meal I ate while on the cruise either, so just suffice to say that I never went hungry. :teeth:

The difference this time was that dh and I decided to try the much touted Palo. The only ressie I could get was for dinner on thursday at 6 pm. Now, dh and I are not fancy people, but can hold our own in five star resteraunts. Both of us were very uncomfortable in Palo. I am not sure why, maybe the fact that the server "hovered" over us, or that the sun beating in the window (we had great seats though) was turning me medium well, but I could not relax. I will say that the choclitini that I had was most excellent and my new favorite drink. :love: The food was on par with the dining rooms. so not sure what all the hype is about?? I did try the chocolate souffle and thought it "ok". Certainly not "to die for". I much prefer the chocolate lava cake on the Captain's Gala menu. So flame me if you must, I think Palo is highly overrated and wouldn't waste my money on it again.

Our servers in the main dining rooms were great. They started out rough the first few nights and we had to leave before dessert in order to make a show or some other event. But by Tuesday, they hit their stride and we really liked them. We had Ritesh from India and Claudio from Chile. I will note here that this is the first cruise where we actually tipped the Head Server. I know, everyone gasp...we never felt the need before because we never saw them. This time, Ronald from England, was the Head Server and he was very visible every night, helped us rework the seating arrangements so that fellow Dis-ers could sit with us, and came by to check if everything was ok nightly.
Ritesh always brought the five of us an extra dessert to try, and on Captains Gala/Palo night, dh and I "double dipped" so he could have more lobster (I hear that gasping again), well I did not feel like eating more (except the chocolate lava cake) but Ritesh would have none of that and brought me a bowl of noodles and chicken. :) So between having "excellent" servers and wonderful tablemates, we really enjoyed our dining experience this time.

Stay tuned for Entertainment or "How many times can you watch the same show?"

Lisa

[MickeyD]

Entertainment or "How many times can you watch the same show?"

I was excited that at least this time there would be two new stage shows (Twice Charmed and The Golden Mickeys), but noticed right off that they still have the same cabaret acts. This is Disney right? Aren't they all about entertainment? Then why in the blazes can't they change up the entertainment periodically? It is pitiful to go into a cabarat act and sit there and quote them verbatim because you saw the same show three years ago . What I can't get over is how Rich Purpura and Michael Harrison continue to do the same routine week after week, month after month, ad nauseum. Mix it up folks!

Now as for the stage shows: I liked Golden Mickeys, only because I like the songs that they did. Twice Charmed put me to sleep. The songs were boring and the "acting" (such that it is) was forced. The effects were rather cheesy and they had numerous technical difficulties. I noticed this with the Pirates party as well. Which brings me to another much hyped part of the cruise:
Pirates in the Caribbean party. I am sorry but this was a repeat of the sailaway party with a pirate or two thrown in. Same songs basically and just a bunch of dancing. Booooorrrring... :bored:
The fireworks were nice (on par with what we see here during baseball games), but I was so sick of people pushing in front of me and being rude, that I couldn't enjoy them much.

Which segways me into my next section: Stay tuned for...
Fellow cruisers or "I didn't know your last name was Disney"

Lisa

[scrapbookingpro]

Hi Lisa!
Ronald was our head server too and we thought he was very good also. I also share your view of the menu- I badly wanted to eat something besides chicken, fish or steak!
I started asking for baked potaoes and extra desserts because that's all I wanted to eat :)

[MickeyD]

Fellow Cruisers or "I didn't know your last name was Disney"

I know my title sounds snotty, it's meant to be funny. I can honestly say that 95% of the people we came in contact with on this cruise were absolutely wonderful and made our cruise! It is that 5% that merit a warning. In four times on Disney, this is the first time I noticed out of control little kids everywhere . DH thinks that less and less people put their kids in the clubs, I don't know...I surmise it is the coca cola and donut diet that I saw so many kids enjoying. I understand it is vacation, but people, do NOT feed your children coca cola, chocolate milk and donuts for breakfast and then expect them to behave! Seriously, I witnessed this several times and the mother had the nerve to yell at the kid for kicking her accidentally because he was on a major sugar high!
One day we were sitting by the pool and this poor child comes crying out of the pool holding his nose which is bleeding profusely and the mother just laid there on her chaise and told him to not block her sun!!! I am not kidding! I was livid! The father finally came over and attended to the little boy.
We were trying to watch the sailaway party up on deck 10 and this lady just shoves (literally) one of the cast members out of the way and steps in front of my son to film the fesitivities. I went to stand up and let her know that was unacceptable, but dh restrained me. :rolleyes1 What can I say? I am full blooded German with a hot temper. It wasn't so much just her that pushed her way in either, she brought along three of her companions along with beer glasses and the like. It was when she went to light up a cigarette that I looked over at hubby and got the A-ok to light into her. :chat: Honest, I was very polite. :teeth:
We stayed on deck seven and were continually awoke to the sounds of little feet stomping down the hallway and children screaming.
Our neighbors to the one side always picked the time we were on our veranda to come out and smoke and yell at each other.
But enough of the bad....like I said, the majority of the cruisers were wonderful and I enjoyed being able to see some of the same people throughout the cruise. It just irritates me that people get that "It's all about me" attitude. Unfortunately it isn't exclusive to the cruise.:(

