[00:00:00] Speaker A: We spent the afternoon just kind of exploring the city, doing a little shopping. That was a lot of fun. And then we had dinner. We had. We had a. We had reservations at a speakeasy. They had a house called Red Frog. And so we went over there. We couldn't find the place. Right. It's hidden. There's no instructions. When I made the reservation, yeah, that's.
[00:00:16] Speaker B: The thing about this speakeasy.
[00:00:18] Speaker A: We're literally just walking back and forth on the block. I'm going, it's gotta be here somewhere. I don't know where it is. And then two other Americans come, and they're looking for the same place. And so we're both like, all four of us are just walking around asking random people, and everyone's like, I don't know what you're talking about.
Foreign.
[00:00:42] Speaker C: Welcome back, everybody, to this week's episode of the DCL Duo podcast, brought to you by my Path Unwinding Travel. And Sam, we got to start with a listener review. As always, as always, listener review time.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: So I love that. I like our recorded shows sometimes. I mean, I love our live shows because we get, like, immediate feedback from people interacting with us. But sometimes I get sad when it's been a while to since we've recorded a recorded show because I like hearing the listener reviews.
[00:01:07] Speaker C: You can always just go on and read them yourself.
[00:01:09] Speaker B: But I know I do. Sometimes if I'm feeling really sad, I go and read our listener reviews.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: Yes.
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[00:01:29] Speaker B: Well, Jeffrey R. Love that.
[00:01:30] Speaker C: Jeffrey R. I'm glad to hear that we are providing that service. And thank you, Michelle, for that lovely love listener review. If you would like to help support our show. It is so easy. So easy. Just head over to Apple Podcasts, hit those five stars. You don't have to do anything else. Just hit the five stars. If you want to go the extra mile, you can leave us a written review just like Michelle did, and we will read it on the top of the. Well, on the air at the top of one of our main episodes. So, Michelle, thank you again for that review. We really appreciate it. And Sam, I'm handed over to you to introduce our guest and I got a really fun topic. A cruise you want to take. I know.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: So I know I keep talking about How I want to take one of these cruises. So I'm going to just spoil.
I want to take a transatlantic or trans Pacific crossing cruise. These are the longer cruises on Disney Cruise Line. They're pretty much the longest itineraries you can take. I mean, Panama Canal is the only other one that's as long. And I'm super jealous of today's guest, Chris, because he was able to take the transatlantic cruise on the Disney Dream when it came back from Europe this past season in the fall. So welcome to the show for the first time. Chris, we are so excited to have you.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: Thank you. This is a lot of fun. Spoiler alert. This is the best itinerary in the Disney Cruise Line catalog. I guess if you want to call it that.
[00:02:45] Speaker C: Wow, those are words for the price.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: And everything you get out of it. It's got to be the best option.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Yeah, well, so that's a good point. I mean, sort of starting up front with price per night on a per night basis. The transatlantic trans Pacific, Panama Canal cruises, those all, I think in general you get the best bang for your buck. I mean other than getting some sort of special like cast member disc or you know, travel industry discount or something like that.
Yeah, these are the best per night basis. So even though the price tag as a whole might look big, I mean you're talking two weeks on a ship. I mean you might pay like the same as, as you might pay for like a five night cruise.
[00:03:29] Speaker A: We have a three night booked in like six weeks and it was only that cruise was half the price of this two week long transatlantic. So.
[00:03:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that's crazy.
[00:03:39] Speaker A: Just crazy. Yeah.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: Which means, right, you pay like for one like one week long cruise, it would be about the same price then as this two week cruise. So double. Yeah, it's crazy. Okay, well let's, before we dive into talking about this cruise and why you chose it. But obviously, I mean it's. Why did you choose it? Of course you choose the longer the cruise is better. But tell us how you, you know, how you became a fan of Disney Cruise Line. Did you have a love of Disney that came before your love of Disney Cruise Line? But where, where did, where did this all start?
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Big Disney family, wife, my two kids. And it really kind of started with me, but then the kids really sort of took it and ran. So didn't get an opportunity to travel a lot growing up. And we took three vacations that I remember. We went to the Grand Canyon. That was fun. And then two trips to Disney World. I grew up in Michigan. So we would drive down to Florida and just kind of fell in love with the happiness of Disney World and the parks. I had an opportunity to move to Orlando for work. I wasn't working at Disney, but we lived in the Orlando area. Both our kids were born. We had annual passes. We went all the time and just really enjoyed it. And then we moved away.
I think our daughter was probably about five or six. We moved to Seattle. So we lived, we lived in your neck of the woods there for a while. It was very nice.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:49] Speaker A: And then we joined DVC at that time because we still had a lot of friends in Orlando. We wanted to go to the parks and so we became DVC members at that time. Work.
We've moved a lot for my job and so we ended up in Montreal from, from Seattle. A little, little stop in between. And I don't, I don't know if it was just because of the kids age and they're watching a lot of Disney Channel or if Disney was doing a lot of advertising in Montreal. But our son who was like four or the time just started becoming obsessed with Disney cruises until you know, we ordered the, the informational DVD at the time and he would just watch it on repeat.
And we were never cruise people. My wife gets motion sickness very, very easily and so we just always kind of ruled it out. And then she came one day and said maybe if she considered a cruise. You know, he's just so excited about it. And so we looked into it. She found and I don't know the name of the medicine. It's the little patch you put behind your ear.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: Yeah, well there's the scopolamine is the one that is the prescription one. And then there's a different one that's an over the counter version.
[00:05:43] Speaker A: Yeah, she had the prescription, prescription one from our doctor and so we booked a cruise.
In fact, our first one was on the Disney Dream and we went for our son's sixth birthday and just fell in love. I think that, I think anyone who takes two young children on a Disney cruise, they're just going to be immediately. This is the most amazing thing ever. You know, the servers are cutting their food, everyone's taking care of them. You get time, you know, as, as adults to kind of do what you want to do. And we just thought it was a really amazing vacation. We somehow got so lucky on the cruise. I don't know how and I don't remember how booking worked. This was 2009, I think we boarded, we on immediately went to guest services and asked if there was any cabanas available on Castaway. The day we were there was our son's birthday. And she, you know, typed a little. Typed on her computer for a second, said, yeah, we have one.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: Wow. Literally walked on the boat.
[00:06:27] Speaker A: Yeah. And had a cabana. I couldn't believe it. And so just that whole experience was great. And so then we, we booked a few others. We of course booked one while we were on the, on that ship, did a few more. And then we ended up moving to San Diego and kind of, kind of didn't really think about cruising so much anymore. We were going to Disneyland a bit. We had annual passes to Disneyland. And then one day, 2019, early 2019, was downtown San Diego. And I saw it was either the magic of the wonder, I don't remember which one, sitting in port and I, I remember thinking, oh my goodness. Disney cruise cruises out of San Diego. This is incredible. Literally went home immediately, went to the website and booked another cruise. And we've been kind of like non stop ever since COVID slowed it down. We went on a Halloween on the high seas out of San Diego. And in late 2019, Covid hit. Everything kind of paused for a while. And then as soon as it opened back up, we've been two, three cruises a year since then. This, this transatlantic was our ninth Disney cruise. And so nice.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: We're hooked now. How old are the kids now?
[00:07:20] Speaker A: They're old now, so they're very angry about this cruise. They didn't go with us. This was our first cruise without the children.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:07:27] Speaker A: Our daughter is just about to turn 21. She's in northern California in college. And Our son is 19. He's a freshman in college at Alabama. So multi nesting now.
[00:07:37] Speaker B: And you are freedom.
[00:07:40] Speaker A: We did this cruise without him and then we spoiled the end. We have a cruise on the Treasure booked in November. No kids. And our son especially very upset about that one.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
You know, I wonder if when Nathan is that age, I'm just sort of musing like, I wonder if if when he's that age, will he want to be like, when we book cruises without him, will be he be mad about it or will he be like, I don't care, right? Like, because there is, there is that I'm upset.
[00:08:06] Speaker C: I was upset with my parents started booking cruises and they were, because they would bring me along and then all of a sudden it's like, well, we're going to school.
Northern Europe. Oh, sorry, you can't make it.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I, I think, yeah, but I Do. I do think it can go either way. Right. Because there are some, you know, young adults or older teens who really want nothing to do with their parents. And so they're fine if the, you know, or they don't want anything to do with anything Disney. Right. Like they might go, they often come, turn, come around, I think. But like they might go through that phase where they're just kind of like anti parents and, or anti Disney.
[00:08:41] Speaker A: Our daughter was definitely not so much anti Disney. But I'm okay without Disney for about two years when she first went off to college.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: And now she's, she's back 100%. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: No, that, that totally makes sense to me. Okay, well that explains why you were able to. I mean, you have their older kids. They're not, they're not kids anymore. They're adults now. They're young adults. I hate I keep saying kids, but they're, they're adults. They're. One of them's not even in the 1820 society anymore.
