Pixie dust on our DREAM vacation! Update 06/08 TR finished!!

[Linda67]

What a wonderful day Karin
A Pina Colada on the beach at CC followed by dinner at Palo .... Mmmmm

 

[dizneeat]

I have been enjoying you report so much Karin, especially all of the lovely pictures!!

I am glad you enjoy them! It's fun writing them too, if you know they are read!

Fantastic day!

I have a question and I know the answer, but my memory is fuzzy today.
On 4 night cruises the pirate night is not on CC day right? And the day at sea doesn't have a main show correct?

Usually on 4 night cruises pirate night IS on CC day. The day at sea has the Believe show and CC day usually doesn't have one. (Golden Mickeys, Villains, whatever you like, Believe)
On 3 night cruises pirate night is on Nassau day.
Well, at least it was that way on our previous cruises - the only exception being was last summer when they had to change the day at sea and CC day because of Hurricane Irene.

 

[dizneeat]

What a wonderful day Karin
A Pina Colada on the beach at CC followed by dinner at Palo .... Mmmmm

It was a picture perfect day! Hope we'll have another three of those in the summer.

Not much longer for you, too! Can't wait for your trip report.

 

[Wicket's Mom]

That cruise looks so enjoyable. I do so want to try it someday!

Your food made me hungry especially the antipasta. Yummy!

 

[pooksma]

Thank you so much for this! As much as we love WDW, this will be our first Disney cruise and your review and pics have made me that much more excited!

 

[englishrose47]

The pix at Castaway Cay were fabulous I loved all the sea life !! Your meals looked wonderful!! I have ben reading my cruise journal from 1995 and the food was a big part of it !!Long before I was on the Dis , I guess I was practising

 

[dizneeat]

That cruise looks so enjoyable. I do so want to try it someday!

Your food made me hungry especially the antipasta. Yummy!

You really should take a Disney cruise! They are the ultimate fun.

They bring out the anitpasti on a cart and you can tell them what you would like to try. We always opt for the "a little bit of everything" plate, which is wonderful. So many different wonderful yummies to try.

Thank you so much for this! As much as we love WDW, this will be our first Disney cruise and your review and pics have made me that much more excited!

I am very happy that you enjoy it so much and that it gets you excited for your cruise.
When we cruised for the first time I was so thankful to a bunch of friends who helped us along, as we had no idea what we let ourselves in for. Needless to say we were hooked within the first few hours.

The pix at Castaway Cay were fabulous I loved all the sea life !! Your meals looked wonderful!! I have ben reading my cruise journal from 1995 and the food was a big part of it !!Long before I was on the Dis , I guess I was practising

Castaway Cay is the most wonderful island. Everything is picture perfect - well, it is Disney made, so that's that.
I guess food is a big part of every cruise, and Disney is no exception!

 

[Kim1964]

I am so enjoying this report.....and I can't wait to take this same cruise next year. I hope our cruise goes as well as yours went this year, especially CC day!

 

[dizneeat]

I am so enjoying this report.....and I can't wait to take this same cruise next year. I hope our cruise goes as well as yours went this year, especially CC day!

Glad you are enjoying it .....
It's going to be a fun cruise next February! I am sure. As long as we will go to CC it will be fun!

 

[Minnie&Nana]

Karin! Finally back on the DIS! Lots of catching up to, but it will take me a few days...although one certain TR I was able to stay more than caught up! Thank you!

You know, all the people you meet and befriend, including CM's reminds me of the early days at WDW when there was only CR & Poly...staying at the resort was like extended family and the ship seems to have the same feeling. Makes the trip even more special.

When do you leave for DLPR? Did everything work out with the flights? Hope so! Fingers crossed!!

Off to catch up on your other threads!

 

[englishrose47]

Staying up to date !!!

 

[Disney9.9.10]

All caught up! It is so sad to leave Castaway Cay so soon but you got some beautiful photos. Your dinner also looked great, I love the pictures and descriptions!

 

[dizneeat]

Karin! Finally back on the DIS! Lots of catching up to, but it will take me a few days...although one certain TR I was able to stay more than caught up! Thank you!

You know, all the people you meet and befriend, including CM's reminds me of the early days at WDW when there was only CR & Poly...staying at the resort was like extended family and the ship seems to have the same feeling. Makes the trip even more special.

When do you leave for DLPR? Did everything work out with the flights? Hope so! Fingers crossed!!

Off to catch up on your other threads!

It's wonderful to have you back, Christine!
for staying on top of that one TR!

You are so right with your extended family comment! It's like you run into a long lost friends and feeling so at home ..... they really know how to make you feel welcome on the ships.

We are leaving Saturday in a week and staying for 4 days. Our flight leaves at 6am and we should be at Charles de Gaulle airport at 9.50am. Can't wait.

Staying up to date !!!

I knew you would, Rosie! More cruise review coming pretty soon.

All caught up! It is so sad to leave Castaway Cay so soon but you got some beautiful photos. Your dinner also looked great, I love the pictures and descriptions!

YES, it is very sad when the CC day is over, but we had a few nice things planned for the next day as well.
Stay tuned.

 

[dizneeat]

Day 5, February 22


„You guys are on a very tight schedule!“ - Part 1

Our last full day on board and day at sea was here. We got up

around seven and took showers, then got ready to leave for breakfast.
The plan was to just have a snack for breakfast, as there was a whole lot of food ahead of us all day long.
The night before Ana had told us that she would be at the Royal Palace all day long, so at around 8am we went down to the restaurant. Since we were coming from the aft elevators we walked past the side entrance first and found her right there.
She did not have a station, but was one of the hosts who walked people to their tables, so she asked the Cast Member who assigned the tables to place us at one of her husband’s tables. Then it was her turn to walk us there and seat us. She introduced us to Matija and off she went.
Matija chatted with us for a while, then left us with the menu to decide on what we wanted. The assistant server came by to ask about our drinks and we both ordered an orange juice and coffee for Tom and hot tea for me.

