1st time DREAMers - Dancing On Over to Our Happy Place 01/30-02/06 - LOTS OF PICS TR COMPLETE!

[Off to Neverland 7]

Hello DISer's! This is my very first trip report. I've been learning more and more everyday on the boards with anticipation for our upcoming trip and thought, "what the heck, I might as well write one up since I'm here everyday." I'm borrowing the introductions from my pre trip report

The Cast:
DBF: Kevin (25)
Myself: Dea (26)

A little bit about ourselves:
We're dancers, teachers and choreographers. We teach every level of hip-hop dance from ages 4-adults and aside from teaching at our "home" studios, our job requires us to travel to teach international conventions and workshops. Check out this dance video we made at AoA in the Elephant Graveyard.

DBF and I are Disney enthusiasts (okay, myself more than DBF but he goes with it) and absolutely love giving experiences for gifts rather than material things. We were longtime Disneyland Annual Passholders but recently stopped renewing to make annual trips to the world instead (way better value in my opinion and more exciting to make one big trip instead of a lot of mini trips). This Christmas/Valentine's, we've decided to splurge on our 4th trip to the world and very first cruise on the Dream. This is definitely going to be a different trip for us as we always go in late September/early October for F&W with the free dining. We're excited for possibly cooler temps and are foodies so the cruise is going to be extra exciting for us.

A little bit about our trip:
We've had this booked since March 2014 so as the days get closer, we can barely contain our excitement and anticipation. Our vacation dates: January 30-February 6. We'll be staying 3 nights at our "home" resort, Pop Century, in a Preferred Pool Room with QS dining. We'll then be on a 4-night cruise on the Dream in a 7A Navigator Verandah Room stateroom 7022. We chose a 4-night cruise to see how we like the cruise experience (I'm sure we're going to LOVE it.. already looking to book another one.) We splurged on a Navigator Verandah (being that this is my first cruise and I'm prone to motion sickness, I wasn't sure how I'd do with the rocking of the ship. Quick access to fresh air was key.... and a great excuse to get a verandah )

I also learned about Fish Extending on the boards and was immediately hooked! We joined the group and got our gifts in order 6 months ahead.. excited much? YASS. I'm not too crafty but found a cost effective way to be not so crafty but thoughtful all at the same time through the boards.

So check it out..


The Plan:
When?: Friday, January 30 - Friday, February 6
Hotel?: 3 nights at Pop Century, 4 nights on Disney Dream
Flight: 9:15am from SAN > ATL, ATL > MCO arrive at 6:30pm


INDEX:

Day 1 - Travel, Check in, Dinner Downtown Disney Day
Day 2 - Part 1: MK crowds & Be Our Guest Lunch - everything I imagined it to be and more
Day 2 - Part 2: Epcot and MK EMH until 2am!!!
Day 3 - Can't go wrong with FREE!! Disney Quest & Fantasia Gardens
Day 4 - Part 1: Oh the excitement for embarkation day!!
Day 4 - Part 2: Our Stateroom
Day 4 - Part 3: Sailing Away Party & crushing it at Animator's Palate
Day 4 - Part 4: Late night exploring = perfect photo opps
Day 5 - Part 1: The oh so amazing, Palo Brunch
Day 5 - Part 2: 20 minutes in Nassau, Aqua Duck, awkward DVC meeting
Day 5 - Part 3: Enchanted Garden & our servers
Day 6 - Part 1: The day we've been waiting for, Castaway Cay!!
Day 6 - Part 2: More Castaway Cay
Day 6 - Part 3: Romantic Dinner at Palo
Day 6 - Part 4: CANCELLED pirate party and fireworks but had an even better surprise
Day 7 - Part 1: A lazy day at sea
Day 7 - Part 2: Pirate Fireworks, Royal Palace, & the depressing See Ya Real Soon
Day 8 - Disembarkation Day
Reflections

 

[PhiSigKris]

Subbing! Can't wait to hear about your trip!

 

[littlenellbell]

Joining in! We were on the same cruise as you! Wasn't it so amazing?!? Can't wait to hear about your trip!

LOVE your dance in the Elephant Graveyard!

 

[Off to Neverland 7]

Day 1 - Travel, Check in, Dinner Downtown Disney Day

January 30, 2015

We flew out of San Diego at 9:15am to Atlanta and Atlanta to Orlando. Nothing exciting happened other than the sheer excitement and frustration of sitting through a 7.5 hour commute to our happy place.. So we're going to skip over that and get to the fun..

