Thanks to everyone in the FE gift exchange! We were especially happy to be able to track down and meet the Neumann Family who had been moved from 8504 to a stateroom much closer to us, right on our deck! My son was *quite* worried that they would not be getting their FE gifts. LOL
We had Mickey straws from our pre-cruise WDW visit so we didn't miss the lack of straws much (though all three kids at our only sit-down dinner had a straw and lid on his/her drink). But I did feel like there was a LOT crammed in and, as a single parent, I had no time to actually relax since I was either shuttling my kid to/from Oceaneer's or
Castaway Cay, and trying to address logistical snafus when I had alone time. We did not make it to a single character greet line in time to meet the character; we would show up 10-min before and the line was already started for the NEXT character in that spot. WOW.
Two Qs:
(1) My friends said they had 300 photos from their 7-day cruise. We got 20, of which 2 were not even ours. I had a difficult time tracking down photographers both on the ship and on CC. Is that typical on a
Disney Cruise, this lack of photographers?
(2) Despite feeling always on the run from one even to the next, I am VERY grateful for two 20-min naps on those heavenly heated loungers inside the Rainforest Room. My issue: why was the price $99 for length of cruise pass when I could have paid $16 for my three days using one-day passes? I was told that those 1-day passes would not be honored if space ran out, and felt strong-armed into buying the $99 length of cruise pass, when I would have paid even less for three $27 day passes...but was also told that those would not be available for sale b/c the RR was too full. Is that also typical Rainforest Room experience?
Just trying to figure out answers for those two Qs b/c of clients going on upcoming cruises and I want to steer them in the right direction, on whether to buy photo pkg or not, to buy Rainforest Room passes in advance or not, etc.