Yeah, but, yeah, so they, it makes sense why you were able to book this. But let's talk about that decision to book, book this cruise in particular. You're west coast based. You gotta fly quite a long ways over to Europe to catch this cruise. Why did you decide on, on that, this cruise in particular? And did you consider, you know, a Trans Pacific crossing, for example?
[00:09:31] Speaker A: Yeah, we're definitely interested in the Trans Pacific. I came across a transact, actually one of your guests talking about it maybe a couple years ago is when I first started. Well, this transatlantic sounds kind of interesting. I literally would have never looked at it because it just seems like, you know, you're just going from one place to the other and I don't know how interesting that's going to be. When I heard about all the special activ and guests and I was like, oh, I got to look into that. And then when I was looking, when, when we got our son moved into college and we were kind of thinking about what, you know, what are we going to start doing without them. I immediately looked at the transatlantic. The dates were perfect. The, the price, you know, I mentioned the price. The price was great. And it was going to Lisbon, which is a city we had always wanted to go to. My wife grew up in Brazil, she speaks Portuguese and we had. Oh, Portugal.
[00:10:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:11] Speaker A: So that was a place that we were super interested in. I said, let's just, let's just go. Let's give it a try. You know, we didn't know how we would feel about A two week long cruise, but just went ahead and booked it. And so we book, you know, we were like, let's make the most out of it. We spent four days in London beforehand and then went and boarded and then did two weeks. So pretty awesome.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: Amazing. Okay, so I mean it makes sense. Obviously you're gonna, you're not gonna just like go there and board the ship and come back. That seems like a little wasteful of a, of an expensive flight. Right, so spend some, some time in London. You guys boarded in Southampton then, I'm presuming, right? Yes. So let's, let's talk about that. How did you tell us your transportation plan for getting from London to Southampton? Because I think folks are always interested to what's the best way to get there.
[00:10:53] Speaker A: Yeah, we booked and apparently a bunch of people did. So we booked almost everything on this trip, including everything we did in London through Get your guide. Never had used them before. They just kind of offered the best options. When I was looking at all the different, you know, kind of viator and all the other ones. And they had a London to Southampton transfer with a stop in Stonehenge.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: Perfect.
I mean, I have heard that that's a fantastic option either on the way to the cruise or if you're, you know, doing a round trip on the way back, you know, to London from, from Southampton. The other option, of course is the doing the, the Harry Potter Warner Brothers Studios tour. But I, I do think those are both great options because it's not directly on the way Stonehenge, but it's not a huge detour and it's a great way to, to see, you know, one of the, one of the wonders of the world.
[00:11:41] Speaker A: It wasn't too bad. And they came, they picked us up right at our hotel. We didn't have to go anywhere. We were kind of lucky. I think we were the second to last pickup. So we weren't a super early, early pickup. And there was, it was a big charter bus and I think there was probably 25 of us on the bus and all the Disney dream. So it made it easy. We made one other stop, pick some people up and then they. About halfway to Stonehenge they stopped at a rest area so we could get some snacks and drinks. Got to Stonehenge, spent maybe two hours there, which, which was fine. It was really cool to see that the weather was really crazy. They actually had like a cyclone kind of come through England that, that late in the year and it was like crazy windy and super rainy. But by the time we got to the port, it was. It was not rainy and the weather was fine and it passed over. So it worked out really well.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Now, what time was your port arrival time? I imagine you weren't sort of like rushing to get to the port because you had this excursion planned, but what time was your port arrival time and what time did you actually arrive? The Port of Southampton.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: The only thing the details, they lacked was sort of what time you were going to get there. So I was kind of trying to piece it together and the best I could figure out was I think we're going to get there about 2 to 3pm but when I went online and registered and did it and picked our boarding time, I picked 1:30 just to kind of be safe, just in case we got there early. I didn't want to sit around for a long time. And I think in the end we got there exactly 2:30.
So they, we got off. They just immediately took our luggage from the bus. We never even saw it. We walked up to the cruise terminal and they said, if anyone already has a port arrival time, just go ahead and go in. If your port arrival time hasn't come yet, just get in this line. And so we just walked in, checked in, and were able to board pretty easily. They had a little delay. Something went wrong with the. What's the little bridge that connects. The walkway that connects to the. Connects to the ship?
[00:13:25] Speaker B: The gangway.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: Gangway. Thank you. Yeah, something went wrong there and they had to hold everyone for about, about 25 minutes or so before we could actually walk on. But other than that, it was pretty smooth. There was a lot of talk in the, in the Facebook group that I was kind of watching where we're sitting on the bus, that people who got there right away was kind of chaotic. I don't know what was going on or what happened, but people were getting a little bit angry in the Facebook group there for about an hour and then it seemed to get sorted out.
[00:13:48] Speaker B: Yeah. If there was an issue with the gangway, then the earlier. Whoever had earlier port arrival times probably sitting around for longer than they wanted to. Right.
And I think it's. It's fairly typical that boarding over in Europe is not quite as early as it is like at Port Canaveral. Right. At Port Canaveral, like you might get an 11:15 or 11:30 port arrival time and you might be boarding the ship by noon, sometimes even earlier. I mean, just kind of depending upon how fast customs gets, you know, clears the ship. But like, in Europe, that's usually it's, it's usually a bit later than that, so that's not super surprising. Well, and of course, they're loading the ship for a transatlantic crossing, so you gotta, they got a lot of.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: Take some time. That's a lot of stuff.
[00:14:28] Speaker B: Yeah, with a lot of stuff. Exactly. A lot of stuff. And a lot of new passengers. Probably a lot more sort of turnover on the ship. Well, let's, let's talk about. You had already been on the Dream, and you mentioned that was your first ship. Now how many of the ships have you been on? I know you said this was your ninth cruise, but obviously you mentioned you have the treasure book, so I'm assuming you haven't been on the Treasure quite yet.
But have you been on the other five?
[00:14:54] Speaker A: We have been on all of them except for the treasure. And so this was only our second time on the Dream. And then we've done the magic just once in the Wish once. And then everything else has been repeat now was.
[00:15:05] Speaker B: I mean, the dream had just come out of dry dock, but as we sort of know from some of the discussions we've had with some other cruisers, there wasn't a whole lot that was super noticeable for guests. I would say on the Dream Dry dock, obviously the Tower suite is like the big deal thing, but unless you're going to tell me you said the.
[00:15:23] Speaker C: Tower suite noticeable only if you have $26,000 more.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: I'm going to, I'm going to just like go out on a limb here and guess you didn't stay in the Tower Suite, Chris, or you would have volunteered that like right up front or in the notes when you contacted us about one day.
One day, right, exactly. But I mean, we, we, we know like that, you know, they, they updated some of like the, the screens, some of the sound systems.
We know that they, you know, updated some lighting. So things that like the, the tr.
But the average guest isn't going to notice. But you had been on the Dream many years before were the things that you were the things you noticed, Chris?
[00:16:04] Speaker A: Yeah, and I had to ask a lot to kind of. To get. Because you would see stuff and go like, is that new? And then I would just ask a cast member and they would tell me. And so the most notable thing was, and I forget the exact name, the Ramones Taco shop that they added to the pool deck, which is kind of similar to the, what is it? The Donald Cantina or whatever in the Wish, by far the best food on the pool deck on the Dream. It was, it was really Good. And had the longest line for sure. It. But I always tasted really fresh. They had the little salsa bar behind, and it was. It was really good. So that was the one everyone knew and kind of noticed. I think the other most noticeable one was in the D Lounge, the walls. And they weren't really utilizing them, but the. You know, it's like a. It's a circular space, and the walls on the outside are all a screen.
But they weren't really making use of it. They basically just had sort of a still image up the whole time. So you kind of didn't realize it until I was sitting in there one day going, oh, wait a minute. This whole thing is a. Is a screen, and they can kind of do whatever they want with it. That's pretty neat.
[00:16:52] Speaker B: I wonder if they were utilizing it for bingo and stuff, because I feel like that's a good question.
[00:16:56] Speaker A: We didn't do bingo in this particular sailing. Yeah.
[00:16:58] Speaker B: Yeah, because, because, like, is the indee lounge on. On the four original or the first four ships? You know, that's typically where bingo is held, and that's the biggest event. Like, that's the. The event that's packed to the gills in D Lounge. Right. And so that seems like it would be the best. Best use of the screens.
[00:17:15] Speaker A: Yeah, it would be pretty cool. I know we did not sell concierge this particular sailing, but I know the concierge changes were pretty noticeable. And then outside of that, it was. Yeah, a lot of little stuff. Screens, lighting. I think all the carpet in the main spaces was replaced. I did ask, and someone told me it was because it all looked new, and so everything just looked pretty. Like, obviously everything was repainted, and it looked pretty good. So, you know, I think the big. The big. The one that everyone wanted that they didn't do is Enchanted Garden. That was. That was just the same, you know, how you feel about the restaurant is kind of going to stay.
[00:17:45] Speaker B: But I mean, I think, you know, I think we all want some updated theming for Enchanted Garden. And as Brian keeps.
