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- 0:07year. The Dizz Pod, presented by
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- 0:12Disney Streamer Network. Your magic, your way.
- 0:19All right, now here we are and it is April 7th, 2026 already,
- 0:26Lawrence, we're heading into the second week of April.
- 0:29As we say it throughout our entire lives.
- 0:31And as we get older, it just goes faster and faster.
- 0:33So here we are. I like your shirt.
- 0:38You're sporting a nice button down as usual and it is very
- 0:42tropical. I've got, I've got Mickey here,
- 0:47kind of Steamboat Willie, just all right, driving, driving the
- 0:50boat. So there's some kind of theme
- 0:52happening here. That's right.
- 0:54That's right. And I think we might be
- 0:56previewing the LID Disney Cruise.
- 0:58It's the first kind of official unofficial LID Disney Cruise,
- 1:02right? So it's really great.
- 1:04We've had a lot of people jump on board literally.
- 1:07And yeah, I think it's going to be amazing and things are
- 1:11starting to ramp up. We are now the current total is
- 1:16just above 120, no, 118 days. OK to go.
- 1:23Is the countdown. It's, you know, at some point
- 1:25it's going to really flip, right?
- 1:27I don't know if it's the 60 day point or what.
- 1:30And it's just going to fly. So as we lead into this at day,
- 1:35you know, 118 to go, where are you or your thoughts on
- 1:39everything? We're starting to open up the
- 1:42research again and watch some YouTube videos on the islands.
- 1:48I put Greg out there last week on the islands on assignment and
- 1:53he reported back to me, which is going to be helpful.
- 1:57And so we, we've got the, the heavy research is underway and
- 2:03we are making our plans for our daily, our, our daily excursions
- 2:08and, and, and all that other stuff.
- 2:10So lots, lots coming. So where are you?
- 2:13So of course, I'm on Facebook. Yeah, that's where I am.
- 2:18That's where I am lots. And so there are a lot of
- 2:23groups. You'll find groups, there's one
- 2:27that just covers Disney cruising, right?
- 2:30Then there is Disney Fantasy, there's Disney Dream, there's
- 2:34Disney map that all the ships have their own groups.
- 2:39Then you go even further and you have Disney Fantasy 20262027.
- 2:45So anybody that's planning a fantasy cruise in the next year
- 2:50and a half is can be in that group.
- 2:55You can then take it one step further and there's a group for
- 2:59your specific cruise. So there's a Disney Fantasy
- 3:04cruise August 5th group. Now what are you going to find
- 3:11in that group? You know, I've got a 7 year old
- 3:15and it's just her and I going, you know, maybe it's a mom and a
- 3:19daughter and they're going and they want to try and find
- 3:21friends, you know, that they can meet up with.
- 3:24Or I'm on the 6th floor. Is anybody on the 6th floor?
- 3:28Or you might find Pixie dusting right now that's big.
- 3:35That is big in, it's not as big in the resorts as you would
- 3:39think, but Pixie dusting is pretty big in the cruise line.
- 3:44Everybody has their fish extender out on their door and
- 3:50people will give out little trinkets, but you might have
- 3:54specific wants for different people.
- 3:59And so somebody in say, room 6072 might, you know, be a big
- 4:04Donald Duck fan and they'll put that in their Disney Cruise
- 4:08Facebook group. So you'll find different stuff
- 4:11like that. The other thing that we found,
- 4:14I'm not sure if we talked about this when we did the dream
- 4:16recap, was all the spouses, the females all got together and
- 4:25made a shirt or made it, decided that there was going to be this
- 4:29one shirt that all the guys are going to wear.
- 4:33And I didn't pack it because I didn't realize that's what it
- 4:38was for. So I didn't get to be in the
- 4:40picture. But they were like, I don't
- 4:42know, 60 guys that took a picture on the nice steps there
- 4:46in the atrium. So that's kind of what you find
- 4:49in the in the Facebook group. So that's a good place to start.
- 4:52If you know, you talk about research, that's a good place to
- 4:56start because listen, you have been on zero cruises.
- 5:00I have been on one Disney cruise.
- 5:04So between the two of us, we have one Disney Cruise in all of
- 5:08our family and really everybody that's going except for Greg.
- 5:17Well, Greg now, yeah. Yeah.
- 5:20So it's fresh. You're the veteran.
- 5:23You're the grizzled veteran. Right here, right?
- 5:26You know, I have to say that I I am, I am glad that we did a
- 5:29Royal cruise two years ago because I think that's, that's a
- 5:32good basis for us and helps us form good questions and, and,
- 5:39and and planning and things going forward as to having
- 5:42something under our belts. Otherwise, you know, I'd be
- 5:44like, wow, I need to do more research, right?
- 5:47So, yeah. So, so I wanted to say Barry
- 5:51Place, welcome to the minivan. Thank you.
- 5:54Oh, hey, we. We appreciate that.
- 5:56You're welcome, Streamer Network.
- 5:59So, so yeah, I'm glad you're doing research this early.
- 6:03It's never too early to do research on the ship.
- 6:05It is huge. There's a lot to do.
- 6:09Then you like Corey talked about you have the islands, there's so
- 6:12much to do. So starting out early.
- 6:15Great idea. Great idea.
- 6:18Yeah. So.
- 6:19So what has you most excited about the cruise?
- 6:26The dinners and the shows, OK. I mean, I think that's it.
- 6:32I think that is it. I mean, not all, that's not all.
- 6:35I want to experience everything but.
- 6:37That. Is that is at the top, I think
- 6:39by far. You know, yeah, we've all sat by
- 6:44pools before. We've we've, we've done, you
- 6:47know, some of the other things. But these, these Disney shows at
- 6:52night are top notch and spectacular.
- 6:55Just can't wait for those. Our family loves shows and I
- 7:00love food. I can't wait to experience God.
- 7:02I'm going to have to work out every single morning to to, you
- 7:07know, to help me with the amount of food I'm going to eat.
- 7:11It's going to be insane. Yeah.
- 7:14So what? About you.
- 7:15So yeah, I. Would say merch.
- 7:18Merch might be third, merch might be third.
- 7:22The merch was fun. I know the merch.
- 7:24The merch was. I don't think we bought really a
- 7:26lot because we had done the room decor package.
- 7:31We did the romance package where we each got our robe and bottle
- 7:37of champagne and I decorated for the room for Catherine's
- 7:42birthday. So, you know, we didn't buy as
- 7:46much merch because we did a lot of the decor.
- 7:48OK, that works. But but the merch was fun that
- 7:52the very last night we were there, our last full, full day,
- 7:56we spent that night kind of going through the the ship
- 8:00because that was your last chance because it's not open the
- 8:04morning of. Right, yeah.
- 8:07And if you're if you're thinking about it right, it's it's, it's
- 8:11like, it's almost like being in the parks.
- 8:14There's there's merch for Hollywood, there's merch for
- 8:16Epcot and so on. You know, you have merch on
- 8:20Lookout key, you have merch on Castaway key, you have merch on
- 8:24the ship. So you know, you're going to
- 8:26want to leave with something that says fantasy, You're going
- 8:29to want to leave with something that says Castaway on it, and
- 8:31you're going to want to leave with something that says Lookout
- 8:33on it. So right there, you know, you
- 8:37know you're going threefold for everyone.
- 8:40So those of you in chat now, feel free to put your questions
- 8:44in as far as you know what's on the ship to do and what we're,
- 8:50what we're going to be doing, what we're going to be
- 8:51experiencing. Ask us all those questions.
- 8:53We may not have the answers, but we'll try and figure it out
- 8:57along with we. Can we can.
- 8:58Yeah, we can fake it. Yeah.
- 9:00So I'm just looking at my app because I wanted to see when you
- 9:10can start planning because we're at a, we're at.
- 9:13I think it's 70 days out. Yeah, I thought it was 70. 70
- 9:17when you can start booking things.
- 9:19Yeah, but I think I'm at 60, I don't think.
- 9:22I see us booking anything. So I don't think so either.
- 9:31We did. When we went to Mexico, we, we
- 9:33booked some stuff, we did a tour which, you know, it was my first
- 9:39time out of the country, so wanted to do that.
- 9:42Plus we had Finley. So it was kind of the best of
- 9:44what we could do, what was available.
- 9:49But I don't, I don't know that we're going to do that this this
- 9:52trip. Well, hey, that's your best side
- 9:57right there, Did you know that? Let's see, there we go.
- 10:04It's it's, it's if you break down every day you I, Tammy and
- 10:09I were talking about this the other day.
- 10:10I'm like, do we, because we went initial initially wanting to
- 10:14book the brunch at Paulo. But if you do that, I'm thinking
- 10:20look how it's going to slow you down, right?
- 10:22Because if you look ahead day one, technically day 2, right
- 10:26when we wake up in the morning, it's time to get up and get on
- 10:29that island. So we're going to be out there,
- 10:31we're going to do the island early and probably, who knows,
- 10:35we'll see how it goes. If the island's going well,
- 10:37we're having fun. That's one thing.