We landed around 6:15ishpm and headed off to pick up our bags. We chose to not use the ME bag service because we knew we wanted to get cleaned up right as we got to the hotel.. Picked up our bags and walked over to the ME bus place thing. As we were walking over, there was a ginormous group of teens (looked like high schoolers) hanging out near the chairs and tables by the ME buses.. This immediately set the tone for our WDW experience..

Side Note: A week before the trip, we got in touch with our friend Cheyenne and found out she was going to WDW the same weekend for a dance competition. My first thought was "uh oh, there's gonna be a hell of a lot of people at the parks".. and boy were we right.. We were bombarded by high school kids, families, and international tour groups the whole weekend.. We thought by going in Jan/Feb, it would be dead and we could ride rides multiple times but we were far far away from that. Crowd levels on touring blogs listed this weekend as a 3-4 but I'm sure it was well over 7 at least. INSANE!

Anyway, so we took the ME and got to Pop Century around 7:30ish. A sigh of relief came over me, "I'm Home!" I hopped in the Online Check in line and was helped within 2 minutes. We Checked in and headed to our room.

We booked a Preferred Pool View room and stayed in 4310 in the 60's building, 3rd floor right next to the main building.

Sorry, excuse our mess..

We were starving so we actually didn't make it to Downtown Disney for dinner til later and walked on over to Art of Animation's Landscape of Flavors for our first real meal of the day. We were so excited to be on the Quick Service Dining again. The dining room was PACKED! It was overwhelming a bit. We picked up our mugs and made our food selections. I got the Tandoori Chicken and pistachio/vanilla bean gelato for dessert (then I topped it off with Kevin's left over strawberry cheesecake haha).

I didn't get a picture of Kevin's but he got a cornbread waffle sandwich with chips and strawberry cheesecake for dessert.

After dinner, we hopped on the bus to Downtown Disney. I don't have any pictures of this part so we'll make it quick. We window shopped a bit and found the 5 for $20 wall at Fun Finds. My oh my, that was amazing. We bought 5 vinylmation's for $20?!?! You can't beat that, ANYWHERE! We traded them at D Street and went back toward the buses. By this point it was past 11pm.. We stopped over at Earl of Sandwich and picked up sandwiches to bring back to the room and got on the bus to head back to the hotel. We ate our sandwiches and went to bed for our only park day.

 

[Off to Neverland 7]

Joining in! We were on the same cruise as you! Wasn't it so amazing?!? Can't wait to hear about your trip!

LOVE your dance in the Elephant Graveyard!

Oh my gosh, it was so amazing I teared up a bit walking off the ship! Such a memorable vacation. Will remember it forever I see you had a stay at Cinderella's Castle Suite.. how amazing!!

 

[littlenellbell]

Yes the Cinderella Castle Suite was an amazing once in a life time trip that we were so lucky to experience.......however our vacation on the Disney Dream was just as amazing! We had an absolute blast!

That stinks you encountered a bunch of tour group/dance teams. We arrived to WDW on 1/31 (Port Orleans Riverside), then toured the Magic Kingdom on Sunday 2/1. We must have gotten lucky because it didn't seem too crowded for us. I had also heard about the tour groups and was nervous about it. Maybe they decided to go to a different park on the day we were there? Although, I do agree that it was more crowded than when we went in September. Fall is the best time to go!

 

[lizzyb]

Joining in!

 

[Off to Neverland 7]

Day 2 - Part 1: MK crowds & Be Our Guest Lunch - everything I imagined it to be and more

January 31, 2015

I woke up at 8:30am and walked to the food court to get my morning coffee (morning coffee will be a tradition throughout the duration of this trip). I caught a few beautiful pictures of what I walked out to, the hippy dippy pool and the 60's buildings.

Again, I was overwhelmed with the amount of people in the food court.. This feeling of being overwhelmed occurred for our entire WDW portion of the trip. I was just really in disbelief of the amount of people that were here. Anywho..

I got back to the room and got Kevin up. We got ready and were out the door by 10:30am. We took the bus to MK and met up with our CM friend who helped us a ton with tickets. We got in and met up with Cheyenne! So awesome seeing her again.. it's so funny that we really ONLY see each other at WDW. This is the 3rd trip in a row being with her and it was totally an impromptu meet up.

