My family and I were on this cruise a had a blast! Great shows, great service. Our MDR server Mario, made origami for the kids, my stateroom host, Shaka, assembled my son's
Lego's and arranged them on our dressing table/desk area. He even created a bridge from one table to the next with some tubes we discarded. He balanced the figures on the tubes so some of his figures were "crossing the brigde". My son (9) was so thrilled to come back to the room and see what our host did with his Legos. Shaka rocked! We were in aft inside cabin 2101. Convenient to main dining rooms, no need to wait for elevators to the 3rd floor--we just took the stairs.
There were crab races on
Castaway Cay, Name that Movie game poolside for kids and the Magician put on a magic workshop the night after his show.
There were Krispy Kreme donuts at Cabanna's for breakfast. I did notice Cabanna's was not open for dinner. I don't remember this being the case for my previous
DCL cruises. The new Navigator app for smartphones was free to use with the ship's wifi (in airplane mode) and listed MDR menus, movies and
activities ect.
Booked on board for next year (and this time I did not plan to). I looked into taking a cruise on RCL's Quantum instead of DCL prior to this cruise with the changes to onboard booking benefits, but my 9 year-old will never get this sort of kid-centered experience on any other line. I figure we can cruise the other lines when he is older. Even though I stalk these boards, I did not realize you can only move your OBB date once
. I knew about the 18 month window to use it, and no more 10% deposit for cruises of less than 7 days, but I did not realize I could only move it once. I moved it while I was still onboard, but that did not count, ha!
