[00:00:00] Speaker A: So I want to put this out there. You apparently, like, winning bingo is apparently possible. We literally just recorded a show where we were talking about how, like, it's, you know, your odds of winning bingo are pretty low.
[00:00:12] Speaker B: We have had a possible.
[00:00:13] Speaker C: We have.
[00:00:14] Speaker A: No, we've had, we had somebody won like four or five thousand dollars. I know, but like, it's just one of. Anyway, keep going, keep going.
[00:00:21] Speaker D: It's impossible to be struck by lightning.
[00:00:22] Speaker C: So, like, this is like.
[00:00:36] Speaker D: Welcome back everybody, to this week's episode of the DCL Duo podcast, brought to you by my Path Unwinding Travel. And Sam, do your jingle.
[00:00:44] Speaker E: Go for it.
[00:00:45] Speaker D: Jingle time.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: Simply the best.
Better than all the rest.
[00:00:49] Speaker D: There you go. All right, it is review time, folks. And this week's review comes from Christina MP Smith, who writes DCL chats, exclamation points, was thrilled to find this podcast after realizing not everyone, all caps in my family wants to chat about Disney Cruise Line cruises as much as I do. I love hearing the plethora of travel tales and appreciate the respect given to all differing opinions. Except during rapid fire.
Thank you, Christina, for that kind review and for pointing out yet again Sam's judgmental attitude toward our guests during her rapid fire round. We appreciate the review for sure.
[00:01:24] Speaker A: Yeah, well. And I like Christine or Christina, always surprised that, like everybody in my life doesn't want to talk about Disney Cruise Line as much as I want to talk about Disney Cruise Line.
[00:01:35] Speaker D: I'm sure I want to talk about Disney Cruise Line as much as you want to talk about Disney Cruise Line. And I run a Disney Cruise Line podcast.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Well, and I feel like it comes up at, like I try to bring it up at work with friends and they don't always.
[00:01:47] Speaker C: I mean, there's a couple eyes glaze over.
[00:01:49] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Even the Disney people, they don't, they're not all Disney Cruise people. Like, there are some, you know, there's some folks who are Disney folks. And so yeah, not everybody has the same obsession.
[00:01:59] Speaker D: But Christina, thank you for the review. We are going to move on to talk to our guests here. So, Christina, thank you so much for the review and for all of you out there listening, please remember one of the easiest ways to support the show, head over to Apple Podcasts, hit those five stars. If you leave us a written review, we will read it on the air at top of one of our main episodes for the week. So, Sam, you want to introduce our guests and our topic for today.
[00:02:21] Speaker A: Yes, I'm super excited to welcome some first time guests to the show. Not first time cruisers, but first time guests to the show who are, I think, as obsessed with Disney perhaps as we are. And their Disney cruise line obsession, I think is growing by the day. So welcome to the show, Dallas and Taylor.
[00:02:40] Speaker B: Hello.
[00:02:41] Speaker A: Hi.
[00:02:42] Speaker C: Thanks for having us.
[00:02:43] Speaker A: Yes, we're excited to have you guys on. Today we're gonna talk about a cruise you guys recently took on, the Disney magic without your children. You left your children behind, which is always a fun topic. But before we dive into talking about your cruise, we got to hear about your Disney background and your Disney cruise background. Let's start with Taylor.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: The first time I went to Disney, I was seven, I think it was like 2,000.
That was my family. And then my grandparents. We went for Easter time.
It was great. We were there, I think seven days. Animal Kingdom was fairly new. And that was just like amazing. That's mainly what I remember of that one.
Went again high school when I was like 16. Only did magic. And then my first Disney cruise was with Dallas in 2021. We went on the Dream.
[00:03:37] Speaker C: Yeah, it was like during COVID So it's empty.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: Yeah, the reopening where capacity was like 40% a lot of the time. Sometimes maybe 50%. I mean, even when it started, I feel like it was like 30%. It was super, super low capacity. Very, very different experience.
You couldn't hug, you could take pictures, but they were like selfie, distanced selfies. Right.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: And when you were inside, you still had to have masks on, but if.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: You'Re outside, you're fine.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it was so weird then.
[00:04:10] Speaker A: Yeah, very weird.
What about you, Dallas? Where does your Disney history come from? Or is it just Taylor got you hooked on Disney?
[00:04:20] Speaker C: My family pretty much my parents. I went to Disney in 2000.
No. Yeah, 2000, the same year. And then with my family, my three brothers, my mom and dad. And then in 2002, we went on our first Disney cruise.
And that was on the Wonder.
And so I remember the kids club.
[00:04:39] Speaker A: When the fleet was only two ships large. Yeah, great.
[00:04:43] Speaker C: It was so much fun. That's why I remember it a lot. And then Taylor and I went to Disney World in 2019.
And then we got the bug and then it just hits you. And then we did the cruise in the dream. And then I've done. Taylor and I both have done now all our cruises together, except for my. My Wonder cruise.
So it was. Now I've done five. So this was my fifth. Taylor's done four.
And we can't stop, unfortunately.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: Well, you. There's a. A split Castaway club status now. Right? I mean, Dallas just hit goal.
[00:05:18] Speaker C: Luckily they still had mine there from 2002.
[00:05:21] Speaker A: It's pretty amazing. I mean, now they've instituted that weird rule where if you don't sell for like five years, you're. You drop castaway club status.
[00:05:29] Speaker D: But I've not heard of anyone actually losing their status.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: I don't, I don't know how much even. Yeah, I'm not sure how much they. I'm not sure what the timing is for when it. Not just when it got instituted, but like, did they start the clock, like from a particular date or did they start the clock from your prior cruise or. Yeah, so it's, it's kind of hard to know exactly how they're going to enforce it. And also I have, I did hear that there were folks who called in and like complained and they extended like people who complained to like 10 year grace period or something like that. So.
[00:06:01] Speaker D: But you know, then Carnival just switched to their like frequent cruiser program. It's point space. You can lose your status from year to year. Right. That's more like an airline.
[00:06:11] Speaker A: Oh, like an airline loyalty. Yeah. Oh, interesting. Yeah.
[00:06:14] Speaker C: I feel like Disney does the five year thing. They're like, well, let's see, if people complain and if they don't, then we're okay.
[00:06:19] Speaker A: Exactly, exactly. I think you're absolutely right. But yeah, I mean, it is, it is pretty amazing. Like if you have sailed recently, like they, yeah, they used to go all the way back and they still, I mean, right now, as long as you didn't have, as long as you don't have a current gap, everything that you sailed as far back as when they started in 98 all counts towards castaway club status. And technically speaking, paid cruises are what counts. But I've also heard that occasionally you, even if you get like invited as a guest or something like that, even sometimes those comped cruises can count on your castaway club status. So. And yeah, and for folks who are in like the travel industry or, you know, media or, you know, who get invited on board, like, that can actually up your castaway club status.
For sure. For sure. Well, and so you guys have done four and five cruises and you've hit all the ships except for the Treasure now. Is that right?
[00:07:15] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:07:16] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:07:16] Speaker C: Yep. Me and then Tay just needs the wonder.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: Oh, you need the wonder. Okay. All right. So you're going to have to book an Alaska cruise is what we're going to talk about.
I know, it's just such a terrible thing. Yeah, yeah.
[00:07:27] Speaker B: It's horrible.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Well, well, tell us like, how did this cruise on the Magic. This was. You sailed in early May. How did this like come about that you all were going to sail without your kids? Like what, how was this, how did this come to fruition? Let's put it that way.
[00:07:44] Speaker C: The first cruise, the Dream Cruise.
Yeah. Dream Cruise. Yeah. Was like a vacation from our daughter being born. So she was born and six months later we had, you know, we had to wait. We, we didn't want to leave until she was at least six months. So we booked that cruise as like a, a, A break like, or like congrats. And yeah, we, we don't, we don't remember much from that cruise, honestly.
[00:08:10] Speaker B: A lot of sleeping.
[00:08:10] Speaker C: We slept a lot.
[00:08:11] Speaker A: And you were, you were in that brain fog of new. New par.
You're like, I have. I don't even know who I am without my child right now.
[00:08:20] Speaker C: And yeah, we, everybody. I think the amount was six. There was 1600 people on the dream.
I think all 1600 people saw a picture of our baby that when we were on the ship.
[00:08:31] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:08:32] Speaker B: We're just like our baby, she's new.
[00:08:35] Speaker C: And the same with the Magic. So, so we did the cruises in between. We took our daughter with us and then this cruise same. We had our son Oliver and we were looking for deals and another kind of like vacation just for us. But also it kind of settled on Taylor and I being together for 10 years. So we celebrated birth of our son. So thank you, Oliver, for, for the.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: Vacation, for the reason to take a vacation from, from, from Oliver.
[00:09:01] Speaker C: And then our 10 year anniversary.
[00:09:04] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:09:05] Speaker C: And, but we love. And people talk about going on cruises without kids and going to Disney World without kids. Um, it's so much fun. People should.
[00:09:13] Speaker A: Yes, right. I am, we are such big proponents of that. Like I'm, I'm not saying you should always leave your kids at home. Like your kids might enjoy Disney parks and might enjoy Disney cruises also. But like, I do think, and I will say, like we've mentioned this on the show before, like we have a parent coach that we've worked with now for years who is a psychologist. And we started working with her because of like some challenges we were having with Nathan. And one of the things she gave us was permission and actually express instructions that we take vacations just the two of us. Like that. It's really important.
And as parents, it's really important to nurture your relationship with your partner because it can be hard, especially when you've got a newborn Baby or just a very difficult toddler, which is what we had.
And it's important to take that time to recharge your batteries, rechar, charge that relationship, all of those things. So, so kudos to you and congratulations on 10 years. That's, that's fantastic.
[00:10:18] Speaker C: It was a bittersweet because we wanted to go. Like, we were super excited. But then, yeah, leaving your kids is really hard. And we live in Cincinnati, Ohio and leaving them was very tough. And we every, we would think about all the time before the cruise. Like, man, should we. Let's just take win. Let's take win. Because when he was 4 at the time and like, let's take her, let's say no. And then both of our parents would say no, you guys need to do this for yourself.
And then luckily we did. We had a great time and we've talked about it.
