Disney Dream Review
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We sailed a Back-to-Back on the Disney Dream starting on November 27 (4 days followed by 3 days). This was our first experience with Disney, and we had an overall wonderful time. The embarkation process was great - it seems they have really improved this process over early reports and we were on the ship quickly. We arrived around 11 AM and received boarding # 5. I literally didn't have time to get through the Youth Program registration line before they were boarding our group and just registered the kids at the Oceaneer's Club onboard.
On our four-day cruise, the weather when we went to Castaway Cay was cool and overcast so the captain decided to turn our at-sea day into a second Castaway Cay day. Others are reporting the real reason was due to a stomach virus that was going around, and they wanted to clean the ship. Unfortunately, our son (DS7) eventually got this virus on the 3-day portion of our trip. We spent a day in the cabin with him (my husband came down with it the day we got off the ship), while trying to keep DS6 out of the cabin as much as possible. Our poor cabin steward had some cleaning up to do, but he was wonderful.
A lot of people stayed on the ship on the second CC day. I know a lot of people pay good money for double dip CC cruises, but the water was COLD (even for the kids) and we missed not having a sea day. We have generally cruised in April/May, and I think I will avoid November-February in the future -â€" we just did not enjoy going in the ocean when the water was so cold. We decided to stay on the ship on our 3-day leg of the B2B when we were at CC, when it was nice and quiet.
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Deluxe Inside Stateroom
The virtual porthole was great -â€" we loved to see which character was going to come up next. Tinkerbell/stars would show up on the screen before a new character came up. It was also nice to see what was going on outside the ship. There was a lot of storage space for luggage, and the closet space was fine, but the shelf/drawer storage was minimal, especially for our 7-day cruise, and DH wound up keeping his clothes in his suitcase under the bed. We have never had a stateroom this far aft before and I really did not like it. The vibration was awful when we were pulling into port (which was every day of the 7), and I did not like being woken up early every day of my vacation. The kids slept through it.