[00:00:00] Speaker A: I'm picturing in my head the show that happens when Kermit realizes the menu contains frog legs and Kermit realizes that the menu has, like, bacon or something on it.
Welcome back, everybody, to this week's episode of the DCL Duo podcast. Brought to you by my Path Unwinding Travel and Sam. Another listener review. Another listener review.
[00:00:32] Speaker B: Yay.
[00:00:32] Speaker A: Those watching this on YouTube, you might note, between this episode and the last episode, I'm wearing the exact same thing as is. No, Sam actually showered between her clothes and changed.
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I was wearing my workout clothes. I did a. I did a. You know, I did an outfit change. Yeah, my hair.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: I got to go for a run after this, so I did so. All right, all right. So our listener review this week comes from Alan. 1701.
And Alan writes, they are awesome and genuine. I absolutely love Brian and Sam. Not only are they two of the nicest people I've ever met, but they are very genuine. I may not always agree with them, but they do not discount or discard other opinions that differ a lot from their opinions. All lies. Such a pleasure getting to know them on the Norway on a Norway cruise. I hope I can sit down with them again and record my hot takes for them when time allows. Keep it up, guys. You rock from Alan. And we know exactly which Alan that is.
[00:01:23] Speaker B: Yes. As soon as. Yeah, I mean, the hot takes gives it away because our friend Alan, who was on our show when we were in Norway, he came on the show we actually recorded on board. He was on the entire European season sailing on the Magic that year and sort of phenomenal back to back story, of course. He's got over 100 sailings under his belt at this point. Well over 100 sailings. And he always has hot takes. He always. There are things that people love on Disney Cruise line that he completely hates. And so we always have these just funny conversations.
[00:01:56] Speaker A: And we got to see him on the Disney Treasure maiden voyage, which was like, I think that was a big deal for Alan getting on a. A wish class ship because he's not a fan. He's not a fan maiden voyage, which he is also not been a huge fan of. So, Alan, I'll just say this anytime, man. You're welcome to come on. We'll do some hot takes with Alan. It'd be a great time. So just. Just hit us up. We love, love to chat with you. So. Yes.
[00:02:17] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: All right. Well, Sam, we've got some returning guests, some friends, some folks with other folks we've met.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: So yeah, I Am so excited to welcome back to the show Aaron and Todd. Aaron has been on a number of times. Todd has come on, I think once before with Aaron. But it's so good to see you guys. Like, we're on video, but like, face.
We of course met on. It was on the Disney Magic. We were sailing out of San Diego and we had brunch with you all and a whole bunch of other fun cruisers. And I interact a lot with Erin in a women's travel Facebook group that we're in as well. But it's just lovely to have you guys back on. So welcome back.
[00:02:58] Speaker C: Thank you. Thanks for having us today. The last time I saw Brian, we were both grabbing beignets at Downtown Disney. I thought you're a fan with excellent breakfast taste right there.
[00:03:09] Speaker A: Yes, yes, I remember. I remember that. I was like. I was like, who is this person who's talking? I was. Oh, yes.
[00:03:16] Speaker C: About the celebrity sighting right there. But early duties of grabbing beignets in the morning while everybody else was in the hotel, so.
[00:03:24] Speaker B: That's right. That's right. I love it. I mean, when at Downtown Disney, right, Like get a beignet from Ralph Brennan's, you know, it's a wonderful. It's a wonderful idea for breakfast. I love that. Well, I've got to say I said this off air, but I gotta say this on air, which is welcome to the gold castaway club. You guys, I know this was your sixth sailing that we're going to talk about. So you. You had already reached technically gold status before, but this was the first time you got to sail with gold status. So congratulations you all.
[00:03:53] Speaker C: Actually, we were a bit of split status. So Aaron daughter went on a cruise last summer and I was home with the boys. And so this. I became. I reached gold status on this.
We experienced a little bit of a disconnect because we had two rooms and the two were on the gold sailing and then the others weren't had. We thought it through a little bit more. You should switch one each.
But, you know, we managed.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: Yeah. It made sure booking windows different for, you know, the onboard activities. And also you get different castaway club gifts. It doesn't change your lanyards because the lanyards are per person status. But the. It does change the overall room gift. So you only got like one of those wet bags instead of two of those wet bags. Is that right?
[00:04:37] Speaker C: Right. I think we'll make do with just the one. So I think.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: I think you'll be.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: I think you'll be okay if you need Another. I'm sure we've got about five.
[00:04:46] Speaker D: Yeah, it was really more the having different check in windows, having different booking windows. And it's so weird too because you can't even. Like I booked Paulo but I couldn't even put him on my reservation. Yeah, like it, it was just a little silly. But we're, we're past that now.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: Yeah. I will tell you, we have been hearing a lot from people. I want to put this out there that like people only being able to book even when status is the same, only being able to book one person for Apollo reservation instead of booking a table for two, which makes zero sense, they send.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: No, no, they send a note. Now for concierge.
[00:05:21] Speaker B: Oh, that's not for concierge. That's for concierge books.
[00:05:23] Speaker A: Yeah, that's concierge booking.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: No, in general. Like I've been getting a bunch of messages from people and I'm like, if you can make it, just make the one. If you need a reservation for two, just make a reservation for one. You will add the other person on board. Are no. 1 tops in Paulo.
[00:05:37] Speaker A: Although. Yeah, although the last time we were on we tried to add two people to our reservation and we were two.
[00:05:42] Speaker B: And we're like dinner.
[00:05:44] Speaker A: And I said something to the mater d about, you know, it's a four top we're sitting at anyway. Right. And. And he was like, well, yes, it is a four, but it's not about the size of the table. It's about compromising the service experience for you. And I was like, I've eaten at Palo. I've been on 30 of these things. I've eaten at Palo probably 28 times like, or more probably because we do. As I said, I think the service is going to be fine. So.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: Yeah, on the wish class it's only there are only four tops and like six tops on the magic class and I think on dream class there are some two tops. But yeah, anyway. But I digress. Well, let's, let's do a little a brief. Aaron, why don't you give us just a brief reminder of what your prior sailings have been and then we're going to dive into talking about this cruise, which I know was your first time on the Disney Treasure.
[00:06:33] Speaker D: Yep. So we have done all of the. Well, I've done all the ships. We've done two, three night Bahamas. One was on the Wish, one was on the Wonder. We've done a seven night Magic Mexican Riviera.
We've done a seven night eastern on the Fantasy which was similar but not quite identical itinerary to what we just did. And then I did the seven night eastern med on the Dream last summer and then we did this which was a seven night eastern on the Wish.
[00:07:02] Speaker B: Awesome. Or on the Treasure. Not on the Wish.
[00:07:05] Speaker D: Treasure, yes.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: Now tell us what was different about the prior eastern itinerary from the eastern itinerary you did. What were the different stops?
[00:07:15] Speaker D: This one went to San Juan, Puerto rico instead of St. Thomas. So that was the big difference. And that's rarer, right? As far as I understand.
[00:07:24] Speaker B: Yeah, there's not that, not too many that go to San Juan outside of doing like the Southern Caribbean ones. Like the southern Caribbean ones tend to go to San Juan. But occasionally you get an eastern. We did an eastern itinerary out on the Fantasy over New Year's and that also stopped at San Juan. But it's definitely a more rare, a more rare stop for Disney. Well, let's talk about why you guys chose this itinerary and this, this cross cruise. Todd, I'll throw that to you.
[00:07:52] Speaker C: Sure. You know, I think we wanted to try the Treasure first and foremost. I think that was the overarching factor for us. And then the addition of San Juan was interesting because it was a stop that we hadn't seen before. We'd also heard on some of the previous, previous sailings that San Juan stops had been planned but they had to shift. I think there may have been damage to one of the ports there. And so there was issues going on with that. And so we were wondering if we were going to make it to San Juan.
We did, but I guess some of the previous sailings, I think the day before embarkation they people received notice saying, you know, we had to have a change on this sort of thing, but we didn't have anything like that.
[00:08:27] Speaker D: So we didn't really have much of a choice though because that was our spring break. So the only options were fan like there was a fantasy that did Lighthouse and Castaway or the Treasure, which we were a little bit tempted because we haven't done Lighthouse yet. But ultimately we decided that we wanted to do the Treasure. So that's most that itinerary. Yeah.
[00:08:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Well. And if you'd done the Fantasy that week, you would have been doing like a five night or a four night or something. Right. Not the seven night. Yeah. So it's. Yeah, it, you can't go wrong with the seven night. Obviously the more nights on the ship the better. Now for the pre booking stuff. Did you, were you guys looking to Obviously you mentioned Paulo. Were you looking to book? Did you book brunch or did you book dinner? And what Were you sort of looking to book ahead of time?
[00:09:13] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:09:13] Speaker C: So we ended up booking.
We didn't get anything ahead of time. We booked the day of. Right. When we.
[00:09:19] Speaker D: No.
[00:09:19] Speaker C: Oh, I apologize.
[00:09:20] Speaker D: Yeah. So I wanted to branch in. So here's one thing I've noticed. It has gotten so hard to book even now as gold. I feel like it's harder as gold than a few years ago was as silver.
We had no trouble getting Paulo when we sailed in. When was that? 2019. 2020.
We couldn't get a brunch. There was no brunch availability. And then we did get a dinner and then when we got on board, we got on the waitlist for a brunch and a spot never opened up. So we just kept that dinner. So that's. So I did book the dinner in advance.
[00:09:51] Speaker C: That's right. That's right. The day of, I went to go see if we could get the brunch.
That's what it was.
