[00:00:00] Speaker A: And then he told My son, my 10 year old, he's like, hey, the heroes don't let me get near him. So I need you to find out what Spider Man's weakness is and report back to me.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: Oh, my God. He sent him on a mission. He did.
[00:00:10] Speaker A: Yeah. So my son was like, okay. So then the next day, I think it was the next day we went and met Spider Man. So my son's like, oh, what's your weakness? And he said it was pizza because he's from Brooklyn.
[00:00:35] Speaker C: Welcome back, everybody, to this week's episode of the DCL Duo Podcast, brought to you by My Path Unwinding Travel. And Sam, jingle time. Do the jingle.
[00:00:44] Speaker B: All right. Simply the best.
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[00:00:49] Speaker D: Thank God I don't do the jingle.
[00:00:50] Speaker C: It'd be awful. All right, here we go.
[00:00:52] Speaker B: Sometimes you sing along.
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Tear rolls down my cheek as we know that Disney's not sailing from Australia any longer. But that does not mean your listener reviews are not important to us because we love hearing from our Australian listeners. So this review comes from Princess Inga, who writes best DCL podcast. Not one, not two, but three exclamation points. Sam. And she writes, this is the perfect. Oh, sorry. This is the best DCL podcast I have found. As a former crew member.
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[00:02:19] Speaker C: Anywhere from one to three. If you get four, watch out.
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[00:03:31] Speaker B: Yeah, we are going to be discussing the destiny and we're going to be talking about sailing with kids of various ages from kind of young elementary all the way through young teen today. So I'm super excited to welcome to the show. Gillay, Jillay, welcome to the show.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: Thank you. I'm excited to be here.
Longtime listener.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: Yeah, we're excited to have you. Longtime listener, first time caller as Ren.
[00:04:01] Speaker C: It's abbreviated now to just longtime.
[00:04:03] Speaker D: First time.
[00:04:03] Speaker C: Long time.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: Long time. First time.
[00:04:05] Speaker A: That's great.
[00:04:06] Speaker B: Well, okay, so tell us, Jalei, first, your Disney background. I know you and your husband both have an affinity for Disney, so give us a little bit of that info and then tell us, when did you start cruising and specifically, of course, with Disney Cruise Line.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Okay. So, yeah, we both grew up going to Disney parks, mainly Disneyland, because that's the one that's close to us and both love it. And like when we first started dating, that was kind of the, like, you love Disney. I love Disney.
And he was like, no, I really love Disney. I was like, no, I like, really do too.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: That could be like a real positive or like a real negative. We know that.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: Right, right. Perfect, perfect, perfect balance.
[00:04:48] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:04:48] Speaker C: Do you like Disney? I like. No. No, I really, I'm like, really into Disney.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: Not, not a casual, like, like really like.
Yeah, we even went to Disneyland on our honeymoon. And so now, of course, raising our kids there.
We, you know, watch all the movies, but we're really like parks, people like Disneyland, Disney World. Multiple times for as far as Disney Cruise goes. I went on a Disney cruise when I was, like, 12, and I think it was the Wonder. It's hard to remember, and I don't remember tons about it, but of course it was fun and loved it. And.
And so then I. And so I'd always kind of had, like, oh, it'd be fun to take the kids, you know, once in a lifetime thing, do the Disney cruise. And so we went for the first time, and this is my husband's first ever anytime cruise. We went on the Disney Dream, and we're kind of like, well, let's start with the best, because then we'll see. Maybe you'll like cruising, and we can do that as a vacation going forward. And everyone says that we've ruined it now, that we can't cruise any other cruise line.
[00:05:58] Speaker B: Now. Did you ever cruise on any other cruise line, like, in between? Like, no. Okay, so you. You started with Disney, and we established
[00:06:05] Speaker C: she really likes Disney.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: I know, I know, I know. I got.
[00:06:08] Speaker C: I say I kind of like Disney. And Royal's pretty good, too. She was like, I love Disney.
[00:06:13] Speaker B: It's my hardcore Disney Park.
[00:06:14] Speaker A: It's a Disney magic, and it's just fun. And honestly, like, with our kids still being young, we're like, let's take advantage of Disney and, like, do it right now. And when they're older, then maybe we'll branch out. And I mean, we do other trips too, but, like, it's just a good place for families and different ages. Like, all our kids like it, so love that.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: Now, how many cruises have you been on prior to this cruise on the Destiny?
[00:06:41] Speaker A: So just one. We went on the Dream two years ago and. And we were kind of like, oh, well, we'll see. Maybe we'll kind of watch and maybe we'll go again.
And, you know, I was kind of looking and I'd actually booked another one on the Dream because it had to stop at Lookout and Castaway. And then when the Destiny itineraries were released, we saw one that was like the same week about that was on the Destiny, stopping at Castaway and Lookout. And it was like, a little more expensive, but really, like a couple hundred dollars, like, it wasn't that much more expensive. So we're like, well, if we can go on the new ship and still stop at both those places, let's do that. And so that's why we booked on the Destiny.
[00:07:20] Speaker B: Oh, awesome. So you originally. So you booked. You booked your first cruise on the Dream, Enjoyed it, obviously. Went to Castaway. We're like, I want to go back to Castaway, but I want to go to Lookout. I love that. And you ended up pivoting to the Destiny. Okay, well, that's got, that's cool. I mean, you do leave out of the same port. I mean, the dream right now is going out of Port Everglades. Although in the, your previous cruise two years ago, it might have gone out of. Did it go out of Port Canaveral?
[00:07:45] Speaker A: It was Everglades still.
[00:07:46] Speaker B: Oh, Everglades still. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, so it's. Yeah, it's only just shifting to a different ship even, you know. Yeah. Okay, well, how many nights did you book? Could you book a four night or a five night?
[00:07:57] Speaker A: It was a fortnight.
[00:07:58] Speaker B: Okay, now your previous cruise on the Dream, how long was that one?
[00:08:02] Speaker A: It was also a fortnight.
[00:08:04] Speaker B: Okay, so you have a perfect comparison in terms of like, itinerary is almost the same. Not exactly the same, but almost the same. And then the same number of nights. Okay, well, what, if any, preparation? Well, actually, I got to back up. You got to tell us your family makeup because I mentioned at the top of the show, you've got, you got a bunch of kids.
[00:08:25] Speaker A: Yeah, that's our kids.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: Almost a basketball team.
[00:08:28] Speaker C: Disney calls them prospective consumers.
[00:08:31] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:08:32] Speaker A: I know. That's, that's what they definitely are. They talk about taking their kids and it's like, hopefully you can afford it.
[00:08:40] Speaker B: Get a good job, get an education.
[00:08:41] Speaker A: Exactly. Yeah.
[00:08:42] Speaker B: Right.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: So, yeah, it's me and my husband, we have a 13 year old daughter and then three sons that are 10, 8 and 6.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: Oh my God. You have three boys that are 10, 8 and 6. Oh my God, you poor thing.
[00:08:58] Speaker A: They're fun, they're great. But yeah, I mean, it gets noisy.
[00:09:03] Speaker B: It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work.
[00:09:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, okay, so did you do any preparation for the cruise with the kids? I mean, like, they, they had been on a dream cruise before, but like, did you guys like any YouTube videos or, or did. Or were they just kind of like, oh, we're easy. We can like go on a new ship and we don't need any.
[00:09:23] Speaker A: Yeah. For the Dream, we did watch like videos and walkthroughs. With the Destiny, with it being a new ship, we kind of wanted to like, not have spoilers and so we didn't really watch walkthroughs. We did look at the kids club just because that was different from the, the Dream and so they could kind of see what Was there. But beyond that, we're like, no, let's, like, be surprised, like, when we walk into the grand hall for the first time. Like, let's let it be a surprise. And the restaurants and.
And things or the shows. Like, we tried to keep it a surprise because that's also part of the fun. And we did to kind of, like, prep, because we're like, we like Marvel. We're not, like, a huge Marvel family. Like, they know the characters. So we watched a few, like, Marvel things so that they'd be familiar with the characters. Like, with our older kids, we watched Thor so that they would know who, like, Loki was.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: I think as long as you have, like, some ideas, like, who's a good guy, who's a bad guy. Right. Like, you don't need to be, like, deep into the MCU to get, like, every new. Like, you can still enjoy the characters. I think, like, a great movie to watch is the Avengers, right? The first, like, Avengers movie where they. Where a lot of the characters interact. And then I think Thor is a great one because then you learn who Loki is. At least the villain side of Loki.
And then the other one I would recommend for folks going on the destiny would be Black Panther, of course, because he's more prominent. Like, he's a more prominent character on. On the ship.
And then, of course, everybody loves Spider Man. I feel like everybody's seen some version of Spider Man. I don't know that anyone like kids. I feel like with all those.
