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Love the little shop with your macaroons just waiting for you there to indulge on! Choices look good for lunch at Cabana's! Glad you enjoyed the film and I find the Buena Vista Theater to be quite cozy as I love the theming and clors in here!
It's way better than our local movie theatre. Honestly, if the seats there were as comfortable as in the Buena Vista Theatre, we'd go out to see films more often.
Your lunch at Cabana's looked delicious and stunning with that view back towards Castaway Cay. Your towel critter definitely looked quite relaxed.
The towel character and the way he was set up against the pillow was too funny and a great placement by one of the CMs! Just didn't expect it!
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Wednesday 28 September – part five: the easiest $250 we’ve ever spent!
When we came out of the Buena Vista Theatre, we went to enquire about future cruises, but they didn’t open until 4:00pm.
We had a look in the D Lounge…
… and they were going to be doing a drawing class, but we passed, as we really wanted some downtime, as we’d barely been in the room since first thing in the morning. I know it’ll never be my donkey they draw anyway, as we’ve been told he’s too complicated to do for these… and most of the time these days, we end up with characters we’ve never heard of…
When we got back to the room, we admired the view outside…
… and watched what they were doing with the lifeboats now. Thankfully no more man overboard drills!
About 4:15pm, we headed down to the future cruise sales desk, and both were already busy, but thankfully one couple was done very quickly. I had done a bit of research on the Disney Cruise Line website in the room into prices, and let’s just say the Fantasy over Christmas, which was what I wanted to do, was no longer an option. Way too expensive!
I didn’t realise that you can just now do a place setter, and your 10% discount and stateroom credit is guaranteed for two years. I thought you had to book a cruise, then you could transfer it once. This works much better, as our only other option is going to be an early 2018 cruise, and of course, those aren’t available yet. We are currently looking at the first Fantasy cruise of 2018, which will be to the Western Caribbean, and fingers crossed that will still take in Jamaica, as I’ve always wanted to go there, and that it also includes a Star Wars Day at Sea, as I know Mark would enjoy that.
Once we’d done that (as the woman said, the easiest $250 deposit we’ve ever spent! ), we headed up to deck 11 to go and sample some of those macaroons… I got a pistachio and a passion fruit one, while Mark tried a pistachio. Let’s just say they were good, but they weren’t worth $2 each for me…
We headed into the Cove Café, as we hadn’t yet been in there this cruise, and it’s lovely. Mark was saying it was very small, but I did point out to him that the Dream services mainly a hot route, so it doesn’t need to be as big as the Wonder, which serves Alaska.
As we were here, we decided to have a drink, and we opted for the Toblerontini, made up of Godiva chocolate liquor, Frangelico, Bailey’s, Kahlua and honey, and wow, this was nice. If you know what I mean, it’s a dangerous drink in that you couldn’t taste the alcohol until you got to the bottom of it.
On our way out, we recommended it to a woman who was debating what to have, and we told her she’d love it. Hopefully she did…
By now, we were moving away from Castaway Cay, so we headed outside to take in the view, and made our way up to deck 13.
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What a great afternoon. A movie, resting with fantastic views, snacks and drinks, and securing the fact that you get to do it all over again in another year or so. Sounds good to me!
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Your time in the Rainforest sounded heavenly (with the exception of the snorer ). I really love getting the chance to see the ship empty on port days as it just looks so relaxing with out the crowds around!!! My DS and DBIL always stay on board on the days that their cruise ship pull in the port for a beach day and they enjoy all the amenities and just the quietness of the ship! The bar/lounge areas are so beautiful on this ship.
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What a great afternoon. A movie, resting with fantastic views, snacks and drinks, and securing the fact that you get to do it all over again in another year or so. Sounds good to me!
Except I'm not sure the next cruise will be quite as relaxed. Firstly, it will have a lot of ports of call to visit and they'll all be new to us so we'll be getting off the ship a lot more!
Your time in the Rainforest sounded heavenly (with the exception of the snorer ). I really love getting the chance to see the ship empty on port days as it just looks so relaxing with out the crowds around!!! My DS and DBIL always stay on board on the days that their cruise ship pull in the port for a beach day and they enjoy all the amenities and just the quietness of the ship! The bar/lounge areas are so beautiful on this ship.
I don't mind doing that on days when beaches are the main draw or places we've been before, but if it's a first time visit, I always feel we should get off and explore a bit.
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Very cute shop!
Choices look good for lunch at Cabana's! 
Just didn't expect it! 
Way too expensive! 
If you know what I mean, it’s a dangerous drink in that you couldn’t taste the alcohol until you got to the bottom of it. 
so we'll be getting off the ship a lot more! 
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