Setting sail for Treasure

Waking up to the sound of the waves never gets old, and we woke up early enough to kinda see the sunrise. The fishermen were out of the beach already setting up their rods when we got up. 🎣

We were up to see the sunrise but some clouds got in the way of seeing the initial sun up. But there were enough breaks to get some gorgeous burnt orange skies. 🌅

The break in clouds didn't last too long but we went for a walk on the beach anyway and watched the birds running around like Benny Hill trying to escape the waves.

Then it was time to check out and headed to the port to see the Disney Treasure for the very first time. Having only had her Maiden Voyage 4 weeks ago on 21 December, this is her 5th proper cruise. She still has that new ship smell.

Crazy hiccup at check-in. They couldn't find us. Turns out our room had been changed at the last minute because of maintenance issues with what we had booked, and so searching by our room number drew a blank.

After having 4 people looking into it, eventually they figured out what had happened and told us our new room number, and we could get through to wait for our boarding group to be called. We were early, so we thought it would be forever but tbh it was only 15-20 mins, and we could get lunch from the buffet. Of course everyone else was doing the same, so the buffet was heaving. Still we found a table and had a first taste of Treasure.

After eating we went to the room, and found it to be Aladin themed (each deck has different theme) with a gorgeous artwork of Agrabah above the bed. I'd ordered a special room gift as a surprise for Heath, fluffy bathrobes, sparkling apple drink and chocolates. Sadly in all the room changes only the drink and chocolates had made it when we got there. The robes did arrive shortly after. We were also missing our Castaway Club gifts, but Alain, our stateroom host said he was on it for us.

Mandatory safety drill needed to be done, and our assembly station is out on deck right by the lifeboats. I still think it's a shame that you no longer have to wear your life jacket when attending. That was always fun.

Next up sail away deck party. We mostly stood by the rail and enjoyed the music, and was then in prime position to turn round and watch us sailing out of Port Canaveral - and looking out over all the launch pads at Cape Canaveral. Even more cool was the landing recovery ships for both SpaceX and Blue Origin being berthed right there. We didn't even notice at first that the SpaceX falcon 9 rocket booster that had been launched and recovered a couple of days before was stood right there on the dock. Now that was cool to see, and pretty close really. Heath is obsessed by all the new space race so he was soon happy to see that.

There were also dolphins around as we sailed out. The most exciting part, for me anyway, was that they played some of the new ship horns on our way out - including the Haunted Mansion one (in the video).

More in the next footprint...Les mer