[00:11:00] Speaker A: Well, they have Spidey and Friends, which, like, if you have little kids, that's great because Black Panther is on that here and there. I think Loki even comes on here and there to be the bad guy. So it's like, even our youngest knew who these characters were because he's like, oh, yeah, Black Panther was on Spidey and Friends and, you know, scared to him.
[00:11:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't know that. I mean, I knew Spidey and Friends was big, and I knew that, like, that, like, the preschool and kindergarten crowd loves that show, but I didn't know that. I didn't know Black Panther was on it. That's good to know.
[00:11:33] Speaker A: Yeah, he'll just, like, the other characters will come on, like, Hulk will come on or Iron man, you know, here and there. So it's nice. It's fun. Yeah.
[00:11:42] Speaker B: Awesome. Did you have any concern about, like, the kids, like, about whether this ship was sort of right for them, given their ages, or were you just like, well, it's a Disney ship. Of course it'll be Fine for all kids.
[00:11:54] Speaker A: Yeah, that's kind of what I thought. And I'm like, you know, at least there's the kids club and we know that they'll love that and they loved it the last time, so I wasn't really too concerned. And yeah, we have faith in Disney, so.
[00:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah, faith in Disney.
[00:12:09] Speaker C: That's Disney we trust.
[00:12:11] Speaker B: A little bit of pixie dust. They. A little bit of pixie dust. All right, well, what about your 13 year old? Any sort of. Before going on the cruise, any concerns or thoughts about whether or not she would like the cruise? The only girl besides you in the bunch and she's a young teenager.
Did you have any thoughts about, like, what she might be into? I mean, there are some girls who are super into Marvel and others who aren't, so just.
[00:12:36] Speaker A: Yeah, and she is, she's more of, I mean, three brothers. She's a little more tomboy. Like kind of gave up princess stuff a long, long time ago.
So, yeah, she was kind of familiar and since we'd kind of started watching the Marvel movies to prep for it, she was excited about that part of it.
She.
Yeah, she like did the Edge last time there. Kind of the same thing this time. Like, she's good to just hang out with us and so that's mainly what she did again. But yeah, she, she loved it. She, she's not like a go like make friends with other people on the ship. Like she did interact with kids here and there, but for the most part she was just hanging with us.
[00:13:22] Speaker B: So that's cool. You got a big enough family, there's enough people to hang out with.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: Yeah, right. Can always find someone. Right?
[00:13:29] Speaker B: You always find somebody you're not fighting with at the time. Yeah.
[00:13:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Well, well, let's, let's dive into the planning a little bit. Did you guys know your Silver Silver Castaway club members? When you're booking your cruise and your onboard activities, you were going to cast away and lookout. I got to ask the question. I know the answer is likely to be no, but were you booking any excursions in advance of your cruise?
[00:13:54] Speaker A: We didn't.
[00:13:55] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, and that's. I will say, like, you don't.
[00:13:58] Speaker A: Stays are great. Yeah, yeah.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: You don't need. If you're going to cast away and you're going to look out. I'm. Nothing wrong with the excursions. There are some really great ones, but I feel like the majority of people don't book excursions because it's such a great beach. Beach day. Okay, well, what about onboard booking? Was there anything that you guys were looking to reserve ahead of time, like, I don't know, Paulo or Enchante or any of the adult drink tastings, anything like that?
[00:14:24] Speaker A: Yeah, we didn't do any, anything like that or just, just showed up this time.
[00:14:30] Speaker B: Yeah, that's.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: Yeah, plenty to do. Definitely.
[00:14:35] Speaker B: There is a lot to do on Destiny and we're going to get into that in just a second. So I actually highly recommend for anyone going on the Destiny, especially for the first time, like, unless you absolutely must do something if there's something that you've like always been dying to do and it, you know, one of those things that you have to book, that's an additional cost. I actually really recommend not booking like anything because there are so many new entertainment things going on on the Destiny and it's hard to do them all in four or five days. I'd say impossible or practically impossible.
[00:15:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:09] Speaker B: Well, let's, let's then dive into going, you know, traveling there.
Now you're flying into Fort Lauderdale, Miami. Where did you guys fly in?
[00:15:19] Speaker A: Yeah, we flew into Miami because we were flying from Salt Lake and it was, it just ended up being a lot less expensive and they're pretty close. The Miami airport is one of our least favorite airports so far. But it's, you know, cost wise, it was, it was good.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: So, yeah, I, I will agree with you there. The Fort Lauderdale airport is a lot nicer than the Miami airport, and the Miami airport's about an hour away from the port, which is fine. But we have done it both ways too. We have flown into Fort Lauderdale. We have flown into Miami from Seattle just based on what flight times are available and the cost of the flights and all of that. And the Fort Lauderdale airport is quite a bit closer, but, you know, they might not have. The Miami airport's a bigger airport, so you're just going to have more options out of there.
[00:16:08] Speaker C: Well, and the Miami. Miami Airport's actually a decent hike away from Fort. I mean, it's. Yeah, it's about an hour in traffic. It could, it could take longer.
[00:16:17] Speaker A: When we went, we didn't hit traffic. I think it took us like 45 minutes.
[00:16:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: And so it's kind of on the outskirts of Miami and Fort Lauderdale and over. It wasn't too bad. So.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay, well, where did you stay and when did you get into the.
Well, I'll just say Florida because obviously you're getting into the Miami.
[00:16:36] Speaker A: We got in the night before about like 8pm Miami time.
And we stayed. There's just A Homewood Suites by the Miami airport, which was perfect. Cuz we have a bigger family and they have nice big rooms. Like this is one of the nicest, biggest rooms that we've stayed at in a hotel. Like a separate room for the kids and then a living room and then like a separate area for me and my husband. So we're like, oh, if we're only here one night, this is really nice.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, no. So did you rent a car or did you just take like any like Uber or something to.
[00:17:09] Speaker A: We rented a car just cause I like priced out doing shuttles and things. And like for convenience it was a little bit more expensive overall to rent the car, but just convenience wise to just have the car load up all our kids and gear and like we have a couple kids that are still in boosters, like not have to worry about that can just leave them in the van while we were on the cruise. So that's what, that's what we did.
[00:17:34] Speaker B: Nice. Okay, so then the next morning you are, you're still in Miami, you wake up and then you're driving straight to the port, I take it. Well, obviously after breakfast and whatnot.
What was your port arrival time?
[00:17:46] Speaker A: It was 11:45.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: Oh, nice. So you got a pretty early.
Yeah, pretty early port arrival time.
How did you find the, the port experience to be?
You know, were. Was it sort of relatively easy to you know, drop off the luggage and then get parked and then get into the terminal or was it confusing? I know it. It just depends on which terminal you go to.
[00:18:09] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it was all great. I mean there's signs pointing. We had our GPS and it kind of was getting confused about where to take it, but we got to like close by and we're like, oh, follow the signs. And yeah, we got exactly where we needed to go and dropped off our luggage. And this time around, I don't know if it's because they made changes or because we were there a little earlier.
The experience was a lot better than our first time cruising. We had to wait in like a line out in the parking garage last time and then a big line once we got into like to check in and stuff. And this time we walked straight in. Like there were people out waiting in a line. But we got there when our port arrival time was already.
It was already 11:45. So we just walked right into the terminal and walked straight up and got checked in. And then we had to wait in the terminal for like 10 to 15 minutes till our number got called, our group number and Got on the ship.
[00:19:05] Speaker B: Awesome.
[00:19:06] Speaker A: Yeah, it was really nice.
[00:19:07] Speaker B: I love a smooth check in experience.
That's fantastic.
[00:19:11] Speaker D: Not me.
[00:19:12] Speaker C: I love it. Complicated.
Take all day.
[00:19:17] Speaker B: Yeah, take all day. Well, and, and honestly, I'm. I'm, I'm surprised you got such a great port arrival time, but I don't know how I haven't figured out.
[00:19:25] Speaker A: I mean, I will say because someone on our Facebook group, they mentioned like, oh, if you check back, sometimes you can get a better one. And I mean, we started at 12:15 and I ended up checking a few days later and There was an 1145 and I was like, I'll take an extra half hour on the ship. And I didn't know that that was a.
Something that you could check in. Kind of like checking for lightning lanes on the. In the parks.
[00:19:48] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a, that's a great tip. I, I wouldn't. Well, we don't. Because we're Pearl.
[00:19:54] Speaker A: We always get the earliest.
[00:19:56] Speaker B: Right? We get the earliest. So we don't ever like, we don't ever do that. But that's good to know because that didn't. I don't know if that's always been a thing that you could check an earlier one. And I'm with you. I say get on early and enjoy the ship, because you don't that first day, you're paying for a full day and you're not really getting a full day.
