September 24th 2021 - 3-Night Bahamian Cruise from Port Canaveral (HOTHS)

[ArielRae]

Well everyone we are back in Florida. Hope everyone had a great trip. Share some photos if you like.

Great view of the fireworks from Deck 4. No one was there and didn’t have to wait for a crew member to leave afterwards.


Hike and Kayak Excursion on Castaway Cay.


Seeing the Fantasy out of Enchanted Gardens portholes. She looked a lot closer then the photo shows.

 

[ArielRae]

Remember to write a stateroom review to help others know the good and the bad about it for when they sail on the Dream later. The DIS also has a stateroom review area but it won’t let me add our review there but Disney Cruise Blog is still working great!
https://disneycruiselineblog.com/cruise-planning/stateroom-list/?ship=3

 

[ArielRae]

I also wanted to add we came home to our luggage tags waiting for us in our mailbox. Funny they didn’t mail them out earlier cause they didn’t even have our stateroom number on them just a spot for us to write it in. It worked out well though cause they had blank ones we could fill out at the airport DCL bus transfer check in area. They asked if we need them and handed the number of tags over to us and we just filled them out and put them on ourselves.

 

[ArielRae]

Since we had 8hrs in the airport before our flight home we got to enjoy a table service meal at Macaroni Grill for lunch that is in the airport. We really enjoyed our meal definitely worth the price. I got the ricotta meatballs and spaghetti. My DH got the cheese pizza. It is a long meal so make sure you have the time for it. We definitely will be eating here again if we have the time.

 

[RBLWMN]

10:30am
We are now at the port and have gone through the testing. Now waiting for our results in waiting area B.

Note there are no restrooms that I can see after testing so use them when you get off the bus and they take you across the street toward the parking garage before you head into the testing tent area.

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I'm curious as to what your PAT was compared to your actual boarding time.

Loved all your posts helping to get me prepared for our 1st DCL cruise in 22 days!!

 

[ArielRae]

I'm curious as to what your PAT was compared to your actual boarding time.

Loved all your posts helping to get me prepared for our 1st DCL cruise in 22 days!!

Our online port arrival time was assigned as 11:15am.
We actually arrived at about 10:15am on DCL transfers.
Our boarding group 4 was called about 12:15pm.
We were in the ship atrium by 12:45pm.

 

[pachy25]

We just set sail! See you back on Monday!

Since you didn't have luggage tags, what did you do with your checked bags when you boarded the bus at MCO?

 

[ArielRae]

Since you didn't have luggage tags, what did you do with your checked bags when you boarded the bus at MCO?

Everyone has to grab their bags from baggage claim when they arrive in MCO. They are not grabbing your bags for you currently. You take your bags to the check in desk. I got generic luggage tags there and filled them out. They put your bags under the bus your on for the port. At port they grab your bags from under the bus and then take them to be delivered to your stateroom.

 

[ArielRae]

DH had a photo of our food at the Macaroni Grill so added it to the post with menu.

 

[ArielRae]

Well I hope everyone enjoyed their cruise and following along on here. I think it is time to end this thread. If anyone is interested I am booked on and started a meets thread for the Oct 16th, 2022 sailing out of New York on the Magic.
https://www.disboards.com/threads/o...-from-new-york-bermuda.3842423/#post-63108396