A Peach on the Beach! 4 Night Disney Dream 5/18-5/22/15 Updated 3/18/16

After getting cleaned up and changed we decided to go play another round of mini golf. We wandered by the ARRRRR-cade. I believe this has already been replaced on the Dream but is still on the Fantasy for now. This is not cheap so keep an eye on your kids if they go in here it can add up fast!

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it was pretty windy up here!!

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We were pretty much the only people in this area. It honestly never felt crowded to me on this cruise even though it was sold out

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It's currently 18 days until we sail on the Fantasy for Star Wars Day at Sea - I am in slight panic mode yet SO excited! I can't believe it's finally almost here after seeming SO far away when we booked this cruise.

It cracks me up how they have Donald crashed into the side of this. These are the little touches that to me make Disney cruise line more special.

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The adults only area

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We peeked our heads into the concierge sun deck to see what it was like. Not a person in sight. We will probably keep checking on port upgrades each trip - maybe one time we will be able to snag a good upgrade to Concierge

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We stood around for awhile just talking and enjoying the view

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It was time to head to the "ice cream social" again! So off we went. This is next to the "social"

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I'm actually not really a big ice cream eater, but Andy and Tim love it so there were MANY ice cream socials this trip!

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After perusing the shops for a bit we made our way to the Minnie character meet. She's adorable

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We found out there was trivia going on in D Lounge so we thought we should head over and give it a try. It is no joke folks! We did NOT win LOL.

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After Trivia we ran into:

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By now it was dinner time so we headed to Enchanted Garden. This is where I will get into a bit more detail about second seating dining. My overall impression? ABSOLUTELY LOVED it!!! I felt that it was way more relaxing than having to hurry in from whatever we were doing for the day to shower and get ready for dinner by the early seating. It felt like we had so much more time!

For our February Star Wars cruise we have first seating. Andy is convinced that with the girls we need to do first seating. I would prefer the later seating but I'm going with First for him. It will be interesting to compare now that we have done both how it feels with first seating again. We have a cruise booked with our friends and the kids for August and we have already selected Second Seating - yeah! It's only a 3 day cruise that time and it will give us longer to enjoy the day at the pool, etc.

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We looked over the menus

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Then our server made Andy a napkin hat to wear

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We started off with a mushroom tart

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Loving your TR! Sad that I only just found it but I'm all caught up!

Hubby and I have been on a few cruises, but not on a Disney one yet. We're planning on booking for NYE 2018 so I am VERY exciting! Reading reports like yours only makes me wish it would come sooner!

I completely agree with you in regards to the later seating lol!!
 
Loving your TR! Sad that I only just found it but I'm all caught up!

Hubby and I have been on a few cruises, but not on a Disney one yet. We're planning on booking for NYE 2018 so I am VERY exciting! Reading reports like yours only makes me wish it would come sooner!

I completely agree with you in regards to the later seating lol!!

:welcome: So glad you found the report and joined in! Thanks for reading! I have put a NYE cruise on my bucket list. It's not in the cards any time soon but it just looks like such an AWESOME cruise to be on. 2018 will be here before you know it!
 


Heading out for Star Wars Day at Sea this weekend! i'll be taking a ton of pics and notes and will definitely be doing a trip report so stay tuned! I'll finish this one when we get back :cool1::cool1::cool1:
 
Great TR! Love that you have included so many pictures! I have never been on Dream or been to Nassau, and they make it so easy to imagine being there would be like. Will look forward to your return!
 
Great TR! Love that you have included so many pictures! I have never been on Dream or been to Nassau, and they make it so easy to imagine being there would be like. Will look forward to your return!

:yay: Thank you for reading and posting! I'm glad you are enjoying the report! Can't wait to report in after this cruise as well! :cool1:
 


Hi everyone! :wave::wave:

I'm baaaaaaaaack! We had an INCREDIBLE time on the Disney Fantasy for Star Wars Day at Sea and i CANNOT wait to do a full report on that cruise! Honestly, BEST.TRIP.EVER!!!!