Our first stop was Starbucks and we got a light breakfast there since we knew we would be having a big lunch! The line weaved through the store like a line queue for Space Mountain but went by quickly. Our first stop was the FP+ next to Philharmagic. (I know what you're probably thinking, why the day of when you can do it before the trip? We used our friend's maingate pass which helped us economically so getting fast passes in advance didn't phase us). We got to the line and of course had to wait. I had Kevin wait in the line next to us just to see which would go by faster. We both got to the front at the same time so we just tried working it out on two kiosks (newbies here) and a CM named, Dan from Gardeners, rudely told us we needed to be at the same kiosk if we're in the same party. Now, I'm okay with people helping us, but the tone he used and attitude he threw without thinking really threw us off, especially at Disney. I fired back with a "thank you for helping make our trip more magical" and laughed it off and tried to figure out this kiosk thing. Another CM named Brandyn stepped in and generously helped us out after watching our interaction with Dan. We ended up with these selections and he hooked it up with 2 paper fast passes to make up for his coworker (1 good for BTM and 1 for 7DMT.) Man, he totally made our entire day. Thank you so so much, Brandyn!

Afterwards, we went in Philharmagic since Cheyenne has never been and it was a short wait. We all loved it! Afterwards, we walked to the front of the castle for an obligatory castle pic and caught the end of the parade. Not sure what it was called but it looked fun.

After our picture, we walked around aimlessly, catching up and talking, and found the White Rabbit and had to take a picture with him.

After our picture, Cheyenne left for ESPN for the dance competition and it was time for us to head over to Be Our Guest. Eek! Excitement flooded over me. It took 4 trips to WDW to FINALLY eat at Be Our Guest. We had FP's for 1:30pm. When we arrived to the front, we checked in at the booth in the front left and they let us walk right on in.

We found an empty seat right in the middle of the ballroom and faced this window. We loved watching the "snow" fall. It was beautiful

Our food came quickly and Kevin was in awe of how the servers "found us." He couldn't figure out how they knew exactly where we were. We weren't given the rose or anything and he asked our server, he responded with "it's the pixie dust." So I guess we'll never know..

We used our QS Dining plan to pay for the meal. We used a snack credit to try the French Onion Soup. It was good when it first arrived, then was really salty and cheesy after a while.. and my tummy doesn't do well with too much cheese so I didn't eat much of it.

Kevin and I both ordered the Braised Pork. It was delicious at first, then again it was really salty after a while. I couldn't finish it but was definitely full.

For our dessert, Kevin ordered the Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcake and I got the Master's Cupcake. This was probably the best part of the meal for me.. I love dessert! But am not too much of a chocolate fan.. although, this cupcake was goooooood

My overall thoughts of BOG lunch, it was a great experience and I would probably only do it again if we had a FP for it and the dining plan. I think it was a great use of a dining plan credit money wise, although the quality of the food was just okay. The ambiance and attention to detail was nice and we really enjoyed walking through all the rooms.

On our way out, we found this beautiful stained glass window.

 

[PiperGirlInWondrland]

I'm in! Looking forward to seeing more of your report!

 

[Off to Neverland 7]

Day 2 - Part 2: Epcot and MK EMH until 2am!!!

We finished lunch around 2:30pm and headed on over to Little Mermaid to use our FP. We love this ride at DCA but the line queue at MK is so much more immersive and the attention to detail is amazing. We hopped on the ride and got stuck for about 10 minutes in the section where "Part of Your World" loops.. so that was our song of the day hahah. Not sure what happened but we were relieved once the ride started moving.

After Little Mermaid, we went straight to Dumbo for our next FP. Haha, we felt so old getting in that line but it was all good. I was so surprised to see that the standby wait time was 50 minutes?! What?! I actually really enjoyed all 3 seconds of the ride but would NOT wait more than 10 minutes to ride it. Dumbo is way bigger than the DL ride and we actually prefer this one over the DL version. It's up to date and in good condition.

After Dumbo, we checked out MDE app to see wait times and my oh my, everything was well over 30-40 minutes of a wait so we decided it was time to move over to Epcot. On our way out of New Fantasyland, we made a traditional stop at Gaston's Tavern and used a snack credit on LeFou's Brew. So delicious!

