Sailed into hurricane winds

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(Forgive me if someone else from our 11/2-11-6 Wonder cruise posted about this already - I just got on & haven't searched the pages during our 2-wk vacation.)

The day we left was a beautiful day, but windy. We sailed off in great weather, but it soon turned very, very windy & the seas were very, very choppy.

During dinner (1st seating) we encountered a very rocking boat. Felt fine and didn't let it deter my eating - maybe it should have!

After I stuffed myself full of shrimp & everything delicious I possibly could from the Triton's menu I headed back to get ready for the show & started feeling a bit queasy. By the time I got to Disney Dreams my head was spinning & I barely got to see the show. Diplomatically, I spent the entire time looking at rounded porcelain - along with many others.

Turns out, there were 50 mph (gale force) winds & 20'-25' waves. The boat was definitely a-rockin'! By 1:00 am it was calm.

An officer we asked told us that they had to 'batten down the hatches on the lower decks', the pool water was pouring out of the pools, we sailed into hurricane winds & had to alter the course so as not to go into the strongest part. I've never felt the ship rock like that. A CM told us that in the 7 yrs he's been on the ship it was the only time he got sick.

My husb. & sons never got sick at all. All in all, it was an experience & Disney handled it very well. Something to put in our scrapbooks for an 'interesting memory'!::yes::
 
Oh my gosh!! And I thought our waves were bad - 8-13ft - I had to leave dinner (2nd seating) due to not feeling well!! Took some dromanine and felt better in about 30 minutes - I don't mind laying down during it, but standing up and having to walk around the ship is not too good for me!


Sounds like they should have altered the course before you got to where you were at - Glad it subsided for you and hope you have a much better cruise!!
 
I just thought of something - Isn't IMGTD on your cruise?

Oh no, wrong boat - I was hoping she wouldn't get bad weather!
 
We weren't on the cruise but at the Ft. Lauderdale boat show. The dates were 10/29 - 11/4 of our trip. When we got back I checked for posters from the Wonder. I had you all in my thoughts. Huge winds, rip tide warnings and high surf the entire trip so I knew anyone on the Wonder was a rocking. Glad to hear you survived the trip. Kathy
 

Oh my goodness!!! We had 14 ft waves on our cruise and people were "getting sick" left and right. I cant imagine 20-25 ft. :eek:
 
We just got back from the 11/1 Magic, and the first 2 days were very rough. Somebody said the Health Center even ran out of sea sick pills and bands because everyone was getting sick - and every cast member we encountered commented on how rough the sea was. On Sunday morning, I was sitting in Studio Sea for one of the Art of Entertaining series, and there were so many pagers going off for parents to pick up their sea sick kids!
 
And I thought 13-15' was ROUGH!

Oh my! I don't think there would be enough bonine or phenegran for me either!!!!

Poor kid - I am glad it did calm down, but whew!!!!!
I don't even want to imagine being on a top bunk during that - unless I was seatbelted down!!!!!!

Rae
 

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