[00:20:15] Speaker A: So I say as soon as we can get on, we're getting on.
[00:20:18] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Well, you guys board the ship into the beautiful grand hall of the Disney Destiny.
Pretty different experience, I think, than walking into the Disney dream. What did you guys think? You. You say you didn't really watch videos to spoil. So what. Yeah. What did you think when your family name gets announced and you walk into the Destiny?
[00:20:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it's definitely kind of awe inspiring. Walking in the chandelier is so cool and just like loved the decor. You know, it's like clean lines and kind of more modern looking and the colors. And then Spider man was waving up there, which was perfect for our kids. They're excited about that. And yeah, definitely a much bigger feel than being on the dream.
We also. It also just always seemed a lot less crowded and we wondered if that's because there's not the elevators that are right there that are always like feeding people right off of the, like Grand Hall. So it was definitely a nice space. And we spent like, we're there a lot more than we ever were on the dream just watching stuff.
[00:21:24] Speaker C: So that's what they. You know, we. We talked to someone who.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: Yeah, we talked to Thad, the NAN
[00:21:29] Speaker C: engineer who's involved, and he was like, yeah, you know, one of the problems, like people. People don't love this elevator set up on either end of the ship, but they were like. One of the problems we're trying to solve is everyone gets on the ship and sees this one bank of elevators and then proceeds to use it for the rest of their cruise, even though
[00:21:42] Speaker B: it's not their elevator bank.
[00:21:44] Speaker C: Two other banks of elevators that, like, aren't getting used as much. So we were like, let's just take them out. So when people walk in, they don't immediately see elevators. They find elevators and then they. Right.
[00:21:52] Speaker B: But it really opens up the space, though. Without the elevator bank to sort of break up the. The ship, you get this much larger space in the middle of.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: Yeah. And then you have the stage there that is like, perfect for all the shows and things that they do.
[00:22:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: So.
[00:22:09] Speaker B: And I feel like you just get much better utilization of the grand hall than you. Not to say they don't use the atriums. They all. They use the atrium on every ship. But the grand hall in the wish class gets used better and more than on any other ship for all kinds of different performances that, you know, different entertainment performance performances. All right, well, what's your first, like, plan of action when you get on the ship? After, of course, you stand around for a couple minutes just like looking at stuff, right? Yeah. Taking it. Yeah. Taking some pictures. Waving to Spidey up in the balcony.
Yeah. Did you guys grab lunch and if so, where. Or did you have things that you needed to take care of, you know, at various places?
[00:22:53] Speaker A: No, we were all set with that. So we just went right up to Marceline market and got lunch there. And again, just comparing it with the dream, it's just like, oh, this is so, like, I don't know, like more themed and like, it was just really nice looking. And you know, the buffet is perfect with a lot of kids because everyone can find what they need.
We really liked too, how they have the like kitty counter on in Marceline Market. So that.
Yeah, I have one. One son that's like, adventurous and he wanted to try all the things, but the rest of our kids are like, oh, we're just gonna go get chicken tenders and a bunch of ketchup and they know exactly where to go.
[00:23:33] Speaker B: Right. Chicken tenders, Mac and cheese, usually like corn. Like.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Like fruit cups. They always have fruit cups.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Like all the French fries, all the, all like the staples that you know. And then in the morning of course they've got like the Mickey waffles and pancakes and you know, stuff like that. Like things that 90% of kids are probably going to eat.
[00:23:57] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. So yeah, we really, yeah we really liked that and just started off our trip nice and full and stayed that way till the end.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: If you're not full when you're on a cruise, you're doing something wrong, I gotta say because the food is plentiful and that's going to for any cruise line. Like it's not just Disney. Like every cruise line has like plentiful food that is 90% included. Right. Like in. There are obviously specialty restaurants on other cruise lines and even on Disney Cruise Line. But if you are not eating enough, you're doing something wrong. The cruise line is not easy to
[00:24:34] Speaker A: find and yeah, stay full.
So yeah, so we did that.
[00:24:38] Speaker B: I want to talk a little bit about some of the, the kids experiences and, and, and the kids club in particular.
Obvious know we mentioned at the top of the show you've got the Oceaneer club and your daughter is, is edge age actually she could even wave into Vibe, but vibe is 14 and up so she. You can wave into if you're within a year.
But you mentioned your, your daughter did a little bit of stuff with the, the Tween Club, but wasn't super into that and was more interested in hanging out with the family. What about the boys?
How did they like the kids club on board the Disney Destiny? I think the Wish Class K is the best.
[00:25:20] Speaker A: It's amazing. So yeah, after lunch we went down there to check it out and they all have magic bands so we got them checked in with those and it's giant. I didn't realize how like being there is. Like there are a ton of rooms and, and yeah, all of our boys loved it. Our son that's 10, we did like register him in the Edge in case he wanted to go do stuff with my daughter. I think he went there one time with her and the rest of the time he's like no, I just want to go to the kids club. They loved the roller coaster simulator the best. They every time I went to pick them up it's like, oh, they're in the roller coaster simulator there or like Star wars, but that's where they were.
[00:26:03] Speaker B: That's awesome. Okay, so they all loved it. Now they. You mentioned their magic bands.
Had you done. I mean you're parks people so I imagine you got the magic Bands. You had the magic bands for the parks. Probably. Anyway. Did you use them on your last cruise two years ago too? Because they had just.
Oh, you didn't. Okay. I'm not sure. Sure if I can't remember the timing of exactly when they were.
[00:26:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I can't remember either if they had them or it was right around them that they were rolling them out. And I can't remember if other people did have them. And. And yeah, we didn't have magic bands at that point either. And so me and my husband didn't get them. Just. Yeah, just for the kids.
[00:26:43] Speaker B: Yeah. So you did have them for the. The. The kids club always has the kids club bands. If you don't bring your own magic band so you can get one to use, but then that one won't work on your room just for those, you know. But if you bring your own magic band plus or Disney Band plus, that's what they call them on the cruise line. It's the same thing. They just call by a different name. I'm sure it has something to do with copyright or who owns.
I don't know. Anyway. But you can use them for your. Open your room. You can use them to buy things at the store. You can use them where else.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: The pictures, the photo passes, they scan them with that. Which is. Was convenient.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: Yeah. And I will say light up of course too. And vibrate like they do in the parks.
[00:27:27] Speaker A: Yeah, we. We did find out because we charged them before we left home and didn't use them until we got on the cruise. And then when we went to check them into the kids club later, they were like not charged enough.
And I guess in the kids club they have to be charged because they'll still work for opening your room and stuff if they're not charged enough. But for the kids club to find out where they are and stuff, they need to be fully charged. So that's something that was new to us and we found out. So the one time we took them we had to use the like kids Club.
[00:27:57] Speaker B: The lone bands. Yeah, yeah. And they'll give your kids. We've had that happen when Nathan was still kids club age. Now he's. Now he's edge club age. But we've had that happen. Yeah. If it's. If they're not. I mean it doesn't have to be like you just charge that like that night. But they need to have more of a charge. They can't have like a weak charge at that point. Yeah, yeah. I think it's great though for the kids to have them. I, I don't necessarily think they're like a must have but I personally like them particularly for the kids because then they're using them for both the club and then they're using them if they need to get into the, you know, into the state room. Right. If they're happen to be roaming on the ship themselves as a.
[00:28:38] Speaker A: They didn't. We didn't need to worry about them losing a lanyard and stuff. Like our younger kids didn't use their key to the world being at all or.
[00:28:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Now your kids, did you give any of them check in, check out privileges? Obviously I'm guessing not the six year old. But what about, what about the eight year old?
[00:28:58] Speaker A: Our eight year old, we said he could check himself in but not check himself out just because he'd probably, I don't know, he wanders and so we're like, I don't know if you would make it back to our stateroom or where you needed to be because he would just get focused on something else and.
But then our 10 year old we gave him. He could check in and out. So.
[00:29:18] Speaker B: Awesome. Yeah, that's really nice. I think it's really nice when particularly the older kids who won't wander can get a little bit of.
A little bit of independence, a little bit of responsibility to kind of learn how to navigate the ship. It's not that hard. They're not going to get.
Even if they get lost. They're not really going to get lost.
[00:29:39] Speaker A: Right, Exactly. You can find them.
[00:29:41] Speaker B: Yeah, you can find them. And there's always stateroom attendance in the hall, the hallway. You can always, you know, ask somebody for help if you get, you know, sort of turned around. All right, well, let's talk about some of the onboard experiences that you guys got up to as a family. I'm imagining with four kids you probably didn't get to do a lot of adult only things.