We'll take parents only vacations on the older ships, but the newer ships like we have, we need to take the kids because of all the kids centered stuff.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: Well, that's a good, I mean that's a good balance. Yeah, take the kids on the new ships. Check out the old ships on your own. I think the, the adult only pool decks on. We've, we've said this before on the show. The adult only pool decks on the older ships are superior to the wish class adult only pool deck. So that's actually a really smart choice. Although there are some really cool adult only spaces on the newer ships. Like some of the bar spaces are really cool too. So, you know, some balance in your life. Well, let's, let's talk about the, the planning process.
I'm imagining that Taylor takes charge on the planning since she's a travel advisor. Am I right on that?
[00:11:34] Speaker B: Yeah, this one, I did our first two. He did. And then honestly, the whole cruising and everything, like, I loved it so much. That's what inspired me to become a travel agent. Because we talk about 24 7.
Like we watch it all day on YouTube and listen to it. And yeah, this one was fun to plan, just the two of us. But the funny thing about the dates that we chose for this is when we were there on the ship, the 7th to the 12th or 7 to 11, we flew home the 12th because our son's birthday was going to be the 13th, so his first birthday was two days after we got off the ship. And we're like, you know what, this is good.
[00:12:11] Speaker C: And we had to switch.
We had a cruise scheduled the week of, from the 12th through the. I don't know, 17 the four days after, three days after that. We had to change it because of.
[00:12:21] Speaker A: Doesn'T realize it was his birthday.
[00:12:24] Speaker C: We didn't know when he was gonna be born yet.
[00:12:26] Speaker A: Cause you had booked. I see you booked it when Taylor was pregnant. And so. Yeah. Cause you forget, booking with Disney is, you know, well, with any cruise line. So if you're booking. Yeah. It might be 18 months in advance. Right. So you're, you're pregnant with the baby, but you don't know when he's actually going to be born. So you're sort of. Yeah. You're booking your, your dates, guessing based on when your due date is, when you'll be able.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: So we did that and to move it, which was fine. It was super easy to do that, but it was fun. We chose a different room category than we normally have. We normally do a balcony. We did an inside, but I don't know.
[00:13:07] Speaker C: And that was a way to convince ourselves that we found a good deal because we had one less person and we did an inside stateroom. So, like, yeah, this is definitely a good deal on a Disney cruise.
[00:13:18] Speaker A: Right, Right. I mean, you know, it's, it's Disney math. Right. Like, I'm spending money, but I'm saving money because I could have spent X more dollars. Absolutely. Absolutely.
[00:13:28] Speaker C: I mean, now we did, we did talk about heading to port and saying now if there's an upgrade we're going to get.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Oh, when we were in that line, they had the little paper that said no upgrades.
[00:13:37] Speaker A: And we're like, okay, Disney was looking out for us. Yeah, Disney was saving your pennies for you when it's usually the reverse. Well, let's talk a little bit about the planning process. You guys at the time were Silver Castaway, Silverway, Silver Castaway Club members.
Were there things that you were wanting to book ahead of time?
When your onboard booking window open, obviously you're not the last group, but you're second to last group. So I think it's 90 days in advance of your cruise. Were there things you wanted to book, like adult dining, you know, drink tastings, port, port excursions? Like, were there things you were trying to book ahead of time?
[00:14:20] Speaker B: Our main thing that we wanted to book was pretty much anything, whether it was brunch or dinner, but we ended up getting both, which was super exciting.
Did we book any drinking?
[00:14:31] Speaker C: We don't. Taylor.
More social drinking.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:34] Speaker C: So sitting down and tasting drinks wouldn't be up early. But yeah, the main thing was Palo. We wanted brunch and dinner. And luckily I've had some great, great luck in our past cruises. Like the cruise prior the fantasy.
I had gotten up in the middle of the night and then checked the app and we didn't have Pall Brunch. Then I got Palo brunch and then for this cruise I woke up to do it and it, the, the website crashed and the app crashed and I waited about 45 minutes, got back on, I was able to get it. So we've had some great luck.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:10] Speaker C: With, with Palo. But yeah, the main things were just Palo brunch and dinner if we could.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: We also did the Rainforest Room.
[00:15:17] Speaker C: Yeah. And then we. The main things to try to get. We, we again this is just going to be like a relaxing cruise for us. We didn't want to commit to too much, but we'll always commit to Palo brunch.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: Yes, yes, absolutely. That makes sense. Well, you guys headed to Walt Disney World before your cruise. Tell us where'd you guys stay and how did you guys plan on getting to the port?
[00:15:44] Speaker C: We stayed at All Star Sports.
Our home is Port Orleans Riverside though, so. And again this is an impromptu kind of vacation. Whereas like we, we didn't want to spend too much money and luckily but you know, if you save money on the room, you're spending it somewhere else.
[00:16:03] Speaker A: So it's so true.
Yeah, well, and when you don't have your, I mean you guys have little kids, a four year old and a one year old when you're, you know, not worried as much about a longer bus ride. Right. Because you're not, you, you don't have like the double stroller or like carrying a k.
Yogurt free.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: Vacation is totally different than anything.
Right.
[00:16:28] Speaker A: So I feel like you're like you're, your world is sort of more open as far as like where you're willing to stay and so yeah, that absolutely makes sense. Okay, so you're stay to All Star Sports. What was your, your, what was your transportation to the port?
[00:16:42] Speaker B: We did the Disney transportation. So they picked us up the day of boarding at port Canaveral, like 10:30. I want to say we all met like 9:45 and then we took the bus to the port and we also took it back from there.
We've always done their transportation. It's just easy. You don't have to think about it. They take care of all your bags.
[00:17:06] Speaker C: And kids, I mean if people have kids, we, we usually do. It would say we fly into Orlando and this time we ubered from the airport to our resort because we didn't need a car seat. We didn't have a car seat, so we didn't need one. And normally we take the bus because then the kids can just sit on the seat. But this time we didn't need it. So same with Disney transfer. We do Disney transfers because we don't have to worry about car seats or anything like that. Plus Disney's customer service, they take care of everything. It's pretty much they're just shuffling you in and then everything's taken care of.
[00:17:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Like you drop off your bag and then you don't see it until it gets dropped off at your room.
Like it's, it's great.
[00:17:43] Speaker A: Now you guys had a little bit of a weird check in process at the port. If I, if I'm remembering from the show notes correctly, that you actually had to go through. You went in through check in like twice, essentially.
[00:17:56] Speaker C: Something.
[00:17:56] Speaker B: Yeah. So we went in through the smaller security area where they drop off the transfers. And as soon as we walked in, we got this pink like tag and it basically said, you can't board until you check in at the top with the main terminal. We're like, okay, so we go through security, we go upstairs and you have to check in I guess how they used to like before COVID at the desks and everything. And there was a line and we were actually the first sailing on the magic back in Port Canaveral. And I don't even know how many years.
[00:18:28] Speaker C: So nothing transferred.
[00:18:29] Speaker B: Yeah. So all the check ins that everyone had done online previously, basically we had to do the whole process again.
Waited in the line, we got up, they took our pictures again, did the health questionnaire, emergency contacts, which honestly, it wasn't that too bad of a wait.
[00:18:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: Because we were separate security than everybody else driving to the port.
[00:18:51] Speaker C: Yeah. So we, we went into the buses, we did our security immediately and our way upstairs by the terminals. I don't, maybe 15, 20 minutes.
[00:18:59] Speaker B: It wasn't bad at all.
[00:19:00] Speaker C: So. And we, we, we boarded our bus at 10:15, left the resort and we were boarding the ship at 1201.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: Oh, good. Yeah. So not bad.
[00:19:10] Speaker C: And that's kind of normal. But then other people didn't have that experience because Disney transfers had a different security.
Everyone else went in the normal room, that, that half, that half circle room. And then they did their security then went up.
[00:19:24] Speaker A: Right. They did their check in at the little, at the little stands and then they go up the escalator or then they go through security then up the escalators to where you guys already Were. Yeah. So I, that's another plug I guess for you know, Disney transportation. You, you know, you, if you might get an expedited security line and, and when they do have it issues, if you get into the port earlier, you know, then you're going to be able to get through that, that check in process. I will say another like pro tip out there. Make sure you have everything with you. Like even though you may have uploaded things previously, one, you're required to have your documentation with you anyway. Like your, either your birth certificate or your passport depending upon what you're sailing on and what you, what kind of what sailing it is obviously will depend on what you need, but just easier if you have all your, you know, if you have like your, even your, the QR code printed out as a backup to what having it on your phone. Yeah, it's just a smart thing to do. It just will probably make things go quicker. All right, so you, you, you get through check in relatively easy other than having to do it all. Do everything that you had done online again when you had been on the Magic before, right? Am I right?
[00:20:35] Speaker C: No, this is both of our first time. So this is my fifth ship.
[00:20:40] Speaker A: Oh, this is.
Oh, so this is your first time on Disney's original ship. What did you guys think when you boarded the Magic and your names were announced?
[00:20:51] Speaker B: That is one of the. Yes. It just is so personable. Even though everybody gets it, but it just is.
I don't know, you get butterflies and you walk in and honestly I, because we've been on the other ships, I was expecting it to feel like small and cramped and it really didn't feel like that. It's still just as grand as the other ones. And the fact that this ship is now 26, 27 years old is mind blowing because the upkeep, like it's, it's great. Like I didn't have any.
[00:21:22] Speaker C: I love it.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:24] Speaker C: Yeah. But them announcing your name is just, it's awesome. It's a great memory every time.
[00:21:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:29] Speaker A: You know, I'm curious. You, you know, you've been out on the ships on your own. You've been on the ships with the, with your kids?
Well, actually just with your oldest. Right. Your youngest is, your youngest is actually a first time cruiser.
[00:21:43] Speaker C: The next time Taylor's belly on the.
[00:21:45] Speaker B: Face, I was like, you've technically been.
[00:21:50] Speaker A: Right. Oliver has no castaway club status even though he's actually physically been on the ship.
Ye, sure. I love that. But do you have sort of traditions that you, that you, you Know, like to do on the first day when you've got Winnie with you and then have a sort of a different tradition of what you guys do now when it's just the two of you, like.
[00:22:09] Speaker C: Like all the other podcasts and people go on or people on your podcast that go and have kids. I mean, the travel days are hard no matter what. I mean, it doesn't matter what type of kid you have, travel days are hard. Whether it's an flying or getting on the cruise, they're really hard.
