Was Live Now Great Memories From the May 27th Double Scoop Cruise

[ohiominnie]

Mary - your comment about Ducky - here is a hint with the new Navigators. At least for me. The second page is a TV type schedule, but it is not reliable. For example, DUCKY was not on the second page. He was on the first page. The dessert buffet was not on the second page, it was on the first page.....So hint to future cruisers, read both pages....or perhaps it is just me.....

This was our 8th Disney cruise. Maybe I just like the status quo, but I found these new navigator's severely lacking. There was too much cross referencing back to the original navigator (for both us AND the kids) and I was constantly missing things. I also missed the pictures on the front of the entertainers (kinda like an "ad" for them)

Put all of that on my comment card at the end.....along with the idea that early dining and late dining people should have different color luggage tags and early dining people should get priority in getting their luggage. We got our luggage at the last possible moment before having to leave for the Garry banner/dinner events. We were this close [---] to showing up in our blabbermouth shirts!

 

[itdjbw]

Don't know if this has been cleared up or not. The medical evacuation from CC was definitely not someone who had died from a heart attack. It was an elderly gentleman who (from a deck 6 verandah) seemed to be doing quite well. He waved excitedly back to the ship from his wheelchair and was able to get up and walk several steps before climbing into the helicopter by himself.

My guess is that if someone actually did die on CC on that final day, it would be easiest for all involved to just keep the person in the ship's morgue until returning to Port Canaveral, 12 hours later.

We were told he was suffering from his appendics.

 

[itdjbw]

This was our 8th Disney cruise. Maybe I just like the status quo, but I found these new navigator's severely lacking. There was too much cross referencing back to the original navigator (for both us AND the kids) and I was constantly missing things. I also missed the pictures on the front of the entertainers (kinda like an "ad" for them)

Put all of that on my comment card at the end.....along with the idea that early dining and late dining people should have different color luggage tags and early dining people should get priority in getting their luggage. We got our luggage at the last possible moment before having to leave for the Garry banner/dinner events. We were this close [---] to showing up in our blabbermouth shirts!

I also didn't like the format of the new navigators but understood they are trying to cut paper and printing costs, we were spoilt before!!!

 

[itdjbw]

This must have been a different medical evacuation than we saw in Costa Maya. We saw a girl, probably 6-ish taken off of the ship via stretcher into a waiting ambulance just before sail away in Costa Maya. She was accompanied by her parents and siblings and a very small amount of luggage. We were hoping that they'd pick the ship back up in Cozumel the next day after finding out she was just fine. She did not look like she was in distress (no bags or tubing that we could see) Mike hypothesized on the potential diagnoses, but can't be sure. We figured if we asked anyone they wouldn't tell us anyway....confidentiality and all that.

Alex our head waiter who was our server a couple of cruises ago said they were told that the child nearly drowned and was flown to Miami, she said it was a 4 year old and the only reason she was told was because the family were on our dining rotation but early seating.

 

[justmestace]

Alex our head waiter who was our server a couple of cruises ago said they were told that the child nearly drowned and was flown to Miami, she said it was a 4 year old and the only reason she was told was because the family were on our dining rotation but early seating.

After we got back from our excursion in Costa Maya, I was sitting on the edge of the pool with my feet in the water. There was a little girl in the pool, not more than 4 years old, trying with all her might to dog-paddle her way to the ladder. Not a parent in sight. She looked like she'd go under at any second. Just as I reached out to her, she made it to the ladder.
I thought at the time that it's a wonder she hadn't drowned. Now I'm wondering if it's the same girl.

 

[currycook]

This was our 8th Disney cruise. Maybe I just like the status quo, but I found these new navigator's severely lacking. There was too much cross referencing back to the original navigator (for both us AND the kids) and I was constantly missing things. I also missed the pictures on the front of the entertainers (kinda like an "ad" for them)

Put all of that on my comment card at the end.....along with the idea that early dining and late dining people should have different color luggage tags and early dining people should get priority in getting their luggage. We got our luggage at the last possible moment before having to leave for the Garry banner/dinner events. We were this close [---] to showing up in our blabbermouth shirts!

We are on the double CC cruise in July. It will be our 4th DC. So I took a good look at the navigators from your cruise and my reaction was the same. I thought, yuk, I sure like the old way better. I was wondering if it was just me so I was glad to read your comments. Thanks and thanks to all on here shared on this cruise for the rest of us who will also have a double dip.

 

[BWVPam]

Hi Karen -- I agree on the new navigators. I never could keep up with anything. Maybe that is why I never made it to any of the things that I really wanted to.