So let's get this trip report back in gear!

We left off with Andy with a napkin on his head and me eating a mushroom tart. Andy would never eat one of those because it involves vegetables. Vegetables=BAD to Andy lol.

Andy and Tim both had the lobster raviolis which is interesting to me since Andy doesn't really go for lobster normally. He thinks it's pointless. How anyone can NOT like lobster is beyond me but oh well! here's a pic of that appetizer

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On a previous cruise we had ordered mushroom tarts and they were absolutely delicious so we ordered "extra" when we placed our order. These were not the same and they were just OK. We then had like a mushroom tart graveyard that pretty much went untouched. I felt bad but noone wanted them.

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I believe this might have been asparagus soup

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Deb had tomato soup and Andy had a salad

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By now it was time for the main course. Andy had pork

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I chose the beef

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Deb chose the salad

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Our server came around to take our desert order. I went for a sundae and it was delicious

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Apparently I also ordered the sticky bread pudding - which by the way is absolutely DELISH!

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The kicker is, I also must've ordered a Mickey bar! I think I just gained 5 pounds looking at this!

I have no idea what I was thinking! lol

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Andy gave this meal a thumbs up! Notice he's still wearing his napkin hat. Killin me!

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Simone stopped by for a photo as well

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We rolled our way back to the room to find this snake towel animal waiting for us

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We decided to head to check out the character meet and greats and the See You Real Soon party.

We found Goofy with a super short line so we stopped for a pic

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Next was Minnie - she's so adorable!

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Then it was time for the See You Real Soon party to start. SO cute yet so sad! I didn't want the trip to end!


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Seeing as I had only eaten 3 deserts, I started thinking about ordering some room service. I asked Andy if he wanted anything and he said no so I order myself the pizza and wings.

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This was actually really tasty and Mr. "I don't want anything" managed to eat at least 3/4 of it. :drinking1

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It was a wonderful end to an amazing trip.

The next morning we were up bright and early to head to Cabana's for breakfast and just like that were were off the ship.

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We went out to wait for a shuttle bus to take us to the rental car location. We waited. and waited. over an hour. It was a bit ridiculous and of course I was getting impatient because I wanted to head to the 24 hour party at the Magic Kingdom!

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Fast forward and our friends dropped us off at Walt Disney World as they headed back to the airport. We were sad to see them go!

But we made it to the Coolest Summer Ever party at the Magic Kingdom!

woo hoo!

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I love your trip report! We were also at the Coolest Summer Party Ever last year at MK! It was our last day in the parks, and it was also the hottest day of our trip!
Can't wait to hear your thoughts about the SWDAS cruise!
 
I love your trip report! We were also at the Coolest Summer Party Ever last year at MK! It was our last day in the parks, and it was also the hottest day of our trip!
Can't wait to hear your thoughts about the SWDAS cruise!

:welcome:Thanks so much for reading along!!! Coolest Summer Party was definitely anything but "cool"! Soooo hot that day! But still a lot of fun! We had such an amazing SWDAS cruise, i never wanted it to end!
 
Your trip report was awesome. I am beyond excited to go on our first cruise at the end of May. Your pictures and thoughts were perfect. Thank you for taking the time to do this!
 
Your trip report was awesome. I am beyond excited to go on our first cruise at the end of May. Your pictures and thoughts were perfect. Thank you for taking the time to do this!

:welcome: Thank you!!! I'm really glad you are enjoying the report! May was an awesome time to cruise the weather was so beautiful! You will have an amazing time I am sure! What ship are you sailing on?
 
Apparently I also ordered the sticky bread pudding - which by the way is absolutely DELISH!

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The kicker is, I also must've ordered a Mickey bar! I think I just gained 5 pounds looking at this!

I have no idea what I was thinking! lol
I'm blaming the food choices I made yesterday on this trip report. :rotfl:
 
:welcome: Thank you!!! I'm really glad you are enjoying the report! May was an awesome time to cruise the weather was so beautiful! You will have an amazing time I am sure! What ship are you sailing on?