- 10:38If we've got in our field by like maybe 1, then we want to
- 10:41head back to the ship and try to enjoy a little bit of empty ship
- 10:44for a little bit before we get ready for dinner.
- 10:48And before you know it, right, you're off to dinner, you're off
- 10:50to the show, whatever you do to kill the rest of the night.
- 10:53And then the next night, next day, you repeat it, you're off,
- 10:57you're off onto the island early.
- 10:59You do your whole thing, dinner, show, kill the night.
- 11:03The next day we're on the ship all day, day at sea.
- 11:07So do you want to take you know what couple hours for brunch
- 11:13time, which is like middle of the morning after early
- 11:16afternoon to do that? So that's my thought.
- 11:18I would love to do it, but I feel like that's critical
- 11:22moments where we can get up. You can have a nice breakfast
- 11:25somewhere and just explore, go by the pool and just try to take
- 11:29in everything in the fantasy offers as much as you can that
- 11:31day. Yeah.
- 11:33So we're going to start out day one.
- 11:37You get on the ship, it says 3:00 will be on the ship,
- 11:41probably by two. I think you guys will be on by
- 11:45two, Sharon and the rest of us probably are on by 12 because if
- 11:53you're taking the Disney Cruise Line shuttle from the resort,
- 11:59you get on, you get first booking.
- 12:04OK. So as Corey said, then it says
- 12:08830 typically that's about the time that you get on.
- 12:11Just depends on how what time the ship gets to the island and
- 12:17get secured. And then they can get everybody
- 12:19on, on and off. Funny enough, those two islands
- 12:25are not in the US. But you don't need a passport to
- 12:29get off because it's a closed island because there's nobody
- 12:33else that can get on or off. So, so you don't need to take
- 12:38your passport. You can just take your magic
- 12:40band as long and as long as you have a magic band, plus it'll
- 12:43work on the ship. Day three is going to be Lookout
- 12:48Key. Oh, Now we went to Castaway Key.
- 12:52We did not go to Lookout Key. Very similar islands.
- 12:55You'll see in the Facebook groups.
- 12:57Some people say which one is better.
- 13:00And it's really going to be 5050, you know, Really.
- 13:03Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I feel it sounds like Lookout
- 13:09has left to offer. So I mean, I don't know, I think
- 13:15this bike riding, maybe they're maybe they're doing a 5K at this
- 13:20point. There's snorkeling, right?
- 13:23And there's, there's water stuff to do, yeah.
- 13:27And then food. There's a lot of yeah, and the
- 13:30food is included on the island, on both islands.
- 13:35Character meet and greets. Character meet and greets?
- 13:37Yep, now those you have to get early because the characters do
- 13:41leave. I forget what time, 12,
- 13:44something like that. So if you're going to do
- 13:47character meet and greets, you got to do those early and then
- 13:49do whatever else you want to do after that.
- 13:53And then as Corey said, Day 4 is a full day at sea.
- 14:00You will find plenty to do. Like Corey said, you, you know,
- 14:05do you want to take the time at brunch?
- 14:07If you're into food, yes. But man, there's so much to do.
- 14:13And then Day 5 is the sad day. That's when you're back at Port
- 14:19Canaveral, and that's debarkation day.
- 14:22It says 730. You will not get off at 7:30 if
- 14:25you don't want to. Breakfast is included.
- 14:29It is included at one of your dinners, one of your rotational
- 14:35dining. Oh, I don't know that.
- 14:37Yeah. Oh, you know, I'm having dinner.
- 14:41Pack your stuff. Oh, yeah.
- 14:43And let's not forget it's, it's all you can eat.
- 14:48So yeah. So on demarcation day, you can
- 14:53have your luggage all ready to go the night before.
- 15:00They'll give you tags and you can set it outside your room and
- 15:07then you don't have to take it off the ship with you.
- 15:10You just get it back when you get on to the to the port.
- 15:16So so you can pack everything up, put it outside your door and
- 15:20when you are then you can go to breakfast and then you can just
- 15:24leave from there. Yep.
- 15:25Go to breakfast, leave from there.
- 15:27How? Long do you have for breakfast?
- 15:30They don't really rush you out, but there will be a point, you
- 15:35know, 'cause they've got a turnover the ship.
- 15:37But really, I mean, the majority of turning over the ship is the
- 15:40rooms. So once you're out of your room
- 15:42that morning, you're at breakfast or whatever, then
- 15:45you're then you're good to go. I don't know why my phone thinks
- 15:47it's 941. That's a little weird.
- 15:49That's what I was thinking. What coast are you on?
- 15:51Where are you? I don't know, it changed for
- 15:54some reason. So let's look at exploring the,
- 16:00the ship. So there is, we'll talk about
- 16:03dining, right? Because why not?
- 16:06So your rotational dining, I think that's really, really well
- 16:13done. Your servers move with you.
- 16:17We had three servers for our table.
- 16:20It may or may not be like that on this ship, but you have Royal
- 16:26Court, which is the royalty, so that's an extra booking.
- 16:33It's kind of cool for the kids to do.
- 16:36The princesses come around. Some people do that that you
- 16:40can, you can book separately, animators palette that's
- 16:44included. So that's a kind of a cool
- 16:47dinner. The only issue, we didn't get to
- 16:49experience it the way we wanted to because that was the night
- 16:52that we were moving at the Max speed of 25 knots and you could
- 16:58feel it, but we were trying to get away from a storm that was
- 17:01coming into Mexico. And so Finley was not feeling
- 17:06well that that night at at. But it's, it's a very nice
- 17:11restaurant and it's kind of like a turtle talk with crush where,
- 17:17you know, good. Comparison.
- 17:18Yeah, there's, there's some, some interactivity going on
- 17:23there. So that's kind of cool.
- 17:25They will set up. So we don't know what night
- 17:28we're going to Animators Palette.
- 17:30We don't know what night we're going to.
- 17:35The other one is Royal Court and then the the last one is
- 17:40Enchanted Garden. So those are your 3 rotational
- 17:44dining. They set it up for you depending
- 17:47on your room. That's where you're going to go
- 17:50that night. Want to say hello to love girl
- 17:53Aurora 8? Hello and welcome to the
- 17:55Dizzpod. She must be watching on Park
- 17:57Bros. No, all right.
- 18:00Thanks for watching. And then you do have the two.
- 18:04Now those are all enchanted gardens.
- 18:06Do we know? Do we know the difference
- 18:08between all three menu wise? Oh, Catherine will have to help
- 18:13me. Maybe we can.
- 18:17Dive into that in the. Zoom here.
- 18:19Here's what I can tell you. I can tell you that they each
- 18:22had Shirley Temples available, which was so good.
- 18:26That was my drink, but my server knew after the first night.
- 18:29Just bring me Shirley Temples would.
- 18:31Be all right. Breaking news.
- 18:32I have never had a Shirley Temple.
- 18:34What? The hell I hadn't either.
- 18:35I hadn't either. I hadn't.
- 18:37What is? In a Shirley Temple.
- 18:38It it's, it's basically like Cherry 7UP, but it's just so
- 18:43good. Yeah, but it's so good.
- 18:45How do I picture like a bloody? Mary or something with a celery
- 18:49stick hanging out of it. No, no, a different drink,
- 18:51totally different drink, totally different drink.
- 18:54So so then you can also book Paulo who you that you see there
- 18:59and Remy those are not included. So those do you know, Corey
- 19:06mentioned the brunch. Nick said he liked the brunch
- 19:08very good, much better than the other I.
- 19:12Want to do it? Listen, here's what I'll say.
- 19:16Look at the time. Look.
- 19:18Look at the. Activities, yes.
- 19:21Look at the activities and then decide whether you want to do it
- 19:25or not. That's that's.
- 19:27Yeah, I'm not going to rule it out 'cause, you know, I'm
- 19:28looking at it again right now and I'm like, I really want to
- 19:31do it. It'll be great content.
- 19:33It will be a great experience for us.
- 19:35Are you guys ruling that out? Are you not doing that?
- 19:39It's not off the table 'cause we did dinner at Paulo.
- 19:45Nick said he loved the brunch way more than what the menu look
- 19:48like at dinner. So I'm like, all right, maybe
- 19:51that's maybe I do that. Now, if we had a if we had a
- 19:54fourth night, it would be a no brainer.
- 19:55A fourth night would be like, oh, yeah, we're going somewhere
- 19:58else. OK, repeat rather than repeat.
- 20:01But we don't have that. So right, I don't know when
- 20:03brunch starts. Maybe we have to find out when
- 20:05brunch starts and get the earliest brunch.
- 20:08Yeah. Something like that.
- 20:11So that's dining and then your entertainment.
