Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: That new ad that the DCL released in, like, March, I. I opened it unknowingly. Like, watch the video and your pregnancy or hormones raging. I was ugly. Crying so hard that I was like, I can't go get the mail right now. Like, the neighbors will think something's wrong because it's so sweet. It's so good. And I was like. And because we were planning this trip, I thought, gosh, that's. That's. That's us.
[00:00:33] 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, it's jingle time.
[00:00:41] Speaker C: Simply the best.
Better than all the rest.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: Yep, yep, yep.
[00:00:47] Speaker B: That's right. Better than all the rest. According to this listener review that comes from jbaud. I don't even get a guess on that one. I'm just gonna say jb. So this one comes from jb, who writes my favorite podcast. I am a big Disney Cruise Line fan. We've used DCL Duo see the world as a family. Listening to these podcasts reminds me of why I love DCL so much, but it has also given me tremendous insight into the other options available. I do agree with many of the points discussed on the podcast. I so appreciate hearing about other cruise lines, different ports, and different views all around. This show is a perfect blend of love of Disney, the cruising lifestyle, and the vast array of options out there. I appreciate the cruise reviews. Every everyone they interview has such an interesting point of view. I hope that in the future I can meet up with Sam and Brian on a cruise. So far, I have listened to at least 45 episodes. I cannot wait for the day that I have successfully listened to them all. Thank you for creating a forum to talk, discuss, enjoy, critique, and share a love of Disney Cruise Line. Please keep it up. Maybe one day you'll interview me. Well, jb, I'll just send a shout out, man, if you're. This is two years old, but if you've been on a sailing and we haven't had you on the show, you should reach out.
[00:01:51] Speaker D: We.
[00:01:51] Speaker B: We love having listeners on the show to share their experiences. So definitely reach out. But for now, say thank you for that review. Sam, I don't know if you want to say anything in response to the review.
[00:02:00] Speaker C: I love it. I love it. I love the idea of how we cover, you know, cruise lines apart from Disney and do some comparison. I'm actually excited about today's episode for a number of reasons, but one of which is that our guests brought along the older generation who are Viking cruisers.
And so I would. I'm. I'm looking forward to hearing before.
[00:02:23] Speaker B: But before you introduce them, Sam, I need to give my PSA really fast, which is. Yes. Thank you for that review, jb. If you are out there listening to the show and enjoying the content, please head over to Apple Podcasts. Hit those five stars. It's one of the easiest ways to help support the show. If you leave us a written review, we will read it on the air at the top of one of our main episodes. And if you're on any of the other podcast platforms out there, Spotify, whatever it is, if it's popcorn buckets, thumbs up stars, rainbows, I don't just. Just hit them all. Give them all to us, because it helps us get the show out to more people. So there you go. Now, Sam, intro the guest.
[00:02:56] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:02:56] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I love. I love.
We've got. We've got two repeat guests on our show today. They were on a few years back. They are back. They're still cruising on dcl. They dragged Lindsay's parents with them as well, who hadn't been on DCL in 10 years, who are normally Viking Cruisers. So I think it's going to be really interesting to hear about that perspective. But I got to first say welcome back to the show. Lindsay and Vincent. Welcome back, guys.
[00:03:23] Speaker A: Thank you. Thank you so much for having us.
[00:03:25] Speaker C: It's so lovely to see you again.
Now, it's been a while since we talked. You just came back from your fourth cruise on Disney Cruise Line.
You gotta remind folks of your Disney backgrounds, because I know there's a little cast member experience in that background.
There's a lot. There's a lot.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: We both grew up going to the parks myself a little more than Vincent.
Um, and when we first got together, I knew that I needed to make sure he was a Disney person because I, like, didn't know if I could be married to somebody who wasn't. Um, turns out on the first trip that I planned, he was planning to propose that led to a wedding in
[00:04:05] Speaker D: front of the Tree of Life.
[00:04:05] Speaker A: In front of the Tree of Life. That's.
[00:04:07] Speaker D: We're gonna grow our life together.
[00:04:09] Speaker A: All the. All the sweet metaphors.
[00:04:11] Speaker C: I love that. That's like, really. That Vincent, that's just really cute.
[00:04:15] Speaker A: You know that unique, right? It's not as often that you get a tree of life proposal versus, like, a castle proposal. So really, really special.
That led to playing a wedding. We got married at Walt Disney World. We became Disney because you club Members as well. We honeymooned in Disneyland in Aulani, because it was during COVID and we were like, cool. Where can we go? We'll use our points. Right. And kind of do a us tour of Disney, if you will.
And then started cruising together on Disney shortly after we got married in 2023. It was our first Disney cruise together.
But we also have sailed on Virgin together. I've got some Norwegian experience. He's got some celebrity, and he recently sailed on Ritz Carlton Ilma.
For work. Last for work.
[00:05:02] Speaker C: Who sends you. Who sends you on the Ritz Carlton ship?
[00:05:06] Speaker B: Work applications. They need lawyers.
[00:05:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: Do they need.
[00:05:10] Speaker C: Do they need lawyers? I mean.
[00:05:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. It was for work.
[00:05:15] Speaker D: We are a growing company.
[00:05:18] Speaker C: Well, maybe we'll chat offline.
[00:05:21] Speaker A: So our. Our cruise experience is a little bit vast, and we keep coming back to Disney for personal travel because it's just the best.
[00:05:28] Speaker B: Can I just ask what. What.
It's not the focus of the show for everyone out there listening, but I just want to ask what you thought of Virgin, because it's one of our, like, it's probably our top two is Disney and Virgin. So, like, what did you think of Virgin overall?
[00:05:39] Speaker D: We liked the food was fantastic.
[00:05:41] Speaker A: We like the food a lot.
[00:05:42] Speaker D: I love the. The styling.
[00:05:45] Speaker C: The.
[00:05:45] Speaker D: Yeah, like, the styling.
Awesome.
[00:05:48] Speaker A: The way that they designed some spaces. Unfortunately, I don't think that ship performs well in bad weather. And we have. Our sailing was in bad weather. And as. As you know, from their ships are, you know, all the same layout. I mean, there are so many communal spaces that are outside, and if you have bad weather, those can't be used.
[00:06:10] Speaker D: And sitting on top of each other almost.
[00:06:12] Speaker A: Right. The inside spaces get really crowded and they're really loud, and it just. That changes the vibe. Yeah. So we spent a lot of time in our stateroom, to be honest, that sailing, they have the movie library, an incredible movie library.
[00:06:29] Speaker D: Lots of new shows that had come out at that time.
[00:06:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:32] Speaker C: And.
[00:06:32] Speaker A: And I. I think the other thing, like, this is a very personal bias, but we, like, day two, like, something was off. We missed the kids. Like, we missed the, like, joy that families bring to a vacation experience. And so, like, I thought the food was great. We'll pick. We'll pick Disney over Virgin. Personally, that's a. That's a very personal thing, you know, fair enough.
[00:06:54] Speaker B: Our ratio to Virgin to Disney is 35 to 2, so we only sail occasionally, but.
[00:06:59] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, we are very excited to talk about your recent sailing on dcl. You sailed on the Disney Treasure Eastern Caribbean seven night itinerary, of course, the best of the Caribbean Bahamian itineraries in the fleet. We say hands down and of course on the Treasure. Fantastic ship. But this is a little celebration. Why don't you, why don't you tell our audience what you all were celebrating and why you brought mom and dad on board. Lindsay.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Yeah, of course. So this, this cruise was our babymoon trip. We are pregnant with our first. I'm currently 22 weeks pregnant though we sailed when I was 18 weeks pregnant. So we just kind of got off the ship a month ago and we brought my parents along because we're really close with them and they wanted to travel with us one more time before we had kids and we thought, well, let's do this together. They love cruising on biking, so they loved their first Disney experience. It was 10 years ago, but we thought why not, why not kind of combine the two together and it was, it was really the perfect baby moon for us.
[00:08:07] Speaker C: Yeah. What a great way to celebrate like the upcoming arrival to your whole family and to like get them aboard a Disney ship, see how they like it. I honestly think one of the best things about Disney Cruise Line is that multi generational cruising. I can't wait for when you've got your little one and it's all, it's you two and your parents also, because they're going to see the magic again through your child's eyes and they are just going to go gaga for that. Like the grandparents.
[00:08:36] Speaker B: We haven't heard the grandparent review of the cruise yet. They may have booked it right back to Viking for a while.
[00:08:41] Speaker A: No, but Sun's right. I mean that new ad, that new ad that the DCL released in like March, I, I opened it unknowingly. Like watch the video and your pregnancy or hormones raging. I was ugly. Crying so hard that I was like, I can't go get the mail right now. Like the neighbors will think something's wrong because it's so sweet, it's so good. And I was like. And because we were planning this trip, I thought, gosh, that's, that's, that's us. That's us right now.
