[00:00:00] Speaker A: I mean, the roller coaster, when they can get that working properly and can get people on it and even the booking system just more functional so the whole app doesn't crash, then I think that's going to be wonderful, like, when they get there.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: 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.
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[00:01:12] Speaker C: Oh, I love it. I love that they comment on how different we are, because we really are. It's funny, you know, we're. We're a married couple. For those who. I don't know if you've been living under a rock and don't realize that, but we're a married couple. But we have very. We. There's a lot of things we have in common. There's a lot of things different about each of us, and we like different things about the cruise line, and we dislike different things about the cruise line. And then sometimes we, of course, agree on things. So, yeah, that's awesome. Love that. What a great review. All right, well, Brian, well, thank.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: Well, hold on. I gotta say thank you, Bob, Tiger, for that review and for everyone else listening, remember, one of the easiest ways to help support the show. If you're on Apple podcasts, hit those five stars. If you leave us a written review, we will read it at the top of one of our main episodes. And if you're on the other platforms, give us those popcorn buckets. Thumbs up, hearts. I don't know all the things, just not Rotten Tomatoes.
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[00:02:13] Speaker C: Yes. I'm super excited. It is, like, still blows My mind that we have people listening to us outside of like our friends and family. Although to be fair, Brian's parents don't listen to us at all. But I just think it's like wild that we have people all the way across the Pacific Ocean, like 17 hour time difference basically, who are, I mean she's living in the future right now because today it's Saturday as we're recording and it's Sunday for her, it's Sunday morning for her and she got up at 8 o' clock in the morning to record with us. Welcome Lauren, all the way from Melbourne, Australia.
Welcome Lauren.
[00:02:50] Speaker A: Thank you so much. I'm so excited to chat to you guys.
[00:02:53] Speaker C: We are so excited to chat to you too. I love that phrase by the way. Chat to you. We say chat with you in the US but I actually prefer, I prefer the way you all say it. Chat to you. I think that's, I don't know, it's just cute. Well, we gotta talk. We're gonna, we're gonna talk about back to back on the adventure, which is kind of wild. Cause this morning I was telling Lauren, this morning I was recording our morning. I was recording with somebody from the UK who was on the adventure. And I actually think that Lauren and Claire, our other guests, I think they were probably on at same time.
But Lauren, you have sailed on Disney Cruise Line before on the Wonder, the Wonder down under, as we like to say. I gotta say, before you started sailing on Disney Cruise Line, tell us like, did you have a love for Disney or was it the cruise line that got you into Disney? I'm gonna guess no.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: Yeah, so I guess like most people, you know, growing up in the 80s, the 90s, you know, there was a lot of Disney just in everyday life.
We love those movies, you know, Aladdin, Little Mermaid, all of that stuff.
Then probably, you know, grew up, I guess outgrew it a little bit for a while. And then when I had my own kids, you know, that's what you sort of go to, isn't it with your children sometimes. And then, and then I think as well, like just Moana encanto, you know, I just really realized I was actually enjoying them for myself as well as like popping them on for the kids. So when it came time to look at holidays, we sort of denied about what to do, where to go and we actually ended up at Orlani. We were in Hawaii.
[00:04:30] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: And we stayed there just, we did it as part of like a bigger trip. So we stayed there for a week in amongst other places and we just had the best time.
And then at that point, I think the cruise line had announced that they were coming to Australia, but they hadn't started sailing yet.
My husband was a bit reluctant. He wasn't sure that cruising was for him. We'd never done a cruise before on any cruise line and sort of had that perception maybe, that, I don't know, it was for an older demographic. But, you know, three nights out of Melbourne, it was easy. We didn't have to catch a flight. We could. We live about 20 minutes from, you know, where we boarded. So we just were like, let's give it a whirlwind. And then he was very pleasantly surprised with how much he enjoyed it. He loved it. And I enjoyed it exactly as much as I thought I would, which was a lot. And my kids loved it. So, yeah, we just really, really enjoyed the wonder. So we did one each season out of. We did two out of Melbourne, one out of Sydney.
[00:05:34] Speaker C: I have to say I'm jealous because I want to sail. I want to drive 20 minutes and sail out of our home city, which, I mean, we should be able to. But Disney doesn't sail out of Seattle anymore. They used to sail out of Seattle to Alaska many, many years ago, but now they only sail out of Vancouver. And we keep. We keep talking about how awesome it would be to, like, take an Uber or a Lyft, like, to the port, literally, you know, 20 minutes from our house and be able to sail.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: It's the best.
[00:06:03] Speaker C: Yeah, I just can't. I can. And even. Even Sydney's not. I mean, I know it's a drive for you all, but it's not that far. Far. It's. You're on the same coast, right?
[00:06:11] Speaker A: Exactly. And we happen to be sort of just south of Sydney at that time anyway, so it just kind of worked out. But. Yeah, exactly. The only problem with the Australian itineraries, I think, were just. They were very, very bland. Like, there was just.
Which I think might have been the idea. Anyway, it was just a little taste to try and get, you know, people into the idea. But, yeah, we were just literally sailing around three days, sort of to nowhere. So. Yeah.
[00:06:40] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, I know they went to, like, a couple of stops, like Hobart, and, you know, like, there are places that you all have probably been. So they weren't, like, places to go and see for you.
[00:06:51] Speaker A: For you. Exactly. And that stretch of water is fairly treacherous between Melbourne and Hobart. I've done that before. And, like, a passenger ferry, it wasn't really a cruise line. But, you know, you take your car and.
And I never felt so sick. Like, the. You know, it can just be really, really rough. So when you're thinking of planning your holiday, sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's a lake, but other times it's a washing machine and you just, like, it's a risk you take. And we didn't really want to take that, you know, for our holiday.
[00:07:21] Speaker C: Totally, totally get that. All right, so you sailed on the Wonder three times and all three times fairly convenient to you all, obviously.
Um, now you decided to sail on the adventure out of Singapore. Now, I. I'm going to say this. Singapore is way more convenient for you all than it is for us, but it's not exactly convenient. It's not like it's next door. Like, what. What was the. How. What was the decision making like? And, you know, did you consider doing something else, like coming to the States and taking a cruise? Or were you like, wow, there's like another ship that's going to be in our hemisphere. We got to go to Singapore.
[00:08:00] Speaker A: Yeah, sure. So I think it's a mix. We actually have family in Singapore and we had a trip plan there in 2020, which obviously didn't go ahead for obvious Covid reasons. So we'd had a trip, you know, planned there already. So when the ship was announced, we'd sort of always had in the back of our mind that we wanted to go back, see our family.
So that made it quite an easy decision for us just to, you know, be able to do both things.
But it is interesting, like, whenever we'd meet, you know, in a taxi or whatever in Singapore, Pete, you'd say you're Australian, they'd be like, ah, you're close by. Like, there is that definite feeling of, like, I don't know, maybe it's because just Australia is so far from everywhere.
[00:08:42] Speaker C: Everything else. Right.
New Zealand.
[00:08:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Right, exactly. So it just kind of feels like it does feel close to us. Asia, you know, most people have done that leg, you know, lots of times.
America, obviously, we would love to go, but I think with. I've got three kids and at the moment, just that trip to Florida is like a marathon.
[00:09:07] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, it's really far.
And then you're paying for five seats on a plane, which is also really expensive. Right. So. Yeah, that makes sense.
[00:09:16] Speaker A: Exactly. So when they're older, hopefully.
[00:09:19] Speaker C: Yeah. Now, how old are. How old are your kids?
[00:09:22] Speaker A: 7, 10 and 12.
[00:09:23] Speaker C: Oh, so great cruising ages. We got some Oceaneers Club in there and an Edge Kid in there. So your oldest is the same, same age as Nathan. I love that.
So now were they, did they all enjoy cruising on the Wonder and were they excited to check out a different ship?
[00:09:41] Speaker A: Oh yeah, they loved it. Like going on the Wonder was just.
Oh, it was their favorite thing, you know, they were always asking. We almost didn't do a third sailing because we thought they were continually coming back to Melbourne. When they announced though that they were cutting the Australian cruises, we definitely jumped on because, yeah, my kids loved it. So I think it's just, it's been such a good holiday for us because the whole family is happy. You know, we can all do whatever we want to make the holiday sort of our own.
And that's tricky in other places and other types of holidays. You know, usually someone's kind of being dragged along to something they maybe don't want to do, you know.
[00:10:25] Speaker C: Totally.
Well, the cruise is so like insulated that you do feel, I mean, I don't know, I don't want to speak for you, but I feel like we feel very safe and comfortable letting Nathan do what he wants to do independently. Not every kid is going to be like that, but I think if you have a kid that is responsible enough to be independent, you can feel very comfortable that nothing's going to happen to them on the sailing. Even though we wouldn't let him like go out on his own in, you know, out in the world otherwise.
[00:10:55] Speaker A: Absolutely. Yeah. It's such a good like little kind of training ground I guess for that sort of responsibility. Yeah, for sure.
[00:11:02] Speaker C: I love that. Well, okay, so you were heading to Singapore to do a back to back cruise also see some family. I gotta ask, how long is the flight from Melbourne to Singapore?
