00:01.12 dclduo Welcome back everybody to this week's episode of the DCL duo podcast brought to you by my path unwinding travel and I have to start where I always do by welcoming my fabulous co-host to the show Samantha welcome Sam. 00:13.78 Sam Why thank you Brian you know I I need some more snacks in my green room here because I'm quite hungry and I think it's truly because it's clue getting close to dinner time but I should have brought more snacks with me I think today. 00:27.73 dclduo Well I'm glad you're taking personal responsibility and not laming blame on the show for the lack of snack items in your green room today. Well. 00:33.36 Sam Ah, it's really the producers fault. Um, the show editor the showrunner the show producer. Oh wait. That's all you Brian. 00:40.31 dclduo I thought that was all you Sam I'm just like I'm the I'm the executive producer I you know I make I make the big decisions around here. We tell you that so well we have another fabulous guest with us today to talk to us all about. 00:45.50 Sam Oh that's right. 00:56.10 dclduo Cruising with little ones on Disney Cruise line so the show is going to be topical focused on cruising with young folks on board but let me start by welcoming Chelsea to our show. Welcome Chelsea. 01:05.40 Chelsea Rousso Hi Thanks for having me. 01:06.96 Sam Now Thanks for being here and joining us. 01:09.81 dclduo Yeah, ah excited about this topic topical shows are always kind of fun because we can get a lot of information out to listeners who are looking for it. So really excited to have you on to do this topic but before we dive into the topic Chelsea we always like to start by getting folks's cruising background disney cruising background. What is your background with cruising and Disney Cruise on in particular. 01:31.60 Chelsea Rousso So I am a travel agent and I do specialize in Disney and all things Disney cruising the parks all of that. Um I'm an avid disney goer I go to Disney World several times a year ah 01:41.59 Sam Yay. 01:50.46 Chelsea Rousso Disneyland every few years and cruising every few years as well. Just started getting into the Disney cruises now that I've got my young kids. Um, and we've been yeah going on a bunch of cruises and going to the parks and getting them. 01:51.64 Sam You know. 02:09.91 Chelsea Rousso Addicted to Disney exactly. 02:11.31 Sam That's right, that's so you got to indoctrinate them early start young I say how many Disney cruises have you been on. 02:16.90 Chelsea Rousso With the kids only to pre kids We had only done my husband had done one and we had done several Royal Caribbean cruises prior to having kids. 02:20.50 Sam And pre-kids. 02:31.55 Sam Ah, yeah, so what was a new adventure for you guys that makes it ah well I don't know if that's better easier or harder I think it's it's hard when it's new. But I also think if you've gotten used to cruising adults only and then you. 02:36.60 Chelsea Rousso Yes, yes, the. 02:51.35 Sam Cruise with your kids. It can be a bit of a shell shock because it's a big difference in you. You know what? you? what your activities are on board and sort of how the how your day goes. 03:01.30 Chelsea Rousso Right? traveling with young kids definitely will throw you to the wolves. 03:08.11 dclduo Um, well hold until she hast inside I missed it How old were your kids did you say did you say did she did Sam did she have that it. 03:10.62 Sam It's a good way to put it. Ah. 03:18.34 Chelsea Rousso My kids are 3 and 1 03:18.49 Sam No you you didn't see you know she you did not say it earlier So why don't you ask it? Yeah, why do you ask? the question. Yeah. 03:25.49 dclduo Okay, so let me let me now let me so let? yeah yeah in Chelsea how old are the kids you're traveling with 3 and 1 all right? So yeah, just this yes well I want to start by talking like let's back up all the way to the like. 03:28.94 Chelsea Rousso My kids are 3 and 1 super young. Yes. 03:31.34 Sam Well, that's super young this is. We're talking nursery age. Yeah. 03:45.21 dclduo Deciding to go on a cruise stage of this as we talk about sailing with young kids because it's not uncommon people ask like what age should I sail my people often ask like ah so it's not incommon because people ask a lot what age is the right age to take my kids on disney. Cruise and I think that that's different for everyone. But how do you feel about that question Chelsea with a one year old and a 3 year old like yeah deciding take them on a cruise feels like a feels like a particular decision. You have to make. 04:07.76 Chelsea Rousso So i. Right? So from Disney's perspective for a cruise your child needs to be at least six months old unless you're doing a Transatlantic or a Panama canal or Hawaiian Cruise then they have to be twelve months um 04:22.64 Sam Um. 04:28.59 Sam Oh I didn't realize that yeah they had to be older for those. Wow. 04:31.85 Chelsea Rousso Yes, they do um so for your regular cruising Caribbean Bahamas things like that they can be six months um so my youngest was seven months on his first cruise 04:46.19 Sam Oh my goodness you're can I tell you you a crazy. Wow. 04:50.20 Chelsea Rousso Um, and I loved it like he was great. He had the best time and he just he's an easy baby. So I think that definitely helps. Um, but he. 05:03.43 Sam Um, that's amazing. 05:09.60 Chelsea Rousso Yeah, he loved it. He had a great time. He was standing up and trying to cruise around on the cruise ship and dance and all the music and sleeping during the fireworks. It was great. 