We are sailing on the Dream. I really am going to go thru this TR again. The trip was supposed to be a surprise but my son found something Disney sent us but my daughter still doesn't know. The waiting is so hard, but reading stuff like this is helping a little bit :)
 
We are sailing on the Dream. I really am going to go thru this TR again. The trip was supposed to be a surprise but my son found something Disney sent us but my daughter still doesn't know. The waiting is so hard, but reading stuff like this is helping a little bit :)

Thank you so much for the kind words! I also enjoy reading trip reports that everyone writes it keeps me going until I can cruise again! It's soooooo hard keeping Disney a secret. We only managed to do it once and when my daughter found out she was sobbing. It was so sweet! I cried just seeing her reaction!
 
When we got to the Magic Kingdom for the 24 hr party I had a mission. The Disney Channel stars were going to be in the parade and I REALLY wanted to find a spot and plunk down to wait for the parade to be able to take good pics for my kiddos. As soon as we walked into the park I started feeling really "off". Once years prior i had gotten heat stroke at Disney and I was really worried that I was feeling the same way. I could not for the life of me figure out why though as we had JUST gotten there and it wasn't THAT hot. So I stood near Small World/Pinnochio's while Andy went off to find me a water. By the time he got back I decided it wasn't worth risking feeling sick and ruining the whole party and I asked him if he would mind heading back to the room. I was relieved when he said no problem. As we were on our way back I realized that it was from getting OFF the cruise. I get seasick so I wear a patch behind my ear. And sometimes it effects me really strangely. I took off the patch that I had forgotten I was still wearing and we headed back to the room for a nap. We woke up a few hours later and I was totally fine!!!! woo hoo!!!

The downside was, we missed the afternoon parade with the Disney Channel stars. We easily could have had curbside seats as no one was lined up yet when we were heading to Frontierland to plunk down for the parade but it wasn't meant to be. I was disappointed because I had my mind set on it but I knew we would still have a great time.

One of the fun things about the 24 hr parties is that they let adults wear costumes. I had full intentions of dressing in costume but after not feeling well I decided to skip it. Andy however decided to wear his favorite Disney costume which you will see shortly.

As we were walking earlier we saw some of my favorite characters to run into, they are so funny:

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We also ran into these princesses in front of the castle. They were guests having fun dressed up - I love it and couldn't resist snapping a pic!

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Can you guess which movie is Andy's favorite?

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Yup! He's an UP junkie! We had a reservation at Crystal Palace so we made it back to the park in time for that.

We headed straight over and I checked us in and we sat to wait for our table

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After a short wait we were in!

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We went to hit up the buffet. I love "Pooh's corner" which is a section with kid favorites. So cute.


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I like their salad area here

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Here's what I had - I'm not sure if this was worth the $$ I paid but hey, it hit the spot lol. It was air conditioned, there are characters, and it was a nice fun meal. I always enjoy Crystal Palace.

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All the usual characters made their way around for pics

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The Wilderness must be explored!

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After we left dinner, we ran into a "Carl"! of course we had to take pics!

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After that we decided to make our way towards Tomorrowland

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When we got over towards Buzz and Space Mountain I noticed there was literally maybe a handful of people hanging out around the stage area - "Club Chill"

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I told Andy I wanted to check it out. Someone came out after a while and was playing music and getting the crowd going. As we waited the crowd got pretty huge.

Eventually we figured out that Disney Channel Stars from Austin & Ally were coming out!

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Here they come!

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I took a ton of pics

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And then they came around and gave some autographs and took some selfies! We got both of their autographs....

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And then they took selfies on our phone. I could NOT have made a more ridiculous face if I had tried. Andy and I were joking about making a crazy face and of COURSE I did and he didn't. LOL! What a wonderful idea! NOT! :crazy:

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I will only post this ridiculous pic of me out of love for ya'll :crazy:

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