Video of our Disney cruise stateroom

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We surprised our kids with the Roy O Disney suite on the Disney Cruise Line Disney Wonder.



This was our room on the January 24th 2010 Disney Wonder cruise.

We read how to do the port upgrade trick at Disboards.com We followed the directions and it worked for us, upgrading from a category 4 to a category 1 room. We got the Roy O Disney suite, identical to the Walt Disney suite. We were on the Disney Wonder. These suites are identical to ones on the Disney Magic.

Wow, what a room!

Here is a video I made of us first entering our room.

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Wait until the last seconds of the video. Our youngest daughter sums up our opinion of the room.










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Hampton, I’m sure you are curious about cost since we discussed it about your Carnival cruise.

January 24, 2010 4 day Wonder, kids sail free promotion, family of 5
Room w/Tax
Adult $1,093.92
Adult $1,093.92
Child 13 $44.92
Child 9 $44.92
Child 6 $44.92
$2,322.60

Port upgrade cat 4 to cat 1 on the 4 day Wonder= $1,550.00

Total $3,872.60


Total does not include other spending like the flight, car rental, a pre-cruise Orlalndo day, two days post cruise at Disney World, tips, etc.
 
Wow! I didn't even know they had rooms like that!

I guess it's best summed up by saying... That room is awesome! At least, I think that was the general consensus I heard during the video! :smt001
 
Sweet room, Pres. I never was really interested in taking a cruise, but having a room like that must make you feel like a VIP. I wonder what kind of accomodations the people in steerage had. Did you have some kind of special key to access the floor? What about concierge room and service?
 
JV II said:
Sweet room, Pres. I never was really interested in taking a cruise, but having a room like that must make you feel like a VIP. I wonder what kind of accomodations the people in steerage had. Did you have some kind of special key to access the floor? What about concierge room and service?
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On Disney, category 1 thru 3 come with Concierge service. Concierge service has benifits. General passengers are no longer allowed bridge tours on Disney. I’m not even sure if category 2 or 3 passengers can get them anymore.

The biggest thing our Concierge was able to arrange for us was a private tour of the bridge for my daughter and me. We got to talk to the ships captain as well as other officers and my daughter got to blow the ships horn. I took lots of photos and a video.

I may post it.

I’m having a frustrating time with our new camera. The video files are MP4. Every time I do any editing to them the video is gone and all that remains is audio. I even tried 4 different MP4 to AVI converters yet the same thing happens. This is why the above youtube video has absolutely no editing.
 
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On the bridge tour I asked a lot of operational questions.

The one thing I found most surprising is the 5 diesel engines are directly connected to the 2 shafts that turn the propellers. No pods on this ship.

They can selectively use any combination of the 5 engines for generator / onboard power or propulsion.
 
Great video........and those kids will remember that trip forever.....good job.
 
We paid about double that during Christmas for 4 adults, 2 cabins. Our cabin was similar, but not as large. Our Daughters' cabin wasn't as nice, but it did have a balcony and wasn't small by any means.
 
Hampton said:
We paid about double that during Christmas for 4 adults, 2 cabins. Our cabin was similar, but not as large. Our Daughters' cabin wasn't as nice, but it did have a balcony and wasn't small by any means.
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I think your cruise was also longer. Ours was 4 nights.
 
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On the bridge tour I asked a lot of operational questions.

The one thing I found most surprising is the 5 diesel engines are directly connected to the 2 shafts that turn the propellers. No pods on this ship.

They can selectively use any combination of the 5 engines for generator / onboard power or propulsion.
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Schweet room!

Disney does a top notch job. We took three cruises with them when our kids were, well, kids...

But I think you are misunderstanding the propulsion system. We were consuming our adult beverages on deck one afternoon with the other families we were traveling with and the Captain stopped to say hello. I knew he was obviously busy but couldn't resist the opportunity to bug him about the ship's propulsion system. He explained that the hull was powered by two electric motors- very few moving parts, incredible torque and reliability. The electric engines are in turn powered by the generators you mentioned. When necessary, the generators are easily swapped out in port. So the generators can be used for ship's power or propulsion as you say, but they do not drive the props- the electric engines do.

From the website:

"Propelled by five 16 cylinder Sulzer diesel engines and two 19 megawatt General Electric propulsion motors"

Glad you had fun.
 
tobnpr said:
Schweet room!

Disney does a top notch job. We took three cruises with them when our kids were, well, kids...

But I think you are misunderstanding the propulsion system. We were consuming our adult beverages on deck one afternoon with the other families we were traveling with and the Captain stopped to say hello. I knew he was obviously busy but couldn't resist the opportunity to bug him about the ship's propulsion system. He explained that the hull was powered by two electric motors- very few moving parts, incredible torque and reliability. The electric engines are in turn powered by the generators you mentioned. When necessary, the generators are easily swapped out in port. So the generators can be used for ship's power or propulsion as you say, but they do not drive the props- the electric engines do.

From the website:

"Propelled by five 16 cylinder Sulzer diesel engines and two 19 megawatt General Electric propulsion motors"

Glad you had fun.
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What you say is what I would have expected.
This is the same principle behind a diesel locomotive.
I asked this exact question. I wonder why I got the wrong answer.
I even asked of the 5 engines simply produce electricity to power electric motors that turn the shafts and they said no.
 
tobnpr said:
LOL-

I'll bet you know more about a boat's systems than the guy that gave you the "tour"!
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The girl that accompanied us, Jacqueline (sorry, that’s not the correct spelling) had a officer on the bridge answer our questions. I am going to assume it was a misunderstanding due to a language barrier.

I have several video’s of the tour but I have not resolved my issue mentioned above.

We got a new, better (cough, cough) camera, took MP4 videos, now I can’t edit them at all.
 
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