I also just added an extra land day to my August 07 3 nights land / 4 nights sea trip (the cruise desk made the change). I was told the park hopper tickets you get with your 3/4 trip are good for 7 days and therefore we would be able to use them with our added day. If I booked the extra night...
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Our Med Cat 2 was switched to 3 night WDW 4 night Cat 2 Cruise after we could not find a reasonably priced flight (or use miles)from LA. Our WDW stay and Cruise was almost the cost...
The U.S Center For Disease Control suggests public pools maintain chlorine levels between 1-3 parts per million, so I am sure Disney does do something (chlorine, bromine or light salination).
I don't think Disney has ever had the bacterial outbreaks you here about on other cruise line.
(Note...
I was told the ship makes it's own water, I forget the process (either reverse osmosis or desalination). The cheif engineer also said that they also treat most of the (grey?) waste water onboard so that they can legally discharge it after processing.
(I forget the exact details as I really came...
We never used (or saw the room),they let's us check-in as soon as we arrived from the ship, we were in the first group off the ship.
When we booked a room at the Atlantis the year before, we briefly went to the room (beach tower).
Last year instead of the Atlantis we booked a room at the Comfort Suites Paradise Island (choicehotels.com), a bit cheaper than the Atlantis but right in the same parking lot with all the same access to the Atlantis facilities including charging stuff to your room.
We paid $171.00 for a suite...
A list of some of the wine prices is available at the Disney cruise web site. http://disneycruise.disney.go.com/dcl/en_US/myCruise/giftsListing?name=WinesListingPage
For about $20 dollars a bottle (which is about 2x retail) they have good value Australian wines on board. (get a bottle for your room and keep the disney cork screw!)
$15 corkage fee is about the profit they would make on $20 bottle.
The various wine packages on board are good values.
We stayed in both. With a 12 and 15 year old the almost double space and two showers of the cat 3 it is worth it for us. With your two young children, I would probably go with a cat 4 and save the cash for shore excursions and duty free purchases.
The concierge folks are nice and would bring...
I am a value searching CPA so we went very late in August 2004, saving thousands over mid August (our day at sea was cancelled to return back to Castaway Cay so that they could close and evacuate the island, which I understand was devastated by the hurricane that year). We were one of the last...
It is a nice Hotel located directly in the main terminal of the airport. The hotel lobby overlooks the terminal.The restaurant in the Hotel was good but as I remember it was a little pricey. If you have not been to MCO,The airport is more like a mall with book stores, Disney and Universal...
We stayed in 8086 (2004) AND 8066 (2005) both were great, no noise,easy to get 9th deck for pool,coffee and soft drinks. This side of the ship on our cruises was also dockside in Nassau and Castaway Cay.