- 20:14Now he talked about the shows and I will tell you what we saw
- 20:21Believe and Beauty and the Beast.
- 20:25And this is like Broadway caliber performances.
- 20:31These folks are great. They actually are Broadway and
- 20:35Off Broadway performers. Here's another thing that I
- 20:39thought was interesting. The the three shows, it's the
- 20:44same cast. They're performing all three
- 20:47shows. That's crazy to me.
- 20:49That's nuts. What kind of talent is that?
- 20:52Yes, you have to know 3 Excuse me, I'm choking on my own
- 20:56saliva. You have to know three shows.
- 20:58Three shows. Possible.
- 21:00Three shows when I. Read lines for a voice over or
- 21:03something. I got to read it 50 times it and
- 21:05then I spit it out. They they're incredible.
- 21:09So yeah. So you have the Walt Disney
- 21:11Theatre, that's where the the Broadway shows are you?
- 21:16The good thing is like, I guess we're doing the early dinner, so
- 21:20we would have the Late Show, right?
- 21:22And I'm told and I'm told to get there early.
- 21:25So I'm thinking I don't know when the show starts or you
- 21:28won't get seats. Is that true?
- 21:30You will get seats. OK.
- 21:33Because remember, kind of guaranteed.
- 21:34Half the ship is at dinner, the other half is at the show, and
- 21:39then you flip flop. So I'm not saying get there at
- 21:4310 minutes before because you're not going to have a good seat,
- 21:48but you do need to get there, you know, at a decent time.
- 21:51But we're not talking about waiting on Main Street for
- 21:54fireworks. OK.
- 21:57So and. Currently, if AI is correct,
- 22:01we're seeing frozen Aladdin and Believe.
- 22:04Correct. And now I had heard that Believe
- 22:08was going away and we were getting something different, but
- 22:12I haven't had no signs other than when I read that.
- 22:17And if that's the case, that's great because Believe was
- 22:21phenomenal. It was so much fun, so much fun.
- 22:26So that's at the Walt Disney Theater, those three shows at
- 22:29that theater. There was also a magic show.
- 22:33I don't know if we're getting that as well, but there's a
- 22:35magic show. There was also some other show
- 22:39on a different ship, so we may get that.
- 22:43You also have the Buena Vista Theater.
- 22:46This is where they do first run movies.
- 22:48So currently on the ships they are showing Zootopia 2 and
- 22:54Hoppers. What do you think we'll get and
- 22:58to watch this the any of these films?
- 23:00I don't know if we can stay awake, but it might be like a
- 23:03midnight show. We go see midnight 12:30 to see
- 23:05if we can stay awake for it. Maybe I don't remember what the
- 23:10what the showtimes are, but. I know they go that late though.
- 23:15I know they go past midnight. I think we're going to get Toy
- 23:17Story 5. And didn't we say, what did we
- 23:24say? There was something else.
- 23:26Wasn't there a marvel? I thought Jacob said there was
- 23:29something Marvel coming out. Could be Marvel in summer.
- 23:33Spider Man, Spider Man, Spider man.
- 23:35OK, so those will be the the two big ones that you get.
- 23:39And when those aren't playing, then you have, you know, second
- 23:43run movie, some of the classics, they'll play that kind of stuff.
- 23:46Yeah, Brent Patterson had a question.
- 23:48He says how much to go on a Disney cruise for a family of
- 23:51four. Well, we're a family of four and
- 23:53we're paying about 5500 for a three nighter 3 nighter, right?
- 23:58OK, so it really does depend. No, they went 4 nighter, sorry.
- 24:06Four nights, yeah, You went with an interior room, we went with a
- 24:09veranda. So that's going to add a little
- 24:12bit more to it more. But I if you're a Disney lover,
- 24:19I think it is well worth, well worth taking a Disney cruise.
- 24:27You will absolutely love it. You have a lot of lounges,
- 24:33right? So this is the D lounge.
- 24:34This is the family lounge. So they will do like karaoke,
- 24:40they'll do Disney trivia games where you can win prizes, stuff
- 24:43like that. I think this is also where bingo
- 24:46is, if I'm not mistaken. And then, you know, they'll have
- 24:53family, you know, entertainment there.
- 24:57You do get some cocktails if you want.
- 25:00And then this is only one of the lounge and that's the family
- 25:03lounge. The rest of them you get into
- 25:07some of the others. And I'll look quickly at the at
- 25:10the deck plan just to see what, what the names of those are.
- 25:15But there are a lot of clubs and one of the one of the lounges
- 25:19host. So you got you got a bar
- 25:23happening like behind you. And then in front of you is the
- 25:26stage. And they're doing shows.
- 25:28They did a game show called majority rules, right?
- 25:33And so everybody's writing down what their answers are to
- 25:37whatever the question the host asked and the majority rules and
- 25:42you know, whoever picks the winner that Table 1.
- 25:48And then when that finished, they did a version of the
- 25:51Newlywed game which was hysterical, absolutely
- 25:57hysterical. Those of you that know the
- 25:58Newlywed game from the 70s and 80s know exactly where it went
- 26:02and it went there so totally fun.
- 26:06And that goes right up until midnight.
- 26:09That was the night we put Finley up in the kids lounge.
- 26:13She stayed up there in the kids club and had a great time.
- 26:16And we were able to go downstairs and, and, and go to
- 26:20the the lounge and enjoy that show.
- 26:25Yeah, see, they're still pushing believe.
- 26:26They got a Disney believe fact sheet there.
- 26:29So I, I really hope we're still getting that show because it was
- 26:33so good. So good.
- 26:37You see the little, the little one dressed up for Pirate Night.
- 26:40So you do have Pirate night. You're free to bring costumes.
- 26:46They will give you a bandana. It'll be just waiting in your
- 26:49room that morning. It's just amazing.
- 26:51It's like Disney magic, but you're free to bring costumes
- 26:55and dress up for Pirate night and all that.
- 26:59On my channel, we posted our version of Mickey's Pirates in
- 27:04the Korean Caribbean. That's the stage show.
- 27:08And then the fireworks that happened that same night, which
- 27:12is just, I mean, come on, fireworks.
- 27:15You're in the middle of the sea and there's fireworks.
- 27:19Just thinking, you know, last week we talked about watching
- 27:22the fireworks from Frontierland with the water by, by the
- 27:27Liberty Bell. Well, here you are in the middle
- 27:31of the ocean, nothing around you but water and you get the
- 27:35fireworks. Just amazing.
- 27:39So he's right. Corey's right.
- 27:42I think for for me, it's the entertainment and the food
- 27:47really is those are the 2 now, you know, you have the water
- 27:51slide, you have the aqueduct. I did not get on it the last
- 27:53time, so I will get on it this time.
- 27:56Oh yeah, I got to do that. You know, maybe that's the day
- 27:58where, well, you could probably do it two ways.
- 28:01One of the days where you are coming back from the island, you
- 28:06get back to the ship early, then you go and do the aqueduct there
- 28:10because a lot of people are still going to be on the island.
- 28:13That's what I'm thinking like those two days, if you happen to
- 28:15come back early both days, I think it's definitely coming
- 28:17back earlier on lookout for the lookout day and and do get it
- 28:20done. Yeah.
- 28:23And then, you know, like he said, you have the pools, OK,
- 28:31it's a pool. The good thing is you will have
- 28:37two days, well three days really, to get to hear the horns
- 28:42because you'll hear the horns when we when we sail away and
- 28:45the sail away party is not to be missed.
- 28:48OK, so you'll have your. We'll be live for that.
- 28:53We'll be live for that, OK? We'll be, yeah.
- 28:56What's the, what's the, the, Oh my goodness, the, the you.
- 29:05Think about the tune. No, the presentation that you
- 29:07have to do the safety thing. Oh, the the muster drill.
- 29:14Thank you man, just totally fell out of my head so you'll have
- 29:17that. Royal does a better job than
- 29:19than Disney on that. I wish Disney would do the same
- 29:22thing as Royal, which is all you have to do is watch the videos
- 29:24on your app. And you know why?
- 29:27You know why Disney doesn't? Because people don't watch them.
- 29:30Right. Disney wants to guarantee
- 29:34everybody, if you're on my ship, you're you're going to see this,
- 29:37this thing. So depending on where your room
- 29:41is, you're going to have a different muster drill.
- 29:43Ours was we were in the Buena Vista Theatre or the no, the
- 29:47Walt Disney Theatre. So very nice and comfortable.
- 29:51They put it up on the screens and that was it.
- 29:54Some people you're out on the deck.
- 29:57Just depends on where your room is because obviously they've got
- 29:59to break up the ship. It's a big ship.
- 30:01So then after you do that, we had a little bit of time.
- 30:05We went downstairs chain or went upstairs to our room, changed
- 30:10and then got ready for the sail away party which I think is
- 30:13typically 4:30 if I remember correctly.
- 30:18Does Disney Cruise Line do go karts yet?
