Incident on Wonder?

[WDW Poly Princess]

Wow, scary! I can't imagine how powerful those waves must have been to blow out the window! Very glad nobody was hurt!

 

[cynsaun]

I know exactly what you’re talking about! I was sitting in a hot tub near the goofy pools with a few other friends and about 3 times in the course of an hour and a half we got with HUGE Waves out of the goofy pool!

In any case, you’re correct! There will be front to back motion, but since the ship is longer rather than wider, we feel the side to side motion more.
[at least this is how it was explained to me, so this may not be exactly why it is]

And now to use a cool smiley just for the heck of it:

How did you find any room in those hot tubs? The kids on the ship LOVED those, and it seemed they were stuffed in like sardines.

 

[Rombus]

How did you find any room in those hot tubs? The kids on the ship LOVED those, and it seemed they were stuffed in like sardines.

Well, at the time i was 16 so i was one of those kids! There were only about 4 of us in it at the time though. It was the first night later on after dinner. I think most people were going to a show or were in there rooms due to seasickness. It was pretty quite that night!

 

[goofyforlife]

"I was on that sailing. I don't know the exact room number, but it was across the hall from the peter pan conference room."

Oh great, our room is right across from the conference rooms on the starboard side.

Ivanova - Which side was that room on?

 

[ivanova]

Ivanova - Which side was that room on?

It was somewhere around 2068/2066 - that side of the ship in general.

 

[goofyforlife]

I feel much better now......

We're on the other side in 2576......

 

[Aisling]

Reference to 70's flick:

Ok, so who's gonna start singing "The Morning After"? Anyone with me?

ROFL!!! I was just thinking the same thing!

 

[tiggr33]

2062 was the cabin with the porthole blow out. The cabins on either side were also effected by the influx of water. I was in 2085....for the first and only I was thankful for an inside cabin. I was one of the ill the first night. First time in 7 DCL sailings I got sick.
Stacey

 

[jrabbit]

We've been on over 20 cruises and this was the roughest sailing we've ever seen. My DD5 said it was like Rockin' Rollercoaster!

Cool, it must have been a great ride then!! "Rock 'n Roll "

 

[Disneyfalcon]

Okay you guys have seriously scared me. We take our first cruise in February. I was under the impression we would not notice rough seas in that big of a ship.

We were on a 3 1/2 ferry ride in Alaska - small boat compared to cruise ships - and during the rough seas I was in our room hurling for a couple of hours.

Why are there rough seas this time of year? There's no hurricanes. Is this a regular thing? Even one evening of that torture is too much for me to bear.

Can anyone reassure me?

 

[disneygatorfan]

The seas they experienced on this particular sailing were unusually rough to actually cause ship damage. Trust me, its not a regular occurance. As far as rough seas, I have heard late Nov-Jan can be rough due to the gulf stream shifts, and artic fronts effecting the weather along the east coast of the US.

If there are rough seas, you are most likely to experience them on the first and last evenings when you are traveling over the gulf stream. It is true on a large ship with stabilzers, most times the movement is minimal but any time you get in seas over 15 ft, you are going to feel it. But remember, seas that high are not a regular occurance.

Best thing to do if you are concerned about motion sickness is to take some sort of motion sickness medication 1-2 hours prior to sailing, and follow the dosage every day. Also, you can purchase sea bands--non medicated arm bands that help with motion sickness by applying pressure to the pulse points on the wrist. You can use these in conjuction with medications.

If you do start to experience "sea sickness" you will want to stay as midship as possible. Some say looking at the horizon will help, because a lot of the motion sickness is due to what your brain is seeing verus what it is feeling.

Don't be worried. Like it has been mentioned, this event was very very very rare. Just be cautious and enjoy your cruise. I have been on many many cruises all throughout the year, and have really only experienced one rough sea day that effected me in any way. The majority of people who are prone to motion sickness who take precautions have little to no effects at sea, waves or no waves!

Don't worry, enjoy! you will have a blast. I have cruised in Feb and the weather was great!

 

[Bmwdsny]

I am on the Wonder now and when we were at port in Nassau and CC yesterday and day before, i can see the guys working on the porthole window. They were replacing the window as well as renovating the room.

 

[cruisenewbie2004]

it seems to me that passing out drammamine after the waves hit is not very useful. for me, once I get nauseous, nothing will work and any drammamine will make it worse!

BTW, i picked uo some new drammamine with the same active ingredient as Bonine (meth a something).

 

[ca859093]

I am on the Wonder now and when we were at port in Nassau and CC yesterday and day before, i can see the guys working on the porthole window. They were replacing the window as well as renovating the room.

I don't know if something else has happened again but everything was completely fix by the time we got to CC.

 

[TiggerKing]

"I was on that sailing. I don't know the exact room number, but it was across the hall from the peter pan conference room."

Oh great, our room is right across from the conference rooms on the starboard side.

Ivanova - Which side was that room on?

I happened to walk by one day this week when the crew was working on repairing the porthole. It was room number 2064 which suffered the port hole damage. When we were in Nassau, they still had the porthole boarded up and painted black, but had it repaired by the end of the cruise.

 

[TiggerKing]

Okay you guys have seriously scared me. We take our first cruise in February. I was under the impression we would not notice rough seas in that big of a ship.
We were on a 3 1/2 ferry ride in Alaska - small boat compared to cruise ships - and during the rough seas I was in our room hurling for a couple of hours.
Why are there rough seas this time of year? There's no hurricanes. Is this a regular thing? Even one evening of that torture is too much for me to bear.
Can anyone reassure me?

You should understand that the speed of the ship also has a lot to do with the motion. Our seas on the 11/28 Wonder never went above the 1.5 to 4 ft. range according to the reports from the bridge. But, when we were leaving port for Nassau, and returning on Wednesday night, there was a fairly decent amount of side to side from the speed and the gulf stream. DW had forgotten to take her medicine until late on Wed., got hot, and as a result had to lay down for a period. That cured the issue. To me, it was like being in a crib and being rocked to sleep!

As other posters have said, as long as you take the meds (whether you need them that day or not), you should be okay. No ship, regardless of how large it is (i.e. even aircraft carriers) are immune from sea conditions. It just takes a little more to get them moving. But, I will say that the majority of our cruise, if I had not seen the water moving, I would not have known we were moving at all.

 

[Disneyfalcon]

Thanks for the reassurance tiggerking and disneygatorfan. I wanted to avoid the meds because of drowsiness, but I probably should take them anyway. We sail Feb 5, so we're not too far out of that Nov-Jan timeframe. I'll try not to worry.
Thanks!