[00:11:13] Speaker A: It's a bad idea.
[00:11:15] Speaker C: Okay, so still a long flight. I mean it's like us flying to Hawaii or to the. Well to Europe is a little bit longer, but yeah, it's like a flying to Europe pretty much.
[00:11:24] Speaker A: That's amazing. You guys are so lucky.
[00:11:28] Speaker C: I mean for you guys anywhere you want to go is a long flight, like I said, except, except for maybe within Australia. But even if you're going to west coast of Australia.
[00:11:37] Speaker A: Oh yeah, like even to like Darwin's about five hours. So yeah, yeah,
[00:11:44] Speaker C: but, but yeah, so okay, so you've got this long ish flight. I'm imagining you're getting there at least a day before, if not more. Where did you all stay? And did you stay with family or did you stay in like the, you know, marina area?
[00:11:58] Speaker A: So when we actually arrived we arrived two days early.
I've been burnt badly in the past. Taylor Swift eras, tour flight cancellation. We made it, but we had to drive. It was chaos.
Yeah, like renting a car at the airport and fanging it down to Sydney.
So we, like, I was so paranoid. So we left two days before and we stayed actually for those first two days because we knew we were going to be in Singapore city after we stayed at the zoo, the like rainforest resort area which was.
[00:12:34] Speaker C: That's so cool. They have a resort at the zoo.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: It's called an area called Mandai. And they've got like four zoos in Singapore. All sorts of different kind of zoos with different focus.
You know, animals and rivers and night safaris. It's very cool. So that was awesome.
[00:12:52] Speaker C: Oh, that sounds amazing. Now did you spend your time at the zoo then during like one of the days you were in town?
[00:12:58] Speaker A: Yeah. So the first full day that we had, you know, we only had one full day.
We did like a breakfast with the orangutans and, you know, walked around the zoo and I mean it's like as hot as the surface of the sun in Singapore. So we couldn't spend the whole day, you know, doing exactly what we wanted. But yeah, it was, it was great. It was a really good soft landing to kind of before the cruise.
[00:13:22] Speaker C: Awesome. That sounds incredible. It's so funny you say the surface of the sun. That's how what we talk when we talk about going to Orlando in the summer. The. That's how we describe it. It says hot as the surface of the sun. And that's A lot of people are telling us that Singapore is like that, like maybe year round.
[00:13:37] Speaker A: I mean, I'm really curious to hear your guys. Like, I know we'll get to sort of the ship in a bit, but the heat is unbelievable, like, and you know, it's so oppressive. Yeah. And I think when we coming from Melbourne, you know, we've come home and it's still like 26 degrees today. So it's not cold and it's only 29 in Singapore. But it's just this type of heat that's.
I, I don't know, it's. It's very, very overwhelming.
[00:14:07] Speaker C: Yeah, well. And it's wet. That wet, humid heat.
[00:14:10] Speaker A: Exactly.
So you don't think they have those sort of seasons, you know, even at night it doesn't really cool down that much. You know, it's just always hot.
Wow.
[00:14:22] Speaker C: All right, well, let's. I want to talk about that in relation to of course, the ship when we get there. But let's, let's start with any pre planning stuff. I'm curious, did you do any pre booking of activities? Your silver cast. Well now you're gold. Welcome to gold.
But you were, you were silver. When booking these cruises, were there things that you wanted to pre book? From what we've been hearing, there's lots of availability for things because most of the audience is first time cruisers and they are wanting to experience the ship and not pay for premium activities. But I'm curious, were you all looking to book any of those add on activities, Drink tastings, adult dining, anything like that?
[00:15:01] Speaker A: Yeah, so we did, we booked Prima Note which I hadn't seen on the Wonder. It was potentially there and I just missed it or it got sold out very quickly. So we did that and we did Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique for my two daughters.
[00:15:18] Speaker C: Yeah, nice.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: Yeah, plenty of availability, like no problem.
[00:15:23] Speaker C: Awesome. And of course there's no port stops so there's no shore excursions to book.
What, what port arrival time did you get and, and how did you all get to the port?
[00:15:35] Speaker A: Yep. So I think we were 1145 ish, which was perfect by the time we sort of checked out of our hotel and then we just caught like they have grab. It's like an Uber situation. Very easy, like super efficient. Our driver was three minutes late and we got a $10 credit. Like it, everything runs beautifully there. So yeah, that was easy. It was very straightforward. And then the drive was probably half an hour. You know Singapore is quite small, it's just can be congested in the traffic. But yeah, it was very easy.
[00:16:12] Speaker C: Nice. Now you're doing a back to back. Are you doing the three night first? The four night first.
[00:16:17] Speaker A: So the first cruise was four nights and then the second cruise we actually had my sister and her two children join us. So my nephews are also on the second cruise. Yeah.
[00:16:28] Speaker C: Oh fun. That's awesome.
Well, how did the boarding process go? We've heard it's been, that's been the thing that's been the smoothest boarding.
And even on back to back sailing, we've heard that that's been a very smooth process. I'm curious if that was your experience.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: Absolutely. The boarding, that first cruise was so seamless. Like I mean it was quite good in Melbourne too to be honest. Like we didn't have any complaints for the Wonder but just considering the scale of how many people they had to get through, you know, we were sort of prepared for a bit of a wait and you know it's new and they're learning new things, new systems, but it was flawless. Like that first embarkation. The second one though, we did have some troubles just with the back to back. We never got the information that we required, what to do, where to go.
And I think I'd heard on maybe it was you guys saying that you should have something the night before.
[00:17:23] Speaker C: And I. Yeah, they usually leave a letter for you either in your stateroom or on your. Well, the fish extender is what they do with the other on the other ships, but they usually leave when the night before. It's a letter and then in it has a little back to back cards and it also tells you where to go. So obviously you didn't get that.
[00:17:41] Speaker A: No. And then I think we got back to our stateroom and it was about 10:30 when I realized, oh, we don't have that letter. And I tried calling down to guest services and they were just like, oh, don't worry, just kind of, you know, in the morning, just find your stateroom post, she'll tell you what to do sort of thing. And we were a bit like, okay. And then the morning came and we were sort of like, hello. Like the ship was empty and we were not sure what to do. So it was fine, it worked out. But yeah, there was just a bit of miscommunication there. And because you've got to re enter Singapore, you've got to re go through customs. It was just probably trickier than like, I mean, I'm sure that's common in US sailings, but in Australia, because they were just in domestic waters, you know, you didn't even need your passport to go. You could just take your best ticket. It was very straightforward. So yeah.
[00:18:31] Speaker B: Did you have the same room in both sailings?
[00:18:33] Speaker A: Yes. So that was awesome.
[00:18:35] Speaker C: In US back to back sailings, if you're leaving out of US port, you still have to have your passport with you for the back to back part because you are.
We always are leaving the country when we're going because they have to stop at a foreign port. So even if we're leaving out of the U.S. you, you need to have your passport or if you're sailing on a birth certificate, you need to have that with you. But you can't just have like your driver's license. That's not good enough.
So because you are doing the check in and everything, you're. And you do actually go through. We actually go through immigration when we're getting off the ship, not when we're coming on the ship, if that makes sense. But I know at Singapore you do. You're doing it in both directions from what we. Yeah, from what we've heard. Well, let's talk about.
You're boarding the ship the first time. Smooth sailings. As far as check in process. We know you don't board into an atrium, but what's your first experience on the ship? Do you know? Obviously you don't really know where to go because you haven't been on the ship before and it's a very different layout. But what did you all end up doing sort of that first day and those first moments on board.
[00:19:44] Speaker A: Yeah, so that embarkation.
My kids love that announcing the name. So I had to lower some expectations because I'd heard that they weren't doing that.
So we, I mean, but vibes were so high. We were all so excited. The kids were just jumping up and down with joy to be on that boat. So we sort of.
I think when you embark, you're kind of near Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. So you sort of walk down a corridor, but you can see it feels Disney. You know, there's a lot of stuff that makes you just feel that Disney feeling. I guess so. But honestly, that first day was just exploring and we did, I think my husband and I, we were talking that first day was something like 30 flights of stairs and 20,000 steps. Like, the ship is so big.
[00:20:33] Speaker C: It's much bigger than the Wonder, especially.
[00:20:36] Speaker A: And we have a rule that we don't use the elevators, which was tested many times on this cruise because it was. It was so much, so many stairs.
So, yeah, we just explored and it's. It takes hours to really explore, I think like to properly do each sort of deck and figure out where things are and. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:21:01] Speaker C: I gotta say, like, we. So we don't have a rule that we never take the elevator, but I. I feel like a rule of like, if you're going less than, I don't know, four decks or something like that, then you're going less than four decks, no elevator. If you're going more than.
[00:21:16] Speaker B: Or it's immediately following the muster drill, like no way anywhere.
[00:21:20] Speaker A: That's so true.
There was escalators on this ship, which helped because otherwise, I mean, yeah, you can't really do nine flights of stairs or I guess you can, but it's not much fun for anyone. So, you know, taking the escalator up to. I think you could take it up to deck 10 and then. Yeah, but I did cheat. Absolutely.
