MinnesotaMouseketeers
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As I have typed in a past post, this was my wife's and my first NON-Disney cruise. When our DU agent announce that the 2016 DCL schedule was finally going to be released we told two other couples that were interested when they would be able to go online and reserve the dates that we were going on. We could book before the general public could because of the number of cruises we have already been on. Their turn came and they got STICKER SHOCK! Long story short, we switched our Alaska cruise to a different DCL one and signed up for the Millennium Alaska cruise along with the two other couples.
This was our ONE AND ONLY disappointment of the whole cruise. For those of you that have cruised DCL before, you know how when you walk up that gangplank, take your first step onto the ship to start your vacation and you look up into that big atrium and you eyes OPEN WIDE, and you JAW HITS THE GROUND and you go WOOOOOOOW, this is beautiful. We stepped on board the Millennium and went, this is it? Like walking into a little fancier hotel lobby. Sorry Millennium but all of us thought this. The other two couples have done one cruise before this, one on Celebrity on one of their new large ships and the other on Royal Caribbean on a new large ship.
We got to our staterooms and while a little smaller than we're use to; it was still plenty big for the two of us. If we had brought our son it would have felt a little crowded but work, four would have felt crowded. It was very clean, lots of storage to unpack everything and store it and hide the luggage in the closets. What we did miss was not having was the split baths. My wife can take her time getting ready and I didn't particularly like having to wait sometimes.
We were on deck nine with a verandah. Deck ten overhangs the verandahs, a LOT. Deck 10 has the spa, pools, places to eat, bars, jogging track etc. I love taking pictures from our verandah has we are pulling into ports of call or just sailing from one destination to the next. It was next to impossible to take a picture without the overhang or the beams holding it up. And sailing along the coast of Alaska with mountains rising up it cuts off the tops of the mountains, you can't see them at all. If this would bother you also than try and get a verandah on deck 8. Take deck 9 if that is your only choice of verandahs.
As I have stated, the stateroom itself was very nice and we enjoyed our stateroom attendant very much. Just like on all of our Disney vacations the staff did a great job, very polite, always saying good morning/day/evening whatever the time of day called for. Took care of all our requests in a timely fashion, etc. For those of you that need your daily dose of towel animals we did not get any while on the cruise. For us that is not a problem at all. Maybe they do them for families with small children? They did everything else that is required of them to make our time in the stateroom enjoyable. And we tipped him above the requested amount asked for by Celebrity.
And I am going to end this review by saying just like on DCL they are constantly doing upkeep on the ship; painting, varnishing and replacing old carpet. Throughout the cruise they were closing off one section of the stairs to replace old carpet.
More to come.
This was our ONE AND ONLY disappointment of the whole cruise. For those of you that have cruised DCL before, you know how when you walk up that gangplank, take your first step onto the ship to start your vacation and you look up into that big atrium and you eyes OPEN WIDE, and you JAW HITS THE GROUND and you go WOOOOOOOW, this is beautiful. We stepped on board the Millennium and went, this is it? Like walking into a little fancier hotel lobby. Sorry Millennium but all of us thought this. The other two couples have done one cruise before this, one on Celebrity on one of their new large ships and the other on Royal Caribbean on a new large ship.
We got to our staterooms and while a little smaller than we're use to; it was still plenty big for the two of us. If we had brought our son it would have felt a little crowded but work, four would have felt crowded. It was very clean, lots of storage to unpack everything and store it and hide the luggage in the closets. What we did miss was not having was the split baths. My wife can take her time getting ready and I didn't particularly like having to wait sometimes.
We were on deck nine with a verandah. Deck ten overhangs the verandahs, a LOT. Deck 10 has the spa, pools, places to eat, bars, jogging track etc. I love taking pictures from our verandah has we are pulling into ports of call or just sailing from one destination to the next. It was next to impossible to take a picture without the overhang or the beams holding it up. And sailing along the coast of Alaska with mountains rising up it cuts off the tops of the mountains, you can't see them at all. If this would bother you also than try and get a verandah on deck 8. Take deck 9 if that is your only choice of verandahs.
As I have stated, the stateroom itself was very nice and we enjoyed our stateroom attendant very much. Just like on all of our Disney vacations the staff did a great job, very polite, always saying good morning/day/evening whatever the time of day called for. Took care of all our requests in a timely fashion, etc. For those of you that need your daily dose of towel animals we did not get any while on the cruise. For us that is not a problem at all. Maybe they do them for families with small children? They did everything else that is required of them to make our time in the stateroom enjoyable. And we tipped him above the requested amount asked for by Celebrity.
And I am going to end this review by saying just like on DCL they are constantly doing upkeep on the ship; painting, varnishing and replacing old carpet. Throughout the cruise they were closing off one section of the stairs to replace old carpet.
More to come.
