Clarkson U
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2019
Welcome to this trip report. This is for a 3 Night Sailing on the Disney Wish sailing from Port Canaveral and making stops at Nassau and Castaway Cay. This sailing left on a Friday and returned on a Monday.
On this trip were 4 people - myself (49), DW (50) and DS x2 (21 & 19). We went while the boys had a weekend free between the end of the summer semester at college and the start of the fall semester. The weather was fantastic all weekend with hot and humid conditions throughout the voyage.
This was a completely full sailing with no stateroom upgrades and 4000+ guests sailing.
We started out at home Friday morning and left our house around 8:15 AM to begin the drive down to PC. We did make one stop at Buc-ees in Daytona Beach along the way down on I-95 to get some gas and coffee. We arrived into PC at 11:00 AM and we had a 11:30 PAT.
We dropped off our luggage and the porter did ask what our PAT was. After that we went into the PC parking garage (cost about $72 dollars for this sailing), parked our car and headed into the terminal. By the time we got there they were already allowing 11:30 PAT folks to enter into the terminal. We walked right in and we were first in line for the Pearl/Platinum check-in line at the terminal. We were checked in by the concierge team as they had no concierge guests waiting for check-in at that time. We were quickly through security and up into the terminal before 11:30.
Shortly thereafter they started with BG 1 and rapidly moved to BG 7 which was our group for this sailing. We were on the ship by 11:50 AM!!!
Immediately went to GS to ask about a DCL speaker but was told due to the new online ordering process, they no longer have any to purchase on the ship. You have to get it in advance online or no dice. Good to know. As we got to the elevator we immediately noticed that the touch buttons had been replaced with gold buttons that you actually push. Inside the elevator, the same thing, the old buttons that were super sensitive were replaced with gold push buttons to get to the different floors. So glad to see this change made as these buttons are so much better than what was originally on the ship during the initial few months of sailings.
We decided to have lunch up on Deck 11 - at the Festival of Foods!
DW had the impossible burger, DS x 2 had the plant based sausage dogs and I had a Mexican Bowl. Yes we are all vegetarians but the Festival of Foods had some great options for vegetarians.
After lunch, we went to Luna for 1 pm in order to change our dining rotation. We wanted Arrendale on the second night so we could miss that show and go to Palo for dinner instead. That was not our order, but one conversation with George in Luna and he was able to switch my dining rotation. He kept everything else the same even the table number. He explained to me that since the person that had my table on the dining rotation I wanted had not even checked in yet and they had no requests on their rotation it would be an easy switch. Full Disclosure: I did request a very specific dining rotation over a month ago and George said he sees it there but didn't know why it wasn't granted. He apologized and made the switch.
1:30 we went to Disney Trivia in the Bayou. It was definitely easy trivia as we got 18/20 correct and lost to people who got 20/20. After trivia, we went to our stateroom which were available at 2 pm (they announced that on the ship that all staterooms would be available at 2 pm for our sailing).
We played the card game, Cover Your A$$ets in our stateroom waiting for luggage to arrive. Luggage arrived at 3 pm and we unpacked and then went up to Deck 8 to iron the clothes that we brought for Palo dinner and for 1923 (we plan to dress up in 1920s dress clothes).
In between all of that, we had the mandatory drill and before we knew it, it was time for dinner. At 5:30 pm we went to Marvel. We liked our service team on the Wish this sailing - this is our 3rd Wish sailing and so far 2/3 times we have had good servers - one time the service team was horrible.
At Marvel - we enjoyed White Cheddar and Broccolini Soup, Tomato Heirloom Salad and Iceberg Wedge w/o Bacon and Tofu Udon Noodles and Soft Potato Gnocchi. It was all delicious. For dessert we shared the Key Lime Pie (delicious), the Nano Dobos Torta (okay at best) and the Wakanda Flourless Chocolate Beetroot Cake - No Sugar Added (our favorite dessert of the night and no way to tell if was no sugar added). Also, we had coffee with dinner and we were done with dinner service by 7:15 pm.
From dinner we went to Luna to play What is the Villians version of Hollywood Squares. It was a fun game as we played against another family. We won the game. We got DCL key chains and fidget spinners for our participation. LOL.
Then at 8:30 pm went to Keg and Compass to play General Knowledge Trivia. We didn't do as well 10/20 - some were easy some were quite hard. Overall, we had a great time.
After trivia we went to Nightengales to get a few drinks. On previous sailings we had never had any drinks in there so we wanted to get a few drinks. We got The Chocolate Frozen Bubble which has Bailey's Salted Caramel, Absolut Vanilla and Chocolate along with the Dreams Come True which was Empress Gin, Elderflower, White Cranberry and Moet and Chandon Rose. The Frozen Bubble was our favorite. It tasted great and was an interactive drink. The actual alcohol came inside a large frozen ice-cube or bubble that you had to break with a little hammer they gave you.
After that we went to watch Victrophonics on the Main Stage. Having seen them multiple times in Luna, the acoustics on the Main Stage were not that good compared to the sound in Luna. It was still fun to listen to them.