[00:30:01] Speaker A: No, I don't. Yeah, I don't know that we did any thing that was adult only. We like tried to like look into Devilles and it was so crowded and we're like, well, guess we're not gonna do that because we didn't want to wait the like half hour to like get it like to something. We just kind of wanted to peek in the like.
What's the superhero show? The adult only one with great power. Yeah, we kind of walked by there because they have kind of the openings on the side and could kind of look in. So we watched that for like five minutes there and then that was about our adult only time. There are a couple times we went and like chilled on the, on the deck, but that was. The rest was with the kids.
So it was a family trip, so.
[00:30:45] Speaker B: Absolutely. Listen, we, we know that feeling. Especially when Nathan was younger there, there was not very little adult only we could potentially get him to go to the kids club so we could go to Paulo for brunch. But it wasn't like we couldn't do most of the late night stuff and, and you know, limited amount of, you know, going into the bar spaces really. Only when he was like in the kids club. Now he's so independent, he doesn't want to see us at like at all except maybe at dinner. And I don't even think he wants to see us. He just kind of tolerates us at dinner time. Well, tell us what about some of the. There's like, of course, like I said, tons of entertainment. You've got shows with Ziya and Gamble in the Storytellers on board in the grand Hall. You've got a Maleficent show in Saga. You've got the Cruella does her Father fashion show in the grand hall. I'm curious what you guys were able to do and which ones you enjoyed or didn't enjoy.
[00:31:46] Speaker A: Yeah, so the main, our kids main focus, they loved Loki. They kind of got the. My son ended up making it for the first show. We got stuck on the Aqua Mouse. That's a different story. So he was the only one that ended up making it to see that like first show with Loki. My daughter was super bummed about that but.
And so kind of from that point on they were like, this is like a low key cruise. And like they wanted to go to like anything that had him. So they went to like, it was really fun. They went to a meet and greet that first night and my daughter had drawn a picture of him and he was, you know, super. He was a really good character actor, like super interactive. And he's like, oh you. The glorious purpose in art. And he signed her art for her. And, and then he told My son, my 10 year old, he's like, hey, the heroes don't let me get near him. So I need you to find out what Spider Man's weakness is and report back to me.
[00:32:47] Speaker B: Oh my God. He sent him on a mission.
[00:32:49] Speaker A: He did. Yeah. So I was like, okay. So then the next day, I think it was the next day we went and met Spider Man. So my son's like, oh, what's your weak weakness? And he Said it was pizza because he's from Brooklyn.
[00:33:02] Speaker B: That's a good weakness. I like. Yeah.
[00:33:04] Speaker A: And so that was really cute. And so then my kids are like, hey, well, there's this Loki meet and greet. The like, like last full day on the ship at 9am we're going to go meet Loki. And then, I mean, we might talk about it. We ended up having some schedule itinerary changes last minute. So Loki, it disappeared from the app, the meet and greet for Loki. And they're like, oh, no, what are we going to do? So my kids actually on their own went to guest services and were like, hey, when is Loki going to be available again?
And the cast member was super helpful and she's like, I'll send a message to the character people and we'll get to back. Get back to you and let you know. And so then later that night, we came back into our stateroom and there were two envelopes for each of my kids and Loki had signed like a card for them.
And they're like, loki will be like, on the last full day of the cruise at 5pm you'll be able to see him again. And they were like, okay, that's awesome. It was so awesome. Like, such like, special like Disney magic. And they were over the moon.
And then so the last show that was supposed to be like Black Panther, you know, Loki takes over and he picked my two kids out of the audience to be his royal portraitists and like draw a portrait of him.
Yeah.
So they drew the picture and like, it was super cute. My son wrote, my son wrote Thor sucks on his picture. And Loki really liked that. And it was just like, like, they, they loved him. It was like, yay, Loki Booth.
[00:34:40] Speaker B: Or like, oh, that's amazing.
Now, are these the younger boys or which.
[00:34:46] Speaker A: No. So it was my daughter, my 13 year old and my 10 year old.
[00:34:49] Speaker B: Oh, okay, so these are the. Your older kids.
[00:34:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:52] Speaker B: That's awesome. Because not, not all the older kids want to interact with the characters.
[00:34:57] Speaker A: Yeah, he definitely made it a special experience for them. Like, I mean, all the, all the character actors are amazing. Like, Spidey is super fun and like, you know, they just. I don't think, especially my 10 year old, I don't think he would have like, been that into it, but, you know, kind of gave him this mission and he's like, okay, gonna do it.
[00:35:19] Speaker B: I'm gonna do it. I got it. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. I have to say, one of the things I think is so great about the face characters on the Destiny is. They really are so good that like sort of that improv. Like they can stay in charact, like react to whoever they're talking to. And like giving, giving kids a mission is like a. I mean that's.
[00:35:42] Speaker A: They're so quick. Just like any question that someone asked them, they had an answer. And I was like, wow, you guys
[00:35:48] Speaker B: are amazing, amazing, amazing. Okay, well, you. I gotta ask you because you mentioned getting stuck on the Aqua Mouse and so I can't let that like just hang there without asking you about.
[00:36:00] Speaker A: Yeah. So I mean, hindsight's 20 20, but after the sail away party we had on our swimsuits, it was like kind of cold. But on the Dream, the line for the Aqua Duck is always so long. And so we're like, let's go. Hit it first, get it done. But. And now we know the Aquamouse seems to move a lot better. And like we. The most we waited was like probably 10 minutes.
Our cruise was a little cooler, so that probably helped you.
[00:36:23] Speaker B: But yeah, there can be.
[00:36:27] Speaker C: I was going to say. Yeah, there can be. I was gonna say on the Destiny too. There's like three different shows you can see. So like, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's like you gotta, you gotta to figure out like what the schedule is so you can like do.
[00:36:37] Speaker A: Yeah. So we were like, okay, I think we have it planned that we can hurry and go on the Aqua Mouse and then, and then head down to see the first show in the ground hall. And yeah, so we, we all went on it and then my last. My husband and my youngest son were on the, the lift hill and it like stopped and they had to like do a reset. And so like they were stuck up there for. He's. His husband's like. Luckily they, the spraying stopped because they were right at like spraying part.
[00:37:07] Speaker B: You're like getting drenched and like it
[00:37:09] Speaker A: was like drowning in cold water. And so they ended up having to walk down the lift hill and they had to like reset the whole ride. And so it was kind of like a sad way to start.
[00:37:21] Speaker C: And which show did you get on? The Aquamouse. Do you remember?
There's a yeti. There's a yeti show. A golden egg and the forgetting one of them, Sam.
[00:37:29] Speaker A: So I know it was the one. The one. Because we went on it a few other times throughout the cruise.
So it was the one that had like the Villains.
[00:37:38] Speaker B: The villains One.
[00:37:39] Speaker A: Yeah, the first day.
[00:37:40] Speaker B: One. Yeah, yeah.
[00:37:41] Speaker C: And then four now. That's right, there's four.
[00:37:43] Speaker A: Yeah. And then I think we saw the yeti one and then there was like an under the sea.
[00:37:46] Speaker B: Yes. I call that the Kraken one.
[00:37:48] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, the Kraken one. Yep. Yeah. So we saw those two because we
[00:37:51] Speaker B: live in Seattle, so we think of the Kraken with our hockey team. Right.
[00:37:54] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah.
So those are the ones that we saw.
[00:37:59] Speaker B: Awesome.
[00:38:00] Speaker A: Awesome. And so we did like it. Once we got on it, we were just like, okay, next time let's just not do that first thing.
[00:38:08] Speaker B: Let's. Hopefully next time you won't. He won't get stuck. Yeah, yeah, I know.
[00:38:12] Speaker A: Because that's my youngest. Of course, he's like, remember when I got stuck, stuck on the Aqua mouse?
[00:38:17] Speaker B: And it's like, now it's a story, you know? Now it's the story of the time we got stuck on the Aquamouse. Yeah.
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[00:39:24] Speaker B: Well, I wanted to ask about. You also mentioned an itinerary change. Tell us what that was.
[00:39:31] Speaker A: So there were high winds when we were on the ship, so we docked. Our first day was at Lookout, so we docked there. The winds were like crazy on the pier on the island. It was fine. But then the next day we were supposed to do Castaway and they tried docking a few different times and just it wasn't happening. And we're really sad. So that changed into a sea day, which props to the crew members because they just took it in stride and had a bunch of stuff, and we filled the day just fine. And so then the next day, that was supposed to be our sea day, we actually ended up going to Nassau. We stayed on the ship and just did another sea day.
[00:40:12] Speaker B: And you guys were docked next to the Dream that day, weren't you?
[00:40:15] Speaker A: We were, yes. Which was fun because we were like, oh, remember the dream? And we were excited. And then when we sailed away, we got to the horn battle, which was so fun. And so we're like, well, that made it kind of worth it. Still would have rather gone to Cast Away, but.