[00:17:53] Speaker C: I would say just rip out the space.
[00:17:55] Speaker B: Just rip out the buffet. Right? Just rip out. There's no reason to have that buffet still there.
[00:18:01] Speaker C: Make me feel like you care about that space more than most people care about their basement. Like, that's.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. I know. Well, and that's a good point. I forgot about the. The concierge updates. And we have some. Some videos on our Instagram, some reels that show the updated concierge lounge and that they did a really nice Job on that for sure.
Yeah. And, and we expect those. And they did update some of the rooms. So some of the regular rooms were converted into concierge family veranda rooms as well. Well, but again you wouldn't get like those are things you only would get to see if you're staying in one of those rooms or if you're staying concierge. You obviously see the updates to the lounge or if you're staying in the, in the Tower Suite, then you'd get to see, you know that Tower suite that was, that was created from the funnel that was previously that Outlook Lounge. And of course the, the Edge was up there. Now Edges split with, with Vibe, that, that space.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: Oh yeah. And they have the new outdoor space. Right. That's split between Edge and Vibe. So I didn't check that out, but I know that was new.
[00:19:02] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Well the space, it was already. So it had already been in use as part of Vibe previously and now it flip flops that space between Edge and Vibe. And so they made some updates to it. But it's basically the same layout. I mean the outdoor space is the same layout and then the indoor space is, is what they more divided. And so it's kind of a bummer because it seems like the tweens got the short end of the stick on the amount of space and where. And the tweens are the one it.
[00:19:33] Speaker C: Should have been flip flop.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:34] Speaker B: Because the teens are usually roaming ship.
[00:19:36] Speaker A: They're not like anywhere.
[00:19:37] Speaker B: Yeah, they're not like staying in one space. There's like a gaggle of teens constantly roaming the ships. For anyone who's on a Disney cruise, with the exception of really on the trans Transatlantic or trans Pacific crossings because you just don't see that many kids period. Jumping to that topic, actually, what was the demographic like on the ship, Chris?
[00:19:56] Speaker A: They, they told us there was about 2,800 passengers. So a little bit more than than half full, which I mean it felt empty. Everywhere you went was, was really easy that. I can't remember the exact number, but it was about 250 kids.
[00:20:11] Speaker B: That's a very low number. Yeah, very low number of kids for Disney ship.
[00:20:15] Speaker A: Yeah, there were two kind of, you know, the teen groups that you see whenever. Walking around whenever you're in a Disney ship. There was basically two. There was a group that was under 18. There was about eight to 10 of them that you'd always see. And then there was a group, the 18 to 20 club of about, about 12 of them that you'd always see. As a group. And they all kind of hung out the entire cruise, which I think was probably pretty cool for them.
[00:20:33] Speaker B: Yeah, they probably had a really great experience. And then you probably saw some toddlers, right? I mean, some.
[00:20:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:38] Speaker B: Not schoolers. Yeah.
[00:20:40] Speaker A: And there was probably a little bit more. They shifted the sailing dates on this particular in 2024, and it coincided with a break of the English school system. So I think there was a few more kids than they usually have just because most of the kids in England were actually off school for those two weeks. And so the kids we had were either young or old or probably off school. And then there was a group. It was kind of neat. A group of children that were homeschooled and they would kind of get together every day and then teach them as a group every day in one of the common spaces. I thought that was kind of neat. That was probably pret fun for them too, to have that experience that was a little bit different than their normal day.
[00:21:14] Speaker B: That is cool. Wow, that's really interesting. And then did you have. Did you notice?
I mean, obviously it's not. Disney is not known for having an older crowd, but I'm sure that the crowd skews a little bit older on these crossings than on your average sailing.
[00:21:29] Speaker A: Yeah, a little bit. The most famous. The most famous person that I remember, and I can't remember his name, I should remember, he joined the Facebook group and introduced himself. He was like 75, 76 years old. This was his 108th Disney Cruise.
[00:21:42] Speaker B: Was it Mark?
[00:21:43] Speaker A: That was.
[00:21:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know him. We know Mark. We sailed with him.
[00:21:49] Speaker A: And then they. He was. We went and introduced ourselves to him because I had commented on his. On his post on Facebook. And then at the. At one of the special events for just the gold, Platinum and pearl members, they introduced someone who was much younger. I'm not going to guess her age. They said it was our 114th Disney cruise.
[00:22:05] Speaker B: Wow, that's. Yeah.
No, I. I had a feeling Mark would have been on that cruise. He. He always. We've sailed on maiden voyages with other just sort of random sailings with him. Super nice guy. So shout out to Mark if you're listening. I don't know if you listen.
He does not do podcasts himself. Like he will not go on a podcast himself as a guest, but super nice guy to chat with and has obviously a ton of Disney cruising experience. Well, let's jump in and talk about some of these ports because you did get to hit a couple of ports, including, as you mentioned, Lisbon but on the late end, you got to hit Lookout Key on the way back to or to Florida, I should say. So let's start. You leave out of Southampton. What's your first port of actually? How many ports of call did you have? And what was your first?
[00:22:55] Speaker A: It was Vigo, Spain, and then Lisbon, Portugal, and we went to the Azores. So Punta Delgada and then Lookout Key and then across.
[00:23:02] Speaker B: Right.
And then Lookout Key and then Florida. Right.
[00:23:05] Speaker A: And then Fort Lauderdale.
[00:23:06] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, so it's, that's actually quite, I mean, for transatlantic.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: That was pretty good. Yeah.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: Yeah, that's pretty good. So let's, let's start with, with Vigo, Spain. What did you guys get up to there? Did you book a Disney excurs or an excursion privately or out on your own? What'd you guys get up to?
[00:23:23] Speaker A: Yeah, we didn't book anything. We just wanted to explore the city. We had never been to vgo. In fact, we had never been to Spain. It was both our first time in Spain and so we just wanted to walk around and explore the city. We had done a little research beforehand. We found a place we wanted to eat lunch at. My wife has celiac, so she has. She's always a little bit worried about just walking into a place and whether or not she'll be able to eat. And so we usually do a little research in advance to try to, you know, just put a couple of names down of places that might look interesting. And so we went to a restaurant that we found. It was pretty good. It was kind of like a small little local place. They had some good fish. I don't eat fish, but my wife loves it, so she really enjoyed some of the local fish and had a nice, had a nice lunch and then just kind of walked around, took in the scenes before heading back to the port, did a little shopping. But otherwise I just wanted to.
[00:24:09] Speaker C: I'm curious. What, what. So you mentioned resources. Just, we don't get into this topic super often on the podcast. But, but you know, what resources do you use to sort of pre vet the restaurants? Are there more specialized resources than just going to Yelp or something?
[00:24:21] Speaker A: There are a few and I can't remember. I know there's a website like, boy, I can't remember the name of it, like gluten free guide or something like that that I know she goes to. And it's kind of like Yelp where people submit reviews of, of restaurants that might be a little bit more friendly for that. She uses Instagram more than anything else. So she'll just go out and search, you know, gluten free Vigo, Spain. And then she just gets tons of reels and posts and starts to kind of catalog all these places. And then we might, you know, five or six will kind of float their way to their top. And then we'll go individually kind research those ones and, and see what stands out.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: Cool. That's. That's actually really smart. I mean, and great. I think information for anyone with, you know, food allergies that, that's, you know, a great, a great way to, you know, consider researching. Even if you're not going to do an excursion, like do some research on some restaurants so that you can eat safely if you want to get off the ship. Because obviously we've talked a lot on the show and I want to. We'll talk about that later. But we know on board Disney Cruise line is, is great about that stuff, but we also know that when you're out in Europe or really Even in the U.S. like, you can be pretty hit or miss as to how good a restaurant is with food allergies as a general matter.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: Yeah. And I think, you know, that's another reason why I think Disney stuck so well to us. They took, they take such good care of her food allergy, and it's just not a problem whatsoever that she just feels very comfortable. She knows she's not going to, you know, get accidentally glutened and ruin her day.
[00:25:42] Speaker B: Get a gluten. I kind of like that as a verb. Get accidentally gluten.
[00:25:46] Speaker A: That happens.
Just ruins her whole day. I mean, she'll just cheese down.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:53] Speaker C: I'm picturing Marshall from how I met your mother with his lawyer gluten.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: Let's jump to Lisbon. It sounds like Lisbon was one of the places you were probably most looking forward to. You mentioned your wife is Brazilian. So she's a native Portuguese speaker. Yeah. What did you guys get up to in Lisbon?
[00:26:14] Speaker A: This was another one. We just wanted to explore the city and so we had a few kind of highlights that we wanted to do. We both read this. I can't remember remember the name of the book. I'm terrible with names.
[00:26:24] Speaker C: You're in good company, my friend.
[00:26:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Brian is also terrible with names. Yeah.
[00:26:29] Speaker A: We both read this historical. What's your name again?
[00:26:31] Speaker C: We work together.