[00:09:06] Speaker C: That's your future. Yeah, well, and honestly, even if I'm, we're not going to spoil their review yet. We'll get to it later. But even if they didn't love this cruise, I can guarantee that they will be willing to sail again when you have that little one. In order to be able to watch that little one interact with characters and do activities Play in the splash pad, all of the things that you will do on board. So like I have no, it doesn't matter whether they liked it or not as an adult without sailing with children, it matters that they will absolutely go back. I can all but guarantee it. All right, well, so let's, let's start with why you chose this sailing in particular.
And then were there any things you had to be concerned about or you were concerned about being, being pregnant and sailing on any major cruise line, frankly?
[00:09:57] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. So we, we started this process about a, a year ago, about a year out from, from sailing. Just the initial conversation with my parents, hey, we want to travel with you. And, and I'll be brief in my, my part.
I was diagnosed with stage four endometriosis. And so as we were starting that, that planning process, my surgery was getting scheduled. And for those who don't know, endometriosis is a condition where tissue that's similar to the inside of the uterus grows outside of the uterus and can grow and in my case does all over the abdominal cavity. And the only real way to diagnose and treat is surgery.
And it can affect your fertility in a lot of different, a lot of different aspects of your life. It's like a chronic inflammatory disease.
So we were starting the surgery planning process around the time we were starting to talk about this vacation process and knowing that there's a cutoff to when you can sail pregnant or you can't sail past 24 weeks.
We knew when my surgery was and we knew when we were going to be cleared to start trying to conceive after surgery. And we kind of went, okay, well, we have to pretend that we're going to get pregnant right away. And what's 24, what's 24 weeks out from there? And even if it doesn't happen, great, we have a buffer, but if it does, we need to be ready. Right? And miraculously, we conceived in the second month of trying, which is a really big deal for someone with my severity of condition. And, and we had already picked an itinerary the 24 weeks. So we were, we were in the buffer, right? And we, we knew that my parents love to cruise. We love to cruise. I figured that it would probably be the easiest thing for me as the main point of like planning contact for this trip to facilitate and plan pregnant. Like it didn't really have to think about it once you book it, right?
So I knew that I wanted the treasure. That was a non negotiable for me. Like if we're going to do a big celebratory trip. It's, it's got to be on the newest ship. I, I've wanted, we wanted to sell on the treasure since it came out. Right.
But we've done Western Caribbean enough. Like I've been to Cozumel, like I want to do something else and my parents on there. Only other dcl sailing with us had been Western Caribbean. So we picked Eastern Caribbean because, because why not? And people just rave about it. Right. So, so we picked an Eastern Caribbean sailing within that 24 week buffer and went from there.
[00:12:21] Speaker D: So happened to be around the spring break.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: Right. It fell on some of the kids spring break. So he was able to step away from, from work and everything worked out.
[00:12:30] Speaker C: That's amazing. I, I love when a plan comes together, right. When you can choose the ship you want to be on, the itinerary you want to be on, the number of nights you want to be. I mean more nights is always better. So that's just my recommendation, like just as many nights as you can afford. Okay.
[00:12:47] Speaker A: And, and my parents again, they sail and they sail on biking and of course we'll get, you know, deeper into them later. But their typical length of sailing is between 15 to 20 days.
[00:12:59] Speaker B: 14 on Viking. Nonetheless. My God. Living the dream. Living the dream.
[00:13:04] Speaker A: So like we started this and my says, well, you know, I think a shorter sailing, like seven nights, a shorter sailing would be. And I just like fell out of my seat. Like mom, most people would not describe seven nights is a shorter sailing.
But it, yeah, it was perfect for all of us.
[00:13:21] Speaker C: Well and on Disney it's not a shorter sailing. A shorter sailing is three or four night sailing. A longer sailing is a seven night sailing. It's, it's rare that you get more, you know, longer itineraries. Only the Panama Canal, transatlantic, occasionally get a southern Caribbean. Right. Like there might be a couple of European sailings that are, you know, an eight nighter.
Exactly. So it's so funny that, but that's the frame of reference because there are those cruise lines that do cater to an older demographic, let's be frank about it, who can go on a two week or a three week cruise. Whereas those of us who are still in the workforce and maybe have kids that are school age, that's just did not in our, you know, not in our vacation budget, let's put it that way. All right, well let's, let's talk about that pre planning process. I'm going to throw this question to Vincent. I know that Lindsay was the primary planner. But were there things that you guys were looking to book ahead of time that you were focused on getting, whether, you know, adult activities, adult dining, things like that.
[00:14:23] Speaker D: So I'm a huge Marvel fan. So knowing that we were going to be able to have a few nights at Marvel, that's really all I cared about. And then I also am just.
Well, it also came back down to a little bit more of like what Lindsay was going to be experiencing as well for pregnancy. So we, we didn't really necessarily concern ourselves around like some of the excursions. I mean, obviously now that they have the new Mickey Mouse water slide, I can entertain myself as well on the ship even when all of the other guests are, you know, at port.
[00:15:00] Speaker C: Absolutely. Yeah. You don't have to, I mean, you don't certainly don't have to book anything in advance in terms of excursions. Like you can go at all the ports that Disney goes to in the Eastern Caribbean. That's Tortola, St. Thomas and of course Castaway. Castaway technically is in the Bahamas, but that's on that itinerary. But Tortola and St. Thomas, you can absolutely get off and like walk around on your own and like hop into, you know, a few shops, hop in, get a rum drink, drink at Pusters if you want to, or an NA drink, of course, for, for Lindsay.
So, yeah, I mean, there's plenty, there's plenty to do without, you know, pre booking anything. Were you looking at any adult dining? Lindsay was. Did you want to do, you know, Apollo brunch or dinner or Enchante for example?
[00:15:45] Speaker A: Yeah, we did book both Paolo and Enchante. I was hoping that I was going to be in the phase of my pregnancy where I was like, kind of want to eat everything. And I was, I was right before we get there, I was right in that.
But to Vincent's point, I didn't want to sacrifice nights at Worlds of Marvel and I didn't want to sacrifice nights at Coco either because that's his favorite Pixar movie and we were both huge Marvel fans. So we booked Enchante lunch and we booked Paolo dinner on Pirate Night so that we weren't going to be that game of sacrificing another rotational dining just in case the dining team couldn't help us on embarkation day.
[00:16:28] Speaker C: Yeah, one of the ways you can sort of avoid it, it takes quite a bit of planning is to like, find out what the dining rotations are. Right. So you have to call Disney Cruise Line maybe like, you know, a couple Months before you're sailing and then you're like, with doing this gamesmanship, as Lindsay mentioned, to try and figure out, okay, I gotta now move my dinners to certain nights. Pirate night, of course, is a great one to choose. If you don't care about missing the pirate night menu and the, you know, you don't really, you're not going to get the show in any of the restaurants.
[00:16:58] Speaker A: It's okay, right?
Like soup with the carrot cake croutons is great, but like, I've done it.
[00:17:03] Speaker C: Right.
[00:17:04] Speaker A: It's okay.
[00:17:04] Speaker C: Exactly, exactly. And then, but if you want to do more than one. Yeah, it's, it takes a lot of sort of, it takes some arranging and a little bit of gambling to make sure you'll be able to switch things on board. Either switch your dining rotation or switch what night you pre plan to go to to adult dining. So that, that totally makes sense. I think that's a great option. All right, well, let's talk about planning for the parents. Was there anything that you were all, I mean, you took the, the reins of planning, Lindsay. Were there things that you were booking for your folks, like did they want to do any of the adult dining or did they do the ones with you? Did they want any, I don't know, drink tastings or anything like that?
[00:17:42] Speaker A: I did book the dining for us all to go together because we were already gonna be together for, for dinner. Right. And, and my parents and like, like us probably more so are even bigger food stops than us. So I knew that they would appreciate the adult dining also, knowing their experience on Virgin or I'm sorry, on Viking, that was going to be closer to what they would be experiencing nightly, you know, so I wanted them to experience it. And I, I, as far as excursions, I said, you know, go for it, book whatever you like. I, I walked into the app.
They didn't book any drink tastings.
They mostly just had like wine with dinner if they wanted it. But also because they were sailing spring break week, things were harder to grab for sure.
[00:18:24] Speaker C: Now you, you still can book things on board. If you miss out by, you know, by not getting something in your booking window, there's usually some spots that are reserved for onboard booking. So I recommend logging onto that app as soon as you are in the, you know, in the port terminal, you can log onto the app, get all signed up and then see if you can book, you know, an add on things.
If not, you can always go and request at either guest services or if it's a dining request, you can go to where they handle dining requests on board on that first day. On embarkation day beyond embarkation day, you're probably out of luck if you have not gotten something. I'm not saying you. It's impossible. It's still possible, but it becomes a lot more difficult. Embarkation day is kind of that last minute scramble to get, you know, something that you, you weren't maybe able to get. All right, well, let's, let's talk embarkation. Well, let's talk traveling down to the port first because you don't live in Florida. So, Vincent, I'll throw this one to you.
Tell us, when did you get down? You're selling out of Port Canaveral. When did you get down to Orlando? Did you do some parks time ahead of time or what was the plan?
[00:19:30] Speaker D: So we flew. We actually took a red eye because we're over in Phoenix, we're west coast.
