The ships decorating for Christmas

[ArielRae]

We are on the cruise right before they start the Merrytime cruises. This means they should be putting up all the Christmas decorations up during our Cruise correct. Hopefully we can get some family Christmas photos in.

 

[mcgluvint]

We are on the cruise right before they start the Merrytime cruises. This means they should be putting up all the Christmas decorations up during our Cruise correct. Hopefully we can get some family Christmas photos in.

I believe they have everyone up even the christmas tree. You should be able to get them as you were on the christmas cruise.Good Luck!

 

[ludari]

I'm not sure how much decorations you'll see but you should see some. Last year I was on the first Merrytime Cruise on the Dream and as I boarded the dining staff was putting the final touches on the gingerbread house. Aside from that everything else was already decorated.

 

[bbel]

Maybe, but from my experience (three times Wonder/Magic), teams come on early on the embark day of the first merry time cruise and decorate.

The decorations are not stored on the ship and it's not crew member that do the decorating, with the exception on gingerbread (it's imagineers from land).
We'd go to bed and it would be Halloween/normal and wake up and it's Christmas.

However, at the time, non of those ships were out of PC, they were Galveston/ Miami which might make a difference.

What I'm saying is, there's a chance, just don't have you're heart set on it...

 

[princessmommyx3]

I sailed on the first Merrytime cruise on the Wonder in 2015. We were told by the cruise director that the gingerbread house in the atrium had been started on the previous sailing and was completed the day that we boarded, but that it was completely hidden from view from the cruisers before us. The cruisers before us joked that it was torture for them because they could smell it but not see it. The big tree in the atrium was started the morning that we boarded and was not finished until that evening. We walked by periodically throughout the day and watched the whole process of putting the tree up which was neat to watch. I think your chances of seeing any meaningful decorations (at least on the Magic or Wonder, they may do things differently on the Dream & Fantasy) are slim.

 

[3Down1Up]

We sailed on the first Merrytime on the Fantasy this year - the previous cruise was the TCM cruise so they didn't put much up during that cruise. In fact they were building the gingerbread throughout our cruise and really only finished it on our last full day of the cruise.

 

[Krissy22222]

We were on the cruise prior to the Merrytime cruises on the Wonder, they did have the gingerbread house, they did have an unveiling of it, and there was plenty of time to get a photo op, but there was no other Christmas decor. As we disembarked, we saw them bringing the Christmas decor on, and that was interesting watching that process.

 

[Chipmunkmaniac]

I was on what we thought would be a Christmascruise the week after Thanksgiving 2012... unfortunatelly it was crossover cast so the decorations were out (tree, gingergbreadhouse, wreaths etc) but none of the other stuff was going on yet like the characters in their costumes, Santa etc.
I'm having a second attempt next year after my PC cruise staying on for the first very merry cruise...

 

[ivanp91]

I've been on the Fantasy for the final week before the Merrytime cruises started, and my experience was the same as Krissy22222. The gingerbread house was slowly being made over the course of the cruise, but no other decorations were put up. When we debarked they had everything on the pier ready to go onto the ship.

The teams work incredibly fast getting the tree and decorations in place. I was on the Magic for Halloween last year (from NYC with a day stop at WDW), and even though it was billed as Halloween on the High Seas, on the day in Port Canaveral they stripped all the Halloween stuff from the ship and when we got back on board that evening all the Christmas decorations were in place (minus gingerbread house).

 

[mmfox316]

We are on the cruise right before they start the Merrytime cruises. This means they should be putting up all the Christmas decorations up during our Cruise correct. Hopefully we can get some family Christmas photos in.

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