Magic - January 12, 2008

[cmacf1]

Yes! That's awesome to know. We'll certainly look for you guys. My dh is easy to spot. Tall, handsome deaf guy. We will be with our group of ten.

We're a group of 24. You can spot us by looking for the kids whose parents look older than average parents . That's because we ARE all older than average parents (our kids are between the ages of 2 and 7 and we're all in our 40s and 50s.) We also look more tired and crazy than your average 40 or 50 year old. That's why we REALLY need this vacation!!!!

I'm off to print out our boarding passes and get some 1s and 5s from the bank!!!!! We'll be boarding our plane 24 hours from right now

 

[Corndog819]

You're right...Laura is my sister, so she was talking to my husband.

Ok I feel stupid. Sorry!

Note to self: Dont post at 1AM

 

[Corndog819]

I hope everyone got home safe!

That was a hell of a week and i am convinced we had the greatest servers known to man.

 

[jhannah]

The servers WERE great! Fantastic, even. We arrived home safely, really refreshed after a wonderful week. Weather was practically perfect!

 

[Jackk]

We arrived Home Safe and sound and a few pounds heavier!!
We had great servers. and met great friends! Disney is the best cruise line!

 

[Sandaneli]

HI, Would you mind telling me who your servers were? We are going on the 2/16 Eastern cruise and would like to request servers who we know do a great job.

Thanks for your help.
Sandra

 

[Jackk]

HI, Would you mind telling me who your servers were? We are going on the 2/16 Eastern cruise and would like to request servers who we know do a great job.

Thanks for your help.
Sandra

Hi Sandra,

I can tell you our Server Svet was not only efficient but entertaining he always helped cut the food of the children at our table. He also seemed to have a brain teaser for the adults at dessert time. If you do end up getting him tell him Ron, Michael and Caroline say hi!

Enjoy your cruise and let me know what you think.

Michael

 

[Fawn]

I loved our room host, too...he was incredible!!! Pillows always fluffed, clean towels, beer iced...my kinda guy!

Who booked their next cruise already? We are going August 10 and January 10.

 

[cmacf1]

We had Chintana from Thailand as our head server and Marcellito from the Philippines as our assistant server. Both were GREAT!!!!!!!!!! One evening later in the cruise, DD3 had to use the restroom the minute my hot delicious food was served to me. Chintana saw me trying to hide my irritation (DD3 often has to use the restroom during meals and I often end up eating cold food.) Since they had just served us our food, they weren't particularly busy so she offered to take DD3 to the restroom. They were gone awhile and when they came back, Chintana said the nearest bathroom was too busy, so they went up a deck and went to another one. Now THAT is real service (not that I'd let any waitress in any restaurant do that!)

Our room steward Danny was also wonderful (mid-ship, starboard side, 6th level.)

Cathy

 

[laura_hattaway]

Our head server was Pirom and the assistant server Vally. Vally was sweet and quiet, and we often saw him somewhere at other meal times (breakfast at Topsiders, lunch at Pluto's Dog House). Pirom had neat "magic" tricks and puzzles for the kids.

Our room host was awesome. If we had a shirt thrown across the dresser, he'd hang it up. Sweet. I noticed on the "feminine product" bag, it said, "The maid has been instructed to discard" or something like that. Oh well. Hopefully he doesn't find that offensive. It's better than the French version, to which he is referred as the "femme du chambre" or something like that... the lady of the room. Nice.

I did notice that our steward was out in the hall folding towels and cleaning pretty much every time I was in the hallway. The same with the Deck 9 maintenance guys (I mentally noted every time I saw the man I first noticed polishing the metal kick plates under the towel boxes five minutes after we boarded, and it seemed like he was constantly there), the Aft 3rd and 4th deck restroom hostess, and the fitness center trainer.

We loved the trip (see the report and pictures to which I linked in my signature)! But I can't even imagine trying to plan another one right this second. I need a few weeks (or months) to recover.

My daughter cried herself to sleep last night, repeating the mantra, "I miss that ship. I miss that ship so much." She keeps asking, "What was your favorite thing about being on the ship?" Well, actually, now that I have to go dust...

 

[laura_hattaway]

Our room steward Danny was also wonderful (mid-ship, starboard side, 6th level.)

Was yours one of the rooms where the sewage backed up? I met a guy on Deck 7 aft who was telling me about a block of starboard rooms with a plumbing problem resulting in stuff overflowing into the floor one night/morning...

 

[Eeyore77]

Hi there everyone. Chris and I just got back in today after two days at WDW after the cruise. The cruise was soooooo Perfect. I cried like a baby on the last night like I always do. I had to have another trip planned before I could get off the ship so we are already booked to go on another one next year on January 17th. We decided to try the Eastern this time. Oh well another year of waiting and planning....

 

[hsmom]

HI, Would you mind telling me who your servers were? We are going on the 2/16 Eastern cruise and would like to request servers who we know do a great job.

Thanks for your help.
Sandra

Sandra,

I believe that you'll have a server who does a great job REGARDLESS!! If you read around these forums much, you'll see that there are awesome servers on the ship. The standard for all is set high and, from what I see, they all meet or exceed that.

--Sarah

 

[hsmom]

I wanna go back now!!