[00:26:34] Speaker A: We both read this historical fiction novel that was set in Lisbon like in the 1600s. And it had to do with the coffee trade and, and all that kind of stuff. And so we really wanted to go get some coffee. And so we Found a place pretty close to the port that we went to. And great coffee, nothing but good thing. It was one of the best coffees I ever had, actually. I think it was called Fabrica Cafe or something like that. But my wife was super exc. Excited to be in Portugal and speak some Portuguese. And we go in and the barista takes her order and my wife kind of gives me a look. And then I just ordered in English. And so she replied to me and her. She was from New York, so like the first person she interacts with wasn't even Portuguese.
[00:27:09] Speaker B: That's hilarious. I love that.
[00:27:10] Speaker A: But we had great coffee.
[00:27:11] Speaker B: And the New Yorker starts talking to you in English.
Yeah.
[00:27:16] Speaker C: So, Chris, I have. I have to ask.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: What.
[00:27:18] Speaker C: I'm a big fan of historical fiction. I love to do that thing that you did where it's like, let me read a book about.
I'm going to. What was. Do you remember the name of the book?
[00:27:25] Speaker A: Not remember for the life of me. Because we both read it quite a long time ago and there's a. The character is in a series of historical fiction. There's. Most of them are in London, but then this one kind of kind of branched out to Lisbon. And so it just, it sets for a cool. You know, when you see things that are mentioned in the book, it kind of makes for a fun experience. I had, I had a great time in London because I've been listening to another podcast called this is History. And it goes through the whole. From basically the founding of London and the. In the. When England was first formed up until I'm in the like the middle of 1300s right now. And so just to see all the sites, sites that are in this, you know, these. This history and these stories is really fun and cool. You know, Westminster Abbey, Tarvlin and all that stuff. So nice. Love that. Anyway, we got coffee. Stir off one thing that was awesome about Lisbon and I have no idea about the scheduling and complications of scheduling ports for cruise lines, but we're in Lisbon from. Let me check. I think we. I think we were all sure at like 8am and the all aboard wasn't until 9pm oh, wow. So like 13 hours to explore Lisbon. Yeah. Super. Awesome. So we got right off, right away, got our coffee and we just loved having that much time to explore the city. One, because we were so excited about it. But two, because you just don't get there very often to have and to have more. You know, sometimes you got to be back by three or four o' clock. You don't you feel a little cut off.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: Well, and if you want to stick around for like dinner, hit up a bar even. I mean, exactly even. You know, obviously early bar time, but still nine is, you know, that's plenty of time to do all that.
[00:28:47] Speaker A: Yeah. So then we headed over to Belem and to check out the Belem Tower. We went to Pasta de Belem and got the pasta de nadas they had. So we chose that. I think they both had. Had gluten free. No, they did not have gluten free ones. That was, that was an issue. That's a bummer. So we had to go somewhere. We. Now I remember between coffee and blame, my wife randomly found a place on Yelp that had some gluten free ones. So she went in and bought a couple of gluten free.
[00:29:12] Speaker B: Yeah, cuz that's like their famous like pastry that they're known for.
[00:29:15] Speaker A: Yeah, they ate custard pastry.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:17] Speaker A: And so that was really nice. We just kind of explored that area for a little while. We just took an Uber over there. That was, that was easy and fast. And then we headed over. I got super excited about a place I'd found for lunch. It's called Ark A R K.
And I just randomly found it on the Michelin guide. I was looking for something we wanted. We, we definitely wanted like a food highlight in Lisbon. And so. And we wanted to do something a little different, not traditional. And so this was a vegetarian restaurant and we're now vegetarian, but it looked super interesting. And so we go over there, we go in and you know, it's. I don't know what day. It was a Tuesday, Wednesday. So it was pretty empty. It was lunchtime, so it was great. We sat down and they said, are there any food allergies? And we had to be fair when we booked, when I booked the reservation, it did ask if there's any food allergies. And I said yes. And it just said it all in Portuguese. I had to show my wife. And she said, oh, they're just saying they can't guarantee that they can accommodate the food allergy. And I said, well, do you want to, do you want to try it? She said, yeah, let's, let's give it a try. I'm sure that they're just being careful. And so we get there, we say that, you know, my wife celiac. And they're like, oh, there's a disaster. We can't really accommodate you. Let me go talk to the chef. And I'm like, oh no. Like I was so looking Forward to this. And he comes out after talking to the chef. He's like, yeah, he really doesn't think that he can. He can do anything for you. And my wife was just like, super, super awesome. Real trooper here because she knew how much I wanted to eat, to try this place. And so she said, well, can I just order a la carte? Because it was. It was a tasty menu because a few of these things look gluten free. So could I just order a la carte and I'll be fine. It's. It's not a big deal. He said, hold on, let me go talk to the chef. So he goes back and comes in. He goes, okay, we don't normally do that, but he said, it's okay. So if you just want to order one thing, that's totally fine. We're like, okay, perfect.
And so I went hog wild. I got the full taste.
Right.
Give me everything.
I was like, this is great. I'm so excited.
[00:30:59] Speaker B: Your wife is very, very understanding.
[00:31:01] Speaker A: Yeah, she was great. She was really awesome because I said, well, do you want to, you know, do you just want to go find somewhere else? You know, I don't. I don't want you to have a bad experience. And she said, no, no, let's. Let's just stick it out. And so, you know, they're just bringing me course after course, and while they're bringing me courses, I think they figured out a few of them they could actually do gluten free really easily. And so they brought her some extra courses that she didn't order that I don't think we ever even paid for. And so they really took care of us. They were giving her wine even though I was the only one that ordered. Wine pairing.
And just a really.
[00:31:29] Speaker B: And she didn't get gluten. Please tell me no, she didn't.
[00:31:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it didn't get gluten.
In fact, when she. When they brought her one entree that she ordered, he made like a extra large portion of it instead of just.
[00:31:38] Speaker B: The normal taste, instead of a tasting portion. Oh, wow.
[00:31:42] Speaker A: So that she could actually, like, have some, you know, real food and awesome experience. Like, for me, top five meal of my life. Incredible food. The wine pairings were really interesting. Like, it wasn't just like, you know, here's like, a fancy wine that will pair well with this food. It was like, there's a wine with no sulfites. Here's a wine with a lot of acid. And this is why we're pairing it with the food. And it really you could really see how it kind of accentuated the flavors or changed in. So for me, just, you know, great, great meal.
[00:32:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: Highlights of the trip, for sure. Like I said, one of my top meals of all time.
[00:32:10] Speaker B: That sounds awesome.
[00:32:11] Speaker A: I would absolutely go back.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And great that they made. I mean, even though they said they couldn't accommodate, great that they did accommodate too. I love that.
[00:32:20] Speaker A: Super great.
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[00:33:21] Speaker A: We spent the afternoon just kind of exploring the city, doing a little shopping. That was a lot of fun. And then, then we had dinner. We had. We had a. We had reservations at a speakeasy. They had a house called Red Frog. And so we went over there. We couldn't find the place. Right. It's hidden. There's no instructions. When I made the reservation.
[00:33:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the thing about a speakeasy.
[00:33:39] Speaker A: We're literally just walking back and forth on the block. I'm going, it's gotta be here somewhere. I don't know where it is. And then two other Americans come and they're looking for the same place. And so we're both like. All four of us are just walking around asking random people, and everyone's like, I don't know what you're talking about.
And then someone walks out of another bar. Like a worker, like an employee walks out of another bar. And we ask him, okay, we're Looking for this red frog. And he goes, oh, it's here. And it's not, there's no sign. It's not labeled. It's literally like a secret bar in part of another bar.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: In a bar. Yeah, yeah, bar in a bar. Oh my goodness.
[00:34:07] Speaker A: So he, he goes, I'll go get, I'll go get the person for you. And so the, the hostess comes out and takes her name and sees our reservation, takes us in. So really cool cocktail bar. A lot of really interesting cocktails. And they had some small plates, so we had some really good, like just, you know, just little small plate appetizers while we were there. Got a little carried away and barely made it back to the boat in time. This was really close.
And it was just four other Americans came in, sat down next to us, and we just started talking.
Same age. Yeah, they were, their husbands were off somewhere. They had gone shopping and gone to this bar. And then I looked down, you know, and I had it all figured out, right? We were like 20 minutes from the port. I'm like, oh, we'll leave at 8 o' clock, right? It gives us an hour, no big deal. And so eight o' clock hits. I'm like, okay, we gotta go. I grab our server, ask for the bill, brings over the bill, give my debit card, my debit card declines. My bank locked it because I forgot to tell him I was traveling.
[00:34:54] Speaker B: Oh gosh.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: So I was like, oh, shoot, no problem. Let me just give you my credit card, which I probably should have used anyway. And then his, his little credit card machine froze and locked up.
[00:35:04] Speaker B: Oh my God.