- 30:21Not on the water, although the Adventure does have a roller
- 30:25coaster and then you have the water slide so you do have some
- 30:28cool stuff. You do also have lots of sports,
- 30:32so you have basketball, you have shuffleboard, which hey, on a
- 30:35cruise ship, how could you not have shuffleboard?
- 30:38And then you also have mini golf.
- 30:43There's mini golf on the cruise ship, which I did not get to do
- 30:46last time. So I think I'm going to take
- 30:48some of that. Yeah, we got to play that we.
- 30:51Got some of that time today on this trip and do that for sure.
- 30:55I'm very competitive. Oh boy, oh boy.
- 30:59Yeah, we've never played mini golf together.
- 31:01No, we haven't. So what's the handicap?
- 31:04I'm just kidding. I was looking to see if it shows
- 31:10plans yet, but it doesn't because you can't book yet.
- 31:16So there's the youth clubs. If you have children of any age,
- 31:20they can join the the youth clubs.
- 31:22There is a nursery, it's for under 3 and then there's like
- 31:253:00 to 7:00 and then 7:00 to 12:00.
- 31:28And then above that you have edge, which is kind of that
- 31:33tween years and then vibe is the older kids.
- 31:37And then there's your, it's a small world nursery you do have.
- 31:42We'll look at the pools. There's a couple pools.
- 31:45There's an adults only pool. You know, I guess if you're
- 31:48going to do a pool, maybe you do that one.
- 31:52Listen, my kids now with the age they are, we can do, they can
- 31:57get in. They have all access adult entry
- 32:00everywhere which is crazy. It's crazy to think, right?
- 32:06Yes. So that's the if there was.
- 32:09A car to drive for some reason, if there was a car to drive,
- 32:11like Jacob could be like, I'll, I'll, I'll take the car, dad,
- 32:14and yeah, drive it across the island or something.
- 32:17Yeah, like he could do that. Now, so there's the Quiet Cove
- 32:21pool, that's the adult pool. You have Mickey's pool, which
- 32:24also has a slide, and then you have Donald's pool there as
- 32:28well. Which adults can go on that
- 32:30slide? Yes, Yep.
- 32:34And then there's the sports deck.
- 32:35So that's the highest deck there.
- 32:39Now you see it's loading. It says I have 30 something days
- 32:42until I can book. But you only need to book.
- 32:49Yeah, I, well, because I'm now in the club because I've.
- 32:55Oh, right. Cruise with them.
- 32:56I get that a little bit earlier, but more.
- 32:58Prestigious than I am. But that's only I think the only
- 33:01thing you really need to book there is this the simulator.
- 33:05The other stuff is just come, as you know, first come first
- 33:08serve. So that's the only thing that
- 33:10you would be booking would be the sports simulator.
- 33:13But the the ping pong, foosball, shuffleboard, the running track,
- 33:17obviously that's that's all included.
- 33:21The mini golf is also first come first serve.
- 33:23So you don't really have to book any of that stuff.
- 33:28And then the the water slide, the Aqua Duck, I never really
- 33:38saw a weight more than like 25 minutes.
- 33:41And that's probably pushing it 20 minutes.
- 33:44Yeah, Yeah, I don't, I don't think so.
- 33:46So like you said, if you leave the island early, you go back,
- 33:51take advantage of that. Side note, I just, I, I saw a
- 33:55new patient today and her house had amazing stuff in it.
- 34:00They had a Disney room, they had a Disney room and oh man, that
- 34:03Disney room, like lots of great stuff, lots of ceramics, you
- 34:08know, all that really fine nice stuff.
- 34:09You see they had 7000 plus Disney pens in in drawers that
- 34:15you just pull out one after another.
- 34:17They had sliding wood frames on the wall one behind another.
- 34:22Just unbelievable stuff over. There.
- 34:25But the one thing I thought of to let you know and everyone
- 34:27else, what I saw, there was a hard hat at the top of one of
- 34:31the shelves. A white hard hat had Mickey on
- 34:33it. You can tell it was used for
- 34:35construction. It's a 1970, she said.
- 34:37That's an original hard hat worn when building Magic Kingdom
- 34:42because they know somebody who did and they gave him the helmet
- 34:46and his name is inside. How about that?
- 34:49But I noticed that they went on 9/7 or 9 cruises and I and I
- 34:53said, what's your favorite ship? And they said the fantasy.
- 34:56So many people that have done many, even the newer ships love
- 35:00the fantasy. And one of the big reasons they
- 35:02said was it's an easy ship to navigate compared to others,
- 35:06especially for handicapped if you have a wheelchair.
- 35:09The hallways are now they're they're narrower on the Destiny
- 35:13and some of the newer ones. And fantasy's nice and wide,
- 35:17yeah. A lot of people, you know, the
- 35:20the the dream which we were on is the sister of the fantasy.
- 35:24So this is going to feel very much, you know, like home when
- 35:28we're on this one. It, it has that old art Deco
- 35:36style. And the newer ships do not.
- 35:39They're they're different. They're, you know, more modern.
- 35:42They're, you know, very clean pallets, that kind of thing.
- 35:46And so a lot of people don't like the newer ones for that
- 35:49reason. They're more tuned.
- 35:50But listen, these older ships, the magic, the wonder, the
- 35:54dream, the wish, they've been around forever.
- 35:57And so how many people have made all these memories on those
- 36:01ships so they don't feel attached to the new ones?
- 36:06Now you put me on the on the Disney adventure, I'll be OK.
- 36:09You put me on the Disney Destiny, I'll be OK.
- 36:12I'll probably lose my mind on some of these newer ships
- 36:15because they're just, you know, hey, the new ship has the
- 36:18Haunted Mansion Parlor. You kidding?
- 36:21I know man, we need that in Magic Kingdom.
- 36:25I would trade that for beacon barrel.
- 36:28I saw I, I, I. We're not going to deal in
- 36:31rumor, but this is the podcast. So not not the Monterey report,
- 36:38but I did see a Instagram video today talking about that
- 36:45building that's closest to Haunted Mansion.
- 36:50And like, why would Disney need a building that close to Haunted
- 36:56Mansion? And so the thought is that it's
- 36:59it's going to be the Haunted Mansion Parlor.
- 37:04So. Where is this building?
- 37:08It's essentially where the Liberty Bell used to sit, used
- 37:14to dock, like kind of right there.
- 37:20I don't recall a building big enough for.
- 37:23No, it's not there yet. This is the this is in, you know
- 37:28the water where the water was. But the permit, the permit is a
- 37:334000 square foot building right there, so.
- 37:41But it's still on on piston peak property, right?
- 37:46Technically. I don't think all of that is
- 37:48Piston because you remember you also still have that walkway to
- 37:51get back to villains, so it's not all Piston peak.
- 37:57OK. So.
- 38:00OK, we're going to exciting. Yeah, exactly.
- 38:03Just wait. D 23 is coming up.
- 38:07Magical Horizon says negative, Sir.
- 38:09Beacon Barrel for the win. You better put on.
- 38:13You better put on a video of Haunted Mansion right now, that
- 38:18podcast, and go watch that and come back to us before we're
- 38:21done. That Haunted Mansion.
- 38:23Oh man, I'm telling you. So for anybody waiting for the
- 38:27Zoom call, it's we're here, but you'll see us soon on the Zoom
- 38:35call. Yes, yeah.
- 38:38So yeah, I think that it'll be nice to see Lookout Key.
- 38:49It'll be nice to you know, Catherine wants to do.
- 38:53I asked her I because we had so much fun on the dream and all of
- 38:59our our our stateroom host was amazing.
- 39:03Our servers during dinner were amazing.
- 39:08The every time we came in touch with a cast member, it was just
- 39:14top notch. And so I asked her, I said,
- 39:18would you want to go back on the Dream or, you know, do a
- 39:23different ship? And she's like, no, we would
- 39:24have to do them all before we, you know, go on the same one
- 39:28again. And I'm like, oh, OK.
- 39:30Now the difference is, you know, the Dream left out of Port
- 39:35Everglades down in Fort Lauderdale.
- 39:40This one is leaving out of Port Canaveral.
- 39:43Excuse me. And then you have some that sail
- 39:46out of San Diego, some that sail out of Galveston.
- 39:49The adventure is out of Singapore.
- 39:53So if we're going to do all nine ships, we're going to have to
- 39:57travel a little bit. So, but I do have my friend
- 40:00who's going to be coming on the the podcast in the summer to
- 40:06talk about his cruising because he's been on seven of the nine
- 40:11ships and. He stayed in just about every
- 40:16tower suite that there is, so we're going to have plenty to
- 40:20talk to him about. So looking forward to that.
- 40:27Now you are in. You're on 2, right?
- 40:33Yes. OK.
- 40:35So there's obviously different rooms, right?
- 40:39So there's, there's interior rooms, there's, there's veranda
- 40:46rooms and then the rooms. I'm just looking at the plan.