[00:21:42] Speaker C: I caught the lift well, we got it. We got to ask about stateroom. I'm curious. You're a family of five, so you've got certain stateroom requirements.
What kind of stateroom did you get and what did you think about it?
[00:21:55] Speaker A: This is definitely. We preferred the Wonder. We couldn't get one that sleeps five on the Adventure, unless you're sort of upper concierge, you know.
But they're all the. Is it deluxe with veranda. They only sleep four, so we had to have interconnecting.
[00:22:13] Speaker C: Oh, wow. I didn't realize that.
[00:22:15] Speaker A: Yeah. So it's a bit of a shame for larger families and. But, I mean, the interconnecting, it was fine. My kids are sort of old enough that we could put them in one, and me and my hubby had the other.
The only thing was, like, the staterooms were just.
I mean, obviously it wasn't set for five people, but they were. They just felt so much smaller and tighter than on the Wonder. And, like, our stateroom attendant never changed the bed back to a couch, so it was always out as a bed, which was fine. We were barely in the room. But, you know, it just kind of. When you were in there, it was tight. Like, it was.
So, yeah, I mean, it was. It was fine.
[00:22:59] Speaker C: But, yeah, that is odd for Disney service because one of the things that we. We've, you know, sailed on Royal Caribbean and Royal Caribbean, they don't do make up your bed every day. Right. Like, if you're using, you know, the couch as a bed, it stays as a bed because they only come and service your room once. And most of the other cruise lines, aside from Disney, service your room only once. And so if you have that situation, you've got whatever the bed situation is, the beds are open as opposed to turning it back to a couch. Whereas on Disney Cruise Line, because you got that. So service in the morning and service in the evening, they. They switch it back and forth. But that's interesting. I've never heard on Disney of it being that way, but I wonder if it's. I don't know if it's a. That stateroom attendant was just shortcutting or if it's an issue of that's what they're doing on the adventure, because there are. They're doing things different operationally, as we've come to find out on the adventure. Some of that's to be expected. Some of it's a little bit surprising. But that might be one difference there.
[00:23:59] Speaker A: There were definitely noticeable differences between the Wonder and the Adventure, like, considerable differences between, you know, in on the Wonder. I remember the people who were in our stateroom obviously were, prior to us did have an interconnecting room because they'd left the veranda door open.
And we didn't realize that it was banging. And we just called down and just said, hey, can someone just lock the veranda door? And they were there with within like 10 minutes. And then the next time we got to our room, there was like a card in the fish extender thing saying, hey, five free popcorn. Sorry for the inconvenience. We were like, inconvenience. Like that was exactly where is this?
And we were laughing about that on this cruise because we had a fair few things pop up. And I was like, remember when we got those free popcorns for the balcony? Like the tiniest little issue? And my hubby was like, oh, they just couldn't do that here. They'd have no popcorn.
[00:24:58] Speaker C: Oh, God. Okay.
Wow.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:25:01] Speaker C: They didn't know they would be out of popcorn for every. Okay, so I gotta ask you about some of these. I want to. We're just gonna dive right in before we even talk about some of the entertainment. Like, I want to know some of what are some of the hiccups that you experience? And I'm sure some of them are more minor than others. But like, we, we, we want to know this stuff and we want to be able to share this stuff. Because I do think the really important thing for people to know if they're going on the adventure is this is a very different ship and you have to have different expectations of what the experience is like. And I want people to know that before they book it so they can make an educated decision about whether or not they want to book the. The adventure and fly over to Singapore for the US from the US it's very far away. Or if they maybe want to put their money elsewhere and go on, I don't know, the treasure or go over to Europe and do a sailing on the dream this summer. Right. So, yeah, I'd love to know what some of those tell us. Some of the hiccups that you experience.
[00:25:56] Speaker A: So, I mean, the back to back one was a big one at the time, just because we were very confused about what to do. That we also had a plumbing issue in our bathroom in the middle of the night.
We were up for probably an hour, 90 minutes, trying to get someone, you know, just repeatedly calling down to guess is anyone coming up sort of situation at three in the morning.
The roller coaster, which at one point.
So I. The Way that they're doing it is obviously on the app, but it crashes the app to the point that you can't even message, you know each other. You know, the other parties in your stateroom. So the whole app dies for like two hours every day.
[00:26:37] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Because everybody's on the app trying to book the roller coaster at noon or whatever.
[00:26:42] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:26:43] Speaker C: Right.
[00:26:44] Speaker A: Yeah. So we found that the first day was fine. Fine, because they didn't open the roller coaster. And even this first full day. So the second day, I think most people maybe didn't know that they had to go on at midday, but the third and fourth days at midday, that would crash every, you know, every time. So that was just frustrating because, you know, we've got kids and we give them just an old iPhone that we've got, like an old one of ours, and. And you don't. They can't contact you. And, you know, it's like we were saying before about giving them that freedom, but it's so well contained when you've got the app and the ability to message each other. And so that was a bit, you know, I mean, I just think, yeah, the roller coaster, whole system, they just need a better.
And we were in line at guest services because.
Spoiler, we did get on the roller coaster. But, you know, I think that's only because we had seven full days to try.
But when we were in line, I was actually chatting with an American passenger and he was saying that he was going to escalate the complaint because poor guest services, you know, these poor people just copping the brunt of everyone's frustration of. Because sometimes the apple. You'll be able to select a time, but you don't know if it's been confirmed, the apple crash, almost every time. So it's like, did I get a spot? Did I not? There's no real way to check. You kind of have to go to guest services or just try your luck going up to the roller coaster and seeing if you've got a spot.
So poor guest services. They were very overwhelmed, I think, by that. So this passenger was like, I'm going to write a formal complaint and hopefully get it escalated to just change procedure, I guess.
[00:28:26] Speaker B: What was. I mean, since you got a chance to ride it. I don't think we've had anyone who's really been able to ride it on the show yet. So how was it?
[00:28:34] Speaker A: I didn't go on. I didn't. I gave up my spot for my daughter and my nephew, so we could only get two people On.
They loved it, though. Like, my daughter said, it was her favorite part of the whole thing.
And so it was beautiful. And they were on at sunset and it looked gorgeous. And we actually met one of the roller coaster engineers. My husband made friends with him at Buccaneers at the pub.
He was just obviously clocked off for the day and having a beer. And anyway, he was sort of saying that.
That I think they were quite side. I don't want to say sidetracked, but the heat really took them by surprise, which is kind of an interesting thing, seeing as it's based in Singapore for so long. I don't know how they're gonna fix that. But he said as well that they're only running it for four or five hours every day. But he said if it was on a different cruise line, he's like. It would be running 12 hours. He's like, Disney are just being so, so safe with this that they're just. It's just they. The amount that they're running it, they can't get probably half the guests, you know, on the ride because it's only running a few hours.
[00:29:44] Speaker B: What about the other rides up on the top deck? Did you get to experience any of those?
[00:29:49] Speaker A: So we did. I did with my son.
Is it Groot?
I've forgotten the name, Sorry. But it's more like. It's like the one that sort of rises and lowers, and that was fine like that. No lines. You could just walk on. My son's 7. He did it like three or four times in a row every day. He'd go up and he'd just want to go.
The one that's like the cars that drive around in a circle. That was.
I mean, for such a really straightforward experience that was comedic, like the amount of stops and starts and sort of errors and things that happened on that ride. In the end, my kids just got off. They were just like, nah, no more, really.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: So that ride was having problems then?
[00:30:36] Speaker A: Yeah. I think if you. If you hit the side or you hit another car, it just shuts down. Like they're trying to stop it becoming, I guess, like dodgym cars or bumper cars.
They just are just. It literally has to just be the sort of slowest moving ride. Like, it was just very, very. I think my kids were probably too old for it, so they were a bit. It wasn't worth that trouble.
[00:30:59] Speaker C: I don't know that it's. I don't know that that PIMS racers is worth it for anyone. I hear. I mean, I heard from the guests. We talked to, or I talked to this morning that they weren't running very often.
Probably the same issue and you know, constantly getting, you know, the getting tripped by the fact that they're bumping into each other when they're not supposed to or something like that. So it was.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: That ride is a bit of a fail, to be honest. I think that one, the other two, I mean, the roller coaster, when they can get that working properly and can get people on it and even the booking system just more functional so the whole app doesn't crash, then I think that's going to be wonderful. Like when they get there.
[00:31:43] Speaker C: Well, you know, glitches seem to happen and, you know, it's funny because it's the first of its kind and it will be the only of its kind, I'm sure. It's not something that they, you know, that had a lot of ability to test. Now, they did do some virtual queue testing with the water slide on the Wish, the Aquamouse. They did it using the. Probably, as I understand it, the exact system that they are currently using on the adventure. And. But it's on a much smaller scale and it's, you know, so that's the, you know, doing it as a test here and there is not the same as having it operational every day with 6,000 passengers trying to get reservations. So.