So we got there like super early.
Tried to sleep on Thursday morning just so that, that way we could be prepared to then just grab breakfast at the grand with my in laws there once, once they also arrived and then we just kind of hung out.
[00:19:53] Speaker A: Yeah, on Thursday we, we.
[00:19:57] Speaker D: Our home property is the Riviera.
So then we walked over or went off skylined over to the Riviera and hung out there for a little while.
And then actually my brother in law and sister in law also traveled in, so that was also the cool thing. So, you know, before actually going on the cruise, we got to see those guys as well. And then on Friday we got to go to Magic Kingdom. All six of us.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:26] Speaker D: So that was an awesome experience because my brother in law had never been to Disney World.
[00:20:31] Speaker A: I'd never been.
[00:20:31] Speaker D: Had never been.
[00:20:32] Speaker C: Lindsay, what is wrong with your brother?
I know.
[00:20:36] Speaker A: Well, I know.
[00:20:36] Speaker D: Well, yeah, he, he's married into the family.
It's her brother in law too. So I just want to.
Yeah, I just want to clarify that for anybody listening. We still love him. We still love you, Will.
[00:20:48] Speaker C: Shout out to Will. I'm glad you had your.
[00:20:49] Speaker D: He's a trooper. He's a trooper.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: Yeah, he was great. He was.
[00:20:53] Speaker C: I mean, a full day at Magic Kingdom, you know.
[00:20:55] Speaker D: That's great. He really had a great time.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: Yeah, it was, it was good. But we, we stayed at the Polynesian Thursday night and Friday night and then took Disney transportation to the port on Saturday.
[00:21:04] Speaker C: Nice. Perfect. All right, well, what was your port. Well, your port arrival time didn't matter because you're seeking Disney transportation. What time did you all have to meet in order to get on the bus for at. From the poly.
[00:21:17] Speaker A: Yeah, it was around between 9 and 9:30. Was our like gather in the lobby time.
[00:21:21] Speaker D: Had one more family breakfast.
[00:21:24] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, we had, we had breakfast, you know, that morning and then gathered in the lobby and off, off we went. It was.
We all honestly slept on the, on the bus after the long day at Magic Kingdom the day before. We arrived at the port by, by 10:45 and they just, you know, walked us, walked us right through.
[00:21:44] Speaker B: Did your bus have any stops after the poly or did it take you straight through?
[00:21:48] Speaker A: There was only polygas. There was a lot of us or a lot staying.
[00:21:53] Speaker D: Whole bus. Yeah, like there was not one seat.
[00:21:55] Speaker A: No, the whole bus was full.
[00:21:57] Speaker C: Well, let's, let's talk about embarkation now you all. It's nice to be on one of those Disney buses because you kind of get escorted into the terminal pretty swiftly and right to the check in desks.
What group number, number did they end up giving you once you got to the port? Because oftentimes they give you an earlier group number than the one you were assigned online.
[00:22:19] Speaker A: Yeah. So I'm so glad you mentioned that because the.
An assigned time popped up on our page. Right. It was group six and they hand you those little slips of paper when you board the bus with a character on it. I didn't know there was anything written on the back.
And on the back it said that we could board on group three.
So we were like hanging out and it was fine. Right. We were hanging out at the port taking pictures with the photographer. We weren't in a rush. Honestly. I used that time to connect to the ship wi fi and book. Book the reservation for the ship tour. So glad I heard about that on another one of your episodes. So I grabbed that and I got
[00:22:57] Speaker D: to do a little bit of work.
[00:22:58] Speaker A: Yeah, you know, last, last minute connectivity before we got on the ship and, and we boarded with group six, which was totally, it was totally fine. But if anyone's taking Disney transportation, flip your character paper over. There's another boarding group on there.
[00:23:13] Speaker C: Yeah, they just, they generally move you up. So if you were assigned, I mean you, you might have. You won't be assigned like group 18. You're probably find one of the earlier groups to start with, but they tend to move you up to group three. And the reason they don't move you up beyond group three is because group one is concierge bookings and group two is Pearl cruisers. So unless you're a Pearl cruiser taking Disney transportation, then you'll be in group, you'll be assigned group two. But if you're any other group number, you are. If you're taking Disney transportation, you may have been. Especially if you're on one of those early buses.
It's likely you will have been bumped up to an earlier group number. So just flip over the paper.
I love it.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: I didn't even realize it until we got home too because I'd like stuck them in our passports. We were unpacking. I was like, oh, these are so cute. You're joking. They're like instructions on the back. Yeah, it wasn't a big deal.
[00:24:06] Speaker C: But being in the terminal is a great opportunity to get onto the ship wi fi and start booking activities. The thing you mentioned, the ship tour, it's an adult only booking activity. It's free. It's, it's. You can't book it ahead of time meaning before your cruise you have to book it on embarcation day or some other day. But it is, it's called something like Imagineering the treasure where and, and it's called that for all of the Wish class ships. And it's in. If you go to the app and you're on the onboard.
It's sort of like onboard activities. You can add it as an onboard activity and they'll usually have a few different times and days it's offered and you can reserve it for any of the adults in your party.
And you just show up to a specified meeting location and it's about an hour ish long.
And one of the entertainment cast take you around the ship and they point out really cool design details. Imagineering details.
I talk about the carpets, the pictures on the walls or the Monica blue color of the ship's hull. Right. Like all kinds of details and stories that they can tell you about what was sort of put into the ship. It's a really great tour. I recommend it on the Wish class is called that and it's Art of the theme ship tour or Art of the theme show tour on the four older ships. I don't know if it's offered on the adventure. So if anyone knows that, feel free to.
I mean there is a whole imagineering video on YouTube that Walt Disney Imagineering put out that you can find. But I don't know if there's a tour on the ship that does that. It's quite a big ship, so maybe, maybe not.
[00:25:41] Speaker D: Well, let's super quick too.
Even just going backwards when we first, you know, we're talking about being married and you know, starting this whole life Together Linds was talking about, you know, making sure that I was, you know, in it for the long haul with this whole Disney infatuation. Right. And so we watched Imagineering and that sold me so much more. So if anybody also hasn't watched the 6 part series on Disney Plus Imagineering, highly recommend it.
[00:26:13] Speaker A: The Imagineering Story.
[00:26:14] Speaker D: Yeah. Love it.
[00:26:15] Speaker C: And Disney has several different series that it's done in similar vein about different rides and all really fantastic to learn about the sort of the design of either a ride or a cruise ship or a show.
There is so much that goes into the production of those things both on the engineering side and the creative side. It's just incredible to hear the stories of those people involved in these stories. Huge projects. Yeah, it's awesome. All right, well, I gotta talk embarkation day traditions.
Of course. You guys walk in the beautiful Disney Treasure grand hall and have your family name announced.
And I'm sure that's a wonderful moment. I gotta ask what was the moment like? But then what was your like? We have to go do X. What is that sort of moment for you when you get on a Disney ship?
[00:27:09] Speaker A: Well, the trim is gorgeous. And everybody says this, but it's so true. Pictures don't do it justice and the renderings didn't do it justice. Everyone says this. The renderings look really dark. It's not that dark in person. It's rich in color.
It's vibrant and elegant at the same time. It's gorgeous. Gorgeous. We, you know, of course we take our selfie with the atrium statue and we like ooh and ah and say hi to, you know, the character was on the balcony. I think it was the genie when we, when we walked in. I can't remember number. Yeah. And my parents having previously sailed on the fantasy. It's very different, right? Very different field.
They were immediately impressed and we just kind of stood and took in the, the Grand Hall.
The first thing we did was coffee. Nobody got food because we were pretty hungry.
[00:28:01] Speaker D: It's typically one or the other. Yeah.
[00:28:03] Speaker A: Like coffee or get food.
[00:28:05] Speaker C: I mean the two most important things about a cruise in my mind. Getting coffee or getting food. I mean.
[00:28:10] Speaker B: Oh, come on now, Sam. The important thing about a cruise in your mind is the entertainment. Everyone knows you fair.
[00:28:17] Speaker C: But I mean the only second to that might be the food and the coffee.
[00:28:23] Speaker A: Yeah. So I, I, we might have gone straight there. We might have gone to the, to Triton's Lounge to look or to ask our dining if our dining table was going to be private. Like just our Stateroom and our parents, my parents state room.
I know we did that. I can't remember if we did it before or after we got food, but. But it was one of those two things that we did right away.
[00:28:44] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a really good point to make. You can put a request in ahead of time, but you don't actually know for sure until you show up. And you might show up at dinner even though you've requested a private table and find out that you've been seated with four other guests. And so it can be a little awkward. So if you are really, if your preference is more than a preference, let's put it that way. If your preference is really strong, I highly recommend doing exactly what Lindsay and Vincent did. Go to wherever they're doing dining changes and just go. And they can double check to see if you have a private table. And most of the time those private dining requests are honored. It's just there are times where the, you know, the sailing's really full or it falls through the crack. So it does happen.
