Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Disney strictly enforces a minimum age limit (18) for dining at
Palo and Remy and a jacket (no ties) is a must.
For a night out without kids, Palo, which offers tables with a view, is a must.
Reservations are also a must, and a surcharge of $25 is added for this service to your
onboard bill. The food is excellent, the ambience sophisticated. Disney enforces a
strict policy for diners at Palo to be 18 years of age or older.
In addition to Palo, the
Dream
and the
Fantasy
crank it up a notch with Remy.
Chefs Scott Hunnel of Victoria & Albert's and Arnaud Lallement from L'Assiette
Champenoise—a Michelin two-star restaurant outside Reims, France—created the
French-inspiredmenu,servedinanArtNouveau-stylediningroom.Thisupscaledin-
ing experience on the high seas costs $75. If you think this is a little over-the-top,
we completely agree. Whatever happened to the no-frills, great-food philosophy we
learned from Remy in
Ratatouille
?
The Disney ships offer 15,000-plus square feet of playrooms and other kids' fa-
cilities. Programs include interactive activities, play areas supervised by trained coun-
selors, and a children's drop-off service in the evening. Passengers can register their
children for the nursery, and group babysitting is available for select hours every day.
Cost is $9 per child for the first child and $8 an hour for each additional child in the
same family.
Oceaneer Club
, featuring a Never Land theme on the
Wonder
and sub-
divided into differently themed spaces (
Toy Story, Marvel's The Avengers
, and the
like) on the other ships, is perfect for kids ages 3-7, though children up to age 12 can
participate.
Oceaneer's Lab
offers high-tech play. Kids wear ID bracelets, and par-
ents receive pagers. There are also special clubs for tweens
(Edge)
and teens
(Vibe)
.
Big with kids of all ages are the pools and the nightly entertainment on board,
which show Disney at its best. The
Walt Disney Theatre
stages several musical
productions each cruise, and the
Buena Vista Theatre
, with its full-screen cinema,
shows first-run and digital 3-D movies as well as classic Disney films. Movies are
also played poolside on a state-of-the-art 24 x 14-foot LED screen affixed to the for-
ward funnel in the ships' family-pool areas.
