{"id":1596,"date":"2011-05-15T17:42:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T21:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_travel_adventures\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2022-05-05T00:26:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T04:26:11","slug":"transatlantic-cruise-on-the-disney-magic-with-mic-missy-and-ross-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/transatlantic-cruise-on-the-disney-magic-with-mic-missy-and-ross-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic Cruise on the Disney Magic with Mic, Missy and Ross Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transatlantic Cruise on the Disney Magic May 2011<\/p>\n

Cast of characters:<\/p>\n

Mic from The Magic for Less Travel<\/p>\n

Melissa, from The Mouse for Less list and of Minnesota mom\u2019s runaway to WDW fame , one of Mic\u2019s BFF\u2019s<\/p>\n

Ross, Missy\u2019s darling husband (aka DH)<\/p>\n

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This was it, the day of our Transatlantic cruise.\u00a0\u00a0 We booked it \u201crather\u201d last minute, for me anyway, a couple of months ago.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I flew into Orlando, and despite a medical emergency (another passenger, who thankfully left the plane on their feet with EMT helping out), we got off the plane on time and met Missy and Ross outside their hotel where our friend Lisa and her daughter Samantha picked us up and drove us to Port Canaveral.<\/p>\n

After some reshuffling of the bags in the trunk – we were taking some beverages onboard which is ok with Disney Cruise – with a couple of restrictions: \u00a0One you <\/em> have to carry it on, and carry it around yourself until your cabin is ready;\u00a0 Two, if you bring a bottle of wine to dinner, they will charge a small corking fee.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have never brought my own to dinner, but do like to have a little in the room – this will be 14 nights after all.<\/p>\n

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As our cabins were not ready yet we headed for Parrot Cay for the buffet.\u00a0 We ran into a LONG line waiting to get in.\u00a0\u00a0 At one point they sent a few people up to Topsiders and we headed that way.\u00a0\u00a0 Some people were even getting their food and being seated in the Promenade Lounge.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why such a lack of seating?\u00a0 Did I mention the Love Bugs?\u00a0\u00a0 This is apparently one of the two weeks that they descend on Florida.\u00a0\u00a0 And they were EVERYWHERE on the ship.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The outside decks were covered, when we had our safety drill they were in everyone\u2019s hair \u2013 crawling on our legs, yuk!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Overnight of course with the usual Disney magic, they were blown, washed and swept away.<\/p>\n

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After lunch we headed for our cabin.\u00a0 Our cabin, number 5504, is a deluxe ocean-view stateroom (category 9A), up front just past what used to be the \u201csecret porthole cabins\u201d.\u00a0 I really like this area of the ship, it is very quiet and a good location so was happy with our location.\u00a0 It was great right up until the toilet started spraying water from somewhere near the bottom.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0It took 3 cast members coming to look at it and several hours before the plumber came to fix the problem.\u00a0\u00a0 They then super cleaned and sterilized the bathroom and the carpet right outside where the water had run.<\/p>\n

Next it was time to meet up with the DIS group we had joined so we could participate in some group activities, with a lot of days at sea we decided we had lots of time for some fun extra activities.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We met in the Promenade lounge to get our lanyards (purple) with our name tags on them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two ladies (Susan and Krisann) did a super awesome job designing and printing the name tags, super cute!<\/p>\n

The show tonight was the Welcome Aboard show, a short musical then some teasers from some of our entertainers.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mark Eddie, a comedian with a musical twist in his act, and then Alfred and Seymour.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Both had us laughing quite a bit.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dinner was in Animators Palate, and we had linked our reservation with some others in the DIS boards group, a lot of us were seated in the same area.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We had 9 at our table, some we had met earlier during the lanyard handout, and some were \u201cnew friends\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 We had a great dinner and some great conversation with our table mates.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After all this, it had been a long day so we headed back to our room to crash, because tomorrow is CASTAWAY CAY.<\/p>\n

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Mic signing off for tonight<\/p>\n

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