But it's not a bad idea to double check if it's something you're really, you feel strongly about.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: Yeah, and I, it was, that was one of the things that I thought about as pertaining to being pregnant because I was hoping that I was going to feel really good. But like, you know, what if I got to dinner one night and I was really not feeling good or I was really grumpy or something? Like we, we, we make, we make friends very easily. But like, do I want to subject strangers to whatever's happening with me physiologically? No, I don't. So let's, let's just make sure we have a table, just the four of us.
[00:30:03] Speaker C: Do you want strangers to meet, I don't know, Emo Lindsay or hangry Lindsay?
[00:30:11] Speaker A: Just, you know, that's, it was a thing that like you don't necessarily think about. But I, I had like a thought through moment in the planning process. Like, oh no, we should definitely make sure our table is private just in case.
[00:30:22] Speaker C: All right, well, you guys are sailing without kids with, well, with kid to be.
And so did you go to sit down lunch or do you go to Marceline Market for buffet lunch?
[00:30:33] Speaker A: We went to sit down just again, because we, because of my parents experience on Viking, they have a quasi buffet available.
But it's not, it's not like a, like a normal ship buffet.
And because it gets crazy, you know, it gets crazy at embarkation day. So sit down. Lunch was in Plaza de Coco and it was Excellent.
[00:30:58] Speaker C: Yeah. So I mean, also such a great introduction to that space before it gets, gets really crowded and without the show and with, you know, it's sort of, it's more lit up so you can kind of see the space more clearly than in the sort of nighttime decor. Not that I mean it's beautiful in both settings, but you just kind of get it more empty when you first can. If, especially if you get in there early like you probably did and you
[00:31:21] Speaker A: could take your time to explore that.
[00:31:23] Speaker C: You.
[00:31:23] Speaker A: You can't do that at dinner without disturbing your fellow neighbors. Right? You know.
[00:31:27] Speaker C: Exactly. Exactly.
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[00:32:28] Speaker C: Well, let's, let's dive into some of the experience you guys got up to on board.
I want to. Can we just start with dining? Because I feel like we're on this, we're on this like food train and I want to ask about, of course, you know, being pregnant, you can have some food cravings, food aversions, all that stuff.
I'm curious how things were for you, Lindsay, but I'm also really curious about how your parents viewed the food because Viking is very well known for their food for having excellent, very high quality, high end. You're also dealing with much smaller number of passengers. So with the smaller number of passengers on a luxury line, you do tend to get a higher quality of food because you're not talking about like banquet Food. And I. And this is no, like, this is no shade to Disney. Like they're, their food is really excellent banquet quality food, but it's still being made for, you know, thousands of people. And so that does impact that. Yeah. So I'm curious about sort of both of those aspects from a planning perspective.
[00:33:30] Speaker A: I was really intentional with the stateroom that we chose so that I could be close to the pool deck food.
So I chose.
[00:33:38] Speaker D: That was a game changer. Yes, of course, for her. But I'm also typically just eating. I would send every two hours as well. So I'm like, oh yeah, let's do it.
[00:33:47] Speaker C: I mean, who doesn't want like a taco in the middle of the afternoon or like a piece of pizza.
[00:33:53] Speaker A: Right, Exactly. So our state rooms were on Deck 10, right off the elevator bay. Like, you know, when you're sailing, you learn like what the state rooms on your deck look like. Oh, we need to turn towards those staterooms. Right. Like we were those staterooms. So that was right next to the, the stairs to go right up to, to the pool deck on, on deck 11.
So that was very intentional. And we can start with full deck food. Food.
[00:34:16] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:34:17] Speaker A: So good. And everybody says that, that it's great on the Treasure. It just doesn't compare to the other, to the earlier four trips. Nothing wrong with the duck food on the others, but, but this is like
[00:34:27] Speaker D: just on another level also the, the theming too.
[00:34:30] Speaker A: Oh, it's so cute. We love that, that new Mickey short style. Right? Super cute.
And yeah, everyone's right. The pizza is great. Very, very surprised. The quality of the pizza.
Donald's Cantina, super yummy. The barbecue, I mean everything, every, every. We ate at every station and every station was great.
I probably had 12 slices of pizza through the whole, the wholesaling. It just, I would get like this mid afternoon. I need pizza. I need like bread and cheese now. Right. Craving. So the food deck food was great. Rotational dining was also great. And you're right, I did have a couple of times that I said to my parents, like, hey, the Treasure is supposed to have like some of the best food in the fleet. It's still not going to be like Viking. And, and my also I, that also came to mind for us because when we sailed on the Magic last year, the food wasn't bad, but it wasn't the same as the food we'd experienced on the fantasy of the year prior. There was just. And maybe we had picked choices that like, weren't the best and like, you know, maybe we hadn't listened to our servers recommendations, you know, could have just picked the wrong things.
But I thought, oh, if our experience is like, as on. If our experience on the Treasure is like, we had on the magic, I don't know that my parents are going to be happy. So I. I made sure to really listen to our server's recommendations on the Treasure.
I got the server's recommendation almost every night, and there was only, like, one dish that I didn't totally love as far as rotational dining. And honestly, same thing with my parents. Parents. My parents really enjoyed the rotational dining menus, which was a huge relief to me as the. As the, like, planner facilitator of all things from a pregnancy perspective.
Don't you love. You can order whatever you want off the menu. Like, it doesn't have to be like, you know, a salad and entree. It could be good. Whatever you want. Like, that was. That was really great. And also huge as far as rotational dining. Huge. Shout out to the dining team for handling Vincent allergies, especially around dessert. Vincent cannot have any nuts or legumes.
[00:36:37] Speaker D: Yeah. So that. That was actually the most fascinating thing, was that they were so specific. As soon as I told them I can't have peas, like, they had taken the next thought of saying, oh, can you have pea protein? No, and no. And interestingly enough, I had also discovered that, like, two, three years ago.
Like, I didn't even think to be looking at, you know, some of these new alternatives.
[00:37:01] Speaker C: Yeah, some of these things that they use in other. Yeah, they use it as, like a filler in some other emulsifier.
[00:37:07] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, it's in a lot. And. And they're apparently using it in a lot of desserts, I'm sure in, like, the glazes or the sauce or different things. And so most nights, they were on top of it. Most nights couldn't have any of the options. And so it was like, hey, do you just want a surprise? Yeah, he'd love a surprise. Yeah.
[00:37:24] Speaker D: And then I. And then they were so sweet enough to, like, actually give me the next night's menu to look over it. Like, it was just so, so thoughtful.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: Yeah, they must have. They must have really upped their protocols around allergies since we sailed last year, because it was, like, just strict in a good way. It was really rigorous as far as, here's the next money and what would you like? You know, which we. We appreciated from a. From a disciplining and safety perspective. But he got to try some really fun things that, like. Like, for Example, they had a nut free carrot cake.
[00:37:56] Speaker D: I had never had carrot cake.
[00:37:58] Speaker A: Never had. And I didn't know.
I'm thinking, honey, I could have totally like baked you a nut free carrot cake, if you let me know.
And he, I mean, he ate it one night at Plaza de Coco and. But he was like, oh, this is,
[00:38:09] Speaker C: this is what carrot cake tastes like.
[00:38:12] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. So just little things like that, like, it just. Our servers were incredible. We had Mardika and Dee. They were amazing.
[00:38:21] Speaker C: Yeah. They've done a great job with the allergy friendly menus on the Wish class. I think in general, like, because they were doing new menus and sort of reimagining dining to some degree on the Wish class. I feel like they've really been very intentional in creating these allergy friendly menus rather than just an allergy friendly version of some of. I mean, some of them are an allergy friendly version, but it's sort of pre planned better it seems. And of course, nuts are one of the most common allergies. Legumes are pretty common too, because a lot, most people with peanut and peanuts are not actually nuts, they're legumes. Right. So a lot of people have a peanut allergy because they have a legume allergy, not just a nut allergy. Or maybe sometimes people just have a legume allergy and don't have a nut allergy. Right. Although they're closely related.
But it is interesting how much they've, I think, leaned into that. I think it's great.
It really helps cruisers like yourselves feel comfortable. Like you're not going to have an anaphylactic reaction at the end of dinner and have to worry about epipened. Right. Like so, I mean, that's just having that peace of mind is great. And not to say there aren't times where people make mistakes or things do happen. So it's. You can't, you got to stay vigilant if you have, you know, a food allergy at the same time. I'm sure it's, it's nicer to have that experience than probably your local restaurant. Vincent, I'm guessing.
[00:39:43] Speaker D: Yeah. I mean, Phoenix is interestingly very forward thinking with some of the food alternatives and everything.
So it does pop up, but it's not like expected.
Right.
[00:39:55] Speaker A: Like, it's not nearly the same level.
Which is again, another reason why we continue to vacation with them just for that.
[00:40:02] Speaker D: It's a peace of mind.
[00:40:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:03] Speaker D: I mean, I think on some of our other ships that we've been on, like again, to Lindsay's point. They're not nearly as rigorous like they are. They're attentive. But, like, every single time then that we had our rotational dining, we already knew what to expect. And then if I saw something else, I was like, oh, well, can I have that? And they, they already knew. They're like, nope, sorry.
