The Magic, Wonder, Dream and Fantasy of the Disney Cruise Line

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Trip Report Day 1-Misc. Photos around the ship

Trip Report-Day 1

April 23, 2009

Misc. Photos around the ship

One of my favorite things to do once onboard the Wonder or Magic, well after pigging out at the buffet of course..=) is to wander the ship and take pictures of all the familiar sights that have become so familiar to me over the course of my 10 DCL vacations.

This first night onboard was very special as it was Josh and my 50th night onboard Disney Cruise Line. See how much I love the cruise, I actually sat down one afternoon and figured out how many days I had spent onboard.

Deck 4 at night after dinner

Our 1st night towel animal...a swan

Dusk at sea

Sunset at sea

The view of the ocean out of our stateroom window

The hallway leading to the Walt Disney theatre. To the left in this picture is the Mickey Mates Retail shop and to the right is the Treasure Ketch retial shop. You can see the banners hanging, The Golden Mickeys was the show in the Walt Disney Theatre on the first night.

The Goofy Pool...for Families

The Quiet Cove Adult Pool...no one under 19 allowed. In other words....Paradise

Another view of the Adult Quiet Cove Pool.

The Mickey pool. For the little kids.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Trip Report-Day 1 Dinner Pictures

Trip Report-Day 1

4/23/09

Dinner Pics

Well for our dining rotation this time we had PTA with a seating time of 8:15.

Parrot Cay, Tritons and Animators Pallate was to be our rotation.

We had already booked Palo for our 2nd night so we were all set for our rotation.

The 3 main dining rooms all have new menus and I was pleasently surprised by all the changes. Even though I have never had a bad meal onboard the Wonder or Magic it is good to see them changing things a bit.

For our servers this time we had Mihailo from Serbia and our Assistant Server was Veronica from Mexico. They were a great team and were always there to greet us with a smile and a great recommendation for dinner. Just as I have never had a bad meal onboard I have yet to have bad servers onboard either.

Our 1st night we ate at Parrot Cay.

My Entree that night was Grouper on top of saffron rice with shrimp on top. Snow Peas and a cream sauce.....yummy.

Josh had Rib Eye of Beef with a twice baked potato.

My dessert....Creme Brulee Cheesecake

Joshs dessert...a Sampler Trio...Lemon Merangue pie, Creme Brulee Cheesecake and Smores Cake.

Trip Report Day 1 On the road, DCL Terminal and Stateroom

Trip Report-Day 1

April 23, 2009

On the road, DCL Terminal and Stateroom

Well my 10th Disney Cruise Vacation is in the books and it was another amazing trip. 3 nights onboard the glorious Disney Wonder. Had amazing weather, calm seas and lots of food, fun and sun.

This first report covers the trip to the terminal, Terminal pics and Stateroom photos.

On the road to Port Canaveral, Beachline Toll Road 528

A Canaveral Sign....getting closer

Almost there

I see the Wonder

We made it to the terminal around 11am and received boarding number 8. They did things a bit different this time as they gave us our Key to the world card and then we had to go into another line and get our picture taken. I thought they would put our picture on the card which they didn't and for whatever reason when we got off the ship we still needed our Drivers License or Passport.

Oh well....here Josh and I pose with Goofy in the terminal as we await the 12 noon boarding time.

A look at the Disney Cruise Line Terminal in Port Canaveral

Through the Mickey Ear portal we will soon go and onto the Disney Wonder.

A look at the terminal from the ship.

The first thing you see when entering the ship...the Grand Lobby Atrium. It always feels like I have come home when I first see this. After 10 trips and 52 nights spent onboard the Magic and Wonder you can understand why.

Another view of the Atrium.

Stateroom 2590. Outside Stateroom

Stateroom pic....Joshie gets a cameo in.

Friday, March 13, 2009

The new ships-new names and new title of the blog

Hi everyone-

Well it is finally official, this week Bob Iger announced the names of the new ships....

The Disney Dream, which will sail in 2011 and the Disney Fantasy, which will sail in 2012.

So now that Dreams and Fantasy have been added to some Magic and Wonder my blog has a new name....=)

I guessed that Dream would be the name of one of the ships and I figured it would either be Fantasy or Wish for the next ship. Fantasy it is, who wants to bet the next ships DCL builds one will be called the Wish.

Monday, March 9, 2009

The Wonder sets sail

I finally got some time off and headed to the beach on Sunday 3/8 for some fun and sun.

Beautiful 81 degree day at Port Canaverals Jetty Park beach. Spent the day, but we all know the real reason I was there....to see the Disney Wonder set sail.

So around 5:15 pm I heard When You Wish Upon A Star behind me and as I turned around...there she was the glorious Disney Wonder. Just voted the number 1 large cruise ship by Conde Naste Traveller.

I was so jealous of everyone waving at us from the ship, I wanted to be in their spot. Oh well in 6 weeks I will be...=)

Saturday, March 7, 2009

The Beginning of the......Dream?? Wish?? Fantasy??

Greetings everyone-

I can't believe I missed posting this to the blog during the week. Work continues to be so crazy I can never post on here anymore.

But an exciting thing happened this week.

The first piece of steel was cut for the brand new Disney Ship at the Meyer-Werft Shipyward in Germany.

And regardless of what it will be called...The Disney Dream?? Disney Wish?? Disney Fantasy??

This was a history making week as we have all been waiting for the start of construction on these 2 new glorious ships.

2011 isn't really that far off when the first ship comes home to Florida. I am already planning on being at the channel opening in Port Canaveral to catch the first glimpse of the new Disney ship. A day we fans of Disney Cruise Line have been waiting for years and years.

Mickey was there to see the first steel cut for his new ship.

What the final product should look like....128,000 tons....50% larger than the Magic and Wonder. 30 feet wider, 150 feet longer and 2 decks taller. It will be a glorious new ship, that I'm going to bet is called the Disney Dream.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Number 10

Work has been so crazy busy this is the first time I have posted in awhile. And guess what, I'm going on another cruise....=)

Disney Cruise trip number 10 is coming up April 23-26. 3 night Cruise onboard the gorgeous Disney Wonder.

I can't wait. I will get to celebrate cruise number 10 onboard the ship I sailed my first Disney Cruise on back in September of 2003.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

One last Christmas Post

It has been ages since I last posted. A busy Holiday season and an even busier start of the year has kept me away. But I'm back with one last picture looking back at my Christmas cruise. Below is a picture of the Gingerbread house. In 2007 on the Wonder the Gingerbread house was located next to the staircase in between the Promenade Lounge and the back entrance to Tritons. On the Magic this year due to the new Photopass type machines being next to the stairs the Gingerbread house was in the Promenade Lounge.