So the first thing is if you don't have snacks with you and you can't bring them on is food. So you go straight to food. So Tay and I just do that for ourselves. We. We don't try to eat so much in the morning so we can get our fill for the cost of the cruise at cabanas on the first day.
[00:22:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And we. We've always done either cabanas or Marceline.
[00:22:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:22:45] Speaker B: We've never done like the sit down on the first day just because cabanas is. You go in, you eat and then you can move on. It's not like a committed certain amount of time. And I loved cabanas.
[00:22:56] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:22:57] Speaker B: It's great food.
[00:22:58] Speaker C: We do that and then immediately go up to the top deck and kind of view everything.
[00:23:01] Speaker B: Yeah. This time we did some dining reservations with them. Where was it? Scat Cat lounge.
[00:23:10] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. We had. Yeah. Task for a private table.
[00:23:12] Speaker A: Oh, Soul cat.
[00:23:13] Speaker B: You mean soul cat. Sorry.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: Yeah. No, you're. It's hard to. Scat cat is on the treasure. Soul cat is on magic. It's, you know, it's like me with Roy. Royal Court and Royal Palace. I never remember which one is on which ship.
[00:23:25] Speaker B: And I.
[00:23:26] Speaker A: It doesn't really matter because they're identical. So. Yeah.
[00:23:28] Speaker C: Yeah. We got our private table, which is nice.
[00:23:31] Speaker B: And then sometimes we'll just sit up and watch funnel. If it's on. We love the funnel vision. And then we kind of walk around, get a lay of the ship and then wait for our rooms to be ready.
[00:23:40] Speaker C: We didn't have to. The main thing, we wanted to go up and do nothing. We didn't have to ask if somebody needed to go potty. We didn't make sure that they had.
[00:23:48] Speaker A: To do diaper change.
[00:23:50] Speaker C: So it was just te and out and it was very relaxed.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: I love that.
[00:23:55] Speaker C: And then we're like, wait, do we have kids?
[00:23:59] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. But we don't need to worry about that. Yeah, it's. It's a different. It's like a Completely different experience when you don't have to like think about the needs of, of a child and you only have to think about your own needs. Absolutely. Now, you know, Dallas, you already knew the layout of the ship because you'd been on. Well, you'd been on the Wonder like many, many years ago, right?
[00:24:20] Speaker B: Like 20 something.
[00:24:22] Speaker A: Yeah. So I mean, they maybe you didn't really know the layout of the Wonder. Did you guys find it easy to navigate on the, on the Magic? I mean, you'd been on the, the Dream and the Fantasy, which I think layout wise they are certainly more similar to the Magic and the Wonder than, let's say, you know, the Wish and the Treasure. The, the layout has changed more significantly in the, that third iteration.
But was it, was it sort of easy to kind of learn and get your bearings on the ship?
[00:24:49] Speaker B: I thought so. I think like the end of day one, we were pretty familiar with it also. I mean, we watched so many videos on the ship sitting. I mean we just love it. But this cruising, because we normally will try to stay midship, we stayed forward this time and I feel like being in just one beginning area of the ship because you would immediately go down. We knew Adult was below us and Cabanas was behind us and it was just an easy.
[00:25:16] Speaker C: It does make it easier.
[00:25:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:17] Speaker C: If you're saying midship, you're, you're kind of figuring out where you're at, which direction. Yeah, yeah, it definitely makes it easier. Layout was very easy. I mean the app is great. I mean, yeah, Disney's tech isn't the greatest sometimes, especially for check in and stuff like that. But the app with the deck plans definitely helps.
Yeah, it was pretty easy.
Not compared to like the Wish and.
[00:25:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I think the Wish is a little bit more difficult to navigate in particular because there's not every elevator goes all the way to the top decks and things like that. It's a little, it's a little confusing and not so great for people. People who like actually need the elevator because they're using a wheelchair and they're trying to get up to deck 12 or 13 and they can't. You know, not every elevator gets them there, but yeah.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: And the smaller ships, I feel like because they're smaller, you had to walk less so you got to places quicker. And I was like, oh, we're already like here.
[00:26:10] Speaker C: Yeah, right.
[00:26:12] Speaker A: You show up early for dinner not because you intended to, but just because it's like it doesn't take as long to get there. Absolutely. I'm curious about Your stateroom. You mentioned that this was the first time you had booked an inside stateroom. You usually book a veranda for your, for your family.
Tell us what you thought of the inside stateroom.
If the layout worked for you all and, and, and if you would, you know, do it with the kids or was this a sort of one and done or oh, we'll do it again, but only if we sailed, the two of us.
[00:26:39] Speaker B: I like the inside and it was kind of a tester without the kids to see if it would be good space wise for all of them.
And honestly it didn't feel much smaller than a balcony that we've had.
You still have the split bath. The thing about the magic though, there were so many storage areas. There were extra drawers. Like we didn't fill up everything.
[00:27:00] Speaker C: There was so much.
[00:27:01] Speaker B: It wasn't, it was just a fortnight, but there was so much room.
But they, I mean the upkeep of the rooms is kind of impressive because it's so old.
Everything, it just, it seemed pretty new.
[00:27:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: Like it wasn't.
[00:27:16] Speaker C: It was nice. I mean, I know the main thing is people talk about the inside rooms. Is it. I mean it's. People like it because it's completely dark.
[00:27:21] Speaker B: Dark, yes.
[00:27:22] Speaker C: Which is great. That is nice. It's a bit dangerous. I'm a light sleeper and I wake up early so it didn't really affect me too much. Our daughter comes in every morning and, and wakes us up at a exact time every morning. So I'm just awake.
But the darkness was really nice. And plus the forward. Right. We were forward. People talk about rocking and all that stuff and, and it, it seemed fine. And people talk about they want to do midship because it's.
[00:27:47] Speaker B: Honestly, I barely felt the movement of the ship when we were in the room. I don't know if it was because it's a smaller ship or because we're in the forward. But being in and inside in the forward, we barely felt it. Like most of the times we knew that we were moving when we turned it on the TV to see the front of the ship, to see it moving.
[00:28:06] Speaker C: And take this advice that we're talking about lightly. Taylor has the best luck for cruising. We've been on four cruises together now and we've had. Had perfect weather, perfect water.
[00:28:20] Speaker D: Well, that's, yeah, that's what I was going to say is the rocking is really dependent upon the sea conditions. I mean, like most of the time in the Caribbean you're not going to get like, you know, wild waves. I Mean, we've certainly had it a couple times. We got a great video out there. Coming into Nassau one time with some pretty ridiculous waves, but most of the time in the Caribbean, you're. You're okay.
[00:28:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:28:42] Speaker D: So I think, think sea conditions, weather have more to do with it. These big ships out on the ocean, it's not.
[00:28:46] Speaker E: I think a lot of people are.
[00:28:47] Speaker D: Concerned about seasickness because they went on like a fishing boat one time, you know, to go deep sea fishing or something. And like those boats, small waves matter. So.
[00:28:55] Speaker A: Yeah, but the, but the aft is. I think in general, the aft is where you'll feel the most movement. So if like, if.
[00:29:01] Speaker D: No, it's. It's the front you get the wave movement, the aft you get the engine movement.
[00:29:06] Speaker A: I hate the engine forward because I.
[00:29:08] Speaker B: Thought it was opposite. I was like, oh, we may not feel it as much as in the backs. I feel like when we're on some of the main dinings in the back of the ship, I'm like, okay, I know we're low, but I feel.
[00:29:18] Speaker C: And I usually.
[00:29:18] Speaker A: That's how it feels when we're back on land.
[00:29:21] Speaker C: So like when we're back on land, I feel funny.
[00:29:22] Speaker A: UFC legs. Yeah.
No, I'm like Taylor. I feel it more when I'm. When we're in the back at dinner in the evening. And it's because the engine, like movement is a lot of movement. Yeah, it's super interesting.
[00:29:34] Speaker B: But as far as the layout of the room with the kids, so when you walk in, it's bathroom. Bathroom. And then normally for balconies it's the larger bed and then it's the like kids bed. So the couch and the pull out up top. But in this inside it's switched. So it's the couch and then the larger bed. That's the only thing I wouldn't like about with kids is I'd want us first and then the kids furthest away.
[00:30:01] Speaker A: Yep.
You want you near the door. So if a kid gets up in the middle of the night or something, you're gonna. Yeah.
[00:30:08] Speaker C: Catch them before the door opens immediately. So. Yeah.
[00:30:10] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. The only thing is those. Yeah, those doors are pretty heavy. So when it comes to like younger kids, unless you've got like one of these hulk kids who really, you know, can. Like, those doors are really heavy. So I wouldn't be worried about like a one year old being able to open a stateroom door or anything like that. But like, I don't know, like a strong six year old maybe, you know, they could. You know, it's there if they're. Yeah. Ye.
So. All right, well, let's. Let's talk about the ports you guys went to. You had stops at Nassau and at Lookout Key. Had you guys been to Lookout before or just Castaway?
[00:30:45] Speaker B: No, this was, again, one of the reasons why we chose this specific sailing is one, it's on the Magic, and then two, it was going to the new island because when we started watching videos last year, we're like, for sure, let's go. Like, it'll be different in a year from people sailing now and complain about.
[00:31:03] Speaker C: The flies and the. No shade.
[00:31:07] Speaker B: But we loved it. Yeah.
[00:31:10] Speaker C: And the only thing about Oliver being born, and we love him so much, we had to change the cruise. The cruise after was a double dip. So Oliver ruined that for us.
[00:31:21] Speaker A: So Oliver's birthday ruined you being able to go to Castaway and look out, Oliver.
Damn you, Oliver.
[00:31:31] Speaker C: We've been there, then Nassau. We didn't get off at Nassau. I mean, we've done it a couple times and it's great again. We just. It was relaxing. That was. We did bingo that day, didn't we?
No, because Lookout is.
Is amazing. The soft. And people talk about the sand. It is the softest sand. I. It's like, I don't. People should write a book about it.
[00:31:54] Speaker A: Yeah, right. It's gorgeous. It really is.
[00:31:57] Speaker B: It's totally different than Castaway for sure.
[00:32:00] Speaker C: And people listening. I want to. I. I'm 34 and Taylor's 32. The walk wasn't. Wasn't that bad from the ship to.
To the. It wasn't that bad.
[00:32:10] Speaker B: We timed it. It was about nine minutes, and we stopped once to, like, take pictures.
