We decided to do our own make shift B2B Dec 26-29 on Dream, then dec 30- Jan 4 Destiny, Both out of Port Everglades.
Dream: Oure post feedback was not a lot of other activities going on. For example...at 830 - it was the show in the WD Theatre. No other options like trivia..etc. So for us sailing many times and skipping 2 of the 3 shows, it was some slow evenings, which is ok.
Made me love the Dream/Fantasy adult area all over again. So much better than the new class back of boat area. Less kids walking through all day long,. But i love the bar, seating in the pool and the hot tub right there, not down the edge under the aquamouse hearing the last line of the ride, over and over again.
I won't say much more about the Dream as we enjoyed the 3 day. Good service minus one issue when we went to palo and the servers never waited on my two kids in Enchanted Garden, so i had to go down and see what was happening, they said they just didn't realize they were there as the tables got shifted and this position for our table 75 was not in the normal spot.
The fun horn battel...at first in Nassau at 725 am was quite rough and woke everyone up as the Fantasy and Dream did a horn battle. but when we departed at 5pm they did it again and was able to enjoy it. so double horn battle!
Destiny
some random thoughts:
Cask and Cannon was never really busy. Thought/feared it would be with the pirate theme, but it wasn't every except during the college playoff game. it had odd hours, some days 2, some days 6.
I'm a big rum guy. I collect rum. I buy expensive rum, so i was excited to try this bar. I was disappointed in two things. The smoke gun for the "treasure chest drink" was broken, so very lame presentation. The smoke really makes it. Also, the menu listed a rare 30 year old rum from Bacardi exclusive to Disney. They still don't have it. But overall good rum selection, great drinks.
Sanctum is cool - great and one of the few places to get drinks all day long, but always crowded with trivia or some activity.
De Vils - very cool, but teh allure of cruella coming, keeps it crowded. I like the bar on the other 2 ships where it's piano entertainment, but not a must do so doesn't stay packed all the time. We did wait inside - and buying drinks for aobut 90 minutes for cruella show. But about 20 min before the 915 show, half the place was empty so coulda easily walked in. i did see the 515 performance always had a line in the hallway. and they dont allow standing, so once it's full, they shut the door. The show was fun but a one and done.
Restaurants
Marvel - was not boat/ant man show but rather the Groot Mix jam trivia night, that was the 2nd dinner on Treasure. i prefer this to the Ant Man show.
Pride of Lion kings. To me it was "meh". unlike frozen or cocoa where it's characters, this was basically a band/performance singing songs. I told my wife it was like going to a jazz or dinner club where a musician played hit songs but we ate and didn't pay attention. This menu was hit or miss. my kids (17 and 21_) did not like it. I thought it was ok. Deserts not good.
SErvice
our stateroom host was amazing. Best we've had in years.
Dinner service
our main server was great and running around doing everything, because his asst server did nothing. We often didn't even see her til 30 min after we sat down. AFter night one, in the past, my kids drink of choice - coke zero or coke would be on the table for them, adn we saw that for many tables, but not our groups. She never had the drinks on our table when we arrived. Service was so bad with her, we had to finally complain and the head server said, well she's only been with us 2 months, give it time. It was bad. Very bad. the worst ever.
Pool Deck bartenders
this was a mess outside of cover bar. At Currents - deck 14 bar or what ever it's name is. the bartenders struggled to make common drinks. Pretty much every drink i ordered was made wrong, for example a mai tai. Bartender had to ask the other bar tender what's in, she put in OJ, Pineapple and i stopped her at grenadine...none of those are in a mai tai. I got the "infinity swirl" that is on the menu, it boasts selvyn ray white rum and dos maderas 5 5 dark rum. .He grabbed myers dark only and made it with that. i quested where's the selvyn and he said we're out up here and what about the dos maderas 5 5, he said oh yeah and made it a floater. So no white rum at all. These are only 2 examples, but i ran into this multiple times at the pool bars. Was not an issue on the Dream
The highlight of the cruise: Hercules. AMAZING> The muses and hercules were the best Broadway talent i've seen! and i go to NY for broadway. Hades was a broadway actor as well and he was great. Also highlight - Maleficient at various points around the cruise and loki. Don't miss the loki "king" event on day one of the cruise. It only happens once~! Palo was fantastic as well.
we did get lucky on NYE and the Dream joined us along side so we had dual fireworks at midnight.
Lots of earning my ears tags. Folks are getting trained to go to Adventure in singapore. Overall the growth of these 3 new ships plus adventure has been mass hiring, giving them a pool of workers not up to the level of service i've come to expect after 24 cruises, and for the price we pay.