[00:09:56] Speaker B: Yeah, you're right, though. I think the onboard booking stuff has become more difficult. I feel like anecdotally we have been hearing that more and more. I think some of it has to do with the increased capacity and concierge on, well, the Wish class has a bigger concierge. Right. Than the other ships. But even on, like, well, now on Dream has bigger than it used to have. Concierge fantasy will after September or after October. And then same on the smaller ships too. So, like, the smaller ships may be a little bit easier just ratio wise. But like, I do think, and I also think as people have increased their, you know, over the years, more and more people are becoming platinum and more and more people becoming pearl. And so because of that tiered structure, it does put silver and even gold in a, you know, sort of greater disadvantage when you have more people who are in those higher categories. So, yeah, especially some lanyards.
[00:10:52] Speaker D: I feel like everybody's gold. On our Mexico sailing. We were with you guys and then with this one and on the Dream last year, it was just. Everybody had the gold ones.
[00:11:01] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
Well, and those and that, like, that was also a special itinerary. Right. Like, because it was, as you mentioned, it was the Riviera, but it was like the southern end of the Riviera because it was a seven night and there was only like one that season. The rest of them were like four and five night ones. So. Right. So those are always those. The More unique itineraries also tend to book up with higher castaway club status. But the Treasure is just booking. I mean, she's doing well. Like people are just booking her left and right because obviously she's a wonderful ship and she's, I think, really attractive to parks fans. As we've talked about on the show before. Well, let's talk about the trip. And you guys are traveling from out of town. When did you get in for. For the cruise? Like I'm imagining. Not the day of, but tell me exactly.
[00:11:52] Speaker C: And not only did we not do the day of, we did the day before the day before. So we came out on Thursday just to be safe. On the safe side of things, we've got DBC membership. So we got in late Thursday, just did the cheapest available room for Thursday night, which was, I think we were in Saratoga. And now because Disney offers the water park for free on the day that you check in. So Thursday night we were in Saratoga. Friday we stayed at Beach Club.
And so that meant that we got to go into one of the water parks on Friday. So we went and took the kids to the water park on Friday, got to do that and have fun, and then sailed out on Saturday morning.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: That's a great idea. I will tell you. We thought about doing the water park when we had come back off the Treasure because we had like a one night stayed, frankly should have.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: Pool at the Grand Floridian was not great.
[00:12:42] Speaker B: Yeah, we got. I gotta put this out there. Grand Floridian. You need to update your pools. Like it's not, it's just not great. It doesn't compare to Riviera or Beach Club or.
[00:12:51] Speaker A: Well, there just wasn't enough chairs on the pool.
[00:12:53] Speaker B: There was, yeah. I mean, well, that too. But like even the pool wasn't as nice. So. Yeah.
[00:12:57] Speaker C: Yeah. And I'm a big fan of this perk. I mean, it's already included in the cost and so you just go there and you know, you do as much or as little as you'd like and you don't feel bad if you, you know, only spend a couple of hours and head back. But it worked out well. It was fairly crowded, but you know, the, the lines went quickly. So we had a good time.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: Yeah, well, and super smart if you don't want to spend the money on a single day park ticket for, you know, for the amusement parks because you're not getting like a full day. And so it. They're so like the single day park tickets nowadays. Well, really, any of the park tickets Nowadays, but they're so expensive. And so that's why we ended up doing a pool. We're like, I. We just can't stomach spending that much money for not even a whole day in the parks. It just. It just seems sort of ridiculous.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: Well, it was spring break. I mean, it was going to be.
[00:13:43] Speaker B: Well, yes. Right. Spring break. Like, you guys did an Easter weekend as well. Yeah. And so it's just, you know, it's going to be really crowded. The lines are going to be long. All right, so you guys were.
[00:13:53] Speaker D: Oh, sorry. I was gonna say we have passes, which is nice, because we actually did go into Epcot the night before for dinner, but our kids don't. So we just went in and snuck in. Well, Todd wanted to do Muppets before it ended, so we did Muppet Vision and then we did dinner at Epcot. So that was fun. But that's the benefit of a pass, is you can just go for a few hours. We wouldn't have bought tickets otherwise.
[00:14:13] Speaker C: And I just want to throw in for the Disney folks who are listening, because I know they've got to be listening. We need a Muppets restaurant on a future ship.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:14:22] Speaker C: I don't know why this hasn't happened yet. You could do multiple nights, just insert it if you have to refresh the Marvel restaurant, replace it with Muppets, and boom, we're set.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: I love it, everyone.
[00:14:33] Speaker C: Love it.
[00:14:34] Speaker B: Yes. And we could. It can be all done on screens we don't like. As much as I would love live Muppets, like, I will tell you, that.
[00:14:41] Speaker A: Would be tough because they have so few of those.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: Right, right. As much as we would love live Muppets, I'm not going to ask for that, because I know that that would mean having, like, not just a puppeteer, a Muppeteer. You'd have to have multiple Muppeteers on board who can do the voices and all of that, which isn't going to happen. But I also know that, like, this is just a funny tangent. So the. On our Instagram there. There is a reel that is literally me videoing the TV in our stateroom from the Treasure maiden voyage. And it's got. It's a Muppets video, and it's them on the. The bridge. And I swear to God, that video has, like, 74, 000 views, more than any other reel I've ever created. And it's literally a video of a TV screen. It's not even, like. It's not even alive, like, Muppets.
[00:15:28] Speaker A: It has more the video we took of Muppets on the ship, like actual Muppets.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: I have a video of the Muppets in the. In the. The balcony. Right. And the video of the video has more views than the one of the. The. So, so many food.
[00:15:45] Speaker D: You could do frog legs. You could do.
[00:15:48] Speaker A: You can't eat Kermit.
[00:15:50] Speaker D: You can do like pizza. You could do Swedish food. There's so much.
There's just. I agree, it's a great idea, but you can't.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: You can't have frog legs and you can't have ham.
[00:16:04] Speaker C: I just want to sit there and have the old men heckle me throughout the meal, though. I think that would just be a fantastic. There's so many possibilities.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: So totally. Sattler and Waldorf would be awesome. I love it. And. And Rizzo could. We'll have his pizza. We could have Rizzo's pizza. That's. Yeah, exactly.
Oh, my God. I love this idea, you guys. This is perfect. Yeah. Anything Muppets, just bring it onto. Like, this is why Midship Detective Agency. Agency should be on every ship. Because you need that Muppet storyline. Yeah.
[00:16:33] Speaker A: I'm picturing in my head the show that happens when Kermit realizes the menu contains frog legs and realizes that the menu has like bacon or something.
[00:16:42] Speaker B: I love it.
All right, so you guys are traveling from Beach Club, then to Port Canaveral. Did you take Disney transportation? Did you rent a car hire driver? What did you do?
[00:16:55] Speaker C: Sure. So we did a one way car rental this time around and it worked out great. We hadn't done that before.
I just dropped everybody off at the port and then drove back over and. And took the car. I grabbed an Uber.
It was less than 10 bucks and was a whole lot easier than trying to time a shuttle or anything. And so we were separate on check in a little bit where they got through the line and went through and then I came through just a few minutes later.
[00:17:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Now, did they have any trouble with the fact that you didn't all check in together or did you just check in the one room? Or like. Or did you check in everybody except Todd? Basically, we.
[00:17:31] Speaker D: I. Luckily we were able to check in everybody except for Todd, which I was a little bit worried about, because Todd and the boys were technically assigned to one room, even though that's not how we did it. But you have to have an adult. Right. And I was worried they wouldn't let the boys check in, but because it was all we linked, it ended up. That's the cause we've had a Lot of issues with being in separate rooms. Like sometimes they're real persnickety about being with the person in the room. But this time was fine. So it worked out.
[00:17:57] Speaker C: Yeah, we worried about that in advance.
But really, worst case scenario, they'd be hanging out 15 minutes until I got back.
[00:18:05] Speaker B: Yeah. And remind us the ages of your kids.
[00:18:08] Speaker C: Sure. So we've got four kids.
Our oldest is 17 and he opted out of this trip.
So he was having time on his own. Yep. He decided he was not going to be spending time on a ship with us. But he managed, had a good time and it was a good growing experience for him. He spent time on his own doing other things as well.
But yeah, he opted out and we thought he might regret it, but he's told us he hasn't so far. But we had our three younger ones who are now 15, 13 and 11.
[00:18:40] Speaker B: And they're still, they're still liking the cruise line, I take it then?
[00:18:44] Speaker D: Yeah. So I would say the 11 and 15 year old like it a lot. Obviously the oldest does not. And this sometimes he doesn't. If he doesn't want to go with something, we're like, well, it's fine, you can just stay at the hotel or whatever. But where you have such limited space on the cruise to have some, a kid who just wants to be in the room all the time. Grouchy. We were just like, no, that's not worth it. And so the 11 and 15 year old had a good time. The 13 year old, he had a fine time. He's not as into like the club. He did not really get into the clubs. And so he's a little bit more grouchy about it as well. But yeah, we're two for four.
[00:19:20] Speaker B: You know, I mean that's, that's pretty good odds, right? I mean if you're, if you're batting.500 that you're, you're, you're a good hitter. Right.
[00:19:28] Speaker C: So the hall of fame. So we're feeling good about that.
[00:19:31] Speaker B: Exactly.
All right, well, let's talk about embarcation day on the Treasure.
You obviously did that. You said you had, did the check in process kind of in a, in a split way, but did. How long was the process and did you get on board quickly and what was your port arrival time?
[00:19:48] Speaker D: Yeah, I think our port arrival time was around. And this is another one where it's kind of crazy how it's changed with even being gold. I think our port arrival time was around noon. I can't remember exactly. We actually didn't end up getting there until close to one, I think.
