DAY ONE – Monday, February 13th
The start of vacation! We were already in Port Canaveral the morning of the cruise as we drove to Florida from our home state of New York. We stayed at a Homewood Suites the night before the cruise and drove ourselves to the cruise port in the morning. (I will do a review of all the hotels where we stayed in a later post.)
Disney allows you to complete your check in online prior to departure. You complete the entire registration process and print out the form to bring to check in. As part of the online process you choose a boarding time. We were lucky and managed to sign up for 10:30 in the morning. We managed to get through security, the Disney check in and then waited for our boarding number to be called. We were onboard by 11:40. A smooth process. I am always impressed by how well Disney handles large amounts of people.
Once on the boat, the pools and aqua duck are open for business. They also have Cabanas open if you want to get some lunch. Your room is not ready until 1:30 and your checked bags take until mid-afternoon to be delivered so bring anything you may want with you in your carry on bag.
We went to get some lunch and then found a nice place to relax in the adults only area. At 1:30 your stateroom will be ready for you to go and drop your stuff off. I usually use this time to go to the different kids programs to get the kids checked in.
The muster drill takes place at 4:00 and lasts approximately thirty minutes. Disney does not make you don the life vest and the drill consists of you sitting in a theater listening to instructions if some emergency should occur. Once this is done, all the festivities begin.
After the muster drill we made our way to the Deck 11 for the Sail Away party. Time to set sail!!
Dinner that night was Animator’s Palate. This is my favorite restaurant.
We ended our first evening at The Golden Mickey’s show and the kids went to the theater to watch Finding Dory. A wonderful first day of the cruise!
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