[00:40:25] Speaker A: But we can try to customize it.
[00:40:26] Speaker D: Don't try Lindsay's dish.
[00:40:28] Speaker B: Don't eat.
[00:40:29] Speaker C: Don't eat a bite of her. Of Lindsay's food. I mean, she might poke you with a fork anyway, Vincent, so you want
[00:40:34] Speaker A: to watch out, you know, don't eat my stuff. No, I mean, maybe they. I wouldn't be surprised if they upped the protocol across the fleet, but it was really noticeable between our experience last year on the magic and our experiences here on the Treasure, the difference in protocol.
[00:40:47] Speaker C: I want to ask you about the entertainment side of dining, because that was something you all were looking forward to. In particular dining in Marvel and dining in Coco in Plaza de Coco. So Marvel, of course, has two different shows. Coco also has two different shows. It's, I think, one of the best things about the Treasure. If you like a quiet dinner, don't go on the Treasure, I guess, because. But if you're like me and you like entertainment at dinner, like, the Treasure is amazing, as is the Destiny. But I'm curious what you guys guys thought of the two shows in Marvel and of course the two shows in Plaza de Coco.
[00:41:21] Speaker D: Yeah, we loved it. I couldn't get through halfway of the first night of Coco without crying. And then sure enough, Lynn's kind of like bumps me and she's like, are you okay? And I was like, yeah. And then I look over and my
[00:41:34] Speaker A: father in law is like, my dad's crying too.
[00:41:37] Speaker D: It's just because we're so close with our families and everything. And that's what I loved about, about my in laws and everything too. And so like my abuela, right, My, my grandma and my great grandma just remind me of, of Grandma Coco, right? So.
And so, yeah, it was just very sweet moments, you know, throughout the whole show. Throughout the whole show.
[00:42:00] Speaker A: And, and my mom's a music teacher and so she really appreciated the, the, the mariachi music. And my dad has played guitar for, I don't know, before I was born. Right? So we all were so in it. I mean, we were, we were really into the music. Much more so than our neighbors. Not that they didn't like it, but we were like, really loving it.
[00:42:22] Speaker D: Some of the, some of the, the diners next to us, they were like, is he.
[00:42:27] Speaker A: Yeah. There was this kid at the table next to us who kept looking at Vincent like, is there a problem?
[00:42:31] Speaker D: Like, why is this 30 some year old man crying at dinner?
[00:42:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I love that.
[00:42:38] Speaker C: We were, when we were on board, you know, we were on board just. I think just after you guys, actually, I think a week or two after you all. And we got a. We had a great table real close to the stage and right next to the walkway where they come in and come out. And so every time they would come in and come out, I was mouthing to them bravo and like clapping for. Because they were just so, like, I kept. Because I'm. I'm like, you guys, I'm totally into the music, the singing, like, the dancing. I'm just like immersed in the show that is being. I like, I mean, I like the dinner too, but I'm like, I, I could, I could do this all without food in front of me and just like be completely captivated by what's happening on stage. All right, well, let's, let's talk about other entertainment on board because I could. We could talk about food forever.
[00:43:27] Speaker D: We'll.
[00:43:27] Speaker C: We'll loop back to adult dining a little later. But I want to ask about, you know, stage shows and also I want to ask about Zaya, not Zion Gamble, Sage and Coriander, the storytellers. If you had gone to their, particularly their evening show, the Indiana Jones, choose wisely. Or if you went to maybe any. Either of their two grand hall retellings of. Or is this one of Aladdin?
[00:43:53] Speaker A: Yeah, we can start with Sage and Coriander. We were told on embarkation day by our, by the people who served us at Coco lunch, the embarkation lunch, that the new cast had just been on the ship. So we were either like the first or the second sailing for this, for this new cast on the ship. And I feel like our sailing was like the workout, the kinks sailing. And that's totally okay, but I really feel like our stage and Coriander, like, we're a little unbalanced. I did listen to your episode of your. Your Experience right after Hours and you loved them. So maybe they like worked out their.
Our Coriander just felt like really just she was like overperforming the stage and it was kind of taking away a little bit.
[00:44:38] Speaker C: Yeah, you were, I think you were on their first where. The, the first sailing where they took over. And I think we were on the third sailing that they had taken over. I, I have to agree with you. That. I think the. I think she was a little bit. A little bit.
[00:44:52] Speaker A: Maybe two, and maybe she'd, like, you know, come down by your sail, and I don't want to, like, I can't get up there and do what she's doing. Right.
[00:44:59] Speaker C: Like, let's. Let's be.
[00:45:01] Speaker A: Let's be fair.
But as somebody with a musical theater background, it was a little much at times as far as their retelling of the story.
[00:45:10] Speaker B: We.
[00:45:10] Speaker A: We didn't see that.
[00:45:11] Speaker D: Like, the.
No, the.
[00:45:13] Speaker A: We. It was earlier on the sailing. We didn't go to the Aladdin one, but we did go to their, like, other one. They're like, you know, in the app, it's like an unnamed story, and they did an encanto retelling, which was really fun.
And they're like, none of their mics worked the whole time. And I felt so bad. Like, they kind of started and, like, you could. I could watch the guy in the tech booth, like, scrambling, and like, they're just. It just wasn't working. And so I felt bad for them. Like, they're, you know, they're trying to work out their dynamic, and now their mics aren't working. And honestly, they did a great job. I mean, the Disney performers are so well trained that they just carried on. Right. And the kids loved it, and it was cute to watch. We did go to the Choose Wisely show.
We went to the earlier show, which I think is a show where not as many people are as into it. And again, I think they were just working out their dynamic.
We love.
I grew up watching Indiana Jones, so we got all the little baby references. But it was.
It was okay. It was. I think. I don't. I have a hard time.
[00:46:21] Speaker D: If I had to go and choose to do it again, I'd be like, okay, cool. I've. I've. I've done it.
[00:46:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:26] Speaker D: I'm gonna go choose an alternative.
[00:46:28] Speaker A: Something else.
But I don't want our experience to deter anybody else. I think ours was just the workout. The kinks sailing, and that's. That's okay.
[00:46:36] Speaker C: Yeah. And you're. You're absolutely right. Like, when you have a cast changeover, whenever that happens, and it's a little bit hard to predict. Right. You have to really know what the ship's rotation exactly is. And when it came out and all of that, it's. It's kind of hard. It's kind of hard for even us to track. I didn't realize when we had gotten on until I was talking to Ca. Cast Members and realized, oh, okay, this is Treasure Cast four. They only came on a couple sailings ago. Well, they only started or take. They actually come on a couple of sailings before they start, meaning before they perform to watch the prior cast. So Treasure Cast four comes on, like, two weeks before Treasure Cast three leaves, and they sort of shadow and rehearse while they're on board during off times, but then they take over, and there is that transition period, and it's not going to be perfect. And it does take a while before they get their groove. Now, they've been rehearsing in Toronto for months as well, but usually a couple of months. But it's not the same as being in the space, in the costumes, on the ship. Right. It's.
[00:47:38] Speaker A: It's all live feedback from the audience.
[00:47:41] Speaker C: Totally. Totally. Exactly.
[00:47:43] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:47:43] Speaker A: I mean, Mad Props are so talented. It's clear that they're so talented.
[00:47:47] Speaker C: What about the theater shows? I'm curious how those were, because obviously you've got the same. Oh, okay, so you have the same. Yeah, I mean, they. They've. They're. It's the same. They're sort of from the same. So they're all starting at the same time. So when Sage and Coriander are new, the main stage cast is new. They're actually part of that group. And so you had a. It sounds like a better experience with the stage cast. Did you go see all three of the shows? You got Seize the Adventure, Beauty and the Beast, and, of course, A Tale of Moana.
[00:48:17] Speaker A: Yeah, we did. We went to all three.
Again, coming from a musical family, like, we just, like, we have to go. That's, like, the thing, right? We have to go to the evening entertainment. We loved CZ Adventure.
[00:48:29] Speaker D: I. Oh, so good.
[00:48:30] Speaker A: We love a jukebox, you know, show type anyway. But we. We loved the bit from Merida.
[00:48:41] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Wow.
[00:48:42] Speaker D: I don't want to spoil it for anybody.
[00:48:44] Speaker A: Wasn't prepared for that and was totally blown away. I was going to say the. The. The Go with the Flow song from the Finding Nemo, the musical in Animal Kingdom. Like, wasn't expecting that either.
So cute.
Yeah. What a great way to, like, kick off the sailing.
Blown away by Moana.
[00:49:03] Speaker C: Right?
[00:49:03] Speaker A: She was.
[00:49:04] Speaker C: She. And. And the woman who played Moana was phenomenal. Yeah.
[00:49:09] Speaker A: Incredible. I'm. I agree with you, Sam, that, like, Warrior Face song is the lull.
But they have to add stuff to make this show keep going, right? They have to. They need more. So there has to be one thing that people just aren't as in love with as. As much as the stuff that they know from the, from the movie. But I, I love the way that they portrayed Tamatoa. I, I love the way that they. That transition from Tika into Te Fiti is so incredible, so cool.
