00:00.00 dclduo Um, welcome back every welcome back everybody this week's up sort of the Dc L Duo Podcast brought to you by my path unwinding travel. 00:02.66 Cynethia Is. 00:15.48 dclduo And have to start by welcoming my co-host to the show Samantha welcome Sam. 00:18.53 Sam Why thanks Brian I am happy to be here and happy to talk to well happy to talk about my favorite cruising topic None time Disney cruising. 00:29.67 dclduo Yes, that's always that's always a good one. We always love to get people's none reactions to cruising and we've got a great guest on the show today who's some sailing experience not on Disney Cruise line so always fun to hear the none time on Disney Cruise line and how it compared to their other experiences on other cruise lines but let me start by welcoming. Sin let me start by welcoming. So ah, let me start by welcoming suniia to the show. Welcome snyia more yeah morning morning. 00:55.98 Cynethia Hi How are you ah doing this afternoon. Ah I'm doing great I'm assuming it's morning where you are though isn't it. 00:59.50 Sam Um, we we are doing grade more importantly, how are you doing? awesome. 01:06.72 dclduo Awesome! That's that's right in the ah the hot and steamy pacific northwest this week but we are on the last day of a heat wave looking forward to getting back to our normal. 01:12.89 Sam Um. 01:19.23 dclduo Ah, chilly summertime temperatures the balmy eighty s and so of the 90 s but yes, we're doing great on this Sunday morning we have coffee in us and we're ready to go but suniia. Why don't we start off as we like to do by giving folks your background. Let's see your background with cruising and with. Disney because we know this was your first Disney Cruise so what was your background with cruising and Disney leading into this cruise. 01:40.85 Cynethia Well I have cruised on maybe a dozen or so cruises. So I'm not new to cruising but this was my None Disney Cruise we have visited Disney World I have visited Disneyland but. This was our none Disney Cruise experience 01:58.70 dclduo And the we in that sentence I think is so you mentioned off airs your husband and your son. 02:03.22 Cynethia Yes, my husband and son was with me on this cruise. Um, it actually was a celebration because my son just graduated college and and this past May and so this was something he wanted to do so great. 02:07.61 dclduo Um, and. 02:20.22 dclduo Fun, fun and wit. 02:20.34 Sam Oh congratulations and I love that your son wanted to do a Disney Cruise for his college graduation that is awesome that just kind of shows the love for Disney that your family obviously must have and love for cruising. That's just awesome. 02:21.00 Cynethia That's what we did. 02:35.57 Cynethia Yes, we are a Disney family. We're actually going there for Christmas this year to spend a week so be our None experience at Disney World doing Christmas time. 02:46.94 dclduo Um, nice, awesome. What? Ah what other cruise Zones have you sailed on. 02:53.74 Cynethia We've sold celebrity Carnival and so Royal Caribbean and Norwegian. Yes. 02:57.81 dclduo Oh wow, you got a mall you got all the big names that's fantastic. That's fantastic. Did you have a favorite cruise line leading into this cruise. Okay, okay, and which ships have you sailed on in celebrity you sail on either new ones like the edge or the F and Navy is the other ones. 03:08.41 Cynethia Celebrity. 03:13.24 Cynethia The newest celebrity cruise ship was the equinox. That's the latest one that we cruised on and it was brand new I think it was the None sailing when we actually sell that one that's been a few years ago um new norwegian I think it was. 03:17.88 dclduo Okay. 03:25.37 dclduo Okay, okay. 03:32.86 Cynethia Sky and that was many years ago as well. 03:34.40 dclduo Um, and and just in the caribbean or have you done like Alaska sailings like where have you sailed and. 03:40.19 Cynethia Nope, we'll be doing Alaska next summer but mostly Wass pretty much the caribbean that's all pretty much it. 03:46.12 dclduo All right? Well what and so your son wanted to go on this Disney Cruise what prompted you to do the western carib community had you done that itinerary before actually hold on actually hold on I fruit just realize I I did the lawyer thing of assuming facts not in evidence. So I don't think we said what cruise you run. 03:53.89 Cynethia We had not visited. 04:05.47 dclduo Ah, so ah, so sunytheia what cruise did you take on Disney Cruise line 04:11.57 Cynethia We did the Disney fantasy out of port canaveral and that itinerary was of interest to us because we had not yet even though we've sold the caribbean many many times for some reason we never got an opportunity to go to go to Greg Kamen or Jamaica so that was one of the reasons why we chose that particular cruise ship that particular artinerary to go to some of the islands we haven't visited. 04:39.52 dclduo Fun. Yeah, the western cribban itinerary. It's it's nice to see them. We've done the western carbban itinerary but it's been the modified one where they were sailing only to Mexico there for a while. So excited to try out that regular western caribbean itinerary at some point but well. This being your none trip on Disney Cruise line let's just back up and ask ah how was the booking experience for you compared to some of the other cruise lines you've been on and the check-in experience and and all of that sort of stuff leading into the cruise. 05:06.42 Cynethia Um, so the booking we use a travel agent so that went you know smoothly I didn't didn't really have to do anything with tell her hey this one This is what we want to do and she set it all up for us and and that was all all great. Um, but. 05:14.18 dclduo Um. 05:26.39 Cynethia Going through setting up, you know your online check-in and all of that I I will say that the 1 thing that I wasn't all that crazy about was I don't like Disney's website I just found it to be humersome and just. 05:38.11 Sam Oh yeah. 05:43.31 Cynethia Hard to navigate and just to get back to where I had gone before to look at things again, but you know everything else was wonderful, but that process was a little bit frustrating just to go in and get all of that done. Um, so we had to do our pre. Um. 05:52.47 Sam Um, oh yeah. 06:02.70 Cynethia Covid test and upload all of that information and you know all of all the stuff you have to do now if you're going on a cruise which has seemed like starting to be less and less. But um, all of that went very you know once I figured out how to navigate the website getting all that information. It was simple Once once you figured it out. 06:16.51 Sam Um. 06:22.68 Cynethia So everything went well with that and we were on our way. 06:25.15 dclduo Um, nice. 06:25.38 Sam Perfect. Yeah, we we are you preaching to the choir about Disney Web site a Disney I t when it comes to cruise. Ah, not not the booking so much but exactly what you're talking about the check in process that 30 day check in process we're having to upload your pictures and your passports. And then that 15 day process where you're uploading your vaccine card information and obviously then doing the pretesting and all of that it is not the most user, friendly experience. I'm curious to know how your excursion booking and adult dining booking if you did any of that. Um. How that went because I know as a none time cruiser. You're sort of in that last booking window meaning platinum gold and silver can all book ahead of you in line and so obviously things like cabanas are are just not going to be available. Um, but were you were you did you have. 07:08.37 Cynethia Aha. 07:16.31 Cynethia Bright. 07:20.77 Sam Um, do you have any difficulty booking excursions or adult dining or or drink tastings or anything like that that you were interested in. 07:21.59 Cynethia Can read. 07:27.65 Cynethia Well, we did not do any of the adult dining not because we didn't want to but it was pretty much booked so we didn't get an opportunity I didn't get an opportunity to book ahead of time and when I got on Board. We were happy with the dining options that were available so I didn't go to guest services to try to see if we could get a reservation so I just kind of let that go because like I said we were happy with um the dining you know where what we had for dining and all the other options. 08:03.57 Sam Yeah. 08:05.39 Cynethia As far as the excursions for cosumel I was able to get something very easily It was not also doubt for Grand Cayman we actually used an outside vendor. Our excursion there because Disney did not really offer any least for me any interesting excursions. Um and grain in Grandin Cayman because pretty much everything seems like it was swimming with dolphins or swimming with some type of sea creature and and that's. 08:32.68 Sam 5 08:35.62 dclduo Um, if. 08:37.83 Sam Ah. 08:42.79 Cynethia You know my None time visiting an island I kind of like to get a feel for the island and the culture so I wanted to do something like that and Disney didn't offer that so I used an outside vendor that I have used before on other cruises to do something in Grand Cayman and for Jamaica. 08:46.48 dclduo Um. 08:46.54 Sam He. 09:00.23 Cynethia Yes, what I wanted to do was sold out. But as soon as we got on the ship. Um, we went right to port Adventures desk and got that booked so and and it was It was no problem to get that book once on the cruise even though it showed up as sold out on the the website. 