Disney Dream out of Port Carnaveral

[skateshome]

Does anyone have a preference on left side vs. right side of the boat in veranda room? For example what side faces Castaway Cay when docked? Other advantages disadvantages?

 

[RedSox68]

Sometimes the boat pulls in or backs in at CC -- so you never know. We have always had Port side and once faced the island, the other 7 times we did not -- but the view on the other side sure ain't bad either.

 

[ahain]

The ship has backed in to CC every cruise we have been on that docked there. So port side faces the dock & starboard would face the swimming area. We like the extreme AFT cabins that face directly out the rear of the ship.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Does anyone have a preference on left side vs. right side of the boat in veranda room? For example what side faces Castaway Cay when docked? Other advantages disadvantages?

Typically, the ships back into Castaway Cay. Sometimes they don't (if they need to do some work on the "other" side, or for boat drills). When they back in the view on the port side is the dock area toward the boats. The view on the starboard side is the family beaches.


No particular advantage/disadvantage to either side.

 

[GoofyLovingFamily]

We prefer starboard view.

 

[squirk]

The ship has always backed into CC for us as well. I just assumed they always did that for the sake of the photo op right by Marge's Barges where you are pictured with the ship's name and outside mascot in the background. But I digress.

If it backs in, port side will face the island. I like port because you can really take in the island in its entirety. However, I also like starboard because you get a nice view of the active side of the island where all the "stuff" is.

 

[elvispursley]

We always booked starboard so we could have better views of the fireworks from our verandah (after a reading a tip from somewhere); also, we like the views of CC (ship has always backed in on our cruises). But this next cruise we got booked into a port-side room by "accident" when I didn't call in time to get us switched and now our cruise is full

 

[dcassetta]

I love the port side view at Castaway Cay. The view of the island is amazing, and it's also the best location to wave goodbye to the on-island cast members when they take their bows.

 

[Dug720]

We always booked starboard so we could have better views of the fireworks from our verandah (after a reading a tip from somewhere); also, we like the views of CC (ship has always backed in on our cruises). But this next cruise we got booked into a port-side room by "accident" when I didn't call in time to get us switched and now our cruise is full

There are a number of verandas that you are asked to NOT be on during fireworks. If you receive that letter but persist, should anything happen you will not have a leg to stand on because the first question will be "Why were you out there after being instructed not to be?"

 

[elvispursley]

There are a number of verandas that you are asked to NOT be on during fireworks. If you receive that letter but persist, should anything happen you will not have a leg to stand on because the first question will be "Why were you out there after being instructed not to be?"

If it is stateroom specific, we must have been in one where it did not matter. We did not have any letter in our stateroom (and apparently our "neighbors" didn't either, as they were out on the verandahs to the right and left of us).

 

[Dug720]

If it is stateroom specific, we must have been in one where it did not matter. We did not have any letter in our stateroom (and apparently our "neighbors" didn't either, as they were out on the verandahs to the right and left of us).

Yes, apparently not all are restricted. But I have never seen a list of those that are, so better to plan on NOT but if you get no letter enjoy it than to plan on being out there and learn that you cannot be.