Disney Fantasy Review

Fabulous new Fantasy

Review for the Eastern Caribbean Cruise on Disney Fantasy
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Cruisinpa
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Mar 2012

I full enjoyed a 7-night Preview Cruise this week to St. Maarten, St. Thomas, and Disney's private Castaway Cay on board the brand new Disney Fantasy sailing from Port Canaveral FL.

The first two days at seas were spent exploring this beautiful new vessel, an expanded and technologically updated version of Disney's original ships, the Magic and the Wonder. Two additional stateroom decks and an added 150 feet in length accomodate 4000 passengers and over 1400 crew members very comfortably, and without making you feel as though you must take a five-mile hike to get to dinner. Disney creativity ("Imagineering") is evident everywhere: framed artwork comes to life when you approach, lighting and A-V systems in the staterooms are state-of-the-art, and the evening entertainment productions rival anything you might see on Broadway. Inside staterooms provide a "virtual porthole" showing real-time video images of the same view enjoyed through an actual porthole in an outside room. All staterooms include two on-board cell phones to easily keep in touch with your cabin mates and anyone else on the ship. Tyhe "Aqua-Duck" water slide is unique to this ship and was a big hit with both kids and adults.

This particular trip was heavily populated by Disney employees and VIPs, so I was not able to get dinner reservations at Palo's, the superb northern Italian restaurant which is very popular on Disney's other ships. It didn't matter. The food and service in all of the regular restaurants was excellent - and even better than expected - even off the ship at Castaway Cay.

Cabin Review

Deck 2 midship cabin was very nice.

Smaller than some but very comfortable and close to everything except aft restaurants and night clubs.

Well-configured with two separate rooms for toilet/sink and shower/bath/sink are good for multiple persons. Plenty of closet/drawers/cupboards. Large porthole.

For extra person, single-size sofa-bed was too hard. Regular queen bed was very comfortable.

This group of cabins may sometimes be used for excess crew quarters, which could mean some hallway traffic noises at odd hours but that was not a problem.

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