[00:32:25] Speaker A: And those reservations would just go within like, ah. If you. We got on. It was 11:59 and I just happened to be. I'd actually said to myself I was going to stop trying because it was kind of starting to get me down a bit every day trying to get a ride. Rah, rah. And I just said to myself, nah, we'll just skip it. Like it's not that important. 11:59, I just happened to be in getting lunch and I jumped on and they'd loaded it early, like a minute early or whatever the access. So I got it straight away.
But yeah, I mean, it was.
We joked it was like getting Taylor Swift tickets as well. Like, you know, you just. Real luck of the door lottery.
[00:33:07] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly.
[00:33:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:08] Speaker C: It's a bit of a. Bit of a boondoggle there. Well, I'm curious if you felt if you had that issue with character meet and greets. Now, you'd been on the Wonder, so you'd already met a lot of characters on the Wonder, probably more than were even available, but there's some different ones of available, of course on the adventure. I'm curious. Well, one. Did you book Royal Gathering? Because that's one way of course, to See a few princesses where you are doing that in advance and not having to book it on the ship. And then I'm curious how. How did you all fare with getting reservations for, I don't know, like, Baymax or any other characters?
[00:33:41] Speaker A: We didn't do Royal Gathering.
My. My girls. I was even a bit surprised they wanted to do Bibbidi BobBidi just to 10 and 12, but spoiler, BibBidi Bobbidi was also their favorite, so that was still a big success at that age. So we didn't do Royal Gathering, but we did.
I did get a meeting with Baymax because my son loves Big Hero 6, but I couldn't get him out of Oceaneers to go, so I ended up canceling the spot. He didn't want to leave Kids Club.
[00:34:11] Speaker C: But, Lauren, why didn't you just go and meet Baymax yourself?
[00:34:17] Speaker A: Come on.
[00:34:18] Speaker C: That's what I would. Listen, I want full, like, I'm. I'm completely being transparent. Full transparency here. The character meet and greets that I drag Nathan to, they're not for Nathan. They're for me. They're for me.
[00:34:33] Speaker A: That is funny, because I did actually run into my kids while I was in line for Donald Duck without them, because Donald's my favorite. So I got very excited when I saw him. I got in line, and then they were like, hey, Mom.
[00:34:42] Speaker C: Like,
[00:34:45] Speaker A: but yeah, so Baymax is the only one that we really tried for, and the rest, we just kind of are happy to wander around the ship. And you always get such. I love that interaction. That's sort of a bit more organic when you're just walking around. And like, we were on Deck 10, which is the beautiful outdoor sort of spaces, and we ran into Pluto, and he was chasing me and my daughters, like, playfully, like, trying to give us, you know, a lick. And I don't know. That was really fun. So most of our character interactions were very organic, I guess, in that sense. So. Yeah, but it was hard, like, booking characters. They were going on the app, like, straight away.
[00:35:29] Speaker C: Yeah, well. And I agree. I think the impromptu or organic, like, character meets are the most fun because you are catching them as they're, you know, as they're moving through space rather than in this, you know, sort of organized queue. And so it. They tend to. You tend to get more interaction often unless they're being rushed for a break or something like that. But I just find those to be. Those to be really, really fun.
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[00:36:54] Speaker C: Well, we've got to talk about shows, of course, but I want to start, start with the shows in the Imagination Garden, which we call them deck shows on other ships. I don't know what I'm just going to call them the Imagination Garden shows because it's not really like, it's not on a pool deck. It's in this space in the center or one of the center areas of the ship. So did you go with two cruises? I'm guessing you had an opportunity to go to all of the shows if you wanted to. Like, I guess there's the Sail Away, there's the Duffy and Friends Friendship or whatever it's called. And then the Avengers show as well. I don't know if I'm missing any, but those are the ones I can think of.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: Moana.
[00:37:34] Speaker C: Oh, oh, Moana. But that's at Wayfinder Bay, right? Okay.
So did you get to go to all of those shows? And if so, I'd love to know what you thought of them.
[00:37:44] Speaker A: We actually missed Sail Away. Like, I don't know, I feel like on the Wonder, that's impossible to miss, you know, because it's such a thing.
Like, it's a real, I guess a standout of embarkation days, the Sail Away party. Whereas these ones were sort of every maybe hour, every 45 minutes, I'm not sure, sort of a rolling thing. And I don't know if it was just that feeling of like, oh, we can go to another one or. It just never really had that same communal feel as the Sail Away on the Wonder, where sort of most people are there and it's, you know, the Horn and I don't know. So we sort of. And the other thing is too, it's so, so hot.
So those.
I mean, that area is gorgeous. The Imagination Garden and the reef, it's. It's beautiful, but it doesn't have any sea breeze. No shade.
It's just like.
[00:38:40] Speaker C: It's just open from above, so there's nothing to go falling through. Yeah.
[00:38:45] Speaker A: So like to stand there for an hour or whatever is.
It's, you know, it's a big thing. So we didn't do that for Sail Away. We'd also seen the Marvel show on the Wonder because they did that show. So we'd seen that twice.
The duffy and friends 1. We.
I don't know if we caught the end of it, or maybe it was just them maybe doing more of a meet and greet. They had their friendship background, but it was literally just them sort of waving at everyone. And my daughter's like, this can't be the show. Like, what's happening here? So I think we mistimed that.
And then again, because of the heat, I think that trade off, you know, it's hard.
It is hard. Yeah. You really want to. You really need to be invested in the show to stand there.
[00:39:34] Speaker C: You.
[00:39:34] Speaker A: You know.
[00:39:35] Speaker C: Yeah, well. And the guest I was talking to this morning, she was saying, like, not only there's no shade, but there's no fans or misters or anything.
And. And it's just. She. She said it's brutal in there. Like, it was. She said it was really. It was really rough to be there. The one thing she said that was good about it was they were having people sit. And so you could actually sit and watch and you didn't have. And if people stood up in front of you, the cast members were telling everybody to sit. Other if every. Is everybody needs to be seated or everybody needs to be standing. Right. You can't have it both ways.
But. Yeah, but that's. It sounds like. And I'm curious if it was the same experience at Wayfinder Bay with Moana, if you.
[00:40:16] Speaker A: Absolutely, yeah.
[00:40:18] Speaker C: Because we hear that period has very little shade as well.
[00:40:21] Speaker A: Our, like, all we kept thinking while we were sort of watching these shows, we did that exercise with Baymax. We didn't actually do the exercise. We were on the pool deck looking down, but we were like, oh, my gosh, that person, like whoever's these people, actors or cast members who are playing these parts, I just would just be, oh my gosh, so, so hot. Like Moana.
That area, that Wayfinder Bay is gorgeous, but it gets the full sun from about 9am and we found a place you could sort of hang back in the shade more towards a bar and watch it. But even still, they had that sort of roped off because they obviously didn't want that section to become overwhelmed with people.
And like the pool decks as well. My kids, they couldn't. We were having trouble getting them on the water slide because the pool decks were so hot their feet were burning. They ran out on there one morning and we had to like get some ice from the drink machine because my daughter was like screaming her foot was so hot from the deck. And they wanted to go on the water slide, but they had to obviously walk up the stairs to go on it. And there was nowhere to put their shoes at the top. And you know, when it was just like, logistically kind of like, so me or my sister would sort of follow them up, hold their shoes while they went on the water slide, come back down. Yeah. So it was just like the misters or fans or something just to like, generally cool the area, I think is like. Because that's all over Singapore. You know, when you go into the city itself, there's massive fans everywhere and, you know, they've sort of figured out, I guess, how to deal with the heat. Just kind of just hasn't quite caught up to the boat. Hasn't quite. It's not quite there yet.
[00:42:01] Speaker C: I wonder if they'll. I mean, the hope, I guess, is that they'll figure out and put some shade covers at least out in certain areas because that's. That's probably the best they can do and the, frankly, the easiest they could probably do. And they'd have to put ones that they can take down and put back up. Right. Because when they're. If they are moving the ship fast, they're not going to be able to have shade covers hanging. They'll. They'll fly off the ship. But at least when they're. I mean, they're really circling out in the ocean quite slowly. So there's really no reason why during the day they can't have some shade covers up in those spaces that really get, you know, that. That oppressive sun. Now, I'm curious about the shows in the theaters. Of course, you've got. Now, you hadn't seen Seize the Adventure because it's only on the wish class. And now on the adventure and then remember is of course new. Now I know that they, the.
The cruise line assigns you a specific time for those shows and then if you can't make those times, then you can try and just queue up, you know, for whatever space might be available at a different time. But they're not in the app. They're not listed to tell you those other times because they want you to go to the one that you're assigned to go to.
I, I'm curious how that went.
Were people orderly in their queuing? Because I'm seeing reports on Facebook of people sh.
And it like people almost getting trampled. I'm not, I don't know how much to believe when I see that. That stuff on Facebook, but I'm curious what your experience was as far as, you know, going to the shows and, and were people, I don't know, were people obeying the rules? I guess.
[00:43:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I didn't mind necessarily that they booked you in for the show.
I, it was very logical the way they did it. You know, we had early dining, so we were on the later show like and that was our pre booked session. So that made sense to me. So that worked well. But yeah, we did have to get there, I think for CZ Adventure, which was our first in the theater sort of show, maybe night two. We were there probably 30 minutes before and the, yeah, the line and the queue was already, you know, down past Olaf's restaurant. So it was chockers. We didn't notice anything.
