We headed to DWD for 2 days prior to the cruise. I'll skip the DWD report this time, but I just thought I should mention that MK was SUPER crowded (we went on a Friday) but Epcot was nice and comfortable, and great for adults when my daughter was napping.
We stayed at the POP century resort so we paid for the bus service to the cruise. The bus picked us up around 12:30 and the trip was about an hour and 20 minutes.
And here she is!
Check in was very fast, but I don't know if it had anything to do with the fact we arrived around 2pm. I assume most people had already been checked in? regardless, it was fast and smooth. My daughter was all excited prior to the trip about going on a big boat, but she got a bit scared when she saw Fantasy in person and refused to go on. We walked around the terminal until she was in a better mood..lol
As you can see, she wasn't very happy (more scared)
and of course had to take a picture of the golden Micky in the lobby!
Our balcony room 8546. I loved the location. Nice fwd room. We never had any problem with elevator even with a stroller. People were mostly courteous and we also took the stairs whenever possible.
Nice comfortable room!
The split bath. I loved it (DH said he preferred one - I'm sure we would have fought for the bathroom if there was only one!!
More pictures of the stateroom
Disney on demand! I watched so many movies in my room lol
complimentary bottle of wine from our TA!
the eye-scream machines! I must have had something like 10 cones during the trip
Aquaduck
The drill at the Walt Disney theater. It was pretty fast and not troublesome at all.
This was the Buena Vista theater. I saw Cinderella here! (I saw Avengers 2 and Tomorrowland in the WD theater.. but they had showings throughout the week in both theatres)
We visited the nursery open house because I wanted to make sure my daughter would be comfortable there. Surprisingly, it was much bigger than I imagined! The space was much bigger than what I saw based on pictures online. I only took a couple of pictures because there were other kids around, but the place was big (there's another section I didn't photograph, where they could have dinner)
There was even a section for sleeping, just like at my daughter's daycare
Now the sail away party!
Our rotation was RAERAAE which I had specifically requested (actually I requested two rotations, just to make sure we didn't have Animator's Palatte on night 3) I liked Royal Court's standard menu, but I enjoyed all the themed menus equally.
Our friends had arrived already!
Most nights we got my daughter something from the kids menu although she would often end up eating our stuff and I'd finish her plate (and half of the time she would not eat anything AT ALL, you know, kids) I thought the portion was way too much for her, so our server took note of that and only served her half portions afterwards.
Micky Bar! (now this was always a hit with the two kids)
After dinner, we saw there were tons of kids dancing in the lobby, so the two kids joined in as well!
I was very surprised my daughter danced because she's usually super shy. It obviously meant she was having a lot of fun!!
After some dancing, we put her to bed and she fell asleep right away because of the tiring DWD trip. (but this was the ONLY day she willingly fell asleep in the room.... for the remainder of the trip, we had to walk her in the stroller on deck 4 for an hour before she would sleep. If you were on that trip and ever in deck 4 between 9 and midnight. You probably saw us, lol!)
for sharing your review!