[00:20:04] Speaker C: And the other wrinkle is we actually had two port arrival times because the gold set had one and then we had another that was an hour later. And we've, you know, looked into the things and read, you know, Disney's recommendation is you just go with the later on. Other people say, hey, we just showed up with the earlier. They let us through. You know, they've got the policy that's written and then people's experiences have been different. So we wondered, hey, should we go with the earlier one? And we ended up showing up about the time of our later anyway. So it was a moot point.
[00:20:29] Speaker D: We were aiming for the earlier, but by the time we got our act together and got out of the room and drove, we did. It was a pretty long wait to get into like.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: Oh, the garage port.
[00:20:42] Speaker D: Yeah. Even though we were just doing drop off, like, that was pretty long wait. We did see an alligator. So I was really excited about that because that was the first alligator at the port.
Yeah, at the port. You know, there's ponds everywhere, Right. There's a pond and there's an alligator there. So I was pretty excited about that.
But yeah, it was a little bit long wait. So by the time we got there, the lines moved pretty fast. And by the time. And like there was just walk on whenever. You didn't have to. They didn't.
The numbers were all basically not. The numbers weren't all called, but it was thin enough that they weren't holding you back. So by the time we got through and Todd got through them, we just walked on the ship. So it was. Yeah, the biggest wait was really just that wait in the car. There was a huge line of cars doing drop off after that. It was smooth.
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Yeah. And you had been on the Wish before, so you sort of knew what to expect as far as layout goes. But what did. What were your like, sort of first impressions of the ship? I'm sure you. You didn't, you know, keep yourselves from seeing things ahead of time. I know there are some people who sort of avoid spoilers, but it's a little bit hard to when you watch, you know, and listen to a show like ours. And if to keep spoiler free. Sorry, guys. We always tell you, like if. I guess you have to stop listening if you don't want spoilers. But. Yeah. What were your first impressions of the treasure?
[00:21:57] Speaker C: I thought it was beautiful. I mean, the problem with me is my favorite ship is whichever ship I'm on.
And so I'm easy to please. I think there's positives to all the classes of ship.
You know, I think the common consensus is the Treasure has now surpassed. The wish though this go around. I agree with that as well. But I mean, I'm just.
Yeah, I'm not super critical on that regard. I thought it was beautiful when we walked in and, yeah, I'm okay with there not being a set of elevator banks in the middle of the ship by me. And I think that's. Yeah, it's a great space.
[00:22:33] Speaker D: Yeah, I think it's a beautiful ship.
We, you know, we don't mind all the smaller spaces, you know, a couple times. And I know people on the show have commented on this for trivia or even animation. Those spaces can get pretty crowded. So you do have to get places ahead of time. But otherwise we really. I think it's a beautiful space. The one space I think is tricky is Sarabi. I think Sarabi is a beautiful space, but the way it's set up, there's a lot of seats without a view of the stage. Right.
[00:23:03] Speaker B: Like, especially in the top. The top one, yes.
[00:23:07] Speaker D: So really, if there was something in Sarabi that we wanted to see, you to get there early, which is, you know, that's fine, but. So that space, I think, is an odd setup for the types of events that they do there.
Other.
[00:23:20] Speaker C: Oh, sorry, I was going to say. And the fact that it's disconnected where to get upstairs, you've got to go around the corner and up, you know, down the hall and then go up the stairs and then cut back where it just feels a little bit disjointed. It doesn't feel like a uniform space. I think there's creative options they can do with it. I just think in practice, it doesn't work out quite well. We had once time where we went, had great seats and just happened to be behind somebody that was tall and the seat turned lousy from that. From that space. And I feel like some of the other lounge spaces on the other ships, you've got a little bit more tiered seating. It spreads out wider. There's better viewing angles. And so, yeah, that one's just a little bit tricky there. Yeah.
[00:23:56] Speaker D: But overall, I think it's a beautiful ship.
Love the design, love the colors, love the carpet, love all the things. I think it's really pretty.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: Yeah, the carpet. Right. I mean, I know it's a funny thing to say, but, like, it's just so true. Like, the carpets are so. On all of the Disney ships, they've done a wonderful job in picking sort of unique design carpets and whatnot. But the Treasure, it's like, I don't know, it seems like another level even of creativity throughout the, everywhere on the ship there's like this gorgeous carpet. And I kind of love in the, in the grand hall. I love how it's like that fountain when you, you know, the stairs are basically like a river that leads into a fountain on the floor. Like if you look at the carpet from all the way up above. Yeah. It's just incredible. All right, well, we got to talk about, you know, embarcation day traditions.
Where do you guys go for lunch on embarkation day? That's really important.
[00:24:48] Speaker C: We've done sit down dining each time we have, you know, that's, that's what we've done. And that's just been a little bit time to decompress from, you know, traveling to get over onto the ship and just settle down there and do that. And so we've done that each time, I think. Right.
[00:25:02] Speaker D: Yeah. Where was that?
[00:25:04] Speaker B: Was that, Was it Coco?
[00:25:05] Speaker C: Yes, it was in cocoa. Yes, thank you. That's where it was. Yep.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. They've switched it up on the wish. It was.
I think they've switched it even now. On the wish. On the wish. It used to be that One side of 1923 was concierge and the other side of 1923 was just. Just regular, but sit down lunch was always in 1923. And then I think more recently they switched it so that the concierge lunch is still in 1923, but the regular lunch is in, I think, Arendelle. And so when they launched the Treasure, I think from the get go, they did it that way. And I think that's a better.
[00:25:40] Speaker A: It's probably space, like, because you only have half of 1923 available to you where you see the entire dining restaurant and the other venues, so.
[00:25:47] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. I think it's overspreading.
Yeah, Yeah. I think they. I wouldn't be surprised if they've found that more cruisers are. At least more seasoned cruisers are choosing that sit down lunch option.
[00:25:58] Speaker A: It's a direct line back to the dcl duo's love of the sit down lunch.
Sorry, Disney. If you want us to redirect traffic anywhere, just let us know.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: We'll tell people use. Always use different elevators.
[00:26:10] Speaker D: Yeah. The deck is a little chaotic that day, so we just, we like doing it.
[00:26:15] Speaker C: Yeah. And we've kind of got our routine where we do the sit down. We take just in our day Pack swimsuits so that people can just change into those if they want, and we don't have to worry about when the luggage is going to show up. You know, on. On this particular cruise, I happened to walk by and noticed there were just hordes of people sitting on the stairs waiting for those barriers to drop down so they could get into their room. And we didn't have that concern, so we just got to go explore the ship a little bit.
[00:26:40] Speaker B: Yeah, well, and I think that's a great. Just, like, tip out there for people who are, you know, cruising maybe for the first time or the second time. Like, if you want to hit those pools, maybe the water sl.
You know, early on, either wear your swimsuit under your clothes or carry on that swimsuit with you, because chances are you're not going to get to your room and your end have your luggage fast enough in order to do that. And you can easily change, and there's plenty of restrooms you can change in, you know, on board, throughout the ship, on the pool deck, wherever. So, yeah, super great pro tip out there for people. All right, well, let's. Let's start. Should we start with the ports, Brian, what do you think?
[00:27:17] Speaker A: I always love to start with the ports because I think people are always interested in, like, shore excursions. What'd you get up to? Know that kind of stuff. So. Yeah, for sure.
[00:27:24] Speaker B: Yeah. All right, so we did Tortola, San Juan and Castaway, Right? All right, perfect. In that order, I think.
All right, so let's. Let's start with Tortola. Got to ask, of course, did you book excursions through dcl? Did you book on your own, or did you just go out?
[00:27:44] Speaker A: And why did you go to Jos Van Dyke? No, I'm just kidding.
[00:27:49] Speaker D: We did. So we have. And so we've been to Tortola before.
And that when we went before we did.
We don't. We didn't book either through Disney.
The last time we went to Tola, we did, like, a catamaran, small group thing, Right. And it was wonderful. Totally recommend it. But this time, since we had already done that, we booked a private, smaller boat and we went to a couple of snorkeling spots and ended at just Van Dyke. So that was really fun.
[00:28:20] Speaker A: Who'd you use? Who'd you use for the private boat?
[00:28:23] Speaker D: Because we originally booked through.
[00:28:28] Speaker B: It was.
[00:28:29] Speaker D: I can't. I can't remember. I can let you guys know after. So we had booked through somebody. It was not Chill Out Charters. I think you guys used Chill Out Charters and I had recommended before too. It was. There was somebody else that had also been recommended. And then actually we kind of lucked out because the boat we were gonna get used broke.
And so. And so kudos to this tour company because they found us another boat on another.
Through another provider that was actually nicer, bigger boat, but they honored our pricing. So we totally scored like this pretty nice boat for pretty cheap.
[00:29:05] Speaker B: So I'll have to.
[00:29:06] Speaker D: I'll send afterwards both because I would recommend either one. Right. Because the one that we didn't go with, I really appreciated that they went out of their way to find us a backup when they were having technical difficulties. And then the one that we ended up going with was also great. So it was a lot of fun.
[00:29:19] Speaker C: And we ended up at Jo Svendike beach. And I'd never been there before and just fell in love with it immediately.
[00:29:28] Speaker B: Isn't it so beautiful?
[00:29:29] Speaker C: It is amazing. And I was like, I would like to come back here. Like, I was sitting there and I was already thinking, how do I get back here?
[00:29:35] Speaker A: As I was sitting there, see, the next time you go, you sit on the beach and you look and you go, how can I own a catamaran that's anchored off of Joe's Van Dyke? So as I'm wearing my soggy dollar hat today, actually.
[00:29:47] Speaker D: I know we saw some catamarans out. And I know some people. I have a friend who, for a couple of summers, their, like summer vacation was they chartered a catamaran and did like a week in the bvi. And I was saying, wouldn't that be fun? And my 11 year old who we do a thing where we take one kid on a trip, like for their.