People were quite, you know, orderly I think, going to that show with. Remember though, there was. We witnessed a little verbal altercation between two strangers in the theater, one of which was saving a seat for their partner who was up getting a drink and whatever. And definitely something you don't expect to see on a Disney ship, a family ship. So.
[00:44:42] Speaker C: Well, and I always get like. So I get annoyed when I see somebody saving like an entire row, right? Because it's not a situation where there's their whole family's in the bathroom. But I totally don't get annoyed when they're saving one or two seats because probably their, their partner and their kids are in the bathroom or getting popcorn or getting drinks, right? Like that's normal. It's not like that's not the, the saving seats. That is not allowed. That's just like normal. We both went into, we went into the theater together, we got our seats and then one left to go get drink or we, we queued up together and one went in line for popcorn and the Other went to get the seats. Right. So to me, it's like, it's just. It's. And I think it's really hard for Disney Cruise Line to enforce these rules because of that situation. Right. Because you've got a family of five, for example, a family like yours, let's say you all went into the theater, you, your husband, all three kids, you sit down, and then the two girls need to go to the bathroom. Well, guess what? You, Lauren, and the two girls are headed to the bathroom. Your husband and son are the only two sitting there. Saving five seats now. Right. Like, that's normal. That happens.
[00:45:46] Speaker A: So it was hard to watch.
And then I think it's just people.
The stakes are kind of high. You got that feeling, especially that first cruise. Everyone was trying to do everything and get everywhere.
[00:46:01] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. There was that real demand, scarcity vibe. Yeah, it's. It's. Yeah, it's just not a fight meeting.
No.
[00:46:08] Speaker A: So whereas the second cruise, maybe it was our own. Just let's let that go. Like I was saying about the roller coaster, I just let it go, like, because you just made for a better time. But my sister was able to walk in to remember she couldn't go to her assigned show for that. And she just went into, like, a standby line for a matinee. And she was able to see it that way, too. So it did work, the standby queues. But, yeah, just.
I think it's luck more than good planning, if that makes sense. It's just.
[00:46:44] Speaker C: That does make sense. That's the. I mean, that happens in the parks, too, when you're trying for a virtual queue. And sometimes it's just luck. Right. And it's not always good planning. You just get lucky. Well, Well, I. I'd love to hear what you thought about the dining experience. I know that there's. There's two separate rotations. We got six rotational restaurants. One goes to the Hollywood Spotlight and the other one goes to the Navigators. Right. So did you get to do both rotations?
And what was your.
Did you have a preference between them? And what did you think of, like, food quality and service and all of that?
[00:47:19] Speaker A: Oh, the food was outstanding. I thought that was the real. I don't mean to compare it to the Wonder all the time, but it's kind of hard not to. But I think that was a real outstanding highlight for me of this cruise. Even after seven days, because seven days of food on the Wonder, I think I would have been, like, really quite ready to, you know, have something else.
[00:47:40] Speaker C: But well you, if you did a back to back. Yes. But if you don't, if you do a long, if you do a longer sailing you get more different variety of menus. Right. But if you do back to back on any of the ships you're getting repeats of the menus and that's the problem. That's, that's the. Yeah. So if you get like a seven night on the Wonder, you'll be fine. It's, it's if you have to do a four and a three and the same again.
[00:48:04] Speaker A: Yeah, sure.
[00:48:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:48:07] Speaker A: Well, the food was great. So we originally had the navigators rotation and we had just. Oh, we'd had the best servers this cruise. They were like both sailings were fantastic and we almost, we loved our first service so much that we, when we said oh can we, you know we're doing a back to back. And she was like oh, you're going on the other rotation. But she's like if you want to come back and do this rotation. And we ummed and out about it just because she was so good. But then we were like no, come on, we're going to do the other rotation obviously. But then we had an absolutely amazing guy for the second rotation too.
But I'd say if, I mean if you had to only do one rotation I would definitely do the Hollywood Spotlight.
That restaurant was so great. It had wonderful food and we were on early sitting and we were still import in Singapore and it just like the view in there with this like you know, art deco kind of feel. It felt really special and really fun. So the one that's on the back
[00:49:10] Speaker C: of the ship with the windows.
[00:49:12] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:49:14] Speaker C: Beautiful from the outside. From the just pictures from the outside it looks amazing. I will say you and Claire, my Brit that I talked to earlier today, agree if you only if you have to choose between rotations. Hollywood Spotlight the one to choose. She mentioned that there is. That's only like 400 people in that rotation and there's like 700 people in the other rotation. Oh, interesting.
She thought the food quality was better in that rotation as well. So I'm curious, did you have the same experience on the food?
[00:49:46] Speaker A: Absolutely. Like we much preferred the food that second time but I didn't realize that. That they had a less kind of.
Yeah. Headcount I guess to cook for.
[00:49:56] Speaker B: I wonder if that may not be true on every sailing though. Sam.
[00:49:59] Speaker C: Well no, it has to do with the size of the restaurants. So it does. Remember some of the restaurants they had. This is the issue with getting a ship who was built by somebody else. And the spaces that are built out is you don't have control over how large those spaces are. And you can't really change those things because they're structural. Like you can change and convert the casino to something else. But the dining areas have to be the areas that are attached to where the kitchen is. And you can't change where the kitchen is. The kitchen's already, you know, all of the electrical and all that. So everything's designed for the kitchen to be in this one spot or kitchens, I should say, because there's obviously multiple ones. So there's like you really can't do a huge amount of changes with where dining is located. Now of course they may have broken it up into smaller spaces, but there's only so much changes do. So that's, that's the thing. I, my, that's my perception of why it maybe worked out that way. But I don't know, somebody, somebody who works for the company, I'm sure could explain it better than I could.
[00:50:59] Speaker A: It would actually make a bit of sense because the Pixar Marketplace, that restaurant or the buffet is, is definitely bigger than the Olafs and Tangled themed sort of space. That's the equivalent on the other rotation.
Yeah, that hadn't occurred to me. But that's probably.
[00:51:18] Speaker C: I wonder if that was meant to just be a buffet. Right? Like, I wonder if.
[00:51:23] Speaker A: Absolutely right.
[00:51:24] Speaker C: Like I wonder if it was just this other cruise line, right. Genting that was going to do this. Like I wonder if that was never going to be a sit down restaurant. But because Disney needs to have rotational dining like it has, it doesn't want to be do something different than rotational dine. It had to use that as sort of for dual purpose. A buffet during part of the day, sit down during dinner time.
[00:51:46] Speaker A: Yeah, it definitely feels like a buffet. Even when you're getting served there, like sit down service, it feels like a buffet.
[00:51:53] Speaker C: Well, okay, we gotta talk quick serve food because I know this, I'm guessing I. It sounds like this has been a highlight for a lot of people that the quick serve food is quite good. What was your impression and did you get to go to all. What is it for four different ones? I think Grandma Tala Mowgli kebabs and I know I'm missing one Stitch
[00:52:17] Speaker A: burgers.
[00:52:17] Speaker C: Oh right, is it.
[00:52:19] Speaker A: Oh yeah, yeah, whatever.
Ohana Grill I think it's called.
[00:52:24] Speaker C: Yeah, I think you're right.
[00:52:25] Speaker A: Yeah. No, we loved it like and, and that took a bit of a reframe too because I think for after being on the Wonder, you know, in your brain, you go to the pool deck for food. Right? Pool deck, pool deck, pool deck. And then we kind of go up to either the buffet or the pool deck. And their pool deck still had pizzas and stuff, but. But by day three, we were like, you gotta go down to deck 10. That's where you go for food.
[00:52:48] Speaker C: Like.
[00:52:49] Speaker A: And we had two lunches every day. We had early lunch and late lunch. Like so we thought you were living
[00:52:56] Speaker C: the hobbit, hobbit life.
[00:52:59] Speaker A: It was that good. We would go at 11:30 and then at about 2:30.
I really, really enjoyed the quick service food. All of it. Like, yeah, it was just. The quality was good. The, like I was saying the variety of food. So if you felt like you could just get whatever you were craving, that sort of feeling of.
They just covered everything really well, I think.
Very diverse, but good quality. Yeah, it was great.
[00:53:25] Speaker C: Awesome. Okay. The thing I haven't really asked you about is the kids and the kids club. And I'm dying to know because I know how much Nathan enjoys the kids clubs on the ships in the U.S. but I have. No, I have. I don't think we've talked to anyone who's had kids that are kids clubs. Age on the adventure, Lauren. So I gotta know, gotta know this. The 7 year old, the 10 year old, the 12 year old, did they like the kids clubs? Were they as good as on the Wonder? Were they better? Like what, what was their experience?
[00:53:56] Speaker A: Definitely better. We did not get one. Please come and pick up your child notification. In the seven days we were there, everyone was so happy. We aged up. My daughter, my 10 year old, so she could go to Edge with her sister and then they were all. She was also in Ocean Ears too. She could choose.
But you know, my son, I think like he could just live at Oceaneers. Like he was so, so happy there. We'd have to drag him out for food.
