Disney Dream Review

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Can adults have fun on Disney with no kids?

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Sail Date: Oct 2011

4 day Disney Dream October 23, 2011

After 28 cruises onboard most of the mainstream cruise lines we decided it was time to test the waters at Disney Cruise Line. We are an unmarried childless couple in our mid 40's, so why cruise on Disney? We both love Disney and usually visit Disney World about once a year. We also love to check out new ships. Also, since we used Disney Vacation Club points the cruise was much cheaper for us than published prices.

There has been much theorized about the value of using vacation club points to cruise. I think each vacation club member values their points in a different way, so it is up to them to determine whether a cruise is a good use of points. I think the most important aspects of using points to book the cruise are the limited availability and loss of flexibility. There are a limited number of cabins released to be booked using points and once booked a reservation is not easily altered. I booked this cruise with my points back in February 2010.

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Cabin 6A

Our room was an aft balcony on deck ten; 10664. We booked the room as a 6A, but the room has since been upgraded to a 5E. I booked an aft balcony based on my past experience that usually aft balconies were bigger and I wasn't disappointed. We paced off the balcony at about 18 feet deep and the width of the room about two thirds covered, so it was cooler in the sun and protected during rain. There were two lounge chairs, two upright chairs and one side table on the balcony. This was our first experience with the split bath. I understand how the split bath would be useful when bathing kids, but it wasn't necessarily advantageous for the two of us. The shower did incorporate about a half size tub, so for a cruise ship shower it was pretty big. There were two closets, one with a safe and the other had some shelves, and next to the closet was a small bureau with three drawers and shelves over and the ice bucket on the counter. The bed had a small bedside table on either side with one small drawer. The bed was the smallest we have encountered on a ship; we found it uncomfortable to sleep together in this bed. The room was set up to sleep four using a fold out sofa and bed that folded down from the ceiling. The sofa was next to the balcony doors with the desk across from it and a trunk like coffee table that worked great as a dirty clothes hamper. There was a fridge built into half of the desk and the other side had more drawers. The fridge worked great, kept anything inside very cold, not just chilled. The top drawer had a hair dryer that worked great. All the drawers had a soft close mechanism, just gently push the drawer and it takes over. I did miss the bathrobe provided by other cruise lines. Our stateroom host was satisfactory, not outstanding and not bad, the only thing I could really complain about was that our room wasn't made up the first day until afternoon. He did keep our little cooler filled with ice, as I find the little ice bucket provided inadequate. It was nice having a room near the aft elevators; they seemed to be considerably less busy than the mid ship and forward elevators.

Some comments about our room. Again the bed was small; it seemed more like a double than a queen. The split bath was nice. While I don't think we were ever using both at the same time, it did allow for a larger shower than is found on most cruise ships. I liked how the room key scanned without having to insert into a slot, all I had to do was wave my evening bag in front of the reader to open the door. Also the card slot to activate the power in the room wasn't much of a hindrance as I had kept one of our room keys from our precruise stay to use so we wouldn't forget our room key in the slot when we left the room. I wish they sold the red pillows in the gift shop also; it would be a wonderful keepsake. A word of warning regarding viewing your onboard account on the TV in your cabin, I tried this and found that our actual bill was about three times the amount shown on the TV. The TV access is not accurate at all.

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