Whatever, just a mom or a parent child trip. And he was like, yeah, let's do that for our parent child trip. And I was like, yeah, probably not. Probably not gonna.
[00:30:18] Speaker B: I love.
[00:30:19] Speaker D: But there's so there's like a gazillion islands, right. So we just stopped at a snorkeling spot that was kind of just a, like, rock in the, you know, in the middle of. Not nowhere, but. But it had a really nice reef, really good snorkeling, tons of fish, probably. Other than Thailand, BVI is the best snorkeling that we've done anywhere. So.
[00:30:39] Speaker C: Yeah. Remarkably clear. And then you got to see an octopus.
[00:30:42] Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
[00:30:43] Speaker C: While you were out there.
[00:30:44] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:30:44] Speaker C: You and did.
[00:30:46] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:30:46] Speaker D: It was really cool. Yeah. Lucas. Yep.
[00:30:49] Speaker B: Awesome. I love that. Well, and I have to say, like, if you're listening and want travel Recommendations. Like, Aaron does the kind of research that is.
I don't even know what to call it. It's literally like the pillar of research for travel. Like on all of the different. I mean, I know Erin. You use all the different sites.
[00:31:10] Speaker A: Hey, now you're throwing me under a bus over here. No one really plans all of our.
[00:31:13] Speaker B: Travel, Brian, you know, because Erin and Todd and the kids, they do a ton of, like, land travel, too. And, like, I have seen Aaron's itineraries, and it is, like, incredible, like, what she plans.
[00:31:26] Speaker A: Next time you can plan the trip to London. Go ahead.
[00:31:29] Speaker B: No, I'm gonna. I'm gonna have Erin plan her trip. She's not even a travel agent.
[00:31:33] Speaker A: Well, I'm just. I'm gonna leave the show now and leave you to it.
Apparently, I'm just not up to par.
[00:31:40] Speaker B: Yeah, she also writes a great trip report, by the way. So, anyway, sorry.
[00:31:46] Speaker C: What we're saying here is that both Sam and I married great trip planners.
[00:31:49] Speaker B: I married great trip planners. Absolutely, Todd, because I am definitely not the trip planner.
[00:31:54] Speaker A: Remember that. Remember that when Nathan and I are sitting up in first and you're in coach on our next year.
[00:32:00] Speaker B: Listen, on our last trip that happened, me and Nathan were in where we were technically in premium economy, but Brian was in first class and taken care of.
[00:32:08] Speaker A: I can't help it if they upgrade me.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: Anyway. All right, well, okay, so a great. Obviously a great charter in Joe's or Tortola and ended up in Joe's Van Dyke. Fantastic. That's always, I think, a great recommendation for anyone. There's a. There are a lot of decent private charter companies out there that you can charter a boat with. And as you mentioned, Aaron, your last time, you guys did it with another family. And that's always a good. Good thing to share. Spread out the cost as well. All right, well, let's jump over to San Juan, because you actually did get to go to San Juan, which is really cool, because I know a lot of ships have been canceling their calls to San Juan because of the construction situation I think, going on at the port there. But what did you guys get up to for San Juan Day?
[00:32:55] Speaker D: We did a food tour. So we had booked a private food tour through Flavors of San Juan was what it was called.
That was start. We started that at, like, 11. So we first took an Uber to the fort.
What is it? El Morro, Something like that. Right. The big fort.
There's a couple of. There's a couple. One's bigger and one's a little Bit smaller. We went to both, but we started at that El Morro. It's a national park. It's really cool. Like, and I will say I actually was kind of bummed we weren't going to St. Thomas because we loved our day at St. Thomas on our last cruise. But I thought San Juan was really cool, so the fort was really, really cool. Lots of really interesting history.
We were pretty short on time, so we just kind of like ran around. But that was really cool. Really, really beautiful views. And then we.
And then we went to the meeting spot for our food tour, which is. Was in old town San Juan. And that was.
We do food tours most places that we go. I think it's a really good place. Way to get a sense of the culture and the history. You kind of get a little bit of everything.
And this was one of. This was one of the best, probably the best food of any food tour. Maybe less. Less the best history and culture, but like, best food probably of any food tour is really good.
[00:34:16] Speaker B: Awesome. Do you remember what company that was through?
[00:34:19] Speaker D: Yeah. Flavors of San Juan.
[00:34:21] Speaker B: Flavors of San Juan. Okay, good to know. So a good recommendation. Maybe the next time we go to San Juan, Brian, we'll have to book that. Now, did the kids like the food? Because that's always to touch and go with food tours.
[00:34:32] Speaker C: Sure. And. And I mean, we've got kids who are particular eaters. We found when we travel, though, they're a little bit more adventurous, where that thing gets put out in front and they're willing to give it a try.
At home, it's a bit more of a battle on people to expand their horizons, but they're willing to give things a try.
But they ended up liking things also. You know, there's a couple of times where I got to have two of something. And I never complain about that.
But. But yeah, for the most part, I think they. They enjoyed the.
[00:35:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:02] Speaker C: And. And the foods that our guide selected were really approachable.
Nothing too crazy where you'd look at it and think, okay, am I ready for this? And so for kids, it was really manageable for them.
[00:35:15] Speaker D: Yeah, it actually. So two of them are pretty picky. But when we're trying new things, they don't know that they don't like it yet. Like at home, it's like, I've tried that before five years ago, and I know I don't like it.
But when you're in another country, they can't. They don't have that excuse. And they will. I mean, they've tried some Crazy stuff and didn't necessarily like it, but they'll try it. But this was. Yeah, I mean, this was like a croissant. There was like some pastries with guava jam. There was some popsicles. There were empanadas. There were the, the. What's the thing called? That's like the famous mofongo. Yeah, mofongo. Right. Which they didn't necessarily love that, but like it's also just rice and beans and meat and that. Like, that's pretty approachable. And then really good tres leches cake. So.
[00:36:01] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:36:01] Speaker D: Yeah, it was great. I've never been so stuffed on a food tour as that one.
[00:36:04] Speaker C: It was delicious. No, we talked about how we'll look into the future at cruises that are leaving from San Juan just to have some time to be a part of that part of the country and. Yeah. Explore the island a little bit more.
[00:36:18] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:36:18] Speaker A: Well, sounds like San Juan was a hit. What about. Did you get up at anything? Did you do anything at Castaway Beyond? Relax.
[00:36:27] Speaker C: So we've never actually been to the adults only beach because it's around with us. And so we've just been. Now they're a little bit older, they're more independent and doing things. And so like with at least one of our kids, he just found the kids club group and. And was off with them and doing things with the teams and the others would relax on. On the beach. And so we went on. Went over there for the first time and just really enjoyed that. Just the tranquility that's there.
We understand the hype now.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
Nice. And you try. Did you try the steak over there? Because that's the one thing that they don't have at the family beach.
[00:37:01] Speaker D: Didn't go for lunch. We didn't go till after lunch.
So we just, we got a drink over there. And then I. I mean, I love the beach over there and how shallow it is, like for forever. You can just walk out forever and ever and ever.
So I liked that beach more than any of the beaches in the kind of family area. So.
[00:37:20] Speaker C: And it was nice. I mean, they have some music playing at the bar, but if you just walk down the beach, you don't hear anything. And so you just have, you know, the motion of the water going. And it's just. It's a peaceful time to be over there.
[00:37:32] Speaker D: Yeah, we liked it.
[00:37:33] Speaker B: Yeah, it is definitely. I mean, you don't have all the kid noise. And not to say, I mean, Castaway is a beautiful beach. Even the family beach, we. We tend to spend Our time there, too. I mean, it's been a long time since we have had a chance to really spend time at Serenity. And maybe it's, you know, maybe it's in. In our soon future, I think, because like you, you know, as Nathan gets older and more independent, we will have some, maybe some time to. To explore Serenity Bay again.
But yeah, it's really nice to have that, like, quiet because you don't have that on the family beach at all.
[00:38:06] Speaker C: Yeah, Yeah, I did the 5K. I go do that every time just. Just to see how much I'm aging every year.
And I do miss that, the, the formal 5K that they used to have, you know. Yeah, I, I don't miss the hassle of getting off the ship in a group and getting out there and doing that sort of thing. But I did like just having it in place. I thought that was a fun feature. Aaron did the unofficial 5k, which is dashing off the ship to go get us chairs.
They actually, we had a certain time when it was going to be when we could get off the ship, and then it ended up being 45 minutes earlier that they said, okay, you can go anyway. And so Aaron happened to be ready and just grabbed a bag and ran. And then the rest of us came off a little bit later.
[00:38:47] Speaker A: That happened to. That happened to us too, on our last sailing.
[00:38:50] Speaker B: 30 minutes earlier. Yeah.
[00:38:52] Speaker A: Yeah. So I hate that Disney's doing that because all it's going to do is encourage people to start lining up in the stairwells 45 minutes to an hour before the posted disembarkation time. And if you post a disembarkation time, stick to the disembarkation time. I mean, if you think you're going to get there early, like, update the app by a half hour or something. But yeah, it was. I, I worry because people already line up, so if you give them a hint that, like, maybe, maybe if you're there early, they'll let you off.
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[00:40:29] Speaker B: Things mixed things.
[00:40:30] Speaker A: Mix things, yeah. What was your experience with the beach?
[00:40:33] Speaker D: It is crowded, like especially I think, you know, if you're on the wonder versus the Treasure, there's more people in the same space. Right. And we like the family beach by the Pelican Plunge by the slide because we like this slide but that's a smaller area. Right. So I would say there was definitely times of the day, not the whole day, but there were times of the day where.
