I hadn’t cruised before sailing on the Disney Wonder, yet remarks from others centered hugely around ‘the food’. I knew my family and I were in for superb dining on the Disney Wonder, yet I was very happily surprised at the variety, in food choices as well as where to get that meal or quick snack.
Like I said in my previously in my Disney Wonder review, there is a unique rotational dining schedule. This way, all guests can experience each restaurant on the ship. Yet don’t think it’s your run-of-the-mill restaurant, each has a theme and a different menu offering such wide selections and fun for the entire family.
I especially liked the stark black and white decor of Animator’s Palate, it has an authentic animation feel in that space. I could stare at the sketches on all over the walls for hours.
Yet, Triton’s is always popular, the entrance is right where Ariel’s bronze statue is right in the main lobby. Little-Mermaid decor yet with an elegant feel, a wedding party had their dinner there one night. In reality, dining guests went to the happy couple’s reception!
If you ask my kids, they’ll say they loved the character breakfast at Parrot Cay the most. Think of it as a nice family brunch with many Disney Characters coming to visit right at your table. No need to wait in line, my girls thought it was ‘cool’ that they could munch on bacon until Mickey Mouse makes his way over, don’t forget those autograph books!
Saving the best for last, Palo is one adult-only restaurant that should not be passed by. A perfect excuse to let your kids have fun at kids-club for a while, Palo is the only restaurant on board that comes at an additional cost. Yet, for $20 for a fabulous dinner – not an issue when you see the ambiance, romantic views and exceptional food available. I HIGHLY recommend, if not beg that you go.
The décor and food of the Palo restaurant are inspired by Italy, the birthplace of the Disney Wonder. Palo takes its name from the poles that line the canals of Venice, and boasts beautiful artwork and blown glass creations at every turn. Foodies, do I have your attention? Rather than list a bit of the selection or bore you with words, photos will make you salivate more. So here they are. Your welcome.
Palo offers desserts such as cheesecakes, an assortment of gelato, and its signature dessert, the chocolate soufflé served with a vanilla bean sauce {to.die.for}. There is also a wide selection of reserve wines, yet if wine isn’t your thing, they have any other choice imaginable as well. I quite enjoyed the Mimosa’s!
If you are in for a more casual meal, check out the options for fast dining service. Stop at the Beach Blanket Buffet, we chose this location for a couple breakfasts and lunches. They had a great selection for all, yet sometimes it’s hard to get seating inside for larger groups right at peak hours {Yet, there’s outdoor seating as well, which as you see below, has one of a kind views}.
For a quick bite there’s Goofy’s Gallery, Pinocchio’s Pizza, Preludes and Pluto’s Dog House or Preludes. Pluto’s Dog House is located near the kids pool, serving up hot dogs, chicken fingers, hamburgers and beef on a bun. On the other side of the kids pool is Goofy’s Galley, and this is where you find healthier options such as paninis, fruits and wraps. Yet, I have to commend Pinocchio’s Pizza, their pizza is delicious. Right by the big outdoor movie screen, enjoy a slice in the evening while taking in a movie by the pool.
As for refreshments; pop, juice, coffee and hot chocolate are free to all guests. There’s convenient stations to grab that drink whenever you want, night or day. Alcoholic drinks and water comes at an extra cost. Yet, you can drink the tap water in your room, so if you like to sip water all day long, I’d suggest bringing a travel mug!
No matter which option you choose, be prepared for great service and warm smiles. If you aren’t familiar with the special attention your family gets from your meal servers, make sure to read up on it in my previous Disney Wonder review, it’s a pretty big deal!
Yet, don’t forget that there’s 24 hr room service as well. As you can see the options are endless, you’ll never get bored with the food, I promise! For those needing vegetarian and gluten free options, just tell your server and your wish is granted!
Bon Appétit cruisers!
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Looks like a great and fun experience
you got that right, Ann Marie! Add delicious to that as well!
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I’m literally drooling on my keyboard, wow!
Ha, watch out!! You’ll need that keyboard to book/research your own vacay!
lol
Simply amazing!! I have to admit, one thing I do worry about when I travel with my girls is what they will eat. They are not the most adventerous eaters, and when taking them to places like Mexico etc I tend to be a bit of a worrier that we will end up with some food that their delicate systems won’t be able to handle. Looks like s Disney Crusie would eliminate all these worries for me! (err and them) Plus the adults only restuaraunt? Brilliant! Thanks for sharing your adventures!
One night my twins ordered something and just wouldn’t eat it, promptly something else was brought out for them. Usually I’m not one for complying to their pickiness so much, yet I wanted them to have a good meal, so I agreed. Same goes for adults too, very nice to have this option!
