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My Oh My What A Wonderful Day
- Joined
- Mar 11, 2005
Left Providence on Friday to have a day before the cruise ... this was perfect we did not feel rushed getting to the port ..
Sat morning Southern Elegance picked us up at the MCO Hyatt. This car company is in my opinion the best they are always early for us and have great drivers and also will give you a grocery stop if you need one ( I suggest buying a case of water before going to the ship. 1. its cheaper than on the ship and 2 Evian stinks in my opinon)
Got to the port a bit before 10am wearing our homeade Disboard shirts but did not catch anyone there. We recieved #1 and were on the Ship very quickly once they opened the doors around 11:45 am. Went to Parrot Cay for lunch and by 1:30pm our room was ready for us. Gerich was our stateroom attendant and he was excellent. When the bags came we only got 1 of 4 and he went right out to get the other 3 for us 10 minutes later we had all of our bags.
3pm Disboard meet. not well organized but I managed to find a few of the people that were up on deck and it was great to meet them. One thing for sure everyone is as nice or nicer as they come across on the board.
We had the early dinner rotation 5:30 was our time it was good for the kids I would have prefered later seating but what can you do. If I could get the 6pm I would be ok with the early seating ... I did feel rushed getting to dinner. Kumar and Anastasia were our server and asst. They were awsome. Kumar kept us well fed by adding dishes to our orders and having us sample almost everything on the menu every night.
Palo ... Funny thing is Rishi our server at Palo was Kumars roomate and we discovered this at brunch on Sunday so we requested him for Dinner on Wed he and Kumar must be in kahootz.
Brunch ... we ate for 2.5 hours ... literaly .... I could have eaten the caviar all day. Make sure you try that german bread with the whipped cream and fruit it was outstanding.
Dinner at Palo was equally impresive. I had the tuna rare and it was some of the best tuna I have had in a long time .... the rack of lamb was also very good I tasted my wifes ....
We did the premium wine package that was offered and had wine with dinner every night. it was very good and we enjoyed the wines they offered.
shows .... seadays ... and Islands....( did excursions on our own)
As everyone else said the shows were outstanding Rich Pupura's adult show had everyone rolling on the floor.
St Maarten was great we took the kids to the beach did some shopping and had fun but by noon the kids wanted to go back to the kids club so we droped them off and went shopping with out them. Ill talk more about the kids club at the end.
St Thomas ... took the kids to Coral World ... got to coral world at 8:45 am with a little adrenalin rush on the way a women in our taxi had her bag fall out ( these are open air taxi's ) and a homeless guy grabbed it and started going through it so we almost had a fight on our hands her husband was pissed ... also there was a heartattack on coki beach .... not sure who ... but coral world was fun and my kids had a great time picking up the starfish and sealife and seeing everyting a bit overpriced even with the discount cards you get from the cab drivers.
Tequila tasting ... did this on Thur..seaday 3 ... this was good wife was at the spa and at 4:30 I was sucking down shots and margaritas .. a bit hammered for dinner but all was good balanced it out with a nice red wine and was feeling fine for the 10pm cigar at the cove.
Kids club ... my 2 DD 3 and 4.5 yrs were in the same group. From the moment we got on the ship to the very last minute all they wanted to do was go to the kids club ... we had trouble pulling them out for dinner or pool time or even excurions that we did on our own. So we decided to roll with it and let them be ... this posed 2 problems ... sort of ... we let the kids stay untill 11pm or later and ususally found them asleep on the cots during movie time this was fine but I had to carry them back to the room. The other sort of problem was no matter what we did they wanted to go back to the kids club because they loved the counslers and the activities ....
Edson
Keira
Corina
I should not even name everyone because all of the 3-4 yr old counslers were OUTSTANDING ..... I printed out DIS Thank your cards and gave them to the kids to give to all the counselrs the last night... I think they liked them...