[00:35:05] Speaker A: He was like, I got to go get it. I have to go get another one. So he's, he's gone for like 10 minutes. He brings back a new machine or fixed it or whatever. So I finally paid the bill, order an Uber. And I'm kind of watching like, okay, we're cutting it a little bit close. Like the Uber is going to get here about 8:20, but we still should be fine, right? We got to get through security. Shouldn't be that big of a deal. And so the Uber is arriving and I haven't looked at anything other than the Uber's, you know, five minutes away or whatever. I haven't looked at what kind of car it is or where it's stopping. And so I see, it's like, I'm like, okay, it's about five minutes. Let's, let's head out to the curb. We stand up and I look at my phone. Now I'm going to see what's the car that's picking us up and where is it stopping. And all I see is it's not stopping in front of the bar.
It's trying to orient myself because it's on one of the other blocks. We either have to turn left or right and go to the corner. And I see it's a white Tesla. And then my phone dies. My battery died.
[00:35:52] Speaker B: Oh, my God, Chris, you're making me so anxious right now.
[00:35:56] Speaker A: And I went, oh, no. And so at this point, we're outside in the sidewalk, and my wife is just. My wife's a social butterfly. She just thrives on interactions with people. And she. She's my two other people on the sidewalk. She's just chatting away. And I'm going, what am I going to do? And so I'm like, okay. She. I think she uses my Uber account. Let me just grab her phone.
[00:36:13] Speaker B: Yes.
So you know what's funny? I use Brian's Uber account, too. So I don't have my own.
[00:36:19] Speaker C: That's why my rating. That's why my rating is disintegrated.
[00:36:22] Speaker B: Yeah, that is. I know. That's why your rating is so good, Brian. Yeah, no, I use. I have my own Lyft account, but I use Brian's Uber account.
[00:36:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know why I think we just set it up like that for whatever reason, because I already had everything attached to the account.
[00:36:35] Speaker B: And it's probably. If you use Uber Eats, it's why. Yeah, that might have been because then you can both add, like, food to the same cart. Right? That's why we do it. That's literally the only reason. Oh, my God, that's hilarious.
[00:36:50] Speaker A: Like, she can't even. She's so engaged in this conversation with these that I just think, I just need your phone.
[00:36:56] Speaker B: Is me, Chris.
[00:36:57] Speaker A: I just need your phone. And she just doesn't even look at me and just hands me her phone. And so I turn it on, and she hasn't used Uber in so long that the app had been auto deleted from her phone. I was like, oh, no.
So I start downloading it, and I'm like, maybe we should just try to grab a cab, but there are none. And then I'm worried, like, it's going to cancel because we haven't gone to the car. And I'm like, okay, maybe I just need to order a new one on hers. But I'm waiting for it to download. It's taking forever. And then finally I just said, okay. And then I look up at the intersection to there's two white Teslas.
[00:37:26] Speaker B: Oh, so one of them, okay, so.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: It'S one of them one turns left, one goes straight past me and turns right. And so they're at either, either way. And I have to make. It's a coin flip. I'm like, okay, we're going left. And I grab, I grab my wife, Sarah. I'm like, we gotta go. And we just, I just chose left. We went down, we see the white Tesla pulled over on the sidewalk. And so she walks up to the window and says a Portuguese, are you waiting for Chris? And he said, yeah, I was just about to leave. And we're like, oh thank goodness. And we climb in, you know, explain my phone died and everything. And he goes, okay, no problem, we'll go. You know, it's about 8:30, right? It's about a 15, 20 minute ride and it's 8:30.
And so I'm a little bit nervous, but I'm like, okay, we should be fine. And he gives me a super nice guy, gives me a cable to plug my phone in and we head off on our way. I plug in my phone, it gets enough charge where I can turn it back on. And I'm looking and the first thing I notice is Uber tells me our ETA is 905. And there was, and we're stuck in traffic now, like we just stop and we're not moving. And so now I'm going, oh no, what do we do? And I'm, I'm on Google Maps, I'm like, maybe we should just get out, run. And Google Maps says like, maybe we'll just barely make it, like walking, you know, maybe walk and get there by 9 o' clock. And so my wife says to them, and she said we gotta be there by nine. And, and Uber says we're going to be there 905. Should we just get out and run? And, and, and the guy said, I'll get you there, I promise. I don't know why there's traffic, but I'll get you there. And so we were like, okay, I guess we'll trust him. And, and we're still stuck in traffic. Stuck in traffic. And then we see there was an accident, a bus had hit a car and so that had traffic all backed up. And the streets are tiny, right? Like these little tiny streets, you can't get by it. And so he turns and he just hauls, he's going so fast. Gets us to the port about 8:45.
[00:38:57] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:38:57] Speaker A: And so we get out. Yeah, he went really, really fast. And so we get out. There's no one. The port's empty. Right. There's no. There's like two security guards. We just run through security, and we had. I think we had bought three or four bottles of wine while we were shopping to take back on the boat with us. So we run through security and we get to the gangway, and I'm like, okay, we're going to make it. We don't have to run anymore. And boarded the boat. And I looked at my phone, it was like 8:48. Holy cow. And I said to the cast member, and I don't know if he was trying to be funny. I was trying to be funny. And maybe he didn't read it like that. I said, are we the last ones on? And he goes, well, there's no award for being last one on this.
I know, I know.
[00:39:34] Speaker B: You're like, yeah, relieved that you got on. My goodness. Oh, my God.
[00:39:38] Speaker A: That was the closest call we ever had.
[00:39:40] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That is totally scary. That is.
[00:39:43] Speaker A: That was weird. When we boarded, they didn't even look in our bag. And I know you can. I know you can take wine on, but we could have had. We could have had bottles of alcohol. And they didn't. They didn't, like, take them from us to hold them. They never even looked.
[00:39:53] Speaker B: Oh, interesting. And you didn't have to put them through the. The. The.
[00:39:57] Speaker A: No. So what's it called?
[00:39:58] Speaker B: The Bell?
[00:39:59] Speaker A: We did Insecurity. But, you know, normally when. Most of the time when you. When you get on and off the ship, it's, you know, deck one or two or what? Go down. This was on the main entrance on deck four. Yeah, deck four, right.
[00:40:09] Speaker B: Oh, interesting. So they didn't.
[00:40:10] Speaker A: So they didn't have like a metal detector thing set up? Yeah, they just had the little kiosk with the tap.
[00:40:16] Speaker B: Your magic band.
[00:40:17] Speaker A: Your magic band.
[00:40:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Interesting, Interesting. Okay, well, that's a close call. I wouldn't recommend that. All right, well, let's. Let's jump to the Azores or Azores. I don't know how to say it correctly, but obviously that's right before your going to sort of head across the Atlantic. So that's your last stop before many, many days at sea. Tell us what you guys got up to there.
[00:40:40] Speaker A: Yeah, so here we did book a tour, and again through get your Grind, and it was like a island ATV tour. So we knew when we. When we looked, we just kind of wanted to see the sights. It's like, you know, going to Norway or Alaska or Hawaii. You really just kind of want to see the natural, the natural beauty. And so we booked this tour on an atv, ride around and see all the cool stuff they have that I forget. The Secchi DC or whatever, the lake that's two different colors where it's split, some cool stuff like that. And we, that was all we had done. And I didn't think too much about it. And then we, we were getting off the ship in the morning, it's an early morning tour. And I thought when I looked in advance of the cruise that the check in was like right at the pier. And so we're eating breakfast, we're getting ready to get off, and I look, I just like, well, let me just double check where this is. And it's like 20 minutes away. And I went, oh, I don't know how we're going to get there. It's a Sunday.
There's probably no Ubers on this little tiny island. I don't have any cash. I certainly don't have any Euros. And my debit car, debit card's been frozen, so I can't get cash. What the heck are we going to do? I'm like, okay, no problem. Use my wife's debit card. I'm sure there's an ATM at the port. We'll grab some cash, find a taxi, we'll be on our way. We get off, I go to the ATM machine, I say to my wife, hey, I need your debit card. And she said, I didn't bring my debit card.
[00:41:50] Speaker B: No.
[00:41:53] Speaker A: You didn't tell me to bring anything.
[00:41:54] Speaker B: Communication.
[00:41:56] Speaker A: Yeah, I never did tell her.
And so then I went, okay, let's just, let's see what we can do. I mean, we're off the ship. And so we walk, we find a taxi stand. It's kind of far, a little bit of drama because we're at the taxi stand, a taxi crosses, stops across street, and there's people in front of us waiting for taxis. But no one goes across street. So I'm like, well, let's just walk across street and see if any of these taxis take card. We had no intention of, like, taking this taxi from someone. So we got, we cross the street, my wife starts talking. The driver, I said, do you take cards? He said, no. Does anyone take cards? I said, no. And then meanwhile, the people, and they were from the Disney ship, so we feel kind of bad, started yelling at us that we were staying their taxi. And I'm trying to explain, we're not trying to take. We're just Trying to find out if.
[00:42:33] Speaker B: We can find out if anybody can pay in cars.