05:21.45 Sam Oh my goodness. How how does None select and what itinerary obviously at that point you're you've got you know when they're that little you know you can't do the. Transatlantic or the hawaiian but how did you choose what kind of itinerary or or I guess how would you advise even a client to you know on choosing an itinerary when you're talking about you know toddler and infant age kids. 05:46.38 Chelsea Rousso Um, I would think that it is mostly based on how well your children is going to adapt to a new environment. Um for us. We found like by the time. We got to the the third night they had very well adjusted to being on the cruise and we weren't having the sleepless nights. Ah they weren't confused when they woke up they knew where they were. 06:17.57 Sam And. 06:19.55 Chelsea Rousso Um, so I feel like a 4 to five night cruise is kind of that sweet spot with the young kids where they might not travel quite as well as an older child. Um, so I do tend to advise that for. 06:29.95 Sam Um, yeah. 06:36.56 Chelsea Rousso Clients as well with young kids that that 4 to five night tends to be the sweet spot for traveling with young kids older kids I you can go longer or shorter because I feel like they just adjust a little bit better. 06:46.90 Sam I mean yeah, that's ah, a really good point. Um that three night might be kind of ah just a little bit too short for them to even get used to where you are and it may be too stressful with you know, packing and. For for only a three night but yeah that makes sense that None nights away from home is quite a bit for someone that young plus all the stuff that you've got to schlep with you. 07:14.12 Chelsea Rousso Right? It's a lot of stuff. 07:16.82 dclduo Well yeah, let's talk about that for a None so you mentioned should be step hack but before you to the stuff because I want to talk about how you pack for traveling with young kids as I remember packing was not fun, but we talked about the length of itineraries. What about you know, taking young kids to europe. 07:26.11 Sam Um. 07:36.15 dclduo Would that would that be something you'd recommend or would you say once you do some caribbean cruising with the younger kids None 07:40.83 Chelsea Rousso I Mean the cruising is probably easier but just because it's a little bit closer to home. It's not quite as long of a plane ride for me. The airport is the most stressful part of traveling with young kids. Ah. 07:44.27 Sam Um, my name. 07:54.71 Sam Um, evening. 07:59.79 Chelsea Rousso I Don't find the actual trip itself to be that stressful. Um, but hey if you've got easy kids and they are used to being on a plane and they do really well do it do Europe They're great. 08:13.10 Sam Cool. Yeah I think the I think I would have probably murdered somebody probably would have ended up being Brian um, if we had tried to fly Nathan to Europe when he was that little but he was kind of difficult to get. To bed so he was not one of those kids who would just you know sleep anywhere so that that wouldn't have been in the cards but we didn't start cruising with him until he was what 4 or None Brian. 08:42.83 dclduo I think 4 was his None cruise and then we took him again when he was 5 but. 08:46.75 Sam Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, so okay, so so I guess it really depends on how good a flyer your kid is um, it sounds like that's probably the best advice if they're ah if they're not a great flyer stay close to home if they're a great flyer. 08:57.61 dclduo Yeah. 09:03.57 Chelsea Rousso A hundred percent 09:04.29 Sam Go wherever yeah. 09:04.94 dclduo But but let's talk about packing all right because there's at 1 in 3 You've got you've got strollers pack and plays potentially diapers formula potentially you know pumping equipment like so my lot my gosh like packing. 09:16.57 Sam Diapers. 09:24.61 dclduo How do you talk people through or how do you think about packing for these long trips. 09:26.98 Chelsea Rousso So my best advice for people that are going with children that are in diapers and I have 2 that are in diapers. My oldest is is just just starting to get out of diapers. Um, we instacarted diapers to our hotel. 09:33.91 Sam Um, yeah, starting. Yeah. 09:44.53 Sam Oh smart. 09:46.90 Chelsea Rousso Night before so we did not have to bring them on the ship with or on the plane with us we brought just enough to get us through the airport if we had any blowouts or anything crazy happen because it. 10:00.52 Sam Nice Oh my God yep. 10:01.43 Chelsea Rousso Inevitably does with young kids when you're if you're not planning for it. It's going to happen. Um, so then we instacarted diapers and wipes and swim diapers and sunscreen and some of those you know things that we would need on the boat but weren't going to need. 10:16.74 Sam Again. 10:20.61 Chelsea Rousso On the airplane ah to our hotel the night before which was great. Um. 10:21.50 Sam Yeah, yeah, that's a great idea I don't know that I would have thought of that but I do remember None time having to buy um diapers in an airport because I had not packed. Enough or you know or had not anticipated how many dumps kiddo would have taken. Ah. 10:43.69 dclduo Um, ah how many movements how many movements your son would have yes. 10:46.57 Chelsea Rousso And it's hard to know sometimes if they eat something funny. They're going to have two more than you anticipate. 10:50.63 Sam I preferformed right? to write is like all that butter and garlic. 10:57.55 dclduo I mean when you give him the s car go in royal court. What do you expect god all right? That's getting a little too graphic on our end of things. What about what about strollers though. Chelsea did you I mean I remember when our son was tiny. You had like the. 11:00.37 Chelsea Rousso Right? right. 11:15.73 Sam The big stroller we had we? Well we did have ah we did have one of those click and goes. But we also had our city mini which was like the regular stroller the one that you would use at like the mall. We also had like a running stroll I mean we had like I think we had like 4 different strollers at one point. 11:17.20 dclduo What we call that what was it the clicking the clicking go or the yeah. 11:35.29 Sam But yeah, what kind of I mean you've got 2 So are you bringing 2 strollers are are you bringing a double stroller. What what are you bringing with you for this. 11:41.10 Chelsea Rousso So we actually only brought one stroller. Um I also brought a baby carrier for the airport. Um, which my toddler was very jealous of and so half the time he ended up wearing the toddler and pushing the baby in the stroller. 