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Love the look of the District area on the Dream! It seems after coming from my first cruise that there are sort of equivalents of these various bars and lounges to those on The Magic in the After Hours, now that I've seen your photos of the various spots!
More nice photos on board and loving the look and layout of The Dream. I just may have to see first hand for myself as I have three more ships to go!
Glad you enjoyed the presentation of The Dream on the ship. I wanted to do one of these on my cruise but couldn't fit it in as it usually conflicted with something else I was doing.
That's funny with the family rushing back to the ship. I would be so embarrassed if that was me. That happened, on my cruise when we were in Key West.
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Sounds like a fabulous day so far, except for that Aqua Duck. I rode it with Lukas the first time and had water all up my back and dumped on head.
So cool to see inside the Rainforest.
Awesome views of the ship and Castaway Cay. Sorry about your experience on the Aqua Duck. The buffet sure looks GREAT. Glad you were able, to find a lot to do on your private ship for the day.
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Love the look of the District area on the Dream! It seems after coming from my first cruise that there are sort of equivalents of these various bars and lounges to those on The Magic in the After Hours, now that I've seen your photos of the various spots!
There definitely are - the basic design is the same between all the ships, with individual touches to each and of course bigger differences between the older and newer ships, but once you've been on one, you've got the idea as to roughly what to expect on all the others.
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More nice photos on board and loving the look and layout of The Dream. I just may have to see first hand for myself as I have three more ships to go!
Now there's a challenge! We've done all four - twice on the Magic, twice on the Dream and twice on the Wonder, although we've got no plans for a second on the Fantasy yet... we'll be on the Wonder for the third time in August.
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Glad you enjoyed the presentation of The Dream on the ship. I wanted to do one of these on my cruise but couldn't fit it in as it usually conflicted with something else I was doing.
That is the problem - there's just so much to do on board that sometimes you have to pick one thing over another.
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That's funny with the family rushing back to the ship. I would be so embarrassed if that was me. That happened, on my cruise when we were in Key West.
If that was us, I think we'd have spent the rest of the cruise in our room in self imposed disgrace, as we'd be too embarrassed to face anyone...
Awesome views of the ship and Castaway Cay. Sorry about your experience on the Aqua Duck. The buffet sure looks GREAT. Glad you were able, to find a lot to do on your private ship for the day.
Wednesday 25 February – part four: fancy seeing you here!
A little bit later, we looked outside from our veranda, and this was the sight that met us:
We headed out to deck 12 to have a wander around, and get a slightly different perspective of Castaway Cay from up here.
We saw a few red people as we wandered around, and I’m guessing there are going to be some seriously sore people soon!
As we made our way along deck 12, I was staring at the AquaDuck, wondering how on earth anyone could look as if they were having fun on that thing when look who appeared in front of us!
We headed up to the sports deck on deck 13 aft to get some more views, both of the sport going on here…
I absolutely love that picture of the two of you with Daisy Duck It has the perfect island atmosphere!
Whenever I see pictures of the Disney ships, I can't help but feel like I don't ever explore all of the ship. We tend to spend most of our time in specific areas (stateroom/verandah, adult pool area, restaurants, shops - that's pretty much it ).
I absolutely love that picture of the two of you with Daisy Duck It has the perfect island atmosphere!
Thank you so much.
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Whenever I see pictures of the Disney ships, I can't help but feel like I don't ever explore all of the ship. We tend to spend most of our time in specific areas (stateroom/verandah, adult pool area, restaurants, shops - that's pretty much it ).
You know what? I feel the same when I look at other people's photos and I always feel bad that we never go to the Open House events at the various kids' clubs, as they are amazingly themed. One cruise, we will have to do that.
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It seems after coming from my first cruise that there are sort of equivalents of these various bars and lounges to those on The Magic in the After Hours, now that I've seen your photos of the various spots! 
That happened, on my cruise when we were in Key West.
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We've done all four - twice on the Magic, twice on the Dream and twice on the Wonder, although we've got no plans for a second on the Fantasy yet... we'll be on the Wonder for the third time in August. 
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