Concierge on the ship

[my3princesses]

We have stateroom 8534 for our trip in February. I understand this room includes concierge. What will concierge do for us?

 

[UGAFan0829]

Category 3 state rooms are the last category to include concierge service. The concierge will make you shore excursion plans and deliver goodies throughout the day. The cat-3's are spacious enough to sleep 5 and has 2 bathrooms which include designer label toiletries.

This is quoted from the "staterooms" section of this website! Hope it helps!

 

[flexsmom]

When you check in at the Port, you will be told you can walk to the front of the boarding line and show your Key to the World card to board without waiting in the long line. Once on board, you will be directed to Sessions or one of the lounges for the Concierge greet - you can make spa, Palo, kid's club, Flounders, excrsions, and other events (bridge tour, galley tour, wine tasting, Tea with Wendy, etc.) reservations there. (You can make Palo reservations before your sail date.) The concierge will deliver a complete trip itinerary to you that night or the next morning based on what you reserved.

We received various "treats" each day - sets of coloring pages/crayons for the kids, arcade cards, petit four plates, water/soda, etc. When we needed to shift our reservations for various on-board events, the concierge hooked us up without a problem and delivered different tickets.

You are also able to order a full breakfast each morning vice continental, and can order continental on the last morning vice nothing. The concierge will provide you with the dining room menus each night for the special meals, and you also have the regular menus for standard nights so you can order full dinner meals vice being restricted to the room service menu.

The rooms are great - being able to have naptime for the toddler (in our case) and still have another room to hang out in was really helpful. We all felt like we had our own space without trampling on one another.

I'm sure you will enjoy the experience!

 

[NejTheLion]

We were just in that very stateroom last May

First of all, there's a separate concierge check-in line at the terminal, down at the far end. If you're not sure where, just ask one of the cast members. Then you get to sit on those couches at the end of the terminal rather than wait in the very long boarding line. You get priority boarding, but they do allow guests with disabilities to board first. There will be a special place setup for you to meet with the concierge staff early on the first day. They will book meals at Palo, wine tastings, galley and bridge tours, excursions, spa appointments, Flounders - basically anything that requires a reservation. For all of the meals, tasting, and tours, they're great. We were just touring the islands on our own, so I can't comment about excursions. Those I think you should book at the 90-day mark if you can. As for the spa, I recommend your going there first and booking things there. The poor spa girls that were helping with concierge spent all of their time on the phone trying to get through to the spa to confirm things. I think that's a lot easier to do on your own.

Throughout the week, you get some kind of goodies every day - chocolates, fruit, cheese and crackers, etc. You can order off the full restaurant menus for any meal (although it's whatever is being served in the restaurants that day of course). There's a huge list of movies and cds you can watch, even games you can play. Just call and they'll be delivered.

The room is the best part, and you're even in one of the large cat 3's. I knew it would be big, but I thought it was tremendous.

They even took care of us when my uncle wasn't allowed to join us for tea at Palo. He was wearing jeans (although they were navy blue and very new - looked better than the slacks he had), and the maitre'd told him he had to leave. Later, I looked at the current navigator (I think the dress code has changed since) and for tea, all it said was no shorts. Nothing about no jeans. We had everyone apologizing to us all the way up to the Dining Manager of the entire ship.

 

[my3princesses]

Thanks for the details - i didn't realize we have special treatment at the terminal (this makes it all worthwhile!). If only we can get our concierge to go down to get our travel documents at 5:30am (we're canadian) then everything will be great!

If you were in room 8534 then I have a question - where is the pulldown bed? My oldest has already claimed it but when looking at the room layout in any of the literature it isn't seen.

Thanks again for your help

 

[Cass]

If only we can get our concierge to go down to get our travel documents at 5:30am (we're canadian) then everything will be great!

Oh good lord! LOL that is the absolute worst ~ not just Disney, but any cruise I have been on, we have to drag ourselves (including kids) to get our passports stamped at ungodly hours

Have fun! I had Cat 3 booked on Disney (8032?), but then we switched to an Alaskan Cruise instead.

 

[budwmn]

my3princesses -
If you send me your regular e-mail address in a PM, I can send you a link to my photo album which has some pretty good pictures of your cabin (we were in 8034 -- same cabin, other side of the ship). You'll get a much better sense of the layout of the room from the pictures.

The pull-down bed is located in-between the door to the mstr. bedroom and the mini-bar. In the pictures, it looks like a wood wall. It's pretty nice and even has a mini-nightstand in there (with drawers).

You're going to LOVE this suite -- we did and booked it again for 2006!

 

[HappyLawyer]

Jenny was a great help, i would like to thank her again for all the great info and pics on the cat 3 stateroom,
THANKS JENNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!