Boardwalk
While all cruise ships have a variety of things to do, some definitely have more than others. Wonder of the Seas has more than most. On some small ships organized activities like trivia, kids clubs, and such are the main source of entertainment besides pools, hot tubs, and deck chairs, but ships like Wonder have all that and so much more.
pork chop dinner
Food is always a major part of cruising, and Wonder has food in abundance. The typical dining room and buffet are just the start. There’s also a couple of cafes, a hot dog stand, a Mexican eatery, pizza, and ice cream along as well as a bunch of premium (pay extra) eateries including Italian, fish, steakhouse, hamburgers, and an Alice in Wonderland themed restaurant with food billed as imaginative cuisine.
gym
There’s quite an extensive gym with large numbers of the most popular equipment like treadmills and elliptical trainers. People can visit the gym on their own or sign up for classes that may or may not cost extra. The spa has all sorts of massages and treatments and even a small juice bar with smoothies and granola as well as blended juices.
track on Wonder of the Seas
The best part of their fitness area isn’t even in the gym – it’s the outside promenade deck, which is set up like a track.
dancing in the water fountain
There are theater shows like you find on most cruise ships, but Wonder also has an AquaTheater with a high-flying high diving fast paced in and out of the water show and a skating rink with an ice show.
ice show
Sometimes the skating rink is also used for other things – like Laser Tag. It’s one of Wonder’s scheduled activities. They cover the ice and put up a blow-up maze that somewhat resembles a giant bouncy house from the outside. It did’t actually have a bouncy floor or roof on the inside, just walls. Reservations are necessary to participate, but for this game they were not hard to get as we booked ours on the phone app 5 minutes before the session started.
beach pool
Participants for each session are lined up outside the arena, then seated inside. The half-hour booking has more than one group so only some people go inside while the others wait. Each group has a 7 minute session. We were in the second group and didn’t have to wait long before we were called down to be outfitted with laser vests that had the guns attached. There’s a short video about the story that goes with the game. Loud music drowns out most of what they say, which was also the case for the instructions on how to use the guns. Each gun gave the bearer a character name, which was their name for the game. People were randomly divided into two teams by a computer which lighted up half the vests in pink and the other half in green. The pink people were sent in through one entrance and the green through another. The goal is to shoot the vests of as many of the opposing team as possible while avoiding them shooting you. When you get shot your gun goes dead for 5 seconds, during which time you can neither shoot nor be shot. At the end there was a display outside of the lasar tag maze at the top of the seating area in the ice arena listing all the character names and their scores from highest to lowest in each group. I think they said it would say which team won with the highest total score, but we only saw the individual scores for each team. Pictures were not allowed during the fast-paced game and there would not have much chance to take any if even if they were.
sea-themed mini-golf
There’s also lots of things to do on your own. Mini-golf and the kid’s playground next to it are there to go to whenever you want. A lot of the other things are manned by staff so only available during open hours. This includes things like the rock climbing walls, flowrider, zip line, and slides. There’s 3 waterslides on the pool deck, and also a splash park for small children with smaller slides. In addition there’s a couple of 10-deck dry slides snaking down the back of the ship. These slides end in the boardwalk area of the ship, which also has a carousel, food and shops, a bar with an arcade and a climbing apparatus for small children.
flowrider
The flowrider has sessions for boogie boarding and sessions for stand-up-surfing. Watching an instructional video is required before signing the waiver to participate, with additional requirements for stand-up surfing. The crew regulating the flowrider sometimes give additional instruction to participants while they have their turn.
top of the Ultimate Abyss
The starting point for the dry slides is the highest point for a view out the back of the ship. There’s an excellent view from there, though only the crew person working on that platform gets to look at it for very long since passengers are only up there briefly to get on the slides. You get a mat at the bottom of the stairway from the deck to that platform to ride down the slide on, then turn it in to the worker at the bottom.
waterslides
The three waterslides all start from the same platform, though when crowded they make separate lines at the top for the bowl slide or the other two.
zip line
The zipline runs above the boardwalk. As ziplines go it’s pretty small and neither steep nor fast, but it’s still fun. The most impressive thing about it is the fact that it’s on a ship since a place to put something like that onboard is pretty limited.
Central Park
Central Park has pathways winding through gardens of live plants. There are shops and eateries around the outer edges, and a small outside bar called the Trellis Bar. Sometimes there’s an additional bar called the Rising Tide, which is on an elevator and divides its time between Central Park and the Royal Promenade two decks below.
Royal Promenade
The Royal Promenade looks something like a city street with shops, bars, and eateries along the sides and even a karaoke spot. This is where the bionic bar is found where the bartenders are robots.
adults only solarium
Our favorite place onboard for hanging out and relaxing was the adults-only solarium. It’s a pretty big area enclosed in glass so there’s protection from sun, wind, and weather. It has its own hot tubs, towel station, and bar as well as lots and lots of deck chairs. It even has its own cafe, which serves buffet-style food at no extra charge.
high dive from the top of the AquaTheater structure at the end of the show
There’s lots to do on Wonder of the Seas. Just walking around and exploring the ship and all its many things could provide hours of entertainment since it is so big with so much to see.
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