09:18.15 Sam Nice. What's the vendor that you used for your outside Disney Excursion we're always looking you know? Ah, obviously we're we're not trying to advertise for people but we we always get questions of you know what? vendors are reputable and. And so when we have guests on that have used outside vendors. We love to hear about you know, particularly you said you've used this vendor before so it's obviously one that you've had a good experience on. 09:42.71 Cynethia Yeah, we went to http://shortexcursions.com and and the way http://shoreexcursions.com is set up. You just put in your ship name. Um the ship in the name and when you're sailing and it brings up all. It brings up the itinerary for you and you just look through what they offer so it was http://shoreexcursions.com is what we went through. 10:09.34 dclduo Fabulous. We have to check that out I haven't heard of that site before um I know I know folks are sometimes reticent to take you know, non whatever cruise line they're on non-sponsored shore excursions because of the the issue of potentially missing the ship. But um I do I do find you can save a lot of money by booking them privately and you get. 10:17.55 Cynethia For her. 10:26.33 Cynethia Yes. 10:26.93 dclduo Different options and my own personal point of view is the providers who can't get you back to the ship on time are not going to stick around. So. 10:34.79 Cynethia That's true and they also promise that they will get you back to the ship or make arrangements for you to get to your ship if they don't get you back. So I felt the very None time I used that I was like okay you know this is the None time I've used this so we gotta. 10:41.25 dclduo Oh that's nice. 10:52.32 Cynethia Kind of see how it goes but it went smooth. It went well just like you know excursion from from on board. So um I always look there first. Um, whenever we're cruising to see what's offered there and compare the prices and it it is cheaper. In most cases. so so yes it's something I've been using for many many years and and have not had None issue at all. 11:17.27 dclduo Nice, awesome. That's awesome. Well you make it through the prebooking process where you headed to the cruise from where where do you? where do you live? Okay, so if you flew down from Bw presumably. Okay. 11:26.14 Cynethia I live in Maryland um, so we actually flew out of DC national reagan national yeah so 11:37.40 dclduo Ok, yeah, ah nice. Did you go in the night did you go on the day before or did did you couple it with a park strip beforehand or anything. 11:44.10 Cynethia This is the None time that we did not go down the day before and I do not I do not recommend it although everything went smoothly. There was no issues we flew down that we took the very None very None flight out of I'll start that sentence again. 11:48.70 dclduo Um, oh. 11:49.58 Sam Oh Wow and. 12:04.50 Cynethia We took the very None flight out of Reagan national which if you can't go down the day before if you can't go down the day before I recommending you know, taking that very None flight but the reason we couldn't go down the day before is I am a teacher and. 12:13.97 dclduo Yeah. 12:14.18 Sam Bright. 12:23.60 Cynethia Because we had some snow days. It was a little up in the air of when our last day of school was going to be and I definitely don't want to miss the last day of school so I had to wait and kind of see when that was going to be and our last day of school was the day before our cruise. 12:24.68 Sam I. 12:32.17 Sam Um, oh yeah. 12:41.70 Sam Um, a Wow yeah. 12:43.18 Cynethia So once I found that out I was like oh that would be just pushing it a little too too much. So um, when it up just yeah, flying out that next morning. 12:50.90 Sam Yeah, at least at yeah and at least flying from Dc in particular, you've got a lot of flights probably to Orlando so if there was some delay with your flight. You might have been able to switch and there's sort of multiple flights throughout the day on various airlines. So. While it's certainly not recommended to fly down the day of you're giving yourself at least the best possible chance if there's any hiccup. Yeah. 13:13.12 Cynethia Yes, absolutely And and besides something going wrong flying out that morning I wouldn't recommend it also because just the hustle and bustle of the traveling for that day and then you know getting to the Cruise Port getting On. We were so exhausted that we missed sell away. You know we we got into our cabins and we are the intent was just to take a little bit of a nap and then get up and you know go back out for all of those things and we so. 13:37.70 Sam Oh yeah. 13:50.90 Cynethia Slept I mean it wasn't a nap I would just say that we we slept for several hours because we were so exhausted. So and that all 3 of us and I you know I said then this is another reason not to fly out that you know the same day because it's it's It's a lot of movement and we get exhausted a little bit so we missed all of that. Oh no, we did not miss dinner. We were. We had the late we had late dining. So um, yeah, we were if we had ah had the None dining we probably would have missed that for sure. 14:08.69 Sam Yeah, Apps Absolute Absolutely Did you Miss dinner I Hope you didn't miss dinner. Ah good. 14:10.98 dclduo Yeah I'd I'd have to yeah I'd have to. 14:26.35 Sam Ah. 14:28.10 Cynethia But we had late dining so we made it. We made it to dining. 14:31.65 Sam Next. 14:31.68 dclduo So wait. What what time did you manage to board the ship then with your flight down. 14:35.79 Cynethia Oh let's see um a flight got in tour orlandos like around nine ish um we had a little bit of difficulty. Well there was a person so we took the Disney Transport 14:51.17 dclduo Um. 14:53.49 Cynethia When we came down to the bagging area. There was a person there holding up. You know the Disney sign so we talked to her. She told us to get our bags take them over to the other people that were there waiting to take the bags and they explained. You know you need to go up to the none floor and here and and Orlando's airport is not None of the easiest airports to navigate so we had a little bit of trouble finding where the disney transport location. Um, where that wasn't and we ran into some other families. They were looking for it as well and we all kind of got together and it's like where do we go here. We go here and we we did find it of course. Um, but it took a little bit of time to find it and then there was a little bit of a line to check in for the transport and. We waited there for I want to say maybe a half hour or so and you know we could board up the the buses the coach buses over to the port. Um, which was about a 50 minute ride so I think we ended up getting on the ship. I want to say around noon is something like that close to noon. 16:05.90 dclduo Okay, now that's not bad I mean a lot of people don't get on the ship until the ship usually doesn't start boarding until Eleven or eleven thirty so noon is not bad at all. Yeah, what were your None impressions of the port and the ship as you pulled up. 16:14.50 Cynethia No. 16:21.20 Cynethia Oh we were excited Port I've never cruised out of port canaveral. So this was so new location for cruising as well. But just you know, arriving at the the bus driver was even pointing out. Okay, there is your ship over the distance you see this and you know everybody's. 16:35.86 dclduo Um, a. 16:40.72 Cynethia Perking up getting excited. So um, yeah, it was we were I have been excited about the cruise when since since we booked it. So um, but yeah, yeah, so when you're actually about to get on. You know you're it's you're just your all your senses are heightening. You're just. 16:48.20 dclduo Um. 16:59.95 Cynethia Ready for the adventure of the experience and I had been told by friends who had taken a Disney Cruise before just how wonderful it was going to be and how much you're going to love it and you know sometimes you hear hear those things and then when you do it. It's like not. 17:14.93 Sam I. 17:19.39 Cynethia White What they said, but no everything from you know when we stepped on board and they now announced our family name to everything that we we did was wonderful. So arriving at the port was great. All of that seamless. Um. 17:30.72 Sam Well. 17:38.10 Cynethia Actually when we checked when I did my online check-in and and like you said Sam because you know we're first on cruisers we ended up getting like a really really it was like a half hour before the ship was supposed to sail away and I'm like oh my gosh. What are we gonna do in all this time but when we got there and um. 17:48.49 Sam Um, new name. 17:56.91 Cynethia Of the attendants or people working in the porch. She saw that and she was like oh that's too late and she's like I'm gonna cross this off and put this time on there excuse like I want you to show this don't show your phone you show this? Okay I was like okay so we were able to just you know, get on with you know. 18:03.97 dclduo Um. 18:04.53 Sam Ah, ah. I. 18:09.79 dclduo Um. 18:16.48 Cynethia 1 of the next boarding numbers that they called so that was awesome because I was concerned but we're going to sit around for a couple of hours but we didn't and so we got right on and once we got on. Of course we had to find food. So um. 18:18.30 Sam Awesome. 