Stay tuned for Summing it up....Finally! :)

Lisa

[new2cruise]

:wave2: Lisa, Fabulous job with the reports. Sorry, I missed you. Hope you had fun.

[jenbrem1]

I'm really enjoying your report - I like the "warts & all" approach much better!

[imheather]

Thanks for the report. I was on the same cruise. I am surprised at your PAlo review. I did though think the brunch was better than dinner:)
Sorry you ran into rude people, they are everywhere.

Heather

[nzdisneymom]

Thanks for writing your trip report. We worried about having smoking neighbors when we sailed but we were fortunate to not. However we've stayed at WDW a few times in non-smoking rooms and had smokers outside our doorway (technically outside their own doors) smoking and it comes into our room thru the vents. Ugh. But at least they weren't smoking in their rooms.

I loved that Topsiders had fruit available for breakfast so that the little ones could have something a bit more healthy than just a donut and coke for breakfast :) The entertainment folks often made jokes about the free soda machine - my boys still laugh about that. My 9 y.o. says the highlight of the trip for him was all the pizza and soda he could have!

[Keggy]

Loved your "no pixie dust report"! You showed much more restraint than I would have on Pirate Night!

Kelly

[jillane88]

Hi Lisa! It was fun to meet my fellow Washingtonian! We also had a fabulous head server that made his presence every night and even brought us a special dish of authentic curry one night - fabulous! :)

there were plenty of rude people on the ship. I especially noticed it during the shows. I got pretty flamed :furious: one night when a small group of adults (not even with kids!) saved the whole first THREE ROWS! I only had 2 little girls with me (DD and DNeice) and only needed 3 seats. When I asked about 3 seats I was rudely told they were ALL taken. When I told the girls "sorry, they are saving those seats for someone else" - the rude people said very rudely - we are not SAVING those seats, those people are here! Whatever.

All in all, we had a great time since this was our first cruise with DCL. We did not however rebook.

Our room on deck 2 was VERY quiet. We never heard any noise or any kids at all. It was perfect. :thumbsup2
Heather

[sherrie]

thanks for the great and funny report

[MickeyD]

I am glad everyone is enjoying the report and don't mind my candor. :)

Heather: it was great to meet you, only wish we could have bumped into each other during the week. I saw Sneezy (Melissa) like everywhere I went, but I never caught up with you again. :( Glad you made it back to our wonderful state...it is 98 degrees here today!

Lisa

[Sneezy63]

I am glad everyone is enjoying the report and don't mind my candor. :)

Heather: it was great to meet you, only wish we could have bumped into each other during the week. I saw Sneezy (Melissa) like everywhere I went, but I never caught up with you again. :( Glad you made it back to our wonderful state...it is 98 degrees here today!

Lisa

Heehee! I was just getting ready to reply that I could certainly attest to the fact that your DS was there with you...remember he waved to us in Key West?.... and at first I didn't recognize him and was just thinking..."Hey, there are really friendly people, here!" LOL

I definitely enjoy the candor of your reports. I think it helps to prepare for your trip when people don't sugar coat things. You are not saying that the whole trip was awful...just pointing out some of the small stuff, and I, for one, appreciate that!

We also had Ritesh and Claudio for our servers...my kids LOVED them. Although I think I'll blame Ritesh for the extra 4 pounds I'm carrying now....yeesh, he brought so many desserts! (Not that he twisted my arm to eat them, though!)

[Downrivermama]

Lisa, great report.

