Arianabtd
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Sep 24, 2016
Me and my mom just recently completed our first panama canal cruise ever! It was crazy fun, and we haven't been on the Wonder in ten years so it was nice to see her again!
Here are just some thoughts (and pictures )
Some info about our party : We were two gold castaway Adults with main dining, and we stayed in a Navigator Vernadah.
Cruising out of San Diego was so EASY! We stayed at the wyndham bayside, and just walked across the street with our bags embarkation morning. Loved it.
Disembarking from Galveston on the other hand... It took a really long time for them to call the tags that can leave the boat. We didn't get called to leave the boat until maybe 8:45. And customs took a while too.
Cruise director was Darren, and the assistant cruise director was Mike! They were both so fun and engaging the whole cruise, we really enjoyed them. We've had Darren before on the Magic and enjoyed him there.
CHARACTERS!
They brought out so many characters and different outfits I was busy every day I especially loved when they brought out pairs together like Mickey and Minnie, and the group shots with 8 characters.
The only bummer I really had was I had heard usually they have Marvel characters on board for these voyages, but they only had spiderman this cruise. I'll take what I can get though
Mickey's (and Minnie's) Birthday
We all got a button for Mickey's birthday, but they didn't really do anything else special to celebrate. I was hoping for more!
Internet
About day two of our 5 days at sea (counting the panama crossing) the internet went down all over the ship! They weren't able to get it working again until we hit Cartagena. It was what everyone was talking about all over the ship... It was frustrating but we all survived. I've never seen it be down for so long before. We all were guessing they needed to get someone on board to fix it.
Navigator Verandah
We have never had a navigator verandah before but we LOVED IT! We saved so much money vs a regular verandah, and we loved having the little bench. We still had a great view too. Would definitely book the room again. We were aft on deck 7, and it was such a quick run to cabanas and back we found ourselves eating out on the verandah a lot.
MDR
We ate at the MDR every night, and every night the menu was different! I found my new favorite dessert from the Frozen themed menu. The Olaf white chocolate dome
Frozen Deck Show and Frozen 2 Premiere
They ended up not doing the Frozen deck show on our cruise! Every day I would check the navigator to see when it was, but it never happened! It only hit me that they didn't do it when I was at the 11pm Frozen 2 premiere the last night of the cruise No idea why they didn't do it... Kinda bummed but whatever!
Pin trading!
They had 3 pin trading events total (two officer one cast member)
All very fun! The Cast member trading I could have sworn Darren during his announcements called a children only trading, but in the navigator it didn't say that so I wasn't sure If I should have been trading there or not
On Demand
We were so excited to hear that they added the on demand to the stateroom tv's... but it didn't work well at ALL! With Disney's IT the way it is I should have expected it, but I guess I wanted to dream...
That's all my brain can rattle off for now... If anyone has questions I will try my best to answer them!
This cruise was AMAZING and I'd love to do it again in the future. The Wonder looks so nice with the latest updates, and we hope to sail with her again soon.
We loved the 2 weeks because we made so many friends with cast members and our serving team. Still missing them all
Here are some random pics under the cut
Here are just some thoughts (and pictures )
Some info about our party : We were two gold castaway Adults with main dining, and we stayed in a Navigator Vernadah.
Cruising out of San Diego was so EASY! We stayed at the wyndham bayside, and just walked across the street with our bags embarkation morning. Loved it.
Disembarking from Galveston on the other hand... It took a really long time for them to call the tags that can leave the boat. We didn't get called to leave the boat until maybe 8:45. And customs took a while too.
Cruise director was Darren, and the assistant cruise director was Mike! They were both so fun and engaging the whole cruise, we really enjoyed them. We've had Darren before on the Magic and enjoyed him there.
CHARACTERS!
They brought out so many characters and different outfits I was busy every day I especially loved when they brought out pairs together like Mickey and Minnie, and the group shots with 8 characters.
The only bummer I really had was I had heard usually they have Marvel characters on board for these voyages, but they only had spiderman this cruise. I'll take what I can get though
Mickey's (and Minnie's) Birthday
We all got a button for Mickey's birthday, but they didn't really do anything else special to celebrate. I was hoping for more!
Internet
About day two of our 5 days at sea (counting the panama crossing) the internet went down all over the ship! They weren't able to get it working again until we hit Cartagena. It was what everyone was talking about all over the ship... It was frustrating but we all survived. I've never seen it be down for so long before. We all were guessing they needed to get someone on board to fix it.
Navigator Verandah
We have never had a navigator verandah before but we LOVED IT! We saved so much money vs a regular verandah, and we loved having the little bench. We still had a great view too. Would definitely book the room again. We were aft on deck 7, and it was such a quick run to cabanas and back we found ourselves eating out on the verandah a lot.
MDR
We ate at the MDR every night, and every night the menu was different! I found my new favorite dessert from the Frozen themed menu. The Olaf white chocolate dome
Frozen Deck Show and Frozen 2 Premiere
They ended up not doing the Frozen deck show on our cruise! Every day I would check the navigator to see when it was, but it never happened! It only hit me that they didn't do it when I was at the 11pm Frozen 2 premiere the last night of the cruise No idea why they didn't do it... Kinda bummed but whatever!
Pin trading!
They had 3 pin trading events total (two officer one cast member)
All very fun! The Cast member trading I could have sworn Darren during his announcements called a children only trading, but in the navigator it didn't say that so I wasn't sure If I should have been trading there or not
On Demand
We were so excited to hear that they added the on demand to the stateroom tv's... but it didn't work well at ALL! With Disney's IT the way it is I should have expected it, but I guess I wanted to dream...
That's all my brain can rattle off for now... If anyone has questions I will try my best to answer them!
This cruise was AMAZING and I'd love to do it again in the future. The Wonder looks so nice with the latest updates, and we hope to sail with her again soon.
We loved the 2 weeks because we made so many friends with cast members and our serving team. Still missing them all
Here are some random pics under the cut