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

Don't know if this has been cleared up or not. The medical evacuation from CC was definitely not someone who had died from a heart attack. It was an elderly gentleman who (from a deck 6 verandah) seemed to be doing quite well. He waved excitedly back to the ship from his wheelchair and was able to get up and walk several steps before climbing into the helicopter by himself.

My guess is that if someone actually did die on CC on that final day, it would be easiest for all involved to just keep the person in the ship's morgue until returning to Port Canaveral, 12 hours later.

Yeah, I guess the rumor wasn't accurate... thank goodness!

Hey, isn't anyone going to explain to me what "nets going down on the beach" means? I asked like back on page 18 or so... just curious.

 

[MarkRG]

Yeah, I guess the rumor wasn't accurate... thank goodness!

Hey, isn't anyone going to explain to me what "nets going down on the beach" means? I asked like back on page 18 or so... just curious.

CC has safety nets out there to keep the bigger aquatic life out, if they fail, such as a bad storm knocks them down, they won't let anyone in the water until they're sure the nets ar eup and the area's clear of anything agressive.

 

[RachelTori]

Hi Karen -- I agree on the new navigators. I never could keep up with anything. Maybe that is why I never made it to any of the things that I really wanted to.

We found them "difficult" - and, we also missed lots of things we wanted to do.

A do-over is looking more and more *necessary*!!!

 

[gssmks]

We found them "difficult" - and, we also missed lots of things we wanted to do.

A do-over is looking more and more *necessary*!!!

I have gone over the Navigators that you guys have posted and I was disappointed to find that everything we most want to do all together are scheduled for the hours during which dinner and evening show is scheduled. All of the fun family activities are scheduled during these hours. We were already discussing not wasting the time necessary to take a two hour dinner every evening, and now we had decided to definitely skip the dinning room meals and just eat at Topsiders, etc.

 

[mrstbalt]

I keep seeing "double scoop cruise"...what is it??

 

[ohiominnie]

I keep seeing "double scoop cruise"...what is it??

It's a DCL cruise that has two "dips" at Castaway Cay.

 

[thomprod]

This lovely carving was on the appetizer table at the CC reception. I went trying to meet Barb and Tony, or at least get a picture of them. Unfortunately, we had the 5:30 seating for dinner so I had to leave before they were introduced. Great food at the reception, though.

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

Mark- thanks so much for answering my question about the nets on the beaches!

I have gone over the Navigators that you guys have posted and I was disappointed to find that everything we most want to do all together are scheduled for the hours during which dinner and evening show is scheduled. All of the fun family activities are scheduled during these hours. We were already discussing not wasting the time necessary to take a two hour dinner every evening, and now we had decided to definitely skip the dinning room meals and just eat at Topsiders, etc.

We found the same to be true. Earlier in the cruise the kids just kept missing the "good stuff" during show and dinner... later in the cruise they ended up wanting to just rush rush eat a little and hurry to the lab for the fun stuff (and ofcourse if they were going to the lab- little Rita wanted to go to the club too!) and THAT is why we didn't really get to like enjoy a whole meal and lots of the time it was only DH or myself sitting at the table waiting for the other to return after taking the kids to the lab. They still missed out on stuff they considered to be "fun stuff"- because even rushing them to it mid-meal they'd later say they still missed out on the fun stuff. *sigh* I don't think we'll do topsiders next time- I think next time what we'll do is just feed the kids earlier by the pool (or topsiders- maybe between the show and dinner?) and then have dinner without them, by gosh. That was just too much running them to the lab (sometimes to the room to change out of formal wear first/etc.) in the middle of meals. Most of the time it was me running the kids and DH sitting alone... they wouldn't serve him any more of the meal until I returned. There is even a picture of him in the background (someone else's picture) just sitting there alone waiting on me.... LOL

 

[gssmks]

Mark- thanks so much for answering my question about the nets on the beaches!



We found the same to be true. Earlier in the cruise the kids just kept missing the "good stuff" during show and dinner... later in the cruise they ended up wanting to just rush rush eat a little and hurry to the lab for the fun stuff (and ofcourse if they were going to the lab- little Rita wanted to go to the club too!) and THAT is why we didn't really get to like enjoy a whole meal and lots of the time it was only DH or myself sitting at the table waiting for the other to return after taking the kids to the lab. They still missed out on stuff they considered to be "fun stuff"- because even rushing them to it mid-meal they'd later say they still missed out on the fun stuff. *sigh* I don't think we'll do topsiders next time- I think next time what we'll do is just feed the kids earlier by the pool (or topsiders- maybe between the show and dinner?) and then have dinner without them, by gosh. That was just too much running them to the lab (sometimes to the room to change out of formal wear first/etc.) in the middle of meals. Most of the time it was me running the kids and DH sitting alone... they wouldn't serve him any more of the meal until I returned. There is even a picture of him in the background (someone else's picture) just sitting there alone waiting on me.... LOL