18:29.35 Sam Ah, wait, let's let's stop before we get to food. Let's stop and talk about that boarding process because as you mentioned you know this is your your None time and your family name is announced. 18:33.75 Cynethia Okay. 18:44.55 Sam How did? How did you feel stepping into that atrium I mean the the atrium on the fantasy in in the dream are identical but they're beautiful. They're quite a lot bigger than the atriums on the wonder and the and the magic I'm just curious as to. How you felt walking in and what your None impressions of the ship were yeah. 19:02.79 Cynethia Oh I knew I was um, going to have a great time and the ship was beautiful. Um, Mickey and goofy were up on one of the upper levels waving at us and. 19:07.55 Sam Ah. 19:16.41 dclduo Um. 19:16.86 Sam Ah, nice. 19:22.50 Cynethia Um, I just knew I was going to have a good time. That's the that The feeling I got you know when when I walked down I was like oh this this is this is going to be great. So be beautiful. Yes, beautiful ship. Um, and so I yeah. 19:28.82 Sam Yes, you're in the warm you're in the warm embrace of Disney I love that it's like. 19:38.63 Sam I Love that Awesome! Alright yeah. 19:40.48 dclduo Nice all right? Well you hinted you know the None thing you got to do after you get on board is find some place to get lunch. So did you opt for this is the choose you an adventure element of the boarding day which is did you go for the sit down lunch or did you head to the buffet lunch in cabanas. 19:40.69 Cynethia I Felt really good. 19:55.11 Cynethia We We went up to cabanas. Yes, yes. 19:58.82 dclduo Ah, or. 20:01.50 Sam Let's be that is the usual that is probably the much more common answer. It's funny because we we kind of switch it up. Everyone sitting to sometimes we do cabaanas sometimes we do sit down lunch but. Yeah I think your your answer is definitely the most common one would you guys think of the the food offerings and the food quality and just Cabaanas in general. 20:19.64 Cynethia Um, I thought all the food was really really good. There were some favorites that I had along the way throughout the week um I they had very good choices for all of us. Like my son like I say he's a young adult so he's he's still into burgers and pizzas a lot. You know what? my my husband and I we want more real food quote. Um, so um, but anything you wanted whatever type of food you. 20:41.87 Sam Um. 20:56.33 Cynethia 1 it there it it was there for you. So um, as typical on the first day of Cruise when you first get on a ship this used a little bit crowded up at the buffet but we were able to find a seat within a reasonable amount of time and and we just sat there and we ate and sat. 21:06.20 Sam Yep. 21:14.22 Cynethia You know because we knew we were not going to be able to get into our cabins until two o'clock so we just took our time with eating and um, once we were done with that. We we kind of just walked around the ship a little bit just to see try to get our bearings see what was what until it was a. 21:15.53 Sam Right. 21:33.80 Cynethia Time for us to go into our cabins. 21:34.31 Sam Yeah, well and that's that's a really great point. You make that you know on embarcation day. It doesn't matter what cruise line you are on. You are going to have a bit of craziness in that buffet for embarkation day lunch and so. 21:42.48 Cynethia I d. 21:50.41 Sam It's kind of I have to say it's probably very good that you had that expectation going in because we do find that sometimes None time cruiser is not just None time. Disney Cruisers are a little overwhelmed by cabanas that None day but you being a seasoned cruiser albeit on other cruise lines kind of gave you that? um. You know that that under. So. 00:00.00 dclduo All right, You're good to go. 00:00.71 Sam Okay, so Sunitia tell us what kind of cabin you guys had and what your impressions were of the cabin how it worked for you guys. Okay. 00:10.37 Cynethia So we booked a cabin with a veranda and um when we walked in I did not expect the cabin to be as large as it was um, it's a little bit larger than you know other cruise ships and. 00:23.35 Sam He. 00:30.15 Cynethia I knew about the double bathrooms just from you know, listening to other guests on your podcast and just the research that I've done which worked out great having 3 adults in the room but we had plenty of of room. It was spacious enough for all 3 of us. 00:39.33 Sam E. 00:49.80 Cynethia But we were not bumping and running into each other by any means. Um, so ah I and enjoy the balcony spacious enough for us to sit out there. Um and have conversations and just look out into the blue water. So. 00:50.70 Sam I. 01:06.69 Cynethia Um, the cabin was great. Our cabin attendant was even great her. So um, so the everything associated with the cabin was fabulous. Um. 01:09.38 Sam Ah. 01:19.37 Sam I love it when you have a good cabin attendant I mean say you know the the ones on Disney in general are just awesome. Overall I don't know that we've had a bad one but we've had some truly great ones and that can kind of make your experience just even better particularly when they're you know, super friendly and. You know, ask you how your day was and and things like that I love getting to know. Um you know the crew in general. That's one of my favorite parts of cruising. Yes, love that. 01:43.12 Cynethia Yeah, and call you by your name every time they see you. So yeah, she she was a wonderful attendant. So um and you're right that did enhance our experience. Um. 01:58.24 Sam Yeah. 02:01.59 Cynethia As far as our cabin is concerned. But yeah, the cabin was great I I um, we spend a little you know with we will go out. Do our thing and come back and maybe take a nap and spend a little bit of time in our cabin but I love that I could watch all of the um, just everything that Disney has to offer on demand. So. 02:17.86 Sam Yeah, yes, yes. 02:21.29 Cynethia Ah I am one of those probably rare people that have never watched any of the Star Wars ah movies. Um, even though my family is all into it. But I just never never was so I was like you know what? like you know this is. 02:28.67 Sam Oh my goodness. 02:38.44 Cynethia And but I you know I know who the characters are I know what the storyline's about and I'm not like don't know anything about it I just never watched any of the movies. So I said I I'm. 02:38.55 Sam Right. Right? right? You knew you knew that Vader was Luke and lay his father is what you're saying sorry spoiler alert for those who have too late too late. 02:47.89 Cynethia Yes, yep I knew that? yep. 02:56.42 Cynethia Ah, so I started watching the star wars series on the cruise and then of course I finished it up once we got back home because we do have Disney plus so um, but that was you know something that I was able to do whenever we went into. 03:06.90 Sam Right? right. 03:14.43 Cynethia You know we were just kind of hanging out in the cap and waiting for the next thing. 03:16.60 Sam Yeah, so let's talk about some of the stuff you guys get up to on board. What were some of the out. 03:21.66 dclduo Well hold on say hey wait one second um sunythia how did your cabin on Disney Compare to the other cruise lines you've been on. 03:29.85 Cynethia Um, well they they were a little bit larger for sure and um, you know one of the things is I'm just one of those I guess and I maybe I'm not as weird as I think I am but I do not like walking anywhere. Um. Outside of my house with no shoes On. Um, so anytime I'm in a hotel or you know any other cruise I have to have something on my feet So like little shower thongs or something but in this cabin I was comfortable walking in my bare feet and. 03:50.58 Sam Um. 03:57.30 Sam M. 04:07.82 Cynethia Realize you know like a day or so I'm like I am I'm walking around in my bare feet that's unusual for me, but that's how comfortable I felt and how clean I felt the um, the cabins were not that other cruise lines cabins aren't clean I don't know I just I felt home I guess. 04:16.39 Sam E. 04:25.70 Sam Me. 04:26.68 Cynethia You know I was felt comfortable enough to walk in my bare feet like I would at home. Um, so yeah, cabin experience. Great Um I have no nothing but good things about the cabin. 04:40.20 Sam Awesome! Awesome! So What were some of the things that you and your husband and son got up to while on board. The ship. Um, let's set aside you know and we'll talk about excursions in a little bit but um, yeah, what are the kinds of activities. You guys. Ah. Were able to enjoy on board. 05:00.80 Cynethia Well I knew that Buzz light year was um, going to be released the day before we cruised so I had my fingers crossed that they were going to be showing bus light year on this cruise and they were so. 05:10.38 Sam Oh. 05:20.10 Cynethia That was one of my number one things I had to to believe it or not the simple little thing is watch a movie. Um, but we did do that? Um, and that was a great movie by the way I don't know if you've seen it or not but it was an awesome movie. Oh it's great. 