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I just love their cruise terminal. It's so neat! Ahhh, so nice to see the inside again. Poor Donald! At least the carpet in the foreground looks very nice.....
I just realized it's been forever since we were in that terminal as our last cruise was Alaska, and our next will be out of Barcelona and in to NYC.
Hooray to be on board!
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I just realized it's been forever since we were in that terminal as our last cruise was Alaska, and our next will be out of Barcelona and in to NYC.
We were saying that when we boarded the Wonder a couple of weeks ago. We haven't boarded one of the Magic class ships out of Port Canaveral since our first ever cruise on the Wonder - all the way back in 2004!
Nice photos of the cruise terminal and getting on board the Dream! Glad the boarding process went rather well.
Thanks again for the photo of the B Resort as I thought that was cool when I saw it yesterday!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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Seeing the Disney ships as you are driving to the port is just awesome....It never gets old.
That picture with Donald missing his head....that's how my dad takes pictures. LOL. I have had him take some of me many years ago and I have half a head if I am lucky.
Seeing the Disney ships as you are driving to the port is just awesome....It never gets old.
You are so right, it never does!
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That picture with Donald missing his head....that's how my dad takes pictures. LOL. I have had him take some of me many years ago and I have half a head if I am lucky.
Monday 26 September – part seven: this is taking forever!
We quickly found our way to our room, and here you go – shots of room 9588:
We had some wonderful views outside of the Disney Cruise Line terminal:
We got a very nice gold Castaway Club bag…
We also had a letter with details of the Captain’s reception. Of course, wouldn’t you know it, it’s on Thursday, the at sea day, at 10:00am and when is our Palo brunch booked for? At 10:00am that day. I’m not sure it’s great timing, as I know a lot of gold and platinum Castaway Club cruisers would go for Palo brunch, and the only day it’s available is that day…
We didn’t stay long in the room before we headed out to deck 11, taking the elevator up there:
We were greeted by members from Senses Spa, and explained we wanted a length of cruise Rainforest pass. I asked for the tour, so I could get some photos, but in the end, I wish I hadn’t, as we met so many members of the spa staff and learnt so much about the treatments they offer. Ugh, I could’ve done without that much detail. It felt like it took forever.
This area is new since our last cruise…
… as is the juice bar:
We toured the gym, although we made it very clear that we would not be in here during our cruise.
This was the bit we’d been looking forward to the most!
Then we got to see the couples’ villa. Yes, they’re lovely and we thoroughly enjoyed our treatment there on our Alaskan cruise last year, but we won’t be doing it this time.
We then saw some ordinary treatment rooms…
We both also decided to sign up for the bliss package, which I’ve had before. It was $169, rather than $269, and is 75 minutes long, and includes a foot and ankle massage, hot stone massage, facial, and body scrub. It’s very good, and Mark decided he’d try it as well.
Next: I guess it wouldn’t look so great if Captain Mickey got hit by lightning…
That's a lot of good space that the spa uses. I never really thought about that before. If nothing else, at least when you use the spa you get new vantage points from all the windows - and there's lots of them!
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Poor Donald! At least the carpet in the foreground looks very nice..... 
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