Great update! We loved Mixology as well - can't go wrong!
Thanks! I agree, Mixology is awesome!
We did the champagne tasting too! Not as fun as the mixology but we enjoyed it. If anything, it was bad because it introduced me to the wonderful world of Moet Ice!
Yeah I have heard that they bring out the really pricey champagnes for the tastings! I could see that resulting in some expensive habits...
I can't believe you're down to your last dinner already.....boo!
I know!! If nothing else, this cruise taught me that 4 nights is too short. I now know better!
Thank you again for this fun and informative trip report. It has been so helpful as I plan our very first cruise. Booked us on the 4 night Bahamas cruise on the Dream for September 14th! Super excited! Loved, loved, loved your photos of castaway cay! Just gorgeous!
Thank you for reading and thanks for the kind words on the photos!!
September is a great time to cruise! That's when my first cruise was. We had good weather and, if I remember correctly, we were in the only ship in port on the Nassau day.
Quick question... when do you get the personal navigators for each day? Are they delivered all at one time at the beginning of the cruise, or daily? Just curious.
Thanks!
We got the embarkation day Navigator in the terminal - I forget if they handed them to us right when we walked in or if it was when we checked in to get our KTTW cards. After that, the navigators for each day were put in our rooms by our stateroom hosts the night before. So we had a good amount of time to peruse them and looking over what we were interested in. You can also find old Navitagors on the
Disney Cruise Line Blog to get an idea of what's in store!
The drawing class at the parks is one of my favorites so its nice to see they have it on the ship too...your mickey drawing came out so cute!
Thank you!
I love the drawing class at Hollywood Studios - it's such a DISNEY thing. Like...you'd never find that at a Six Flags or whatever.
Yum, the mixology class sounds amazing. Did they demonstrate the drinks that they brought you at least? All of them look delicious! And what a seriously good deal, even if the price has gone up/drinks gone down. I am totally envious of your ability to make those layered shots! (One of my college roommates/good friends is a bartender, so I have zero drink mixing skills since I always left it up to her, lol)
I don't remember them demonstrating the drinks that we didn't get to make.
I'm sure they told us how to make them but by now it's been long enough that I don't remember for sure.
On my first cruise, we had a bigger group and were able to get a private Mixology class. They handled that one a little differently - they called us up in groups of 5 and each five-some (is that a word?) would make the drinks for the whole group. So in that case I only got to make one drink, but I did get to see exactly how all of the others were made. I think it's a little different every time.
The layered shot was challenging! Don't be too jealous of my skills...during the previous Mixology I was supposed to do a layered drink and messed mine up, so this time I knew to pour extra super slowly...
Me with my messed-up drink. A correct one is sitting to the right on the bar.
Animators palate is my favorite of the pictures I've seen. Did you only get to eat there once? Is that the norm for each cruise? It looks like it has such a Disney vibe-I'm reminded of AoA.
Yes, only once.
But they do the dining rotations on the 4-night cruises has you repeating one dining room twice (in our case it would have been Royal Palace twice, but we ate at Palo and Remy instead), so we could have had Animator's twice. When we go on the Fantasy this year we'll be in Animator's twice.
I love Animator's, though. It's SO Disney. It's just awesome.
I haven't been to AoA yet, but I will be in 17.5 days!!!