We also got off super early. Like, once we ate breakfast, we pretty much got off the ship.
[00:32:21] Speaker C: And Taylor and I are pretty active, though, so keep that in consideration. And when we were walking, there were plenty of golf carts going back and forth.
[00:32:30] Speaker B: Plenty strollers.
[00:32:31] Speaker C: Yeah. And then. So I would say we saw. When we were heading up, we saw a golf cart already coming back with. With wagons. The stroller wagons already back. So they're doing a good job as far as transportation to and from the island.
[00:32:45] Speaker A: Yeah. That's good to hear. Well, and for you guys, of course, if you were with your kids on. On this cruise and you were going to look out, like, no question.
And with kids, you know, your kids age, you would. You would grab one of the. If you didn't bring your own stroller from home, you'd grab one of those, stroll one of the Wagons and put the kids in there. Like, I want to be very clear, like the walk is going to be a little bit. Is. It would be long for a four year old. Right. I mean certainly too long for a one year old, but for sure, I would say even a four year old, that would be quite a long walk. Unless you have one of those four year olds that has like really good stamina. Right, but it's.
[00:33:20] Speaker C: Yeah, I want them to take a nap that day.
[00:33:23] Speaker A: Oh yeah, exactly. To nap later. Absolutely. Now, did you guys hit up Serenity Bay beach or did you go to the family beach? I mean, they're right next to each other. But I'm curious where you guys spent your time.
[00:33:34] Speaker B: Yeah, we, we mainly stayed with the family. We were kind of like in the middle. So we didn't really go to Serenity, but we did walk along the beach all the way down and then we.
[00:33:45] Speaker C: Walked back and, and people, if you, you get off and you take the right and you go down to the beach, if you walk a minute past where all the families rush to get there to get a seat, it's even the family beach. It's, it's not very crowded. Like just a little walk up and then, then it's Serenity.
Yeah, you can't really tell the difference between Serenity. Just the little cone that says this is adults only.
[00:34:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:34:10] Speaker C: But again, it wasn't, wasn't so crowded. But we could definitely see the difference between being on this is our first small ship.
[00:34:19] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true.
[00:34:19] Speaker C: The amount of people versus the fantasy, the dream and all that. Yeah, for sure.
[00:34:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I mean it is. You're talking like 2400 people max versus like 4000 people max. So you're going to feel a difference. At private islands, you'll feel that difference maybe even more acutely than on the ship because the ship is obviously smaller and so. But I think in general you can kind of feel that like the dining rooms are not as big as the dining rooms on for example, the Fantasy. And so you're going to, you can, you can feel the difference in size. And on the private islands, which can hold, you know, obviously service both 4,000 person ships and 2,400 person ships like that, you're not going to have as much of a sort of a crowded atmosphere. What did you guys think of the food on Lookout? Having of course been to Castaway before and some of the food is similar and then of course you got some different food available on lookout. What'd you guys think?
[00:35:15] Speaker B: I thought it was Great. It is very similar to Cassoway, but some of the differences. There was like a jambalaya that was really good.
[00:35:23] Speaker C: Really good.
[00:35:23] Speaker B: And the thing is, you walk up and you go through a line, but then there's like. If you go around the corner, there's more food. And that's where, like, the specialty food was. And the desserts.
[00:35:35] Speaker C: Yeah, like fried plantains and stuff.
[00:35:37] Speaker B: But I liked that it was different. I liked that it wasn't the same that you could get on the other island. Because there was stuff that I liked more, like the jambalaya, which is not something I'd normally get going to a beach. Like, I would just get a hot dog and the chips and the pasta salad and whatnot. But I thought it was delicious.
[00:35:52] Speaker C: Yeah, it's great. Yeah, we.
[00:35:53] Speaker A: We.
[00:35:54] Speaker C: I mean, we eat at the barbecue every time. Time.
[00:35:56] Speaker B: But, like, there were no flies. There was so many tables to eat at. And they have, like. They're really good about being sectioned off into, like, three separate areas with different tables, too. Whereas, like, cookies. And cookies too. It's just all.
Just beach tables and you're all the same area. And it's loud and it was not. It was very peaceful. Even being in the family and not. Serenity area.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
I'm curious. Had you guys considered signing up for any excursions or were you, like. No, this is our first time at Lookout. We're gonna just hit it up as a beach day.
[00:36:31] Speaker C: Yep, exactly that. Yeah. We wanted to enjoy it. We didn't. Again, we didn't have anything to do. No responsibilities. We didn't have to go back to the ship early and. And, yeah, we just wanted to relax. Taylor and I just were in the ocean for a bit. We laid down on the lounge chairs for a bit. We walked around to. To make sure we saw the whole. The whole island. Well, the private part, it was great. We, at the end of it, the. The beach and the water is so nice. The water coming in, the waves. It's not that inlet, like, Cast Away, so you're getting actual waves, which is really nice. The only thing that we'll talk about is at the beginning of the day, in the morning, it's stirring up the sand so you can't really see the coral that's out there. So there is coral in the ocean there. So people have to be beware of that. That we saw. And we were able to avoid it most of the time. But just for. And again, I don't know if it's over in the family because we were A little bit further.
But there is. Other than that, it's. It's great.
[00:37:27] Speaker A: Yeah. You might get cut up feet. That is one of those things. Like if you are not. If you step in the wrong spot and then you just didn't. Weren't able to notice that there was, you know, a chunk of coral, like. So I'm not saying like you absolutely need water shoes there because I would say you might not. But like just depending upon where you are on that beach, it's a. It's not a bad idea to bring water shoes if you've got them.
[00:37:50] Speaker C: Especially for children.
[00:37:51] Speaker A: Oh, yes, for sure. For the kids. Because they're probably less likely to even notice it.
[00:37:56] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:37:56] Speaker B: I will say I kind of wish when we were walking around because we went back to grab our shoes, but the decking is so hot if you don't have shoes. Like, you cannot get like maybe 10 steps in without jumping in the shade. It's extremely hot on your feet.
[00:38:13] Speaker A: Yeah, I always wear my like flip flops, flops down the decking and then put the, like my flip flops at the end of like the decking on the beach. Right. Because the, I mean the sand can get hot too, but not nearly what the. That decking area does. Yeah. So just like. Yeah, bring. Wear your flip flops or whatever shoes you've got like down across the. The wooden decking at the beginning of the day, it's not hot. But then if you've been in the water for a while, you come back and you're trying to go back to your chairs or go back, go to the bathroom or whatever. Oh my God, your feet. Yeah, your feet might get not uncomfortable, not comfortable for a little bit.
[00:38:45] Speaker B: And I will say too, like, the locations of the bathrooms and like the shower areas to wash off your feet were so convenient compared to Castaway because they had like two areas on the family and one down at Serenity where you. It's just right there. Whereas Castaway, you kind of have to like get out and walk around chairs to get over to like where the smoothie area was or the shops and then go to the bathroom and wash your feet. But there were like right there. So you get out, you watch, and then you can just start walking. I thought that was really convenient.
[00:39:18] Speaker A: Yeah. I think the planning is one thing where they just learned a lot of. I know there are folks who don't love Lookout because it is like things are further apart because it's sort of a bigger space. Right. Whereas Castaway is a little bit more compact. And so it's very easy to navigate.
But I do think when it comes to, like, thoughtful planning, like, lookout is better in that sense. And they learned probably so many lessons from Castaway and were able to, like, you know, design lookout, knowing what they know now from Castaway, which is, which is really helpful.
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[00:40:48] Speaker A: Well, let's, let's jump back onto this.
[00:40:50] Speaker E: Actually, I'm.
[00:40:50] Speaker D: Actually, it's interesting they haven't imported anything back from Lookout to this way.
[00:40:55] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's a good point. I mean, they might. We'll see. I think we'll see more with the development of the cabanas that are, you know, that are being built on Castaway right now. Like, it'll be interesting to see, you know, bathrooms and things like that. No, they're not going to look different. I agree with you. Yeah, I'm not saying like the design will be different. I just wonder if, like where they put like showers and bathrooms and things like that. I wonder if that stuff will start to, as they add stuff to castaway or redo things at Castaway, if that sort of will matter.
[00:41:27] Speaker C: And I'll say one more thing about Lookout.
If you put on sunscreen before you leave and you get to look out, out, and you're there for two hours to three hours, please reapply your sunscreen.
[00:41:39] Speaker A: Good.
[00:41:39] Speaker C: Please reapply your sunscreen.
[00:41:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:42] Speaker C: Take 20 minutes if you don't have mineral sunscreen and dry off and just reapply, please.
[00:41:49] Speaker A: I'm going to guess you learned a hard lesson here.
[00:41:51] Speaker C: No, no, I, I, you didn't.
So I, I mean, I have, I have vitiligo, so I don't. So it hurts a lot if I don't put sunscreen on. But just the amount of people the next morning or that night at dinner and they're uncomfortable because you the red and just. You look silly putting it on. But just reapply.
[00:42:11] Speaker A: And they do sell pro tip. They sell aloe in the shops. Ask me how I know.
[00:42:19] Speaker D: Tell me, tell me you got a sunburn without telling you exactly.
[00:42:23] Speaker A: There are times where I forget. And yeah, and then I'm lathering up with aloe because the only thing that makes you feel better. But it's still uncomfortable when Taylor got.
[00:42:31] Speaker C: Burnt just in these little parts because she's usually reminding me to go reapply. So, so thank you.
[00:42:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, sacrifices. Yeah, absolutely.
[00:42:42] Speaker C: It's not the kids.
[00:42:43] Speaker A: It's me, it's Dallas. All right, well, let's jump back on the ship. You know, there was one thing you mentioned, one word you mentioned earlier, which is bingo. And we were joking about this before.
[00:42:55] Speaker D: Bingo Bango. Bingo Bangor be the title of the show.
[00:42:58] Speaker A: Yeah. I told Brian when I saw the show notes, I said, this is going to be Bingo Bango has to be the title of this show.
[00:43:04] Speaker D: A reference for anyone who has not watch Big City Greens.
Please go watch it. It's a great show. It's a great show that is on the Disney Channel. Crickets tagline from. From Big City greets Bingo.
[00:43:15] Speaker C: Bingo.
[00:43:16] Speaker A: There you go. But tell us, you guys, you guys got up to some bingo on this cruise. Why don't you tell us about that?
[00:43:21] Speaker B: Yeah, so we left Lookout about a little earlier and we did the 50 or the 500.