I have read post after post that say the same thing. Our cruise is my DD's birthday present from me. While I definitely plan to have fun myself, I do not plan to let her miss out on the stuff she most wants to do. As for eating, we just are not use to having that many full meals in one week. We probably don't have that many full, sit-down meals a month. We eat on the go every day. I looked over the menus and I didn't see anything that would just die if I missed. I really think that we will skip the dinning rooms every night with the exception of Animator's

 

[kikipug]

I have gone over the Navigators that you guys have posted and I was disappointed to find that everything we most want to do all together are scheduled for the hours during which dinner and evening show is scheduled. All of the fun family activities are scheduled during these hours. We were already discussing not wasting the time necessary to take a two hour dinner every evening, and now we had decided to definitely skip the dinning room meals and just eat at Topsiders, etc.

My kids know that dinner time is family time... everyone eats dinner together. There are plenty of other times with fun things going on, so they understand that if they 'miss' something while dinner was happening, there would be something else fun to do later. I think its just a matter of how kids are accustomed to viewing 'dinner' in general. If dinner is a scattered affair at home, its likely to be on the cruise as well. At our house, everyone sits down to dinner together every night possible. The cruise was no exception.

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

My kids know that dinner time is family time... everyone eats dinner together. There are plenty of other times with fun things going on, so they understand that if they 'miss' something while dinner was happening, there would be something else fun to do later. I think its just a matter of how kids are accustomed to viewing 'dinner' in general. If dinner is a scattered affair at home, its likely to be on the cruise as well. At our house, everyone sits down to dinner together every night possible. The cruise was no exception.

But that's just the point.
We attempted to do the "always together for dinner" thing and did so early on in the cruise- but we all soon came to realize that the fun stuff is smack during our dinner. I think it's possible that they do that because they assume MOST children are early dining and have the fun stuff for them to do afterwards. We were late dining at 8pm- so it didn't fit into that "plan". We tried to have dinner together- but towards the end of the cruise we finally relented because we realized they truly WERE missing the most fun stuff right smack during dinner and no, there wasn't something else "fun" to do later. Later was always just free time... after our dinner that usually lasted until 9:45pm atleast. (10pm and on was mostly free time- lay down time for club members) Some of the fun stuff in lab would start at 8:45pm or 9pm- thus the reason they'd eat and we'd let them go to the lab when WE (the parents) hadn't finished our meal yet.

They didn't really get to spend much time in the club/lab- not nearly as much as we (including the kids) expected. Between trying to avoid THEIR meal times -and their "transition" to meal times (because they didn't work with OUR meal times- ie: they'd have lunch really early after we'd just had breakfast! Then ofcourse we'd have to take them out way before the show because that is when they'd be having dinner if they stayed in the club/lab- then out for the show, get ready for dinner then stay out for dinner), not getting up early in the morning while on vacation- ie: having breakfast late- by the time we got up and had breakfast if they were to go to the club or lab then- they'd be having lunch in the club/lab! LOL, having OUR meal times (breakfast/lunch/dinner) and the show.. pretty much the only time they were in the lab/club was after dinner which is NOT when the fun stuff was going on. So that's why towards the end of the cruise we started letting them go to dinner with us and after they'd eaten take them to the lab so as to not miss all the fun stuff before "free time" started.

All of this probably would have worked better if A) we'd gotten up earlier/had breakfast earlier- then they could have had lunch with the club and spent more of their day in the lab/club (however, because of how early they did the club lunch- our youngest would have been starving by the time our 8pm dinner time came around) or B) if we'd let them just eat lunch AND dinner with the club. We were "trying" to have dinner time together- and that's what didn't coincide well with the lab/club activities. Atleast with OUR dinner time.

 

[tinytink]

This lovely carving was on the appetizer table at the CC reception. I went trying to meet Barb and Tony, or at least get a picture of them. Unfortunately, we had the 5:30 seating for dinner so I had to leave before they were introduced. Great food at the reception, though.

we were at the party and sat front and center on the covered goofy pool, tony and barb were sitting to the left of us off the side of the pool. we didn't get a pic of them with their gold mickey ears on.

 

[chip&dale&fun]

Hope your sailing is picture perfect!...And that you continue to have fun with your pals. Be sure to eat lots of opcorn: when catching the latest movies onboard! Don't spend too much time doing during vacation time! And least, but not least..... enjoy your last stop at CC! You guys rock!

Don't cha' love the new icons?

See ya, DIS NURSE

Looking at the thread again to capture some memories for the scapebook....just had to post - Thanks again for looking in on us......Never did eat the popcorn or catch that movie - guess we need to Cruise Again!