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Welcome to this, the second part of my trip report from our April trip. The pre-trip report and details of our first week in Walt Disney World can be found here.
This part of the trip report is dedicated to our first ever trip on the Disney Dream, a three night cruise from 14-17 April.
Thursday 14 April – part three: our first Dream sighting!
When we came down from Characters in Flight, we talked about going and renting a boat for half an hour before heading out to Port Canaveral, but we got sidetracked on the way and filled up with gas. $45 to fill up a tank? Bargain! Seriously. You want to talk about gas prices – come to the UK and see what we pay, then we’ll talk again. Try about $120 every time I want to fill the car up!
We parked up at the Marketplace, so Mark could have a row with our non-functioning sat nav system (GPS – it couldn’t find its way out of New York City... seriously! ) and so that I could go and use up the last of our snack credits, getting two drinks and two pineapple ice cream bars. Have I mentioned how much of a great additional they are to Disney yet?
Then it was time to hit the road bound for Port Canaveral with occasional cursing at our very useless sat nav on the way. That thing is so going back to Best Buy on the way back from the cruise.
As we drove along, so the excitement grew. You can’t miss the Dream as you go over the huge bridge now, as it’s such a massive ship. Obviously I have seen lots of photos of it and knew how big it was, but my goodness, as we got near to it, it’s about the size of the building along the quay. I was just in awe of the thing.
As we arrived, we started to get a feel for how busy it would be. I knew that this sailing was full and it’s probably just as well I knew that.
We waited in line in the car to get in for probably about five minutes and then were greeted with a very aggressive port employee, who was very keen to get us into the car park. We were told by the baggage guy that we met in there that they weren’t usually like this, but seemed to have issues today. That’s an understatement.
We headed towards the port building and had our passports checked by an English guy. This would be the first of many Brits that we would see.
Next: it’s nice to be a non-US citizen on this cruise!
I am so excited to finally get to hear all about your trip on the Dream. It definitely looks like a full crowd, but the ship looks so magical. A friend of mine was in Nassau and he sent me a text of what had pulled in this morning...definitely not nice to torture me with such a beautiful site of the Dream pulling in. Can't wait to hear more...
A friend of mine was in Nassau and he sent me a text of what had pulled in this morning...definitely not nice to torture me with such a beautiful site of the Dream pulling in.
Can't wait to hear all about it - especially how you think it compares to the Magic & Wonder. Seeing the traffic at the port makes me glad we're taking the shuttle from the hotel and leaving the car there!
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It's truly amazing to see those giant ships just sitting there like a building. You have to stop and remind yourself - it floats!!! Crazy. Now I'm curious about being happy to be a Brit for your next segment??!!!
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It's truly amazing to see those giant ships just sitting there like a building. You have to stop and remind yourself - it floats!!! Crazy. Now I'm curious about being happy to be a Brit for your next segment??!!!
Let's just say we were happy to be British - and I bet there were a lot of Americans wishing they weren't Americans...
Great start! I remember being so excited to see the Wonder as we drove over the bridge. I think it will be even more exciting to see the huge Fantasy when we cruise next year!
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Seriously. You want to talk about gas prices – come to the UK and see what we pay, then we’ll talk again. Try about $120 every time I want to fill the car up! 
) and so that I could go and use up the last of our snack credits, getting two drinks and two pineapple ice cream bars. Have I mentioned how much of a great additional they are to Disney yet? 
You can’t miss the Dream as you go over the huge bridge now, as it’s such a massive ship. Obviously I have seen lots of photos of it and knew how big it was, but my goodness, as we got near to it, it’s about the size of the building along the quay. 
DisneyLand too many times to count; DisneyWorld: ('82; '94; '00; '04; '05; '08 - twice!; '10;'11 - twice); DCL (3 ships): ('00, '05, '06, '10, '11); DVC Hilton Head Resort 
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