[00:43:31] Speaker C: And we've never done, we've never done.
[00:43:32] Speaker A: Bingo before on a single ship.
[00:43:34] Speaker B: We've never done done it.
[00:43:35] Speaker C: So we're paid for bingo anywhere?
[00:43:37] Speaker B: No.
And so we're like, you know what? Let's just do it. We have time. We've been doing a bunch of trivia. Let's do bingo. We've never done it.
So we sign up, we sit down, and there's like four rounds of the bingo.
And each time the amount gets higher and higher.
First round happens and I think we stand up. And when you stand up, that means that you're one number away from winning a bingo.
And so we Stand up. We didn't win. Like, okay, so we sit down, the next one happens, and second round, we stand up, and we ended up winning the second round, and we split with another couple.
[00:44:18] Speaker A: So I want to put this out there. You apparently, like, winning bingo is apparently possible. We literally just recorded a show where we were talking about how, like, it's, you know, your odds of winning bingo are pretty low. We have had possible.
[00:44:31] Speaker D: We had winners on.
[00:44:32] Speaker A: And we know we had. We had somebody Wonder won, like, four or $5,000. I know, but, like, it's just one of. Anyway, keep going.
[00:44:39] Speaker D: It's impossible to be struck by lightning. So this is like, the odds are one in something for a reason.
[00:44:45] Speaker A: Yeah, we're gonna be talking about lightning today, but. Yeah. So tell us, Taylor, what happened? So you. You win round, round two. Okay.
[00:44:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:44:51] Speaker B: So we run this.
[00:44:52] Speaker A: About how much for that? About how much did you win round?
[00:44:55] Speaker C: 80.
[00:44:56] Speaker B: 87 or something?
[00:44:58] Speaker C: $88.
[00:44:59] Speaker A: So you paid for bingo with that? I mean, that winning was like, paid for your bingo.
[00:45:03] Speaker B: The rest is.
And so I stood up for that round. Third round comes, and they always change it. So, like, the first round, it's like one line any which way. The second round, third round. And so the third round comes, and we ended up standing up. And this is our third time standing up. So Dallas stands up this time, and we had a few people, like, a few chairs down that kept laughing.
[00:45:28] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:45:29] Speaker C: Another couple got on.
[00:45:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:45:31] Speaker B: And so he stands up, and I was like, you know what? Let's record this just for fun. There's no way it's gonna happen. And we ended up solo winning that one.
[00:45:41] Speaker A: So we round him.
[00:45:43] Speaker B: Bingo. Oh, my goodness.
[00:45:45] Speaker C: That was a hundred.
[00:45:46] Speaker B: That was a hundred or.
[00:45:47] Speaker C: No, we split it. We split it. The first one, we split with three people.
This. This one we won. We split it with one other person. So it was a hundred bucks. So we're up.
We won $187. So far. Far, yeah.
[00:45:58] Speaker A: And then so far, people, so far.
[00:46:01] Speaker D: And then she hasn't won again yet.
[00:46:05] Speaker C: And then the third round or the fourth. This is the fourth round. Now it's the final. The. The mega bonus. $500. And that's if you fill the whole board within.
[00:46:17] Speaker B: This one wasn't the full board. This was like the.
I forget postage stamp or H or something. I don't know. It was like a special one.
[00:46:27] Speaker C: And so we get to the end and. And we're one number away. So then.
[00:46:31] Speaker B: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So you have to be able to win the 500. You have to get it in 20.
[00:46:37] Speaker C: Ball 20. 20 or less.
[00:46:38] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:46:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:39] Speaker C: So.
[00:46:40] Speaker A: So otherwise nobody will win. And then it rolls over to the next jackpot.
[00:46:43] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:46:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:46:45] Speaker B: It's like a smaller prize. So it's like ball 12 or something. And we get one away.
[00:46:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:46:50] Speaker B: And Dallas is like, this is embarrassing.
Standing up.
[00:46:55] Speaker C: My iPad.
[00:46:56] Speaker B: I grab it and I'm standing. And I'm the only one standing. Standing.
[00:47:00] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:47:00] Speaker B: I was like, oh, gosh. And everyone's like, oh, my gosh. It's. Then again.
And so like ball 13, 14, because I need like B12 or something.
And then it gets all the way to ball 19. So our last possible.
[00:47:14] Speaker C: And then real quick, I am Taylor and I have two kids and I take pictures and videos of everything non stop, all day, every day.
Because my parents are like, you need pictures. We don't have a lot of pictures of us as kids and parent and our friends, all that stuff. So I take. Take so many pictures and videos and I am already embarrassed. We want two out of three bingos. And then we're on the fourth one. Taylor's standing up. We have one ball left, and I'm not recording.
And Taylor recorded me.
[00:47:45] Speaker B: And it's like a big drum roll and it's dramatic. And he's like, it's a B. I was like, okay, cool. He's like, is it 12? And I literally like, scream and I'm jumping and I'm like, this is crazy.
[00:47:58] Speaker A: And no video.
[00:47:59] Speaker C: Yeah, no video.
[00:48:03] Speaker B: I brought it up. The rest of time.
[00:48:05] Speaker C: Yeah. The whole day.
[00:48:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Dallas, you're never gonna. You're never gonna live this down.
[00:48:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:48:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:11] Speaker C: So we won.
[00:48:11] Speaker B: Crazy.
[00:48:12] Speaker C: So we won 600 total. $687. And that. That paid for pretty much our Palo brunch, our Palo dinner, all of our extras, all everything, whatever.
[00:48:24] Speaker A: Extras. Your bingo again.
[00:48:27] Speaker C: Disney was looking out for us.
[00:48:28] Speaker B: It's crazy. I was like, oh, my gosh, this is wild. And then, you know, we go to the next day. We did the.
What was five thousand and ten thousand or whatever.
And like we see those same people and we. The second round or the second day, we didn't sit in the same spot.
[00:48:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:48:45] Speaker B: We could see the other people.
[00:48:46] Speaker C: Somebody was in our seat.
[00:48:47] Speaker B: And so we're like, okay, we didn't stand up at all then for the 10,000 we go. We didn't win anything, but we stood up every single round and we down sat in the same seats.
[00:48:57] Speaker A: So we're going to sit in the.
[00:48:58] Speaker B: Same seats every single time we go to bingo now.
[00:49:02] Speaker A: So close. You just got the, the lucky touch. My goodness. That's crazy. That's crazy. It was awesome.
[00:49:10] Speaker B: I loved it.
[00:49:12] Speaker C: I embarrassed, but I was pretty embarrassed.
[00:49:14] Speaker A: Well, I mean the odds of like the odds of winning bingo once are, you know, are low. But the odds of winning bingo three times in a session.
[00:49:23] Speaker D: They took your machine out of service after you gave it a once over. Yeah.
[00:49:27] Speaker C: Ye waiting.
[00:49:29] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:49:29] Speaker A: They're like somebody hacked this machine security.
[00:49:33] Speaker D: Stop by your cabin later with housekeeping just to do a quick, you know, check for cheating devices.
[00:49:39] Speaker C: Yeah, again, we had never done it just do it once. I mean it was 40, $40 just do it once. Because not only was it, I mean they make it so entertaining, but yeah, just do it once. At least once.
[00:49:53] Speaker A: Yeah. And the pro tip for bingo is get there early because it does really on all of the ships it is very well attended thing. And so if you want to, if you want to get, get there and get a place to sit and not be sort of standing in the back.
Get there on when, when they open up sales don't get there five minutes before they start the session. They start the bingo sales. I think like 45 minutes before the actual bingo session. Now you might, you don't need to be there an hour before but like be there during that, you know, maybe 30 minutes before the bingo session starts because otherwise you're to going, going to be stuck without a seat probably.
[00:50:28] Speaker C: For the $10,000 one, they started it 45 minutes before and they sold. They were selling for an hour, hour and 15 minutes.
[00:50:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:37] Speaker C: So they didn't, they started late.
[00:50:39] Speaker B: I will say though, like the 500 bingo, there weren't a lot of people that went. There was maybe, I want to say 30 and then for the five and the $10,000 it was a full room.
[00:50:51] Speaker A: Oh yeah, absolutely. People do tend to show up more for the bigger prizes. No question. Yeah. And also just later in the CR people it sort of exponentially, the money goes up and people sort of hear about bingo and so then they, they start to come.
[00:51:06] Speaker B: What now?
[00:51:07] Speaker A: I, I, you mentioned trivia. I'm assuming you weren't quite as lucky with trivia as you were with bingo.
[00:51:13] Speaker B: We tried, we tried so many different ones.
[00:51:17] Speaker C: It was fun.
[00:51:17] Speaker A: We did. Yeah. There you go, Dallas. I like it.
[00:51:19] Speaker B: It's fun.
[00:51:20] Speaker A: We learned some new stuff. Yeah, nice.
[00:51:23] Speaker B: But no, we didn't win anything.
[00:51:24] Speaker C: There was, there was a, there was a family on board that, that did very well at trivia.
[00:51:29] Speaker B: Yeah, they probably CR Because I mean I was Impressed. I was like. Because we saw them a lot and they always had their winner medals.
[00:51:37] Speaker C: Yeah, it's like, please can you sit out.
[00:51:43] Speaker A: Listen, you know, you got to like find those folks and join their team, right? Like get them to, get them to adopt you into their family so that you can, you know, win with them.
Yeah, that's, that's the way to go. Well, what about some of the adult only activities now? Of course you guys were sailing without your kids on, on this cruise and so I met you had the opportunity certainly to attend, you know, Match youh Mate and the adult game shows and all that kind of stuff.
Did you guys do those things or were you like, oh, we need to sleep. We, we don't get enough sleep at home. We need to get.
[00:52:15] Speaker C: Taylor goes to bed early regardless.
[00:52:18] Speaker B: So yeah, like 9:00pm I'm ready.
[00:52:21] Speaker C: And yeah, without kids, we definitely took advantage of being able to go to bed early. So we didn't do Maturity Mate. We, we, we, we almost did.
[00:52:30] Speaker A: We almost.
[00:52:30] Speaker C: We thought about it.
[00:52:31] Speaker A: We did.
[00:52:31] Speaker C: And.
But we did Palo brunch and Palo dinner.
No drink tastings this time. No Pallo brunch and dinner were our main focus.