11:48.70 Sam Easy. 11:48.76 dclduo Are. 11:56.71 Sam Um, course. 12:01.60 Chelsea Rousso Um, because the the toddler was very upset that his brother was in the baby carrier. It was special to him so it it ended up going the reverse of how I thought it was going to go but we actually only brought the 1 stroller because my toddler was pretty excited to be on the boat. He was old enough he could. 12:05.73 Sam Ah. 12:12.10 Sam Oh. Um, yeah. 12:19.80 Chelsea Rousso Walk and so when we were walking around on the ship he would walk and hold my hand and I would push the baby around in the Umbrella stroller something that was easy lightweight easy to fold get on and off the ship. Um, it fit. 12:27.61 Sam E. 12:38.19 Chelsea Rousso Nicely either in the closet or under the ah beds so it wasn't a hassle to bring it with us. 12:45.54 Sam Now I I take it you didn't do a parks trip partnered with this cruise. 12:53.83 Chelsea Rousso We did not because we were sailing out of Miami um, we do actually have 1 planned coming up where we are going to tack on a park portion to our crews. 12:57.40 Sam Ah, okay. 13:06.63 Sam And what are you and what are you going to do for stroller in that Situation. So The reason I ask and and this might be obvious to you because you have young kids but I Remember. The Umbrella stroller is not being the greatest for any kind of long walkinging it was. It's fine If you've got even surfaces. It's probably really easy to use on the ship because everything's pretty. You know, even and um, you have a combination of carpeted and not carpeted but you don't really need a hefty stroller. But when you're doing like a. Long days at the parks I feel like that Umbrella Stroller is just going to not really suffice. So What's what what do you end up doing there or what are you planning on doing there. 13:46.31 Chelsea Rousso We will probably um, rent a stroller from ah from a None party company for the parks and then just have our umbrella stroller with us in the room to use on the ship. 13:54.27 Sam I. 14:03.17 Sam It is. 14:05.44 Chelsea Rousso And then just not bring the rented stroller with us onto the cruise ship. Ah because you're right? You do need a little bit more of a heftier stroller for the parks I've used my Umbrella stroller in the parks before and I do like it. Um, just because it's. 14:07.82 Sam Yeah, that's that's a good strategy. 14:25.52 Chelsea Rousso Stroller that I have is has a very good recline. It's got a very good sunshade. So I do like it for their naps but you go over those bumpy surfaces in any of the more themed areas of the parks where the ah cement is texturized and your kids bouncing all over the place. 14:41.52 Sam Oh yeah and trying trying to get over where the like the trolley on Main Street or any of those tracks I mean it's hard enough with a hefty stroller. But with the Umbrella stroller. It's like impossible I mean I I just remember yeah yeah and and we. 14:53.79 Chelsea Rousso Yeah, there's there's no recoil. 15:00.38 Sam Did do an umbrella stroller when when Nathan got a little bit bigger I think one time we did an umbrella stroller at the park and then never again, we always pretty much rented strollers at the parks. But I think that's a great idea to do you know, bring your umbrella stroller. Rents the stroller. The the hefty stroller at the parks. It's a ah good compromise because he I mean who wants to lug that big stroller through the airport and on the cruise ship and all of that. 15:22.17 Chelsea Rousso Right? And you really do need something especially if you have 2 children you really do need a stroller for getting through the airport if you've got 2 young ones that just are not capable of handling that long of a walk. 15:38.68 Sam E. 15:40.69 Chelsea Rousso Through the security through the airport terminals to get to your gate. Um, you really do need something to put them in. 15:48.20 Sam Oh yeah, I mean even in a smaller airport I feel like that's the case but especially if you're coming from like a jfk or a Chicago o'hare or something like any of the bigger airports are I would think it's it's a must and even smaller airports I would think it's pretty. Pretty vital. 16:10.53 dclduo I'd like to know where you so I'd like to ah so I'd be curious where do you put the stroller in your state room when you're on board. 16:15.72 Chelsea Rousso So the umbrella stroller is super easy to stash in the stateroom. You know the beds are high because they expect that guests are going to be putting their suitcases under the bed so you can fit your stroller under there as well. Also the closet space on the Disney ships is large enough that you could slip it in there as well. I mean the umbrella strollers fold down pretty pretty slim. 16:47.50 Sam Yeah, now is there a particular stateroom that you think works Better. You know I presume you don't have to bring your own pack and play in that the the ship will provide some kind of crib pack and play type apparatus Um, which I'd love to know. But. Is there a particular state room that you think kind of works better when you've got young kids or kids this young in particular. 17:13.46 Chelsea Rousso So we stayed in a veranda room which is usually what we choose to stay in because we like having I like knowing what time of day it is so the inside state rooms don't really work super well for me. Um. But with the veranda rooms. We had a little bit more space. We were able to open up the door my three year old was able to see castaway keys we were you know docking and everything which he loved. Um, he did think we were going to Disney World on the Disney ship. 17:42.18 Sam Oh. 17:48.81 Chelsea Rousso Which we had to explain to him was not the case. Um, but so he was a little surprised to see Sand by ah the the veranda room worked very well for us and um, we did have a pack and play. 17:49.93 Sam This yeah. 18:03.38 Sam And. 18:05.27 Chelsea Rousso In the room which they brought for us and we had the fold out couch which folds into a single bed and they put a bedrail there for my three