And it's a pretty. But it's a pretty small swimming area. Right. Because they have it all roped off.
It was a little people soupy but you know, I don't, whatever, I don't really care. Like there's people.
I don't.
I guess that's just manage your expectations that there are going to be people there. But, but again I feel like not the whole day. There were pockets of times where it felt pretty crowded and there were a lot of people in the water and then there were pockets of time that weren't so. And then there were. And you could also just we kind of had our stuff there.
It's a good spot because it's close to cookies too. It's close to drink stations.
So we like this spot but you can also just go find some other spots if you want a quieter spot at some point. So yeah, I mean there's, it's, it can be busy but I think it's cause it's a really cool place. I don't know.
[00:41:49] Speaker B: Yeah, fun place.
[00:41:50] Speaker C: And I'd say, you know, we were spoiled when we had reduced capacity in the wake of the pandemic. And so we've got that as a little bit of a frame of reference that can us a distorted view of what it could be like. And no it doesn't feel overly crowded. There's people, it's spring break. You're going to bring your family there. And so, yeah, I, I, I wasn't deterred by the crowds.
[00:42:10] Speaker B: Yeah. And I, I have found that you don't need to get off early to get a spot unless you have a particular spot you want to be. If you want to be like, for example, Erin, the spot that you choose, it is, you're right, it is a smaller beach area. It's that sort of end of a family beach one. It's the end. And so it's right before you get to beach, too. And so it is kind of a smaller spot over there. And so if that's where you want to be, then you might want to, you know, get there early. But there are seats. You just might have to walk further to find them, I think.
[00:42:42] Speaker D: Yeah, well, and we're picky. Like, we were front row with shade.
If you're willing to be further back. Well, unwilling, I mean, it's fine to be further back because you can always go sit closer right there. There were always seats available there. It wasn't like you weren't going to get a seat. But if you are particular about you want to be on ride on the water and you want to have make sure you have enough shade and all that, then, then, yeah, getting there earlier is helpful. But also we have found that it clears out like, people, I don't know if people are afraid they're going to get left, but, like, everyone goes back to the ship at like 2. It's kind of funny. Or maybe they're just tired or whatever.
[00:43:24] Speaker C: And on this one, I mean, Moana was showing early and so that's a reason.
[00:43:28] Speaker B: That's part of it.
[00:43:30] Speaker C: But even on other days, I feel.
[00:43:32] Speaker D: Like we're always like, to the very, very end.
Last shuttle. And that last hour and a half, two hours is pretty empty.
[00:43:41] Speaker B: Yeah. So we are those people who leave at around like two or three. Like, we always leave early. And it's part because it depends.
[00:43:49] Speaker A: It depends during the summer for sure.
[00:43:50] Speaker B: Because it's really hot for us. It's gets our, our Seattle bodies get too hot being out there for that many hours. And then also Castaway is usually the, your last day. Right. And like, and we always want to get some packing. We get like, sort of anxious to get packing stuff so that we can, so that our evening is a little bit more relaxing. So I think that's, it's sort of a how do you pack? Kind of situation for us. And so.
But. And as you mentioned, Moana is a huge part of this, I think, as well, because on the Treasure right now, the way they've been doing the itinerary, Moana is being shown on the final day, castaway day, and they're doing three showings. You've got a matinee at, I don't know, two or three. I can't remember which one it was. And then you've got the early show and the late show in the evening, and it is filling up. I mean, all three shows, from what we're hearing and from what we experience, all three shows are filling up the theater, you know, to the gills. And so if everyone wants to, you know, a lot of people want to get it back on board so they can see the early show and kind of get that again also out of the way and then deal with their packing. So. Yeah. All right, well, let's jump back on board to the beautiful Disney treasure and hear what you guys got up to on board. Obviously, we mentioned this was your first time on the Treasure. You know, she's got some new experiences.
I think you guys had maybe the first week of the new Sage and Coriander.
When I say the newest obsession, I'm obsessed. I mean, everybody knows it. I'm obsessed with sage and coriander. I'm obsessed with the. The main stage cast, the storyteller.
[00:45:36] Speaker A: We could design. We got to design a magnet and a T shirt for you, Sam. I don't know what it's gonna look like.
[00:45:40] Speaker B: Number. Sage and Coriander. Number one fan, basically. Yeah, but. But they had just done a changeover from cast number one to cast number two, and cast number two was on board for a couple of weeks shadowing cast number one. But I think you guys probably saw the. Their first week, and it was before. I think maybe Sage got injured. I'm not sure.
[00:46:00] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, There was not an injured Sage.
[00:46:02] Speaker C: Right.
[00:46:02] Speaker B: Yeah, she.
[00:46:03] Speaker C: That was. That was Sage for us. You saw her. You said she played a different part in one of the main stage things.
[00:46:09] Speaker D: She was Belle.
[00:46:10] Speaker C: Right.
[00:46:11] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:46:12] Speaker C: That this was somebody that was the fill in for.
[00:46:16] Speaker B: That's right.
I'm mixing it up. You guys were at the end of April. I was thinking you're at the end of March. Right? You're at the end of April.
[00:46:23] Speaker D: End of March. Beginning of April.
[00:46:25] Speaker B: Oh, end of March. Beginning of April. Okay, so you were. So then you were a couple weeks. Oh, so you know what? You weren't the first week then. You were like the second or third week. Of the new cast, which was after Sage had gotten injured. So Sage was actually gone.
So who you saw was. Then you saw multiple people playing the roles. But, yes, Belle. That's what we experienced. Belle was the same.
Was Sage. I'll call it in the Indiana Jones show. And then. But we had somebody else in the Jungle Cruise game show.
[00:46:56] Speaker D: Okay, that makes sense because I was really. I was confused about the whole staging, stage and coriander situation because, like, obviously we listen to the show.
We knew what to look for. We were super excited about it. We did watch the Jungle Cruise thing, and it was the same guy, but not her. It was a different girl. And then we saw the Indiana Jones show, and then she was Belle as well. And I'm like, well, that's probably why she's not in all the things. Because, like, that's a lot. And then they never did.
I don't think they ever did the lamp Aladdin thing on our sailing, because that. That other thing we were looking for, they didn't do it. And then I think I found out later that they hosted like, a Match your Mate or something. And we know that. So we didn't go to that, which is a bummer because I would have gone if we'd known. But it's hard to. They don't list them as. It's coriander and sage. Right. Like, you just have to know what to go to. And we didn't know that.
[00:47:53] Speaker B: Yeah, so. Yes, exactly. So Match your Matey, which is the pirate night version of Match youh Mate, is something that is supposed to be hosted by a sage and coriander. I'm not sure who the female will. Because we didn't go see it on our last sailing because we were busy in Paulo.
But, yeah, I don't know who. Who was the female basically, who co hosted it with coriander. But yes, that's exactly what you experienced. Is exactly what we experienced on this most recent sailing. And they did not do the Aladdin tales from the Lamp retelling what I have heard and I don't know. We're recording this. It's May 4th. May the 4th be with you. This will come out in, like, July.
The. I don't know when the new sage is coming on. I have heard that they. That somebody was coming to to fill the position. But basically the. The person who had some kind of bad, like, leg or ankle or something injury and had to leave.
And so they were filling in with sort of. I'm calling them understudies, but it wasn't like a set, understudy one person. Right. There's so many, as you mentioned, Aaron, it's a lot for the person who's doing Bell.
They are, you know, they're in the other stage shows as well. And so they can't be like everywhere else at the same time and learning all those different parts. And so they kind of split it up amongst other people. They also do the T, which I know you didn't go to because it's typically for, you know, younger kids. Not that an 11 year old can qualify to go to the T, but I would not say generally it's worth it unless you have an 11 year old girl who's really into princesses. That's who I would, you know, any three to 12, if you have a girl or boy princess fan, that's who should go to the adventure tea. And you don't need to take the whole family to the adventure tee. It's, it's really. And it's a one and done. But it is another thing that the Sage and coriander characters do.
[00:49:49] Speaker D: That makes sense. She, I mean, she was terrific. She was really good in the Indiana Jones thing. In fact, that was before Beauty and the Beast and she's so funny. And then was Belle. It almost kind of threw me off because I was like, that's like jarring. But she was really good in both, so.
[00:50:06] Speaker B: Yeah, totally agree.
What did you think of the Jungle Cruise game show? It's definitely like a, you know, it's a. Trying to be punny and quirky and of course it is family friendly in the, in the Grand Hall.
[00:50:20] Speaker C: Right. So we showed up for it. We didn't show up early enough to be a part of the boats themselves.
And I would say if you're not in the boats, it's not that great of an experience.
We couldn't really hear the jokes, didn't follow exactly what was going on. And so, you know, we watched it for a little bit and the people participating in that seem to be having a great time. And so, you know, on a future cruise we'll show up a few minutes early and try and try and participate in that. But as far as viewing it, if somebody's thinking about potentially watching that, I think it's.
I wouldn't recommend just going to try and watch it.
[00:50:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I think watching the very beginning of it because then they're talking to the whole audience, that part is, is okay. But then once they kind of start the game and interaction. I totally agree with you, Todd. It's really, you can't really follow it unless you're in one of the boats. And so it is because they're not necessarily using, because there's two people talking. So they're not necessarily using the microphones during the entire game show thing. And so yeah, it isn't because I have now participated in it twice and watched it once. And when I watched it, I didn't stay for the whole thing. I watched the first like 5, 10 minutes and then I left because I was like, yeah, it's fun but it's, it's not the same unless you're participating in it. So yeah, great tip. I will say there are people who are showing up quite a bit early for that experience because I showed up, I want to say 10 or 15 minutes early the last time and I, I did not initially get a spot in the boat. I was the first on the wait list and I did make it in the boat because somebody else decided not to do it.
