Quite a few people I know that have traditionally cruised on the Wonder and have now tried out the Dream have commented that they found the various lounges and bars on the Dream a bit intimidating compared to the Wonder. Was that your experience as well?
It is funny that you mentioned that Stitch was not around on the ship. The poor thing seems to be falling out of favour at the moment. On our Panama Canal cruise, he was only out once with a photographer and that was in the middle of late dinner. I also heard that they are cutting him from the character line up at Animal Kingdom. I also never saw him at
Disneyland apart from at a character breakfast. Fortunately he was around a bit more on our Mexican Riviera cruise and I have high hopes for the Hawaii cruise.
I am glad that you had a great time at 'Ohana. We had a bit of a mixed experience when we went last year. I loved the character interaction and we especially had a lot of fun with Stitch, but the food was pretty awful as it was both overcooked and at best lukewarm.
Corinna