I have to agree with you abut the 5% of the people. We were on the Wonder in March and most of the grandparents didn't pay any attention to their grandchildren! I had one incident with my dd7 who was clowning around in Shutters and smacked a lady in the face. (Not hard, although the woman carried on so.) I had just got done telling dd to stop and than that happened. The woman stood there and yelled at me and said the lest you could do is make her apoligize. I said she did, but you were too busy yelling. Than she just kept going on and on. Finally I asked her if it would make her happy if I beat my child? I found that a lot of adults were walking around either in a daze or like they were the only ones on the ship! :confused3

We are going on the Western this coming February, so thanks for the info.

[zzzzjohnzzzz]

I love the reports. Have never cruised anywhere so I'm looking for all the info I can get. Thanks for the reports. :)

[Sauunders]

My DH ALWAYS orders 2 or 3 entrees each evening. . . and everyone in our party ALWAYS orders at least 2 desserts each. . . we never gasp....we just love to try everything!!!

[geffric]

Thanks for the trip report, i really enjoyed it. I too sailed with teens and we only saw them at dinner ( which was mandatory). Our cabin neighbors and fellow DISers one day asked if we really had kids as they never saw them. :rotfl2:

[DisneyMay06]

Thanks for the report. I was on the same cruise. I am surprised at your PAlo review. I did though think the brunch was better than dinner:)

Second on that one! I definetly thought brunch was better than dinner. Actually, I was one of my favorite meals aboard. We had a wonderful server Florencia, who walked us through everything. I must agree too with the Chocolate souflee not being all that great? Sorry, it tasted like a brownie and ice cream to me. I know I'll probably burn in Disney hell for that one. :furious:

I loved the trip except for one part. I knew that Cozumel was devasted by the hurricane and I've been to Cancun on the mainland before and know that they harass in a somewhat stalker kind of a way. But geez, at the shopping district we couldn't get like 5 feet without being bothered plus felt like we were being watched and it kinda creeped us out so we couldn't wait till we got out of there. Did not book an excusion through Disney, because my mother had been to Chaakkunaab Park years earlier, but come to realize that the hurricane wiped it out. Heard other Disney cruisers were heading up to Paradise Beach and decided to go there. Once you get out of the port area, you do really realize that the island was hit real bad. Our taxi driver was a real nice guy and we asked him alot of questions about what happened to the island and how it is now. He told us that the "eye" of the hurricane was over Cozumel for like three days. Felt really bad for the driver and gave him a good tip. He dropped us off at Paradise Beach and it looked really nice. Plunked ourselves on the beach. The waters were a little rough that day so the water was really cloudy. True, the beach was free but I thought the waiter we had was rude and he sucked. Also, my four year old wanted one of the rafts. You did have to rent them, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to do that we didn't have alot of cash on us and they charged an extra 20% to use a credit card. The couple next to us rented one and wasn't using it so we borrowed theirs. I think we used it maybe five minutes cause my daughter had enough, when someone who worked there yelled at us for not actually "renting" one. We left. Cozumel was my least favorite port and was actually looking very forward to coming back to Mexico. Had a great experience in Cancun. But just to forwarn others going there, they seem to be really hard hit and will hound you for the moolah.

[MickeyD]

Summing it up: final thoughts...

Well if anyone is still with me, sorry this took so long to finish up. Unfortunately, I came down with a bad cold that turned into laryngitis (dh is :cool1: ). So other than feeling :sick: all week, I have also been trying to purchase Prom gear for ds. Why is it that boys wait until the last minute to do things???

So on with the summation:
Of all the tips that I read here on the boards, the one I am most grateful for is: taking the power strip. I so needed that extra plug in for blow dryers, curling irons, battery packs etc.

I am most relieved about: that ds had the time of his life. I seriously thought that he would be too old for Disney. But the teen group was marvolous and he met up with a great group of friends. There is one guy he met, who was also on an excursion with us, that actually came down the gangplank as we were leaving in order to say goodbye to ds. That was absolutely the sweetest thing and made me choke up! :sad: That he took the extra time to come say goodbye, I don't care what anyone says: teenagers are cool! :)

I was most disappointed with: that I didn't get to parasail! I know, I know, I was waffling that day and almost hoping they'd cancel, but I really did want to go! It was nothing that ruined my trip, so no biggie.

I will mention here that our room was fabulous. Dewa was our stateroom host and he never failed to say hi, always brought us ice, asked where ds was (by name)...heck, half the time we were asking him if he saw ds! :rotfl2:
We had 7062 and one side of the veranda was a bulkhead so it was solid. Made it nice because we only really noticed the neighbors on one side. (and who wouldn't notice loud mouth smokers?) whoops...did I write that? ;)

Our favorite afternoon "activity" was to get ice cream and fruit (hey, we tried to keep it healthy!) and go to back deck 9. It was quiet and usually in the shade. We avoided deck 9 around the pools at all costs because of running little kids. One day heading to our ice cream rendevous, I sidestepped one little charmer and while my body went one way, my knee stayed where it was. :earseek: I was limping for the rest of the trip! So word to the wise: little ones do NOT look where they are going.