[00:51:57] Speaker C: Right. We've got this rope drop culture in Disney. Right. People are going to show up early and do that. And we noticed Aaron mentioned this earlier that with the lounge spaces being smaller, you had to show up early to get into trivia, which doesn't seem like the kind of vibe that I want for a trivia. I just want to drop in, in and happen to grab a pencil and sit down on an open table. And for some of them you had to watch the ending of the previous thing and watch them clean up and get ready in order to just participate in something that's a, you know, pretty relaxed environment.
[00:52:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Especially the family trivias. It seems like those are, I mean they're all kind of over subscribed. But I think you're right because the spaces are smaller, particularly when they, you know, have it in like a Sarabi or in a Triton's Tritons. Very much so because the Tritons is quite small.
I'm also baffled when they do like the late karaoke in Tritons because it's also really quite small.
So yeah, there are certain activities, unfortunately there's good and bad right. To the Wish class ships. But one of the sort of negative things is that all of the spaces other than obviously like the Walt Disney Theater and the dining rooms, because there's more spaces, they're all smaller and that means that there's more of a space limit for a lot of these activities. It's. Yeah.
[00:53:14] Speaker D: Oh, I was. And I think too again just there are a lot of experienced cruisers. People know what they Want to go to you. You have to get to stuff early. We lined up. I mean, we're part of the problem, I guess, because for Beauty and the Beast and Moana, we lined up an hour early to get good seats. I will say, though, like, they're such good shows. And if you think of the hassle of trying to go to a show like, like on Broadway, you're going to spend a bunch of money, you're going to spend a bunch of time. So to me, I'm like, it's no big deal. I just like, take my Kindle and read in the in line. But that there are a lot of people that do that because they, you know, you want good seats. Well, and even if you even want a seat at all to the big shows, you really do have to get there. You can't show up as it's starting. You won't get a seat.
[00:54:01] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And they are opening the doors about 30 minutes before it seems like nowadays. And so you really are having to. It used to be you get there like, like five minutes before they open the door and you'd like, you'd be okay. You might not get, like, you know, if you wanted front row, you needed to get there early, but, like, you could get decencies. But you're right. Now you really do have to show up. Unfortunately, yes. And we're. I'm part of the problem as well be part of the solution.
[00:54:28] Speaker A: But hold on. Wait, wait, wait. Let's define that. Like, I don't think it's wrong for people to line up at the theater. I don't think there's any other way to do it other than if Disney wanted to somehow do like a science, you know, you sure reserve seating or something like that, which I think Royal does some of, if I remember correctly. But like, you know, the theater is a small space, and if you want the best seats, then, you know, that's. That's a. That's something you got to do. My beef is usually with like, like castaway and like, racing off the ship, which, you know, castaway is supposed to be like a relaxing experience and, you know, or with. With dining, where you have a.
There's no. You don't get a different seat when you show up early.
[00:55:05] Speaker D: We do not line up for dining. I don't. That people do. And it's.
[00:55:09] Speaker A: I don't understand it. Yeah, I just don't understand that. So I think there's times.
[00:55:13] Speaker D: Yeah, I don't think it's a big deal, but it is. I mean, the lines will stretch back clear to, like, the Skipper, whatever.
[00:55:20] Speaker B: That.
[00:55:23] Speaker D: The lines stretch back pretty far. But again, yeah.
[00:55:26] Speaker A: And that's why. That's why I'll just sit at Skipper Society and have a drink.
[00:55:31] Speaker C: No, I'm frankly surprised that they haven't started charging for a premium seating option. I know concierge can get in as the early option as well, but just for other guests to try that.
[00:55:41] Speaker D: Don't mind.
[00:55:43] Speaker A: I think. I think Disney would face a ton of backlash because, you know, their. Their sort of ethos is we're not going to nickel and dime you once you get on board. Right. So, like, I think. I think they really want to keep it as, like, everything's included. There's a few things, like an adult dining that are an upcharge, but, like, everything else is sort of, you know, fair game and included. So. Yeah, if they started charging for special seating in the theaters, then I think people be like, wait a second, what's going on?
[00:56:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean. I mean, one thing.
[00:56:07] Speaker A: One thing I would pay for. I would pay for reserved deck chairs at the adult pool.
[00:56:13] Speaker B: True, Brian would. But, like, I do think they set themselves apart, like, particularly in the, like, soft drink category. Right. Like, a lot of, you know, every other cruise line charges you for soft drinks. And Disney, I think a lot of people appreciate that they don't have to buy a drink package for sodas and juices and iced teas and things like that.
[00:56:32] Speaker A: Although I really think they should just extend that to any bar. Like, it's crazy to me. You have to go to this one location.
[00:56:36] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I agree.
[00:56:37] Speaker A: The fountain. Like, we can't just give you a can of soda.
[00:56:40] Speaker B: You know, soda should be. I agree. I think it's kind of silly that if you order a soda from a bar, you pay, you know, X amount of dollars. But if you went to the pool deck, you, you know, anyway. But they would just need to probably put soda machines in more places in order to deal with that. Yeah.
[00:56:55] Speaker C: We went on another cruise line for the first time last summer, and now having. Going back on Disney, I appreciate more than ever this lack of nickel and diming that.
[00:57:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:57:03] Speaker C: You know, paid in. We've paid in advance, and we just show up and take care of this. And. And I. I really.
[00:57:09] Speaker A: And once you introduce the prepaying stuff, then you get into the whole Royal Caribbean model of like, well, it's 30 off right now. Do I buy it now? Do I wait to see if it's a better sale? Do I buy it and then refund it and buy it. It's. We just went through that for a spring break cruise next year, and, like, I'm just like, it's all 35 off right now. We better leap on it, you know, kind of thing. So.
[00:57:26] Speaker D: Well, and I don't mind. I mean, offering somebody a paid option that doesn't really impact other people. I don't really care, but I would not like it if all of a sudden huge chunks of seats in those theaters. You already do have the concierge people who can get there early, and they already.
You know, there's a chunk there once you get let in, but whatever. That's a pretty small handful. If they started having, like, all these seats roped off for paid people, that then impacts your experience. And that. That's where I get super annoyed.
[00:57:56] Speaker B: Totally. It's like when you see the people going through, like, the lightning lane line, you're like, well, you paid for that, so it's okay. But, like, if all we're doing is lightning lanes, then everybody else is getting screwed. Yeah.
[00:58:08] Speaker A: Okay, next up, Club 33 at sea. There you go.
What would be a Club 96, right? That'll be what it is. The year they started cruising.
[00:58:16] Speaker B: No, 98. 98.
[00:58:18] Speaker A: 98.
[00:58:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[00:58:19] Speaker A: I guess they announced it in 96, but yeah.
[00:58:21] Speaker B: Yeah. All right.
[00:58:22] Speaker D: Well, what.
[00:58:23] Speaker B: What about some of the other experiences on board? What kinds of things did you all get up to other than stalking sage and coriander? On my advice?
[00:58:32] Speaker D: What did you. I worked a lot on this trip, so that's what I'm like.
[00:58:35] Speaker B: Karen. Oh.
[00:58:38] Speaker C: So we can talk about the WI Fi package.
[00:58:40] Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
[00:58:41] Speaker B: Oh, there you go.
[00:58:44] Speaker C: Well, no.
So, yeah, variety of things. With kids, we'd go find trivia things.
I still like doing the drawing classes, even though it's a video. I don't have very much artistic talent, but I make my little picture, and it feels so much better. You know, know everyone else's looks way better than mine, but mine relative to what I would do on my own. I just feel proud of myself when I do these little sketches there. So I have fun doing that, and, you know, it. The energy of the host is going to dictate how the drawing things go, especially now with the video.
And, you know, we. We had good people there.
We did the Star Wars Superman challenge with my boy, and I had a proud father moment where the three of us all got to the stage together.
[00:59:25] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:59:26] Speaker C: We got eliminated quickly by the true super fans out there. But, you know, we had enough working knowledge of Star wars to get ourselves up to the front of the room for a little bit. So that was a fun family moment to have that.
[00:59:36] Speaker B: That's pretty cool.
[00:59:38] Speaker D: We always love doing this ship tour as early as possible in the cruise. I think the early. Because then I think you appreciate so much the rest of the cruise and that now you book in advance.
[00:59:48] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a little weird.
[00:59:50] Speaker D: Show up right on the schedule. You book it in advance and it almost looks like it's a paid thing, but it's not. It's kind of. But anyway, we did that on probably our first day.
[01:00:00] Speaker C: I think it's either the first or the second.
[01:00:02] Speaker D: Either the first or second day. I was. Again, I love those because I love. Then they point out all the stuff you wouldn't otherwise know. So then you can look for it. So love that.
We go to all.
Pretty much all of the evening shows. They had a brother and sister Broadway duo on this Sailing, so they were amazing. And they did an adult show and they did a family show. And they also did like a Q and A with one of the kids clubs, I think. But that's always fun. So he originated the role of Aladdin when Aladdin was first on Broadway and she had played Jasmine on Broadway. Not at the same time.
[01:00:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that'll be a little weird.
[01:00:39] Speaker D: Yeah, I know. But that was super fun. So we really liked their shows.
I'm always a fan of music. If they have good people. I will say on both the Dream Sailing last year and on this Sailing, I did not love, like, I feel like they have a lot of pianists that don't sing. And I'm like, no, I don't really care to just go listen to piano. And then he didn't love the. I didn't love the band. When we were on the Magic Sailing with you guys. And then on our Wish Sailing, there was a really good, like, band that I. We would go see that. I really enjoy that. But there wasn't really. I just didn't.