Things I brought from this boards tips
Ok Im sure I could write more but there are 2 or 3 other trip reports from this cruise so ill leave it at this and say if you have any questions feel free to ask
Sat morning Southern Elegance picked us up at the MCO Hyatt. This car company is in my opinion the best they are always early for us and have great drivers and also will give you a grocery stop if you need one ( I suggest buying a case of water before going to the ship. 1. its cheaper than on the ship and 2 Evian stinks in my opinon)
Got to the port a bit before 10am wearing our homeade Disboard shirts but did not catch anyone there. We recieved #1 and were on the Ship very quickly once they opened the doors around 11:45 am. Went to Parrot Cay for lunch and by 1:30pm our room was ready for us. Gerich was our stateroom attendant and he was excellent. When the bags came we only got 1 of 4 and he went right out to get the other 3 for us 10 minutes later we had all of our bags.
3pm Disboard meet. not well organized but I managed to find a few of the people that were up on deck and it was great to meet them. One thing for sure everyone is as nice or nicer as they come across on the board.
We had the early dinner rotation 5:30 was our time it was good for the kids I would have prefered later seating but what can you do. If I could get the 6pm I would be ok with the early seating ... I did feel rushed getting to dinner. Kumar and Anastasia were our server and asst. They were awsome. Kumar kept us well fed by adding dishes to our orders and having us sample almost everything on the menu every night.
Palo ... Funny thing is Rishi our server at Palo was Kumars roomate and we discovered this at brunch on Sunday so we requested him for Dinner on Wed he and Kumar must be in kahootz.
Brunch ... we ate for 2.5 hours ... literaly .... I could have eaten the caviar all day. Make sure you try that german bread with the whipped cream and fruit it was outstanding.
Dinner at Palo was equally impresive. I had the tuna rare and it was some of the best tuna I have had in a long time .... the rack of lamb was also very good I tasted my wifes ....
We did the premium wine package that was offered and had wine with dinner every night. it was very good and we enjoyed the wines they offered.
shows .... seadays ... and Islands....( did excursions on our own)
As everyone else said the shows were outstanding Rich Pupura's adult show had everyone rolling on the floor.
St Maarten was great we took the kids to the beach did some shopping and had fun but by noon the kids wanted to go back to the kids club so we droped them off and went shopping with out them. Ill talk more about the kids club at the end.
St Thomas ... took the kids to Coral World ... got to coral world at 8:45 am with a little adrenalin rush on the way a women in our taxi had her bag fall out ( these are open air taxi's ) and a homeless guy grabbed it and started going through it so we almost had a fight on our hands her husband was pissed ... also there was a heartattack on coki beach .... not sure who ... but coral world was fun and my kids had a great time picking up the starfish and sealife and seeing everyting a bit overpriced even with the discount cards you get from the cab drivers.
Tequila tasting ... did this on Thur..seaday 3 ... this was good wife was at the spa and at 4:30 I was sucking down shots and margaritas .. a bit hammered for dinner but all was good balanced it out with a nice red wine and was feeling fine for the 10pm cigar at the cove.
Kids club ... my 2 DD 3 and 4.5 yrs were in the same group. From the moment we got on the ship to the very last minute all they wanted to do was go to the kids club ... we had trouble pulling them out for dinner or pool time or even excurions that we did on our own. So we decided to roll with it and let them be ... this posed 2 problems ... sort of ... we let the kids stay untill 11pm or later and ususally found them asleep on the cots during movie time this was fine but I had to carry them back to the room. The other sort of problem was no matter what we did they wanted to go back to the kids club because they loved the counslers and the activities ....
Edson
Keira
Corina
I should not even name everyone because all of the 3-4 yr old counslers were OUTSTANDING ..... I printed out DIS Thank your cards and gave them to the kids to give to all the counselrs the last night... I think they liked them...
Things I brought from this boards tips
- travel size liquid tide (target in the travel section by the Pharmacy)
- nightlight
- plugin air freshener for bathroom ( a must)
- clock with light (got it from sharper image small and bright big button)
- Over the door shoe holder (invaluable ) keeps room neat
Ok Im sure I could write more but there are 2 or 3 other trip reports from this cruise so ill leave it at this and say if you have any questions feel free to ask
We are using them in May for our cruise. Can't wait!
