The Wandering Adventurers: Fantasy Disney Ship with Sandy and Glen

March 16

Today we were guests of Sandy and Glen (Norm’s sister and brother-in-law) aboard the brand new Disney ship, “Fantasy!” It was the next best thing to cruising. They gave us “the all inclusive tour” including some behind the scenes. They know the ship inside and out. Glen went over to Germany to work on some aspects of the sound on the ship in February. Sandy met him before the ship sailed across the Atlantic for a 12 day shake down cruise. Glen has been on board for 45 days and still fine tuning the sound! They had a stop in New York for three days and then sailed to Port Canaveral, FL. They have taken one Caribbean cruise and left this afternoon on a second before going home. What an experience!!! The ship is really amazing. We have done some cruising but this ship is beyond incredibly beautiful and huge (14 stories). The attention to detail is really something. There is beauty and luxury for adults and everything imaginably Disney for the kids. You dine in three different dining rooms and your servers go with you each night, great concept. The kids clubs were all fabulous plus they have adult only areas. There is definitely something going on all the time for everyone. If we cruised on the ship, Chris and I would have to ride the AquaDuck. You get in an inner tube and ride through a tube with running water that is high above the pool deck and goes around the ship. What fun that would be. The computer age is in evident throughout with things like interactive art work and a detective game for all ages that looked like fun. There are beautiful mosaic murals even in the bathrooms! Their room was spacious and had two bathrooms including a bathtub! If you are in an inside cabin, they have a porthole look alike that shows a video of what you would see from a balcony, plus there are Disney characters in it. Lunch was delicious with everything you could imagine. We saw where they have set up a sound studio for Glen’s team in one of the staterooms so they can do editing. They have used a lot of the sound from another Disney ship, “Dream,” and tweaked it for this one plus added some new things. They are still on the shake down phase. People connected with Disney plus invited guests boarded today for the cruise this afternoon. It will have its first paying customers March 31. What a fabulous day for us, and we think Glen and Sandy had a great time showing us around. We were ready to sail way!