Hitting the Disney trifecta! a Nov 2013 PTR-and then some!(2/21-Trip #3 return!)

[Tinker326]

I can't believe you are less than a week away from it! Wow. Time flies!

The boat is so awesome that you may forget you are on it. You never know! Hopefully you do & have an amazing time.

I personally adore cruises & am anxiously counting mine down! Based on prices, this will likely be our last Disney Cruise- So I'm making the most of it!!!

I hope you guys have an amazing time! Your plans sound wonderful! Hope the weather is nice & the seas calm! Enjoy my most favorite island in the WHOLE WORLD!!!!! Cataway Cay. Sigh.

 

[skier_pete]

Hey all,

Back from our 5-day cruise on the Wonder. It was great trip. Early on DW and I were not thrilled with some parts of it, but by the end we liked it a lot, but didn't quite LOVE it. However, DD totally LOVED it and is ready to go back again, so I guess we could see a return to cruising within the next few years.

Since I won't be getting to a TR probably for another month or so until I finish my OTHER TR, here's a quick summary.

Being on the sea: As many of you know, I had a little trepidation over the cruise. Mostly I was good, but found that mostly I wanted to stay away from the railing. Otherwise I was good. I found the motion of the ship slightly diconcerting at times, but not to the point it bothered me.

Service: Was as expected, which was basically fantastic. No complaints here.

Food: I was expecting it to be good not great. Breakfast and Lunches were that, but the dinners were wonderful. Couldn't believe the quality of the food at all the restaurants.

Entertainment/Activities: Maybe as expected. There was a wide variety of activities, and it was great for the kids. The ones for adults were pretty good. The nightly shows were OK - I was sort of expecting a higher quality and it wasn't really until the last night that the show lived up to my expectations. (I expected park-quality entertainment.)

Pool/ On Deck: I was less than impressed here. I liked that there were three sets of pools. (Little kids, big kids, adults) but in doing so, that made three really small pools. And they were CROWDED. Like "Can't find a seat from 9 AM to 4 PM" crowded. Even the adult pool. We didn't care for this part of it. In fact many places on board felt very crowded. (Lines at Guest services were often 20-30 people deep, and one time I counted about 100 kids in the kids club.

Cozumel stay - Meh. The "Swim with the Dolphins thing we did was neat if seemingly awfully expensive. The rest, as I said, meh.

Castaway Cay - I see why this is usually near the end of the trip. Home run Disney! It made me wish Disney had a private resort like Aulani in the Carribean, because you could've signed me up right there and then to come back for 5 days of THAT.

Traveling with friends worked out fine. We enjoyed their company, but also spent time apart as well.

Again, I will post when the actual TR (with pictures ) is started.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Welcome back. Sounds like you had a decent trip.

Look forward to the TR when you start it. No rush.

 

[Tinker326]

Welcome back!

Kurt and I say that always about Castaway Cay... We wish it was a private resort! It's pretty much our favorite island in the whole world!

Cruise pools are always packed amd always small- no matter what line... Kinda assumed this was an engineer restriction? Not sure about that though- that was just my theory.

Looking forward to this trip report as well... And PS - you are still ahead of me on the other one as well! Hahahahaha!!!

 

[khertz]

Welcome back! I'm glad to see that some things were better than you expected, but it stinks that some things were worse than you expected. I look forward to the eventual TR! I have been trying to convince DH to do a Disney cruise for years, but he says they are too expensive.