year old so we they do so. 18:14.25 Sam Oh they have bedrails. Oh I didn't I didn't know that that's that. 18:18.10 dclduo You know if we other other guests have mentioned that in the show before Sam There's an age limit below which they are above which they tend not to provide them unless you really ask for them. 18:25.13 Sam Oh interesting I don't I did not remember that. Yeah. 18:26.76 Chelsea Rousso So They have they have bed rails and pack and plays which they will provide to you. They also have ah diaper genies which they will provide for you and they do also have bottle warmers sterilizers. Um, and I. Think that's about it for the um and high chairs. Obviously for the dining room high chairs booster seats and they will puree food for your baby as well. 18:55.99 Sam Yeah I was going actually I was going to ask you about food. Do they I presume they will let you bring on jarred food if you if your baby's eating jarred food. Um, and I but I don't know that to be true. 19:07.63 Chelsea Rousso Ah, they will let you bring it on so long as it is still sealed. Um, it can can be opened and without the label It has to be labeled in its original container sealed. Um if you do purees at home. 19:12.55 Sam Okay. 19:26.80 Chelsea Rousso They will purite food for you. You can ah request it either to be brought through room service or for any of the dining that you do correct correct. 19:33.26 Sam Oh That's Awesome. So You can't bring homemade stuff but they'll make you homemade stuff. Essentially Awesome. What about?? Um, well I do they will they provide you any kind of um fridge or anything like that if you are you know. Pumping breastfeeding that sort of a thing. Do you know. 19:52.86 Chelsea Rousso So I exclusively pumped for thirteen months with my what world. Yeah, it was a lot. Um and I also did combo feed with formula for him. 19:57.80 Sam Um, oh my God you poor thing. But yeah. As if. 20:09.79 Chelsea Rousso Ah, because he had poor weight gains so we were doing all of the things for him. Um, and they will not provide you an extra refrigerator for the room. There is already a refrigerator in the stateroom so you have to do kind of some finagling. If you are an exclusive pumper just to make sure you're using your the milk within a certain time frame. Um because it doesn't cool. Yeah, it's about the same temperature that a beverage fridge would be um so it's not like a full refrigerator. 20:35.35 Sam Yeah, those fridges are not super cold. 20:46.44 Sam Um. 20:48.38 Chelsea Rousso Um, but I did bring milk with me that had been frozen previously. Um, so I had extra in case I needed it in case something happened with my pump while I was on board and I needed extra and I did bring it in a cooler you can bring a soft sided cooler. 20:53.20 Sam Of me. 21:07.13 Chelsea Rousso Onto the ship and my stateroom attendant was filling it several times a day with ice for me to keep the milk cold so that actually worked out pretty well to keep it frozen through the bulk of our crews. Yes. 21:21.40 Sam Oh wow, That's really great I mean because you don't you know if you're if your baby's mostly drinking breast Milk. You don't really want to switch. You know they can have well. Babies get upset tummies if you switch whatever and you're doing from normal to something different just like when you change your dog's dog Food is hard to compare our children to dogs. But it's kind of think Yeah, exactly. 21:39.74 Chelsea Rousso Right? right? They will let you know almost immediately if it doesn't agree with them. 21:53.65 Sam Like like you know what? I'm talking about. Okay so what about like in before we get to some of the onboard activities that you do with young kids. What about things like in the dining room are there. You know high chairs What kinds of things can you request or are available. For these young ones in the dining rooms. 22:11.65 Chelsea Rousso Ah, they do provide high chairs and boosters. They actually noted it on my reservation prior to us showing up that they knew that we had young ones so they already had high chairs sitting there waiting. Um, for us at our table and my 3 year old refused to sit in the height chair so they did switch it out for a booster seat for us. Um, and they will also cut up your your food for your young ones. If you do have a child that is eating solid foods. 22:37.15 Sam Um, many. 22:49.43 Chelsea Rousso Ah, my 1 year old was seven months on the first cruise we took him on so he was eating solid foods but obviously not the ah level that we are so they were cutting up his food for him which was nice. 23:03.69 Sam Yeah, let me? um, okay I'm going to have to get you to repeat that answer because the dog barking in the background is not going to. You know it's Okay, yeah, yeah, no worries, No worries I I didn't want to cut you off, but then I was like well that's probably not going to work. 23:09.96 Chelsea Rousso Yeah, I'm sorry let me kick her out real quick. 23:18.29 Chelsea Rousso Yeah I think yes the more she's barking I'm like I know she's. 23:29.47 Chelsea Rousso Um, all right. She's gone. 23:30.58 Sam Yeah, it's fine. It's it when it's 1 or 2 It's not a big deal and we don't like we can leave it in but when it's like when it becomes like a pattern then it's like people are going to get annoyed. But I hear you are we have 2 dogs ourselves. So. 23:40.10 Chelsea Rousso Yeah, she's she wants to bark at my neighbors. 23:43.72 dclduo Me clear. 