[00:40:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Well, and your previous sailing, you had gone to Castaway, and this time you went to Lookout, so I feel like this is a good segue to talking about that because obviously you originally thought you were going to get to go to both, and you would have been able to do that. Direct comparison, just, you know, a day. A day apart. But I. I'm curious. You know, two years apart, Castaway hasn't changed. It's like, literally, it's the same every time we go.
[00:40:54] Speaker A: And.
[00:40:54] Speaker B: Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's wonderful.
But I'm curious. You mentioned, of course, it was real windy, and so it was real. The walk on the pier is super windy if. If there are high winds. But what did you think of the island? And. And how did you think it compared to Castaway? Like, did you like it more, less equal, and, you know, what sort of things did you notice. Noticed to be markedly different? I guess.
[00:41:18] Speaker A: Yeah. I feel like they have, like, their pros and cons. I mean, and the walking part was fine. Like, I mean, it's long, but it was really like the winds, and our kids are like, we're freezing. It's like.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: I know.
[00:41:30] Speaker A: But hopefully it'll be okay. And luckily, once we got over there, it was fine on the island. The winds were fine, and the beach was beautiful and huge, which is definitely an upgrade from Castaway, just that, you know, just walk down a little farther and you can have tons of space.
Sand was, like, super soft. The water was so, like, blue and pretty, and we. The food was great. I also felt like, like, our one complaint with Castaway, the bathrooms. I don't know if it's just the day we were there, like, a lot of them were having issues, like, kind of overflowing, and they're really small and
[00:42:11] Speaker B: they're kind of old. They're kind of dingy. Like, the bathrooms on Lookout are much nicer. They're Newer, more modern. Right. It's just. And I, you know, most of the time, the ones that cast away, Hopefully, I mean, hopefully they're. Most of the time are working.
Occasionally you have issues, but I do think the ones that look out are just quite a bit nicer. I wonder, did the. Did the boys, like the rush out, gush out, and perhaps your daughter as well? You know, the.
[00:42:37] Speaker A: This.
[00:42:37] Speaker B: It's a splash pad, but it's a much bigger one than, like, the one the. You know, there's only, like, a very tiny baby one at Castaway. And then, of course, there are water slides, but they're out all the way in the water.
[00:42:49] Speaker A: Yeah. So we're excited about that. It was a colder cruise, so in the water at the rush out, gush out wasn't super warm. We went over a couple times to kind of check, and our kids were just getting like, no, too cold. Let's just go back to the. Otherwise, I think they would have loved it because we did. When we went on Castaway, we, like, swam out to those water slides, and they had fun with those. So I was really looking forward to the rush out, gush out, and, like, they love playing in water, but it was just a little bit too cold this time around.
[00:43:19] Speaker B: What about the Junkanoo? Did you catch the Junkanoo parade or do it check out the Goombe Cultural Center? Any of those activities?
[00:43:28] Speaker A: No, we didn't. I kind of was like, hey, you guys, we could hear the parade going on. I was like, should we go watch it? And they're like, no, we just want to keep playing in the sand. And I was like, okay.
[00:43:37] Speaker B: Total kids. Yeah. Yeah. I have to ditch the. I have to ditch Nathan to go and see any of that stuff. And same with, like, the character. If I want to see the characters on lookout or on Castaway, frankly, I gotta ditch Nathan because he's just like, nope, I'm busy. I'm playing in the water, in the sand. I'm building a moat and a sand castle and, you know, a palace.
[00:43:57] Speaker A: And especially since we knew, because we'd known that, like, the few ships before us, like, days before us, hadn't been able to dock at Castaway. And so we were like, this might be our one beach day, so let's just stay on the beach. So I'm glad that we did.
[00:44:11] Speaker B: Yeah, that was good planning because, you know, you don't. There's no guarantee with being able to dock at any port. Right. You just don't know. Depending on the weather. And Castaway, because of the way they have to sort of back in at castaway, it's just. It's more difficult than at Lookout, for example, or at Nassau or many of the other ports that they go to. And so it's just more common, unfortunately, for if something's going to get canceled due to wind castaways, the thing that is more likely to be canceled. And so it's good. It's good sort of knowing that if you even just a day or two before and you can sort of prepare for it, especially preparing the kids, because if the kids are looking for it
[00:44:55] Speaker A: and yeah, we did. We're like, we might not be able to dock. And so. So they definitely were prepared.
[00:45:02] Speaker B: Yeah, it's good the cast was communicating that possibility, too, because, I mean, I feel like you get less angry passengers if you. If you give them full disclosure, like, hey, this is what's going on. And it's. There's a. There, you know, there. There's a chance we'll dock. There's a chance we won't.
[00:45:19] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. And part of it, because they did, like, attempt to. We're like, I wonder, like, if they know, like, we're not going to be able to, but let's attempt. So then people can see.
[00:45:29] Speaker B: We have heard of times where they haven't even attempted because it's. Yes, there are times where they don't even attempt to.
[00:45:34] Speaker A: They.
[00:45:35] Speaker B: They just change the itinerary, even the day in advance. And in fact, that's what they did on. I think it was the treasure.
Maybe. I don't know if it's the same week as your cruise or if it was.
[00:45:46] Speaker A: It might have been, because I think the treasure was supposed to be there the day before we were there, and they weren't able to.
[00:45:52] Speaker B: Yeah, and they only docked in Tortola. They were supposed to have three. You know, they were supposed to have three ports over the course of a week, and they only docked in one port because it was. Was because the winds were that bad. And so. Yeah, it's. But it's. It's, you know, they. They have some idea, but they didn't even try, you know, on that cruise to dock it. Cast Away and some of the other ships, I think, you know, it really. We've heard of times where they don't even attempt it because they know it's just too dangerous. So.
[00:46:19] Speaker A: Yeah, so we just waved by to cast away as we sailed away.
[00:46:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is. You know, it is. You know, it's a bummer, but it. It is. What it is. Is it? You know, I'll tell you, it's actually the biggest bummer is actually for the crew because the CRE gets more of a.
Not a full day off, but they get some, they get some time off on the island, especially a lot of the entertainment crew. And when that, that gets cancelled, well, guess what? Now they have to entertain all the people on Uber.
[00:46:50] Speaker A: I was talking to like the kids club people because I was like, oh. Cuz it was supposed to be like open house hours, you know, initially. And it's like, oh, now you guys are just all here and there.
[00:46:59] Speaker B: Just all there doing secure programming. Exactly. Yeah.
[00:47:03] Speaker A: But they were great, of course. So.
[00:47:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, I, I'm curious about the dining aspect. We haven't, we haven't talked about dining on board yet. Of course. You've got for you guys, all three new restaurants, 1923 Worlds of Marvel and of course, I'm blanking Pride Lands. I was about to say Coco, but that's treasure. I'm curious what you all thought of, you know, the show aspect, but also the, and the theming of the restaurants.
[00:47:34] Speaker A: Yeah, we loved like the, the theming. So like our first night was 1923, which was nice because that, it was like, this is kind of especially for our kids, like me. I don't know. It's fine. It was food. But they weren't that excited. They really liked the Marvel one and had the fun trivia throughout the whole thing that they played and entertained them. And the Groot and Rocket show was really cute. Cute.
And then I, I love shows and singing, so I think I was the most like Pridelands. It's amazing. This is so good. And my kids are fine with it.
And my husband especially liked the food at Pride Lands. He's gluten free. And they all had like good options. But Pride Lands was like, oh, this food is like perfect to like be made gluten free.
[00:48:21] Speaker B: And so awesome. Awesome. Now did you, did you, you communicate with Disney Cruise Line in advance to let them know he was gluten free?
Because I know you can. Of course you can always talk to special services in advance, but even I know just. They put a note just in your file so that when you show up the first day for dinner, your crew at least know, your serving team at least know, even though they don't know necessarily what your husband's going to order. Was, was that taken care of ahead of time?
[00:48:50] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, we did put the note in for that. So they were aware of that. And luckily he's not Celiac. So it's not like as difficult as like some other people. And it. Which was nice that they kind of gave us this option because last cruise they kind of treated it more as like celiac. And like, we're super cautious, which is super good that they can do that. But our server could also be like, yeah, this one's fine. The reason it's like not marked gluten free is because, like, possible cross contamination, which he can. Which he can.
[00:49:21] Speaker B: So he could tolerate. Yeah, so if he. He could tolerate some. What's the word I'm looking for?
[00:49:28] Speaker A: Like, it could be in the same area and he.
[00:49:30] Speaker B: Right. If they. If it touches.
Yeah, some amount of. Yeah, some amount of cross or. So I was gonna say, though, some amount of gluten. I mean, he can just tolerate.