I get sea sick!
Ha, have you been on a cruise before?
I definitely felt the rocking and thought I’d be a prime candidate, yet I was fine!
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omg, LOVING your 3 little fairy godmothers having dinner.
That has got to be the best photo, look at all the memories you made!
Isn’t that cute? Little sprinkles of happiness!
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I have left a comment here before but I must say once again how great this looks and I think @Jazzy6178 needs to take a look too
hint, hint!!! Love that!!
Looks like fun!
I have never been on any cruise before. Your trip looks like it was lots of fun.
Such beautiful memories!
Yes, I look through the photos often, was a fantastic trip!
amazing! my son loves all the pictures, this would be his dream cruise!
Wow, that looks amazing. I’ll bet everyone had so much fun!
What a unique and fun experience for you guys! Most of all the dessert look really delicious!
Oh, I wish I could have one of the desserts right now – soooo good!
I would love love love to have that experience! Lucky you!
So very hungry all of a sudden, looks like the dining provided as much fun as the rest of the trip.
Wow…what a fun place to have a meal!
That food looks amazing, and what an experience.
I love cruising because of the food!
YES!! The food, oh the food!
You can’t help but to gain a *couple* pounds!
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Mmm i never knew that cruising was so fun 🙂
i have never been on a cruise. this food looks amazing! i will put this on my bucket list.
I’ll be on the wonder again in ALaska in June! I love Animator’s Palate on the Wonder and the Magic better than the new ones! THanks!
How was Alaska Nancy? Wondering with the cold plus the wind, was it too cold to go in the pools?
Hi Tammi – I won’t be there until next June – 2013! I’m not planning on any pool time, but then again, I don’t go much for the pools anyway.
Looks like you and your girls are having an amazing adventure!
I already wanted to do a Disney cruise but now having read the post, I MUST do it! Cute pic of the girls with the napkins! 🙂
Thanks Robin!
I love dining with the characters! We are off to Disney World TOMORROW MORNING and will be having dinner with Pooh and his friends one night! Can’t wait!
How was the trip Lisa? I LOVE Disney World, cannot wait to go back!
Wow, sounds & looks like an awesome experience. One of these days I’m going to go, it may just be in my dreams.
reading your review had it seeming as if I was right there and would have loved
to have been. I can’t imagine so much fun and excitement
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This looks like such an amazing trip! We would love to go on a Disney cruise if we could…
It looks amazing! A Disney cruise is on my ‘to do’ list!
Wow, looks like spectacular kid friendly food and environment. Disney Cruise is on my bucket list, along with a trip to Australia ! Can dream can’t we ?
Look FUN! The Food looked AWESOME 🙂 My kids would love to go even to Disneyland or on a cruise 🙂
This is the cruise i’m dreaming to do with my girls !!! One day 😉
Looks like a fun trip to do with your kids
Oh my! I never heard of this, but it looks like it would be a dream come true for any child!
Wow everything looks and sounds so good. I’ve never been on a cruise before but the kids would love to do the Disney Wonder. Looks like your family had a wonderful time, I’m envious..:)
This sounds like a great place for the kids!
Wow, amazing! I can imagine the precious memories you’ve made on this trip 🙂
Great photos! What a beautiful ship (and a beautiful family 🙂
Wow…I bet that’s something your kids will never forget! How special! 🙂
nice experience..and great memories to hold onto..
Looks like a lot of fun!
I Had Never Heard Of The Disney Wonder Ship Before.
It Looks Like A Beautiful Ship.
The Food Looks Wonderful And Your Children Look Very Happy.
I Am Glad You Enjoyed Your Family Cruise And Took A lot Of Pictures
To Relive The Memories.
Looks like you had an awesome time.
Love this post- jealous!!! I plan on taking my girls one day!
Make a plan for it Amy, you won’t regret!
must be nice taking the kids on a getaway! looks like lots of fun!
OMG. This is the travel of my dream with my girls…One day
i have never been on a cruise. It sounds like so much fun!
Wow!!! This is the travel that I want to do with my family!!
Great Pictures. I would love to do Disney with my family. I am not sure if I could do a cruise though!
Looks so fun! I would love to take the kids on a Disney Cruise!
Looks like you guys had a great time!
i really want to go on a disney cruise!
Looks Like sooo Much FUN! Id love to be able to do something like this with my 2 Children~! Maybe in a couple years time 🙂
My kids would love this ! Great pictures 🙂
I would LOVE to take a Disney Cruise with my family! One of these days! Thanks for the great review/post.
