Hi again!
Today is a very relaxing day and we are vegging out in our room for a few hours so I thought I would post a few things that I forgot about
OurDogCisco, thanks for posting the link on the cruise board! Much appreciated.
Okay, our assistant server is Melanie not Marie (told ya he would remember!)
Internet is pretty good when we are in the atrium. We have gotten spotty connectivity in our room and Rob was able to get excellent connection right next to the Deck 5 Aft Elevators, which is where I plan on posting from here on out.
Now, I dont mean to sound negative but I have to admit that this experience on
DCL is WAY different from our first experience on DCL in January 2002. That first cruise was amazing!! I dont think I had a bad meal, we had amazing service everywhere and I have raved and raved about that cruise for 3 years now! I know that I keep comparing this cruise to the last but I cant help it since the last one was so incredibly fun!
Before I go on to tell you some things that have gone wrong, let me just preface it by saying I LOVE THIS SHIP, its gorgeous and I LOVE CUISING!!. I love the feel of the sea and the last cruise was the best 7 nights of sleep I have ever had in my life! Over on our DIS meet thread, someone had posted a funny photo of the DCL itinerary in which is goes to sea and just circles and comes back
because of all the hurricanes
.this would be just fine with me! I cruise for the Disney Magic not really for the destinations (except for
Castaway Cay).
Okay, onto some things that Ive noticed or didnt like
I am SO lucky we have a verandah, in fact when we upgraded, we got the LAST available verandah but there has been a pool of water out there since we got here (except for the one hour after they sucked it all up yesterday) and cant really go out there unless we want our shoes to get all wet. I was out there in bare feet this morning but it felt all yucky. I left a note for Orlando, our stateroom attendant asking him to suck it up again but its 12:30pm now and its still there. We also havent had ice yet in our room. There is a little card in our room asking us when we want ice and I checked off morning and evening. Still no ice yet
Rob noticed quite a bit of hair in the bathroom when we first got here, and it wasnt ours!
Dont get me wrong, I am still loving our room but you really can notice the wear and tear! (some of the drawers dont close, holes in the sheets, burn marks on the furniture etc.)
My biggest beef yesterday was with us changing rooms. Now I totally understood that our luggage would be delayed a bit since we changed from 2610 to 5146 but we didnt get 3 out of 4 bags until 6pm and my last (most important bag) didnt get here until just after 10pm!!
Also, we knew Dreams had sent us a stateroom gift and we were expecting our
Castaway Club gift but it wasnt there. We asked Orlando about it and he said he would go check out 2610 for it. Well when we got our luggage at 6pm, attached to one of our bags was a plastic bag with some stuff in it. There were our dining tickets, a navigator, a brand new mens shaver, a room key with the name OConnor on it and a tag for a Memory Keepsake Box from Dreams to us but no Memory Box. I went down to Guest Services to clear it up and after about 20 minutes with Tracey, she told me she would have to get back to me. This morning on my way to post, Orlando gave me a Castaway Club bag in plastic.
I guess the thing that irks me is that if I wasnt totally obsessed with DCL and the DIS, I wouldnt know about this stuff and wouldnt know to ask for it.
Instead of feeling like a special returning cruiser, I felt like I had to climb ladders etc, to get my free gift. There was no letter to say welcome back, just a bag. I know it may sound silly, but its one of the things that I like about Disney, its that little bit of magic and I am sad to say that we really havent felt much magic since weve been here. Still waiting on that Memory Box.
Also theres no TV channel with the Report from the Bridge and map to tell us where we are. Another thing I loved about our last cruise.
Also, our servers are mediocre. Not bad, but not good either. Melanie keeps reaching across me to serve Rob, Ive never seen a server do that before! He had some coffee for dessert last night and reached for his cup right across and close to my chest, poured it and then reached right across me again, so I was a little nervous about the hot coffee 2 inches away from my chest LOL!!!
Also, since we changed our dining rotation, our character breakfast changed (should have been this morning) but no one bothered to tell us. I had to ask the head waiter about it but Moose & Jeannine wouldnt have known what it was or that it would have changed along with our rotation.
Okay, enough complaining Cass! I really am having a great time, so these arent big things but it really doesnt compare to our last
Disney cruise thats for sure. If you havent read my previous report, follow the cassworld link below and click on Trip Reports to read it, photos are there too as is a 7 minute video from our trip on the Videos menu.
Okay, how about some good things about this cruise
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They are handing out disinfectant hand towelettes in all the dining areas! Good idea!
We found a fabulous fruit bar at the breakfast buffet this morning!
The welcome aboard show was very funny, especially Freddy Fusion!
The dive-in movies are fabulous, another great idea.
We are looking forward to the rest of the trip which takes us to Sint Maarten, St. Thomas and Castaway Cay.
And most importantly, NONE of us are sick yet!! (If youve read my previous trip reports, one or both of us always get sick on vacation)
Check in with you guys later! Thanks for reading and letting me whine
perhaps I should order some cheese with that! (hmm all hands on deck sounds good right about now!)
. Well I'm sure you've both noticed how many readers you have, I mean 17,000 reads so far, wow! When I found your report today at first I yelled for my BF to help because I saw the spaces you had left but no pictures at first, haha 
(he can always make them show themselves, the wierdo 
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