23:48.61 Sam Ok, so let's start? Um, ah gosh where were we? Um, oh you were talking about? Oh let me I'll ask I'll just ask re ask the question. Um, what kinds of things are available in the dining room for young kiddos and I am talking things like you know, high chairs things like that. 24:07.98 Chelsea Rousso Yeah, so they do have high chairs and booster Seatts available in the dining room. Um and they did note on our reservation that we had young kids traveling with us so they actually already had high chairs sitting at our table waiting for us. 24:24.14 Sam He. 24:27.61 Chelsea Rousso Um, at the time they were still only seating families together. They weren't doing the joint seating yet. So we were at a table for 4 with the 2 high chairs and my 3 year old refused to sit in his high chair so they switched out for a booster seat for us. 24:33.46 Sam Um. 24:46.76 Chelsea Rousso And they will also um, cut up food for little ones as well if you ask for it if you have little ones that are doing baby lead weaning or just kids under one that aren't eating food to the level that we are yet they will. Cut it up into age appropriate slices for you. 25:04.29 Sam You know they will also do that for your 8 year old sometimes yeah honestly, honestly there have been times where I haven't asked for I mean I I he can. 25:09.28 Chelsea Rousso If you asked for it I'm sure they will. 25:20.50 Sam He can kind of cut up his own food but usually I'll like if it's a steak I'll cut it up for him but they sometimes just like start doing it and I don't stop but exactly because it means I don't have to wait. 25:27.80 Chelsea Rousso But I wouldn't either easier for you. 25:34.56 Sam And let my food get cold before I start eating. That's like 1 of the things I love about Disney when they see like oh your kid has a steak. Oh let me help and cut it for your kids so that the parent can actually eat the food when it's hot. So yeah, just ah, just a little tip out there for those who have slightly older kids. 25:41.60 Chelsea Rousso Right. 25:53.97 Sam That don't want to cut their kids steak. Um, so and then this. 25:55.17 dclduo Then cut my steak I'll be happy with it. Cut it up slice it good for me. Um, hey I wanted to ask more question about packing which is we talked about a lot of the essentials. What about the non-essential stuff that you bring on for kids like Sam. 26:07.63 Sam Oh like toys. Yeah. 26:09.19 dclduo Still to this day. You know bring Sand toys and stuff with her for our son to play with at the beach. Do you put any sort of thought or have recommendations around the nonnessential stuff that is helpful to have with the kids but you know isn't the sort of ah meeting one of maslow's hierarchy of needs. 26:21.91 Sam This is. 26:22.76 Chelsea Rousso Ah, so we brought anything from home that our kids would miss. So my 3 year old is very attached to 1 of his blankets we brought that for him. My youngest will only sleep. 26:28.60 Sam E. Um. 26:40.38 Chelsea Rousso In a certain sleep sack where he can not feel his hands so he we brought those for him. We made sure we had enough in case, 1 of them got wet just things to make them feel more comfortable. We brought a couple books that they could look at on the plane. 26:43.10 Sam Ah. 26:59.71 Chelsea Rousso We did not bring sand toys. We ended up buying sand toys while we were there. Um, so definitely bringing money for extra souvenirs because every time my 3 year old saw so something that he wanted it managed to find its way into our luggage. 27:11.54 Sam Yeah, right? Tiny tiny dictators I call them. 27:17.70 Chelsea Rousso Exactly they are. 27:19.76 dclduo Disney calls them. Consumers. 27:20.85 Sam Ah, so so true. No, that's a great point though about we we always have to bring favorite stuffies even even for None ar old. He has his favorites and. So we we had to limit it at one point and so now the maximum he's allowed to bring is two stuffies. Um, but there has to be. You know we have to make sure every oh yes that that's. 27:44.20 dclduo We can only he can only bring to because he acquires at least 1 per trip and yeah and and bear bear is the most well traveled stuffy in the world I think so. 27:53.69 Sam Oh yeah, he goes. He's in lots of actually he's not in that many disy cruise pictures because we don't really let him. We don't let Nathan bring his stuffy to like the kids club because if you know if he gets like lost or something it will be. 28:11.62 dclduo Yeah, but he's got he's got 2 bears that have been through the Panama canal with us so he they are well traveled well traveled. 28:12.59 Sam Too difficult to get him back. That's True. He has yes he does have well- traveled stuffies. But yeah I think ah, a blanket stuffy those kinds of comfort items are really really important because otherwise your kids will you know sometimes well. Ah, they'll demand things anyway. But if if they're not the best of Sleepers. You really need those comfort items to get them to sleep. Yeah, Oh really good point. 28:35.17 Chelsea Rousso Right? Yeah, we also brought sound machines as well. Which was very helpful. We just got very small portable ones that recharged and I just stuck one underneath the pack and play and closed the curtain and it was great. 28:51.19 Sam Oh yeah, that's a great idea I will say we have um, sound machine apps on our devices so on our on my iphone and on ah Nathan's ipad actually we have just like a white noise app and that's what we end up using as long as we plug in his ipad and have it plugged in the whole night then the the thing will you know last through the night but sound machine is key for kiddos who sleep with white noise or some other kind of sound at home for sure. Especially with all the kind of weird noises from the ship. Yeah, so let's talk about stuff. You know that you can do on board with kids and specifically kids you know this young infant toddler age because I know it's a little bit different than. 29:27.99 Chelsea Rousso Right? exactly. 29:44.27 Sam What a lot of people think of as far as you know kids clubs obviously before they're 3 They can't go to the oceane's club Slash Oceanes Lab. Um, and even when they're 3 They can only go there once they're potty trained. But if they're 3 or under. We know they can go to. The um, the nursery the it's a small world nursery so tell us like you know one? What you thought think about the nursery if you if you use it and then let's talk more activities I guess. 30:14.92 Chelsea Rousso So actually the nursery just reopened in the spring ah late spring early summer. So the time that I cruise with them. It was not open and available for us to use. 30:18.55 Sam Oh that's right. 