[00:42:35] Speaker A: Opening the door, I'm like, come on, come get in.
You can have this taxi. And so you know that all that all resolves. They take the taxi and we're like, oh, great, what are we going to do? There's no way we can get to this place. I said, let me try calling them. I don't think they're open. It says they open at 9. It's like 8:30 or whatever. So I. We tried calling and no one answers. No surprise. And I said, well, you know, let's just. There's a right, let's write this off. We're not going to do this. Let's go back to the port where all the people were to like, sell their little tours and just, let's just find one that's similar and we'll just pay and do that. So we go over and my wife is negotiating in Portuguese on several. I love that tours they're going. I mean, it's of a lot long negotiation. And my phone rings and the number is, is the Azores. And so I quickly grab her, I said, I think this is the tour company. And by now it's like 9, 10 the tour. We're supposed to be there at 9. And so she answers the phone, sure enough, it's them. And she explains, you know, we couldn't. Sorry, we just couldn't get a taxi. We know we're late. It's okay if you just, if you just go without us. And, and I'm piecing together because I can understand a little Portuguese. Haven't been with her this long. And they're asking where we are. And she explains, right at the port. And they said, well, we do have like a sales desk. It's about 100 yards down the road. Just go there, we'll come get you. I thought, oh, great. And so we stopped negotiating. We walked down there, find the little sales desk, we just sit down, and they come pick us up in a van. The guy's super nice. He's like, ah, that's no problem. Don't worry about it. We're not leaving. You know, not everyone's not ready to leave anyway. We'll just run you over there, we'll get you going. And it shouldn't really delay things. So he runs us over to the place, we get our atv, we get on. The people that we had the little taxi interaction with were there on the same exact tour as us.
That's funny, they're all like kind of Waiting for us.
[00:44:02] Speaker B: A little awkward.
[00:44:05] Speaker A: But the guy was so, so nice that you know, we do our tour. It's awesome, right? We do, we do an ATV tour of the whole island. We see the lakes, we go down to the lake, get some coffee, go through a little village. It was really, really fun. I go through a lot of farms. It was a really, really fun way to see the island. Just on ATV with just my wife and I. And then we get back and the same guy that picked us up in the van said well, you want me to give you a ride back to town?
Sure, yeah, that'd be great. And so we ended up not having to get any taxis. They just kind of ferried us back and forth. Felt like VIP service. But we did feel a little bad cuz he didn't wait for anyone. I was like, well, I'm sure all these other people are going back to the city. He's got this huge van, like we could take people. He was just, no, get in, let's go. There's just the two of us.
[00:44:41] Speaker B: He's like, screw those other people who yelled at you over the text.
We're going.
That's funny.
[00:44:49] Speaker A: They're all waiting for taxis and they had a call and arrange and we're just, we're back to town now. There wasn't much to do in town that day. We walked around, just kind of checked things out. But it was a Sunday afternoon, pretty much everything was closed. There was a few like little stores open, but not much going on in town.
[00:45:02] Speaker B: But yeah, well, and that's the thing about like, you know, small towns in certain parts of Europe that are, you know, usually usually very Catholic. And so yeah, they kind of, everything kind of does shut down on Sunday. Well, let's jump to Lookout Key because obviously you'd been to Castaway multiple times. This was your first time to Lookout Key. It's obviously your last port of call. But as we mentioned, we skipped over all of the days at seas. We'll ask you a couple highlights from the days at sea, but we're gonna, we're obviously spending more of our time on the ports on this show and we do have some other shows that we did with folks who have done the transatlantic and talked about some of those onboard experiences. But I want to ask you about Lookout Key because like I said, your. It was your first time going there. What were your impressions and what did you all get up to on, on Eleuthera?
[00:45:53] Speaker A: Yeah, we, I mean overall we really enjoyed it. It's a beautiful island. And we went in going, this is going to be our beach day. Right. It was my wife's birthday that day that we were on the island. This is like. This is just going to be our total relapse.
[00:46:02] Speaker B: Even better.
[00:46:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it's perfect. And so we were looking forward to just really taking advantage of the beach. Beach. First of all, the walk. Come on, not a big deal.
So many people made such a big deal out of the walk. Now we were there in November. It wasn't super impressed. It was not a big deal.
And we normally. Even at Castaway, we don't normally take the tram and we'll just walk to the beach. I don't think it was that much longer than getting to the tram stop at Lookout. So the walk for us, not a big deal. We just kind of walked around the main part of the island there, checked things out, went to a couple stores, and then found some chairs on the beach just right in between. Kind of where it's Rainy Bear there as well. Right where the adult beach starts. Yes. Right. Kind of on the border of the adult beach and the family beach. And we were up above the berm, which was still nice, but we wanted to be down on the ocean. But we didn't get off. We didn't wake up super early. We weren't the first ones on the island. So all those little chairs on the actual beach on the water were taken. But it wasn't a big deal. We just kind of relaxed until lunchtime. Had lunch and then everyone left. And so we went down to the water and the be and like, literally all the chairs were open. I think it was us and like, two other people for as far as we could see. And everyone had gone back to the ship for some reason.
[00:47:04] Speaker B: I wonder was. Did you have. Did you have no sea day after look?
[00:47:09] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. It was Lookout, and then Fort Lauderdale was the next day.
[00:47:12] Speaker B: Yeah. So people were heading back to pack up their stuff.
[00:47:15] Speaker A: I think so. Yeah.
[00:47:16] Speaker B: You know. You know, so that they could maybe like, relax at dinner, maybe go to the show that night, that sort of a thing. I think that's the hard part when you have. Especially on a longer cruise, because you got a lot of stuff, right? Yeah. You got souvenirs and you've got more clothes than you do on a shorter cruise and all of that. Yeah. Well, so then the beach is empty. Did you guys move down to the chair?
[00:47:36] Speaker A: So we went right down to the water and just. I mean, that is beautiful, beautiful beach.
I. You can't describe how pretty that. That. That beach and ocean is. And just really love just sitting there and just kind of with our feet in the water and just kind of enjoying the waves and the. In the peace. And I think when you go in with that expectation, like, you know, we're just going to enjoy the beach and the water, like, I, I think it's great. I do. You know, ideally I would like some more stuff to do. Like, I would pick Castaway Overlook just because it has more stuff to do. But I kind of get why, like, you know, you can't do.
I don't think you could do a like a Pelican plunge kind of area because it's not, not in like a calm bay, you know.
[00:48:13] Speaker B: Right. It's not a protected cove. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, you can't do that. And then also because of the coral reefs and stuff, because of all the preservation, they really can't do some of that stuff.
[00:48:23] Speaker C: Yeah, well, they tried to do some of that like with rush out, gush out land.
[00:48:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:29] Speaker C: I, I actually think that like today, I think your assessment one's correct. I think give it a year or two and the number of, you know.
Well, the number, it depends on what kind of day you're going for. Right. If you want the like, private experience, castaway like experience, then this won't matter. Right. But if you're looking for like, I want to do something while I'm here, I think there'll be a lot more excursions down the line, including like things that they don't do at Castaway because they think, I don't know if it's. They can't or they just won't. But like, you can't really scuba dive a castaway. But we'd heard that like there's a provider there that's doing snorkeling that does scuba diving. So I would be surprised to see a scuba diving excursion at some point, which would be really cool.
[00:49:05] Speaker A: So. Yeah. And I'm a diver. I would have loved a diving experience. I wouldn't have done it this particular trip because it was my wife's birthday and I wouldn't have won. She doesn't die.
[00:49:12] Speaker B: Your first. Well, and it was our first time. Yeah, exactly.
[00:49:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:15] Speaker B: Yeah. You want to spend the time on the beach your first time. I think there. But yeah, I think, I think you're right. Like, I think there, there will be more once the excursions are all once like more of the island or more of the private space is sort of built out or more. More complete. Not, not. It's obviously might Never be sort of complete, but once it's sort of more built out, then. Then they can, you know, do some more of the excursions, some boating excursions, things like that that you have on Castaway that you don't right now have at Lookout. I think those will. Those will help.
[00:49:44] Speaker A: My. My only gripe which I haven't heard mentioned, everybody talked about the flies. Flies weren't really an issue. We saw a couple, but it wasn't a big deal. My only gripe that I haven't heard mentioned was and maybe we were just unlucky. We went at the wrong time. So my wife has to pre order her food the day before. And we. We went to two. True two. We went over there. It wasn't like, it wasn't that busy or anything. I waited in line for a little bit. She. She ordered her.
Not enough seating. There were no tables to sit at. And with the ship being like half full, I was shocked that there was like, nowhere to sit. And I don't know if, like, everyone just went to get their lunch at that time.
[00:50:14] Speaker B: Yeah. I was like, wow, how did Disney.
[00:50:16] Speaker A: Not plan on, like, enough tables? And so we had to, like, just kind of walk around and stand there for about five minutes before someone left.
[00:50:22] Speaker B: Okay. The pro tip is to go to True True. Not to True True.