Tip: take a sweater to the Buena Vista theater! It was freezing . Ok, part of it might be that we were watching Eight Below , but it was so cold I swear I could see my breath!

I just want to say again how much I enjoyed meeting all my fellow Dis-ers on board. It was great to connect with people on the ship and in port. It is still priceless seeing Melissa/Sneezy63 and her family in KW and having them try to figure out who the crazy people were waving to them! :)

Weather: our weather was awesome! The waves never got above 4 ft and the only squall we had was in Castaway Cay. It was hot and humid, but not too bad.

Finally: I booked this trip to try and erase some of the bad memories and discontent we felt from the previous trip. I just didn't want to do Disney the injustice since we had sailed with them a couple of times before. I can honestly say those bad memories were erased. I have nothing but the majority of fond memories of this cruise. I did not rebook as I really don't know if we will cruise the Caribbean again for a while. I think if we cruise it will be West Coast or Alaska since the flights were horrific to me. I can drive to Seattle. To dispel any naysayers that Disney is not for older kids, my son had the trip of a lifetime. At 16 it isn't easy to please him, so I was pleasantly surprised that he did enjoy it so well. For those that read the ultrafabulous-glowing-pixie dust coated trip reports, just try to keep it in perspective. Disney isn't for everyone, and every trip is different. One trip may be fabulous, the next-not so much.
Either way-have fun---you're on vacation, but remember-so is everyone else on the ship!

Cheers!
Lisa

[musicgirl]

When you snorkeled in Coz on your excursion, did you snorkel from the beach or from the catamaran?

You said the waters were rough and it was hard to snorkel, but did you see alot of fish?

Thanks, we're headed there in June!!!

[MickeyD]

When you snorkeled in Coz on your excursion, did you snorkel from the beach or from the catamaran?

You said the waters were rough and it was hard to snorkel, but did you see alot of fish?

Thanks, we're headed there in June!!!

We snorkeled directly from the catamaran. The scary thing was that the current kept drawing people under the catamaran! The one gal on our excursion that I talked with, said they saw quite a few fish but that the reef has been stripped from the last hurricane. If I was going to suggest snorkling, I'd say do it in Grand Caymen.

[jillane88]

Summing it up: final thoughts...

Well if anyone is still with me, sorry this took so long to finish up. Unfortunately, I came down with a bad cold that turned into laryngitis (dh is :cool1: ).
Cheers!
Lisa

Hey Lisa! It was fun to meet a fellow Washingtonian! I too came down with that same bad cold and had laryngitis - except mine happened day 4 on the cruise. For the last 3 days of the cruise, I couldn't even speak. VERY hard to communicate with our servers (or yell at my kids!) :rotfl2:

All in all, we had a great time but did not re-book. I agree about the flight - it was especially brutal with 3 small children!

Heather

[dlf246]

For those that read the ultrafabulous-glowing-pixie dust coated trip reports, just try to keep it in perspective. Disney isn't for everyone, and every trip is different. One trip may be fabulous, the next-not so much.
So well stated... this should be part of a notice at the top of the Board!

[JeannieH]

Hi to a fellow cruiser! Had to laugh about you being cold in the Cinema onboard! We also watched "8 Below".........and Im sure it WAS!I took my coat with me on each occassion when we saw a movie. A lady in front of me had her blanket, coat and cardigan wrapped around her! Not what you expect on a Caribbean cruise! :confused3

I also noticed many children getting away with bad behaviour. I dont blame the kids.......but the parents! Very hard for CM's to keep from saying something to them, Im sure. How some of the servers managed to dodge kids in the dining room - while carrying 18plates-worth of food I dont know!

Probably the same guests who persistently come to dinner 40mins later than advised! If you turn up late........you should only get the course they are currently serving! Those servers work a 14hr day and if you turn up late........then their shift is that much longer. Needless to say, its those "late" folk who "forget" to tip at the end of the week!

Pity you didnt go on the Tulum Ruins trip.........it was the best bit of our back-to-back. (see my report). We also dont care for Cozumel for the same reasons as you.

Hopefully, you have some great photos of your cruise -and will look back at the whole experience as one of good fun and lots of laughs. Happy sailings.