30:31.45 Chelsea Rousso So I while I have been inside the nursery and have seen it I have not utilized the services with my children because it was closed. 30:42.21 Sam That's right I forgot about that because they they only recently reopened it. Yeah so I'll just tell the listeners. Um, the nursery is available. It is ah at a fee. Um, it's an hourly fee I'm not sure of the exact cost. 30:55.18 Chelsea Rousso Are. 30:55.66 Sam But it's I think relatively inexpensive if you were to compare it to like babysitting costs. Um, they require reservations because they do keep a particular child to adult ratio. It's not like the kids club where it's kind of a free for all and so. You know it is a much higher level of care and you know it's It's for non-toilet trained ah toddlers and infants basically and they do you know they have cribs in there. It is a beautiful space. Very clean, very well kept. Um, yeah, they have. Cribs they have play mats. They have you know toddler and infant specific Toys. It kind of looks like a very fancy pretty daycare. That's how I would put. Yeah yeah. 31:40.60 Chelsea Rousso Right? It's gorgeous in there I believe it is $4 and ยข50 per half hour was the last time I looked at the pricing so about $9 an hour roughly. Um, and. 31:50.39 Sam Um, that's great. 31:57.76 Chelsea Rousso Like you said advance reservations you can start at seventy five days prior to your cruise to book those correct. 32:05.44 Sam Although when they restarted you could only book them while on the cruise. So I don't know if they what what they've done right? I think right now they're still doing it once you get on is that right? Oh okay. 32:14.19 Chelsea Rousso I believe they've moved it back to seventy five days since then I believe so um, with the kids clubs we were able to still go in and look at them during the orientation time slots. Um, so my 3 year old did get to spend a little bit of time in the kids clubs um exploring around so when he is fully potty trained and able to take advantage of those services we know for sure that he is going to love it. Um. 32:46.21 Sam It is. 32:49.51 Chelsea Rousso But the little one will be in the nursery but we honestly did not miss him not being able to go to the kids clubs. Ah we felt like there was still plenty to do on board to entertain them. 32:58.62 Sam E. 33:06.88 Chelsea Rousso Now if we were those types of cruisers that did not get off the boat. Perhaps we would have missed it a little bit more um but we wanted to get off and we wanted to explore and do excursions and hang out on the beach and you know enjoy being off the boat as much as being on. 33:12.55 Sam E. 33:26.16 Chelsea Rousso Sorry I mean on the ship. Um as much as as being on the ship we wanted to spend time off the ship as well. 33:28.63 Sam Ah, yeah, no, it's not. 33:37.18 Sam Yeah, well and and honestly there is a ton to do on the ship those open houses that you spoke of those are a great time to explore. In fact I like to go to the open houses. Um. Even when Nathan isn't sailing with us because I want to check out the kids' clubs if it's if it's a ship that I haven't been on yet in particular I always want to take a look I was super interested when we were on the wish and looking at the kids club. Of course Nathan Nathan was with us that cruise but it was just some of the coolest spaces. I think Andy's room in the in most on most of the ships. It's not on the wish but that is sort of ah a space that is often converted for or used for a specific toddler playtime on the ship often in the mornings. Um, and so that. They they consider it technically open house time because it's it's parents are required to be there. Um with their kid but it is sort of focused on that toddler crowd and on the wonder it even has a slide so it doesn't have a slide I think on any of the other ships. Obviously the. 34:43.19 Chelsea Rousso No I don't think so. 34:46.58 Sam Yeah, the wish has its own slide but that's a different one anyway. Um, but yeah, so other kinds of activities. You guys did on board I Want to know did you do jackjack's diaper dash. Oh not back. Ah. 34:57.81 Chelsea Rousso It was not being run and I was very disappointed because I have a little cruiser and we for sure thought he would win if he had been able to do it. 35:04.62 Sam Oh my goodness. And can I tell you I wish he would had been on the wish with us on the maiden voyage because there were only like 2 babies on the whole well there were only 2 babies in the jackjack diaper dash. Ah one showed up like you know 10 minutes before when they were doing the signups and then the second showed up just in the nick of time like right before the game started because we all thought oh no, we're not even going to have a diaper dash because that's how few kids and little ones were even on that Cruise. So yep, exactly. 35:40.63 Chelsea Rousso That baby would have won by default. Yeah we we weren't able to do it on the last cruise we were on because it still was not happening and I asked I I was like I have a baby. He's ready to go can't we do it and they said no. But. 36:02.67 dclduo There You want to go nexto up. 36:06.36 Sam Sorry Nathan just came in here. Yeah yeah, why don't you talk about port stuff I'm going to just help Nathan with whatever he needs. Sorry yeah. 36:16.92 Chelsea Rousso Yeah, so sorry. 36:17.10 dclduo So Chelsea I'm curious so Chelsea. Um, yeah, no so Chelsea I'm curious. Um, actually None thing that we didn't talk about upfront that I think would be helpful for listeners too is I assume that you traveled just on. Birth certificates for your kids but how did you think about the travel documentation needed to get on board. The ship. 36:36.36 Chelsea Rousso For kids. It's very easy if they are under None you only need a birth certificate for them. Um, so it was very easy to get that I already had it in my safety deposit box. Um so very easy, very simple. Just needed to upload a copy of it into the portal prior to us boarding the ship and for my husband and I we needed our passports and our driver's license. So again, very easy documentation for for everyone. 