[00:50:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:27] Speaker B: Yes. So True True two is the one that is closer to the majority of the family beach, but also pretty close to Serenity Bay. Right. And so that's the one that is more crowded. The True True. That sort of towards where the kids club area is. That one is less crowded typically. So. Yeah. But that is odd that. But maybe. Maybe you're right. Maybe people just happen to get lunch all the same time.
[00:50:52] Speaker A: Could have been unlucky timing for us, but.
[00:50:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And that, you know, prime time is always crowded. Even at Castaway. Right. Like, right at once it hits noon. From like noon to 1, it's crowded. If you go before noon, it's not too bad. If you go after one, it's not too bad. Yeah. All right, well, let's. Let's hit a couple of highlights from the onboard experience I mentioned at the top of the show. These longer sailings often have special guests or special performances. I'm curious, Chris. I. I know there were, but what were. Maybe. Maybe give us like your. Your top three experiences on board for this sailing.
[00:51:27] Speaker A: They did so just for gold, pearl and platinum members. They did. And they do this on some sailings, I think a certain length where they do like a special event in this one. And he was a special guest for the entire ship. They had Don Ducky Williams, the Disney artist or. And he had done the lithograph for that sailing. And then he came and just for the gold platinum pearl, he kind of told his story, which is an incredible story. I had never heard it before. I wasn't familiar with him. But when they announced he was there, people went nuts like he obviously is.
[00:51:53] Speaker B: He did the same talk on the maiden voyage for the Treasure.
[00:51:56] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:51:56] Speaker B: Yeah, he did two different talks, but they were open to everybody. But it was his story of how he became a Disney.
[00:52:03] Speaker A: Perseverance to become a Disney. Ours is incredible.
[00:52:06] Speaker B: Incredible story. Right.
[00:52:08] Speaker A: I was just blown away by him. And so we encountered him a few times on the ship and talked to him again. Super nice guy. And then they. You could go back later and get your lithograph autograph by him. So they had like special times for each deck.
[00:52:18] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:52:20] Speaker A: Autograph later. Yeah, that was pretty neat. So it's. It's in our bedroom right now. The. The lithograph that he did autographed by him. They had Broadway star Michelle Knight. She had done a number of. A number of Broadway shows. I think her biggest one was Disenchanted, where she had actually been nominated for a Tony. But she did a whole Broadway performance in the theater one night or she did a bunch of Disney songs plus other Broadway songs that I thought she was phenomenal. She did an adult only performance one night in Evolution. It was great. We just happened to get there and there was one table left right next to the stage. And so my wife and I sat down. She kept kind of like singing directly to us.
[00:52:56] Speaker B: Oh, that's so cool.
[00:52:57] Speaker A: Which was really pretty cool.
[00:52:58] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:52:59] Speaker A: And then I'd say the other one was again, I'm terrible. Names. I cannot remember his name. There was a chef that was doing the Anyone Can Cook series like every morning in the. In the D lounge.
I don't remember his name, but he was like a pastor of positivity. This guy was just full of energy. It packed out like you had to get there an hour before to get in line. Otherwise it was that capacity and no one else could get in. And so his little demonstrations of some of the stuff to cook was pretty fun. Although I noticed, you know, they hand out the little recipe cards and what he did did not follow the recipe card almost at all. So we got home and we wanted to make one of the dishes. And I was like, this is not what he did.
[00:53:33] Speaker B: Oh my God, that's So I'm like.
[00:53:35] Speaker A: Kind of impromptu trying to remember what he did did and change it a little bit.
[00:53:38] Speaker B: Yeah, you got to take notes, I guess and like kind of.
[00:53:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Very, very entertaining and just super, super positive. So he was really great.
[00:53:46] Speaker B: I love that.
[00:53:47] Speaker A: Those were probably the top three that I, that, that I really remember. I think if I had to pick a fourth. There were two pianists on board. Christine, can't remember last name and Ellis.
[00:53:56] Speaker B: Did they do the dueling piano?
[00:53:58] Speaker A: So, yeah, dueling pianos and one person. So everyone does their suggestions. Somebody suggested the finish and Ferb theme song, which Ellis did. And the whole. The place is packed out, right? Evolution is packed up. Everyone's singing the theme song as he's playing. It was a, it was really kind of a fun experience.
[00:54:14] Speaker B: Oh my goodness. We would be singing along. Totally.
[00:54:17] Speaker C: We.
[00:54:17] Speaker B: Yeah. That. That's amazing.
[00:54:19] Speaker A: It was great.
[00:54:20] Speaker B: Oh, that's awesome.
[00:54:21] Speaker C: Chris, I'm, I'm curious before I subject you to Sam's rapid fire round, I'm just curious, would you do this sailing again or is this a one and done?
[00:54:30] Speaker A: I. I would 100% do it again. In fact, we talked about doing it this year, but it got moved. So why don' like the quite as much. But then they moved the. I think they extended the dry dock for the fantasy or.
[00:54:40] Speaker B: They moved the dry dock or moved it.
[00:54:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay.
[00:54:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it was, it was before it was straddling September and October and then they moved it fully into October.
[00:54:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. So my wife and I need to be in Florida for a conference on November 8th and so that we wouldn't have been able to attend that conference. And so that just happened to align again. I mentioned we're going to sail on the Treasure. We just happened to get off the treasure on the 8th and. And then we're just going to go down to West Palm beach for our conference. So that lines up pretty nice. So we're going to do that instead this year. But I'll definitely leave look at it in 2026.
[00:55:07] Speaker B: Awesome. I love that.
[00:55:08] Speaker C: Well, it sounds like an amazing cruise. I mean I, I love the back to back sea days. That would just be like my dream. And I, I gotta say, you know, we've had several people come on the show and talk about their transatlantic sailings. You by far have some of the most interesting like court experiences. I mean setting aside the whole saga. But, but like you know, speakeasy bar, like you know, dinner off the ship. Like.
[00:55:29] Speaker B: Yeah, Michelin star. Yeah, Michelin star restaurant.
[00:55:32] Speaker C: Yeah, I love that. Taking full Advantage of.
[00:55:34] Speaker A: Of those ports. That's just. That.
[00:55:35] Speaker C: That's great. So I really hope folks listening out there took some notes because that's. That would be the way that I would love to do some. Some of these port experiences. So that's fantastic, and glad you had a great time at Lookout. So, yeah, sounds like an amazing cruise, but I think we have reached that point in the show where I need to hand you back over to Sam for some arbitrary questions, some arbitrary rules, and a dash of judgment of the round we know as rapid fire Sam.
[00:55:56] Speaker A: Nervous.
[00:55:57] Speaker B: All right, Chris, I'm gonna. Yeah, you should be nervous. No, don't be nervous.
Joking. I. Joking.
All right, let's start with some Disney favorites. Who is your favorite Disney character?
[00:56:09] Speaker A: I have a soft spot for Mickey. Mickey's just been one of my favorites for all time. But my icon or whatever in all the Disney apps is Mr. Incredible.
Something about Mr. Incredible I just love.
[00:56:19] Speaker B: Awesome. All right, your favorite Disney movie.
[00:56:22] Speaker A: Probably Aladdin. Moana's close. Moana's really close, but probably Aladdin.
[00:56:27] Speaker B: Both great picks. All right, Favorite Disney song.
[00:56:30] Speaker A: I am Moana.
[00:56:31] Speaker B: Yes. So good. Okay. Favorite Disney cruise line stage show.
[00:56:36] Speaker A: Okay, this is real tight.
It's. It's so Beauty and the Beast. I didn't. I don't remember seeing Beauty and the Beast in our first Sailing on the Dream. I'm sure we did, but I just don't remember it. So. We did see it this sailing. It was on the last night. It was incredible. The other one in contention was Tangled on the Magic, which just blew us away. Especially the. The actress who was from Broadway that played Mother Gothel. She was ridiculously good. But I think it's probably Beauty and the Beast. I just think the stage setup and everything they did, I just. That was incredible.
[00:57:02] Speaker B: I mean, you said all the right things. Chris, you're speaking my love language right now. Cause that Tangled show is incredible. And if you get a great cast and a great Mother Gothel, which usually Mother Gothel is a Broadway visiting artist, so generally speaking, that person is incredible. Yeah. I mean, that's a tight race with honorable mention to Frozen as well, which is also an incredible production, but Beauty and the Beast takes the cake until you get on the treasure.
[00:57:30] Speaker A: Moana.
[00:57:30] Speaker B: I'm very excited about Moana. Yeah. Especially if Moana is one of your top two Disney movies. Like. Yeah. Be prepared. That's all I'll say. All right, what is your favorite onboard activity on a Disney cruise?
[00:57:42] Speaker A: I think what we enjoy more, it's. It's wherever we can relax. So we did a lot of time in the Rainforest Room on this ceiling. Really enjoyed the Rainforest Room. But it's probably when we just go get a. Get a cocktail before dinner or maybe after dinner in one of the spaces. We usually like the pub, whatever the pub is on board. Or Meridian.