After LeFou's Brew, we walked over to Frontierland Trading Post to trade our vinyl's. We didn't get anything good so no pictures there.. We weaved our way out of MK and took the monorail to Epcot. It's rare for us to use the monorail so we really enjoyed the trip. I love the commute through the Contemporary and looking at all the resorts. It's like window shopping for the future when we have more money and a family to spoil.

While on the monorail, I also was trying to be productive and check wait times at Epcot.. Bleh. Same thing. Long lines. Our favorite ride Test Track of course had the longest wait so that was out. So, the first thing we did when we got to Epcot was of course a mini photo shoot hahah!

We headed on over to Illuminations to take our FREE Visa Chase picture.. We love these, it's such an easy quick free souvenir and collect them from each trip (Tip: If you have the Disney Visa Credit Card AND Debit Card, they will give you 2 tickets for 2 free pictures.. this is also per day). Afterward, we headed on over to Disney Traders to trade vinyl's.. picked up a cute Dot vinyl from Bug's Life and headed on out.

We veered to the left since we always go to the right and slowly made our way around the world. It was so weird for us to not be there during Food and Wine. We usually save up all of our snack credits and eat around the world.. oh well. New is always good and it was a beautiful day. We actually made a point to go into the countries and look through some of the stores this time.

Our first stop was Mexico and we caught a short line for Donald Duck! Man, that was probably one of the best character interactions we've had in a while. Donald was fun and made us laugh.

We looked through Norway and found a Frozen store and a Frozen inspired room. Both were eh.. so we kept walking & went to China and Japan.

Kevin really enjoyed the big store in Japan with all the anime and Pokemon stuff hahah. Couldn't believe that was there this whole time! We went to France and I had a Brioche Bun Ice Cream Sandwich from L'Artisian Des Glaces. Coffee Ice cream with chocolate syrup. Ugh, it was so good that I devoured all by myself it without getting a picture!

After ice cream, we headed to Sunshine Seasons for dinner (haha, yes, ice cream before dinner. AWESOME!) We always look forward to Sunshine Seasons for the Mongolian Beef. The sauce is so delicious! We both ordered Mongolian Beef and I had the strawberry shortcake for dessert. Kevin had the Apple Crumble something. Although it was delicious, it got really sweet after a few bites.

After dinner, we checked Test Track and just our luck, the wait time was 80 minutes. Yuck! We decided to head back to the hotel to freshen up for EMH and wait for Cheyenne's call. We picked up our pictures on the way out, took this last pic and hopped the bus back to Pop.

We rested for probably 30 minutes if that. We ALMOST took a nap but we knew if we let ourselves nap, that would've been the end of the day. So we went to the arcade and used our 100 points credit voucher. Womp.. they made 100 points sound like it was a lot, but in this situation, it totally wasn't. Each game was 20-40 points each, so it gave us 3 game plays and we were done. Super lame. At around 10:30pm, we got a call from Cheyenne and met up at MK.

Cheyenne got lost using the buses from ESPN so it took a while to meet up. We took this picture while waiting..

We finally met up with Cheyenne and it was party time! We hopped on Big Thunder with a short 20 minute wait.

Afterward, we headed toward Peter Pan and used our paper FP on peter pan. It was so awesome! Our first time riding Peter Pan at MK (have done so at DL). I love Peter Pan. It's so cute. We then used our other paper FP on 7DMT.

It was awesome! Loved it, but would NEVER wait more than 20 minutes for it. After 7DMT, we walked over to Frontierland and traded again. We got some weird looking Vinyls so no pictures of that.

By this point, the park was emptying out and the park was ours. We were so exhausted but loved every moment. The weather was beautiful! We went on the Swiss Family Treehouse and NO ONE was on it! How cool!

Our last stop of the night was Tomorrowland. We hopped on Stitch since Cheyenne's never been on it and that was probably the worst last ride ever. I don't like it and it just makes me feel really uncomfortable.

By this point it was 1:30am and we were all POOPED! It's been a while since we did a long 14 hour park day. We parted ways and headed back to the hotel knock out.

 

[DisneyDiva2006]

Random question.....but did you use a Go Pro for all your pictures?

 

[Off to Neverland 7]

Yes the Cinderella Castle Suite was an amazing once in a life time trip that we were so lucky to experience.......however our vacation on the Disney Dream was just as amazing! We had an absolute blast!

