Duck In Blue
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2010
Hello All!
I am going to have a go at doing a trip report for our recent cruise on the Magic in the Med. I know there is already a great trip report in progress for the same cruise, so hopefully I won't duplicate too much. When I was searching for reports before we cruised there were only a few for the Med so another one may be helpful. It will also help me, as one month on I have post cruise blues so I am hoping remembering will help with those! This is my first trip report so fingers crossed it will be okay and I work full time so updates may be a little slow!
A bit of background we are a couple in our 40s from England, kids are now grown up so we cruise on our own. This was our third cruise, the other two were on the Disney Fantasy (one Western and one Eastern Caribbean). We weren't sure if we would like cruising but love it although we take sea sickness tablets throughout to be on the safe side!
So we booked this cruise whilst on the Fantasy in April 2015 to get the OBC and discount. Living in England, part of the big expense of a Caribbean cruise for us in the airfare so the Med cruise removed a big chunk of the cost for us. We also decided to go for an Oceanview stateroom as opposed to a verandah (which we had on both of our previous cruises) to keep the cost down. Although we like a verandah we only use it for short spells so decided we would try a cruise without it and booked a category 9B, midship on deck 2. But 2 weeks before we sailed I received an email from DCL which was the same one you get when you make a booking or a payment. I couldn't work out why I had received it, then I noticed the deck had changed from 2 to 7 and the cabin number from 2076 to 7624. I presumed at first we had just been moved to another Oceanview bit when I looked we had been upgraded to a Navigators Verandah! My only concern was that this was aft and we had only stayed midship before (on deck 7 funnily enough) but we thought this was to good an upgrade to turn down (if that was a possibility) so we thought we'd take our chances!
We live just outside London and can easily get to 6 airports meaning flights to Barcelona are easily available and relatively cheap. We have been to Barcelona several times before so this wasn't a big part of the trip for us, but we did fly out on the 9th just to give us piece of mind. We stayed just off of Gran Via, it was two stops on the Aerobús from the airport which worked out well. We had dinner in the Hard Rock Cafe and then had relatively early night ready for the big day ahead.
There will be pictures in the rest of the report, we didn't take anything on the first day as we hadn't done anything new.
If you have any questions at all as I go along please feel free to ask. Thanks for reading!
I am going to have a go at doing a trip report for our recent cruise on the Magic in the Med. I know there is already a great trip report in progress for the same cruise, so hopefully I won't duplicate too much. When I was searching for reports before we cruised there were only a few for the Med so another one may be helpful. It will also help me, as one month on I have post cruise blues so I am hoping remembering will help with those! This is my first trip report so fingers crossed it will be okay and I work full time so updates may be a little slow!
A bit of background we are a couple in our 40s from England, kids are now grown up so we cruise on our own. This was our third cruise, the other two were on the Disney Fantasy (one Western and one Eastern Caribbean). We weren't sure if we would like cruising but love it although we take sea sickness tablets throughout to be on the safe side!
So we booked this cruise whilst on the Fantasy in April 2015 to get the OBC and discount. Living in England, part of the big expense of a Caribbean cruise for us in the airfare so the Med cruise removed a big chunk of the cost for us. We also decided to go for an Oceanview stateroom as opposed to a verandah (which we had on both of our previous cruises) to keep the cost down. Although we like a verandah we only use it for short spells so decided we would try a cruise without it and booked a category 9B, midship on deck 2. But 2 weeks before we sailed I received an email from DCL which was the same one you get when you make a booking or a payment. I couldn't work out why I had received it, then I noticed the deck had changed from 2 to 7 and the cabin number from 2076 to 7624. I presumed at first we had just been moved to another Oceanview bit when I looked we had been upgraded to a Navigators Verandah! My only concern was that this was aft and we had only stayed midship before (on deck 7 funnily enough) but we thought this was to good an upgrade to turn down (if that was a possibility) so we thought we'd take our chances!
We live just outside London and can easily get to 6 airports meaning flights to Barcelona are easily available and relatively cheap. We have been to Barcelona several times before so this wasn't a big part of the trip for us, but we did fly out on the 9th just to give us piece of mind. We stayed just off of Gran Via, it was two stops on the Aerobús from the airport which worked out well. We had dinner in the Hard Rock Cafe and then had relatively early night ready for the big day ahead.
There will be pictures in the rest of the report, we didn't take anything on the first day as we hadn't done anything new.
If you have any questions at all as I go along please feel free to ask. Thanks for reading!