I didn't love the people that were on this ship. So that was like. That was a bummer. But yeah.
[01:01:22] Speaker B: Did you like the shows? I don't think I asked you about the show.
[01:01:25] Speaker D: Yeah. So the shows are so. I mean, I love Disney CZ Adventure. I think that's their best, like, variety, whatever.
[01:01:31] Speaker B: Variety show.
100% love that.
[01:01:35] Speaker D: I had seen Beauty on the Beast on the Dream and absolutely love that. Even though it's not really probably my favorite Disney show. I think the musical version, the stage version is really good.
And then of Course, Moana is, like, amazing. It's so. It's so good.
So, yeah, we really loved the shows. They did Snow White because it was new in the theater. In the theater, the movie theater. And then they had a ventriloquist and a magician and all the things. But yeah, the stage shows, that's the best. I mean, that's the best lineup of stage shows of any of the ships, for sure.
[01:02:09] Speaker B: I agree. I think that's number.
[01:02:10] Speaker D: Those ones are so good.
[01:02:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that, like, I think overall Treasure is number one for shows. I'd actually put the magic as number two for show because you've got, you know, tangled, and that's just a phenomenal. And you got Twice Charmed. And yeah, it's a. That one. To me, those. That's a great lineup as well. But totally agree. I think Treasure is number one. Well, we gotta talk food, because, of course, you had new dining experiences. You had the new show in Marvel. You had the same Marvel menu for Night one as you have on the Wish, but obviously new menu for night two and the new show. You have, of course, two new menus and two new shows in. In Plaza de Coco. And then I've got 1923, which has the same night one as the wish, which is great. And then the terrible Night two menu. But.
But I want to hear sort of overall thoughts, overall impressions, and. And of course, I, you know, in particular, what you guys thought of Coco and Night 2. Marvel.
[01:03:04] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:03:06] Speaker C: So, yeah, I. I loved them. I stepped on the scale before and after and put on £10. So I was. I was pretty happy with the. With the food. I was like, all right, I got my money's worth this time. So it was outstanding.
[01:03:19] Speaker B: That's why it's all you can eat.
[01:03:21] Speaker C: I learned if I'm not pulling out my wallet, like, I have no self control, like, that's fine. That's what's preventing me from eating more food any other.
[01:03:27] Speaker B: Oh, my God, Todd, you and I are the same person because I'm the same way. That's why I don't go to buffets in general. Like, because I feel like I have to, like, eat my weight in food. Like, I feel like I have to get my money's worth. And so, like, I just eat way too much. But, yeah, it's. It's a problem.
[01:03:42] Speaker A: It's going to say, never sell concierge, because then it doubles the food because it's like, now there's tea sandwiches and free dinner appetizers.
[01:03:50] Speaker B: I have done so much better on Cruises with weight gain when I have not sailed in concierge because I cannot stay away from those little tea sandwiches and all the little appetizers and all that stuff. So I, like, need to we. Ryan, for my waistline, we need to not sail concierge ever again.
[01:04:08] Speaker A: Well, Alaska.
[01:04:10] Speaker B: But we are in Alaska. That's true. Yeah. Alaska is going to be a problem. Yeah.
[01:04:13] Speaker C: So we started off with Mark Marvel for our first night, and I really liked Marvel. I got the schnitzel and the noki so I could dip my schnitzel in the noki. Thank you for that tip.
The schnitzel wasn't dry that evening, so I could have had it on its own. It would have been great. But liked having it with the noki as well. One of the things I liked about our team that was serving us on this ship was that when we'd get recommendations, he wouldn't pick an item from each of the categories. He wouldn't say, you do this entree, do this salad, do this soup. Would skip ones and just say, don't bother with the soup whatsoever. Or, you know what? I'm not. I, you know, I wouldn't do any of these salads. And he would just go through and he'd be willing to just go through and pick out different things and. And we could mix and match in that way. And I really liked that.
[01:05:03] Speaker D: Yeah. I think we've learned over our sailings that you should really go with the recommendation. Well, if you. You have to learn to trust it. Right. But, like, once you figure out, I mean, he was. His recommendations were really spot on. Not just from what he per. And it's not just what he personally likes, but he's like, I know what people send back. I know what gets sent back. I know what people don't like. So it's not even about his personal taste. It's about. He's, like, really paying attention. This was the best serving team we've ever had. He was so good. I think he's going to go to Palo soon. Like, he was terrific. And you just. I've just learned. You just listen to what they tell you, even if it's not what you would pick based on the description.
If you have a good team, that's kind of what we ended up doing.
So, yeah, the first night's a little chaotic when Marvel's your first one because it's so loud. So that one, we didn't really talk to them very much, but it's just.
We got there a little late and it's kind of crazy. After that it got.
We got to know them better. Yeah, Coco's amazing. I loved both Knights of Coco.
I think the show on the second night night is better, but they were both great.
We actually missed the bad 1923 menu. Now I'm glad to know that that's a bad menu because we went to Palo that night.
[01:06:18] Speaker B: Perfect choice.
[01:06:20] Speaker D: Yeah. And we had a good meal there. So this was kind of funny. You guys know we're not drinkers and Palo had a zero proof thing, like pairing, right?
[01:06:31] Speaker B: Oh, cool.
[01:06:34] Speaker D: So we thought zero proof was mocktails and here's what we learned. Zero proof is not a mocktail. It's very different. A mocktail is like a sugary soda repl. Like equivalent. Right. Like a virgin mojito.
[01:06:47] Speaker C: It's going to be fruity and maybe have an umbrella.
[01:06:50] Speaker D: Yeah, right. Zero proof is like the actual taste. So we've never had alcohol and we're having like some Manhattan and we're like, this is the worst thing we've ever tasted.
[01:07:02] Speaker B: Oh my God. Did they give you like a zero proof Heineken or something? Like, no, but like it was a.
[01:07:07] Speaker D: Zero proof whiskey, I think. I don't even know. But that was as.
[01:07:11] Speaker A: As. As someone who does drink that. There is nothing good about trying to replace the alcohol with like. There is. I. I don't care what anyone out there says.
I don't care about the commercials any. There is no good zero proof actual alcohol. Like, I agree. Do the like, sugary drink, like the juices and the stuff I eat is what you want.
[01:07:35] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, it was, it was funny. Was a funny experience. But yeah, we. We learned our lesson. I mean, it was.
[01:07:44] Speaker B: No, this. Listen, you did it for science, right? You did it for the show. Because. Cuz. Cuz I would not order the zero proof. I would order with the alcohol in it. And so you.
[01:07:56] Speaker D: Everybody does the zero proof. Because he also didn't seem to have like much of an idea of what it would entail. It was. They were just kind of like making it up on the fly.
[01:08:08] Speaker C: It's like the tuna sandwich at the steakhouse. Like, they're like, nobody's ever ordered this. What are you doing?
[01:08:14] Speaker B: The tuna sandwich at the steakhouse server was good. It was, it was good.
[01:08:19] Speaker D: That was just kind of. That was. Yeah, yeah. Just so you know, zero proof mocktail. Not the same. Very different.
Very different.
[01:08:27] Speaker B: Oh my God, I love that. That's hilarious. Well, listen, you made a good choice skipping 1923 second menu as I meant it's the lobster menu. And it's just nothing. There's like a venison on there. There's nothing great.
[01:08:41] Speaker A: I think there's a bunch of people out there who are going to disagree with you just because it is lobster night. And you got to remember, Sam, not everyone gets to have lobster all the time.
[01:08:49] Speaker B: I don't. Oh, my God, Brian, you're making it sound like I'm way boozier than I am.
[01:08:54] Speaker A: I've had really good lobster. Don't pretend like you haven't.
[01:08:57] Speaker B: No, but I wouldn't have it every night. I mean.
[01:08:59] Speaker A: No, I'm not saying that, but, like, there's plenty of people out there who just have not experienced the kind of lobster that you've gotten to experience, both from living in the pacific northwest and, you know, going to some really nice fine dining restaurants. Like, give people their lobster night, Sam.
[01:09:12] Speaker C: Let people have lobster. So our. So we went to follow the two of us. And so we told the kids, you can go to 1923 on your own. The serving team will be there. They'll take care of you. And we. We told the team the night ahead of time about this, and they said, oh, we're going to make this into a special evening for them. They loved the whole idea of it. And so our kids go there, and like we said before, we have some kids who are not the most adventurous eaters all the time. And they get that menu. And one of them got the lobster. Lobster. And then the other two both ordered. They have.
What was it?
[01:09:44] Speaker D: Well, they ordered filet. The filet, which they thought was steak because they like steak.
[01:09:49] Speaker B: It's the venison or fish.
[01:09:51] Speaker D: It was a fish.
[01:09:52] Speaker C: It was a fish.
[01:09:53] Speaker B: It was a fish filet.
[01:09:56] Speaker C: And so they were like, this is not steak.
[01:10:00] Speaker B: Oh, that's hilarious.
[01:10:03] Speaker C: Plain pasta showed up shortly thereafter, and they were all taken care of. But they had an adventure.
[01:10:09] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:10:10] Speaker B: That's hilarious. Yeah. Right? Filet.
Filet can be fish or steak. Yeah.
[01:10:18] Speaker D: And we love. I think one thing that the wish class does way better than the other ships. Right. Is the pool deck food. We love the.
[01:10:25] Speaker B: All of those.
[01:10:26] Speaker D: Donald's and the barbecue and all. That's really good. I still don't. I don't love marcelines for breakfast. I think it's chaos.
I just don't. So I just usually skip breakfast. Except when they had churro waffles. I went then, but.
So I try to avoid marcelines. But I love the other duck food.
