Howie
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Disney Magic Returns from Dry Dock with More Age-Specific Spaces
Aboard a ship best known for kids and characters, adults and teens now have three new venues of their own in which to play.
Disney took the opportunity to add age-specific spaces during the Disney Magic cruise ship's regularly scheduled dry dock in September. The refurbishments support the line's commitment to find new ways to provide cruise vacations that suit the unique needs of every member of the family.
Cove Café, open daily from 10 a.m. to midnight, provides a quiet spot for adults to escape to daily. The café neighbors the already-popular adult areas on Deck 9, including Quiet Cove pool, Vista Spa and Salon and an outdoor bar. It features comfortable furniture, large screen televisions, paperback books and magazines, four Internet stations and portholes for enjoying outdoor vistas. Cove Café offers an alternative location in which to provide refreshments with an array of gourmet coffee, specialty teas, *beep*, sandwiches and desserts. Guests who choose to relax after time in the sun will also find robes and slippers for lounging. The café replaces Common Grounds, the former teen club.
Diversions, a traditional pub, provides guests a broad range of evening entertainment options with the addition of nightly themed activities. Here, the Pub Master hosts guests for sporting events, trivia-based game shows, piano sing-along entertainment and talent competitions. The décor includes multiple satellite television screens and specialty game tables for backgammon, checkers and chess. The pub joins an already popular line up of spaces on Beat Street, the nighttime entertainment district reserved exclusively for adults, and it replaces the nightclub formerly known as Off Beat.
Both locations capitalize on the line's growing need to accommodate the interests of adults who find themselves with free time to explore adult activities aboard Disney cruise ships. Today, more than a third of all guests sailing with Disney are adults without children and those who do bring the kids find little ones immersed in structured activities designed for the 12-week to 17 year-old setactivities staged in dedicated spaces which span nearly an entire deck.
For teens, Disney introduces The Stack. This all-new space is designed with the varied and often hard to please interests of teens in mind, and is located in the ship's forward (faux) funnel atop Deck 11. The Stack replaces ESPN Skybox and achieves an isolated space, which teens crave. It allows for a wider range of activities to be hosted in the teen-dedicated area, including dancing, watching multiple televisions, accessing the Internet or snacking with friends. This new location allows for multiple activities to be staged simultaneously and serves as the backdrop to an already stellar line up of teen-friendly programs.
Together the spaces join the ship's full complement of age-specific areas including:
For Children
Flounder's Reef Nursery (ages 12 weeks to 3 years), an under the sea-themed nursery for toddlers
Disney's Oceaneer Club (ages 3-7), an adventureland fit for Peter Pan, Wendy and younger cruisers
Disney's Oceaneer Lab (ages 8-12), Buzz Lightyear's galactic, space-age station designed for curious cruisers
Scuttles Cove (ages 3-12), a super-sized sandbox located on Castaway Cay, complete with an authentic whale dig site, archaeology tools and beach toys
For Teens
Teen Beach at Castaway Cay is complete with sand volleyball, soccer and build-your-own-raft challenges.
For Adults
Beat Street, an adults-only entertainment district, features three unique venues and provides nightly live entertainment tributes to the 60s, 70s and 80s
Vista Spa and Salon, an 8,000 square-foot escape, which allows adults to indulge in a wide variety of treatments and relax in the only tropical rainforest at sea
Palo, Disney's signature restaurant at sea, serves adult guests sweeping ocean views and northern Italian specialties nightly and hosts champagne brunch and traditional high tea on sea days
Serenity Bay, a secluded beach at Castaway Cay, provides cabanas for massages, a lighter-fare lunch alternative set-up, *beep* bar and beach respite
Disney Cruise Line® offers seven-night eastern and western Caribbean cruise vacations, three- and four-night cruises to the Bahamas, and land/sea packages that combine the fun and excitement of the Walt Disney World® Resort with the enchantment of a Disney Cruise Line voyage to the Bahamas.