05:21.19 Sam Ah. 05:30.64 Sam Oh good. We haven't seen it yet I'm waiting for and we I'm waiting for its Disney plus release we havent i' been into a movie theater in god knows how long and so but I but I do I have watched movies on Disney cruises. But. 05:37.85 Cynethia Ah. 05:48.10 Sam I have not um, done it so much since post pandemic cruising just one because'm not super comfortable in the movie theaters but 2 just because there's so much stuff on streaming now. It's like I you know I kind of feel like oh I'll just enjoy the ship but I totally understand. 05:50.89 Cynethia And her. 06:05.71 Sam Going to see a movie on the ship. It's just a fun experience. Especially a brand new released movie. Yeah. 06:08.60 Cynethia Um, yes, Ah so um, I did that I really wanted to do the silent disco but I kept missing it. Um, I've never got a chance to do it or either it was late and I just could not hang up late enough to to make it um in the times that they had it during the day there was some conflict that I couldn't get to it but I was like oh I have to do that next time but I haven't done that on any crus and I'd just been here. How. 06:23.76 Sam He yeah. 06:38.53 Sam It smells. 06:39.43 Cynethia Ah, cool. It is and I was wanting to do it but just never got a good opportunity to do it I Yeah I did some of the crafts like they would have like the little craft things that ah you know throughout the day. So. 06:45.21 Sam It's really, it's really silly and really fun at the same time. Um, no love that. 06:58.96 Cynethia Ah, participated in that um I set in on one of the trivia contests. Um, and let's see I know my son. What did he do. 07:04.67 Sam Nice. 07:12.88 Cynethia He talked about something that he was interested in and he kind of went off on his own and did a few things. Um I know he's go ahead. 07:17.10 Sam Nice did did sorry go ahead I was gonna say did did you all get to any of the adult entertainment in the in the evenings in in the what is it called in Europa. 07:32.58 Cynethia No, what is it called to get oh okay, is that like where? um yeah, yes, yes, no, we did not um, get but they had ah an allusionist. 07:34.63 Sam Ah, your Europa is just the the area where all the adult bars are yeah where the tube and um, yeah. 07:52.19 Cynethia On and he was performing in those locations but one night they had him performing in the main in the main theater so we got to see him in the main theater. So we we didn't um, we didn't go to any of the like I went down there for the crafts it was in one of those. 08:07.60 Sam E. 08:10.62 Cynethia Um, those areas. But no, we didn't do any of that customs. Usually they are pretty late and we try to hang up late but don't quite make it some nights I had my husband stay up really late one night 08:13.79 Sam They are pretty late. Yep. 08:19.96 Sam Ah, but. 08:26.70 Cynethia Actually I was to go see Buzz Light year and he was looking at me sideways because I had him out late which you know that's not typically him. Um, so again, we didn't really do any I mean the trivia but that was during the day it was in one of those. 08:27.12 Sam Um. 08:34.32 Sam Ah. 08:44.10 Sam Yeah, want to post yeah did did you all spend a lot of time on the the pool decks. 08:45.88 Cynethia Lounges but it was during the day it was in the day as well. 08:52.66 Cynethia We did not um, go to the pool on ship but we sat outside. Um you know when we were eating we would sit in that area where the pool was. But yeah, we typically don't do pools on cruises. Um, don't know why. But. 08:58.60 Sam Um, you know, nice. 09:07.71 Sam He. 09:12.50 Cynethia We I don't recall ever getting and a pool on a cruise I I don't think I have um. 09:14.69 Sam Um, ah well I well I can kind of understand it on you know, most of the Disney ships except for in the adult pool areas the adult pool areas are are kind of nice and. And usually pretty quiet but on most of the ships. The family deck. The pools are kind of kid soup with None exception which is the new Disney wish I think has a better pool layout so it doesn't doesn't do much. Ah, you know it's a better layout for not feeling like you're in a soup of kids so but. 09:46.57 Cynethia Interesting. Interestingly I you know? yeah, you're right I was expecting this cruise to be just dripping with kids. But um, it wasn't it it. There were a lot of adult only cruisers. 09:53.27 Sam Oh Interesting. So. 10:02.96 Cynethia And I was very surprised I mean there there were kids and there were you know plenty of kids but it wasn't you know I was expecting kids to be hanging off the side of the ship as we we're cruising down the on the ocean but it was not It was not a lot of kids which I was very surprised being that you know. It was toward the end of June when we did the cruise. So um, so if the pools really were not overcrowded. Didn't have a lot of kids. Um, if I wanted to get in I I could have but um, it's just something that i. 10:23.87 Sam E. 10:36.62 Sam He. 10:42.10 Cynethia I Guess I Just don't have an interest in kitting a pool on a cruise I I I guess I prefer they get in you know, go in the water in the beach when we when we're docked somewhere. But but yeah. 10:43.41 Sam Yeah, no. Yeah, oh yeah, shall we shall we talk excursions next Brian or do you want to talk main dining all right all right? So suniia. Let's let's talk about your excursions. You had some great ports and. 10:57.40 dclduo Food is always last Sam Always safe food for last. 11:08.61 Sam Ah, we talked a little bit about how you you know, booked the excursions. But what what excursions did you get up to and did you guys go to Castaway key I can't remember if we mentioned if we talked this? Okay, awesome. Okay, so let's start. Let's leave Castaway key the best you know best for last and and talk about in talk about your other ports. 11:16.21 Cynethia Yes, yes, we did. 11:23.18 Cynethia Move. 11:27.91 Sam None and what you guys got up to on land. 11:28.83 Cynethia Okay, so our None stop was an I call them l and we've been there plenty plenty of time. So um I know I like their excursions where they take you to a beach and. 11:37.15 Sam E. 11:44.85 Sam Um. 11:47.45 Cynethia Just hang out at the beach and everything is included. Um that is the drinks. Um, you know if you want to go snorkeling or whatever you want to do all of those things are included so that is what we did in Cosville so we bus picked us up there. Um, right at the the port and we went over to the the beach and I can't remember the name of the beach right now. Um, and we just hung out there for the day. It was a little overcast and rainy but it didn't really it wasn't raining. 12:16.36 Sam Nice. 12:25.59 Cynethia Continuously so we were able to enjoy you know our time at the beach um's huge pavilion there with the buffet So whenever you wanted to go eat just went up and you know grab some food. Um my son and I got on. 12:36.74 Sam E. 12:43.32 Cynethia It looks like a giant tricycle but you you ride you ride it in the water so he and I got on one of those and kind of rode out in the area that they have designated for that and that was fun I've never thought that before so that was cool. But. 12:43.99 Sam Um, no I know what you mean, but. 12:57.25 Sam Oh yeah. 13:01.57 Cynethia Um, my husband didn't want to get in the water that day and I think maybe because it wasn't really super hot because it was overcast I mean was still warm. Um, so my son and I just we just hung out in the in the water there and did the little activities that they had going on so they had you know they had those bike things I don't know what they're called. 13:06.51 Sam He. 13:20.66 Sam No yeah, but your your disruption is perfect though. It does look like a tricycle know what I've I've never been on one either. But I've seen them plenty of times and I always have thought Wow That's that looks like a fun kind of silly thing to do. 13:21.19 Cynethia Aqua Bikes I Think that's what they're called, um they had. 13:34.60 Cynethia It exactly. That's exactly what it was the fun silly thing to do. They also had um kayaks if you wanted to take the kayaks out and then they also had um people there that would take you out on like a little catamaran. 13:50.99 Sam Low. Nice. 13:53.16 Cynethia Um, and all of that was included as well. So we we enjoyed that trip. Um, on the way on the bus. Um, and I just just just kind of giving you an idea of how Disney treats their guest on the way over now and really these this was a separate you know tour operated. 14:12.45 Sam Um. 14:12.84 Cynethia Not by Disney but just kind of contracted through Disney but on the way over the bus that we were on the condensation from the air conditioner was dripping on all the passengers on the right side of the bus and yeah, ah, but do you know when we got ready to return. 14:22.23 Sam Um, no no. 14:32.51 Cynethia We had what looked like a brand spanking new bus when we got ready to return to the port. So I'm like you know they were making sure they took took care of their guest so that was a good thing but that was so cosama was great. We had a wonderful time there like I said it was a little overcast and a rainy. But for. 14:33.70 dclduo Um, the. 14:33.91 Sam Ah. 14:40.82 Sam Um, yeah, that is. 14:51.99 Cynethia What we were doing it was we still enjoyed what we heard you had the whole beach. They also had a pool area um with like a water park sort of kind of for kids. Um, so it was It was a nice excursion. Um, and then our next. 15:07.48 Sam Nice. 15:10.64 Cynethia Stop was Grin Caman and this is where I took the tour um out I use a so excursions for this and we did a um, just a tour that kind of did the Hots spots I guess you could call it. So. 15:15.80 Sam E. 15:27.46 Sam Um. 15:30.23 Cynethia Um, we went out to um, a place called Hell Um, the name of the area is hell and they have a big slide there that says you know welcome to Hell and. 15:36.65 dclduo Ah. 15:37.35 Sam Yeah, ah sounds real pleasant. Ah. Welcome to Hell I Love it. Yeah. 15:47.62 Cynethia Um, you can get your passport stamped with you know, ah hell on it and all the Paraphernalia and everything was associated with that and even the um, the employees working in the little shop there they use that word like in every sentence. So. 15:51.60 Sam Oh my God That's hilarious. 