[01:10:44] Speaker B: Yeah. You like marcelines? Same.
[01:10:46] Speaker D: I just think it's chaotic.
[01:10:47] Speaker B: Yeah. We're the same. Aaron. We like. Brian and I both like, pretty much. Like, I will occasionally go in and get something for breakfast and bring it back to the room for us or something like that. But, like, we find it chaotic. We will go for churro waffles because. Because that's, you know, we don't want to miss that. But, you know, generally speaking, we. We will. Even for lunch, we typically go for the pool deck food, especially on the. The wish class. Just, you know, between, you know, Chipotle at sea and barbecue at sea and hamburgers and pizza and all of that. It's all actually really good quality stuff on. On the wish class at the, you know, the fest. Mickey's Festival of Foods, I think is. Is what they call it now. Well, we're going to have to wrap up here because I see. I see how much time we've spent talking about all this great stuff on the Treasure. But I got to ask, you know, is there anything that we've missed, like, you know, either really good, really bad, or just different or remarkable about this ship that, you know, maybe different from, you know, one of the other ships?
[01:11:51] Speaker C: Hmm.
Like you. I miss the Midship Detective Agency. I think that's a fun way, I think, and also for kids to explore the ship and just see things, and I think that's a fun activity. Activity.
That sort of thing still missing from this class of ship.
I can't remember what the name of the thing is that they have for the Uncharted adventure. Thank you. Right. That is still in beta mode, it feels like, and it was just wasn't even an option on our sailing.
[01:12:16] Speaker D: Yeah, I, I like the Treasure a lot. I do like the adult areas on the. The Fantasy and Magic better. I really, I. I like those adult areas better.
And because this. The adult areas on the Wish, like and Treasure, all this chairs mostly are on the sides and there's no shade at all. And I'm like a redheaded, you know, I got. I need shade, so I kind of missed. They were nice chairs. Like, they were comfortable, but we never used them because there was zero shade. So we ended up.
I love the. On the Fantasy, the area that's all the way forward.
I love sitting there and watching the water, and that's one of my favorite things to do on the ships. And so we eventually did find that other place that was all the way forward. That's right above the concierge deck.
[01:13:09] Speaker B: Yeah, the Chip and Dale pool. That's, you know, sort of where the horns are.
[01:13:14] Speaker D: Yeah, that area yeah. Which was loud. But otherwise I liked that area. But I like the adult areas in the other. Other probably in the other ships better. But I don't really. I mean just. There's plenty of areas where you can go that are quiet. You don't have to be in the adult only area. So that was. That was once we found it. But it took a while for me to. I didn't even know how to find it. I think you showed me.
[01:13:34] Speaker B: But yeah, the very front of the ship. That Chippendale pool is definitely an area that tends to be quieter. With the exception of like if you are there when the horns are go off. Like I am not joking. It is not enough to just cover your ears. It is your entire body body feels and hears and it will startle you. Like it is even with your ears covered. Like it is really loud. Like I highly recommend going inside when that is about to happen. Unless you're the crazy person like me who decided to stand there and record it at one point. And it was awful. Anyway, you know, I did forget to ask you guys about haunted Mansion parlor and I feel like I would be remiss if I didn't ask you what you thought of. Of that space because it's just so themed and I know you guys are parks people and so I gott gotta ask what you thought about that and did you try any of those non alcoholic sodas there?
[01:14:26] Speaker D: We did, yes.
Yeah, I thought that was fun. We never had an issue getting in. We didn't try the first. No, actually we did go the first night, but late. Yeah, right. It really. We never had a line. We always.
[01:14:38] Speaker B: We always had.
[01:14:40] Speaker D: We always had an easy time getting in. We went in a couple of times by ourselves and we took our kids one time.
[01:14:46] Speaker C: We did have one time right before dinner when it was fairly crowded. There was a. There was a rush right there, there. And it was. And so I had the kids there and we weren't going to dinner at that time. And so we showed up and it was just packed and then it emptied out completely right after that. And so it was just a brief window where it was crowded.
[01:15:03] Speaker D: Yeah, we did the drinks. They just have the. They have like bottled soda.
It's. It's fine. It's like just bottled soda. But it's cute. It has this like sparkly ghostly looking thing. So. So yeah, it's fun. It's fun. And he got the. The Mariner, right. Cup guy thing. So. Yeah, it was fun. We liked it.
[01:15:22] Speaker C: But yeah, as far as theming and Just that the overall, like, experience of that, it's the pinnacle of what they've done on a cruise ship. Right. They brought the park in, in onto the ship and yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty fantastic. It's. It's a great thing to experience. The kids liked it and I mean, it's got a cycle where it'll run through it, but it doesn't feel like, oh, we're back to the beginning again. It just kind of just feels like it has a life of its own as it's going through and yeah, it's a fun space.
[01:15:47] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. We, we didn't. We haven't found any of the drinks there, alcoholic or non alcoholic, to be great. But the theming is just so good. It's one of those places that you want to at least spend, you know, 45 minutes to an hour in at least once on your sailing because it's just, they just did such a great job with the imagineering. And as you said, Todd, it brought the Parks onto the ship, which is just a really, I think, a really cool thing. Well, we're skip rapid fire because we've gone long on the episode, but also because we've done rapid fire with you all except to say, I got to.
[01:16:21] Speaker A: Ask you, you're going to get hate mail over that one, Sam.
[01:16:23] Speaker B: But I'm going to ask the one most important question, which Todd kind of already answered at the beginning of the show because he says he, you know, love the one you're with. But Aaron, I got to ask you, you know, what is your favorite Disney cruise line ship now that you have been, I think, on all of the ships, right?
[01:16:41] Speaker D: Yeah. I would say the treasure, but I would agree with Todd because I've had friends ask, like, if we're going to go on one, what should we pick? And I'm like, I don't. You cannot go wrong.
I, I think I also am a big itinerary person. I, I think I care about the itinerary too, so I don't think you can go wrong.
I love the fantasy too, quite a bit.
But, yeah, I think the treasure is the best one on paper.
[01:17:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Well. And I think if you're a completionist, right. You're going to want to hit all the ships anyway. But I agree with you, Erin. I think it's more like pick your ship based on, like, when you're sailing, what itinerary you want to sail. And like, especially for first time cruisers, I always say, like, what's the one that fits in Your schedule and like, is the right amount of days and all of that kind of stuff. Like. I agree. I don't think you can go wrong. I think there's something to love about all of the ships in the fleet, even. Even if you have a favorite. And of course, the right favorite is the Disney treasure. But I know, I know Brian wants to ask his most important question that I took from him in our last episode that we recorded earlier today. So I'm going to let him do that.
[01:17:48] Speaker A: What's next?
[01:17:52] Speaker D: Oh, like, as a cruise.
[01:17:56] Speaker C: Sorry, we don't have any cruises booked. We've looked at potentially.
I haven't done all the ships, so I was going to try and do the last one one next spring. I really want to do a member cruise.
It has worked out for us timing wise. But that's on the list of what. What I'd like to do next.
[01:18:14] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:18:15] Speaker C: And I mean to get over to Asia too, on the adventure.
[01:18:18] Speaker D: But yeah, yeah, I mean, trip wise, we're excited. We're going to Disney World this summer with my sister and her family and they've never been. So we're excited to take them and then.
[01:18:27] Speaker B: Oh, my God. So you're going to play tour guide?
[01:18:29] Speaker D: Yes, yes. So that'll be fun.
And yeah, we're thinking about, I don't know, the next cruise. I'd love to do Norway, but we don't have anything.
We don't have anything booked. We'll see. I would also be interested in a river cruise. I know you guys are doing a river cruise next year, right? Yes, but we're going.
[01:18:47] Speaker A: And there's still room.
[01:18:48] Speaker B: There's still room available, you guys.
[01:18:50] Speaker D: We'll look at the.
[01:18:51] Speaker B: You need like 12 rooms for your family of six now. I'm just three rooms, but you know.
[01:18:57] Speaker D: Yep. So, yeah, if you'll see on the. On the Facebook page, Sam, I've got lots cooking right now.
[01:19:04] Speaker B: Oh, I'm sure. I. Listen, I always expect, you know, your Japan trip looked amazing. Like all of your. I'm always jealous just to. To read your trip reports in that Facebook group that we're in. Sorry, folks, I can't advertise it. This is an exclusive group and it's for women and it's for women only. So the guys can join as well.
[01:19:21] Speaker C: So I would love to know more. I hear about from time to time. Like, it sounds amazing.
[01:19:26] Speaker A: So we should just start our own group. That's what we need to do.
They can. They can hear all about our group for a little while.
[01:19:34] Speaker B: That's Right.
[01:19:35] Speaker D: It's like a total trump card because anytime we're doing something, I'm like, oh, Todd, the women travel funders told me this we're going to do. And he can't argue.
[01:19:45] Speaker B: Listen, they don't. They never go wrong. They never go wrong. Well, you guys, thank you so much for coming back on the show. We so appreciate it. It's always wonderful to see you again, catch up with with you, but also wonderful to hear about your trips because I always know they're going to be like perfectly curated, perfectly planned trips by Aaron. Always.
We're going to start our own Erin's own travel company, Trips by Erin. And I said, Aaron's not a travel agent, but she probably should be.
[01:20:13] Speaker D: I know. I need some tax advantage, right? I do need to figure that out.
[01:20:18] Speaker B: Absolutely. Well, again, thanks for joining.
[01:20:21] Speaker D: Thank you.
[01:20:21] Speaker C: Yes. And thank you for, for all that you do. I know this takes a lot of time and it's made our trips a whole lot better. And just, I mean, the quality level of the production that you two put together is just unparalleled. So thanks for all the time you guys put into this.
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