Matija then came to take our order and we had completely forgotten about just having a snack breakfast. We went all the way.
Tom again ordered the

Swiss Bircher Muesli, Muesli with raisins, shredded apples and yogurt while I had another yummy

Mornin' Tug Boat, fresh blend of strawberries, bananas, almonds, raisin granola and low-fat yogurt. It didn’t take long until it was delivered to our table and we were happily munching away.
While we were still eating another Cast member came by to ask us about our experience and if there was something that we thought needed fixing. Since he had mentioned Cabanas and if we knew that they offered a full buffet I just had to let him know that yes, we knew about the buffet, but that we had problems with the temperatures of the food. He took notes of what we said and noted our stateroom as well. He then proceeded to the next table and their only complaint was toast that was not crispy enough! So most people seem to be pretty happy with the standard of the food, because the only “complaints” we heard were about VERY little things which would not make or break your experience.
Once we were finally done with our starters, Matija was already waiting with our main courses.
No question what I had ordered, my favourite, the

Traditional Eggs Benedict, Toasted English muffin with grilled Canadian bacon, served with poached egg topped with hollandaise sauce, grilled roma tomatoes and link sausages.
Now, last summer I had not liked the sausage, it was a funny texture and a funny taste, but this year the sausages were just delicious! Tom had ordered

the Express, Scrambled eggs, grilled ham, bacon, sausage. and hash browns. We dug in and after we had finished Matija came over for a little chat about his home country and them maybe coming to visit Austria, and most of all to talk about their upcoming vacation to Las Vegas and California.
After a while Matija had to go back to work as there were other people waiting to be served and we finished our meal, left a tip and went out the side door, to be able to say goodbye to Ana.
We walked through the shops, and talked to some very nice cast members and our favourite cast member there, Debbie! She was excited as she was going back to England for a holiday a week after we returned and we talked about how they all missed some home cooked meals. That gave us an idea.
While we did not have any homemade meals to share, we had some Austrian chocolate to share! So we walked back up to our stateroom, which was already serviced by then, picked up a few rolls of “Milketten”, individual little bite sized chocolates filled with strawberry, nougat or whole hazelnuts. Reward in hand we walked back to the store and handed out the candy to the cast members.
They were very surprised, very happy and we got lots of hugs in return. Neither of the three girls in there was going to share and they all went to hide their goodies. It was past 10am when we returned to our stateroom to pick up the last of our Fish Extender gifts and went to hand them all out.

Around 10.45 we were done with it and ready to head to our next appointment.

To be continued ..........

 

[annmarieda]

i am sorry that I missed a couple updates. between my hand and dis (or my computer) being slow... i haven't been posting as much.

I love that you were able to see the little sea creatures... and then relax on the beach with a drink! what an amazing day

how fun to run into your previous host and get a chance to catch up.

 

[annmarieda]

look at that.. i missed another one while I was posting. food looks great! i think your starters look light and refreshing... which on occasion is just the right amount of breakfast for me.

your description of the chocolates was mouthwatering. I imagine the cms were very grateful.

 

[englishrose47]

Oh Karin Eggs Benedict !!!

 

[eandesmom]

You guys are so sweet with the extra tips and goodies, no wonder you are so well remembered and loved. It's just lovely to read about.

Breakfast looks very very yummy.

 

[Linda67]

Morning Karin

What a wonderful way to start my day - I sit eating my breakfast reading all about your breakfast at the Royal Palace

Sadly however, nobody is checking in on me to make sure that everything is up to standard

 

[dizneeat]

i am sorry that I missed a couple updates. between my hand and dis (or my computer) being slow... i haven't been posting as much.

I love that you were able to see the little sea creatures... and then relax on the beach with a drink! what an amazing day

how fun to run into your previous host and get a chance to catch up.

Ann, we are all busy ....... no problem, you are caught up again now!
How IS your hand? Did the splint help?
It was amazing to see the starfish - and there were plenty of them, there were large konk shells and little ones with "inhabitants".
And the drinks were just wonderful ..... now imagine that we still had a lot of snow in Austria, and here we were, sitting on the beach, sipping a few drinks!

We were talking a lot about Narciso, our stateroom host, as he was just outstanding! And to run into him like that was just awesome.

look at that.. i missed another one while I was posting. food looks great! i think your starters look light and refreshing... which on occasion is just the right amount of breakfast for me.

your description of the chocolates was mouthwatering. I imagine the cms were very grateful.

Those starters were so good ..... I just love the strawberry, banana, granola yoghurt - yum, yum!

Well, referring to the chocolates ...... let's just say, we got lots of hugs from the CMs!

Oh Karin Eggs Benedict !!!

My favourite breakfast, Rosie! I wouldn't eat it at home, but on vacation one can enjoy the good life!

You guys are so sweet with the extra tips and goodies, no wonder you are so well remembered and loved. It's just lovely to read about.

Breakfast looks very very yummy.

To see the faces of the CMs light up is just the sweetest reward.

We loved breakfast at the RP .... so leisurely.

Morning Karin

What a wonderful way to start my day - I sit eating my breakfast reading all about your breakfast at the Royal Palace

Sadly however, nobody is checking in on me to make sure that everything is up to standard

Having breakfast while reading about breakfast sounds fun. .... and I hope everything WAS up to standard!