That stinks you encountered a bunch of tour group/dance teams. We arrived to WDW on 1/31 (Port Orleans Riverside), then toured the Magic Kingdom on Sunday 2/1. We must have gotten lucky because it didn't seem too crowded for us. I had also heard about the tour groups and was nervous about it. Maybe they decided to go to a different park on the day we were there? Although, I do agree that it was more crowded than when we went in September. Fall is the best time to go!

Ah yeah, maybe it was luck of the draw? So glad you guys didnt experience the crowds.. It could've also been that it was a Saturday too.. Oh well, we still had fun

& Yes, I totally agree! September and fall is the best time of year to visit. Nice discounts, warmer weather, food and wine festival, lower crowds

 

[Off to Neverland 7]

Random question.....but did you use a Go Pro for all your pictures?

We used the gopro for some pics and iPhone for the others when we were too lazy to set up the gopro.

 

[Off to Neverland 7]

Day 3 - Can't go wrong with FREE!! Disney Quest & Fantasia Gardens

February 1, 2015

That 14 hour day took a toll on us.. we used this Sunday as a recovery day from our park day and slept in. I slept in until 10am and went down for my usual morning coffee. The weather was BEAUTIFUL! My oh my, it makes me wonder why we've never visited in these months before. I sat poolside for a bit to enjoy the sun and coffee and peruse updates on social media. I went up back to the room to wake up Kevin and get the day started. A CM delivered this to our room right before we left and I was beyond thrilled with this $8 package of wonder! I immediately wished I had ordered more than one, Kevin told me I'm crazy.. But let's be real, you can't beat this deal for $8?!?! (There was a glitch in the system one night and someone on our DIS January FB group posted this amazing deal. Originally $58 and it rang me up for $8!! Thank you again BTW if you're reading this.) It came with a Blanket, minnie mouse, minnie WDW ears, WDW autograph book and matching pen, these papers that list your child's firsts at Disney.

We headed over to AoA for lunch. Our favorite there is the CYO Pasta. We both ordered the same thing, Alfredo and Pesto sauce with bow tie pasta, combination chicken and shrimp, and a bunch of toppings. We both also ordered smoothies as our dessert. Kevin got the Mango Smoothie and I got strawberry banana smoothie. Both were a little sweet but delicious.

After brunch, we took the bus to HS then took the boat from HS to Swan and Dolphin. Here's a few pics from our walk over to Fantasia Gardens.

Fantasia Gardens was PACKED! We waited about 10 minutes in line to get to the cashier and the wait was about to 1.5 hours to tee off. We were there to take advantage of the free vouchers we received in the mail and the CM kindly gave us another Tee Time way later in the day to avoid the crowds. We chose 10:40pm to come back.

So we headed off and took a nice walk. We walked over to the Beach and Yacht Club area to "window shop" for our Food & Wine trip with Cheyenne and our Disney family. It was absolutely gorgeous and the pool area with the ship was so cool! I think our favorite was the closeness to Epcot. Here's some pictures from our walk..

We took the bus from Beach Club over to DTD and used the free vouchers for Disney Quest. This was pretty much our first time at Disney Quest, I had gone once before when I was 11 or 12 but don't really remember it.. Here's a picture of Kevin outside of the building.

The inside initially took us some time getting used to. We decided to start from the bottom and make our way through each level. A lot of the technology was outdated, but we really enjoyed some of the games. We waited in line for the Buzz Lightyear Blasters and watched to see if it'd be worth the 20 min wait.. but after watching one game, we left. We tried the Space Mountain simulator and created our own roller coasted. We both agreed that it could've been way cooler if the graphics were updated.. I didn't get many pictures but here are a few.

The Animation Academy was cool.

The Mighty Ducks Pinball was whaaacckk!

There was a corner dedicated to Fix It Felix Jr. We played for about 10 minutes before we were over it.

I think we spent a good 3-4 hours at Disney Quest. It was okay and would definitely not pay to go back but would go again if it were free and undergo some updates.

After Disney Quest, we walked over to Wolfgang Puck Express for dinner. I was super excited for this meal after reading all the reviews.. and I've got to agree with everyone that this was by far the BEST use of a quick service meal.

I ordered the salmon and creme brulee for dessert.

Kevin got the Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf and Vanilla Bean Cheesecake.

