First things first, we were late leaving Port Canaveral because of an inspection by the coast guard. The cruise line gives you an arrival to port time and ours was between 10-10:30, well by the time we started boarding every arrival time to port had arrived. There were no places to sit people just sat down where ever they felt the urge, my husband stood in line with our grandson who's 5 to get our grandson's Mickey band for over an hour because they can't issue the bands until the coast guard clears the ship. It was chaos!!! We finally began boarding and got 1/2 of the way up the gangway to get stopped in lines to have our pics taken, we walked right by, we had been on our feet for over 3 hours at that point. Got on went to the enchanted garden and had lunch which was lovely finally a break from standing. We were told when we boarded that our room would be ready by 1-1:30 we got in our stateroom at 2:30 so since 10am we have been lugging around carry on bags a total of 4 of them. My husband and grandson changed in the bathrooms on deck and went into the pool which was nice but so small it was crowded.

Our stateroom was very nice, just enough room, spotless and our stateroom hostess was lovely and quite helpful. We booked a room with a veranda for the simple reason that it was on the Disney Cruise website that you could smoke from 6pm to 6am on your veranda, well at 6pm I went out on the veranda and no ashtray on the wall, so we asked at the desk and were told "they changed that policy 6 days prior to our cruise" So now you have to go down to deck 4 in the back of the ship from 6pm to 6 am or up to 13 in the front of the ship in the 18 and older area.

First nights dinner was at the animators palate, wonderful dinner except for the bouncing around from the ship trying to make up time for leaving port late. Our servers were wonderful, they were very informative about the menu and dinner choices. They told jokes & they did tricks to entertain us it made our dinner very enjoyable. Read more