Rob1872
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 8, 2015
Great Thanksgiving cruise on Dream this week.
Minor bump on COVID testing. I don't remember seeing that I needed my Safe Passage login while at the port. There was a TV monitor in the waiting tents where they were supposed to be posting test result status; it wasn't being updated. We ended up having to call their phone number to find out when our test results were done.
VERY light crowds. Only time having issues were getting into the theater. They kept every other row empty and 3 seats between families, so my son got shut out of Encanto one showing. (He did get to see it later.) VIBE was much less crowded than previous cruises but still had enough kids to do activities. Believe was night 1 and 4; Beauty and the Beast was night 2 and 3. I actually saw empty chairs on Castaway Cay for the first time in 4 cruises. Never saw the line for Aqua Duck past the entrance to the funnel. There was occasionally a line to get into the deck 3 shops at night; they would let people in one entrance as people left through another and they had cast members stationed to keep anyone from trying to enter via the exit door.
Couldn't touch the characters; they stayed about 8-10 feet away. (Several 3-5 year old girls had to be intercepted from running up to hug princesses.) They would talk to you while you were wearing a mask, then you took the mask off for the pictures.
No Pirate Night. Instead, we had the standard menu for each dining room and a Thanksgiving day menu.
No paper Navigators, even on request. No book in your stateroom with the room service menu. (We finally found it buried at the bottom of the app's section on dining.) You HAVE to have the DCL app loaded on your phone. When getting off for a shore excursion, if you were not on a DCL excursion you joined a virtual wait list via the app to tell you when you could go down and leave the ship.
Two firework nights (2nd and 3rd) 1st dinner sitting was supposed to go to 1st firework show; 2nd sitting to 2nd. No verification taking place; pure honor system. They had dots on deck 11 and 12 for where to stand for the show to stay spaced.
No towel folding classes; mostly games where they ran multiple sessions and mixology classes.
Minor bump on COVID testing. I don't remember seeing that I needed my Safe Passage login while at the port. There was a TV monitor in the waiting tents where they were supposed to be posting test result status; it wasn't being updated. We ended up having to call their phone number to find out when our test results were done.
VERY light crowds. Only time having issues were getting into the theater. They kept every other row empty and 3 seats between families, so my son got shut out of Encanto one showing. (He did get to see it later.) VIBE was much less crowded than previous cruises but still had enough kids to do activities. Believe was night 1 and 4; Beauty and the Beast was night 2 and 3. I actually saw empty chairs on Castaway Cay for the first time in 4 cruises. Never saw the line for Aqua Duck past the entrance to the funnel. There was occasionally a line to get into the deck 3 shops at night; they would let people in one entrance as people left through another and they had cast members stationed to keep anyone from trying to enter via the exit door.
Couldn't touch the characters; they stayed about 8-10 feet away. (Several 3-5 year old girls had to be intercepted from running up to hug princesses.) They would talk to you while you were wearing a mask, then you took the mask off for the pictures.
No Pirate Night. Instead, we had the standard menu for each dining room and a Thanksgiving day menu.
No paper Navigators, even on request. No book in your stateroom with the room service menu. (We finally found it buried at the bottom of the app's section on dining.) You HAVE to have the DCL app loaded on your phone. When getting off for a shore excursion, if you were not on a DCL excursion you joined a virtual wait list via the app to tell you when you could go down and leave the ship.
Two firework nights (2nd and 3rd) 1st dinner sitting was supposed to go to 1st firework show; 2nd sitting to 2nd. No verification taking place; pure honor system. They had dots on deck 11 and 12 for where to stand for the show to stay spaced.
No towel folding classes; mostly games where they ran multiple sessions and mixology classes.