After this time, it was close to 11 PM and we went to bed.
On this trip were 4 people - myself (49), DW (50) and DS x2 (21 & 19). We went while the boys had a weekend free between the end of the summer semester at college and the start of the fall semester. The weather was fantastic all weekend with hot and humid conditions throughout the voyage.
This was a completely full sailing with no stateroom upgrades and 4000+ guests sailing.
We started out at home Friday morning and left our house around 8:15 AM to begin the drive down to PC. We did make one stop at Buc-ees in Daytona Beach along the way down on I-95 to get some gas and coffee. We arrived into PC at 11:00 AM and we had a 11:30 PAT.
We dropped off our luggage and the porter did ask what our PAT was. After that we went into the PC parking garage (cost about $72 dollars for this sailing), parked our car and headed into the terminal. By the time we got there they were already allowing 11:30 PAT folks to enter into the terminal. We walked right in and we were first in line for the Pearl/Platinum check-in line at the terminal. We were checked in by the concierge team as they had no concierge guests waiting for check-in at that time. We were quickly through security and up into the terminal before 11:30.
Shortly thereafter they started with BG 1 and rapidly moved to BG 7 which was our group for this sailing. We were on the ship by 11:50 AM!!!
Immediately went to GS to ask about a DCL speaker but was told due to the new online ordering process, they no longer have any to purchase on the ship. You have to get it in advance online or no dice. Good to know. As we got to the elevator we immediately noticed that the touch buttons had been replaced with gold buttons that you actually push. Inside the elevator, the same thing, the old buttons that were super sensitive were replaced with gold push buttons to get to the different floors. So glad to see this change made as these buttons are so much better than what was originally on the ship during the initial few months of sailings.
We decided to have lunch up on Deck 11 - at the Festival of Foods!
DW had the impossible burger, DS x 2 had the plant based sausage dogs and I had a Mexican Bowl. Yes we are all vegetarians but the Festival of Foods had some great options for vegetarians.
After lunch, we went to Luna for 1 pm in order to change our dining rotation. We wanted Arrendale on the second night so we could miss that show and go to Palo for dinner instead. That was not our order, but one conversation with George in Luna and he was able to switch my dining rotation. He kept everything else the same even the table number. He explained to me that since the person that had my table on the dining rotation I wanted had not even checked in yet and they had no requests on their rotation it would be an easy switch. Full Disclosure: I did request a very specific dining rotation over a month ago and George said he sees it there but didn't know why it wasn't granted. He apologized and made the switch.
1:30 we went to Disney Trivia in the Bayou. It was definitely easy trivia as we got 18/20 correct and lost to people who got 20/20. After trivia, we went to our stateroom which were available at 2 pm (they announced that on the ship that all staterooms would be available at 2 pm for our sailing).
We played the card game, Cover Your A$$ets in our stateroom waiting for luggage to arrive. Luggage arrived at 3 pm and we unpacked and then went up to Deck 8 to iron the clothes that we brought for Palo dinner and for 1923 (we plan to dress up in 1920s dress clothes).
In between all of that, we had the mandatory drill and before we knew it, it was time for dinner. At 5:30 pm we went to Marvel. We liked our service team on the Wish this sailing - this is our 3rd Wish sailing and so far 2/3 times we have had good servers - one time the service team was horrible.
At Marvel - we enjoyed White Cheddar and Broccolini Soup, Tomato Heirloom Salad and Iceberg Wedge w/o Bacon and Tofu Udon Noodles and Soft Potato Gnocchi. It was all delicious. For dessert we shared the Key Lime Pie (delicious), the Nano Dobos Torta (okay at best) and the Wakanda Flourless Chocolate Beetroot Cake - No Sugar Added (our favorite dessert of the night and no way to tell if was no sugar added). Also, we had coffee with dinner and we were done with dinner service by 7:15 pm.
From dinner we went to Luna to play What is the Villians version of Hollywood Squares. It was a fun game as we played against another family. We won the game. We got DCL key chains and fidget spinners for our participation. LOL.
Then at 8:30 pm went to Keg and Compass to play General Knowledge Trivia. We didn't do as well 10/20 - some were easy some were quite hard. Overall, we had a great time.
After trivia we went to Nightengales to get a few drinks. On previous sailings we had never had any drinks in there so we wanted to get a few drinks. We got The Chocolate Frozen Bubble which has Bailey's Salted Caramel, Absolut Vanilla and Chocolate along with the Dreams Come True which was Empress Gin, Elderflower, White Cranberry and Moet and Chandon Rose. The Frozen Bubble was our favorite. It tasted great and was an interactive drink. The actual alcohol came inside a large frozen ice-cube or bubble that you had to break with a little hammer they gave you.
After that we went to watch Victrophonics on the Main Stage. Having seen them multiple times in Luna, the acoustics on the Main Stage were not that good compared to the sound in Luna. It was still fun to listen to them.
After this time, it was close to 11 PM and we went to bed.