Was anyone here on the NYE Fantasy Cruise? 12/27?

[Jkpark]

We are taking this cruise next year and I am anxious to hear all about it! I've heard reports of Christmas/Merry fun stopping before the 12/29 Dream cruise - wondering if the same was true on this cruise? How did they shuffle New Years, Formal, Semi-Formal and pirate nights? Is anyone willing to post their Navigators?

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TIA

 

[emilyann415]

Us too. I've searched the forum and other locations online and found some good reviews. Sounds like it's going to be a GREAT time! I'm already narrowing down excursion options

 

[NAB]

We were on the Wonder for New Years Eve. There was no activities , not even the gingerbread houses.

Only thing that made it a Merry cruise was that the decorations were still up. They were coming down the morning we got off the ship. The Big Gingerbread house was still up as well.

It was cool being on a ship for New Years. They have a special menu , give out a plastic flute of champagne or apple cider just before midnight to toast to everyone. People were still buying their own bottles that were available to buy. They had a buffet too but we had late dining so were not hungry. The flute said Disney Cruise line , logo and Happy New Year 2015

Fireworks are on this night , not pirate night. We had two formal nights on our short 5 day cruise.

They leave you a gift in your stateroom , I will leave that a surprise for you. Always nice to get surprises waiting. Oh and you get a hat left in the room and horn type thing up on deck.

 

[Jkpark]

Us too. I've searched the forum and other locations online and found some good reviews. Sounds like it's going to be a GREAT time! I'm already narrowing down excursion options

Hi there. There is a cruise meet for our cruise. Not too active yet. Hoping it picks up as on our last cruise I got great ideas from fellow cruisers. Come join!

 

[kmc33]

We had a great time. The gingerbread house was still up and the tree in the atrium. The ship had decorations up throughout. But, although this was listed as the last Very Merrytime Cruise, some of the activities that I read in the navigator from an earlier December sailing did not take place, like the tree lighting ceremony and Santa and Mrs. Claus and family gingerbread house making.

When we got to the terminal on December 27th, the day we set sail, there was Christmas music playing in the terminal. I enjoyed that and thought I would hear more onboard, but did not. But that's just me, I like to listen to Christmas music at home between Christmas and New Years, but maybe others don't.

So although I think some of the activities that took place on earlier cruises did not occur on our sailing, of course there were NYE activities. This was our first time on a NYE DCL cruise, so I don't have anything else to compare to, but we enjoyed it. NYE was a formal night. For us that was San Juan port day. So the last sea day was not a formal night. There was a special NYE menu in the dining rooms. Later up on deck there was a big party with fireworks at midnight (there were not fireworks on Pirate night, only NYE). There was champagne up on deck (maybe other places too, but I was up on deck) and servers were circulating with trays of canapés. I thought they did a nice job bringing the refreshments around, at least from where we were standing right in the middle of the deck.

We enjoyed it and it is something I would consider doing again. I would like to try an earlier pre-Christmas or Christmas cruise to experience some of the other activities.

 

[NAB]

We had a great time. The gingerbread house was still up and the tree in the atrium. The ship had decorations up throughout. But, although this was listed as the last Very Merrytime Cruise, some of the activities that I read in the navigator from an earlier December sailing did not take place, like the tree lighting ceremony and Santa and Mrs. Claus and family gingerbread house making.

When we got to the terminal on December 27th, the day we set sail, there was Christmas music playing in the terminal. I enjoyed that and thought I would hear more onboard, but did not. But that's just me, I like to listen to Christmas music at home between Christmas and New Years, but maybe others don't.

So although I think some of the activities that took place on earlier cruises did not occur on our sailing, of course there were NYE activities. This was our first time on a NYE DCL cruise, so I don't have anything else to compare to, but we enjoyed it. NYE was a formal night. For us that was San Juan port day. So the last sea day was not a formal night. There was a special NYE menu in the dining rooms. Later up on deck there was a big party with fireworks at midnight (there were not fireworks on Pirate night, only NYE). There was champagne up on deck (maybe other places too, but I was up on deck) and servers were circulating with trays of canapés. I thought they did a nice job bringing the refreshments around, at least from where we were standing right in the middle of the deck.

We enjoyed it and it is something I would consider doing again. I would like to try an earlier pre-Christmas or Christmas cruise to experience some of the other activities.

We still had Christmas music playing on the Wonder over New Years. And made a joke of watching Elf and The Christmas Story over and over on the cabin tv. The rest of your New Years sounds the same.

We were on deck one, when we went for breakfast on the last morning it was like Christmas wonderland down in the stairwell/elevators. It was quite cool to see it all in one place. The night we came down to go to bed there were only two trees down there from somewhere.

 

[Jkpark]

Thanks everyone. I know we will have a great time but a little bummed there won't be more Christmas activity - since we will be flying Christmas Day and boarding the next day - would have hoped to extend it right into New Years. Will be a blast regardless.

 

[SnowWhite2]

I've been on many NYE DCL cruises. This last one on the Magic was a bit different. Formal night was not NYE but on the first sea day. NYE was casual. That has never happened before.

I did see Gingerbread house decorating listed on the Navigator. It is a fun activity but you can't take it off of the ship. Christmas music played in the public spaces the entire time.

My kids are now college-aged so they aren't interested in the character activities.

Very disappointed in the NYE activities. The hats were generic blue top hats with a DCL sticker on them. In the past, they have had top hats and tiaras that were made out of a holographic material that sort of shined and it was silkscreened with DCL on it. Last year, they had the servers come out with champagne bottles to refill flutes but didn't happen this year. Last year the canapes were better and more of them.

One year we had "outside" entertainment on the top deck prior to the countdown. It was a comedian/ventriloquist and she was very good. This year it was just the cruise staff/characters for the whole 2+ hour party. DCL cruise staff can't pull off a 2 hour party by themselves. It was just dance music and then the characters would come out for a song and then more dance music.

DCL has priced us out of the NYE cruises. I just can't justify the price anymore.