added pics of coast guard boat meeting wonder (+ Walt Disney Suite pictures)

[disneyholic family]

On the Podcast Cruise podcast this week, Pete mentioned an open house in the Walt and Roy Disney suites - so that people could have a chance to look around.

Here are a few pictures from our stay in the Walt Disney suite 4 years ago, when DD was 20 and DS was 17.

I've heard that the grand piano has since been removed from the suite -
sad, as the piano was the reason we picked the walt suite instead of the roy.

following are a few pictures, mostly from right after we boarded (i didn't take any pictures of the suite after that)....

DD and DS waiting to board the Wonder (in the DCL terminal at port canaveral).
The Wonder can be seen through the window behind them.


First few moments in the suite -
DD at the piano (while talking on the cellphone) -
still at Port Canaveral (another cruise ship can be seen through the verandah door)


from the piano into the dining room:


from the piano looking towards the entrance to the suite


from in front of the piano, looking at the living room, towards the library beyond (behind DS)...
DH, DD and DS partaking of the fruit basket we found when we arrived (DS on cellphone as we have not yet 'sailed away')
i think we're waiting at this point to head out for the lifejacket drill out on deck...
which was a lot of fun - our lifeboat captain kept yelling funny things at the other ship across from us


from the library, looking towards the master bedroom


watching from the verandah as we pull into Nassau


we stayed on board the ship in Nassau (we went into nassau on our first cruise and stayed on board for the 2nd one)....
in port, the crew had a life boat drill, where they actually dropped the boats into the water -
we watched the whole thing and found it both interesting and reassuring...




the bridge tour on the day at sea..


i have to find the castaway cay pictures - i know they're somewhere...


i guess i never took pictures of the master bath or the 2nd bath - too bad as they were very nice...
i'm also missing pictures of the 2nd bedroom and the kitchen, but you get the idea....
it's a very nice suite....
i would have been happy just hanging out there all day....
although there was too much to do everywhere else....

 

[blueroses]

Thank you for posting those! What a great trip that must have been!

 

[disneyholic family]

it was a wonderful trip....
one we'll never forget....

but so was our first cruise, when we weren't in that suite..

the ship is fun no matter what stateroom you're in...

that suite made it especially nice, but it's certainly not necessary to be in a suite to enjoy yourself on the cruise..
especially considering how very little time you spend in your room...

 

[mmmears]

Thanks for posting the photos! It's neat to peak into someone else's suite!

 

[safetymom]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[disneyholic family]

i found a few more pictures...
unfortunately, i'm not a big camera bug, so there are very few...

here's one of the visitors to our room:

the entrance:

on our day at sea, there was a medical emergency on board..
a 12 year old girl needed an emergency appendectomy..
so the ship came in towards Palm Beach, where we were met by the coast guard as can be seen in this series of pictures...
she was taken from the ship to the hospital in Palm Beach...
i didn't take pictures of all the yachts that came by...
the Disney Wonder near Palm Beach was apparently an exciting day for them..
it was also pretty interesting for us...

 

[lttlmc3]

Wow! Great pictures! That poor girl though!

 

[disneyholic family]

yes, how awful to be sick on your cruise...
but it's reassuring to know they can handle a situation like that..

we were on our "day at sea"....which i thought meant 'out at sea' somewhere..
but apparently in reality, we were just off the coast of florida, out of sight of the coast...

we were moving very slowly....
sort of floating along in the water, when all of a sudden we could feel the ship really moving full steam ahead...
it barely took any time at all to get close enough to see land...

and then all of a sudden we could see the coast...
those 'in the know' said -"oh that's Palm Beach"...
so then everyone was curious what was going on..

finally, they announced it over the loudspeaker....

we just stayed way out off the coast and the coast guard boat came up to us to get the girl and her family...

here are a few more pictures....
i guess the shoreline we see is Palm Beach - but you could tell me it's anything as i haven't a clue...