Cheers, Lisa
Thanks Lisa!
Glad you enjoyed the post, cheers!
i want to go! i love disney!!
wow that looks amazing!!!!! maybe someday…..if I win the lotto!?
I wish I could take my boys on a cruise like this. It looks like an adventure of a lifetime. 🙂
Is all the food free except Palo’s? It’s odd they would want you to pay for water. I’m surprised the fountain drink station doesn’t have a water option. Other then that I want to go so badly lol
Becky, no cruise ships offer free water, except from the tap. Which I kinda get, if it was free can you imagine how much water they’d have to bring onto the ship? That would be crazy, I think!
I would so love to take my family and grandkids on this cruise!
I hope to be able to do this with my family one day! It looks sooo fun! I just always think of it as not in the budget!
great fun and great food makes for a great time 🙂 awesome pics !
Awe your girls look so happy! How adorable are they! So nice when parents can do that for their children and it looks like good food and fun, so envious not being healthy enough to do this so my belief is do it now while your healthy, no excuses that we use, time, money etc. I am so glad your family is having these great adventures!
so want to do this
awesome photos
Sounds like a great trip and the food OMG!.
it looks and sounds amazing. Is it safe for kids – I’m very scared for the kids – otherwise is would be great
Fantastic!
I had NO idea it was so nice! …and all that food! I’m drooling!
Your cruise looked amazing and like so much fun for the entire family!
my kids would absolutely love this, so would mom and dad lol 🙂
that looks like so much fun i wish we were in a position to go on a vacation….one day 🙂
This looks so exciting !
I hope my family can go on a Disney cruise one day! Looks like a great time!
Wow, looks amazing food & fun. Memories the kids will have forever.
Looks like a wonderful time!
This looks like so much fun !!!
Looks like you guys had a great time
I would loveto take the same holiday!
this looks fabulous and what an adventure for the little ones to see mickey mouse
WOW That looks like it would be a blast.My kids would be in heaven!!!!!!!!!!
Would love to go , beautiful my kids will go crazy yummy food….
I’ve never been to Disney and always have wanted to go. The Disney Cruise sounds like a lot of fun too.
Looks like so much fun! would love to try this some day if I could get my hubby to get on a boat. lol
Looks like a lot of fun.
The Food looks amazing, My kids want to do this cruise so bad!
This is something I would love to do with my family and I love seeing other people experiences. Thanks
love love love DISNEY!! THIS WOULD BE AMAZING!! 🙂
Sounds like a lot of fun. Wish I had the money to take my grandchildren.
Lucky little girls!
I hope we can go to Disney one day.
Holy Guacamole! That looks fantastic!
This looks like so much fun! I hope to take my grandchildren on a Disney Cruise!
Looks like so much fun! I hope I get to take my kids on it one day!
Sounds like fun…wish I can go on this cruise some day!
Looks like you had a lot of fun.
Looks like you had alot of fun! That would be so fun to do with the family!
thank you
Looks like you and your family had a great time 🙂
I wonder how much weight people gain when they’re on a cruise? 😉 The dining rooms look awesome and so does the food!
you don’t wanna know Patti …. *sigh*
This would be somewhere I would love to take my newborn when she is a little Older 🙂
looks yummy and exciting
This looks like so much fun, maybe one day I will take the Grandkids on a cruise.
I have never been on a cruise before but this looks like so much fun!
Oh my goodness, that looks SO lavish! It’s so much more than what I would have expected. Looks like the girls had a great time 😀
I love the idea of the rotational dining schedule! It nice to get to experience all they offer in dining experiences! And The food looks great !
It looks absolutely beautiful. Adult only restaurant sounds wonderful – have a truely dinner for yourself & relax in a supposed relax vacation.
Wow!!! The food looks Amazing………. great Pictures!!!!
You haven’t been to disneyland unless you have been on one of these cruises and I have relatives in LA, so been there many times or so I thought.
the food looks great !
Thank you so much for sharing. I really look forward to taking my kids at some point. They both would enjoy it so very much.
Looks like you all had an amazing time! I hope to do a Disney cruise with my family soon… thank you for the great review!
this is probably the best discription I have seen to date about the Disney Wonder cruises thanks so much really want to take my grandson this year keep putting it off, this is the year to go
I wanna go on a cruise..just not one like just happened in the gulf…thanks
take my boys on this line for a baby moon before we give birth to our 3rd boy 🙂 I think I would have just as much fun as them lol
now that’s an awesome place to have dinner!
Wow. Wish i could take my kids on a Disney cruise!
Jelly 😮
looks like an amazing time! your girls seemed to really enjoy it 🙂