[00:49:36] Speaker D: And just Maui transitioning everybody. Yeah. I again, don't want to maybe spoil it for some folks who haven't necessarily gone yet, but Beauty and the Beast was good too.
[00:49:45] Speaker A: But to be honest, I think it was my.
[00:49:47] Speaker D: We've just seen it so many times at the parks.
[00:49:49] Speaker A: Personally been in a production, so I'm
[00:49:51] Speaker C: like, oh, so you have a little bit of a bias there towards the production.
[00:49:55] Speaker A: Yeah, but there were features of it that were really cool. You know, some of the, some of
[00:49:59] Speaker D: the projections, I think just watching how the stage actually moves and actually now you're like, you know, traveling through the corridors with them as, you know, the set pieces are actually moving. Brilliant.
[00:50:15] Speaker A: Very creative.
[00:50:16] Speaker C: Yeah, the set, the set design and blocking for that show are like, like just incredible. And especially when you're thinking about the fact that the ship is moving and you have all these pieces of scenery. I mean, there are like staircases and walls and, or arches and things like that. So it's not, they're not necessarily like, you know, it's not like every. The floor is constantly moving, but there's big pieces that are being moved and making you feel like there's movement on the stage. And it's, it's really beautifully and amazingly done.
[00:50:46] Speaker A: It was incredible.
Really, really, really incredible.
[00:50:49] Speaker C: Well, what about some of the other activities on board? You know, there's other things. We, we, we don't categorize them as entertainment, but they are entertainment. They're activities. There are trivias. There's family game shows, there's pool deck time. There's aqua mouse time. Right. Like, what are, what were the, some of the other things you guys got up to on board the ship?
[00:51:09] Speaker A: We did the, the, the art. What was it? The Imagineering the ship tour.
So, so well, well thought out. If you are, you know, an adult sailing or you're okay with your kids. You know, it's totally, totally worth checking out. We took that tour the first, the first day at sea. So then we kind of, we kind of kept noticing things through the rest of the time. While, while we were selling. That was great.
We did go to some of the alternative entertainment.
[00:51:39] Speaker D: Yeah, I feel like we had done more activities on some of our previous sailings.
[00:51:43] Speaker A: Yeah, we went to some trivia versus this one, because this was the week of Easter. The ship was full and you could feel it. And that's okay. We were prepared for that. We just took a little bit easier again because we didn't know how I was going to be feeling.
I had started to swell a little bit, I think from the travel and being in the park. So there was like intentional. I really had intentional downtime every day to make sure that that didn't get out of. Out of hand.
And there was lots of, Lots of time spent eating, lots of times spent getting coffee for him.
[00:52:22] Speaker D: Yeah. What was the. Actually that. That was always a spot for mom and dad was the. What was the name of the coffee they love?
[00:52:29] Speaker A: The COVID Cafe. They love it up there.
[00:52:32] Speaker D: It is such a vibe there.
[00:52:34] Speaker A: My parents did both have Spa Point 1 events.
We chose to forego the spa this time.
Several treatments are. Are listed as not being able to be performed on pregnant women. And I didn't want to, like, book something and then get disappointed later that I had missed fine print or that they changed something and also didn't know how I was going to be feeling. I experienced a lot of nausea in my first trimester and I didn't know if I would feel well getting a massage on a moving ship if we happen to have rough seas. Right. Like, let's just do the thought process on that.
[00:53:08] Speaker D: So they love the massages.
[00:53:09] Speaker C: I did one massage on land when I was quite pregnant and they use this, like, special pillow thing that you lay in. I gotta tell you, I actually, like, hated it. I love a massage, but I felt uncomfortable the whole time I was on my stomach in this thing that, like, was designed to hold my belly. But I just, I really like. So I, I get where you're coming from, Lindsay. I, I would say, like, unless you're somebody who's doing that at home and you know that you're enjoying a massage while pregnant, like, you might actually like. I love a massage. I hated the one that I got when I was pregnant and I. So I. And I didn't know that.
[00:53:44] Speaker A: You're totally right. I, I just got my first prenatal massage after.
After our sailing. And I'm proportioned differently than that cushion. And it wasn't super uncomfortable, but it was like I, I knew I was on a cushion the whole time. It was fine. But you're. You're so right. There's no way to know unless you happen to own that cushion at home and can test it out. You don't know whether or not it's going to be worth it to invest the Time and the money on. On the ship because you could end up sore later. Right.
But we. Yeah, we ended up at some trivia.
[00:54:15] Speaker D: Some trivia. The love the fitness area. Fitness area was great obviously to Lindsay's point, a little bit more crowded. So you had to just slowly start figuring out people's behaviors of like when they would start transitioning. And you're like, okay cool, I'm gonna just go in at this time maybe a little bit later or a little bit earlier. But then that. That was probably like our favorite spot was just always getting coffees throughout the like they have so many different.
[00:54:40] Speaker A: It's just our whole focus is this just very leisure was just how much journaling. Yeah. Spending just quality time together before baby gets here.
[00:54:51] Speaker C: All right, well I gotta ask about adult dining and then I want to ask the full grandparent review as we sort of wind down here.
You know we've skipped the ports but I know the ports weren't a big focus for you all anyway and so we can. I'll ask a question if there were any highlights, but let's. But let's. Let's go right to that adult dining. You did a enchante lunch and you did a Palo dinner on pirate night. And we got. I gotta ask like I don't remember had you guys been to Paulo or Enchante before. I know you're foodies, but I don't remember if you'd put Paolo before. Okay.
[00:55:27] Speaker A: Yeah, we hit Paulo on the fantasy and it was great. It was our only other adult dining experience. We didn't do any adult dining on the sailing on the Magic last year. That was a super last minute booking.
This, this time around was. Was great. Our Palo server was Vic. His name is Victor. He was. It was excellent. I mean we kind of knew what to expect. So I loved getting to experience Palo Steakhouse on the Wish class. Right. I. I love the tie in of Beauty and the Beast through all three venues there. The, you know, the Ashante, Palo and the Rose, the bar that connects the two also. Okay. Huge shout out to the macho else on board. Like they've really stepped up their non alcoholic. Yeah. I was like really impressed.
There was always something that I could get everywhere that was, you know, that they could modify or just have real options for me available.
So then I always felt like, you know, I had a little fun. Little fun. Sippy too.
We had. We did not do the prefix at Paula. We mostly I had a lot Foster.
[00:56:30] Speaker C: You had.
[00:56:30] Speaker A: Had good pasta.
[00:56:32] Speaker D: Yeah, I had steak and.
[00:56:33] Speaker A: Steak and pasta. My parents, I think also they both had steak and pasta and we all had, I had the arugula salad. I think it's a good salad. I love the parm on it.
[00:56:44] Speaker D: We have plenty of bread.
[00:56:45] Speaker A: Oh gosh, the bread.
Can I take it back to my room? Like I can.
[00:56:49] Speaker C: I just, it's so good.
[00:56:51] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:56:51] Speaker C: I love like the, the one that's the, basically the pizza bread. Oh, it's the best.
[00:56:56] Speaker A: It's the best. It's the best. Like you can make a, a pillow out of that.
[00:56:58] Speaker C: Right?
[00:56:59] Speaker A: Right. Yeah.
[00:57:00] Speaker C: And like don't sleep on that oil and vinegar too. The balsamic vinegar.
[00:57:05] Speaker A: Oh, scoop it up.
[00:57:06] Speaker C: Scoop, Scoop it up. Absolutely.
[00:57:08] Speaker A: Enchante, though was on another level. Like to be honest, our experience at Enchante made Palo kind of feel like a rotational dining.
[00:57:17] Speaker C: Yeah, totally.
[00:57:18] Speaker A: And no shade to po. But we had zero expectations.
[00:57:22] Speaker D: I mean we, we went all out for it.
[00:57:24] Speaker A: We went went, we went all out. Our, we had the first seating. It was a like an 1115 seating and we were the last to leave.
[00:57:33] Speaker D: It was a three and a half hour experience.
[00:57:35] Speaker A: It was, it was almost, we were there almost four hours and we again went with my parents.
[00:57:39] Speaker D: Unreal.
[00:57:40] Speaker A: And you know, they asked, do you have time constraints?
[00:57:42] Speaker C: No.
[00:57:42] Speaker A: And we, they really leaned into that. We went with the collection. The, the highest level, the full one.
My parents both chose wine pairings and I actually chose the zero proof pairings in for somebody. I, I, I think there was an, an episode where you interviewed a couple who.
[00:58:00] Speaker C: Yes.
Drink. Yes.
[00:58:01] Speaker A: And they were like this, these are.
[00:58:03] Speaker C: Yes. It was Aaron. It was Aaron and Todd. Shout out to Aaron and Todd. Yeah, they did it.
[00:58:07] Speaker A: I totally get what they're saying. If you're not somebody who has enjoyed cocktails, these are true mocktails. They're not just like nice juices and like you know, things that they put together like that old fashioned in this, this non alcoholic old fashioned in the zero proof pairing was incredible. Like, and I enjoy an old fashioned sparingly. Right.
