What a WONDERful World: Our First Disney Cruise on the Wonder, May 13-May 17! (DONE!)

[Fairy_Tale_Bride]

Disney Wonder
4-Night Cruise
May 13-May 17

Hi there everyone!

I'm FINALLY back with another Trippie and this is my first TR on the DCL Board! My husband and I went on our first Disney Cruise to celebrate my birthday. It was amazing! I am now hooked and can't wait to book another cruise!

Let's let the fun begin!!!


May 13
Boarding Time


We are lucky enough to live in Orlando, so we were off to Port Canaveral at 11:00am for our vacation to begin! I couldn't believe it only took us a hour to get to the port! It can't get much better than that, well, except for our car getting completely covered in squashed love bugs.

I was in awe once I saw the ship, I couldn't believe how large it was and I couldn't wait to get on board to go exploring!

We were so impressed with how quick the check-in process was, I thought we'd have to wait for a hour or longer before we could board. Our room would be ready at 1:00pm, so we just had about a hour to wait before we could see where we would be staying for the next 4 nights.

I was so looking forward to our name being announced when we entered the ship and it was such a special moment with the crew clapping for us in such a warm welcome! I couldn't wait to see all the other magic in store for us!

Our first stop was lunch at the Beach Blanket Buffet!

We got a wonderful table by the window and I couldn't wait to being the many meals of our cruise. I had heard such amazing things about the food and I quickly found out it's all true! The vegetarian sandwiches were fantastic! I quickly gave a call to my Mom, since it was Mother's Day. It would be the last time I could make a call before we left port, so it had to be to her.

We enjoyed lunch and then it was time for us to make our way to our room on the 6th floor. We opened the door and I saw the room decorated all for my birthday, which is May 15. My family had surprised me with our entire room decked out in birthday surprises. It was so sweet and such a great way to start off our cruise! I knew I was going to have a fantastic 24th birthday! Is there any better way to celebrate!?

The birthday cake was amazing looking and I loved the chocolate ship on top! I quickly ate the strawberries.

We were so impressed with our room! It was much larger than we expected to be. It even had a "Pirates of the Caribbean" theme and I was thrilled! Once, we left the cruise ship on May 17, we were actually flying out to go to Disneyland for the "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" World Premiere on May 19! Don't worry, I will be writing my Disneyland Trippie as well!

Some of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" artwork

My first job was to decorate our stateroom door. It had to be "DIS'ed" out!

Before we could really settle in when had to do our mandatory emergency drill and our area had to all gather in the Animator's Palate Restaurant. It was pretty quick and painless.

Day 1 continued...

 

[ReAnSt]

Lindsay,

Glad to see you had a great trip. Can't wait to read your whole trip report.

DCL is definitely addicting. Only 97 days till I go back.

 

[tinkerbell87512]

Welcome back Lindsey!!!! I'm so on board for this trippie...as I always am for any of your reports I can't wait to read about all your adventures, you and I sound so much a like when it comes to Disney travel and a love for Disney in general. Glad your back and I can't wait to read everything!

 

[Babs417]

Great start I love Pics and reports together.

 

[MagicMe]

Great start....anxious to hear more!!!

 

[Fairy_Tale_Bride]

May 13
Continued...
Sail Away Party



Video 1: Sail Away Party

It was time for us all to gather for the Sail Away Party and I could not wait!
We were quickly introduced to our amazing crew, who would be entertaining us for our entire cruise! What a great group of people!

Of course, the real stars of the cruise had to arrive to really get this party going!

I never knew Goofy had so many dancing skills! He had the greatest moves and it was so hilarious to see!

We were then introduced to Brent, who is the sweetest guy ever! We came to know him and his voice quite well as it echoed in our stateroom a few times a day.

Brent got us all warmed up and ready for the countdown to set sail!

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Then, the amazing Disney horn sounded! We were off!


Video 2: Setting Sail

We made our way to the front of the ship to see us pull away and we saw our Disney pals waving good-bye to us. It was such a neat moment! See all the Mickey gloves waving to us!?

Let the Magic begin!

 

[luvfigment]

YAY!!!!! A New Trippie! I am loving it as usual! Can't wait to read all about the trip. The decorations for your room were great!!

 

[bbangel]

Great start Lindsey!

 

[disneydance]

Subscribing and wow looks like you starated out a wonderful cruise wonderfully

 

[LITTLEKID58]

Awesome TFS

 

[PirateKitty]

Yay! Another trippie from Lindsey! Looking forward to hearing all about it. DF is rolling his eyes, cause he knows I'm gonna want to go on a Disney Cruise now.

 

[sandybobandy]

Yay! Can't wait for the next day Great report so far!

 

[princess jackie]

Can't wait to read more!! It sounds like I'm going to have to book a Disney Cruise soon!!

 

[MagicMe]

So great to see another post this morning - but we're still on the sail-away

Can't wait to hear more

 

[knelson]

Great report - it is getting us excited about our first trip - Thanks.