- 40:51So there's, there's rooms on basically decks 2 through 10.
- 41:00Now was there a reason? Well, there isn't on three and
- 41:03four 'cause that's the main atrium and all that, and the
- 41:07restaurants there. Now, was there a reason that you
- 41:14chose the rooms on 2? Because there are interior rooms
- 41:17on the other decks also, Do you know why?
- 41:21Do you remember why? I just yelled to Tammy, why did
- 41:26we choose #2 There was a reason. There was a reason for it.
- 41:31And specifically less traffic maybe?
- 41:38I don't know. It could have been, it could
- 41:40have been as quieter down there. OK, yeah, I'm not sure exactly
- 41:48now, it's been a while, but there was a reason for it.
- 41:52And so we picked. By the way, did you have churros
- 41:57on the last cruise? Churro Mickey waffles because I
- 42:01heard that they're just as good as Disneyland.
- 42:03That's some Intel I got this week.
- 42:06I don't remember if we had them. No, I wouldn't.
- 42:13I would not remember that. Catherine, If you're still in
- 42:16chat, let us know. I.
- 42:17Don't know, And there's plenty of Pandora to be had for the
- 42:20Pandora lovers. Oh yeah, there's an entire
- 42:23Pandora shop. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 42:34So so the fantasy is 13 decks two you see on the far right,
- 42:41that is where the enchanted garden.
- 42:44So that's one of the dinners and then the interior staterooms.
- 42:49Deck one is the medical Bay and it's where you get on and off
- 42:58from the ports now. Now the main, when you come in
- 43:07on your embarkation day, you can come in on three so that you can
- 43:10walk in to the atrium and they all they announce your name and
- 43:13all that kind of cool stuff. But then the rest of the stuff
- 43:17is really on 3/4 and five. Honestly, as far as the
- 43:26entertainment is on 3/4 and five good.
- 43:33Ah, you saw I was about to say something.
- 43:35Yeah, I was ready. So, so deck 2, like I said, it's
- 43:40a very quiet environment. It's the least ship motion.
- 43:43It's the it's the central spot. So it's the sweet spot for
- 43:47decreased motion, easy return to your room after late night
- 43:51activities like if you're leaving the Ocean Ear Club, if
- 43:54you're leaving the Walt Disney Theater, which is on deck three
- 43:57and four deck parties. So you're only like 2 flights
- 44:02away from all that stuff. So you will want to, after some
- 44:07of that stuff, take the stairs. Oh yeah.
- 44:10Because. Because.
- 44:12Short. Yeah, yeah.
- 44:14It's like on Royal, like you look at the stairs in the
- 44:16elevator, you're like, Oh my God, I just have to go like, and
- 44:19then, and then I'm on the next level.
- 44:21Sign me up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 44:23Do do not take the elevator. Reasons.
- 44:26So I was able to let you know those are the main reasons.
- 44:29So yeah. And so there you see the
- 44:33shopping that's on Deck 3, so that's Mickey's Mainsails, Sea
- 44:37Treasures. There's another name.
- 44:41It just says shopping, but there's another name for that
- 44:43one. You see the Begari there.
- 44:48So plenty of shopping right there.
- 44:51And then that also leads you to the Walt Disney Theater.
- 44:55And then you have the balcony seating for the Walt Disney
- 44:58Theatre. And then you have Buena Vista
- 44:59Theatre as well on the next deck.
- 45:05And then you have the kids club and then a lot of the adult
- 45:10lounges are there on that deck as well.
- 45:13And then you have all the rooms on 56789 and 10.
- 45:19And then 11 and 12 is where the pools are, the food, the adult
- 45:27pool area, the spa, the gym and all of that is all on 11, that
- 45:35food. There you see Flo's Cafe, that's
- 45:38all grab and go, quick serve all you can eat.
- 45:45Well, I spent a lot of time there just trying different
- 45:48foods. And then we see the ice cream.
- 45:51Yeah, and then you see the ice cream there that is again all
- 45:56you can eat. So go have.
- 45:58And they have some interesting flavours.
- 46:00They do. They have some mixes.
- 46:02They've got banana, they've got vanilla chocolate, they have
- 46:07banana or. Something there's the there's
- 46:09the, there's the Berry. There's something else besides
- 46:11banana too, that's uncommon. Soft serve.
- 46:14I'll be I'll be mixing those together.
- 46:16Now, the only thing I will say that was inconvenient is that
- 46:21where where the food is on 11, that is where the the pheasant
- 46:31greens are. Well, that's their that's their
- 46:34too, which is kind of cool. You got to go in and check it
- 46:36out at least. Did you know that you can order
- 46:39ice cream from there and it can be delivered for your dessert at
- 46:42dinner? I didn't.
- 46:46I just took the free. I just took the free stuff, but
- 46:50I didn't. But they have amazing different
- 46:51flavors they do over there. So if you're like I want that
- 46:54for dessert, you know, they can just bring it.
- 46:57You prepaid, you have to pay for that.
- 46:58It's not. Included but yeah, the the
- 47:03fountain drinks are on 11, which means if you're in your room on
- 47:092 and you want a refill, you have to go to 11.
- 47:15Ho. So it is that that is the one
- 47:20issue I have that there are not more fountain drinks around.
- 47:26So but it is you just steal, bring your Corkskull and and go
- 47:33for it. And then you see edge up there
- 47:37on 13 and that's also where all the there's another bar up
- 47:41there, plenty of deck seating. Now, you know, I'm not saying
- 47:48get to the sail away party at 5 minutes before, but we got there
- 47:53maybe 20 minutes before and got a great spot.
- 47:57OK, got a great spot because the pools are there and the pools
- 48:01all get closed for those type of events so that you know it it
- 48:06comes up and closes and then it becomes the floor.
- 48:09So the pools are closed for those events.
- 48:13And I mean, then you got you got funnel vision up there.
- 48:17How could you not love seeing, you know, some movie up there?
- 48:21We watch Pirates of the Caribbean, obviously on Pirates
- 48:24night. And there was a pirate ship out
- 48:28there in the water that night. What?
- 48:32Yeah. Were you scared?
- 48:35Well, wasn't that night? They did it during the day so
- 48:37that you could see it. I was like, yeah, that, that's
- 48:41not that. Come on, that's Disney.
- 48:45There's no. Way was it the Black Pearl?
- 48:49There's no way. So I'll, I'll give you this,
- 48:53this tip, if you book early, if if my computer will scroll
- 49:01there, you see the decks, the deck plan and you've got
- 49:04different rooms and you see the the rooms are sorted by color.
- 49:13So they're at the very back, like room one O 160.
- 49:20That's the same price as room one O 140, but you get a bigger
- 49:28veranda. So that veranda on one O 160
- 49:32actually has a four person. So you have two lounges, 2
- 49:37chairs and a table, whereas the other ones, excuse me, the other
- 49:42ones are only two chairs, no lounges.
- 49:45So you just end up with a, with a bigger, a bigger veranda there
- 49:50for the same cost. So always, and if you're using
- 49:55a, a, a travel agent, make sure that your travel agent is
- 49:58looking into that stuff for you because you can sometimes get
- 50:02some bigger rooms like 9670, which is hidden behind my head
- 50:09is a corner There you see it 96708682, all those on the
- 50:14corner, Those are regular rooms in that category, but look at
- 50:19the size of them. And you pay the same.
- 50:22And you pay the same as your neighbor who's right next to
- 50:25you. So but those will, those will go
- 50:28faster. So yeah, just thought I would, I
- 50:32would point that out to you. So, you know, it's not the same
- 50:36as being Pixie dusted, but it's kind of the same.
- 50:41The other thing you can do when you get to check in, you can ask
- 50:48at the desk. Do you, you know, do you have
- 50:55any upgrades available? Because let's say that I'm in
- 50:59the family veranda, the deluxe family veranda and concierge
- 51:05would be the next level up. If there's concierge that isn't
- 51:08sold out, they may offer that to me at a discounted price.
- 51:14So just depends on, you know, let's say that going from my
- 51:18level to concierge is another 3000 for the four of us.
- 51:21If they offer it to us for 1200, is that worth it?
- 51:25That's what you, you know what you'd have to deal deal with.
- 51:28Or if you're in an inside room and there's a veranda available
- 51:33and it's a difference of 500, then you decide if you know if
- 51:37that's worth it. But you can always ask.
- 51:39No harm in in asking. If you're going to get the photo
- 51:48package, you need to do it beforehand.
- 51:52So that's cheaper, or at least excuse me, at least while you're
- 51:56on the ship, get it. We were lucky enough.
- 52:00How much is it? I think it's 200 OK per room.
- 52:05And is that for everybody per room?
- 52:07So everybody in our party, if even if, you know, Jill is alone
- 52:11and she takes a few pictures, we all get access to them.
