hayesfamof4
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Nov 10, 2011
Will I be disappointed after the Dream and Fantasy? Not with the activities... but with the way the ship looks? Just curious how well the older ships are taken care of.
Will I be disappointed after the Dream and Fantasy? Not with the activities... but with the way the ship looks? Just curious how well the older ships are taken care of.
I think the only ones who can answer this would be ones who sailed on the Dream or Fantasy first, the on a classic ship. If the classics weren't awesome ships, you wouldn't see people on here that have sailed them numerous times. The only thing my daughters like better about the new ships is the AquaDuck. I was not happy the first few hours on the Dream. Just too many people in the terminal put me in a sour mood, Cabanas set up seemed odd, and the stateroom seemed too narrow. But I loved it after my initial sourness and loved the Fantasy even more with Satellite Falls! I'll be going back on a classic(Wonder) in a few months and am anxious to see how it "feels." The amazing thing to me about the ships is that the new ships were so similar to the classics that I felt I knew where everything was quite easily. Besides all of us forgetting the pool deck wasn't deck 9.
Edited to add: You may be a little disappointed by the "look." The newer ships definitely are more beautiful. You may find the Wonder a little "tacky" in some of the color scheme.
Would you say the wonder isn't as crowded then? The one thing I hated about the Fantasy and Dream is that they were so extremely crowded. How are the crowds on the wonder, even if it's a full ship?
The staterooms are pretty dated on the Wonder. I noticed things like cracked tile, sagging mattresses, not enough electrical plugs. I liked Cabanas much more than BBB (facilities and food). The elevators on the Wonder are terrible, small, and aggrevating to wait for. Also, the adult pool is right in the middle of the deck so there are constantly kids walking by and I didn't consider it very private or adult.
Nancy
Would you say the wonder isn't as crowded then? The one thing I hated about the Fantasy and Dream is that they were so extremely crowded. How are the crowds on the wonder, even if it's a full ship?
This part has me puzzled. On the Magic and Wonder, the Quiet Cove pool is forward. There is really no reason that a child or family has to get off the forward elevators and walk thru the adult only area (although many do and DCL doesn't do anything to stop it). They could just as easily cross on any higher or lower deck...like the deck they are living on.
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I'm still confused by this also. On the Dream, you have to walk right by the pool to get to the forward elevators. On the Wonder, there is an outer area, separated by a small wall, most would use if they had kids to get through. It seems to be one of the larger complaints adults have with the area on the new ships. I am not sure what walls you are referring to on the Dream? Now Satelite Falls on the Fantasy ( and the same space on the Dream) was more easily kept adults only. My kids were having a fit wanting to get to me, but they couldn't. But they wouldn't come into the pool area either. I told them they just had to ask a CM...geesh!The Quiet cove pool is forward, but so are the sports areas, the spa/elevators, the observation area off that deck. There were kids running back and forth in this area all the time. It wasn't closed off from view like it is on the Dream.
Since the smoking section is right across from the Cove pool, we always walked closer to the pool to avoid the smokers. There were adults sunbathing in thongs and with their bikini tops untied (as at many pools and beaches) and a sudden shift left nothing to the imagination.
I just found with the walls separating the Dream adult pool from the rest of the deck there was more adult privacy, and the noise from the Mickey/goofy pools was at least muffled.
My next cruise is on the Wonder, so obviously it didn't bother me that much.
Nancy
I'm still confused by this also. On the Dream, you have to walk right by the pool to get to the forward elevators. On the Wonder, there is an outer area, separated by a small wall, most would use if they had kids to get through. It seems to be one of the larger complaints adults have with the area on the new ships. I am not sure what walls you are referring to on the Dream? Now Satelite Falls on the Fantasy ( and the same space on the Dream) was more easily kept adults only. My kids were having a fit wanting to get to me, but they couldn't. But they wouldn't come into the pool area either. I told them they just had to ask a CM...geesh!
On the Dream, to get into the Cove area from Midship, there are floor to ceiling dividers (you sort of zigzagged through them) to keep all but adults and those trying to get to their staterooms in concierge (and some of those are kids) out of that section. Yes, once past those dividers the pool wasn't separated, but you had to decide that you wanted to go through the dividers. Same on the next deck up - kids didn't just walk all the way around and look down onto the Cove pool on the Dream like they could on the Wonder. On the Wonder, there is a half wall between the walkway part of the deck and the pool, but anyone taller than 3 feet can certainly see over it, and in my case, right down the bikini top of the woman sunbathing in the lounger nearest to the walkway.
I'm just saying it didn't seem as private of an adult area to me. There are walkways between the midship areas and the forward areas (spa, basketball court, foosball and game areas), and since I walked by there 3-4 times a day, I assume most other people did too. There were always kids running up to the basketball courts from the Vibe/midship elevators, or from the pools. You could see into the Cove Cafe from deck 10 above, which wasn't an adult area, whereas on the Dream you'd have to go through the dividers and it was an adult area.
Nancy
Will I be disappointed after the Dream and Fantasy? Not with the activities... but with the way the ship looks? Just curious how well the older ships are taken care of.