[00:58:00] Speaker B: Love that. Well, and of course you get Meridian on the Dream and the Fantasy. So it's. That's the. That's the best bar if you're on the Dream Class. It's definitely Meridian. All right, favorite rotational dining.
[00:58:11] Speaker A: 1923.
[00:58:12] Speaker B: Oh, interesting. That's a little bit of a hot take.
[00:58:15] Speaker A: So I. I didn't explain when I got so into Disney. My. My degree is in animation. I was an artist for a few years.
Really love all the kind of art history now. Now I'm in more in management and production. But that everything that's in 1923 kind of takes me back a lot of that nostalgia. So I think I like that about it.
[00:58:31] Speaker B: Well, you're going to really like 1923 on the treasure then as well, because it's the same but different. Right. They've got different curios and stuff in the. Yeah, it'll be. It's really good. Okay. Aquadunk, aquaduck, Aqua Mouse. Which one is the best?
[00:58:46] Speaker A: Aqua Mouse is third. Unfortunately, it's too short. Aqua Dunk would be second.
I like the Little Thrill, but again, it's pretty short. And aquaduck is the. Is the best out of the three.
[00:58:55] Speaker B: All right, good answer. I like it. Okay, I need a favorite sweet item and a favorite savory item on board of Disney Cruise. Cruise. Let's start with the Swede.
[00:59:05] Speaker A: The Grand Marnier Souffle.
[00:59:07] Speaker B: All right. And saving the best for last. What's your favorite savory item?
[00:59:10] Speaker A: Favorite? It's gotta be the lasagna. Apollo Brunch.
[00:59:12] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a good one. I mean, that's a Brian. That's a Brian favorite. So, yeah, I mean, I'm the chicken parm, but that lasagna.
That lasagna is a close second. Impala. Yeah. Yeah. All right, very controversial question. Which one is your favorite ship? Knowing that you have not yet been on the Treasure, so you can't answer. Answer with the Treasure. But which one is your favorite?
[00:59:33] Speaker A: I'm sure it's going to be the Treasure. And I love the original, the Magic and the Wonder. We've sailed the Wonder, I think more than anything else. So we're selling that. That is again in six weeks, but I won't apologize for it. It's the wish.
[00:59:43] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:59:44] Speaker A: A lot of people don't like. I love, I love all the little different spaces and the different experiences that I can get at the pool deck. Food is is by far the best. So yeah, I really like the wish. So I'm pretty sure it'll be the treasure.
[00:59:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
Favorite is is the wish right now.
And you're a Parks person.
Yeah. You're. The treasure is going to just blow your mind. I, I can't wait. I can't wait to hear you. You're going to come back, Chris, I'm telling you right now. But I'm already previewing this. You must come back after the treasure. I I. Because I would love to hear your thoughts on it. But. Okay, last question of Rapid fire. Your bucket list cruise. You can go anywhere in the world on a Disney ship at Disney. It doesn't have to be someplace that Disney cruise line goes. And you know what? It could be the. You can go on the wish even. I don't even. It doesn't matter what your favorite ship anywhere in the world. Where are you going?
[01:00:32] Speaker A: Yeah, there's still a bunch they do that. I want to do the the across the Pacific when they, when they get the ship in in Japan. That's going to be pretty cool. We'll definitely go sail that. But I wish they did. That's when I didn't didn't do that on purpose.
I wish they did eastern or northern Mediterranean. Like I want to do Italy and Croatia. I would love to do that and I know some of the other cruise lines do and maybe one day we'll have to do another cruise line. But I wish Disney did a Croatia, Italy, part of the Med. Because that, that I think would be my number one.
[01:00:57] Speaker C: Feel like they had a sailing that stopped in Dubrovnik.
[01:01:01] Speaker B: No, I think that's only the abd, Brian.
[01:01:03] Speaker A: I think so.
[01:01:04] Speaker C: Which they, which they killed this year. They're not doing it anymore. So.
[01:01:07] Speaker B: No, they.
[01:01:09] Speaker C: Yeah, the private.
[01:01:09] Speaker B: Yeah, the Adriatic. You're right.
[01:01:11] Speaker C: Adriatic cruise.
[01:01:12] Speaker B: Yeah. It's not on. At least it's not. They haven't released offer this year.
[01:01:16] Speaker C: Yeah. It could go the way of. It could go the way of the private jet tour that they. I mean, I think that they move.
[01:01:22] Speaker B: To every other year.
[01:01:23] Speaker C: That's every other year, I think or something.
[01:01:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:01:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Ye. Yeah, absolutely.
Well, a Chris, you passed with like flying colors, so I don't know what you were so nervous about. Yeah, I don't know.
Now you mentioned you've got something coming up in just a few Weeks. You're going out of San Diego, I presume, on the Wonder.
[01:01:44] Speaker A: We are. Yeah. So we live in San Diego. I don't know if I said that. Oh, yeah, I did. And so we're doing just a three night on the Wonder in about six weeks. I only booked it maybe three, three weeks ago.
And it's the main thing was, hey, we need our 10th cruise because then we're platinum. And so let's grab one of these sailings before it heads up to Alaska. I'm very excited about a full time Southern California ship. Let's get that going. I know that they asked for a port there in Catalina. I mean, funny enough, we lived here for 10 years now. We've never gone to Catalina. I can literally see it sometime. A nice day for my house and we've never gone. So we'll check out Catalina and do that sailing. I went to do reservation, like I said. We just booked it a few weeks ago. And we got Prima Note night one and we got Paulo night three. I couldn't get brunch, but I could believe I was able to get those two things. And we're going to try to get Paula night two when we board the boat and just do Apollo the entire trip.
[01:02:29] Speaker B: Oh, wow. Yeah, that's a great way to go. I will tell you. I think people just aren't. Don't really know what Prima Note is.
Yeah, I think, I mean, we've, we've been evangelizing it on this show because we think it's such a fabulous experience, but I think people don't know what it is. And I think there is a hesitancy to like, people think, oh, if I'm going to do that, it's instead of dinner. And I would tell them, no, you don't have to do it instead of dinner. You do it before or after dinner and still go to dinner. Dinner just.
[01:02:56] Speaker A: We did it on the transatlantic and we went to main dining. We just got an appetizer and then we went to Priminote. It was awesome.
[01:03:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And I mean, I understand wanting to go to main dining on night one to meet your servers and all of that. So I, that I personally am of that mindset. I like to meet the servers night one. But yeah, I think you can still go to Prima Note, especially if you've got. For us, like, we like to do late dining. So I like to go to Prima Note and then go to late dining and then I can, you know, adjust my food.
[01:03:22] Speaker A: We always do this. The biggest battle in the household is we always do early dining because I'm the one who books everything and my wife hates it. She hates early dining. Yeah.
[01:03:30] Speaker B: Because she's Brazilian. She should be eating late.
[01:03:32] Speaker A: Exactly, yeah. Whenever we did late dining, I would be so full. I couldn't sleep and I was just like miserable laying in bed. And so I always do early dining. It is.
[01:03:39] Speaker B: Yeah. If you're doing late dining, you got to stay up a little later or walk around.
[01:03:43] Speaker A: We're night people. We're up till midnight anyway. But I'm.
[01:03:45] Speaker B: You still can't do it?
[01:03:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I can't eat that late.
[01:03:48] Speaker B: All right, well, you know, some things you can't. Can't always agree on.
[01:03:53] Speaker A: Like I said, we have the Treasure in November. Very excited about that. And then there is.
We've been talking about experiencing Celebrity and Virgin. So we do have a four night celebrity cruise booked for next January out of Miami, I think. And we are seriously considering. I haven't quite talked my wife into it doing like a back to back celebrity Virgin. And so the day we get off Celebrity, there's a Virgin voyage that leaves and we might do those back to back and just knock them both up.
[01:04:18] Speaker C: I don't even have. I don't even have a name for that.
[01:04:21] Speaker B: I mean, it's a side to side. Yeah, it's a side to side, but it's different. Yeah.
[01:04:26] Speaker C: Is it like a side eye side to side?
[01:04:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I like that. As side eyesight. We're just going to come up with all kinds of names. I love it. One both out of Miami. Be super.
[01:04:35] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. We literally just got off one walk on the other one.
[01:04:37] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[01:04:38] Speaker C: Nice. All right, well, I would caution you don't. I would caution you don't try to walk down the.
[01:04:43] Speaker B: No, you might, you might have to take a little short taxi ride.
But anyway, Chris, we of course love to have you back. Definitely want to have you back to talk about the Treasure and maybe to talk about Celebrity and Virgin if. Especially if you do those back to back. Side to side. Eye side to side. But thank you so much for coming. Thanks for reaching out. Of course. Thanks for listening to the show as well. We really appreciate you coming on.
[01:05:08] Speaker A: Well, thank you so much. That was, that was a lot of fun to relive. Relive our two and a half weeks that we had a really great time on. So thank you.
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