16:04.43 Sam Um, ah. 16:07.14 Cynethia It was It was kind of funny. Um, but it it. Also there was a rock formation there that was kind of unusual. So it's like a black rock formation there that you know was was part of the attraction as well. So we visited there. We also went out to a turtle farm. 16:13.83 Sam E. 16:23.36 Sam Oh cool. 16:25.50 Cynethia Um, where they had turtles from you know the beginning of their life and turtles that were you know, almost one hundred years old um and you know preparing them to you know, be released back out into the wild. Um, and. 16:36.30 Sam Oh did you meet crush is that what you're saying you met Crush you came through the eacc all the way to Grand Cayman to meet you. 16:45.85 Cynethia Um, ah maybe that's what everyone was crowded over in that one area doing okay, um, and we stopped at um, seven mile beach 16:54.24 Sam And. 17:03.94 Cynethia Um, we didn't really go out to the beach but they were you know because it's supposed to be this popular beach and everything so they wanted to make sure that we saw that so we just did I guess what be called the highlights of Grand Cayman which was great. We had a it was nice. Um, we stopped that. Um. 17:07.33 Sam E. 17:23.44 Cynethia Like some very old church supposed to be like 1 of the oldest. Definitely the oldest on the island but also older is oldest in some other way as well. So it was a nice little tour. What made that really great was our tour guide. 17:24.70 Sam Um. 17:32.80 Sam E. 17:38.33 Sam M. 17:40.14 Cynethia He was very intriguing very engaging. Um, and we only had just us and 2 other families. So it was very intimate as well. So um, so that was a that was really cool I enjoyed that very much. 17:45.95 Sam Oh wow. 17:54.14 Sam Yeah, that sounds like a great one I will confess I have never been to Grand Cayman but that sounds like a great way to get you know all your grand Cayman highlights and and visit hell I I think that. I think that that's one that I I've got to Brian put this on our you know in your notes for if we end up on a cruise that goes that stops in Grand Cayman that we got to go to hell. So. 18:09.30 Cynethia Um. 18:17.60 Cynethia Um, yes. 18:18.96 dclduo I Noting the cost noting the costier's request now trip to hell got it down Simmon oats. 18:21.92 Sam Um, dripped. Ah. 18:26.20 Cynethia And then in Jamaica we did. Um, since is our None time in Jamaica as well I wanted to do something where you know we could see the island and kind of get a little bit of a feel for what the culture is like there so we did something similar just like a highlight so to speak. Um there. 18:42.33 Sam Oh yeah. 18:45.71 Cynethia A lot to see in Jamaica it was so many different excursions offered um but we went out to the green something house. Oh I can't remember the name of it but it was a historic old house. Um. That we went out to and you it was. It was very beautiful even and I love seeing old stuff you know stuff things that are like 200 years old that are still some of it still operational. Um like they had a player p piano. Yes, yes, exactly. 19:05.20 Sam Yes. 19:11.69 Sam Yeah, you know the europeans laugh at us though when when we talk about stuff that's two hundred years old is europeans one up and us I love it. 19:21.80 Cynethia Yep, believe me I know um and um and I had a very nice view that you could see like out over the ocean. Um, we got to taste some of the local cuisine. 19:29.43 Sam E. 19:38.72 Sam Um, who how is that? yeah I bet. 19:40.31 Cynethia And then oh delicious, delicious, delicious and then we had a stop at the beach. Um, stop. Yeah, we had a stop at the Beach. So. That's what we did there just it was like a beach stop overview tour at yeah, beat. Yep Exactly Yeah, something like that. 20:05.12 Sam Gotcha So like ah highlights and and beach break or something like that and and I presume that was one of the Disney excursions. Then yeah, those are. 20:15.30 Cynethia That was a Disney excursion. Yes, yep. 20:18.85 Sam Those are pretty common. But as you said they don't have them in every port you know, obviously they didn't have it at at Grand Cayman and so you had to find your own so that's great though and then cast away right? That's your last port stop and I mean we can't. 20:29.42 Cynethia Um, yes oh my gosh. 20:33.88 Sam We can't not talk about castaway key when ah particularly for somebody who it's their None time going so tell us you know what? you guys got up to at Castaway and um, did you like it and where'd you eat, but ah. 20:38.11 Cynethia That. 20:45.13 Cynethia Of course oh my. Um I Every good word is a word that I what used to describe as the way key. Um, we did Well of course we we So we snorrkled. 21:01.20 Sam Y. 21:04.13 Cynethia And we did a bike tour so it was like a like a 3 activity combo is what we got so we did that so we did the bike ride first and we rode you know the path and the route for the bikes. Um stopped along the along the way just to see a couple of. 21:10.45 Sam Yep. 21:22.78 Cynethia Interesting views and then we came back and grabbed some snorkel gear and we went out to snorkel. Um, my so I did not because I did not go out very far but my son went to the. 21:30.85 Sam Nice. Did you find Mickey. Yeah. 21:42.68 Cynethia End of wherever you could go. So um, but he was telling us all about everything that he saw So maybe he he maybe he saw it. Um. 21:43.85 Sam You. 21:49.69 Sam He probably did he probably did I will tell you I'm I'm a little I I like to snorkel. But I I'm a little nervous myself and so I I don't go out that far and that snorkeling lagoon either. So but I know that there's a mickey down there and there's some other you know, kind of fun stuff down there to. 22:07.30 Cynethia Yeah, that so that must have been what he but he was telling us oh he saw this. He saw this and I was like um he he came back and he was gone for gosh. Oh probably almost a couple hours. He came back and he's like is this as far as you've gone I was like yeah I'm comfortable. 22:08.41 Sam To see. 22:12.60 Sam I. 22:18.49 Sam Um, wow. 22:24.77 Sam Ah. 22:25.81 Cynethia But right here. So yeah I mean I can swim but for so I'm just not. You know I get a little uncomfortable in open water. Um, so I did not go all the way out there I went a quarter of the way. Maybe um, my husband went out a little bit farther. But. 22:38.73 Sam Yeah, yeah. 22:43.14 Cynethia You know, being a good husband. He didn't want to leave me so but my son he he got put his gear on he hit the water he was gone and we didn't see him for a couple hours later. So so he got the most out of it for sure. But we enjoyed I enjoyed. 22:44.34 Sam Ah, yeah. 22:54.13 Sam Nice. 23:02.42 Cynethia Being in the water snorkeling right? where I was so I got the most out of it for me as well. So um, just wonderful. Um excursion you know gets activities and we but we also sat and relaxed a little bit. 23:03.27 Sam He. 23:22.70 Cynethia Um, we enjoyed the buffet. Um, and. 23:25.94 Sam Nice. Did you stay you stay at the family beaches or did you head over to Serenity Bay at all. Yeah. 23:31.80 Cynethia Well I was thinking we would go over to Serenity Bay but they said because of the tide at the time that it just wouldn't be good to snorkel over there. So yes. 23:41.66 Sam Oh yeah, it's not really a snorening spot. Yeah I just meant it but did you did you guys check out hang out at the beach and by the family beaches or hang out at the or at serenity Ebay and where and where did you guys eat. Did you eat at cookies or cookies too or. 23:57.43 Cynethia We had cookies cookies because our um dining room attendant told us that he would be working at cookies and so we wanted to make sure we went there. Um. 24:00.73 Sam Nice, Yeah. Ah. 24:11.96 Cynethia So that's where we did and we stayed at the family beach because once we started snorkeling and we were there for a few hours and we were settled with our you know beach chair and everything we just. We stayed there and and like I said it. It's just wasn't It wasn't super crowded. It wasn't a lot of kids. Um I didn't feel like you know. 24:26.90 Sam Okay, okay. 24:31.67 Cynethia Didn't have my space when I was out in the water. So or my space you know there with um, sitting on the beach. So um, so. 24:39.70 Sam I think that's a great call as we as we've mentioned on the show before um, you know Serenity Bay the beach has been quite badly eroded and so it's it's really, ah, a much smaller and much sort of shallower beach front and so there's a lot more beach at. The family beaches then then there is serenity and and you know with the sort of passenger counts that they've been having. It's it's