Thursday, March 12, 2009

Disney Cruise : Pre-Boarding

Welcome back. This is part 2 of a series about Cruising on the Disney Magic:
Disney Cruise - Terminal 05

In our last installment, we were taking a look at the details to be found on the exterior of the Cruise Terminal:
Disney Cruise - Terminal 04 Disney Cruise - Terminal 10 Disney Cruise - Terminal 12

The details continue inside the terminal building itself, so let's go in and take a look.
Here's the main room of the terminal building:
Disney Cruise - Terminal 18

After a brief pause to take it all in, we start by looking up. Notice all the "wave" motifs present in the ceiling? Let's also take a look at the base of each of the columns, where
the "rope" at the bottom of each column evokes images of pilings at a pier:
Disney Cruise - Terminal 32

Oh, and did I mention it was the holiday season?

Disney Cruise - Terminal 19

Now that we've finished "looking up", let's not forget to LOOK DOWN also. In this case the floor is an amazing scale map of Florida and the Bahamas:
Disney Cruise - Terminal 23 Disney Cruise - Terminal 22

In the middle of the room is a model of the Disney Magic
-- and it's a cutaway!
Disney Cruise - Terminal 24 Disney Cruise - Terminal 27 Disney Cruise - Terminal 30

(If we're lucky, perhaps Captain Mickey will come ashore and greet us in person...)

If we step out onto the back deck, we can see the Magic herself:

Disney Cruise - Terminal 35

But what we're all waiting for is for these doors to open ...

Disney Cruise - Terminal 33 Disney Cruise - Terminal 34

... and for our boarding group to be called:

Disney Cruise - Terminal 21

Next time - Setting Sail!