Our head server was Pirom. The assistant was Vally. My kids looked forward to seeing them every night. In fact, when they didn't want to wake up Saturday morning, what got them out of bed was my saying, "If you don't get up, you won't get to see Pirom one last time."

When we got home, I asked the kids what was their favorite part of the cruise. This was Mackenzie's (6 yo dd) answer: "The characters and the servers."
Hannah (8 yo dd) said, "The servers and the pool."

Can you imagine? I'm going to let DCL know what they said. For the servers to be ranked up there with characters and swimming...you know they gotta be great!

Pirom did magic tricks with crayons and had several riddles that stumped even the adults at the table. He tied on the kids' bandannas on Pirate Night, and gave them special attention during their 2 staff "parades" in the dining room. The kids liked that he smiled and waved at them when he was up in front of the entire dining room.

(The kids enjoyed Vally, too, but he was truly the assistant server. He let Pirom take the lead while he quietly brought us our drinks and other items. He was friendly, called my son by name each night, and always brought us whatever we needed, including our beverages just like we liked them each night.)

Rodolfo was our room steward. (midship, deck 8, portside) The kids loved the nightly towel animals. For the first 2 nights, I let them believe what they had decided...that Mickey himself had come and made the animals and left the chocolates. By the 3rd night, I decided to give credit where it was due and told them Rodolfo was Mickey's special helper and HE was the talent making the cool animals. From then on, they were thrilled to see him in the halls (almost always he was out there).

I wanna go back!!!!!!!

 

[Sandaneli]

Sandra,

I believe that you'll have a server who does a great job REGARDLESS!! If you read around these forums much, you'll see that there are awesome servers on the ship. The standard for all is set high and, from what I see, they all meet or exceed that.

--Sarah

Before last August's Med cruise I would have believed you. But on the 11 NT cruise last summer our server was horrible, unfriendly and incompetent. It wasn't just us, we sat at a table with 2 other couples who had also been on several Disney cruises and they were appalled at the lack of service. We went to Guest Services but with a full cruise ship there wasn't anyplace to go in the dining room. We ate most of our meals at Topsiders. It was better than dealing with the wait staff in the dining room. That is why I'm asking for recommendations of servers people felt were good.

The servers at our other 2 Disney cruises were wonderful so I know last summer was not the norm.

Sandra

 

[Corndog819]

Hi Guys!

As I have stated before this was my 7th cruise overall, but first with disney. It did not take me long to realize my wait staff was BY FAR the best I had ever had.

Evandro (RAMBO) and Sompong

My guys were a bunch of comedians. The first night I ordered a soup and when I got it I started talking to the people at the table.

So Sompong comes over ans says "Cris, Stop talking, soup getting cold."
At that point I realize it's a chilled soup.

On two seperate occasions. Someone would ordered something and then someone would ask for the "same thing" well, according to Rambo and Sompong ordering the "same thing" gets you

Myself doing the whole cruise thing a number of times, I had requested a table of 3 (4 really) so we did not have to get stuck in a table of 8 more than likely with a bunch of people we wouldn't normally have anything in common with.

Well guess what, We got "stuck" at a table of 8. And, seeing as none of the 3 mini-groups had met before I must say we were the greatest table of 8 ever. We seriously spent every evening before dinner together and the show and the hour and 15 minutes in between. The first night at the show, there was a girl who sat in front of us and I remember my friend saying "look at this girl" pointing out her pink highlights. Well turns out, this girl is 17 and she is at our table. Go figure. She is traveling with her mom and her sister 13 and they were from Brisbane, Australia. The other two at the table was a man and his daughter 12. He was actually in the coast guard stationed in Oxnard about 50 miles from where we were from. She was born in Oxnard.

Anyways, my group and the 17 year old girl Alicia got along like peas in a pod and for the most part we were up to around 3AM each night just talking on deck. After the cruise, they flew to Santa Monica and stayed there where we went and visited them on two separate occasions. We pretty much convinced ourselfs that either we are going to Australia or she is coming here (Santa Barbara) within 12 months.

Bottom Line, best cruise ever. Who would have thought 4 older teens would have had the time of their lives on a Disney Ship. I guess the old saying goes, dont judge a book by it's cover.

P.S. Here are a couple shots I took.

Cozumel

Key West

 

[Corndog819]

Before last August's Med cruise I would have believed you. But on the 11 NT cruise last summer our server was horrible, unfriendly and incompetent. It wasn't just us, we sat at a table with 2 other couples who had also been on several Disney cruises and they were appalled at the lack of service. We went to Guest Services but with a full cruise ship there wasn't anyplace to go in the dining room. We ate most of our meals at Topsiders. It was better than dealing with the wait staff in the dining room. That is why I'm asking for recommendations of servers people felt were good.

The servers at our other 2 Disney cruises were wonderful so I know last summer was not the norm.

Sandra

Sompong and Evandro! Greatest Servers Ever.

 

[hsmom]

Bottom Line, best cruise ever. Who would have thought 4 older teens would have had the time of their lives on a Disney Ship. I guess the old saying goes, dont judge a book by it's cover.

I'm glad you liked it so much! Sounds like everyone had a great time. Have I mentioned that I wanna go back? Now?!

 

[gossipgirl]

looking for twice charmed pics please.