 

[Disneygrl36]

I'm here too!!!!! Great start Lindsey. I have been keeping my eye out for this report to pop up.
Hope your cruise was as great as our was.
Can't wait for more-don't leave anything out.

 

[MouseGrandma]

Great report - KEEP POSTING MORE PICTURES!!! They're great. We are getting ready for the Wonder next month with our son age 39 and granddaughter age 9. Will be booking on board for Feb. 2008 for just us - grandma and grandpa.

 

[Fairy_Tale_Bride]

Lindsay,

Glad to see you had a great trip. Can't wait to read your whole trip report.

DCL is definitely addicting. Only 97 days till I go back.

Glad you're here! I am so ready to book another cruise!

Welcome back Lindsey!!!! I'm so on board for this trippie...as I always am for any of your reports I can't wait to read about all your adventures, you and I sound so much a like when it comes to Disney travel and a love for Disney in general. Glad your back and I can't wait to read everything!

Hi girl! I know! I felt like I haven't written a Trippie in a long time! I've got to include my WDW photos from when my family was just here too! It may have to wait for the Disneyland TR! I have a slight obsession with taking pictures!

Great start I love Pics and reports together.

Well, then you've come to the right TR! Mine are always full of plenty of pictures!!!

YAY!!!!! A New Trippie! I am loving it as usual! Can't wait to read all about the trip. The decorations for your room were great!!

Hi there! Glad to be back writing on The DIS! I was very impressed with the decorations too! They made it more fun for us all week! I hope you're doing well and not stressing too bad on all the wedding planning!

 

[Fairy_Tale_Bride]

Yay! Another trippie from Lindsey! Looking forward to hearing all about it. DF is rolling his eyes, cause he knows I'm gonna want to go on a Disney Cruise now.

You must go on a Disney Cruise some time, but I do promise you will get hooked! Poor DF!

So great to see another post this morning - but we're still on the sail-away

Can't wait to hear more

You'll quickly learn that my Trippies are detailed and FULL of photos! I take up a lot more room than just a few posts!

Great report - it is getting us excited about our first trip - Thanks.

Great! You are going to love it and get hooked! I'm ready to start planning again!

I'm here too!!!!! Great start Lindsey. I have been keeping my eye out for this report to pop up.
Hope your cruise was as great as our was.
Can't wait for more-don't leave anything out.

Yay! All my DIS buds are here! It was fantastic and I'll make sure to not leave out any detail or pictures! I've got plenty!

Great report - KEEP POSTING MORE PICTURES!!! They're great. We are getting ready for the Wonder next month with our son age 39 and granddaughter age 9. Will be booking on board for Feb. 2008 for just us - grandma and grandpa.

Thanks! I will, I will! You are going to have a WONDERful time! That's so exciting that you can already start planning another cruise! You're going to have a blast!

 

[Fairy_Tale_Bride]

May 13
Continued...
First Dinner- Parrot Cay: Island Dinner


We had requested the second dinner seating and got the last seating for the night at 8:30pm, which is a lot later than we usually eat, but it seemed to work out quite will. The first night our dinner was a Parrot Cay, which worked out great because I had bought these cute Disney tropical outfits for DH & I to wear and I wanted to wear them on the first night!

After the Sail Away Party, we did some quick exploring on the ship and went back for some quick rest in our lovely stateroom. Our luggage was delivered to our room pretty quickly and I was able to unpack almost all of our bags before it was time for us to get ready for dinner!

I had noticed on our Personal Navigator that Captain Jack Sparrow would be hanging around before our dinner, so you know what we had to go do first!

We then saw that Mickey & Minnie had arrived! They looked adorable!

It was time for our dinner at Parrot Cay and we were quickly led to our table in the back left of the restaurant. We were at a table that could hold 7 people, so I was very interested to see who our tablemates would be.

We lucked out and got with some great tablemates, two were sisters and then we were with a lovely couple! They were great! I couldn't have asked for better tablemates for our first cruise. We were the young ones of the bunch, but that even made it more fun for us and they filled us in on all the DCL info, since they had cruised many times before with Disney!

We were also introduced to our server, Hannelie, and she was very sweet! Our meal was fantastic! My favorite item was the cold Mango soup and DH was hooked on the chicken wings! It was then time for dessert! I saw our server and head server coming towards our table with a cake. It was for me! Then, everyone began to sing "Happy Birthday" to me! I was presented with the beautiful cake a DCL button that said, "It's my Birthday!" My birthday was two days away, so I had planned on wearing it for the rest of the cruise!

The cake was strawberry and very yummy! DH & I decided to bring it back to our room, so we could eat on it for the rest of the cruise. We did have the other large birthday cake waiting for us in our stateroom too!

We returned back to our room to call it a night because we'd have to get up pretty early in the morning and we needed our rest. We walked in and saw that our bed had been turned down for us. We had a lovely swan towel animal waiting for us and some chocolates. What a WONDERful beginning to our cruise!