Happy to answer any questions you may have.
Dream: Oure post feedback was not a lot of other activities going on. For example...at 830 - it was the show in the WD Theatre. No other options like trivia..etc. So for us sailing many times and skipping 2 of the 3 shows, it was some slow evenings, which is ok.
Made me love the Dream/Fantasy adult area all over again. So much better than the new class back of boat area. Less kids walking through all day long,. But i love the bar, seating in the pool and the hot tub right there, not down the edge under the aquamouse hearing the last line of the ride, over and over again.
I won't say much more about the Dream as we enjoyed the 3 day. Good service minus one issue when we went to palo and the servers never waited on my two kids in Enchanted Garden, so i had to go down and see what was happening, they said they just didn't realize they were there as the tables got shifted and this position for our table 75 was not in the normal spot.
The fun horn battel...at first in Nassau at 725 am was quite rough and woke everyone up as the Fantasy and Dream did a horn battle. but when we departed at 5pm they did it again and was able to enjoy it. so double horn battle!
Destiny
some random thoughts:
Cask and Cannon was never really busy. Thought/feared it would be with the pirate theme, but it wasn't every except during the college playoff game. it had odd hours, some days 2, some days 6.
I'm a big rum guy. I collect rum. I buy expensive rum, so i was excited to try this bar. I was disappointed in two things. The smoke gun for the "treasure chest drink" was broken, so very lame presentation. The smoke really makes it. Also, the menu listed a rare 30 year old rum from Bacardi exclusive to Disney. They still don't have it. But overall good rum selection, great drinks.
Sanctum is cool - great and one of the few places to get drinks all day long, but always crowded with trivia or some activity.
De Vils - very cool, but teh allure of cruella coming, keeps it crowded. I like the bar on the other 2 ships where it's piano entertainment, but not a must do so doesn't stay packed all the time. We did wait inside - and buying drinks for aobut 90 minutes for cruella show. But about 20 min before the 915 show, half the place was empty so coulda easily walked in. i did see the 515 performance always had a line in the hallway. and they dont allow standing, so once it's full, they shut the door. The show was fun but a one and done.
Restaurants
Marvel - was not boat/ant man show but rather the Groot Mix jam trivia night, that was the 2nd dinner on Treasure. i prefer this to the Ant Man show.
Pride of Lion kings. To me it was "meh". unlike frozen or cocoa where it's characters, this was basically a band/performance singing songs. I told my wife it was like going to a jazz or dinner club where a musician played hit songs but we ate and didn't pay attention. This menu was hit or miss. my kids (17 and 21_) did not like it. I thought it was ok. Deserts not good.
SErvice
our stateroom host was amazing. Best we've had in years.
Dinner service
our main server was great and running around doing everything, because his asst server did nothing. We often didn't even see her til 30 min after we sat down. AFter night one, in the past, my kids drink of choice - coke zero or coke would be on the table for them, adn we saw that for many tables, but not our groups. She never had the drinks on our table when we arrived. Service was so bad with her, we had to finally complain and the head server said, well she's only been with us 2 months, give it time. It was bad. Very bad. the worst ever.
Pool Deck bartenders
this was a mess outside of cover bar. At Currents - deck 14 bar or what ever it's name is. the bartenders struggled to make common drinks. Pretty much every drink i ordered was made wrong, for example a mai tai. Bartender had to ask the other bar tender what's in, she put in OJ, Pineapple and i stopped her at grenadine...none of those are in a mai tai. I got the "infinity swirl" that is on the menu, it boasts selvyn ray white rum and dos maderas 5 5 dark rum. .He grabbed myers dark only and made it with that. i quested where's the selvyn and he said we're out up here and what about the dos maderas 5 5, he said oh yeah and made it a floater. So no white rum at all. These are only 2 examples, but i ran into this multiple times at the pool bars. Was not an issue on the Dream
The highlight of the cruise: Hercules. AMAZING> The muses and hercules were the best Broadway talent i've seen! and i go to NY for broadway. Hades was a broadway actor as well and he was great. Also highlight - Maleficient at various points around the cruise and loki. Don't miss the loki "king" event on day one of the cruise. It only happens once~! Palo was fantastic as well.
we did get lucky on NYE and the Dream joined us along side so we had dual fireworks at midnight.
Lots of earning my ears tags. Folks are getting trained to go to Adventure in singapore. Overall the growth of these 3 new ships plus adventure has been mass hiring, giving them a pool of workers not up to the level of service i've come to expect after 24 cruises, and for the price we pay.
Happy to answer any questions you may have.
