steves100
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Got to port later than usual, was at Boardwalk for 2 nights and didn't need to rush since we didn't care about an upgrade. Arrived around 12:30.
Check in is a breeze for platinum/concierge guest, first time using it
1st 2 days at sea make the trip start slowly and relaxing....
Room was perfect except bathroom smelt a little like sewage, they sprayed or did something to fix it. Had stateroom 9072, think this was 3rd time we had that on either Dream or Fantasy, very easy to find room: last 5a mid ship....
1st stop Tortola - Did the Patouche tour of Cooper Island and Baths. Highly recommended, but, you have to be a decent swimmer at Baths, you get dropped off on water and have to swim to shore. Cooper Island is nice, Baths GREAT!
St. Thomas - rented a car and drove to Linquivst Beach. Have been there before, but it has been upgraded with a bathroom and showers, and a few more people show up now. (if you have seen the DirecTV commercials w the talking horses this is the beach the filmed it at)
Castaway - 1st time in a cabana, we had #20. It was pretty awesome with a few minor issues.... the area kind of has a tidal pool which is great for young kids... Only issue is there is quite a bit of seaweed, wish Disney could do something about that. My only complaint is that you can't get to the TRUE snorkel area without going around, they wont let you swim under the rope. I asked the life guard what my options were and she said I could take the cabana taxi (yeah right talk about snobby) so no I didn't make it to the true snorkel area. Will never be able to do CC without a cabaña again!
Issues : Got to CC late because of an emergency for a passenger at St. Thomas, they let us stay till 6:00 to make up the difference, not sure w they couldn't just speed up we didn't seem to going too fast.
Saw Tonka's Skipper on steps (noticed him by his t shirt) as we waited to get off ship onto CC. He and I have had lively debates online here : )
Only major complaint we had was the spa/fitness center. Mens room now doesn't provide shaving crème, qtips, or most of the time robes. My wife had same issue w Q-tips but they did stock them in the ladies room later. I asked about shaving crème 1st day we could work out, answer was they ran out! This was day 1
! I asked for a robe the 2nd day when I arrived and it seemed like I was annoying the staff, they did give me one but told me they are in the lockers, and I responded that they weren't yesterday, I checked when I got in the room and no lockers did.
Highlights:
Had great server/asst - assistant Luis from Spain is now going to Palo...
Seeing Jungle Book at 12:01am, pretty cool to see premier, although most of us thought it was gonna be better.
Palo - did brunch and 2 dinners, 1 wife alone, 2nd time w 2 couples our friends. Marcello is great, Chefs Alejandro and head chef Silvio went out of their way and prepared something special for our 3 couples, REALLY awesome and beyond unexpected!
Check in is a breeze for platinum/concierge guest, first time using it
1st 2 days at sea make the trip start slowly and relaxing....
Room was perfect except bathroom smelt a little like sewage, they sprayed or did something to fix it. Had stateroom 9072, think this was 3rd time we had that on either Dream or Fantasy, very easy to find room: last 5a mid ship....
1st stop Tortola - Did the Patouche tour of Cooper Island and Baths. Highly recommended, but, you have to be a decent swimmer at Baths, you get dropped off on water and have to swim to shore. Cooper Island is nice, Baths GREAT!
St. Thomas - rented a car and drove to Linquivst Beach. Have been there before, but it has been upgraded with a bathroom and showers, and a few more people show up now. (if you have seen the DirecTV commercials w the talking horses this is the beach the filmed it at)
Castaway - 1st time in a cabana, we had #20. It was pretty awesome with a few minor issues.... the area kind of has a tidal pool which is great for young kids... Only issue is there is quite a bit of seaweed, wish Disney could do something about that. My only complaint is that you can't get to the TRUE snorkel area without going around, they wont let you swim under the rope. I asked the life guard what my options were and she said I could take the cabana taxi (yeah right talk about snobby) so no I didn't make it to the true snorkel area. Will never be able to do CC without a cabaña again!
Issues : Got to CC late because of an emergency for a passenger at St. Thomas, they let us stay till 6:00 to make up the difference, not sure w they couldn't just speed up we didn't seem to going too fast.
Saw Tonka's Skipper on steps (noticed him by his t shirt) as we waited to get off ship onto CC. He and I have had lively debates online here : )
Only major complaint we had was the spa/fitness center. Mens room now doesn't provide shaving crème, qtips, or most of the time robes. My wife had same issue w Q-tips but they did stock them in the ladies room later. I asked about shaving crème 1st day we could work out, answer was they ran out! This was day 1
! I asked for a robe the 2nd day when I arrived and it seemed like I was annoying the staff, they did give me one but told me they are in the lockers, and I responded that they weren't yesterday, I checked when I got in the room and no lockers did.Highlights:
Had great server/asst - assistant Luis from Spain is now going to Palo...
Seeing Jungle Book at 12:01am, pretty cool to see premier, although most of us thought it was gonna be better.
Palo - did brunch and 2 dinners, 1 wife alone, 2nd time w 2 couples our friends. Marcello is great, Chefs Alejandro and head chef Silvio went out of their way and prepared something special for our 3 couples, REALLY awesome and beyond unexpected!
