janiebubble
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Fantastic trip report! Loved reading about it! Travelling in September so enjoying seeing whats going on for info
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it. Hope you have a wonderful trip!
Fantastic trip report! Loved reading about it! Travelling in September so enjoying seeing whats going on for info
Thank you! I've enjoyed writing it. I bet you have a great trip next year!Great TR! I've thoroughly enjoyed reading it and now cant wait for next summer to sail in Northern Europe!
Thanks for reading, and letting me know you're reading!I enjoyed reading your trip report!! Thanks for posting.
Hopefully warmer than that, in Stockholm last summer it was around 80 most of the week!Thanks for the info. Taking this cruise next summer in Aug so the port temps should be closer to 60-70. It will be a nice break from Texas heat.
You're welcome, thanks for readingGreat report! Thanks for sharing.
I hope you have a lovely trip - I know I loved reading trip reports in the build up to our trip but I wasn't able to find many Northern Europe ones, especially recent ones. Glad you enjoyed mineThank you for writing the trip report! I enjoyed reading it and am looking forward to our Northern European cruise next August!
Thanks for the great trip report I've just read it all through in one go.
We were also on this cruise and it's been so enjoyable reliving it through your perspective.
We didn't bother with the character breakfast this year after being so disappointed with the one we went to on the Magic in the Med last summer. Now whether it's because it's a different ship or whether they are now the same as on the Magic but we had previously enjoyed several character breakfasts on the Wonder where you were allocated your time/day and you were seated at your usual table with your usual servers and tablemates and it was a relaxed unhurried affair. So even though we had to pre-book our slot on the Magic last summer and realised we wouldn't have our usual servers we were expecting similar. It was the total opposite to what we'd experienced on the Wonder, service was very rushed and we felt the characters were so hurried through that we barely had chance to have photos with them and there was none of the hilarity with servers and napkin hats that we'd previously experienced. We were on a b2b and afterwards went to Guest Services to cancel our slot for the following week although didn't mention why because I too would have felt like an over-entitled adult making a fuss over nothing! After reading about your disappointment I'm really glad we didn't bother to book one on this cruise.
We also felt the same about Robert Creighton as you - we enjoyed his singing but feel he should really have concentrated on just that!
And yes, we saw that queue for the future cruise desk we were so glad we'd gone earlier in the week even though we didn't book anything - we are already booked on the Copenhagen to Dover repo next summer and had hoped to reshop but, as I suspected, the prices have increased more than the discount and OBC covers.
Thanks again for taking the time to write this and I hope everyone yet to go on this itinerary has a great cruise - I hope to sail it again one day.
Thank you so much!Thanks for the great report! I hope to do Europe on the Magic someday (hopefully 3 years from now) and have been reading different TRs to get a feel for what we might like to do!
Thank you so much. Hope you enjoy your cruise!Thank you so much for your TR! We are sailing next August and your report has me so excited!!! Can't wait to start planning everything!
We are taking this cruise next summer. Good to know the Dr. Dolberg info is not the best idea with kids in tow. Thanks for such great details...so helpful.We didn't do much that morning. My water order from the day before never arrived so a quick trip to guest services was needed to sort that out. After getting up late we ended up grabbing lunch on deck ...
I had the special of the day in Pete's Boiler Bites ... pulled pork sandwich, it was really quite good!
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After lunch we bumped into Tiana ... she graciously posed for me ..
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we had an appointment later with some different princesses though ...but first (at 1.45pm) we headed up to the Buena Vista Theatre for
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we got there early (well 15mins or so) and it was already quite full. By the start time it was standing room only. Dr Dolberg gave a lecture on each port (including Copenhagen at the end) but due to the nature of the ports, Tallin and St Petersburg were on the same day (we missed Tallin - slept too late!). I'm really glad we went to this, I learnt a lot and it made our visit to St Petersburg even more meaningful. I wouldn't however have taken my children, those that were there were clearly bored! He overran making the end a little rushed but all ways round a good experience. Worth remembering the talks all were repeated on the TV Channels. The only reason I was worried about the over-running is we had a date in Arendelle, just 15 minutes after the scheduled end of the talk.
We ran down to Animator's to see the trio taking a quick break, so we waited to see them return
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This time, all three were meeting together, and were lovely that two adults wanted to meet them!
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Unlike previous visits, all three were meeting together. Two years ago Olaf was separate.
Again we were running out as our next date was in Fathoms.... yes it was Bingo
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we didn't win but we had a laugh ....
Then it was Cove Café
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and another random character meet
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and again it was dinner time ...