[00:52:42] Speaker B: We had Prima Note scheduled for the first day. But because we've never been on the magic and we're not sure if we'll go on the magic again just because there's ships coming out, we wanted to experience.
I think it was animators that night. So we really. I really wanted to go to an original animators palette where everything's black and white.
So we ended up canceling that. But we're for sure going to try on the next ship for Primo Note.
[00:53:08] Speaker C: And I selfishly just wanted to do Prima Note for the pin.
[00:53:11] Speaker A: Yeah, that too.
You can buy sweet, sweet merch.
[00:53:17] Speaker D: Yep. We understand you can find Apollo.
[00:53:20] Speaker A: Yeah, you can find Apollo pin on ebay if you really want one. But. But yeah, they, and they do have some. A couple different ones out there depending upon classic ships versus the, the newer ships. But what you guys think of which night did you do Paulo dinner on? Did you like coordinate it with. With Pirate Night so that you wouldn't miss a particular dining experience? Or did. Or did you just sort of like roll the dice?
[00:53:44] Speaker C: We don't. We don't. We wanted to eat at Rapunzel's so we did Rapunzel's twice.
[00:53:48] Speaker B: Yeah, we had Rapunzel's for the Axel dinner and then Pirate Night.
[00:53:52] Speaker C: We were okay skipping Lumiere's.
So we did Animators two Rapunzel's it.
[00:53:57] Speaker B: Was our last night.
[00:53:58] Speaker C: The last night. Yeah.
Yeah.
[00:54:00] Speaker A: Because.
[00:54:00] Speaker C: So we called in, we called into to Disney and talked about the dining rotation because we. We had brunch and dinner already planned or scheduled, booked. So we called in to ask if we could get it to where we were missing Lumiere's and they. They got it for us.
[00:54:16] Speaker A: Yeah, that's very smart. So good pro tip out there. You can request to find out what the dining ro are.
You might not be able to do it like super far in advance, but you can do it certainly in advance of your cruise. And then you can choose which one or put it. I shouldn't say choose. You can request the one that works best with your schedule. And they very much try to accommodate those requests. And I will say they usually can.
It's easier for them to accommodate those requests than it is for them to accommodate like a last minute switch to early dining, for example.
Because. Because most people don't request their dining rotation. We have a habit of requesting our dining rotation also because we want to make sure, you know, if we're going to do Palo or Remy or Enchante, that it's on a night that we're okay to miss. And the menu at Lumiere's is wonderful. I have to say. It is the same as. But it's the same as the Royal Court and Royal palace menus. And so if you've had that menu before and there's no show, of course, in Lumiere, so it's. If you're going to miss one, I can understand why you would choose that one in particular.
[00:55:23] Speaker C: We're both okay. We, we both don't mind the pirate menu.
[00:55:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's good.
[00:55:28] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:55:29] Speaker A: What did you guys think of. Of Rapunzel? Speaking of Rapunzel's royal table? And then I want, of course, want to hear about animators as well.
[00:55:36] Speaker C: It was amazing.
[00:55:37] Speaker B: It was amazing. And our daughter loves Tangled. Like she loved it since she was little. And we're sitting in there like, man, Winnie would love this. Like, this is pretty cool.
[00:55:47] Speaker C: The guilt was coming.
[00:55:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:55:49] Speaker C: I actually saw these little girls in their dresses.
[00:55:51] Speaker A: I was gonn. I think you actually have to take her on the magic if she loves Rapunzel. Because it's like between the Tangled in the. In the Walt Disney Theater and then Rapunzel's royal table as a dining venue.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I think Winnie needs to go on the magic.
[00:56:06] Speaker B: Yeah, it was awesome.
[00:56:07] Speaker C: I mean, like Disney, just the way that the whole room was Amazing.
It just. It was great. It's our favorite themed restaurant.
[00:56:17] Speaker B: Like the show going on in, I would say, for sure.
[00:56:21] Speaker A: Yeah. And you can play the little game of find the PA. I think. I think there's like 4 PA sort of hidden through the restaurant. 1.
[00:56:31] Speaker C: Yeah, we were staring right at it.
[00:56:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Well, next time you go on the. On. On the magic, you're gonna have to. Yeah, I believe it's four. The. The wait staff will know it's either three or four.
But they are sort of hidden Pascals. They're not that so hidden, but they're. Yeah, they're in.
[00:56:46] Speaker C: I forgot how much of an enabler Sam is telling us. We need to take Winnie back on the map.
[00:56:50] Speaker A: I know.
[00:56:51] Speaker C: I am behind all the basket.
[00:56:53] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I'm totally. I'm totally an enabler. All right, what about Animators palette? And then we'll ask. Then we'll switch over to. To Apollo really quick for. For some. I.
[00:57:02] Speaker C: So when I went on cruise in 2002. Yeah, 2002. I remember animators. My parents had us go to Animators because if not, not or the other nights my brother and I were in the kids club, we didn't. We didn't go to dinner. We had chicken fingers and fries for all of our meals because it was free.
So I remember Animators palette because my parents had us go to it. But it was Taylor's first time in the old Animators palette.
[00:57:28] Speaker B: And I thought it was awesome. Just we were fairly close to a screen, but we weren't butting right up next to a screen.
And I don't know if we've said. But we were able to get a private table. So just me and Dallas at the table, which is also kind of cool because I could nerd out and not care about who's sitting next to us. But it was really cool to see like the show and how it does. It just starts black and white, the little sketches, and you kind of get to guess who it's going to be. So we sat opposite and we literally were doing it the entire dinner. I'm like, oh, that one's over there. That one's over there. That one's starting to animate that one's colors. But it was so cool.
[00:58:06] Speaker C: Yeah, Crush. The Crush and the new Animators palette. You talk to the Crush and then the drawing is great.
But this seeing the colors in the walls is.
It's magical. It is magical.
[00:58:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. And it's nice. I mean, it's nice that they have some variation across the fleet as well. That they're. It's not cookie cutter. Exactly the same on every ship. Right. So that I think that variety is nice as well. Well, let's shift over to Palo. You guys have done palo before. You'd done both brunch and dinner before. Is that right?
[00:58:34] Speaker C: First time doing dinner.
[00:58:35] Speaker A: Oh, first time doing dinner. Okay. Well, then let's. Well, I'm sure brunch was awesome, because brunch is always awesome. But let's.
[00:58:41] Speaker C: It was great. Yes.
[00:58:42] Speaker A: Y should be like, yes. Yeah. But what did you guys think of dinner? And, you know, do you have any regrets of missing, you know, Lumiere's, or were you like, no, Apollo is worth it. I have zero regrets.
[00:58:54] Speaker C: We loved it. We. We liked it more than brunch.
[00:58:58] Speaker B: And I will say Palo on the magic is different than the fantasy. With that open kitchen during brunch, it was busy, constant. Like, there were a lot of people. And dinner was just so intimate. It was quiet. You kind of got to observe the.
[00:59:13] Speaker A: Restaurant a little bit.
[00:59:14] Speaker C: Very laid back.
[00:59:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:59:16] Speaker C: Brunch.
[00:59:17] Speaker B: We were there longer brunches.
[00:59:18] Speaker C: Like, you sit down, you're like, let's order everything. Let's eat as much as we can. And then you have to take, like, an hour and a half after to, like, relax dinner. So we had our server, Diego for brunch.
Was the first morning of the cruise. Was Nassau.
[00:59:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:59:34] Speaker C: Yeah. And then we requested him for our dinner.
[00:59:38] Speaker D: Dinner.
[00:59:38] Speaker C: And he was amazing. He, like, he walked us through everything. We took our time. It was great. Again, no kids, so we didn't have to worry about getting them out of the nursery and the kids club. It was very relaxed and. Yeah, you said intimate. It was great. We preferred it to brunch.
[00:59:57] Speaker B: I thought the food was better. And there was so much food still. Yes. Brunch is all you can eat, but there's is just plenty of food.
[01:00:06] Speaker C: It's a lot of food.
[01:00:07] Speaker B: Like, it was worth it because we.
[01:00:09] Speaker C: Both did the prefix.
[01:00:10] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. And I. I tend to pick the prefix myself. Brian tends to do the a la carte and then we share some of the items. But I think it's plenty of food. I think you're right. The atmosphere is probably a little bit nicer at dinner because it's usually not quite as crowded. Like, it's a little bit more. A little bit more of a lively atmosphere at Palo. And there's nothing wrong with that. I would love Paula brunch. It's still probably, you know, top. I mean, I don't know it might top dinner for me. But, like, I do agree, it is a little bit more of a formal and quieter atmosphere at dinner time, and so the ambiance is probably better at dinner time.
Yeah.
[01:00:48] Speaker C: Well, we had Paolo Steakhouse booked on the Wish, but Winnie had one of those days where it was best if we just went back to the room in order. Room service.
[01:01:00] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Listen, our kids all have one of those days.
The important part of that is recognizing when your kid is having one of those days and being able to pivot and not pushing through and being like, oh, you have to go to the nursery. Because sometimes it's just not the best thing for, for everyone.
[01:01:16] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what's great about Disney. Everyone is on the ship and they understand what you're going through.
[01:01:21] Speaker B: Yes. You're not alone. If your kid's crying, ours is probably crying too.
[01:01:24] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Well, and that's also good to hear, though, as far as accommodating. Right, like, like, technically speaking, last minute cancellations, they, they, they can charge you, right. Like you're canceling late, but oftentimes Disney will do the right thing, which is to waive that cancellation fee and let you cancel because you're not doing it just because you've just changed your mind. You're doing it because your kid is having a meltdown or having a day and you know, it's just not going to work out well. Yeah, well, the, the last topic we. We've got to hit at least quickly, because it's the most important topic from my perspective, is shows.
And I think the Magic has a really wonderful slate of shows.
Oh, no. Did you not go see the shows? Oh, my God, you guys. Oh, my God. Taylor, tell me, Tell me I'm wrong.
[01:02:14] Speaker D: Thanks to everyone out there for listening to this week's episode.
[01:02:16] Speaker A: See you later. All right, I'm out of here.
[01:02:18] Speaker C: Before we started, I'm like, our main thing is shows, and she's going to bring it up and do.
[01:02:24] Speaker B: I know we, we do love going to the shows. And every time we've had our daughter with us, we went to the shows. We went to the shows on the Dream.
I don't know why we decided to do other stuff, but we did.
So we had early dining too.
