This is a trip report documenting our Mexican Riviera cruise on the Disney Wonder in April 2011.
Disney Cruisin’ the Mexican Riviera – Day One, Part Two – First Night at Sea
All chapters:
Disney Cruisin’ the Mexican Riviera – Day One, Part One – Embarkation
Disney Cruisin’ the Mexican Riviera – Day One, Part Two – First Night at Sea
Disney Cruisin’ the Mexican Riviera – Day Two – Our First Day at Sea
Disney Cruisin’ the Mexican Riviera – Day Three – Another Lazy Sea Day
Disney Cruisin’ the Mexican Riviera – Day Four, Part One – Puerto Vallarta
Disney Cruisin’ the Mexican Riviera – Day Four, Part Two – Animator’s Palate
Disney Cruisin’ the Mexican Riviera – Day Five, Part One – Cabo San Lucas
Disney Cruisin’ the Mexican Riviera – Day Five, Part Two – Palo Dinner
Disney Crusin’ the Mexican Riviera – Day Six – Cabo Again!
Disney Crusin’ the Mexican Riviera – Day Seven – Final Day at Sea
After just about 6pm we were officially on our way and it was around this time I put on my Sea Bands and popped a ginger pill, to be safe. I could feel the boat rocking but never actually got sick the entire trip. Every time I started to feel a little nausea I would take a ginger pill and felt much better.
I went to meet up with Mr. BFT in Diversions but somehow I found my way to the gift shop. Oh my, how did this end up in my possession???? Yep, we had barely left the port and I already bought the D&B wristlet.
It turned out to be a great purchase and I used it all week. Just enough room for my KTTW card, camera, lip gloss, and a few ginger pills.
I went to meet up with Mr. BFT and show him my purchase (not impressed) and the game was ending, so I asked him if he would run around and deliver Fish Extender gifts with me. He agreed so we went up to get the gifts and pass them out before dinner.
I made brushes to clean sand off your feet, and a little cruise necessities packet. I hope people liked them! We actually used the brush on each port day.
After we passed out our gifts, we went to get changed for dinner and headed to Parrot Cay. The boat was pretty rockin’ at this point so forgive my lack of pictures of the restaurant.
We were shown to a table for four people but we sat by ourselves the whole cruise. I’m not sure if we were originally supposed to share our table with another couple, or what. We weren’t opposed to sitting with tablemates but we also enjoyed sitting alone.
We first met our assistant server, Bastien from France. He had a very thick accent and acknowledged it right away. He told us that if we can’t understand him to let me know and he will say it again or rephrase it, and he assured us that he can understand English very well. Overall Bastien was great. We had some minor issues with him during our night at Animators, but I’ll get to that later on. Overall he was attentive and great. Next we met our server Nelson from Chile. Nelson was amazing! Very friendly, had a great memory, and was very attentive and accommodating.
I didn’t really enjoy the food this evening. I wasn’t feeling sick but I also was trying to get accustomed to the movement of the boat and I felt “off.” I just couldn’t enjoy dinner and to be honest I don’t have a strong memory of the dinner, I just remember I couldn’t wait for it to be over so I could go back to the room. (Later in the cruise, some new friends told me that Parrot Cay is the restaurant where you feel the most movement, for some reason.)
We also at some point met Tektas from Turkey, our head server. I don’t really remember our first meeting but we saw him every night and he was very friendly and great. He would always come over and put his hand on our backs or shoulder and shake our hands. Mr. BFT joked on the last night that Tektas touched him more than I had that week. Tektas was a great head server.
To start I had the St Maarten Stack
It tasted good but I kept expecting it to be warm, when it was actually a cold appetizer. I was so confused. The grill marks threw me off!
For entree I had the Pearl-Barley Cakes. They were bland. I am not a vegetarian but I enjoy vegetarian dishes and I try to only eat meat three days a week (didn’t happen on the cruise). Overall I was impressed with the SOUND of all the vegetarian dishes but the ones I had were disappointing. (Side note – shortly after this trip I was diagnosed with a barley intolerance, so that could explain the whole feeling sick thing.)
Mr. BFT had the mixed grill and said it was okay.
Nelson was very disappointed that we didn’t want any dessert but I just wanted to get back to the room. I should have just explained that to Nelson but I was kind of embarrassed. So he said to save room for dessert for tomorrow’s dinner and he would see us tomorrow at Triton’s for formal night.
When we got back to the room we had a towel animal waiting for us.
Too cute! I’m assuming we got the swans because I told Anthony we were recently engaged. We ate our chocolates, looked over the Navigator for the next day, watched a snippet of a Disney movie, and fell asleep.
Next: Disney Cruisin’ the Mexican Riviera – Day Two – Our First Day at Sea
