Welcome to the second edition of my Reader Questions series! (You can read the first Reader Questions post here). I get lots and lots of questions from readers via email, Facebook, and comments on my blog, and every so often I like to compile them all in one place for the ease of my readers. I’ll try […]
Disney Fantasy Room 5048
These are photos of Disney Fantasy room 5048. It is a category 4E which is called a Deluxe Family Oceanview Stateroom with Oversized Verandah. It sleeps 4 people and is just forward of mid-ship and connects through an interior door to room 5050. This room has a very deep verandah which is not typical of […]
Send me Your Questions – Round 2!
Next Wednesday will be the second edition of my “Reader Questions” series. If you missed the first one, you can read it here. I often receive cruise-related question from readers via email, Facebook, or the comments section of a post. I try to answer all of them, or direct them to another source if I […]
Parking at Port Canaveral: All of the Details
We recently returned from a cruise on the Dream (you can read the full trip report here) and parked our car at Port Canaveral for the first time. I briefly touched on this topic in my trip report, but I want to elaborate some more on the parking process at Port Canaveral. Being our first time […]
KYSS Bag Review
Before our most recent cruise on the Dream (trip report here), I knew that I would want a way to secure our belongings while my family was off having fun. This was especially the case the day we boarded the ship, as we all planned to swim and ride the Aquaduck before our room was […]
Trip Report Day 5: Castaway Cay
If you want to start this trip report from the beginning, click here. Day 5 was our day at Castaway Cay. Jimmy the cruise director had warned us at the show the night before that the weather forecast was not good, and sure enough, it was dark and gloomy that morning. We could tell that […]
Trip Report Day 4: Blue Lagoon Beach Day Nassau
If you would like to start this trip report from the beginning, you can do so by clicking here. We were scheduled for the Blue Lagoon Beach day excursion through DCL and were supposed to meet in the Buena Vista Theater at 9:15. We woke up, put on swim suits, packed our excursion bags with […]
Trip Report Day 3: Boarding the Disney Dream!
If you want to start this trip report from day 1, you can do so by clicking here. Day 3 started off with us waking up early so that we could all shower, pack, eat breakfast, and be on the road to Port Canaveral by 9:00. I didn’t take any pictures at breakfast, but we ate […]
Trip Report Day 2: Universal Orlando VIP Experience
If you missed day 1 of my trip report, you can read it by clicking here. Day 2 is all about our first visit to Universal Orlando and the private VIP experience that we did. (We have also done the private VIP tour at Disney World which you can read about here, and the Ultimate […]
Trip Report Day 1: Universal Studios & 3 Night Cruise on the Disney Dream
We just returned from a fabulous trip to Universal Studios Orlando and the October 14, 2016 3 night Halloween on the High Seas cruise on the Disney Dream. We had so much fun and I can’t wait to share it with you! I won’t bore you with details of our 3 day drive to Orlando. […]








