I cruise as often as I can. My son and I love it! We decided to book the Dream after seeing all that it had to offer. We decided to take my Mom with us as she had never sailed with Disney before. We live in Daytona Beach and drove about an hour to Port Canaveral. We arrived at the port arouns 11am. Parking was a breeze. It was raining when we reached the port but it cleared up before we sailed. Check in was very quick. My Mom took care of that and we were ready to go before I was finished parking the car. While we waited to board, I brought my son to the youth registration area. We had filled out our paperwork online so we were quickly processed and my son was issued his youth club bracelet. This bracelet is used to check the children in and out of the kids club. It's a bit bulky and my son did not care for it but he lived with it for the 3 days that he had to wear it. We were in the #5 group to board and we were on the ship by 11:45.

As we entered the atrium, we were greeted by name by the DCL staff. It's a nice touch and my son loved it. We were immediately given instructions on where to go to get some lunch and headed to Cabanas. Being one of the first groups to board, Cabanas was not overly busy. We were hown to a table and helped ourselves to lunch. We found the food to be hot and fresh and very good. They had much to choose from. Some of the items offered were shrimp, crab claws, mussels, carved roast beef, carved turkey breast, lamb chops, steak, pizza, burgers, hot dogs, pasta, fresh veggies and fruit, french fries, Indian curry, asian entrees, etc....

At 1:30, we went to our cabin. We had booked a deluxe verandah on deck 10, cabin # 10664. Our cabin was spacious and spotlessly clean. The verandah was huge!! We had 2 chairs and a table as well as 2 chaise lounges. It was on the aft end of the ship. There was plenty of storage and we had no problem finding the space we needed with some to spare. Our luggage was already in our room so we quickly unpacked and stored our suitcases under the bed. Our room stewardess came to introduce herself and greet us. She was very friendly andmaintained our room beautifully. She also explained how the stateroom operated. You use your key card in order to run the lights, tv, air conditioning, and toilets. She left a spare card with us to leave in the room for conveinance. We left to explore the ship until the lifebboat drill. The drull was quick and painless. No life jackets are required and our muster station was in the comfort of the Evolution lounge. Read more