I've got to admit, Kevin's entire meal was the winner of the night. The cheesecake was soooo delicious. I totally recommend this as a quick service meal. We were a little sad that we had JUST tried this for the first time while on the dining plan. We'll definitely be coming back here.

After dinner, we took the buses back to Swan and Dolphin and headed back to Fantasia Gardens. We got there around 10:15pm and they took us in right away. Here are some photos from the game.

After the game, we took Uber back to AoA and we used our last meal credit at the food court. We made it back right before they closed and the only thing open was CYO pasta so we did that again. We ate and went back to the room to repack for our super exciting next chapter of this vacation.. the day we have been waiting for... EMBARKATION DAY!!

 

[DisneyDiva2006]

We used the gopro for some pics and iPhone for the others when we were too lazy to set up the gopro.

Thanks! Your pictures look great and I'm trying to decide if it is worth the investment.

 

[Off to Neverland 7]

Day 4 - Part 1: Oh the excitement for embarkation day!!

February 2, 2015

I woke up bright and early at 7:00am. Waking up was super easy since we were suuuuper excited. After all the nights on DISboards, DisneyCruiseLine.com, and our facebook group.. this was the day we've been waiting for. Seeing this on the Navigator App was probably the best motivation to get going that really early morning.

Got my coffee and I was all set. Got Kevin up, toiletry bags and last minute things all packed, day bags all packed.. we were good to go. We received a call at 8:40am that our driver had arrived. We initially set up at 9am pick up so we were ecstatic that he was early. We checked out and off we were. We used Sunshine Florida Transportation to get to the port and shared a ride with a nice family we met through our FB group.

The driver kindly helped us with our bags and we were off to pick up the other family at Port Orleans Riverside.

The kids were really fun and easy to talk to, so the ride went by really quickly. As we approached the port, a wave of excitement came over me. There's our "home" for the next few days!!

We were dropped off near the end of the line. Now, the payment process was super sketch. The driver was trying to trick me by saying I could only pay in cash and I showed him the email stating that I was told cash or credit. He then pulled out his square card reader and then he rang me up. He then tried getting an additional tip out of us by saying that price didn't include tip when it was blatantly stated in the email that the final cost included gratuity so we just gave him additional tip and let him go off. Shady. I would probably not use Sunshine Florida Transportation ever again after that experience.

Anywho, the porters took our bags as we approached this long line.

We got there around 10:30am and they started letting the line go in. There was a line coming from the bridge from the parking lot and the line down below where we were at.

The line lead us through airport style security and oh yeah, I got yelled at for taking this picture.

We went up the escalator and this was our first sight.

The line for check in was long but went by quick. The check in process was a breeze. We gave them our completed forms, took our pictures, were given our KTTWC, received a Navigator and gave us our boarding card. We were in group 3 for boarding. Our sailing was sold out so we couldn't do any upgrades.

The line was long but we waited and took took a picture with this pup.

Boarding quickly began after we took that picture. It was 11:30am when they started boarding.

Group 3! It was our turn! Oh the excitement!

We skipped the picture with the background and headed in to the atrium.. They announced our names and we danced right on through. So awesome!

I was such in awe. The atrium was so so beautiful and probably one of our favorite places on the ship. We decided to explore a bit and get lost. This is was so new to us. We learned forward and aft and kind of how to navigate through the ship.

We ran into the empty Evolution (we would later have our FE meet and greet here).

We were such in awe. Every little bit of attention to detail was so amazing to us.

After some exploring, we were STARVING! We decided to go with Cabanas for the buffet experience.. man, I should've listened to DISboards and should've gone to Enchanted Garden for lunch. It was PACKED and crazy at Cabanas. We were forced to eat outside where it was super windy and super loud.. but we were excited so it didn't phase us too much.. Just made my note to self for next time.

Here's my first plate.

I didn't get a picture of my dessert plate cuz I just took it to go.. too excited and NEEDED to explore haha

We explored out on Deck 11 and 12.

We went down to Senses to enter in the raffle. Caught a few pictures of the spa and gym.

After that, we hung out in a port hole for about 10 minutes until it was 1:30pm to head to our room.

I've reached my photo limit..