[00:49:39] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, he can.
[00:49:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Without. Without it being like a really debilitating for him for the entire night. Whereas people with celiac. It could be. You could really ruin the cruise. The cruise. Exactly. Exactly.
[00:49:52] Speaker A: Yeah. So. And yeah, they were. They were great with that. For all his other meals he ordered the night before. And they like everything that he was like, could I do this? And our server was like, yeah, we can do that. And so that was a little different than our last cruise. They felt like it was kind of like these three things. But like everything she was like, yeah, I'm pretty sure we can do that. Like here, choose a backup just in case we can't. But they were always able to get his first choice. And.
[00:50:19] Speaker B: Awesome. Now, did he pre order for breakfast at lunch as well, or did you just kind of deal with those in Marceline or the pool deck or wherever?
[00:50:28] Speaker A: Yeah, for lookout. We did pre order the day before and then I think he did oh well for the last day for the churro waffles, he made sure to pre order those so that he was able to have those.
[00:50:43] Speaker B: Exposure is the word I was looking for. I finally. The word finally just popped in my head. Like he could tolerate some exposure to gluten, but he's not going to eat a Mickey churro waffle that is not gluten free. That would be a problem.
[00:50:57] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And we found with like breakfast and like the lunches, it. I don't know if it made a huge difference, like ordering ahead for those, like for dinner. For sure. It kind of still seemed like for breakfast and lunch he was waiting a while either way because some of the days we did pre order and some of the days we didn't.
[00:51:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it is more effective for Dinner. Because dinner you have have like a set time and set staff. Right. Like who are going to be serving you. The problem with the pre order with breakfast and lunch is they always tell you. Okay, like just when you show up, you ask for like the manager person who's in charge and then they'll go and make sure your stuff is getting made. Right. But like it's not pre made because if it was pre made then it would just sit. Be sitting there for hours. You could show up for breakfast at 6am or you could show up for breakfast at 9am and they don't, you know, they don't know when you're. So that's the one thing about the pre order that it just doesn't, it doesn't work as efficiently for breakfast and lunch as it does.
[00:51:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Which I totally get. So a lot of days like he got like omelets for breakfast. It's like. Yeah, it's already just gluten free.
[00:52:05] Speaker B: Right, Right. There's no gluten in eggs. I mean, unless you're adding stuff to eggs. There's no gluten in eggs. Exactly.
[00:52:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Right.
[00:52:12] Speaker B: There's no gluten in corn. I love when you see like tortilla chips and they have like gluten free and it's like. Yeah, because corn doesn't have gluten.
[00:52:19] Speaker A: Hopefully. I mean you'd be surprised sometimes like IHOP does add flour to their eggs. So.
So you never know.
[00:52:26] Speaker B: Fair. Absolutely. Absolutely. Okay, well, I, I would love to, to ask about the kids in, in the Pride Lands in particular.
One, did they order anything not on the kids menu or were they always ordering up the kids menu? And two, what did they think of the show?
[00:52:45] Speaker A: So my 10 year old, like I said, he's our adventurous eater. So he, he ordered off the adult menu most of the night because he was always like, yeah, I want to try all the, all the different stuff. I can't remember for sure what he ordered, but he, he didn't eat very much off the kids menu and some of the stuff he liked and some he didn't. But I was like, oh, he could always go up to the pool deck if you hate it, you know, like.
[00:53:09] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:53:11] Speaker A: And they, they were kind of like meh. About the show. I would say like they were fine with it, but I love it.
[00:53:19] Speaker B: They didn't get into it. That's a bummer.
[00:53:20] Speaker A: No. Yeah, it was just kind of there, like they were fine with it.
[00:53:25] Speaker B: But yeah, that is the one. I mean it's so funny because we like We. I say adults, I feel like, especially those of us who sort of grew up with the Lion King and it was sort of a part of our childhood. Like, I love that show and the experience and the music and the food and all the atmosphere, but it doesn't resonate.
It didn't resonate for Nathan in that way. And I do think that the Marvel interactivity of that, you know, the trivia and, like, with the show kind of going on intermittently, does really capture the kids, even the ones who aren't that into Marvel.
[00:54:02] Speaker A: Yeah. And I don't know, too, because it's like, maybe because it's actual people kind of telling the Lion King story. So, like. Well, it's not the characters that I know. Like, even though they've seen the Lion King, they don't kind of have that concept yet with that.
[00:54:14] Speaker B: So, unfortunately, it's as expected. I think that. I mean, I think that show is geared for the adult audience more than the kid audience.
[00:54:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Like I said, I thought it was amazing. I loved it. So I was, like, crying at the end.
[00:54:33] Speaker B: Brian, I thought you were going to jump in. I was about to jump in.
[00:54:36] Speaker C: Oh. I was going to ask about mainstage shows, and I wanted to hear what you thought of Hercules on board.
[00:54:43] Speaker A: Loved it. Yeah. Yeah, it was amazing. Like, the whole cast was amazing and just blown away. We. Unfortunately, the Hydra puppets weren't working, so it was just a projection.
So we're like, take it. Because I did know they were going to be there because I'd seen. I hadn't watched the show, but I'd seen pictures of them, and I was like, oh, no.
[00:55:06] Speaker B: How was the projection, though? Did they just do, like, Were there any actors on stage or was it just like.
[00:55:11] Speaker A: Yeah, so Hercules was still fighting them. And it was interesting because. Because it actually took you a second. It looked like they just recorded the Hydra puppets, and so you could see the, like, puppeteers even, like.
But it was just on the screen, like the back screen.
And so. And I mean, I'm glad that it's still, like, they don't have to cancel the show. That they have, like, a B mode, but.
And we did see, like, the Titan puppets were working, and so we saw those. But, yeah, I was like, I'll have to go again.
[00:55:45] Speaker C: I feel like the Hydras are the star of the show because they're like, yeah.
Spoiler.
[00:55:49] Speaker D: Spoiler alert.
[00:55:49] Speaker C: For anyone out there listening, skip ahead 30 seconds if you don't want to hear this. But they swallow Hercules, which is Crazy. To me, it was so crazy.
[00:55:56] Speaker A: And so they just kind of had fog and he, like, fell to the ground, and I was like, oh, sad.
[00:56:01] Speaker B: But it is good to have a B mode because definitely, you know, like you said, then it doesn't get canceled. There are some other stuff. So pretty much all of the shows have some kind of B mode for certain things. For example, I forget which show it is, but there's a scene where it's. It happens in Tiana's palace or Tiana's, you know, restaurant, and she's walking on chairs, and if there's really bad, like, seas, she doesn't walk on the chairs. She walks in front of the chairs. Right. Like, so they do have, you know, certain things that they make sure are.
Are in place. So in case of, you know, real rough seas or a puppet's not working or some special effect isn't working. Right. They do have some. Not everything, I'm sure, has an A B mode, but a lot of things have a B mode, so.
[00:56:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:56:54] Speaker B: Good to know. Now, had you gone to see all the shows on the Dream as well?
[00:56:59] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:57:00] Speaker B: Because you mentioned you're. You're a show person, so that was something you're, I'm sure, looking.
[00:57:04] Speaker A: Yeah. And I feel like I'm like. That's also, like, a big reason to go on Disney Cruise. Line if you love shows and Broadway. Like, it's definitely like, that's one of our favorite parts of the cruise, I feel like, is the. Is the shows. So we saw.
[00:57:18] Speaker B: Do all of your kids go. Do all four of your kids go to the shows?
[00:57:21] Speaker A: The only one, I guess, for the first one. This is the adventure. Our oldest two went and met Loki instead. They went and waited in line for him. And luckily, that one is so short, I was able to go and head out and meet him right as they got to him and took pictures. But so they didn't go that first one, which was good because that's definitely geared for young kids, I feel like.
And.
[00:57:43] Speaker B: Or me. I love that show.
[00:57:45] Speaker A: I do, too.
But it's a good. It's a good intro to, like, a theater performance if you have little kids.
[00:57:52] Speaker B: Yeah, totally. I. That's what I always say to people. If you're going to use, like, one as a test, seize the adventurous.
[00:57:57] Speaker A: It was. It was short, like, Goofy, you know, it was. It was fun. And then my youngest son decided he didn't want to do Frozen, and so he went to the kids club. Our other kids were kind of like. And even my husband were kind of like. I don't know. We've seen so much Frozen stuff. We're kind of, like, done with it, so we might not stay the whole thing, but then it was just amazing. And they were blown away.
[00:58:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:58:20] Speaker A: Yeah. My husband's like, I loved the puppets and, like, the. Olaf was super cute. And, like, so I always tell people.
[00:58:28] Speaker B: I. I'll be honest, Frozen is not like, my. One of my favorite ips. Like, it's fine. It's just.