- 52:15Correct. If she's in your room.
- 52:17OK. If she's not in your room, then
- 52:20we won't. Then you won't.
- 52:23And I don't know what system they use, but if Finley was with
- 52:29Jill, whoever has the pictures can get them.
- 52:34The other party can't. So they're pretty smart.
- 52:41So that yeah, that's Nick and I were lucky enough we didn't do
- 52:44it on time, but they were able to do it as buy one, get one
- 52:48half off. So each of us got 25% off the
- 52:53the rate. So do your research beforehand.
- 52:58What it comes down to. I don't, I don't swim.
- 53:04So I'm certainly not a let's go, you know, scuba dive with
- 53:12dolphins type of guy. You're not going to see me doing
- 53:15any of those those type of excursions, but they are
- 53:17available. There were like wine tasting and
- 53:22chocolate making and all these sorts of different excursions
- 53:27available when we were in Mexico.
- 53:30They'll have some of that in the two islands, not as much.
- 53:35But honestly I think you will find plenty to do.
- 53:40Now what we do is for the first cruise we did, I got Wise.
- 53:45I know we like to snorkel, so I bought snorkel equipment.
- 53:49So anything we do now will be free.
- 53:53So we'll be taking our snorkel stuff and we can snorkel on the
- 53:57islands without paying 40 bucks a person again.
- 54:00So I like that idea. Hard to please guy, you said
- 54:06another YouTube genius. Who who you referring to?
- 54:09One of us, both of us. I'll take that.
- 54:14Yeah, of course. Such a nice guy.
- 54:16Such a nice guy. So I, you know, I think it's a
- 54:20great trip for a family. I'd love to do a longer one.
- 54:25Certainly want to experience some of the newer ships as well.
- 54:29But now I also feel like with all the new ships that they've
- 54:33announced, right, You've had the destiny that started last couple
- 54:37months ago, basically the adventure which is starting now
- 54:44and there's still three more coming.
- 54:46I feel like at some point they're going to start to retire
- 54:49the oldest ships. So I do feel like I we're going
- 54:55to have to go on the magic and the wonder at some point because
- 54:58I think those may be retired soon.
- 55:00Oh, that's right. They just announced the believe
- 55:03is the newest 1 so. Will they show believe on
- 55:06believe? No, there's a new show.
- 55:09The, well, the one I thought we were going to get is probably
- 55:12going going to that one. So let's talk about Wi-Fi real
- 55:17quickly. Make sure that anybody that you
- 55:24want to talk to, make sure they have an iPhone or they have
- 55:27WhatsApp. You can text with an iPhone with
- 55:33iMessage or with WhatsApp and that is free.
- 55:38It's just works on the on the ship's Wi-Fi, doesn't work for
- 55:42video, doesn't work for for pictures, but it did work for
- 55:47regular text message. So I was able to keep up with
- 55:50Corey. For some reason, I was able to
- 55:55edit, I don't know why, but YouTube Studio app worked.
- 56:01So I was editing his live stream while I was just sitting there.
- 56:07One day I was able to edit out some copyrights while I'm while
- 56:11I'm in the middle of the ocean. I mean, I know why.
- 56:15If you have AT&T, there's an international daily plan for 12
- 56:20bucks, which that's not bad. So Catherine did that for her
- 56:24birthday because she knew she would want to talk to her family
- 56:27and everything and they would want to talk to her for her
- 56:29birthday. So she got the international
- 56:30plan just for that day. I I mean, listen, if the
- 56:39majority of your family is with you on the ship, then you don't
- 56:41really need that. Yeah, No offense to anybody.
- 56:45I don't want any connection when I go to Cruise.
- 56:47I don't want to. I don't want any connection to
- 56:49the outside world really, you know?
- 56:53And then the Navigator app, the one that I was showing you, that
- 56:59also has a messaging feature. So if you are on the ship, you
- 57:03can message with each other using just the Navigator app.
- 57:06So if you all have if you're a family of Android users, you
- 57:10could use that to message each other or download WhatsApp.
- 57:15That's a good point by Sharon Hecker, because that's what
- 57:17happened when we were on Royal as well.
- 57:19I guess you can like sign up for your, your specific carrier's
- 57:24plan and you don't get charged for it unless you use it.
- 57:29Like I think you just, if you just use it just once, boom, you
- 57:31charge. So she'll pay $10 a day for
- 57:33Verizon, AT&T's 12. So I might just go ahead and put
- 57:36that on everybody's and then, you know, if it had to happen to
- 57:40use it, then we're covered. You won't get crazy charges.
- 57:44Yeah, yeah, she says she has WhatsApp.
- 57:49No, no clue how to use it. I'll show you.
- 57:53Yeah, because Sharon's going to be hanging out at the parks
- 57:57before the cruise, which is, you know, we didn't do that the last
- 58:01time because we've left out of port, Port Everglades in Fort
- 58:06Lauderdale. So this time we're living at a
- 58:08Port Canaveral, so we'll get to go to the parks before the
- 58:11cruise, so. Yeah, I'm off that Tuesday too,
- 58:14so I might. I might go.
- 58:15Down and hang out with you guys for a while and then come home
- 58:18and All right, yeah. We'll have to.
- 58:20We'll have to talk on the Zoom call about what Sharon's plans
- 58:23are, what day she's going to be. I want to be, I selfishly want
- 58:28to be in Magic Kingdom with Sharon.
- 58:32Like seeing her on Haunted Mansion, seeing her see
- 58:37Starlight in person for the first time.
- 58:39You know, it's just, yeah, you know, so.
- 58:45But I think it's going to be a great time.
- 58:48Listen, I think if you're you know, we were there with five of
- 58:51us on the first cruise. It was a great time.
- 58:55We saw Nick and Christina and sometimes we didn't, you know,
- 59:00we did stuff together. We certainly had dinner together
- 59:03and and then there were times where we didn't see.
- 59:05Sounds like we're in the parks together.
- 59:07Sometimes you see Nick and Christina, to quote Jacob.
- 59:10Sometimes they spawn in. Boom, all of a sudden they're
- 59:12right there. That's right, that's right,
- 59:15that's right. Timothy says he's use WhatsApp
- 59:18on the cruise. Yep, you, you.
- 59:24There's so much to do and I think a cruise is is such a
- 59:27different. Animal.
- 59:30Think back to your vacations at Disney World.
- 59:35It was go, go, go on a cruise. It's not really like that, but
- 59:40yet all of a sudden it's 11:30 at night like and you've done so
- 59:47much stuff. We didn't have enough time to do
- 59:50everything we wanted on the on our Royal cruise.
- 59:53I was like, where did the time go?
- 59:54The thing we did the least was the thing that I was worried
- 59:57that we would do too much of and be bored was lying by the pool.
- 1:00:04We hardly did any of that. It was almost like, oh, we
- 1:00:06better get going up to our room to get ready.
- 1:00:08And it's like, no, I haven't done this pool.
- 1:00:10I'm going to sit in this pool for 30 minutes because I haven't
- 1:00:13done it. Yeah, yeah, Catherine says.
- 1:00:17I, I think you run into people more on the cruise than than at
- 1:00:21the parks. Yeah.
- 1:00:22I mean, it's a confined space. And, you know, I wondered about
- 1:00:25that. I'll ask you about your cruise.
- 1:00:30I wondered about being in your resort where your entertainment
- 1:00:36is, where your food is, like it's all here.
- 1:00:41Is it not going to feel like blah at some point?
- 1:00:45Did you worry about that? Because I worried about that
- 1:00:48before my cruise. So are you meaning like for the
- 1:00:52cruise itself or like going to a place like Aulani?
- 1:00:55No, for a cruise itself. Oh, yeah, I was worried.
- 1:00:59The kids were worried that they were going to be bored.
- 1:01:00I was worried that we even we might get a little bored, to be
- 1:01:04honest. But our, our time aboard the
- 1:01:08ship was spent with, you know, I like to learn the layout of the
- 1:01:12ship. So like when we first get on day
- 1:01:14one, it's like, all right, let's put our stuff down.
- 1:01:16Let's do the muster drill and we're off.
- 1:01:18We're going all the decks, we're checking everything out.
- 1:01:21We want to know where everything is.
- 1:01:22Then it's by the way, it's dinner time and then then it's
- 1:01:25Showtime. Then you do whatever you do to
- 1:01:27round off the night, you know, and it just goes fast.
- 1:01:31Royal had some activities on the ship that we wanted to do.
- 1:01:35So we tried, you know, we spent time rock climbing, We spent
- 1:01:38time trying to surf on the ship, even though the total surf time
- 1:01:43for me wave catching time was like 2.5 seconds and 1.3, but we
- 1:01:48did it and we waited in line and we did that and we did zip line
- 1:01:52across the ship. So all of that, if they didn't
- 1:01:54have all of that, then we would have, that would have been more
- 1:01:57pool time. I learned my lessons on some of
- 1:02:00those things. So going on Royal again, I'll
- 1:02:02have more pool time because I won't be on those things.