[01:02:39] Speaker C: And we watched tangled on. On YouTube for Winnie.
[01:02:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:02:43] Speaker A: Oh, you watched it ahead of time.
[01:02:45] Speaker B: Seen that one.
[01:02:47] Speaker A: But that's the best one on the ship, you guys. And there's nothing better than live theater.
[01:02:53] Speaker B: I know.
[01:02:54] Speaker C: You know what we did.
[01:02:55] Speaker D: Some might debate that, Sam. Some might debate that. There is nothing better than live theater.
[01:02:59] Speaker A: Listen. No, no, I said listen. It's my show. I say, you know, it's funny, I.
[01:03:05] Speaker C: My mom took my brothers and I to a lot of shows here, especially in Cincinnati, and so I. We love it. I love it.
But yeah, with no kids, we're just like, you know what? Let's just. Because you know what we did, and this is. People can talk about this. And do what?
We didn't go to the shows. We had the hot tub by ourselves in the adult section.
[01:03:24] Speaker B: Yes, we did.
[01:03:25] Speaker C: Every night.
[01:03:27] Speaker A: That is a nice. Yeah, that's a nice option. I mean, I'd still choose the shows, but that's a nice. That is a nice. That's what we did instead.
[01:03:34] Speaker B: It was nice. It was relaxing.
The only show that we kind of watched, I guess you could say, is.
[01:03:40] Speaker C: We did in the room. Yep, we did in the room.
[01:03:42] Speaker B: Yeah, because I was. I was tired. I was ready. Like, I'm laying in bed watching it and it was still great because even if you're, like you said, kids are having a hard time, they can still watch the shows in the room on the tv.
So that's the first time we've ever done that. And it was nice.
But, yeah, we didn't see anything.
[01:04:03] Speaker A: Well, just shaking my head at you guys. I can't even say anything. I can't even.
[01:04:08] Speaker D: Well, I had a couple of wrap up questions for the two of you here. So, you know, sailing at kind of this. The two of you. You looking back on this cruise, would you. Would you do that again with Disney? Have you thought about any other cruise lines?
[01:04:24] Speaker C: Yeah, so we. My brother has done Virgin and, and he. They loved it. And we watch. Taylor and I watch a lot of Cruise videos on YouTube and the. We listen to your podcast and, and people talk about the food on Virgin. But yeah, we would. We were hesitant to do Virgin initially because we're not big partiers, so we thought that that was the whole vibe of the ship. And we've learned that that's not the case. So we definitely talked about Virgin.
I went on a Carnival cruise and I was 14 years old, so I don't remember it too much. We probably wouldn't do Carnival, but maybe Royal for sure wouldn't do Royal.
[01:05:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I've only done Disney. I'm a little spoiled right now.
[01:05:03] Speaker C: But yes, we. We will do Disney. Just us again. It'd just be really hard to not just take Winning Oliver, which we say we won't take them, but we probably will. It was very hard to go without the kids being away because we've done Disney without it. Just being away and not having contact with them for the four nights because we didn't get the Internet package was. Was very tough.
[01:05:25] Speaker B: And something we did this time, too, because we weren't taking our four year old. And she's very aware and she loves Disney. She asks every day if we're going to the castle is we didn't we. She knew we were leaving, that we were going to be gone. She was going to be a grandma's, but she didn't know where. So she found out when we got home and started showing her videos and pictures because we took a lot more pictures and videos that we normally do because we didn't have them. We wanted her to see what we're doing.
[01:05:51] Speaker C: She was okay with it.
[01:05:52] Speaker B: She was sad. She's like, I didn't go.
[01:05:57] Speaker A: I hope you didn't show her Rapunzel's royal table, because you probably would have been super jealous.
[01:06:01] Speaker C: Yeah, for sure. We will for sure do, Virginia. Yeah, for sure. But Disney's always top of the list.
[01:06:07] Speaker B: But I think we will always, going forward, take the kids on Disney. I don't think we do another Disney cruise without them because they're starting to get older and they love it, too. So this was our last, like, solo Disney.
[01:06:18] Speaker A: Your last hurrah. Yeah.
[01:06:22] Speaker D: Well, Sam, is it that time?
[01:06:25] Speaker A: I think it's that time.
[01:06:27] Speaker D: All right.
[01:06:27] Speaker A: No, I'm looking at my watch. I think it's that time.
[01:06:29] Speaker D: All right, well, we're have.
[01:06:30] Speaker B: I'm ready.
[01:06:31] Speaker D: Reached that point in the show where Sam is going to ask you some arbitrary questions, apply some arbitrary rules, and more than a dash of judgment or the round we know as rapid fire. So, Sam, take it away.
[01:06:41] Speaker A: All right, you guys, you knew this was coming. I'm going to ask some Disney favorites. I'm going to ask some Disney cruise line favorites. And each one of you gets to answer for yourself. So don't give me, like, each other's favorites. I want your individual favorites, which means they can be different. They don't have to be different.
All right, we'll start with favorite Disney character. And Disney means pretty much everything in the world because Disney owns everything. Taylor, we're going to start with you.
[01:07:05] Speaker B: I love Maleficent.
[01:07:07] Speaker A: Oh, you're a villains girl.
[01:07:08] Speaker B: Have pop figures and T shirts. I just love her. She's my favorite villain and my favorite character.
[01:07:14] Speaker C: Before I answer, is this dash of judgment on top of the judgment we just got about?
[01:07:18] Speaker A: Yes, yes, absolutely. You get extra Judgment in.
[01:07:22] Speaker D: You were barely judged before.
[01:07:25] Speaker A: I know. That was. That was like. Yeah, you got. That was like nothing.
[01:07:29] Speaker C: Mine is just classic.
I love Mickey Mouse.
[01:07:32] Speaker A: Sure. Perfect. Love it. All right. That's a great answer. Okay, favorite Disney movie. And Dallas, we'll start with you this time.
[01:07:40] Speaker C: Beauty and the Beast.
[01:07:41] Speaker A: Oh, good answer, Taylor.
[01:07:43] Speaker B: Aladdin.
[01:07:44] Speaker A: Good answer. I love both. Excellent answers, you guys.
[01:07:48] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:07:48] Speaker A: You're picking from the classic 90s movies.
I'm an 80s baby, maybe, but I was, you know, a child in the 90s, so of course those are the best movies. All right, let's start with Taylor. Favorite Disney song, Friend like me. Oh, great one. Dallas.
[01:08:05] Speaker C: Right now it's Topsy Turvy.
[01:08:08] Speaker A: That's a funny one. Okay. Topsy Turvy. Everything is. Yeah, it's a good. Listen, Hunchback is a great movie. So like, it's. It's a. It's a good movie to choose from. I'm not sure I'd choose that song, but. Okay. All right. Okay, we're going to move on to the ships and I'm imagining you've seen some of the shows on the other ships, even though you failed miserably in seeing anything on the magic. So I'm going to ask you your favorite Disney cruise line show that you've seen and let's say that you've seen in the theater. So the ones on that you've seen either on the tv, which is a great option, especially when you have a kid who doesn't want to sit through the show or you've seen on YouTube, because that doesn't count because you got to have live theater in order to be in its full glory. Okay, so Dallas, let's with you since it sounds like you are more of a show person than Taylor.
[01:08:57] Speaker C: Beauty and the Beast.
[01:08:58] Speaker A: That's the correct answer. Thank you very much.
[01:09:00] Speaker C: I would say what was the one. Is it dreams?
Taylor and I was that on the dream we had just had Winnie. So we both sobbing in there because it's him and his daughter.
[01:09:10] Speaker A: Oh, believe is the one you're talking about. The father daughter one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:09:15] Speaker C: Beauty and the Beast.
[01:09:17] Speaker B: Aladdin.
[01:09:20] Speaker A: Predictable. Taylor obviously clearly loves Aladdin. You ch Aladdin and Friend Like Me is your favorite songs and then Aladdin as the show. Absolutely. All right, what is your favorite onboard activity? Let's do like I'm going to do a family activity and then I'm going to do an adult only activity. So we'll start with the family activity. A favorite family activity on Disney Cruise line.
[01:09:42] Speaker B: Taylor, honestly I loved the splash pad area with the kids. That is just so much fun because we normally don't do too much full time unless the kids were there. I love the splasher is on the Wish on the Fantasy last year. They're great.
[01:10:03] Speaker A: Awesome. Dallas, what about you?
[01:10:05] Speaker C: It was watching Winnie eat ice cream because she got her first brain freeze.
[01:10:11] Speaker B: She did.
[01:10:14] Speaker A: That's a fun memory.
[01:10:16] Speaker C: I mean, we have video.
[01:10:16] Speaker A: She has, like, no idea what's going on. She's like, why does it hurt?
[01:10:19] Speaker C: And she just kept going back for more.
[01:10:23] Speaker A: I don't understand.
Just keep eating.
[01:10:25] Speaker B: It's like, slow down.
[01:10:27] Speaker A: Oh, that's actually hilarious. Okay, favorite adult only activity. Dallas.
[01:10:34] Speaker C: It'd be dinner palate dinner. That was. That was pretty awesome.
[01:10:38] Speaker B: I really like on the Fantasy. The heated loungers in the Rainbow.
I could live there. They were great.
[01:10:47] Speaker A: That is a good answer. All right, favorite rotational dining. Now, the only. The only ship you haven't been on. Well, for you. For you, Taylor, you haven't been on the Wonder or the Treasure, but across all the other ships. What's your favorite rotational dining?
[01:11:02] Speaker B: I really love Enchanted Garden, mainly for the food, but I also kind of like that it's not big and flashy and showy. There's no show, but that is great.
[01:11:15] Speaker A: What about you, Dallas? You have not experienced Tiana's on the Wonder, even though you've been on the Wonder because it was so long ago. So it was before the re. Theme to Tiana's. But what's your favorite? I'm gonna guess that you're not gonna say that the. Whatever that was Paradise. Whatever or Calypso or whatever.
[01:11:32] Speaker C: I remember animators. And that's it. Mine is also Enchanted Garden. Yeah.
[01:11:35] Speaker A: Oh, interesting. All right. Okay, we gotta talk foods. And speaking of Enchanted Garden, I need a favorite sweet item and then a favorite savory item on Disney Cruise line. It could be at Apollo. It could be out of the dining rooms. It could be the pool deck. Doesn't matter. You can choose from all across the ship. Dallas, we'll start with you. We're going to do a sweet item first.
