Disney News

*Updated 4/27/11:  To better accommodate Guests, Disney Cruise Line® is adjusting both dining and show times onboard the Disney Dream™.

Main dining will begin at 5:45 p.m., with second dining beginning at 8:15 p.m.

There are now only two evening performances in the Walt Disney Theatre: at 6:15 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Your Clients can attend the performance that best complements their assigned dining time. In addition, there are special matinee performances of two popular shows –Villains Tonight! and Disney’s Believe.

Check your daily Personal Navigator for any updates throughout the cruise.

Disney Cruise Line® is pleased to announce that our original Broadway-style productions will be performed three times each evening at the Walt Disney Theater aboard the Disney Dream™. In order to ensure all passengers are accommodated, you will be able to choose a specific performance depending on your assigned dining time. The options for each dining time are as follows:

If you have existing reservations on the Disney Dream, a theatrical show time has been pre-assigned for your booking. To find out which show time you have been assigned, please contact your Magic Maker®.

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From Magic Maker® Jeff Williams
If you’ve ever watched your child go into anaphylactic shock from a severe allergic  reaction to food, you get a little hesitant to eat out at restaurants and do a lot of traveling. When we booked our first Walt Disney World® vacation when my son was 4, I was very nervous about being able to find something for him to eat at the restaurants. Well, let me tell you, I need not have worried. When I called to make our advanced dining reservations, I was asked if anyone in our group had dietary concerns or food allergies. I explained that my son had life threatening allergies to Milk, Eggs and Peanuts. They made a note of his situation on all of our reservations. I was still sure that I would need to be very vigilant while at the Resort.

When we arrived and went to our first counter service eatery, I was pleasantly surprised to see that all of the places offered soy milk.  The Cast Members were very knowledgeable and helped determine what my son could safely eat. So far, so good. The next hurdle was going to be the table service restaurants and their endless buffet lines. They all have incredible food to be sure, but how would we know what he could and couldn’t eat?

To my surprise upon check in at our first table service restaurant, the chef came out and took us through the entire buffet line and explained exactly what ingredients were in each dish and which items to avoid. I was flabbergasted that a simple note on a table reservation made it all the way through the chain of communication to a chef that cared enough to spend that kind of time making sure that my family could enjoy our meal safely. THAT is just one of the many “Disney Touches” that keeps me coming back year after year.

Contact your Magic Maker™ to help make your dining arrangements and discuss with them any special dietary needs or concerns you may have.

Deposits
For all Disney Cruise Line® bookings which require a deposit, the amount due is 20% of the cruise fare (including the non-comissionable fare). This deposit policy applies to all stateroom Guests (including children under age 3).

The deposit requirement is for all new bookings, bookings in which the sail date has changed, and/or any bookings that are reinstated.

Exceptions
Disney Dream™ Maiden Voyage: 1/26/2011 has a non-refundable/non-transferable deposit due by 11:59pm EST on the day of booking. Final payment is due 105 days prior to sailing.

Qualified Group bookings

Karamelle-Küche, an Old World German caramel shop, is opening its doors to let the scent of fresh caramel float through the walkways of the Germany Pavilionand onto Epcot® World Showcase. Karamelle-Küche is German for Caramel Kitchen.  This new shop will engulf you in the sights and smells of an old world German caramel shop.  Guests can watch cast members making fresh caramel popcorn, caramel apples and caramel-covered strawberries and marshmallows.  Werther’s Original candy is on the shelves, and the shop also includes gourmet caramels, cookies, brownies, fudge and cupcakes.  It will not only will carry items made fresh daily but a variety of specialty merchandise and gifts that are only available at Epcot®.  The shop replaces the Glas und Porzellan shop.

A  favorite Disney Vacation Club Resort, Disney’s Old Key West Resort, is getting a facelift. A major room refurbishment is underway that will make the villas feelfresh, more high tech and modern. New flat–panel TVs, gorgeous granite countertops and the addition of a sleeper chair in the one and two bedroom villas as well as new bedding and pillows, drapes, rugs, chairs, carpeting, lamps and furniture bring the resort up to date. The renovation will take place building by building.

When you walk into one of the newly renovated villas at Disney’s Old Key West Resort, you really notice a difference.  The warm colors are very elegant while still capturing the playful nature of Key West.

Guests do not need to be members of Disney Vacation Club to stay at Disney’s Old Key West Resort.

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