really not super crowded and really nice to be at those family beaches and like you said close to the snorkeling and and sort of the other excursion type stuff. So. 25:14.12 Cynethia Are. 25:17.96 Sam The only thing you miss is they got the the serenity Bay Barbecue has has stakeak in addition to the offerings. Yeah, so that's the only thing but I will say you're gonna get the better stake in some other places on board. So ah. 25:23.55 Cynethia Ah. 25:32.00 Cynethia I was gonna say they we had a lot enough. We had a lot of stake on board. So and and this this um Cruise was was sailing full. It was totally book. Yeah because we when we first got on. Um. 25:37.81 Sam And I. Ah, wow. 25:50.33 Cynethia I I had to go to guest services because I had all of these Disney gift cards. Um like my students knew I was going on a Disney Cruise so for the my you know they give gifts at the end of the school year and I got you know gift cards from my students at Disney Gift Cards so I um you know had to put those on our um. 25:52.61 Sam And he ah. 26:09.89 Cynethia Our account and they had a you know a sign right? there saying no upgrades we are We are sailing fully you know full. We're fully the ship was full so and even though it was I never felt. 26:16.25 Sam Um, where I have wow. 26:23.53 Cynethia Like it was crowded in any area except for you know on the first day with like I said which is typical for any cruise line but I never felt like you know this is Wow A lot of people or anything like that it it did not feel like a full ship. Um. 26:25.78 Sam E. 26:36.83 Sam M. 26:40.78 Cynethia But I didn't know that there were a lot of people because when we went to the shows and stuff the theater was full for sure but I never felt crowded. You know I felt like I had space everywhere that I went. 26:45.30 Sam Yeah, so. 26:52.72 Sam Perfect. So That's a perfect segue for me suniia to shows because as as our listeners know. Ah, that's my. Big obsession I Love going to see all of the shows I will skip other things I probably would skip dinner you but I hesitate to say that but I probably would if it was if it meant I you know if I couldn't see a show any other Way. So. Tell us What did you think about the shows. 27:23.27 Cynethia Oh my gosh they were wonderful. Ah you when the show ended you just had to applaud I mean um, the the None show um was the second night because they didn't do one. The first night was 27:30.10 Sam B b. 27:39.11 Sam E. 27:41.84 Cynethia Um, Aladdin um, which was great. We love that and they did frozen and then ah they had yes. 27:51.80 Sam Yep, they do the believe with the man and the flower and the daughter. Yes, okay yep, right. 28:00.94 Cynethia Yeah, that was the last night I believe and then they had the allusionist that I was talking about so he was he was really good. He was on. Um, we've got talent. You've got talent we've got talent America's got talent there you go. 28:07.89 Sam Right. 28:13.57 Sam Um, oh yeah, America's got talent. Yeah, that's yeah. 28:20.12 Cynethia Um, yeah, he was a contestant on America's Scott talent um and he was really really good. So we enjoyed that as well. Um, my son who would never admit that. He. Loved you know that he loved frozen loved frozen. Ah I think he enjoyed it more than I did but. 28:39.19 Sam I Love it. I Love it. Oh my goodness that that just tells you how good it is when a young adult male loves frozen. It's so good I Actually think that production of frozen is. As good if not better than the Broadway Production. So. 29:00.14 Cynethia Yeah, so he enjoyed it and and and of course my husband he enjoyed it all as well. So it like I think I've said you know several times is just everything was fantastic. It was all that my friends had pretty much you know what they had hyked it up to be. 29:19.31 Sam Nice, yeah. 29:19.98 Cynethia Um, so yeah, and that you know heavens you know we would We would grab some popcorn and go in and sit down and watch the show and enjoy enjoy it. It was It was very well. They were all very well done. 29:31.75 Sam Awesome Brian you want to lead into um food or main dining. Yeah I feel like we're ready for food unless do you but actually before we go there did did you guys do any spa stuff. 29:35.90 Cynethia Go quick. 29:37.87 dclduo Are you ready or ready for food. 29:45.58 dclduo Wait Sam asked. Ask ask that question again just about the spa. Okay, sorry. 29:45.99 Cynethia No. 29:49.50 Sam No, that's okay, she just said no so we're so we won't yeah yeah, so that's I was I was doing the pre-question to see whether or not should I should ask. Ah. 29:54.19 Cynethia It's 14 hours 29:55.85 dclduo Got it? Well I think we've got a follow up shows with everyone's favorite topic Disney Cruise line food and so I know you mentioned you went to you tried the buffet. You did not do adult dining you you give us heads up on that but you did do the main rotational dining and of course there's always cookies on on cast wiki. So. Why don't we start with the quick service dining up on the pool deck. Did you get a chance to try any of the quick service dining up there and what do you think. 30:21.93 Cynethia Yes, we did um all the food that I had was good and I will admit as an adult those chicken tenders were the best. Um. 30:31.15 dclduo Ah, well spoiler spoiler alert for any of you going out there on the wish according to Scott Lang The Ant man they are life changing. So ah. 30:34.79 Sam I. 30:42.12 Sam Life changing. 30:45.41 Cynethia I think I just grabed some the first day when we were up back cabannnas on the None day and you know you just kind of you cease the foodest you see so much and you're like let's let me get some of this some of this some of this and oh my gosh that those. 30:55.71 Sam Yeah, yeah, yeah. 31:03.57 Cynethia Those chicken tenders weren't delicious. The best I've ever had and my son who is a chicken tender connoissur said that they were the best that he ever had So you could not go wrong with the chicken tenders for sure. Um, but all the food was. 31:17.22 Sam Ah. 31:22.89 Cynethia Was great. Um, a couple times for ah breakfast I Think the first morning that we had breakfast they had biscuits on the buffet. 31:33.23 Sam He. 31:35.34 Cynethia And so I'm a southern girl I'm originally from South Carolina I love some biscuits some grits you know things like that with gravy and the next day I didn't see the biscuits and I asked I was like is there biscuits and I was like no and um, the next day I didn't see any and I asked. 31:39.67 Sam E. 31:51.98 Sam Ah. 31:54.93 Cynethia And they was like you want biscuits and I was like I really will love some biscuits seems like tomorrow. We'll have them for you and I was like okay um, and yes, the next next day they had the biscuits there for me, they were to had a special plate before me I went up. 32:02.33 Sam Laz. Okay. 32:08.35 Sam Nice. 32:13.97 Cynethia Said just give your name. Um, and who my um, my server was and all of that good stuff and yeah, so they had some specially made biscuits for me. Um the next day. Um. 32:28.35 Sam I love when they do that stuff. You do have to ask for it sometimes and you know like you did when you ask if they have it and you ask a couple times then they're going to try and make it happen a friend of ours on that was traveling on the wish with us did that with. Mickey Churo waffles because we hadn't seen them at Kabanas or at I guess it's Marceline market on that ship but we hadn't seen them at the buffet and he asked and they had him ready for him the next day they even gave him I think None waffle so a little was a little overboard on how many. But. You know asking you shall receive. It's not um, you can't always get it the same day. So if you you know they don't have it there and ready for you ahead of time you know it may not be available. Um, but it's kind of like with people with allergy issues. You've got to. You ask and they will try their best to make it happen. So. 33:19.42 Cynethia Yeah, they did and and I will I will say that they gave me more biscuits than I was going to eat at you know for breakfast. So um, but I shared them with my husband. So um, and it was so breakfast was great. Um, the None thing that I really really loved about. Um, breakfast because is just being a cruise thing I always get an omelet probably because I don't I don't know how to make them myself very I don't know to make them very well I'll say that myself so when I'm on a cruise I always get an omelet and I'd love the way that they do it. You know other cruises cruise lines. 33:43.10 Sam He. But any. 33:56.63 Cynethia You're standing in this forever long line waiting to put in your order of word for um that but I love that they just take your order and you tell them where you're sitting and they bring it out to you I Just I I Just love that I didn't have to wait. Um, so yes. 34:05.59 Sam Yes, and you can go get other stuff. You can go get your coffee. You can get your you know if you want some hash browns or whatever else you're going to get because obviously you're not just eating the omelet. It's really nice to be able to go and get the rest of your breakfast while they're. 34:15.12 Cynethia You know pass around. 34:22.79 Cynethia Yeah, so I I like that they did it that way. Um, but there were some favorites on my like the omelettes were really good and they had these um I think they were like a sausage and egg biscuit. 