Last Day – International Food Festival
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Disney Cruise Line, Uncategorized | 8 Comments »Well today is the last day of our 7-night Royal Caribbean Cruise vacation onboard the Liberty of the Seas. It is also a day at sea. I woke to a very nice surprise….coffee and donuts in our room (Kevin woke up early ...
Labadee or Labadon’t
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Disney Cruise Line, Uncategorized | 6 Comments »The fourth and final port-of-call on our 7-night Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas cruise vacation is Labadee. This is RCCL’s attempt at a private island, similar to Disney Cruise Line’s Castaway Cay. However, this is not an island but ...
Ports of Call – San Juan and St. Maarten
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Disney Cruise Line | 4 Comments »Part of any cruise vacation is the ports-of-call. On this cruise we’re stopping in San Juan Puerto Rico, Phillipsburg, St. Maarten and Royal Caribbean’s ‘private island’ Labadee. I put quotation marks around private island as it isn’t really an island so ...
Portofino Review
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 15 Comments »While the food on board the Liberty of the Seas is decent and acceptable, it is being prepared for thousands of guests at the same time. When serving that many people at the same time, shortcuts must be taken and ...
The Elevators Tell You What Day It Is
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »That’s right…..forget which day it is on a Royal Caribbean Cruise and all you have to do is get on any elevator. They change the floor to the current day. This is one of those quirky things that you forget ...
Welcome Aboard RCCL’s Liberty of the Seas
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in Editorials, Uncategorized | 14 Comments »The first day of any cruise is always a bit hectic. For our Royal Caribbean Cruise (RCCL) sailing on the Liberty of the Seas we drove from our home in St.Cloud Florida to Miami, about 4 hours, and arrived at the ...
Gaylord Palms, you had me at “Hello”
Saturday, June 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 10 Comments »First, I don’t recommend going to Disney World right after you’ve spent 12+ hours in a car with your husband driving back home to New York from Charlotte following your son’s wedding. I was ready for some “apartness” but off ...
I sat in the KINGS seat!
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Walt Disney World | 11 Comments »Richard the “King” Petty is a living legend in the sport of stock car racing. He has over 200 wins in the sport and is widely considered the greatest NASCAR driver of all time by many. He also offers the ...
Sarah Tells Us What it’s Like to be a Kid on a Disney Cruise Line Vacation
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Disney Cruise Line | 5 Comments »A few weeks ago Sarah, 13, blogged about her feelings over the closing of Virtual Magic Kingdom. We received such great feedback on her blog that I asked her to write another one, this time on any subject she wanted. She chose ...
Is This What it’s Like to Camp at Fort Wilderness?
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 18 Comments »As we enter week three of the ‘Kitchen Rehab Project’ I have to wonder if this is what camping is like? And if so it’s the closest I will ever come to it. As I finish up the last of tonight’s dishes ...
Goodbye Virtual Magic Kingdom…Love, Sarah
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Podcast Updates, Walt Disney World | 7 Comments »About a month or so ago on the podcast I mentioned that Disney was closing their online game - Virtual Magic Kingdom. VMK (because everything has to have an acronym) became very popular with many DISers, especially some of our ...
