My wife has lurked on the disboard for a while and found it to be an excellent source of information. Having recently completed the transatlantic crossing, I decided to register to add my opinion to this thread.
The transatlantic crossing was our 2nd
Disney cruise, having been on the Wonder in Feb for the Los Angeles to Mexico run. Given that the transatlantic was 14 nights, would include a day at
Castaway Cay, and because we had enjoyed ourselves so much in Feb, we decided it was an opportunity we could not pass up.
Like I said, LA to Mexico on the Wonder was great (as were the 2 days we spent in Anaheim in order to visit
Disneyland), but the transatlantic was so much better. My wife and I noticed a more relaxed vibe straight away. Now maybe that was due to the fact that the Magic wasn't full, but there didn't seem to the state of manic panic we encountered in Feb when from minute one of stepping onboard, many of our fellow guests seemed to be in a rush - often at the expense of others - to be somewhere.
We travelled with our 3 yr old. In Feb it took her 4 days to get over jet lag and she had a bad experience with Captain Hook in kids club. This time around, she was a little older and a little wiser and to be honest we hardly saw her the 2 weeks we were onboard. She truly had a wonderful time and there were would be tears if we told her she couldn't go back to kids club after her evening meal.
In terms of what I've read on this thread about the behaviour of some people onboard, I never really encountered any rudeness, but I did see some weird things like adults talking to the characters in costume as if they were real. And god forbid I should walk past the Kindle crowd outside Cove and the adult pool with my daughter (or the pool from Cocoon as it came to be known). I even resorted to telling her that we should pretend we were in a library and not say anything. There were also the comments I heard about adults on-board not liking kids. But each to their own. Given what I saw in Feb, I thought the majority of the kids were remarkably well behaved.
Food was great, but by the middle of the 2nd week I was getting bored of eating expensive cuts of steak and having our servers (Hart & Jelena) indulge my every whim, including bringing me various combinations of starters and mains, as well as giant bowls of ice cream with sprinkles! My only gripe about the food was the breakfast on the final day, which was quite frankly a shambles. However, I sympathise with the servers and the chefs who were being hauled through immigration at 5.30 in the morning.
We had a forward inside cabin on the 5th deck and there was a leak directly outside our room. I lost count of the number of times I opened the cabin door to find someone up a ladder directly outside. But do you know what? It didn't bother me in the slightest. Given the comments I've read, it was obviously a problem on a number of decks but it's not as if the crew weren't trying to fix it. On the night we left Madeira I cracked an old fused fracture on the big toe of my left foot, which put pay to my early morning runs and visits to the gym. You may have seen me hobbling around - stocky English bloke with shaven head. It was often easier for me to walk around in my bare feet and on some occasions I would have walk on soggy carpets to get to our cabin.
As for our cabin was roomy and ideal for us and our stateroom host (Gil) really looked after us. My daughter loved the films available. I finally got to see Thor and I could honestly recite the script from Hop word for word if you asked me to.
My only other gripe was being made to go to immigration for 6am, but I suppose there was no other way to do it. On the final morning, after we left our cabin we were waiting on the 5th deck overlooking the atrium and we could see that some people were getting extremely angry as they waited to be let off. I happened to walk past the cinema as the immigration officers were leaving and one of them was tearing a strip out of one of the Disney officers and said that they were reluctantly clearing the ship, but that the 3 groups who hadn't bother to show would be put into a holding area once they disembarked. A few minutes later, someone approached this officer and said he had come for immigration. He was by himself but holding 2 passports and was angrily claiming he had no idea of what the proper procedure was.
Finally, the lanyards. As 'silvers' it was a novelty to hear people saying 'welcome back', but after a few days I would just stuff mine in my bag by the pool or carry my card in my shorts. Nice souvenir to have from a great holiday. However, I did notice that the numbers of pins/badges on the gold and platinum lanyards seemed to increase each day
.
I am going to trust that it's going to be fantastic! 