37:10.72 dclduo Nice, Well speaking of ports. Um, actually I want to think about this for second um and actually as I think about it too when you check in for the Cruise. There's a lot more to fill out when you're traveling with kids Now. Did you have a lot of extra stuff on your end I know when we go we have to register our son for the kids club and that sort of thing I know your kiddos weren't doing the kids club but how did you find the check-in process. 37:40.79 Chelsea Rousso The check in process for us was fairly smooth Again. We didn't need to check in our kids for any activities or anything on Board. So for us. It was pretty much get on the ship. Go eat lunch. Go to your room. Um, it was very simple. Um, with with covered of course we've got the additional testing at the port and everything that needs to happen for them. But other than that there really wasn't too many extra steps. 38:12.84 dclduo Okay, and as you think about port stops now because we mentioned the documentation question and and I think it's always interesting to you So He says again as as you think about port stops now because you mentioned the documentation issue but also mentioned that you are folks who like to get off the ship. How did you think About. Shore excursions in the ports. Did you just get off on your own or did you do disneysponsored excursions. 38:36.98 Chelsea Rousso So for castaway key we just got off on our own. We did not do any excursions or anything I think it's important to keep in mind that with having children under three. There are very limited port excursions that you can do. Um, because a lot of them are going to require them to be usually None and up is when it seems to be the the most availability for certain activities off the ship. Um, another thing to keep in mind is with. Covered protocols depending on the port that you are going to some of those ports may require you to have an excursion booked in order for your children who are unvaccinated or under a certain age to even get off the ship. Um. At the time they did not have vaccines for the under None crowd and so Bahamas was requiring us to have an excursion booked to get off the ship in Nasa um, we could not just get off on our own and explore. That is no longer the case in Nassau you can now get off the ship without having an excursion booked but at the time we did so we booked an excursion through Disney. Um I believe we did the blue Lagoon Beach day which was great. My kids loved it. We had good food. Ah, beach was a little busy because there were a few other ah ships there as well. It wasn't strictly a disney ship docking station but we had a good time. We enjoyed the beach. We enjoyed the music some good drinks kids played in the sand it was great. 40:25.72 dclduo Right? And did you find I mean 1 thing that I find is that the short excursions get get pretty limited when you're talking about kids of a certain age. Did you also find that to be the case. Yeah. 40:36.20 Chelsea Rousso Yes, for Sure. Ah, it was very limiting with having children under five especially children that can't swim yet so they couldn't really do you know my husband was very excited about you know the the. Seeing the Joffins and everything but they have to be able to swim to do that. 40:57.29 dclduo Right? Yeah, that was a struggle for us on one of our excursions in Mexico I think one of the none times we took Nathan cruising was the dolphin adventure was like a dolphin meet and greet but they would I think they let the kids kind of stand on the side of the pool basically to do it. So um. Yeah, but I do find that if you've got kids under a certain age. It's the offering is a little bit more limited so I'm I'm curious what the life I'm curious what a day in the life is like for parents of young kids on board the ship because we've had some on the show before and. Sometimes they're up super early. So the kids can just run around without a bunch of people in the atrium and such like what was the day in the life like for you on board with two little ones. 41:39.42 Chelsea Rousso Ah, we would wake up whenever the kids wanted to wake up unless we had to be off the ship at a certain time. Um, which for my kids they're fairly early risers so they were up with us by seven thirty ish 41:44.12 Sam Um, first. 41:46.78 dclduo Um. 41:59.21 Chelsea Rousso Most days. Um, then we would they're they're decent so we would they'd wake us up and then we would my husband would take my oldest to get breakfast because I was having to pump and feed the baby. 42:00.75 Sam That's pretty good. 42:18.11 Chelsea Rousso Then we would meet him for breakfast and then walk around the ship unless we were getting off the ship. Um, in that case we would pack the beach bag get off the the ship. Um, otherwise we were going to the splash pad getting ice cream. My three year old was absolutely obsessed with all of the characters on board the ship so we spent most of the afternoon while my youngest napped and my husband napped as well. 42:51.38 Sam Um. 42:52.59 Chelsea Rousso I was running my 3 year old all over the ship seeing as many characters as possible then we would get showered and go to dinner. We had the early dining. Um. 43:01.86 Sam Ah. 43:05.78 Chelsea Rousso There's no way my kids can make it to an None dinner absolutely not so the None was absolutely perfect. Ah then afterwards we would try to catch some of the show. 43:07.50 Sam Oh yeah, yeah. 43:19.28 Chelsea Rousso We would stay until the toddler started to act up and then we would go back to our room and put the kids to bed. 43:20.24 Sam Yeah, that late show is is kind of late because it's usually like None None or none so that's pretty late for really young kiddos. But I think you're None right on the. On the early dining. So I know that sometimes ah sometimes people don't get early dining when they first book their crews if they book it later. Um, you can get on a waitlist people just know you can get on the waitlist for early dining. And even when you first get on board even if you weren't able to get it switched before you got on board go and find wherever they're doing dining changes and try and put in that request if you have really young kids if you have a kid that's like you know 7 none they might be able to make it till late dining. We've just sort of been able to transition. Nathan till eat dining but that is really really I can't imagine trying to keep it one in the three year old up that late for dinner. Yeah yeah. 44:20.63 Chelsea Rousso Absolutely not it did it did not go well even tried to keep them at least with the show being late one of us would hold the baby while he slept and then once my toddler started to get. 44:31.98 Sam Right? right. 