- 1:02:05Yeah, yeah. So yeah, it was just too much.
- 1:02:08It was too much to do, and again, at least we did, and I
- 1:02:13would do that too. If you like rank how you would
- 1:02:15want to get things done. I would rank the pool last.
- 1:02:18I mean, especially living in Florida, right?
- 1:02:20You care Anytime I find that pools are too small on the decks
- 1:02:24of ships. And they are small.
- 1:02:27You know, you just throw a bunch of people in there like ice
- 1:02:29cubes in a glass, You know, that's just all together.
- 1:02:32Yeah, yeah, they are. They are small, yeah, but I, I
- 1:02:38think you will find so much to do and just it's a really
- 1:02:45enjoyable vacation. There are times where it feels
- 1:02:48go, go, go where you feel a little bit rushed.
- 1:02:53Like we had, our excursion was glass bottom boats and we, we
- 1:02:59fed fish. We took a glass bottom boat tour
- 1:03:02on Castaway Key, which was really nice to do, but we had to
- 1:03:09like hurry up to get there and then when we got back, it was
- 1:03:14time to get on the on the back on the cruise ship.
- 1:03:17So at some point it did feel a little bit rushed, but not much.
- 1:03:22Not much, yeah. I think the stress of being on
- 1:03:24the island and just kind of watching the time, you know, can
- 1:03:27be a little stressful piece. Yeah, If you feel like you're
- 1:03:31trying to maximize your time there and, and, and put it close
- 1:03:34to the end, that could be a little bit of a stressful thing.
- 1:03:38But I'll say this about a cruise compared to even Aulani or
- 1:03:42Disney World cruise, I mean, Disney World trip, those things.
- 1:03:47And it sounds might sound odd to people, but I bet Sharon and
- 1:03:50others that have done cruises, it sounds crazy to say, but it
- 1:03:54is a cozy feeling like you're home.
- 1:03:57You're home for multiple days. You're with all these people,
- 1:04:01but you're home. You can go up to Deck 9 and do
- 1:04:04or whatever, whatever. Deck can do something.
- 1:04:06You can go to the movies, you can go to dinner, all the stuff.
- 1:04:08But you're still home. You didn't leave home.
- 1:04:10Yeah, you're right there. So there's a cozy feeling about
- 1:04:13that. Yeah, I'll give you another tip
- 1:04:17that I found out on my first Disney cruise.
- 1:04:20If you can't sleep at one 2:00 in the morning, go walk around
- 1:04:25and take some pictures. It's a great time to take
- 1:04:28pictures of the of the the shit. You know what's going to happen,
- 1:04:33You're with me and when you're with me, we don't go to sleep
- 1:04:36till like 3 in the morning. We don't sleep.
- 1:04:44First cruise ever, says A Thomas.
- 1:04:46And I'm looking forward to it a lot.
- 1:04:48But watching the ocean and sea must be amazing.
- 1:04:51What did you think when you looked at the ocean for the
- 1:04:53first time? When we were out on our veranda
- 1:04:55and everything and just to see the moonlight off the water and
- 1:04:59just the endlessness, I just felt like besides everyone on
- 1:05:03this ship with me right now, there's nobody even close on
- 1:05:08this Earth to us right now. You feel like you're you're the
- 1:05:13the four astronauts one on the Artemis right now.
- 1:05:15Exactly. Exactly.
- 1:05:18I you know, we've gone for. That ride, by the way, man.
- 1:05:22I remember they they don't have unlimited food up there.
- 1:05:26It's pretty much rationed, I'm sure.
- 1:05:28Oh, there's no buffet? There's no buffet.
- 1:05:32I remember pulling out of the dock.
- 1:05:36We had just done the sail away party we went to take a tour of
- 1:05:40because there was an open House of the ocean airs live at the
- 1:05:43kids club and we went in there and Finley said, are we moving?
- 1:05:47And I'm like, no, you would have known that we were moving.
- 1:05:51You'll feel it. And no, we were gone.
- 1:05:53We were gone and you could see us sailing away.
- 1:05:55I was actually watching your live stream and you could see us
- 1:05:59like moving away from, from the dock and you could see all the
- 1:06:03houses along the water and all that and it, you couldn't feel
- 1:06:07it. It was great.
- 1:06:09So then, you know, we had, we were doing all sorts of stuff
- 1:06:15and I don't think we really saw the ocean until after dinner.
- 1:06:18We got back to our room and you go out on the veranda and like
- 1:06:24you said, it's just the water and the moonlight and it is
- 1:06:29beyond peaceful, beyond peaceful.
- 1:06:33And then you the in the morning you see the sun come up and
- 1:06:36Sharon and then anybody else in chat who's who's cruise lock and
- 1:06:40can tell me if I'm off my rocker.
- 1:06:43But you get up in the morning and you go see the sunrise and
- 1:06:47it's just the sun, the horizon, the water.
- 1:06:51That's it. And it is.
- 1:06:52So calming. You don't realize how fast the
- 1:06:56sun rises when you get to watch the sunrise.
- 1:06:59Yeah, Yeah. It was like that in Hawaii.
- 1:07:02We were facing where the, you know, we were.
- 1:07:04We were facing east. So the sun was just, you see the
- 1:07:07glow of the orange. And then within minutes, like
- 1:07:10the sun is up. It's like it's fast.
- 1:07:14Aaron says he's getting jealous. Come on, listen, the Singapore,
- 1:07:20the adventure is like, I don't know, $2000 for a 7 day trip,
- 1:07:28$2000 for a 7 day trip. Now you got to get there.
- 1:07:32Yeah, you got to get there. You got to get to Singapore, but
- 1:07:36it's 2000. It's interesting though, because
- 1:07:38that ship does not have any ports.
- 1:07:41It's just at sea. So I don't know how I would like
- 1:07:46that one, but I don't know. I, I know that I'm looking
- 1:07:51forward to this one. I feel like the ten months that
- 1:07:59it will have been because we went in October, so we'll really
- 1:08:02have only been 10 months since we were on our last one.
- 1:08:05And I'm telling you, I was well, I it was the first day I think I
- 1:08:09text you and I said when is the, what's the dates of your cruise?
- 1:08:13Yep, you did. And I said uh oh.
- 1:08:15I think Lawrence is thinking of coming.
- 1:08:17What's the day to your And it was, it was, it was that first
- 1:08:20day. And I, I already knew I wanted
- 1:08:22to go again. So Corey had booked this cruise
- 1:08:26before we had been on our first cruise and maybe even before we
- 1:08:32booked our first cruise, but I knew after day one that I wanted
- 1:08:38to go on another cruise again. So yeah, here, here we are.
- 1:08:42And now the Destiny. I was looking at prices for the
- 1:08:44Destiny and and all sorts of stuff.
- 1:08:47So yeah, very excited. Yes.
- 1:08:51Mom says if you go to Singapore, do not take chewing gum.
- 1:08:53It's against the law. Is it really?
- 1:08:56Yes. It's not like a Disney thing
- 1:08:59that they don't sell chewing gum.
- 1:09:01I don't know if any of you know that, but there's no they don't
- 1:09:03sell chewing gum on Disney property.
- 1:09:07You can, but you can bring it in.
- 1:09:08In Singapore, you cannot bring it in.
- 1:09:11It's against the law. How about that?
- 1:09:13How about that? Yeah.
- 1:09:15You show up with your with your Doublemint gum and your Juicy
- 1:09:17Fruit. We'll be seeing you in six to
- 1:09:20nine months. That's crazy.
- 1:09:26So yeah, I'm, I'm very excited. You know, it, it, like I said,
- 1:09:31it's very relaxing. They will have what, the 1st as
- 1:09:37soon as you walk in on deck 3, there's a, you know, kind of
- 1:09:42like the wait times display that's in the parks.
- 1:09:45They have one of those on or they have a couple of them, but
- 1:09:48they have one right there as soon as you walk in and man,
- 1:09:51that thing just scrolls and scrolls and scrolls with stuff
- 1:09:55to do so you will not be bored at all.
- 1:09:59You can get a paper print out apparently from guest services
- 1:10:03if you needed to. It's also on your navigation
- 1:10:05navigators app. And I'll mention it again.
- 1:10:09You talked about shopping. There are certain things that
- 1:10:13you can buy. You have to get a list from
- 1:10:17guest services, but it's like glassware and stuff that they
- 1:10:21actually use on the ship you can actually buy.
- 1:10:24Towels and things? Yep.
- 1:10:25Yeah. So I'll have to look in look
- 1:10:27into that. We we might have to come away
- 1:10:28with some of that, yeah. Yeah, a little bit, a little
- 1:10:31bit. So did you pre tip?
- 1:10:37That's not the right phrase for it, but.