Next up.. Our Stateroom

 

[Off to Neverland 7]

Day 4 - Part 2: Our Stateroom

So as I mentioned before, we booked room 7022 - Cat07 Stateroom with Navigator Verandah. We loved everything about this room and I couldn't have been happier with the investment of having a verandah to wake up to. That was one highlight of the trip.

The storage space in the coffee table was great for our backpacks and fit both comfortably. Also, there was more than enough storage space under the bed to fit 2 medium sized suitcases and 1 carry on suitcase. We probably could've fit another suitcase or two underneath if we needed to.

The split bathroom is such a brilliant idea. It helped us get ready much faster.

There was ample closet space. Kevin had one side and I had another.

We actually didn't mind the obstruction of the wall. It actually came in handy on our windy, rainy sea day and shielded us from the wind. It also helped keep our food from getting cold when eating on the verandah.

Before we headed back out to explore, we put our magnets up and hung our FE.

Side Note: Kevin made fun of me when I started making our magnets months back before the trip.. and so when we were putting our magnets on the door, Kevin was like "that's it? do we have more magnets?".. dummy. Now he wants more magnets for our next cruise

Next up..
Sailing Away Party and Crushing it at Animator's Palate.

 

[Off to Neverland 7]

Thanks! Your pictures look great and I'm trying to decide if it is worth the investment.

Thank you I would totally recommend the GoPro. It changed the way we take pictures and the way we capture our lives.

 

[littlenellbell]

Wow, you did have a busy day on Saturday! 50 minutes for Dumbo?!? Still looks like you had a great day. We only went to MK and I missed Epcot. It's nice you had a day off before the cruise to relax. LOVE the Epcot Resort Area! We stayed at the Yacht Club last time and that whole area was so amazing!

We were on the same timeline as you! We also used Sunrise Transportation with a pick up at 9am from Port Orleans Riverside and arrived around 10:30am. We paid with cash with no extra tip and didn't have any issues. Our guy had Frozen playing for the kids and he stopped at the liquor store for us. Bummer your guy was sketchy. We boarded with group 2. I didn't see us in your pictures, but I feel like we were right there! Especially outside the port, that is about the same spot we were waiting...must have been right behind you.

Love your GoPro pictures. My son has one, I still need to download and see what he took. He's only 9, so I'm sure it's not as great. LOL He mostly takes video on rides and waterslides. I never thought to use it for pictures, but I really like yours. We need to get a pole like you have so our whole family can be in the pic.

Love your stateroom. We were also on deck 7, all the way aft. We had GTY and were assigned a handicap room. We had tons of extra space and an amazing huge veranda, but we missed the split bathroom.

The spa looks nice! We never made it there, just not enough time.

 

[Off to Neverland 7]

Wow, you did have a busy day on Saturday! 50 minutes for Dumbo?!? Still looks like you had a great day. We only went to MK and I missed Epcot. It's nice you had a day off before the cruise to relax. LOVE the Epcot Resort Area! We stayed at the Yacht Club last time and that whole area was so amazing!

We were on the same timeline as you! We also used Sunrise Transportation with a pick up at 9am from Port Orleans Riverside and arrived around 10:30am. We paid with cash with no extra tip and didn't have any issues. Our guy had Frozen playing for the kids and he stopped at the liquor store for us. Bummer your guy was sketchy. We boarded with group 2. I didn't see us in your pictures, but I feel like we were right there! Especially outside the port, that is about the same spot we were waiting...must have been right behind you.

Love your GoPro pictures. My son has one, I still need to download and see what he took. He's only 9, so I'm sure it's not as great. LOL He mostly takes video on rides and waterslides. I never thought to use it for pictures, but I really like yours. We need to get a pole like you have so our whole family can be in the pic.

Love your stateroom. We were also on deck 7, all the way aft. We had GTY and were assigned a handicap room. We had tons of extra space and an amazing huge veranda, but we missed the split bathroom.

The spa looks nice! We never made it there, just not enough time.

Yay, can't wait to stay at Yacht Club! How were the rooms? We're looking into a 1 or 2 bedroom villa.

We totally had the same timeline. Can't believe we didn't run into you! Oh my, I'm so happy you had a great experience with Sunshine Transportation. Maybe it was just our driver. No music, he didn't talk much which was totally cool since we were consumed with getting to know the kids and the family the whole ride. So cute

If you don't mind me asking, what stateroom were you in? Would love to look it up and see pictures of your spacious room and verandah