If we were there before 11 o' clock at night, he'd be like angry, you know, you're here early, what are you doing?
Yeah, exactly. And they like the spaces were just. They're bigger, you know, they are more impressive than on the Wonder just through, you know, she is size and.
Yeah, but the kids, they were very happy, all of them. And that like San Fransokyo area is, is really cool. Like, you know, it's, it's special. They've done that very, very well.
And I think if you've got kids, this is the, like, this is a really great holiday for a family because.
Yeah, the kids were just so happy and Kids club was great. So definitely.
Yeah. Recommend for young kids, for sure.
[00:55:17] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, and Edge and Vibe are right in San Fransokyo. Right. So they can, like, they can go. And of course, they can go in and out as they please, the teens and the tweens and so they can go and play like the arcade games in San Fransokyo and kind of wander and. Yeah, it's. It. Look, I have to agree that, look, I mean, it looks really cool. I haven't experienced it myself.
[00:55:36] Speaker A: We did our master there.
[00:55:37] Speaker B: We were.
[00:55:38] Speaker A: Master drill was in San Francisco because there's just a little way, like a little. When we exited, they were like, you get a behind the scenes tour because it just connects out to the deck. It's very close. So that's why I guess they put a master station there.
But yeah, it's just fun space to be in. Like, it's. Yeah, kids definitely gravitate there. It's busy all the time in a nice way. It doesn't feel overwhelmingly busy, but it's very cool.
[00:56:02] Speaker C: How did you. Now I'm imagining these sailings were full because I know this is Easter break for you all. How did you feel like sort of walking around the ship, did spaces. You mentioned, you know, San Fransokia, feeling busy but not feeling like it was cramped.
How did you feel about the other spaces around the ship? Were there places where there were bottlenecks, where there were.
Did the flow of traffic move? Okay? I mean, this is something we think about when you think about ship design. Right. But of course, had very little control over that.
[00:56:34] Speaker A: Sure. So the first sailing was definitely full. Like, when we were at our master, they were like squishing where, you know, we're at max capacity. The second one, when, like, I'm just comparing the master because it seems like the most obvious way to be able to tell. But our master wasn't as busy the second CRE cruise. So that was getting out of the Easter break a bit more. So that one felt a little quieter. But even still, I mean, I don't think it's.
Apart from the shows, like, getting into the theater and whatever's happening with the roller coaster. The only other time you'd sort of feel like maybe the drink stations, you'd always. I mean, the drink stations were like hot property there. Because you're sweating, like.
Yeah, exactly. So I think they could have maybe done a few more of those because they were always like. And you line for them in the full sun too. So it was kind of like counterintuitive. But otherwise I think I can't really remember any time, you know, we went and did.
There's like a tea shop on board. So we did a little like high tea and you could just walk up and do that. That was fine.
We did karaoke that we didn't have to sort of wait for, you know, every. Everything else I think was there was enough going on in the ship to sort of spread everyone out. It felt like for the most part the shops weren't too busy. Yeah, it was good.
[00:58:02] Speaker C: Oh yeah. What was the merch situation like? Where. I mean, were they. Were they well stocked? And I gotta ask about the Duffy merch because that's of course of interest
[00:58:10] Speaker A: to me so much Duffy merch. Like if you're a big Duffy person, that's the place for you for sure.
The second cruise, though, interestingly, I don't know if it's because it's a three night and maybe people come on to shop on those shorter ones rather than the four night. But the four night there was merch, which was the busier one. That was the one that was sold out. Or it looked sold out, but all the merch was fine. There was. I didn't see anything sort of disappear.
The second cruise though, all the, like, you know, the specialty drink cups that. The Snow White bar, they were sold out.
A lot of things in the shop by day three were. Were gone.
So that was just an interesting observation. I don't really understand.
All I could think of, my son really liked these little figurines like Captain Mickey and Captain Minnie. And then there was just Donald Goofy. And they just in their regular clothes. They're not in like DCL clothes, but people had them by the armfuls, you know, 10 of these figurines. And I was like, what are they doing with those? Like, so I'm not sure if there's like ebay. Yeah. Sort of situation, but that was. But otherwise, like the merch was great. And yeah, I think we got everything that, you know, we had our eye on. We didn't have to worry about. You know, there was definitely no queuing, like virtual queues to get into the stores or anything. They were just open and you could come and go. So that was good.
[00:59:37] Speaker C: I'm curious now, you mentioned you feel like this ship is really good for families with kids.
And your kids, of course, love, you know, loved being on the Wonder. It sounds like they loved the adventure. Is this a holiday that you're Gonna book again on the adventure specifically because it is the. Right now it's the closest ship and the only ship you have nearby probably.
[01:00:00] Speaker A: I wouldn't go just to do that if that makes sense.
If we were in Singapore for another reason, you know, if we almost, you know, almost every Australian who flies to Europe, especially considering what's happening, you know, in the Middle east at the moment, almost always flies through Hong Kong, Singapore, they're sort of hubs. And you know, if you were doing a stopover on your way somewhere else, I could imagine, you know, a three night cruise or something just to break it up would be so, so fun. But no, I don't think we'd go specifically for it.
My husband, there's no adult pool area and that's what he loved on the Wonder. He just loved that like ability to just sit down and read and have a coffee in the morning and a beer in the afternoon. You know, he just really wound down really well on the Wonder. And on this ship there's just. There isn't that space. There's no equivalent of that space. And even the.
It kind of. There's an obvious spot where you think maybe they were planning on putting an adult bar.
[01:01:05] Speaker C: The bar and the infinity pool. In fact, I heard that they did convert it for like a few hours in the evening to an adult space maybe. Yeah, they sort of started doing that. But it's still not all the time being an adult only space. And it's still full sunlight. You don't have any shade. Right.
[01:01:23] Speaker A: So like my husband spent a lot of time just in the room, you know, because it was cold.
[01:01:31] Speaker C: That makes me so sad. Especially because these rooms are not as nice as the rooms on the Wonder or on the other, on the, of the other ships. Not that they're. I mean I'm here. We're hearing from. What we're hearing from about the rooms is they're fine. There's nothing like wrong with them. They're just. Yeah, they're just not as quite as nice and quite as big. And you know, the furnishings are maybe not quite as nice as what you see on the other chip, but that makes me sad that your husband. So. Okay, so I mean that tells us though that that tells a lot. Right?
[01:01:58] Speaker B: It's telling me I may not want to go on the adventure anytime soon.
[01:02:01] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:02:01] Speaker B: Honestly, like, I'm just not getting excited.
[01:02:03] Speaker C: We like to do like making me
[01:02:06] Speaker B: excited but like this is not making me super excited. No, no, it's, it's, it's. I think it's look, we want to bring a realistic picture of this opportunity to people. And like, you're not the first person we've talked to who's, you know, been through of, you know, like,
[01:02:23] Speaker C: especially for
[01:02:24] Speaker A: someone who's not the real Disney person in the family. You know, my husband, he likes it. Don't get me wrong. He's not like anti Disney by any stretch, but he just, he's not going to find the joy of like running around the ship and doing a million things that like me and my daughters do. Yeah. So he. And it's just so hot.
[01:02:41] Speaker B: Well, and it also, I mean, it seems like, look, they have. I will say this from what we have talked to folks about, you know, yes, we've gotten some mixed reviews. There's been some things that have been consistent which are like, San Fransokyo is an amazing achievement of Disney theming. I know Lou Mangello did a video through there not too long ago and I was watching, I was like, God, that looks like a fabulous place to go hang out. But you know, there are lots of other things on this ship that are, you know, we even heard from a friend that. So we had Jeremiah on who loved that show that they had on board. Disney, remember? Loved it. And then we heard from somebody else. It was like I walked out like five minutes into the show. I did not want to be there. Like, it was not good Disney storytelling. And so it's been really interesting to see the different reviews coming back from different people.
[01:03:29] Speaker A: It just lends to that point that I sort of was saying at the start where it's like a holiday. It can be so many different things for different people. But on this ship, I think that's a bit harder. It's just more one thing.
Does that make sense?
[01:03:44] Speaker C: Like, like you said, I mean, on the Wonder, you're. You were able to do the things that you love. The kids are able to do something that they loved. Your husband's able to do something that he loves. And then on the adventure, the kids are happy. It sounds like it sounds like you're moderately happy or mostly happy, but the husband is not as happy. And so it's if and, and it. You're. If you're investing a lot of money in a vacation. And the Disney, we know this Disney Cruise Line is not cheaper. Whether you're sailing in Singapore, you're sailing in the US wherever, you know, it's. There are cheaper holidays that you can take. And so when you're investing that kind of money, it's you Want everybody to get something out of it and everybody to be happy. And so it's. Yeah, it sounds like. It's sounds like if you have the right expectations and you're okay with that, then you'll have a wonderful time on the adventure. And it sounds like you're looking for an experience that's identical to the other ships.
You might be disappointed.
[01:04:41] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. I agree. I think that's really important is just expectations. And like, that's what I tried to say to my sister before she got on was just like.
Because she'd been on the Wonder as well, it was just more like just go with the flow on this ship. Like, you've just kind of got to let it go a bit. Like, it's.
