The morning that we arrived back into Vancouver onboard the Disney Wonder on our cruise from Honolulu in Hawaii, we both woke up at 5:30am as we wanted to be out on deck as we sailed under the Lion’s Gate Bridge before docking at Canada Place. After quickly getting dressed, we headed up to Deck 9 where we got a much needed hot drink before grabbing a blanket as it was very grey, overcast and cold and walking up to the front of Deck 10. There was already a few people out on deck and we were quickly joined by many more. (more…)

On the last full day onboard our long awaited cruise on the beautiful Disney Wonder from Hawaii to Vancouver I woke up at 7:30am when one of the many alarms that I had set the previous evening went off. Whilst sitting in bed that morning I could not decide if the five days at sea since we had left Nawiliwili in Kauai had gone by quickly or slowly but the one thing I definitely knew for sure was that I felt exhausted (especially after yet another time change overnight) but it was in the best and happiest way possible as it meant that I had tried to make the most of every single minute of our time since we had first arrived in Hawaii two weeks previously. (more…)

I woke up on the morning of the ninth day of our Disney Wonder Hawaii cruise from Honolulu to Vancouver at 7:30am extremely grateful that there had not been another time change overnight as losing a much needed hour of sleep is exhausting. I know I said it on a previous blog but our Westbound Transatlantic cruise where we gained an hour each day we were at sea (instead of losing an hour each time like on this cruise) was much easier in comparison. (more…)

After all the late night fun of Pirate Night the previous evening, losing yet another hour of sleep due to the second time change of the cruise was tough. I woke up at 8:30am wanting to go back to sleep immediately but at the same time, I knew that I had to get out of bed as I would have quite happily stayed there all day otherwise. Sailing in this direction from Hawaii to Vancouver was the only downside we found to doing this cruise as gaining an hour every day like we did when we sailed on the Westbound Transatlantic cruise in 2015 was so much easier. (more…)