34:24.59 Sam Cooking it and. 34:40.73 Sam M. 34:42.47 Cynethia Or something like that that was delicious. That was one of my another one of my favorites outside of the chicken tenders. Um, but plenty of variety fruits. Ah you know for breakfast. Um, if you wanted to just eat Fruits. You wanted to go to healthy route which on a cruise I I Never do so. I mean I do eat fruit but I don't go strictly healthy? Um, Ah so there was nothing um that I couldn't get for breakfast that I wanted except for the biscuits but I did get those um but they had you know your main things every day your sausage your bacon ah eggs. 35:03.29 Sam Right. 35:22.24 Cynethia Omelets all of those things. So breakfast was was well taken care of well done. Um for launch Sometimes we would go into cabanas then sometimes we would just do the um, the short order um order foods. Ah, just depending on what we felt like but very good offerings. Um for the buffet at launch as well. So It was all the food I I felt like was really delicious. There was nothing that I was like oh my gosh I don't I don't like this so I did. 35:56.13 Sam Well I'm I'm guessing you didn't try the scrambled eggs then. 36:01.90 Cynethia Um I think no wait a minute. Yes I did I think one morning I decide not to get an omelet I got scrambled eggs to go with I got grits that morning so I had my scrambled eggs with my grits. So yes. 36:06.37 Sam Yeah, that was well well. 36:13.97 Sam Oh oh, you had them and you didn't hate them. That's great. But I don't like the scramble I don't like the scrambled eggs. Yeah, and I I will. 36:20.81 Cynethia No, no the scra the scrambled eggs if you don't like the scrambled eggs I don't scra I don't care I. 36:32.26 Sam Get the omelets or a fried egg or something like that. But they're scramb and I do like scrambled eggs at home I Just don't ah universally do not like their scrambled eggs. So all right good I'm glad to hear so we got to talk about mean. 36:40.53 Cynethia No their scrambled eggs were they were nice and fluffy. They were good. Um, so. 36:51.54 Sam Anding though, right? We've got to talk about you got 3 rotational dining restaurants and we got to hear about how your experience was in those. 37:00.67 Cynethia Um, so our rotation we started with um. 37:11.12 Cynethia Royal um, what is it called royal royal rob world royal court. Okay, so our None rotation was um the royal court and um, that was great. 37:15.69 dclduo Um, Royal Palace or Royal court depending on the ship. 37:17.63 Sam I can never remember which one. Yeah. 37:30.51 Cynethia Every I guess the word that I can use to sum up their food in main dining is gourmet that would be the word that I would use. Everything was just a lot of them. My son would have to ask how do you pronounce this because this is what I want to Order. So. Um, but all the food was wonderful. Everything that I tasted was great I like um that I had the opportunity to maybe try some things that I would not typically try because I don't go eat at high end restaurants that often. Um, so but everything was really good. The desserts. You know the main course desserts on appetizers. Um we enjoyed all of it We. We actually looked forward to what kind of. You know what were they going? What were they going to serve with the bread at the beginning of her dinner because they always bring out a different um sauce or dip or something with the bread so we were like oh what is it going to be tonight. So Um, and we like that we could look ahead of time to see. 38:34.67 Sam Oh yeah, the dips. 38:47.60 Cynethia You know through the app ahead of time see what they're serving so we could kind of get our palette ready for that particular dish. Um, but I only have just you know wonderful things to say about the dining and even better things to say about our 2 servers servers. Um. 38:51.10 Sam Me. 39:03.72 Sam Oh nice. 39:07.21 Cynethia They were wonderful. Um, after the first night they knew what we wanted. They knew every night I wanted a hot tea. Um, they knew my husband wanted a vitamin water and my son wouldn't lemonade so that would it would be there ready for us. Um, and they pretty much knew what dessert we were going to order when we got to dessert to the dessert menu. He's like you're getting this I was like yeah you look at my son. It's like you're getting this. 39:31.56 Sam Oh wow. 39:38.67 Sam Ah, nice. 39:43.59 Cynethia And look my husband you know so but they were great. Um, great servant assistant servers. So um I enjoyed you know talking with them as much or even more as I did with um the dinner. Ah, second nigh second was enchanted garden um, and we just went there in 8 nothing really spectacular happened and enchanted garden I was I don't know why I was expecting something maybe to happen but nothing really happened. Um. And food. Nice atmosphere though. I like the way it looked. It was very open and yeah, um, and then our third night we were at animator's palate and that was an awesome experience. 40:24.41 Sam Um, yeah, it's pretty. 40:36.42 Sam Yes, yes. 40:40.33 Cynethia Um, I will say I enjoy the second night at Animator's palette a little bit better. Um, where we had to do you know we did the the drawing and they used it in an animation so that was really that was really fun. Um, because we. 40:45.13 Sam Um. Oh yes. 40:55.74 Sam Um, did you did you have the crush. Um the crush show on the first night that you were at Animator's palette then yeah, yeah, yeah. 41:00.31 Cynethia You know? Yes, yes we did. Yeah we did I mean that that was fun but I for some reason I like the None time around a little bit better. Um, because we got there and you know not I knew about. 41:07.85 Sam Um, yeah, yeah. 41:15.19 Cynethia Crush in him being able to speak with you and all of that and it was a young lady sitting at the table next to us. Um that he you know interacted with so we did kind of get to see that right because the screen was right there in front of us. So um. 41:27.38 Sam Um. 41:30.85 Cynethia But it was a young girl at the table next to us so he interacted with her. Um, at that first time first night we ate at Animator's palette and the second night you know we got there now I did not know about you know the second night so we get there the None time at animators palette. Um. 41:43.47 Sam Ah. 41:49.42 Cynethia I wasn't familiar didn't know what was going to happen so we had ask. Our server is like there's going to be something different. Um because we knew that we were going there twice and he was like oh it'll be a surprise. It'll be a surprise So when we got there and we saw like this piece of paper on the table like you're at um. 41:54.66 Sam Me yep. 42:08.69 Cynethia You know International house of pancakes for like a kid to draw the drawing so it was like okay they're gonna do something with this. So we you know we followed along and the guy took them. Yeah, yeah, so and my son was like. 42:10.11 Sam Um, oh yeah, that's like like Ihop or Red Robin or you know, ah. 42:10.99 dclduo Um. 42:28.72 Cynethia They're gonna do something I know they're got to do something and I was like I I don't know I don't know and then you know the lights got a little dim and we saw the screens come up and we was like oh this is what it is but it was really really cool. So um, it was that was that was that was a nice surprise. Um, but. 42:29.84 Sam E. 42:41.30 Sam Yeah, yeah. 42:46.80 Cynethia Like I said all the food like the word I would use is gourmet. Um, everything was really good. Um, the the quality of the food I you know like I said I don't eat at high end restaurants. Um very often. But I mean the food. 42:58.10 Sam E. 43:03.81 Cynethia But the quality definitely better than um, any restaurants that I when I do are as good as any high end restaurants when I do go eat at a high end restaurant. So um. 43:15.57 Sam Nice. 43:16.81 dclduo How did it compare to the other cruise lines you've been on. 43:20.42 Cynethia Better. Ah, much much better just because I felt like it was the highest end of food. Um other cruise lines. Food's very good as well. But this to me was just a little bit of cut above. 43:23.16 Sam Yeah, yeah. 43:23.36 dclduo Interesting. 43:38.62 Sam And he. 43:40.50 Cynethia I I could compare I probably would say celebrity in Disney's food probably wouldn were very similar because celebrities offerings I felt like were you know a cut above there more gourmet um type offerings. 43:48.21 dclduo Um. 43:48.49 Sam Yeah, yeah. 43:57.62 dclduo So yeah. 43:59.17 Cynethia Um, so I but I would compare it to that? yeah. 43:59.41 Sam totally totally agree yeah I totally agree with you I think so you know it's been years now since we've been on celebrity but when we did go on their food quality was quite good I would say. Disney beats it because of the entertainment factor and the service factor but the but the food quality was probably pretty equal. Um, yeah, yeah, well. 44:15.62 Cynethia Exactly. 