Since many of you have traveled on the Wonder in the past you might be Wondering what cast members were traveling with us this cruise. Here's my list of folks we met:
Starting in the Spa since some friendly faces have already been spotted:
Mark (Spain) was the one sent to book treatments for concierge guests during our meeting in the Cadillac Lounge. He got manicures for mom, DSis and me and we also booked rainforest room for 5 days starting later in the cruise for the three of us.
Tricia (Jamaica) was our manicurist. Mom gets regular manicures back home but always with just clear coat and we all were really impressed with how great Mom's nails looked after her manicure. I got Tricia next for my appointment a few days later and I really enjoyed talking to her about Jamaica. My dad and I are in Rotary and our club just had our sister club in Jamaica join us the week before. We held a fundraiser for them at our business and it was fun talking to Tricia about her home. DSis gets gel/shalack done on her nails and we convinced her to request Tricia as well. Tricia was getting off the Wonder in Los Angeles but hopefully she will be back in the fall - she was such a sweet person and very talented manicurist.
Irene and Vicki (both from South Africa) were often at the front desk and were friendly, smiling faces every morning when we signed in to use the rainforest room.
I made friends in some unlikely places - like the ship's stores. Probably my favorite person on the cruise was in merchandise:
Shebaz (India - but I might not be remembering how to spell his name right). He was so friendly, I found myself stopping to talk to him both in the store outside the theater and on the 9th deck by the Mickey pool while on my way to get soft serve. Really a nice person. DSis and I also thought
Fernando (Spain?) was very nice as well.
Our room hostess was
Faydella from St. Vincent. She has a great sense of humor and a fun personality.
Our dining room server was at first
Januar (Indonesia) and starting in Cartagena was
Patryk (Poland/London). Our drink server was
Kristina (Serbia) and her husband is
Toni (Croatia) in Palo. Our head server was
Geoffrey (the Don Johnson of the Philippines).
Already mentioned the concierge team were
Rodrigo (Argentina) and
Lynda (US).
From the beverage team, we enjoyed getting to know
Aleksander (might not be spelling this right I know there was some twist on the spelling) who worked down in Diversions and made the VERY BEST drinks. I loved his virgin strawberry daiquiris (I don't drink) and my family loved his mixed drinks. The daiquiris onboard were hit or miss - some were more like smoothies. The best were in Diversions and made by Aleksander. We also enjoyed getting to know
Vedran (Croatia?) and
Rahul (India?) both in the Cove Café - where I never bought anything but did stop in a few times and always had nice conversations with the servers there.
Cruise team was
Jimmy, Lesley, Robbie, Sarah, Steven and Kalli. With the cruise having so many extra sea days we became familiar with the cruise team more as they often lead the onboard activities - emceeing the talks and leading the trivia challenges.
With so few kids onboard (185!) we used the family/goofy pool instead of the overcrowded adult pool and got to know
Dwayne from Jamaica who worked really hard cleaning up after folks and keeping the pool deck spotless, and did so while singing and seemingly having a good time. The
Disneyland Hotel pool could really use Dwayne!
We also remember
Tai (from Australia) who worked the future sales desk and had one of the harder jobs on the ship in my opinion. We used his services a lot as DSis and I were torn on what, if anything to book.
In Palo, our server was always
Sasha (Croatia) because Toni's section was all 2-tops. Sasha was amazing though. He really knows his wines and he is super sweet and polished.
Dragan from Croatia was very friendly and on the floor a lot making sure everything was running smoothly.
I think that's all I can remember right now.