Aboard a ship best known for kids and characters, adults and teens now have three new venues of their own in which to play.
Disney took the opportunity to add age-specific spaces during the Disney Magic cruise ship's regularly scheduled dry dock in September. The refurbishments support the line's commitment to find new ways to provide cruise vacations that suit the unique needs of every member of the family.
Cove Café, open daily from 10 a.m. to midnight, provides a quiet spot for adults to escape to daily. The café neighbors the already-popular adult areas on Deck 9, including Quiet Cove pool, Vista Spa and Salon and an outdoor bar. It features comfortable furniture, large screen televisions, paperback books and magazines, four Internet stations and portholes for enjoying outdoor vistas. Cove Café offers an alternative location in which to provide refreshments with an array of gourmet coffee, specialty teas, *beep*, sandwiches and desserts. Guests who choose to relax after time in the sun will also find robes and slippers for lounging. The café replaces Common Grounds, the former teen club.
Diversions, a traditional pub, provides guests a broad range of evening entertainment options with the addition of nightly themed activities. Here, the Pub Master hosts guests for sporting events, trivia-based game shows, piano sing-along entertainment and talent competitions. The décor includes multiple satellite television screens and specialty game tables for backgammon, checkers and chess. The pub joins an already popular line up of spaces on Beat Street, the nighttime entertainment district reserved exclusively for adults, and it replaces the nightclub formerly known as Off Beat.
Both locations capitalize on the line's growing need to accommodate the interests of adults who find themselves with free time to explore adult activities aboard Disney cruise ships. Today, more than a third of all guests sailing with Disney are adults without children and those who do bring the kids find little ones immersed in structured activities designed for the 12-week to 17 year-old setactivities staged in dedicated spaces which span nearly an entire deck.
For teens, Disney introduces The Stack. This all-new space is designed with the varied and often hard to please interests of teens in mind, and is located in the ship's forward (faux) funnel atop Deck 11. The Stack replaces ESPN Skybox and achieves an isolated space, which teens crave. It allows for a wider range of activities to be hosted in the teen-dedicated area, including dancing, watching multiple televisions, accessing the Internet or snacking with friends. This new location allows for multiple activities to be staged simultaneously and serves as the backdrop to an already stellar line up of teen-friendly programs.
Together the spaces join the ship's full complement of age-specific areas including:
For Children
Flounder's Reef Nursery (ages 12 weeks to 3 years), an under the sea-themed nursery for toddlers
Disney's Oceaneer Club (ages 3-7), an adventureland fit for Peter Pan, Wendy and younger cruisers
Disney's Oceaneer Lab (ages 8-12), Buzz Lightyear's galactic, space-age station designed for curious cruisers
Scuttles Cove (ages 3-12), a super-sized sandbox located on Castaway Cay, complete with an authentic whale dig site, archaeology tools and beach toys
For Teens
Teen Beach at Castaway Cay is complete with sand volleyball, soccer and build-your-own-raft challenges.
For Adults
Beat Street, an adults-only entertainment district, features three unique venues and provides nightly live entertainment tributes to the 60s, 70s and 80s
Vista Spa and Salon, an 8,000 square-foot escape, which allows adults to indulge in a wide variety of treatments and relax in the only tropical rainforest at sea
Palo, Disney's signature restaurant at sea, serves adult guests sweeping ocean views and northern Italian specialties nightly and hosts champagne brunch and traditional high tea on sea days
Serenity Bay, a secluded beach at Castaway Cay, provides cabanas for massages, a lighter-fare lunch alternative set-up, *beep* bar and beach respite
Disney Cruise Line® offers seven-night eastern and western Caribbean cruise vacations, three- and four-night cruises to the Bahamas, and land/sea packages that combine the fun and excitement of the Walt Disney World® Resort with the enchantment of a Disney Cruise Line voyage to the Bahamas.
SO that means we don't have to pay for coffee........he-he...j/k with ya.