44:22.30 Cynethia yeah yeah yeah I know ah somewhere probably toward the middle of the the cruise my husband and I in celebrity was is also as his favorite cruise line and so worked toward the middle of cruise. Um, my husband said to me, he's like how I'm I'm not sure. Which cruise line I like best I don't know if it's celebrity or Disney these these like I'm just really enjoying this cruise and um, you know toward the end of the cruise I said to him I said celebrity is awesome cruise line I love them. But I said when you add. 44:44.84 Sam Mm. 44:48.11 dclduo In. 44:48.11 Sam E. 44:58.52 Sam Me. 45:01.43 Cynethia All the extra stuff. You know the entertainment the the um activities and all of that I say that that probably puts Disney a little bit above celebrity. so um so yeah we we both were very pleased and. 45:02.85 Sam Yeah, yeah. 45:12.31 Sam 6 e. 45:20.58 Cynethia Um, agreed with our friends and what they had told us about Disney Cruise 45:25.98 Sam Awesome. 45:26.91 dclduo Nice well Sun Ethea I think we have reached that point in the show where I need to hand you over to Sam who's already been talking to you quite a bit but I'm going to hand you over to Sam for the next segment of our show which we like to call rapid fire. So Sam you want take it away. 45:35.33 Sam Um, yeah. 45:41.42 Sam Yeah, okay I know you listen to our shows in etheia so you know what's coming I am going to ask you your general Disney favorites and then Disney Cruise line favorites. But we're going to focus on the disney fantasy because this is this was your first Disney Cruise so let's start with. 45:41.75 Cynethia Okay, um. 45:59.63 Sam Who is your favorite Disney or Pixar character. Oh I love it. Nathan loves pluto also so you are in good company all right? What is your favorite Disney or Pixar movie. 46:03.89 Cynethia Pluto. 46:14.17 Cynethia Um, up. 46:17.70 Sam Oh I love that that one makes me cry though. So I don't know if I can pick it as my favorite just because it always makes me cry favorite Disney song. 46:28.59 Cynethia Bare necessities. 46:31.42 Sam Ooh that's a good 1 favorite Disney Cruise line stage show from the ones that you saw. 46:41.21 Cynethia Aladdin Nope aladdin. 46:41.59 Sam Really Wow Okay I thought you were going to say frozen I was convinced. You were going to say frozen. Ok well, you know? Well we'll have to agree to disagree. But that's ok, ah, all right? which one was your favorite rotational. Dining and you can kind of decide what criteria you want to you know base this on. 47:04.30 Cynethia Ah, animator's palette. Yeah. 47:07.11 Sam Yeah, it's that entertainment. It's that Wow factor right? All right? What What was your favorite onboard activity. 47:20.25 Cynethia Sleeping I know that I know this. 47:20.40 Sam Ah, there you go Those beds are super comfortable. Listen those beds are those we know people who search for those mattresses after they get off of a cruise because those are you know those are some great mattresses and then the rocking of the ship. Some people really love that for falling asleep. Yeah, hey that's okay, you can pick that. There's no shame all right? What is your favorite bar space on the ship. 47:45.28 Cynethia We didn't do not drinkers so we didn't do bars. 47:49.39 Sam Yeah, all right? That's okay I What was your favorite space on I'm going to broaden that What was your favorite space on the on the ship just to kind of relax in. 48:00.43 Cynethia My balcony. 48:03.33 Sam Yeah, oh love that? Yeah, that's good see if you got one of those and you use it. It's well worth it all right? What was your favorite food item. Let's go see. Let's go savory food item and then I'll ask you what your favorite dessert was. 48:08.96 Cynethia Ah. 48:18.94 Cynethia Um, oh um, I'm going to say outs. Okay out I'm going to give like a fast type food which which definites to chicken tenders dining room food would be the rack a lamb. 48:21.74 Sam It could be in any of the any location. 48:31.18 Sam Um, yeah, oh yeah, that's a good 1 nice all right? What was your favorite dessert item I know there's a lot of good ones. 48:38.15 Cynethia Yeah, favorite dessert. Oh boy, um, it was It was something that I wasn't even going to get and our service. It. You want to try this I'm going to get it for you anyway and it was really good. Remember what it was now it was a um, it was a it was a pie. It was a no it was. It was a pie type food. 48:59.69 Sam Ah. 49:07.79 Sam Was it the warm sticky date pudding. Oh no was a pie. Okay. 49:16.36 Cynethia And I I can't remember what it was called Um, but I it was not so I'm trying to think of the flavor and I can't even think of a flavor. Um I I. 49:17.16 Sam Um, tell us what what flavors. 49:28.10 Sam Ah, all right? The the ice box pie. That's what I was thinking maybe the icebox pie I know Brian loves that oh that maybe it was a key one was it. 49:29.11 dclduo They have the pecan they have a con tart and they have the lemon Icebox pa. 49:37.38 Cynethia It it wasn't either 1 of those it was green I remember being a light clip green and it wasn't no because I don't like Keyline but that wasn't it. Um I can't remember oh my gosh I can't remember I but he yeah he brought it out. 49:44.19 dclduo Oh. 49:46.89 Sam Key lime. Oh okay, all right? That's okay. 49:56.15 Cynethia Ordered something else and it's like I'm going to bring this to because I think you're going to like and he was right I was like oh my gosh This was this was delicious and I don't remember what it was I'm sorry um. 49:56.92 Sam He. 50:09.30 Sam That's okay, that just shows you though, sometimes the wait staff just know what's really good on board and sometimes their recommendations are better than your menu picking and I don't mean you sunniia I Just mean in general right? like there have been times where I've. 50:12.81 Cynethia The path. 50:20.11 Cynethia Um, yeah. 50:24.90 Sam Wanted to order something and then I've gotten steered away from it or the waiter will say okay I'm going to bring you that but I'm also going to bring you this other thing and 90% of the time they are right on with those picks because they they know what's what's coming out of the kitchen fresh and and perfectly cooked in all of that all right? So my last. 50:32.74 Cynethia Open. 50:43.99 Sam Question for you for rapid fire is a bucket list. Cruise I know you've been to the caribbean a whole bunch on on other cruise lines and now on Disney Cruise line but if you could go anywhere in the world on Disney Cruise line doesn't even have to be some place that Disney Cruise line currently sails. Where would you go who? Yeah That's a really good one. Definitely a popular answer all right? Well congratulations you have 1 rapid fire syn eia woho 51:04.16 Cynethia Mediterranean. 51:18.20 dclduo Well I actually have 1 more question for you sonythia which is are you planning to take another Disney Cruise anytime soon or ah, do you have any other cruises planned. Yeah we will you go back on Disney. 51:22.13 Sam I I knew he was going to ask this. 51:30.80 Cynethia Wow Um I have been thinking about that and if if I wasn't so if I didn't have a concern financially? Yes, but if I wanted to kind of pinch my pennies. 51:45.84 dclduo Moving. 51:49.69 Cynethia Probably would do maybe 2 other cruises in the place of 1 Disney Cros um Um, but I would say if cost wasn't a concern. Absolutely um, we were able to do this cruise because you know we. 51:51.33 dclduo Um, Miss That's right? yes. 52:05.88 Cynethia Haven't vacation in the last two years because of the pandemic and we were like okay we are gone on a vacation this year we're gonna really do it up so when my son said he wanted to do a cruise I was like yeah this is you know we're gonna do a cruise and enjoy it. You know, um, just kind of. Put it all out there. So I will so I will definitely say I would like to do another Disney Cruise um in the near future. Um, so it's it's up in the air I would love to definitely. 52:25.10 Sam Um, yeah I. 52:36.39 Sam Um, yeah. 52:42.70 Sam Yeah, we totally understand Disney is definitely a premium cruise line at a premium cost and so if the choice is ah you know multiple other cruises versus 1 Disney Cruise I can understand. 52:42.64 dclduo Nice. 52:57.95 Sam Ah, that calculus does not always work out in Disney's favor 53:00.90 Cynethia But I will say I um enjoyed every moment of the cruise and glad I spent every penny on it that I did. 53:15.74 dclduo Up I think you cut out on me for a None There seem to oh yeah. 53:18.59 Cynethia Oh okay, um I said I enjoyed every moment of the cruise and was glad to spend every penny on it that I did for sure. 53:18.68 Sam Yeah I couldn't hear that answer either I. 53:30.71 dclduo Well, that's what's important. That's what's important if you found value out of the vacation you had then that's the best you can hope for I think so that's fantastic to hear and um, ah, but but but I was just making sure snee that you don't have any. You have a blog or anything that you want to plug here at the end. Do you? Okay, That's fine, totally fine I Just always say my outro is different for people who want to yeah who want to who who want to plug something. So yeah, no worries if you don't all right? Um, No no worries. 53:51.34 Cynethia No. 53:53.15 Sam Um, okay, we just want to. We're just always going to give people. 53:59.27 Cynethia No have nothing to plug. 54:02.62 Sam You. 54:05.48 dclduo Well snyi I just want to say thank you for taking time out of your day to share your family's experience support the fabulous Disney Fantasy one of our favorite chips in the fleet and just really appreciate you coming on taking the time all right? Let me hit. 54:13.61 Cynethia Um, you're quite welcome.