Disney Dream 8/28/11

Dawn414

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People have been talking about good/bad of the Dream vs. Wonder/Magic...here are my thoughts/insights...

GOOD...Aquaduck...SO much fun!, Adult section chair/sofas...OMG SO comfortable....Disney Detective (you go around the ship looking for clues to 2 different cases a lot of fun)...Enchanted Gdn is a beautiful restaurant and Animator's Palate is different than on the other ships...still cool. Disney's Believe is different and I liked it better. They updated Golden Mickey's to include some of the newer films. Villain show was funny and the kids loved the hypnotist. Showers are cool and the window seat in the family deluxe rooms are nice. Mini golf is fun too. I really like the way Shutters has the pictures set up in booklets. In fact, we didn't have our card for a couple pics and by using facial recognition they were able to find us and put in those pics too! The art work is gorgeous. I also liked that the Oceaneer's Club and Lab are 'connected' so the kids can go back and forth between them.

BAD...wouldn't say that ANYTHING is bad, but until we got used to where things were, some things were challenging to find. For example the first time we went to Palo we went outside and up and down a bunch of stairs. The 2nd time we went up the forward elevator to deck 12 and were right there. I didn't really like the fact that I had to walk through Cabanas from AFT to get to the pools. I also didn't really like the way Cabanas was set up, but we managed okay. :) I don't think the service is worse...after all a lot of the cast members are FROM the Wonder/Magic and we found out that they will again transfer many of them to the Fantasy. I think our main server while very nice tried too hard. I am ridiculously easy to please and if I have an issue I'm not afraid to say so. But when I asked for a change in the menu (i.e. the main kids meal and a side of something else in case my daughter didn't like what I got)...it was like he was hesitant to do it (but of course did). Our room steward was pleasant enough and gave us what we needed...just didn't have that overly friendliness like our past stewards. Not a huge thing and it certainly didn't affect my trip. Donald pool was smaller, but it didn't really affect the kids' enjoyment of it.

Interesting...send off party, pirate party are different. I like the send off party better on the wonder/magic, but I liked the pirate show better on the Dream. They broke it up which was nice and they had a DJ play music on the deck after the fireworks. Check-in...was smooth for us. We got there around 10:45 and went right in, checked right in with very little wait and got boarding #4 which was called within 5-7 minutes of them starting the boarding process.

Size...the only 'issue' with the size difference was the extra stairs we took (we had to burn calories some how). So for example instead of going 6 to 9 we went from 6 to 11 to get to Cabanas. The balcony seats were nice in the theater.

Castaway Cay...we DID get to go to Castaway...the folks on the island did an amazing job at getting it ready for us. They switched up our itinerary but we got to go and the kids got to experience Parasailing which they both loved!

So that's my 2 cents. We had a nice time...It is absolutely a beautiful ship and there is more we would have liked to accomplish, but there just isn't enough time in the day...we will eventually go on the Fantasy or the Dream/Magic/Wonder again...and then we'll be 'Gold" members. :)
 
Thanks for sharing your experience! We leave in 8 days and I can"t wait to get on that ship:cool1:
 

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