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It didn't take the two of you long to get settled in on cruise drive by enjoying some yummy looking tropical drinks! Nice photos from the ship! Which one are you on?
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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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wow! Ive never seen a ship so empty!! I'm hoping we can experience it in september on our Med cruise like that! My daughter would LOVE the swimming pool to herself LOL. Glad you had nice weather!
How lovely to be on board so early and have the ship to yourself!
It was a great relaxing afternoon!
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What a beautiful day to board the ship and have the pool almost all to yourselves!
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Could not believe how perfect the weather was!
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Can't believe how empty the ship was. I wonder if it's because you're embarking in another continent?
I think a lot of people head right to lunch, leaving the pool to fill up a bit slower!
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It didn't take the two of you long to get settled in on cruise drive by enjoying some yummy looking tropical drinks! Nice photos from the ship! Which one are you on?
We were on the Disney Magic.
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Wow, you really did have the ship to yourselves!!
It was so peaceful!
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wow! Ive never seen a ship so empty!! I'm hoping we can experience it in september on our Med cruise like that! My daughter would LOVE the swimming pool to herself LOL. Glad you had nice weather!
This was the adult pool, not sure how long the family pool stayed calm
Day 3 - Lunch and a Luggage Hunt!
We easily found our way up to Cabanas and washed our hands at the new(ish) handwashing stations outside the restaurant. We walked the buffet to get the lay of the land and then made some yummy choices and found a table.
Some of our selections include... kids mac and cheese and chicken tenders (surprisingly good, but were different the rest of the cruise) salad (minimal dressing choices) cheese cubes, chicken curry, meatloaf (yum), turkey with cranberry, self saucing berry pudding, rum raisin and mint chocolate chip ice cream, and carrot cake!
After lunch it was a short break before our safety drill. We were in Animator’s Palate (I love how DCL’s safety locations are all inside with chairs - not always the case on other cruise lines!) We took some photos before heading down.
We found a seat and chatted with the others at our table as everyone filed in and then they went over the mandatory safety info and in no time we were back on our way!
We headed back to our room and found that we were the unfortunate guests with missing luggage We waited a bit at first thinking we might have just been last on the list. However, the luggage still hadn’t come and it was about an hour late so we called Guest Services to inquire.
We explained that we had done an upgrade and wondered if our luggage hadn’t gotten the memo… they said they would send someone to look for our luggage and bring it as soon as possible. So we waited some more and still had nothing. Mom went down to our initial room assignment and lo and behold, there it was. She somehow managed to bring it back to our room (I think she found a CM to help her) and we were finally able to get ready for the night ahead!
I did call back to Guest Services to let them know we had found our own luggage, they were very apologetic but honestly I was a little peeved they couldn’t figure out that our luggage was at our old room and delivery it correctly? It was all solved and we moved on. We unpacked a little as we got ready but we had a full night ahead!
Glad you found your luggage!!
I don't think most safety stations are inside. In 9 DCL cruises we've only been inside once (in the theater). Every other time we've had to line up on deck.
I think you've lucked out with the mandatory safety drill, as a lot of them take place on the outside deck. On our recent cruises, we've had one in the Walt Disney Theatre and the others have all been outside, which is a nightmare if it's hot and sunny - and it has been. I've sometimes felt myself burning during them.
Glad you found your luggage!!
I don't think most safety stations are inside. In 9 DCL cruises we've only been inside once (in the theater). Every other time we've had to line up on deck.
Oh someone had told me they were all inside and then everyone we talked to also had it inside! Maybe just on the smaller ships?
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Wow, close call with the luggage!
I think you've lucked out with the mandatory safety drill, as a lot of them take place on the outside deck. On our recent cruises, we've had one in the Walt Disney Theatre and the others have all been outside, which is a nightmare if it's hot and sunny - and it has been. I've sometimes felt myself burning during them.
Yep it's been hot and sunny and we were outside with no chairs on a different cruise line before so I can understand! I guess I was misinformed on that change
Nice photos from the ship and your meal at Cabana's looks good. Strange with the luggage and glad your mom was able to locate it!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Unfortunately our muster stations have always been outside even on the Magic. Looks like next time it will be at Station K (which is outside on deck 4) when I looked it up on another board by stateroom number.
The food looked sooooo good. I miss not having to cook!
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Nice photos from the ship! Which one are you on?
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