[00:58:36] Speaker A: We've just seen so much of it.
[00:58:37] Speaker B: Right. It's so much Frozen everywhere. Right. Like, frozen just everywhere.
But I think that that is such a good production on the cruise line. And the, like, you mentioned the puppetry is amazing, both with the. The littles. I won't say anything more than that. And also with Olaf, but it's just. And also the Trolls. Of course. Yeah. But I. I think, think it's so, so good. And I think it's better than the Broadway version. I also think it's better than the version that they used to have at DCA and the Hyperion Theater. So, you know, no. Shame on the parks versions of various productions. Some of them are incredible. But, like, I just think the one on the cruise line is the creme de la creme of the Disney of Frozen on stage. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm glad you. I'm glad you went to that. All right, well, have we missed anything? I feel like we've hit most of the main topics. Was there. Were there any other entertainment things that you guys did that you really either enjoyed or didn't enjoy? I mean, did you wait in line for Dr. Facilier's parlor, or did you just do the meet and greet with him or anything?
[00:59:44] Speaker A: Yeah, we didn't do Dr. Facilier just because I. Our kids were just kind of like, no. And so. And. And yeah. And so they just didn't want to wait in line. We did a lot of trivia. Our kids like that. And so our daughter, she loves Star wars. And so that was like, going on this cruise was like, I have to do Star wars trivia.
And so we went and did it, and it was us and, like, one of another couple. And then one, like, guy that was by himself that got a perfect score. And so then they had to do a tiebreaker.
And it was like, what's the length of the sand crawler? And so it's just kind of like a random guess, you know, kind of one. And so we did end up winning, but it was really cute because it was like, an older couple. The lady came over to us and she's like, if you guys know this much about Star wars trivia, like, they could see that it was our kids that were like doing it. So she gave my daughter like her medal because she's like, it was my husband that was doing it. And then the cast member was like, and I have some for your other kids too. And like gave them medals. And they were so excited.
[01:00:47] Speaker B: Oh, that's amazing.
I love that. Again, more Disney magic.
[01:00:52] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. It was just, it was super sweet. And our kids were so excited. And our six year old, you know, he didn't contribute much, but he wore that medal with pride like the rest of the time. And our day that we did in Fort Lauderdale before we flew home, he wore his medal the whole time.
[01:01:08] Speaker B: Oh, I love that. I also love that your daughter loves Star wars because I love, I will say I love modern Star Wars. Like, I am a huge fan of Andor. I think Andor is like, I think it's like top five television shows, period. Like, it is like in my top five.
And I have a list that includes the Wire, so we're talking. This is really serious stuff.
But yeah, I think Andor is incredible. And I love when I hear about girls who also love Star Wars.
You might have to take her on the Wish because there's droids there now.
[01:01:48] Speaker A: Oh yeah, I know. Or if they ever bring back the Star wars dancy, we'd be all for that bet. I don't know that they will.
[01:01:55] Speaker B: Yeah, well, and I. Have you taken her into like, has she gotten to go into the. She's not an Oceaneer club age anymore. But did you take her into the open house for the. Yeah, because there's that awesome. What are they? Star wars car, cargo bay. I think is.
[01:02:10] Speaker A: Yeah, so we did that on, on the Destiny and Yeah, she loved that. And then also on the Dream they have the Millennium.
[01:02:18] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that they have. I, I, I think think it's a, a bummer that a lot of the Star wars stuff on the ships is only in the kids club. But you can go. You just got to make sure to go during open house hours. Yeah.
[01:02:32] Speaker C: Did, did your kids get a chance to see the Haunted Mansion parlor?
[01:02:37] Speaker A: Yes, I think I'm trying to remember. I know. I think we took different ones at different times. I think they all saw it because we did go in there and we're parks people and so they, they love that we kind of of just lurked around the, and walked around because it was crowded. Like Every time that we went. But yeah, it was super cool. Loved it.
[01:02:57] Speaker B: Well, and I think I like that it's available for all ages.
[01:03:01] Speaker A: I do too.
[01:03:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Before 9pm, right. Like the. And then of course, the Sanctum is available for all ages, all the time. But unfortunately, as you mentioned at the beginning, deville's is only open to adults and it tends to be quite crowded and. And so not really an area you can take the K kids, other than maybe a peak. Did you get a chance to peek into the cask and cannon? The Pirates of the Caribbean?
[01:03:25] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, we did. And going in there, I was like, oh, I wish the Haunted Mansion parlor was this big.
Yeah, that's one thing that surprised me with Haunted Mansion and Deville is I was like, oh, these are small, like, and they were filled to the brim like every time we went in.
[01:03:40] Speaker B: So, yeah, it's definitely a bit of a, you know, it's a bit of a redesign from the, the older ships in, in terms of, like, they have. There's more bars, but they're all smaller in size. Yeah. So it's a feature, not a bug. But I don't know if it's.
[01:03:58] Speaker A: Well, especially with Devilles because I'm like, well, they're actually having like stuff in there. It's like, I would have loved to go listen to the piano guy or, you know, see the Cruella show, but every time we stopped it was like, oh, it's too crowded.
[01:04:10] Speaker B: Yes. This is the rope dropping culture.
[01:04:12] Speaker A: Yes, definitely.
And I think think we felt like there were a lot more adults only on this cruise compared to our dream cruise a couple years ago. So I think like a lot of the spaces were like, oh, this isn't nearly as crowded. But then it's like, oh, there they are.
[01:04:27] Speaker B: Yeah, there's exactly, exactly. Yeah. Which is like, that's not a bad thing because you were a family, so you actually like, probably had more space on the pool deck and more space in, like the family activities. But of course it means that all of the adult spaces are going to be packed and oversubscribed and there are certain activities that just draw that adult crowd even more. Yeah, yeah.
All right, Brian, do we think it's that time?
[01:04:54] Speaker C: I mean, these decisions are really best left to you, Sam. So if you think it's time. I think it's time. So, July, I need to hand you back over to Sam for some arbitrary questions, some arbitrary rules, and probably more than a dash of judgment or the round we know as rapid fire.
[01:05:12] Speaker A: She said no Jack.
[01:05:12] Speaker C: Judgment So that's a heaping spoonful of judgment in her laughing fire recipe.
[01:05:17] Speaker B: You know, based on how we've been talking so far, I have like, I have a prediction that I'm gonna actually like Jaley's answers. So I'm not actually, I'm not really
[01:05:26] Speaker C: that setting the bar high.
[01:05:28] Speaker A: No, no pressure.
[01:05:29] Speaker B: No pressure or anything, but I feel
[01:05:31] Speaker C: like really alleviating the pressure on the guests there, Sam.
[01:05:35] Speaker B: All right, we're gonna start with your Disney favorites and then we're gonna go Disney Cruise Line favorites. We're gonna start with the question I like to start with, which is who is your favorite Disney character? And Disney means everything and anything that Disney owns, including Star wars, of course. So if you pick Cassie and Andor, you're awesome.
[01:05:52] Speaker C: But you don't have Come on Indiana Jones. Come on Indiana Jones.
[01:05:55] Speaker A: I mean, it's hard because like I said love Disney, but my go to is Peter Pan.
[01:06:01] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a good one. Classic. Okay, moving on to Disney movies. What's your favorite Disney movie?
[01:06:07] Speaker A: Movie Coco.
[01:06:09] Speaker B: Nice. Awesome. All right, well, what's your favorite Disney song again?
[01:06:14] Speaker A: Hard.
I think I'm gonna say friend like me from Aladdin.
[01:06:18] Speaker B: That's a great one. Okay, we're gonna shift over to shows on Disney Cruise Line. You've seen some really top notch ones. You saw Beauty and the Beast on the, on the Dream. You saw Frozen and Hercules on the Destiny.
And of course you saw, saw like some other ones that I come on Golden Mickeys.
[01:06:39] Speaker A: Kids loved the Golden Mickeys.
[01:06:42] Speaker B: I gotta ask you, but Jalei, which one was your favorite?
[01:06:46] Speaker A: My favorite was Hercules. Yeah, Beauty and the Beast is close second.
[01:06:50] Speaker B: I, I, you would have been okay. I would either way. You would have been okay either with either.
[01:06:56] Speaker A: But I, I loved Hercules and like Hercules is already one of my favorite movies too.
[01:07:00] Speaker C: And so did you have. Was Corey J. Bradford still in the cast when you were.
[01:07:04] Speaker A: I think so. I think so, yeah. I think from the pictures I think it's the same person.
[01:07:08] Speaker B: Yeah, he only just left. He only just left literally like in the past week or two. And you were in mid February, right?
[01:07:17] Speaker A: Beginning.