- 1:10:39Yes, the yes, yeah, yeah, we like to pay ahead for the
- 1:10:43gratuities. Yeah, we did.
- 1:10:44We did as well 'cause we didn't the first time.
- 1:10:47And then that last day, it's like trying to get everything
- 1:10:50done. So because there's no ATMs on
- 1:10:53the ship just so you no, there's no ATMs. But we got to order
- 1:10:59room service like every night just because.
- 1:11:02We only did that once, but we do need yes, no question.
- 1:11:07And listen, room service is included and it's 24 hours, so
- 1:11:11why would you not? Exactly.
- 1:11:14I was warned to not do breakfast though because it's just
- 1:11:16continental, nothing special at all.
- 1:11:19No, the breakfast upstairs is much, much Yeah, go yeah, that
- 1:11:23the breakfast up on. Indulge.
- 1:11:26I forget what it's called, Catherine can remind me if she
- 1:11:30remembers but we we went upstairs to that breakfast a
- 1:11:34couple times and really enjoyed it.
- 1:11:36There's plenty of stuff and they have cooked to order omelets.
- 1:11:43Oh, I like that. Whenever I'm on vacation, I just
- 1:11:46say throw everything in there. Please throw.
- 1:11:49It all smorgasbord. It's like Cape May having
- 1:11:52breakfast at Cape. May yeah, yeah, we had a good
- 1:11:54time over there at Cape May. Yeah.
- 1:11:57And there are characters, plenty of characters walking around
- 1:12:03there. There are characters that are,
- 1:12:07you know, at certain times where you can do meet and greets.
- 1:12:11And in fact, we had a time booked for the royal gathering,
- 1:12:14I think it's called, with all the princesses.
- 1:12:16And while we were waiting for that, Milan was up on Deck 5
- 1:12:21just walking around taking pictures with people because
- 1:12:24she's not in the royal gathering, but she was there to
- 1:12:28take pictures. So yeah.
- 1:12:32Yeah. So if you're into that, there's
- 1:12:33there's plenty of that to do. There is a Bibbidi Bobbidi
- 1:12:36boutique on board as well. So if you have kids and you want
- 1:12:40to do that, you can, you can live it up.
- 1:12:44So Sharon says she has cruising tips to share with us.
- 1:12:47Oh, yeah, Cher, absolutely. David T, you can order your
- 1:12:53oops. It just jumped on me to be at
- 1:12:56your stateroom when you get ready to head out for breakfast.
- 1:12:58Oh, order your coffee to be at your coffee.
- 1:13:02It was very New York to be at your stateroom when you get
- 1:13:05ready. Coffee, coffee talk.
- 1:13:07Coffee. Coffee talk.
- 1:13:13Oh boy. So yeah, check your weather.
- 1:13:19Don't worry. If you're even thinking of going
- 1:13:21and, you know, hurricane season, Disney's not going to put you in
- 1:13:28harm's way. A, They have 4000 guests on
- 1:13:33board or whatever the number is. B, that ship's not cheap.
- 1:13:39So they're going to make sure they do everything to protect
- 1:13:41it. So that's why the night that we
- 1:13:43were leaving Mexico, he was had the foot to the to the floor
- 1:13:48doing, doing 25 knots to get out of out of harm's way before we
- 1:13:55had to then redirect. But they will also do that.
- 1:13:58They'll redirect. Sometimes you might stay a night
- 1:14:01at Castaway key. If there was a problem getting
- 1:14:04to lookout key then you just stay at castaway key for
- 1:14:08overnight so. David T says take some extra
- 1:14:11cash to tip the food runner. I heard customary was like a
- 1:14:15dollar per item. So if you if they bring 4 Mickey
- 1:14:18bars to your room you should tip them $4.00.
- 1:14:20I don't know how true that is but that's what I heard.
- 1:14:22A dollar per item. OK, Sharon's done over 20
- 1:14:27cruises. Never had a hurricane.
- 1:14:29See. Yeah, like you said, they're,
- 1:14:33they're just going to, they're just going to steer clear of of
- 1:14:35a place you you might miss an island or something, you know,
- 1:14:39but besides that. More time to be at the at the
- 1:14:43breakfast bar, Catherine said it was Cabanas.
- 1:14:46Thank you. Yeah, Cabanas is the name of the
- 1:14:49and that play. I was worried about getting a
- 1:14:51spot that's like almost the entire deck just about of of
- 1:14:56deck 13 was Cabanas. It was all right.
- 1:15:00Maybe it wouldn't know. Maybe it was about half of it.
- 1:15:03So there was plenty of spots you could sit outside, you could sit
- 1:15:05inside. So, yeah, enjoy.
- 1:15:11Yep. It'll be a good time.
- 1:15:13Looking forward to it. Looking forward to it. 118 days
- 1:15:17to go. Nobody's counting that, right?
- 1:15:22Nope. Actually mine's a little shorter
- 1:15:24because I'll be at the parks couple days before so and we are
- 1:15:30taking Amtrak. We're going to do Amtrak this
- 1:15:34time, just to be a little different.
- 1:15:37That would be fun. Yeah, it'll be fun.
- 1:15:39It's overnight. Then we leave here at like 7.
- 1:15:41We get there like 10-9, whatever in the morning.
- 1:15:46So we're going to do that and then spend a couple days at the
- 1:15:50parks and then head to the cruise.
- 1:15:54So be a nice long vacation. So have to keep working to
- 1:16:00afford it, but you know, that's how that goes.
- 1:16:03I know, I know how that goes. I feel like I'm always saving
- 1:16:07for a vacation. Next week's show I don't have
- 1:16:13booked, but I think I'm close to booking a guest for it.
- 1:16:18All right, it'll be a good one. Great.
- 1:16:22We'll have a couple of dates in May that we will not be able to
- 1:16:26be on due to graduation and I think another ceremony, so
- 1:16:33that'll be coming up. Very cool.
- 1:16:38I just want to check one thing here.
- 1:16:42Yeah. So yeah, we had a little tech
- 1:16:49issue in in the moments leading up to the show, so I apologize
- 1:16:54for that, but it just corrected itself.
- 1:16:57Got to love that. So when this show ends, I'm
- 1:17:01going to send you over to Pete Mcdevitt show, who's hanging out
- 1:17:05in the clubhouse with the clubhouse crew.
- 1:17:08So be sure to check that out. Tell them that living in this
- 1:17:13sentcha. Yes, please do that.
- 1:17:18Yeah, he's hanging over there with a whole bunch of friends,
- 1:17:21so make sure to say hello. Tomorrow night we're live at
- 1:17:25Magic Kingdom and we'll have some fun with that.
- 1:17:27We'll take what the part gives us and there's two starlights
- 1:17:30and happily ever after. And let's see.
- 1:17:35Looking forward Saturdays we are.
- 1:17:40I'm like totally blank on that. Where are we?
- 1:17:42I don't even. I go.
- 1:17:43We're at magic again. We're doing double magic.
- 1:17:46I'm lying. I am so lying.
- 1:17:48Hold on now. We are doing magic on Saturdays.
- 1:17:52Steve and Tony and family will be with us tomorrow.
- 1:17:56A little bit of a different Epcot stream.
- 1:18:01We are basically starting the stream.
- 1:18:06It depends on how early I get there.
- 1:18:08But basically the first major thing we're going to do is we're
- 1:18:11going to eat at La Hacienda in Epcot in Mexico.
- 1:18:16I'll be dining there with Jacob and Greg.
- 1:18:19It's going to be an all boys night, so join us for that.
- 1:18:22We're going to show you those nice cheese pulls over there in
- 1:18:24Mexico, the restaurant to eat at in Mexico.
- 1:18:28There's a vlog that we did out there a year or two ago with
- 1:18:32Greg and it was great. Jacob's never been.
- 1:18:36Greg can't ever go get Mexican food with his family because
- 1:18:39they don't eat it. I can't go with Tammy because
- 1:18:41she doesn't eat it. So it's the it's the opportunity
- 1:18:45of a lifetime for the boys to just have this dinner date and
- 1:18:47we're bringing you all along. And after that, I don't know.
- 1:18:50I'm thinking maybe we have time to just go across the way and
- 1:18:54maybe get frozen in and then jump out for luminous World
- 1:18:58Showcase walkthrough, a little bit of shopping, put a bow on
- 1:19:01it. So join us tomorrow night for
- 1:19:04all that, for all that fun. All right, I like that plan.
- 1:19:08So Epcot tomorrow night, Magic on Wednesday, on Saturday, and
- 1:19:12that'll be with Steve and Tony and family.
- 1:19:15So very exciting week coming up on OID.
- 1:19:19I'll have the monorail report on Thursday at 6:30.
- 1:19:23We're going to talk about all the news.
- 1:19:27We're going to talk about some of those discounts and anything
- 1:19:32else we can get into. Sounds great.
- 1:19:35All right, thank you all for being here.
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