It was so well done. Like you almost really didn't miss the whiskey. And they also had a non alcoholic champagne on the champagne card when they brought it over to me, which was so sweet. And I've had non alcoholic wine. Most just tastes like juice.
[00:58:45] Speaker D: This did not, this was overly fermented, like vinegary.
[00:58:50] Speaker A: Yeah, this was great. This was desert. Even my dad, both of my parents know their wines. Even my dad was impressed with the non alcoholic champagne. But to speak on the food in Enchante, there's not been Anything that my husband and I have experienced quite like it. My dad said that that was probably the best dining experience he's ever had. And they have eaten in some incredible places all over the world. Yeah, it was, was, it was really special. But I think it was the total package. Right. And everybody talks about Anon. You know, you. It's the same food at lunch and dinner. But I really would recommend going at lunchtime because you get the gorgeous views
[00:59:31] Speaker C: of at night it's dark, you can't see it. Yeah, that's a great point.
[00:59:36] Speaker A: It really added to it. And when you don't, don't book anything else because you'll be there a while
[00:59:42] Speaker C: if you want to be.
[00:59:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:59:44] Speaker D: And then you will now.
[00:59:45] Speaker A: And then you will now. And then you have to go back to dinner and eat more.
We, you know, they have the little surprise things as they bring out the moose bouche and the different. We counted the courses. It was like 14 courses of food. It's not really just seven.
They did surprise us with a really sweet celebration cake for our pregnancy. That was really sweet. There were a few courses they had to modify as the collection is very seafood forward. And I being pregnant, can't have raw.
[01:00:14] Speaker C: No raw fish. Yep.
[01:00:16] Speaker A: I also chose to not have caviar. And the way that they modified caviar
[01:00:21] Speaker D: dish though, apparently that was my favorite.
Absolute favorite. Yeah, the like, I, I just remembered it like Lynn said caviar and I back in time.
[01:00:33] Speaker C: I know.
I have to say that the, the quality of food that you get at Enchante or Remy would stands up to any Michelin star restaurant or two Michelin star restaurant on land. So for people like thinking, oh, it's a very expensive meal. Yeah, it's expensive as compared to not doing any adult dining or just to like a price fix. Palo at the same time, what you're getting, you cannot get for that price on land.
Neither the service nor, nor the quality of food nor the creativity. So it's a really, it's a fabulous experience. It is a long experience. So it's going to take up quite a bit of time. I do think that' you know, and you have to be on the more adventurous side. But of course they can accommodate, they can accommodate things like nut and legume allergies. They can accommodate no raw fish or seafood. Right. Like there are absolutely food allergies, food preferences, things like that. They can't accommodate as long as it's at the extreme. Right. If you're like somebody, I don't eat anything. Sorry, don't go. Just don't. Just don't. Don't go.
[01:01:36] Speaker A: Not for you.
[01:01:36] Speaker C: Just don't. Don't waste your money.
[01:01:38] Speaker A: Yeah, but for those who have the time and the time to commit, I mean, mean it's, it's an investment in an incredible experience and so worth it if you are somebody who enjoys fine dining. And yeah, it was, it was like a dance watching the way they would
[01:01:55] Speaker D: come to your table so synchronized.
[01:01:56] Speaker A: Pick up the plates at the same time. Our, our server, like the head server of our like large team of servers. Her name is Megan and she was phenomenal.
[01:02:05] Speaker D: She had just gotten promoted.
[01:02:07] Speaker A: She had just gotten called up to aunt like the week prior.
[01:02:10] Speaker D: The head.
[01:02:12] Speaker A: Yeah, she did a phenomenal. We got pictures with her at the end because it was just. I mean we felt like half the. Half the staff at Enchante was waiting on the four of us. There were. Everybody else in the restaurant was just tables of two. So we had like double the people serving us and it was, it was incredible.
[01:02:28] Speaker D: And we had the, the little corner as well.
[01:02:31] Speaker A: Oh yeah, there's like a corner table. It's kind of behind like an accent wall.
Felt private. It wasn't a private table, but it felt like a private table. And that also just added to it. I mean we could, we could sit here.
[01:02:44] Speaker D: That honestly was the highlight of the trip.
[01:02:46] Speaker A: Yeah, we could gush for an hour and a half only on that if we wanted to.
[01:02:50] Speaker D: My in law is going to attest to that. They, they were like this is like a highlight dinner of, of the trip of their lives as well. So it's really cool.
[01:02:58] Speaker A: Awesome. It was amazing.
[01:03:00] Speaker C: Speaking of the in laws, the parents, I gotta know what their sort of overall review was. They have SA mentioned on Disney previously, but not in 10 years. They sail on Viking very regularly on longer sailings. Like are they at the point, like did they enjoy. I mean it sounds like they enjoyed the food at of course Enchante and Paulo and that they enjoyed the food in main dining and the entertainment. Are they at the point where they would say oh yeah, we would absolutely book another Disney cruise, let's say on their own question mark with you all. Question mark. And with future baby or babies, question mark.
[01:03:38] Speaker A: They loved it.
[01:03:40] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:03:40] Speaker A: First question. Did they like it? They did. They loved it. They were really impressed with their state room.
They, of course they're, they're Disney travelers like us in the way that they, they enjoy the theme parks. Right? They. They. I grew up being taken by them to the parks and we do parks trips with them, so they appreciate the level of entertainment, the level of quality.
I don't know that they would book a sailing on Disney just for the two of them, but they would absolutely come on another sailing with us and our son in the future. Totally.
[01:04:13] Speaker D: I mean, we were already talking about it.
[01:04:15] Speaker A: Oh, oh, for sure.
We bought a placeholder and we were like, we have it. Maybe you come with us next year kind of thing or.
[01:04:21] Speaker D: Or whatever.
[01:04:21] Speaker A: So, yeah, they. They really loved it. I will say that there were a few times that they really felt the crowd. Right. Viking ships, 1, the median age was a lot older.
Like, a lot older.
They are typically some of the younger ones, honestly, on. On their sailings, and their ships are much smaller and even on their ocean ships. And my. My parents have have sailed several ocean cruises with Viking. They're still a little bit smaller, and the. The guest count just isn't that high.
So, like, when we. We went to Sail Away, the Sail Away party, it was packed. Right? Of. Of course, it's Sail Away. And my dad was like, wow, there's a lot of people on this trip.
Yes. But it's also spring break, like in the peak season of cruising. Right. Could we have. I feel like if we had chosen to sail in February, their experience might have. Might have been a little bit different, but. And the crowd that your experience also
[01:05:15] Speaker D: would have been technically different.
[01:05:17] Speaker A: My experience would have been very different. I was very sick in February.
And this. The seas in February are very different than the seas. And, you know, lights fall.
But yeah, they. They loved it. They were impressed with the food, like I said. I think there was just one dish that my dad did not like in main dining.
Of course. Impressed with the service because they know the quality of Disney. Yeah, they loved it.
[01:05:39] Speaker C: Love that. All right, well, before we wrap up with a couple of closing questions, I'm not gonna give you a full rapid fire because we did one on your last episode, but I am gonna do a couple updated questions, but I do wanna ask, were there any highlights from, you know, know, your day at Castaway or your days at the other two ports, Tortola and St. Thomas? We'll. We'll keep that, you know, just. Just to, like, what was the best thing you did amongst the ports?
[01:06:06] Speaker A: Yeah, so we. We did get off the ship on St. Thomas. We technically did book an excursion on St. Thomas. We booked the Sky Ride to Paradise Point, the little Gondola trip.
And the reason that we booked that is because you technically don't have a report. Time. Time for that excursion. It's go as you. As you want. Yeah, it's whatever. Whatever you want to go. Which I really, really liked the idea of because as I've gotten further and further into my pregnancy, it takes me a little longer to get with it. In the mornings if I move too much too fast, I might get nauseous or I'm gonna absolutely need to eat like kind of right away.
Right.
So.
[01:06:47] Speaker D: Yeah. And the photos of the top.
[01:06:49] Speaker A: The photos were incredible.
[01:06:51] Speaker D: There's a little spot where you can actually get the cruise ship in the background and it's. It's awesome.
[01:06:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[01:07:01] Speaker C: Can I ask how much the ticket price was, if you recall?
[01:07:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it was only $30 a percent.
[01:07:07] Speaker C: Perfect. That's basically what. The same price that if you buy it yourself. So that's good. Is. I, I hate the upcharge on a lot of the DCL excursions, of course, but some of them in order, you know, they include transportation and a specific meeting time. But this one obviously doesn't because you can. You walk to it right from the ship. But that's great. It's. Yeah, the, That's. I think the price for an adult was about $30, and I think for a kid was about $20 when we did it because we just walked up and did it. We didn't pre book it or anything.
[01:07:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I can't recall what the price on the app was for the. For a child. We weren't booking a child, but they, they just had a list.
