Bumping up this trip report for all the first time cruisers who are booking the 'kids free' cruises for 2009!
Bumping up this trip report for all the first time cruisers who are booking the 'kids free' cruises for 2009!
That's us! Just loved this TR. We are first-timers and last-minute bookers so a detailed report like this is AWESOME!
Quick question about the bike rentals - do they have helmets? As much as I don't like sharing hats I like broken skulls a lot less. Anyone know?
What a fantastic trip report. Your descriptions encompass exactly how I want us to do our first 3 night cruise. We have taken 5 Disney Cruises but they have all been 7 nighters. I've never had interest in booking anything shorter until the kids sail free promotion and after seeing the price, I switched our all-land Spring Break vacation to 3 night cruise, 3 nights SSR. It enabled us to upgrade to a 2 bedroom at SSR which we've never done before. When justifying it to myself, I thought...this will be a cruise where we are NEVER in the cabin, where we do all our favorite things and where we attack the cruise like we are attacking one of the parks. THen I read your TR and realized that it can be done. Now I am psyched!!!!!!
Bumping up this trip report for all the first time cruisers who are booking the 'kids free' cruises for 2009!
Sorry- before going on to our adventures in Nassau, there is a tip that I forgot to mention.
Tip #13- Spend some time exploring the ship!
One of the great things about the DCL ships is that they have some remarkable public spaces. Early in the morning and late at night, you can wander around and literally feel like you have the ship to yourself.
You also might see some interesting behind the scenes things, like how those Nescafe coffee makers work.
These coffee machines are at all the WDW resorts. This stuff has a taste and look that strongly resembles coffee, but there is something not quite right about it. Well, here is a shot of what those machines use to make your coffee. It is a box of something. What is in that box, I couldn't tell you. In this scene, the castmember is replacing the box. See the extra box on the counter on the left of the machine? I tried to grab it so I could send it to the lab for analysis, but there were too many witnesses around.
At least we know it isn't coffee that comes out of those machines.
But if it isn't coffee, what is in that box?
TCD