It's different.
But some of the stuff, they can't really help. They can't help the heat, I guess. I mean, they could, but it's. It's tricky.
[01:05:08] Speaker C: They could make better with the shade and the. And fans and things like that, and even like the.
[01:05:13] Speaker A: So I think some of the family spaces did tend to be adult only at about 9pm but there's a bar attached to Palo, and it's gorgeous. Again, the theming was beautiful. It looked so nice. But you sit down and it's just so stiflingly hot, you know, like just some fans or something to just. You can only really sit there for 20 minutes and then be like, nah, I've got to go inside, sort of. Which is a shame because these spaces are just kind of empty. They're not well patronized because it's just too hot.
[01:05:47] Speaker C: That's so sad, because if you've got, you know, 6,000 passengers and you want to spread them out and you have the space to spread them out, but people aren't utilizing the space in the way that you would expect them to because of that.
Yeah, that's. That's. That's a bummer. Now, Lauren, before we. Before I subject you to rapid fire, is there anything that we. That we've missed? I mean, I've. We've covered a lot of topics. I'm not sure if we've missed anything on the way. And so that's why I wanted to ask. Okay, I think that's everything.
[01:06:15] Speaker A: I just. It's interesting about the Remember show because I think I went. Speaking of expectations, I went into that with very high expectations.
Wally was amazing. And Wally does kind of a duet with Ariel. That's just like the best.
But I was slightly. I think the ship could really use, like, its own.
You Know the one that has Frozen. And I know you guys get like Moana and Hercules, like, oh, something like that would just be.
They. I would love if they put a, you know, production.
[01:06:45] Speaker C: Production that's not a jukebox show. Although everybody saying Remember me is wonderful and sees the adventure is wonderful.
[01:06:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:06:53] Speaker C: But it's still not the same as having a, like a feature film that's been made.
Yeah, yeah.
[01:07:00] Speaker A: Because like even after, you know, three goes on the one day we were still going to see Frozen, we might not see the others, but, you know, you'd go to Frozen. Whereas this one kind of. It just really needed. I would have. It would have been nice for it to have like a big show.
Yeah. Which is just probably expectations again. So.
[01:07:19] Speaker C: Well, I. The problem is, is that with that theater not being big enough on a three and four night sailing, they can't have more than two show. Right. And so they, and they designed, remember, for this, for this ship. They didn't have to do Seize the Adventure, but it was an easy one for them to do. Right. Because they've done it on the other ships. So I think I, I'm. I completely agree with you. I think it would be better if they did remember and let's say Hercules or something like.
But they don't have to because this is a new audience who hasn't seen Seize the Adventure before.
And it's easy for them to port it over there as opposed to putting on one of these other productions. So yeah, it's a bit of a bonus.
[01:08:05] Speaker A: Just gotta put, put each show on four or five times to fit everyone in. So. Yeah, there's just not the capacity to do it. Which is a shame. But yeah, maybe one day.
[01:08:15] Speaker C: Yeah. Unless they switch to itineraries that are not three and four nights. Right. If they switch to longer itineraries. But I don't, I don't see that happening in her first five years. Right.
Sailing out of Singapore on. On sailings to nowhere. And so unless they change that, which I don't see that happening in the first five years, I think we'll see this continuation and you know, maybe they'll spruce things up here and there and make operational changes to deal with like the character demand to deal with, you know, what things that aren't working operationally. Maybe they'll get some shade, you know, that would be helpful.
[01:08:52] Speaker A: But I would love if they added some port stops because I mean, it's so beautiful around that part of the world. You know, Malaysia, Thailand, all these amazing.
That would probably get us Back, to be honest, if they started doing port stops, but while they're just kind of doing their floating around, although the seas are so calm, sometimes you feel like you're not even moving compared to Australian waters. And, like, I don't know. I imagine definitely the Pacific coast of America, I imagine, is quite similar. But this was like a bath. It was so still.
[01:09:25] Speaker B: All right, well, Sam, I think we have reached that point in the show where you get to ask some arbitrary questions, apply some arbitrary rules, and exercise more than a dash of judgment or the round we know as rapid fire. So, Sam, take it away.
[01:09:37] Speaker C: All right, Lauren, you knew this was coming. I'm going to be asking you some Disney favorites and then some Disney Cruise Line favorites.
We're going to start with who is your favorite Disney character? And Disney means anything and everything that Disney owns.
[01:09:49] Speaker A: Probably Donald.
[01:09:51] Speaker C: Yeah, I love that Brian's favorite character is Donald as well. It's Donald. I feel like if Donald is your. Is your number one, as he's our number one, it takes a certain kind of person. So I.
And I don't mean. I'm not not criticizing. I'm just pointing it out because I
[01:10:09] Speaker A: have something about me you can't.
[01:10:12] Speaker C: You can.
[01:10:12] Speaker B: You cannot claim to be. You're not trying to claim to be a Don number one fan, are you?
[01:10:16] Speaker C: No, no, I'm not. I'm not.
[01:10:17] Speaker B: Personality type needed.
[01:10:19] Speaker C: No, no, I'm saying. I'm saying that Lauren has a personality type like yours, Brian. I. I would.
I love Donald, too, but Donald's not my. I. He's not my favorite character, but he's. Brian's favorite character is just.
[01:10:32] Speaker B: Donald is passionate.
[01:10:33] Speaker A: He's very. I just like, maybe it's a teacher in me, but I'm like, I. I can't blame Donald for being the way he is. But with all those, like, cheeky things going on around him, like, he's just doing the best he can.
[01:10:46] Speaker B: He's just trying to live his life. And, I mean, they put him on a cruise ship in uniform, and they don't give him any sort of maritime responsibility.
[01:10:55] Speaker C: I mean, come on, what's wrong? Yeah, absolutely.
All right, Lauren, what's your favorite Disney movie?
[01:11:03] Speaker A: Oh, my kids and I were talking about this yesterday because they listened to your show, too. It's on in the car. And they were like, oh, you're gonna get the questions and the answers and what are you gonna say? And honestly, this one last night, I was thinking about it in bed. I think I have to say Moana.
I think I'm a. I love Lin Manuel. I just love the songs. I just. I think that's what kind of got me back into Disney with my kids. I just. Yeah. Moana, you get no.
[01:11:32] Speaker C: When you choose anything that involves Lin Manuel Miranda, you get no. You get no judgment from me because he's a genius. I love everything he touches turns to gold. Even some stuff he did for competitors of Disney. I thought was. There was an animated film. I can't remember the name of it that he did. All the music for this was, I think, before he did Moana, and it was so good. Like, all the music in that. In that film was so good.
[01:11:59] Speaker A: I'll have to Google it.
[01:12:00] Speaker C: Yeah, I can't remember. I'm. I can't remember the name of it, but, yeah, maybe after the show, maybe I'll find it for you, Lauren. All right.
[01:12:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:12:07] Speaker C: What is your. What's your favorite Disney song? Speaking of music.
[01:12:11] Speaker A: So probably, I think a toss up between Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride from Lilo and Stitch. My daughter calls that our family national anthem, which is hilarious because we're Australian, we're not Hawaiian.
But she just loves Stitch so, so much. And we always put that song on whenever we're going on a holiday or, like, an adventure or. It's like our. You know, we just get really into that.
[01:12:38] Speaker C: So just. It's like your National Lampoons theme song. Ryan puts on that song Holiday Road from National Lampoons, and whenever we're going on vacation. Holiday.
[01:12:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:12:52] Speaker C: And that's. So the Hawaiian roller coaster ride is your family's holiday ride.
Exactly.
[01:12:58] Speaker A: So I love that one. That one's just sentimental. And then I think, what's the song from Tangled? Alaska? The Last I See the Light.
[01:13:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:13:07] Speaker A: Yeah. My daughter did like ballet to that when she was 4, and I can't, like, hear it without tearing up, so.
[01:13:14] Speaker C: Oh, I love that. Okay, we're gonna jump onto a Disney Cruise Line ship, and we're gonna stay in the theater category. What is your favorite Walt Disney theater stage show on Disney Cruise Line?
[01:13:26] Speaker A: Frozen.
Yeah. Yeah. But I wish I had a different.
Another show of that caliber to compare it to, if that makes sense. The only.
[01:13:36] Speaker C: It makes total sense. But Frozen is a wonderful production. It's definitely one of the top. I will say, while it's not my number one because I've seen all the other ones, it is in the top group of productions on Disney Cruise Line. It is a fabulous production. I say this all the time. It's better than the Broadway version. It's better than the version that they Used to have at California Adventure in the Hyperion Theater.
The Disney Cruise Line version is just phenomenal. So, so good.
All right. Favorite onboard activity on Disney Cruise Line.
[01:14:09] Speaker A: Honestly, we did on this cruise, which is not unique to obviously to the adventure. You can do it anyway. But Bibbidi Bobbidi boutique was.
I thought my kids had aged out of it Even two years ago when we first went, we didn't book it.