The employees of the skyride had lists of guests who had pre booked at their cruise line. So we just checked in with them, gave our names, got our wristbands and. And off we went. It was, it was perfect. Just a little nice walk around the, the little port shopping area and then over to the sky ride and kind of in reverse on the way back to the ship. It was beautiful. We got some really pretty pictures with my parents.
We did not get off at Tortola. My parents had originally booked an excursion to tour the. The baths in Tortola. And then once, once we got on board, they changed some of the fine print as far as how long the excursion was going to take and how long some of the lines were going to be.
I don't remember exactly why, what the specifics were, but it was enough that my parents went, you know what? I think I want to skip the. This. I don't necessarily want to wait in line the whole time in the direct sun for that specific excursion. They Might have added those disclaimers because it was spring break and really busy.
[01:08:53] Speaker C: We we sketched and other cruise lines are there in. In.
[01:08:57] Speaker A: We were not the only ship as far as Castaway. We, we tend to not book excursions on Castaway because we want to enjoy time on the island.
[01:09:04] Speaker D: Just the beach.
[01:09:05] Speaker A: We had a late arrival into Castaway and then we, it took a little bit longer docking.
[01:09:12] Speaker D: What 20 mile hour winds or something?
[01:09:15] Speaker A: Yeah, it was incredibly windy. So it just took them extra time docking which was okay for us. It worked out well because we still had quite the food hangover from Fontes over so like, like slowly moving that next morning.
And it was cool to be awake and, and present while they were doing their, their docking procedures. And we, we stayed on the port side was awesome. You could see all that happen, which was really cool. My dad loved that. You know, like he was like out there taking pictures of the guys with
[01:09:48] Speaker D: the ropes and then actually on the beach. Now they have the new renovated buffet area.
[01:09:56] Speaker A: Oh yeah.
The last time we sailed they, they had updated the buffet. And because this was a spring break sailing, the majority of of cruisers have children. So there were much fewer adults in the at Serenity Bay which was actually really nice. We got over there and it was like really calm and I love stingrays. Yeah, My, my parents had watched some stingrays in the water kind of get close to them.
[01:10:21] Speaker D: So cool.
[01:10:22] Speaker A: Yeah, so it was, it was lovely.
[01:10:24] Speaker C: Yeah, that Hangar 98 is pretty nice. It serves Serenity Bay and it also serves the Mickey and Minnie Cove cabanas over there. And it's got some, it's, you know, it's been updated.
It's got some great food selections and they've added some food selections that weren't previously as well. Love it. All right, well, we're gonna ask what's next? Well, I, well, I know I gotta ask. I gotta, I gotta first ask about their favorite ship. So we're not gonna do a full, we're not gonna do a full rapid fire.
[01:10:53] Speaker B: I feel like just slightly less arbitrary. A little less judgment.
[01:10:58] Speaker C: A little less judgment. I want to ask two questions. The most important question for me, which is what is your favorite Disney Cruise Line stage show now that you have seen, seen Beauty and the Beast and Moana and Sees the Adventure. Right? You've seen some. I mean you've also been on the Magic, so you've seen Tangled and of course Brian's favorite, the Golden Mickeys. Right. Like you have a lot of great stuff to choose from. Please tell me you're not choosing the Golden Mickeys, or you're relegated to losing rapid fire, just like Ryan does. But, yeah, I'm curious what each of you. I'm going to ask each of you. You do not have to give me the same answer. Please don't change. Yeah, please don't change your answer based on what your partner picks. This is an individual question.
Okay? So, yeah, Vincent, we're going to start with you. Your favorite Disney Cruise Line stage show.
[01:11:44] Speaker D: Oh, the stage show is definitely hands down, Moana for me.
[01:11:48] Speaker C: Yeah. Lindsay, what about you?
[01:11:50] Speaker A: I think mine's also Moana.
It sounds so silly to almost say that my favorite one might be Seezy Adventure, but I think that's just because classic Disney characters are really nostalgic to me and they feel so special. But, But I'm going to look at it from, like, a really critical lens. It's Moana for the, the, the creativity and the, in the quality, for sure.
[01:12:18] Speaker C: Yeah. All right, the next most important question, probably Brian's most important question, is your favorite ship. I mean, that always. I feel like that changes as people go on additional ships in the fleet. You guys have been on the Fantasy, you've been on the Magic, and now the Treasure. Did I miss any? Is there any other? Have you. No, I'm just.
[01:12:37] Speaker A: I've sailed on the Fantasy team.
[01:12:38] Speaker C: Yeah, Fantasy twice. That's what I thought.
So you've sailed on, you know, diff. All three classes.
Setting aside the adventure, which is its own monstrosity class.
I'm going to call it the Monstrosity class instead of the adventure class, but yeah, you sailed on three different classes. Very different layout on the Wish class, of course.
But I'm curious, what's your favorite ship? And then maybe why. And Lindsay, we'll start with you on that.
[01:13:05] Speaker D: That one.
[01:13:06] Speaker A: Yeah. I think, I think now mine's the Treasure, which is a big jump because I love the Fantasy.
[01:13:11] Speaker C: Like, she's just, she's great.
[01:13:14] Speaker A: She's great.
But I don't, I didn't have any of the inversions that other people have about the Bush class. Like, we're not huge pool people. So, like, the pools being spread out didn't really matter to us. And we don't mind being around kids, so the fact that the lounges are spread out, we didn't really mind that either, either. But I love the use of artwork. I, I, we're huge parks people. So the Treasure, being a love letter to the park stands means a lot to us too. So I, Yeah, I think of the Ships we've sailed on. I don't think any of the current ships are going to change that, but yeah, I think it's the treasure.
[01:13:50] Speaker C: All right. Vincent, you a ditto.
[01:13:54] Speaker D: It's almost like we're married.
[01:13:56] Speaker C: It's almost. Almost.
[01:13:59] Speaker D: Yeah. No, I completely agree.
Yeah, I completely agree. They, they did a phenomenal job and I, I think, you know, part of it too is regardless of the ship, it's what you make of it, right? Like I, I would pick this ship because now, you know, it's just like any, any destination that you end up going to, it's, it's who you shared it with. And like being with our family for this one last time before the extra special edition, you know, made it just that much more memorable. Like we're going to be able to tell little Bean, be like, hey buddy, like this is the ship that you were already on and you need to know it. You know what I mean? Like that's inside mommy.
[01:14:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:14:39] Speaker A: First cruise.
[01:14:40] Speaker C: Baby's first cruise. I love that. That's so special, Vincent. I absolutely love that. Well, you guys, I, I can't wait to hear Brian's next question because I'm dying to know the answer to it. Also, I gotta say, as Marvel fans, I will be interested if you are going to book the Dest because it's got so much that leans into that Marvel space.
But I'll let Brian ask his question when I interrupt him already.
[01:15:07] Speaker B: This is such a big lead up for a two word question. What's next?
[01:15:11] Speaker C: I know, I love it though.
That's the way our marriage works. I'm like the lead up with all the stuff. And then he asks the simple question.
[01:15:20] Speaker A: I can relate.
I can relate.
We did book a placeholder on board.
So we are looking at what's next. We are pleased to see a, A, a good handful of sailings out of San Diego next spring. We are already looking at do we.
Yeah, maybe Alaska. But it would be really easy to sail to fly to San Diego from Phoenix with a, with a baby. It's a really short flight. So we're looking at those once we are packaged past that six month mark. Because babies can't sail until they're six months on most sailings a year on a handful.
So we're looking at some like Mexican Riviera or the Baja sailings out of San Diego. Although you're so right, Sam, I have my eye on the Destiny. It's just a much, much longer flight to get to Fort Lauderdale which you guys know being in in Washington State. So.
[01:16:16] Speaker C: Yeah. And of course the Destiny is only doing four and five night sailings. And so if you want to do a longer sailing, um, you have to do a back to back. And so it's a, it is a longer trip, especially with, with a, with a young. Well, with a newborn especially, but even with a toddler, like they need a lot of stuff and you got to schlep a lot of stuff with you. And so schlepping that across the country is just a lot of work and schlepping it to San Diego from any place on the western on the west coast is, is a lot easier. So. Yeah, totally get that.
Well, I gotta, I gotta let you plug. I know that you're a travel advisor and so I want to let you tell folks where they can reach out if they want to book something with you.
[01:17:02] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I'm a, I'm a travel advisor and the agency manager for Wanderlust Journeys. We are a small agency based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. That's where my parents live, where I'm from, but we have agents all over the country.
My personal specialties is Disney and cruise cruising kind of what. What my do a lot of. So if you would. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you would like to know more about my experience sailing pregnant or just traveling pregnant or, or any kind of Disney or cruising vacations, you can reach out to LindsayOnDerlustJourneys.net and it's Lindsay with two Y's.
[01:17:41] Speaker C: So L Y N D S E Y. All right.
All right folks. Well, thank you guys so much.
We've of course love you guys on. You're welcome to come back anytime. And with that we'll just say thank you so much for joining us today.
[01:17:56] Speaker D: Thank you.
[01:17:57] Speaker A: Thank you so much for having us.
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[01:20:05] Speaker D: Good night.