[01:07:17] Speaker B: Beginning. No, you're fine.
[01:07:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. So yeah, he was amazing. Like so good. And he came out that like very last show at the end of the cruise and I mean like standing ovation. I was like, you're the best.
[01:07:29] Speaker B: He's the best. He's fantastic. Yeah.
[01:07:31] Speaker C: So how did we get through the whole episode without you asking about Ziya and Gamble?
[01:07:35] Speaker B: Well, we did, I mean, we didn't talk we talked about some of their shows, but you're right, we didn't talk about them. I'm sorry, how did you. Okay, I'm going to add in a rapid fire question. What did you think of Ziya and Gamble?
[01:07:46] Speaker C: And why was your answer.
[01:07:47] Speaker B: And why were they awesome?
[01:07:48] Speaker C: Yeah. And why is your answer that they're awesome?
[01:07:49] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[01:07:50] Speaker A: I mean, they're awesome. We didn't interact with them like quite as much. I think we just kind of missed some of the shows that they're a part of. Like my one son made it to the first one and they were at the Sail Away party.
And then I want to say we didn't really see him again until that last Black Panther show. So, like, we liked them, but we didn't have as much interaction with them.
[01:08:12] Speaker B: Fair enough. Fair enough. All right, well, we're sticking with the cruise line and I've got to ask about your favorite onboard activity. Obviously you sort of won trivia.
[01:08:26] Speaker A: Well, we almost won the Disney Toons trivia. That came down to a bonus question too. So we do do like trivia.
[01:08:34] Speaker B: So is that it? Would you say that's the favorite activity
[01:08:38] Speaker A: or probably that for like the entertainment aspect? I guess. And then our especially me and my husband, we really like going down to like the deck four or five, I can't remember which one it is on the Destiny where they just have the walkway and the chairs and shuffleboard. It gets always quiet there and just sit and watch the ocean go by. That's one of our favorites.
[01:09:00] Speaker B: Yeah, the promenade deck. Deck four on all the ships actually is deck four. Yeah. And it's. I love that too. It's not as good on the wish class just because you don't have the. You can't do the like a full loop. But it's still love. It's still a lovely place to hang out. Just less walking available.
[01:09:16] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, my husband did like, he went to the very front of the ship a couple times because you can get to that, which we couldn't on the Dream. And he was like, there's never anyone there and it was amazing.
[01:09:26] Speaker B: Oh, cool. Love that. All right, we got to switch over to dining because it's really the most important part of. Well, other than the shows, it's the second most important part of the cruise. I gotta ask, what was it? What's your favorite dining rotation? And you can pick from either the Dream or the Destiny. I'm not going to make you just pick from the Destiny, but I'm curious which restaurant you can choose because you like the food, you like the theme, you like the show. It doesn't really like the why. Is could be different. But what was your sort of favorite? Favorite?
[01:09:56] Speaker A: My favorite was Pride Lands, I think for both of them. Yeah. And for all of it. Really?
[01:10:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[01:10:04] Speaker A: The show, it was really pretty in there, too. Like.
[01:10:08] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. Okay, we gotta talk specifically about food. Then I'm gonna ask the two questions, which is a favorite sweet item and a favorite savory item. We do sweets first, because I think savories are better. We save the best for last.
So we start with what is your. What was a favorite sweet item? Item.
[01:10:27] Speaker A: So I. Sweets are my favorite, so Brian's, too. But it doesn't matter.
[01:10:31] Speaker B: It's my rapid fire.
[01:10:34] Speaker A: The. In Pride Lands, they had this, like, chocolate dessert that was super, super good.
And then the pineapple ice cream, the soft serve was really good, too. We had that one day.
[01:10:45] Speaker B: Ooh, I love a good soft serve. Yeah.
[01:10:47] Speaker A: So, I mean, we ate a lot of ice cream.
[01:10:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Good. Every. As you should on a Disney cruise. It's all included. All. All the soft serve, not the other ice cream, but.
[01:10:56] Speaker A: Right. Yeah. All the soft.
[01:10:58] Speaker B: Favorite. Savory.
[01:10:59] Speaker A: Savory. Savor's heart. I. Again, I loved everything.
This one might be a little, like, odd, but for breakfast every day, they had a different type of quiche, and they were all so good. And so every day I was like, oh, what is this one today? Oh, it's a ham and spinach. Okay, I'll take that. And, like, they just had different flavors every day. One was, like, a chorizo, and, like, I really liked it.
[01:11:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Awesome. And a quiche you didn't have to make or buy yourself. Even better. Yeah. Yeah. Love that. Okay. All right. Now, this is a very serious question, and it's very important.
Which ship do you like better, the Dream or the Destiny?
[01:11:38] Speaker A: The Destiny.
[01:11:39] Speaker B: Yeah. That's the right answer. That's the. See, I told you. I knew you were going to pass to the Flying Colors. Okay, the last question of Rapid Fire is, of course, bucket list Cruise. If you could go anywhere in the world, someplace you haven't been in, and you're going to do it on a Disney ship, and it doesn't even have to be someplace that Disney currently sails. It just needs to be someplace accessible by water, where would you go?
[01:12:02] Speaker A: I think as I was thinking a lot about this question, I think I would love to do, like, an east coast of the US Cruise. Like, I've been to cities on the east coast, but I'm Like, I'd love to hit up Boston and New York and just like wake your way down and then go over to Castaway and then like end in Orlando, you know, and do.
[01:12:20] Speaker B: Do a parking trip at the end,
[01:12:21] Speaker A: do a park trip.
[01:12:22] Speaker B: I love that. We can hit all the major US Cities on the eastern seaboard and then we end at Disney World. I love it. I'm coming with you. All right. I love it. You. Like I said, I knew I had a feeling that you were going to pass the Flying Colors A.
No judgment. Coco's not my favorite movie, but it's. But it's a great movie, so I can't. There's no real judgment.
[01:12:45] Speaker A: I mean, and it's hard. It's hard to choose, but that's kind of my. I. I love it.
[01:12:49] Speaker C: Well, speaking of which, what's next? And you know, I feel like you have to get on the Disney Treasure.
[01:12:56] Speaker A: If.
[01:12:56] Speaker B: I mean. Yeah,
[01:13:00] Speaker A: yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd love to. We did book the Placeholder. We don't have anything currently booked, but just kind of looking and seeing. And we're also like, oh, might be fun to sail out of California since that's easier for us to get to. And so. But which wouldn't be the trip treasure, but.
[01:13:17] Speaker B: No, but it was wonder or the magic.
[01:13:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[01:13:20] Speaker B: Out of San Diego. You have several. There's several options. Of course you can do Alaska as well, but like, you have several options for San Diego cruises with two ships, you know, on the west coast at least part of the year.
[01:13:32] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. So we'll see. I don't have anything booked yet.
Love to go again. So let's see. Time wise and everything. Hopefully, hopefully we can get back again. I mean, it's always. I was like, well, we'll see. But we did book the Placeholder, so I'm. It will probably happen.
[01:13:49] Speaker B: So you have a two year limit. There you go.
[01:13:51] Speaker A: We have a two year limit. Yeah,
[01:13:54] Speaker C: yeah. We got a few of those stacked up ourselves that we probably won't end up using, but there you go.
[01:13:59] Speaker A: I know, it's like no risk, right?
[01:14:02] Speaker B: Exactly. It's hard. That's. I mean, you can, you know, you can buy two on every sailing you go on and then, you know, obviously you're not necessarily, you know, we have friends, friends who go on, you know, 10 cruises a year that we can't do that. It's just not possible. But just for time and, and, yeah,
[01:14:18] Speaker A: like the kids and everything.
[01:14:19] Speaker C: Keep playing Powerball, Sam. We'll get there.
[01:14:21] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah, yeah, we, we. You know, it's too late to buy tickets for tonight, I think, but. Or for. For the. I think I can't remember if it's the Mega Millions or the Powerball. That's tonight.
[01:14:31] Speaker C: You can't win if you don't play.
[01:14:32] Speaker B: If you don't play. Absolutely.
[01:14:33] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:14:34] Speaker A: So.
[01:14:34] Speaker C: All right. Well, Julie, it has been fabulous talking to you this evening and hearing all about your adv aboard the Destiny. Wait, that's confusing, right?
Your fun travels aboard the Destiny.
[01:14:48] Speaker B: I use the word adventure anymore. Yeah, I know.
[01:14:51] Speaker C: Yeah. Someone posted today a fun song. I forget what it was, but it has like three of the Disney ships in the name and it was like that they had managed to do all three. So anyway, thank you for coming on. Thank you for sharing your experience with our audience out there.
[01:15:02] Speaker A: We really appreciate it. Hey, well, thanks for having me.
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[01:17:18] Speaker B: Sam.
