Hi, I wanted to give a trip report because of all the very helpful things I have gotten off this board! I wanted to give back to those who have given and help the next family going! Hope this helps someone and if you have any questions Please feel free to email me! Mia29x@aol.com
We arrived at the port around 11 that morning. Easy check in NO LINES! Walked out to pier took a look at our ship and sat for 30 mins and watched cartoons...then along came Mickey and our youngest daughter took a pic with him! Got in line and boarded ship around 12. Very nice boarding experience! Makes you feel really special! Went straight to Beach Blanket Buffet and ate lunch...good food and nice selection. Wait staff very friendly and helpful like all cast memebers were on this trip! Next we took the kids to the Mickey pool, only 2 kids in the pool for about 2 hours!! This was the ONLY TIME it was this empty very important for families to take advantage of this time! Went and registered kids at thier clubs got our beeper and NO WAIT there either!!Then off to our rooms, no luggage yet, but that is o.k. Met our stateroom host and told us whatever we need to just let him know. We then took a walk around the ship happened upon the spa tour and payed for one day at the Tropical Rain Forrest. Headed to the sail away party and that was GREAT!!! Do not want to miss that at all!!! Kids and parents will have a great time at this! After the sailaway party we noticed the boat starting to slightly rock back and forth, did not worry because we all had our seabands on and noticed some cast memebers were even wearing them, so didn't feel so stupid with big bands around our wrist.HAHA. Got the kids some food from Pluto's and sent them to thier clubs as they wanted to go and not eat dinner with us...We went back to our room and unpacked, got ready for late dinner and while getting ready was being rocked back and forth in the shower we had to hold on to rails and closet doors were slamming shut and boy did we rock!! By the time I was ready for dinner I felt so sick I forced myself to go keep my husband company at the dinner table so he would not be alone. We ate a Parrot Cay the first night and meet our wait staff!! Great people!! The resturant was over half empty and even the staff remarked they could not believe no one was there. I asked the staff if it is always this rocky because this is my first cruise, they assured me this was highly unusuall. IT was really gross watching people get up and throwing up on the dinning room floor because they could not make it to the bathroom, I had to get up 3 times while sitting there and the 2 closets bathrooms were out of order because of all the people ruining them...hint!LOL The hallways people were throwing up in them also..YUCK!!! You could not walk the ship without falling over because of the rockiness. I went back to the room and threw up somemore and went to sleep with our youngest(6) daughter while my husband and 10 year old went to see the 11:15 movie. Woke up and it was smooth sailing from thier on out... I will write Day 2 tomorrow.
We arrived at the port around 11 that morning. Easy check in NO LINES! Walked out to pier took a look at our ship and sat for 30 mins and watched cartoons...then along came Mickey and our youngest daughter took a pic with him! Got in line and boarded ship around 12. Very nice boarding experience! Makes you feel really special! Went straight to Beach Blanket Buffet and ate lunch...good food and nice selection. Wait staff very friendly and helpful like all cast memebers were on this trip! Next we took the kids to the Mickey pool, only 2 kids in the pool for about 2 hours!! This was the ONLY TIME it was this empty very important for families to take advantage of this time! Went and registered kids at thier clubs got our beeper and NO WAIT there either!!Then off to our rooms, no luggage yet, but that is o.k. Met our stateroom host and told us whatever we need to just let him know. We then took a walk around the ship happened upon the spa tour and payed for one day at the Tropical Rain Forrest. Headed to the sail away party and that was GREAT!!! Do not want to miss that at all!!! Kids and parents will have a great time at this! After the sailaway party we noticed the boat starting to slightly rock back and forth, did not worry because we all had our seabands on and noticed some cast memebers were even wearing them, so didn't feel so stupid with big bands around our wrist.HAHA. Got the kids some food from Pluto's and sent them to thier clubs as they wanted to go and not eat dinner with us...We went back to our room and unpacked, got ready for late dinner and while getting ready was being rocked back and forth in the shower we had to hold on to rails and closet doors were slamming shut and boy did we rock!! By the time I was ready for dinner I felt so sick I forced myself to go keep my husband company at the dinner table so he would not be alone. We ate a Parrot Cay the first night and meet our wait staff!! Great people!! The resturant was over half empty and even the staff remarked they could not believe no one was there. I asked the staff if it is always this rocky because this is my first cruise, they assured me this was highly unusuall. IT was really gross watching people get up and throwing up on the dinning room floor because they could not make it to the bathroom, I had to get up 3 times while sitting there and the 2 closets bathrooms were out of order because of all the people ruining them...hint!LOL The hallways people were throwing up in them also..YUCK!!! You could not walk the ship without falling over because of the rockiness. I went back to the room and threw up somemore and went to sleep with our youngest(6) daughter while my husband and 10 year old went to see the 11:15 movie. Woke up and it was smooth sailing from thier on out... I will write Day 2 tomorrow.