[01:11:56] Speaker C: Mine is the.
I have a written down Norwegian pancake roulade at Arendelle.
[01:12:02] Speaker A: Oh, all right.
[01:12:04] Speaker C: I know people don't like it, but I loved it.
[01:12:06] Speaker A: Oh, all right. I love that. Listen, you're allowed to have like a unique. Like, I think that's great. People. People don't hear about the. The pancake roulade. So there you go.
[01:12:17] Speaker D: It is a pancake roulade.
[01:12:19] Speaker C: It was those little. Just like little things.
[01:12:21] Speaker A: Any.
[01:12:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:12:22] Speaker D: Oh, with the sausage in the middle.
[01:12:24] Speaker A: No, it's a sweet.
[01:12:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:12:26] Speaker D: Oh, it's a sweet.
[01:12:27] Speaker C: Yeah. Lingonberry. Yeah.
[01:12:29] Speaker A: No, it's. It's the. It's on the Arendale.
[01:12:31] Speaker D: Oh. Oh, I don't think I've had that one.
[01:12:34] Speaker C: That restaurant is like. But that was delicious.
[01:12:37] Speaker A: All right, Taylor, what about you? Sweet item.
[01:12:40] Speaker B: I will get it wherever it's at. It's the warm, sticky date pudding.
That's probably one of the things I look forward to most when going on the ship, so.
[01:12:48] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And that's. Usually I'm trying to think it's an animator's palette and I forget which other restaurants it's in. I think it's in Marvel.
[01:12:55] Speaker B: It's in Marvel, Yeah.
[01:12:57] Speaker A: Yeah. And. Yeah.
[01:12:58] Speaker B: So Enchanted Garden, I think.
[01:13:00] Speaker C: No, thanks.
[01:13:01] Speaker A: Oh, maybe Enchanted Garden. Maybe that's what I'm thinking of. Yeah. All right, favorite savory item. Taylor, we're starting with you.
[01:13:07] Speaker B: The sea scallop dinner.
An enchanted garden again.
[01:13:12] Speaker A: Oh, there you go. All right.
[01:13:13] Speaker B: Like the sun. Dried tomato.
[01:13:16] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, Yeah.
[01:13:18] Speaker B: I love it.
[01:13:19] Speaker A: Nice. What about you, Dallas?
[01:13:21] Speaker C: Mine. We got it twice at lunch. It's a. It's a mushroom carpaccio. It's just a mushroom.
[01:13:28] Speaker B: It's like a cold mushroom.
[01:13:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:13:29] Speaker B: Appetizer.
[01:13:30] Speaker C: And has a box of cheese with it. I loved it. Is that in Paulo balsamic on it? No main dining.
[01:13:36] Speaker B: No, it was lunch.
[01:13:39] Speaker C: Royal court, Royal Palace.
[01:13:40] Speaker A: You know, we never do sit down lunch except on embarkation day, so I don't think I've. Yeah, I've never seen that dish. Okay, well.
[01:13:46] Speaker C: Done it twice. And I. The second time I went just so I could get that.
[01:13:49] Speaker A: Just so you could get the mushroom for patchio. All right, well, good to know. All right, these are some good, good little tidbits of advice about dishes to try that I have not tried. Okay. All right. Super important question, of course, is, what is your favorite ship? This might get judgment, it might not. Just really depends on your answer. Dallas, we're going to start with you.
[01:14:12] Speaker C: It was the dream, and then it turned into the fish fantasy.
[01:14:14] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Interesting. All right, Taylor, what about you?
[01:14:19] Speaker B: Fantasy.
[01:14:20] Speaker A: Wow.
How come. How come you like the fantasy better than the dream? We. We say the same thing. We like the fantasy better than the dream also. But it's hard for me to always, like, explain why.
[01:14:31] Speaker B: One thing that I liked, even though.
[01:14:32] Speaker A: We didn't have our kids on the.
[01:14:34] Speaker B: Dream, was the splash area. That's on the fantasy. Because that's not on the dream, like the giant Donald old area.
But also the fantasy was a seven night, so I don't know if having more time on the ship is what we liked, but that's mainly like. It's just. I don't know.
[01:14:51] Speaker C: Yeah, it's like two things.
[01:14:52] Speaker B: My favorite class of ship for sure.
[01:14:54] Speaker C: The dream was covet, so there's only 1600 people on board. Just Taylor.
[01:14:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:14:58] Speaker C: But then. But then we had Winnie on the Fantasy, and it just. It. Yeah, it just took over.
[01:15:04] Speaker A: Just leveled up for you.
[01:15:05] Speaker C: Because now it's. Yeah, now it's the memory of. Of the fantasy, but it's great. We loved it.
[01:15:09] Speaker A: Yeah. I think that that is very often the case that it's about like the itinerary or the memories you make on a ship that make your. A ship your favorite. It might not be like anything really having to do with that ship. Although obviously that you like that class of ship, which makes sense. But the dream, the fantasy being so similar in layout, really, there's not a whole. There's not a huge amount of differences. I like to remind people the main difference is like the adult area theming and a little bit of that layout. But you're right. There's a little bit of a difference on the pool deck layout as well. Yeah. But great, great choices. Okay. No judgment there at all. All right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we have one more question, which this question doesn't tend to get judgment.
The only judgment, really you're getting from me today is about missing all the shows on the Magic, which, by the way, has one of the best show lineups in the fleet, I think only second to the Treasure. So you're gonna have. Yes, you're gonna have to get back on the Magic and go to those shows. But.
But setting that aside, we got to talk your bucket list cruise, meaning if you could go anywhere in the entire world on a Disney Cruise Line ship and it doesn't even have to be someplace that Disney Cruise Line currently goes, where would you go, Taylor?
[01:16:26] Speaker B: It already technically goes there, but I would say Hawaii. I. I really want to go around all the islands. And it's. It is buckless, like, I don't know.
[01:16:38] Speaker A: Great choice. Dallas.
[01:16:40] Speaker C: I want to do the transfer from Hawaii to Australia for the.
[01:16:43] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. Trans Pacific crossing. Love it. Absolutely. All right, you guys, thank you for playing the pass with flying colors. Excellent answers across the board.
So, yeah, congratulations. No judgment. Yeah, no judgment there.
[01:17:03] Speaker D: Well, I always like to ask what's next. So did you pick up the coveted placeholder on Disney Cruise Line. Do you have something else planned? Are you on something already?
[01:17:12] Speaker A: Yeah. When's Oliver getting on a ship?
[01:17:14] Speaker C: In November.
[01:17:16] Speaker D: Which ship? Where are we going?
[01:17:18] Speaker C: We are doing another land and sea. So we'll go to Disney World for a couple days in. In November. We'll. We'll get on the Treasure.
[01:17:25] Speaker B: We're doing eastern this time.
[01:17:28] Speaker C: Aladdin, so we had to.
[01:17:29] Speaker B: I know.
[01:17:29] Speaker A: I'm so excited.
[01:17:32] Speaker C: So we'll do the Treasure, and. Yeah, we do have a placeholder. We still have a placeholder available.
And then when we go on the treasure, obviously, we'll get another placeholder.
[01:17:41] Speaker B: Just keep.
[01:17:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:17:43] Speaker B: Repeat the cycle.
[01:17:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Well, I have a prediction, and my prediction is you're gonna love the treasure. Not only for the Aladdin theming in the atrium or the grand hall, but also, of course, because you're gonna love. As Parks fans, you're gonna love all the Parks theming as well. So, yeah, that's gonna be a fantastic trip. And the theming and the shows on the treasure are. Please go to the shows. Please, please don't disappoint me.
[01:18:12] Speaker C: So.
[01:18:13] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, don't disappoint Sam. Don't disappoint.
Don't disappoint me. Please. Go see Beauty and the Beast again.
[01:18:20] Speaker D: You know that merch they make that, like, sits on your shoulders? We're gonna make a little doll of Sam. Just.
[01:18:27] Speaker A: Yeah, go to the shows. It's gonna be the little devil on your shoulder, you know?
Yes. Yeah. Like Cronkite.
[01:18:33] Speaker D: I'll be on the other shoulder going, go get an old Fashioned.
[01:18:36] Speaker A: Go get an old Fashioned. Yeah, go to Hook's Barbary. It's gonna whisper in your ear. Go to Hook's Barbary. Brian, I'm excited.
[01:18:41] Speaker B: Cause it's a seven night, and I'm like, we're waking up early. We're staying out late. We're doing it all. Like, I want to do it all.
[01:18:47] Speaker A: Because there's a lot.
[01:18:49] Speaker B: This is probably gonna be my next new favorite.
[01:18:52] Speaker C: We'll have grandparents with us like we did on the fantasy.
[01:18:55] Speaker A: Yep. That'll be nice. That'll be. So you'll get to do some of the adult only things as well.
And of course, you can, of course, rely on the kids club and the nursery, but it's nice if you have backup extra pairs of hands. Well, Taylor, we know you are a travel agent, so why don't you tell us if folks want to connect with you, book a cruise or maybe perhaps a land vacation with you where they can find you.
[01:19:18] Speaker B: Yeah. So I'm on Facebook.
I'm through when you wish travel so you can find me under TaylorHarris when you wish travel and then on Instagram at vacay with Tay.
And then you can also just go to the website when you wishtravel.com and look me up and shoot me an email. And I love talking vacation.
[01:19:39] Speaker C: So yeah, just a talk.
[01:19:42] Speaker A: She just wants to talk about Disney cruise line with somebody. She just needs some friends to talk about Disney cruises. Yeah.
[01:19:49] Speaker D: Going all the way back to the review at the top of the show. There you go.
[01:19:51] Speaker C: Well.
[01:19:53] Speaker D: Taylor, Dallas, thank you so much for spending some time with us and our audience today and for taking some time out of your weekend to share your cruise experience with everyone out there. It's been fantastic meeting you both virtually and chatting with you. So thanks very much for spending some time with us today.
[01:20:07] Speaker B: No, thank you.
[01:20:08] Speaker C: Thanks for having us.
[01:20:09] Speaker B: So much fun.
[01:20:09] Speaker C: Hopefully we'll see you on a DCL duo cruise.
[01:20:11] Speaker A: Yes, absolutely.
[01:20:13] Speaker C: Yes.
[01:20:14] Speaker B: Game.
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