And then my daughter's 12 and she knew that this was like her last chance. She was like, oh, I can't go after this. Can you book it? And we just. Oh, my gosh, it was just gorgeous. They. We bought dresses from home because they're kind of. They are. Didn't feel like they wanted to do the full princess thing. So they kind of got some inspired princess sort of dresses, like, so they. You could tell that they were Rapunzel. My youngest was Rapunzel. My oldest was Aurora. And that was. Was gorgeous. Like, and then we went and got that high tea. We did the tea.
Oh.
[01:15:02] Speaker C: With them in their dresses and all.
[01:15:05] Speaker A: And like, I'm gonna remember that day forever. I have no doubt. Like, it was a really beautiful day. So I think that's probably.
Yeah. Probably our favorite so far on the Wonder, though. I definitely, you know, just a special mention for like the adult pool deck. And like my husband and I at that time, I think our youngest, the first Cruise, he was 4. We hadn't felt like, hadn't had a date in 10 years.
I'm sure we had. But it just, you know, and the ability. That first cruise, we spent more time together that cruise in three nights than we had for years and years. And I think that was really special, you know, just to have that someone. The kids are close and they're safe, and then there's somewhere else for you to go that feels a bit special. Feels, you know, you're not in parent mode. You're really.
I don't know. I. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:15:56] Speaker C: Relax and able to enjoy with your partner and reconnect and that.
That's one of the things that we love about cruising in general. It's. We get that opportunity knowing that Nathan is safe and. And happy. And frankly, he would rather be at edge than be hanging out with us.
[01:16:14] Speaker A: It's the same with my kids too.
Yeah.
[01:16:18] Speaker C: All right, well, we got to about talk. Talk food real quick here. Favorite rotational dining restaurant. And this could be from the Wonder or the Adventure, but what was your favorite restaurant of all?
[01:16:27] Speaker A: The Hollywood Spotlight Club. Yeah.
[01:16:30] Speaker C: Awesome. Awesome. All right, I gotta talk of we gotta talk some favorite food items. I want a favorite sweet item, and then I want a favorite savory item. We start with the sweets because I like the savories the best, and we save the best for last. So favorite. A favorite sweet item on a Disney cruise. It could be again, the Adventure or the Wonder. Does it. You don't have to choose. Just the most recent.
[01:16:52] Speaker A: This one was on the Adventure. It was again at that Hollywood Spotlight Club. It was like an ube.
I think it was a creme brulee.
[01:17:01] Speaker C: Creme brulee.
This is hilarious. Claire, who I talked to this morning, said the same thing that she had UBE creme brulee. I swear to God.
[01:17:10] Speaker A: So good.
Yeah, yeah. I was spewing. I didn't have it the first rotation, even. The menu's the same, obviously, in navigators, and I had something else, and then on the second rotation one, and I was like, I've missed my chance to get it again. It was so good.
[01:17:24] Speaker C: Yeah, Love that. Awesome.
[01:17:27] Speaker B: All right.
[01:17:27] Speaker C: A favorite savory item.
[01:17:29] Speaker A: This one is so hard because, like I said, that level 10 or deck 10 area was just so good. I loved almost everything that I ate there. They also, that Hollywood club had this, like, sauteed mushroom on. Not on, sorry. In Australia, we call entrees the starters. They had a starter that was a mushroom dish, which was fantastic. And then at Stitch, they had a gochujang. You know, like a Korean.
[01:18:00] Speaker C: Yeah, Korean.
[01:18:02] Speaker A: Yeah, that was really good.
But even just the, you know, chicken rice, you know, such a Singaporean staple. They had that at Grammatala's, I think, and that was delicious. Like, oh, you just can't go wrong with food there. Like, maybe I will go back just to eat.
[01:18:20] Speaker C: Yeah, see, that's the thing that makes me want to go is, is that honestly, that food sounds. That food sounds incredible. Okay, well, the real question, though, really is, Lauren, which ship is your favorite? You've got the Wonder. And. And I want you to set aside what your husband would answer, because we know your husband would answer. Answer the wonder, right? Like, no question. He likes the adult area. He would say the Wonder.
What would you personally say? Do you prefer the Wonder or the Adventure?
[01:18:50] Speaker A: I would love to try the adventure in a more temperate climate, you know, just like, where you. The nights are cool and you can enjoy the pool deck and the funnel vision stuff. Like, we didn't sit down and watch a movie's too hot. You know, all that stuff that we enjoyed on the Wonder. But that's not really the shit ships, you know, that's. Yeah, exactly. So it's hard to know if the. If the adventure moved or had port stops. I would probably say the adventure as it stands now, though, where it's just sailing around.
The issues with the roller coaster, I'd probably say the wonder. Yeah.
[01:19:30] Speaker C: Wow. Interesting. I mean, it's interesting, but you're. Yeah. I mean, there are different reasons to like different ships, and it sounds like that. That's, you know, it sounds like the Adventure is a great ship, but there's some drawbacks to where it is and some operational things that they need to work through. So. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:19:46] Speaker A: I mean, it's hard, too, because you're impacted by. Obviously if my husband's not having a great time, you know, and. But my kids are having a great time. So it's like you pushed and pulled in a few different directions with this ship, whereas the Wanderer was just more.
[01:20:00] Speaker C: Just leave him at home, everyone. Yeah, just kidding.
[01:20:03] Speaker A: I did say that.
It's like you can pay and then just stay home.
[01:20:10] Speaker C: I'll just eat your creme brulee. Your ube creme brulee.
[01:20:14] Speaker B: Who's not watching? I am shaking my head.
[01:20:21] Speaker C: We're just joking. This is rapid fire kidding.
All right, Lauren. Well, the last question of every rapid fire is what is your bucket list? This cruise, where would you go anywhere in the world on a Disney Cruise Line ship? So it has to be someplace accessible by water, but that's really the only rule. It doesn't even have to be someplace Disney Cruise Line currently goes. Like, where would you. If you could put the adventure? I guess anywhere in the world. Right. Where would you. Where would you want to sail?
[01:20:52] Speaker A: You know, I'd love to do the Asian islands. Like, I think it's just in a great spot for opportunity for amazing port stops.
Because, you know, Asia, it's gorgeous in Thailand, and there's some just stunning beaches and places you could go.
[01:21:13] Speaker C: You're going to be in the heat, Lauren. You're going to be in the heat.
[01:21:17] Speaker A: I know. They just need shade and fans and misters. Misters to cool down the pool deck so you can walk in bare feet. Just something to deal with the heat. I don't know exactly. But even just being able to get off the ship for a while, I wonder would increase your. Like, if. Like where. I was saying my husband would spend a couple of hours during the day in the room. Like, if you're out and about doing a port adventure or exploring a beach or, you know, that's a very different experience. And then you come back and at night you can enjoy because it's a bit cooler. You know, the adult spaces kind of turn into adult spaces at 9:00pm so, yeah, it would be a mix of like, best of both worlds in that sense, I guess. And as well, like even just Hong Kong Disney, you know, there's so many cool.
So many cool options available to them in that neck of the woods that I hope that they decide to do something, but who knows?
[01:22:13] Speaker C: Yeah, we'll see. To be determined, I guess.
[01:22:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[01:22:17] Speaker B: Who knows? That is the way to end it. Yep.
Yes. So. Well, Sam, are you all good? Have you got all your questions?
[01:22:26] Speaker C: She passed. Flying colors. Yeah.
I got to go to Singapore now to try the darn UBE creme brulee. Even though I don't even like creme brulee. I do like ube, but I don't like creme brulee.
[01:22:39] Speaker B: Well, Lauren, your name will forever be etched in the the halls and annals of the the DCL Duo podcast. Rapid Fire guests who've passed asterisks. No such book actually exists.
[01:22:50] Speaker C: But.
[01:22:53] Speaker B: But, Lauren, we'd love to thank you for coming on the show today, sharing your experiences, traveling to visit the Disney Adventure. And Sam, unless you have any other
[01:23:04] Speaker C: questions, you gotta ask your question.
[01:23:07] Speaker B: Well, we're already an hour and 24 minutes into this episode, but sure. What's next? What's next, Lauren?
[01:23:13] Speaker A: Well, we didn't get a placeholder for this one. We did get one that won the Wonder, so we do still have an active one, but I think we'll probably wait for the Tokyo ship. I think we'll. We. Japan's, you know, at the top of our list, as most people I think these days, so we're keen to head over there. And again, a holiday that's not just the cruise. You're doing other things. I think that'll be what we'll do next. Maybe the States.
We'll just wait and see. But yeah, I think Tokyo probably for us next year.
[01:23:47] Speaker C: Next.
[01:23:47] Speaker B: Well, thanks again.
[01:23:49] Speaker D: Yes.
[01:23:50] Speaker A: Yeah, that'll be a good one. Yeah.
[01:23:52] Speaker B: Well, Lauren, thanks again for taking the time out of your day to come on the show all the way to us from Australia. And if you're listening to us overseas, you know, uk, Australia, continental Europe, anywhere, anywhere.
We'd love to hear about your experiences with Disney Cruise Line. Be sure to reach out. And we're always happy to schedule something special to coordinate with your time zones. But for now, we'll just thank Lauren for coming on and. And say thanks so much.
[01:24:16] Speaker A: Thanks for having me.
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