Disney Fantasy Review

Nursery was HORRIBLE! Who would have expected from DISNEY!

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Disney Fantasy
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nmtieu
6-10 Cruises • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Apr 2014
Traveled with children

My husband and I use to travel very frequently until we became pregnant with our twins almost two years ago. After speaking to the Disney representatives and inquiring about the accommodations that Disney offered for infants, as well as from reading online reviews and being told by friends/family that "once you cruise with Disney, you'll never want to cruise with anyone again", we decided to take the plunge and book with Disney. Our expectations of the trip: mostly roaming around the ship with our twins, relaxing on the balcony, lots of doing nothing but eating and sleeping with the twins. So to start, we had very little expectations of the amount that we were going to do. But I guess our hopes were too high for Disney.

Disney advertises that their Small World Nursery (for children younger than 3), are staffed with highly capable personel who are more than qualify to care for your kids while you and your partner get some adult alone time. I believed this, since who would do a better job in caring for kids than DISNEY! We were so wrong.

First, the nursery is staffed by EXTREMELY UNHAPPY GRUMPY young girls...I could sense everytime I walked in that they DID NOT want to be working. Never a "Hello! Hi! How's your day going?" There was no ethusiasm or purkiness that you would normally associate with a babysitter--a DISNEY babysitter. Also, Disney does not allow parents to interact with their children in the nursery, alongside the caretaker, prior to leaving them with complete strangers. It's just a "drop them off and see you later" type of deal. How do they expect the kids do overcome stranger anxiety?

Cabin Review

tidy but stateroom attendent never vaccuumed. Same bread crumps under the bed for three nights until I asked him to vaccum it up.

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