44:38.74 Chelsea Rousso Out of hand we would say ok, we're going to call it. We would just you know we would come in towards as soon as the show is starting, sit kind of tear Nords towards the back so we weren't you know, bugging anybody if we had to hop out and he'd make it maybe thirty forty five minutes in and then we would just. 44:39.41 Sam None 44:58.54 Sam Um, yeah. 44:58.68 Chelsea Rousso Head back to our room. Um, he just can't sit still that long. But what was nice is that everybody was either in a show or in dinner and so half the time we would be walking back and there would be characters just walking down the hall and. 45:14.69 Sam So nice. 45:17.57 Chelsea Rousso He had some very great interactions with characters that way. 45:20.92 Sam Yeah, those are I think those impromptu ones rather than just like a picture So like the line up and take a picture with a character those are great. Um for the picture but the best character interactions I feel like are those ones that are just kind of. Impromptu right? where they're walking down the hall and your kiddo is walking toward them. What what was maybe the best if you had sort of ah a memory or best best memory of a character interaction for your toddler. 45:49.22 Chelsea Rousso We have a couple here. He's a character so he had some very good interactions but one night we were coming back from the show and we ran into bell. 45:59.37 Sam All. 46:00.97 Chelsea Rousso And she sat with him and looked out one of the ports and he just sat on her dress and he talked to her and they had maybe a 10 minute conversation about trains and the ship and going to the beach and seeing Mickey Mouse and just. 46:19.69 Sam Oh who loved that we've had some great. Yeah, we've had some great interactions like that in particular actually at at Disneyland at the disneyland hotel Nathan had this just amazing. 46:20.14 Chelsea Rousso His whole life story. 46:35.87 Sam Interaction with ah with Pluto and Pluto is one of his favorite characters I think those are the moments that sort of make you think oh my god this was totally worth which is probably a little bit different with the with the baby. How did how did he do with. The character interactions was he afraid did he like them this this I know there's a lot of variety. There. 46:55.91 Chelsea Rousso Yeah I think it kind of depended on his mood. He definitely slept through some of the interactions. My toddler had with the characters. He is a very good napper and was just like clockwork as soon as it was time for his nap which is pass out wherever he is um. So there were definitely a few interactions that he slept through. Um, he did really enjoy stitch and Mickey Mouse he had some good interactions with stitch in particular he had some good interactions with crawling around on the deck. 47:20.76 Sam Oh yeah. 47:31.30 Sam Oh fine. Oh I Actually that's that is a great that. Yeah well and that brings me to and a perfect question I was. 47:33.10 Chelsea Rousso Before dinner what night before pirate night. That's what it was. Yeah, they're all dressed in their pirate costumes crawling around the deck. 47:43.15 dclduo Stitch is a great character stitch is a great character for interactions. Yeah. 47:49.80 Sam About to ask you which was do you guys do the whole dress up whether it's for pirate night or dress them like little princes or I mean there are None of families who do the matching t-shirt thing on Board None of families who dress up for a pirate night I feel like. Can be sometimes harder with little ones sometimes easier I guess it kind of depends on your kiddo. But how how do how do your kiddos fare with ah dressing up and and do you dress them up. 48:15.50 Chelsea Rousso So we decided not to dress them up apart. We did matching t-shirts for Pyros night. Um, but other than that I put them in nice Ish clothes for dinner knowing full. Well that. 48:25.26 Sam Cute. 48:30.47 Sam And he. 48:35.80 Chelsea Rousso My infant was coming out of that dining room absolutely covered in mariner sauce like I just he was eating a ton of food and it was most of it was ending up on his body in some way. So. 48:46.58 Sam Right? right? right? So you don't want like the white button down shirt and then it's covered in marinette sauce because it's not like you've got like bleach and your well you have laundry on board. But it's a little bit different than what you can do at home. 48:59.70 Chelsea Rousso Right? right? Yeah, my toddler probably would have been fine. He's a little bit of a cleaner eater. But ah, he's also a chicken fingers and fries kind of guy. 49:05.61 Sam He. 49:13.60 Chelsea Rousso We had to have them bring him chicken fingers and fries every single night we were on board the ship. Ah he refused to try anything new off of any of the menus. Um, but my baby did he ate something different every night he's a good eater. 49:22.15 Sam Well. 49:29.00 Sam Oh awesome. Yeah, well that I mean that's another great tip though, right? if your kid only wants chicken fingers and fries or peanut butter and jelly or pizza or whatever other kind of let's say typical toddler food which of course there's a ton of variety there. 49:31.19 Chelsea Rousso For now. 49:48.56 Sam Um, but you can or even if it's not on the menu you can ask your servers and they will make it happen. Um, especially if your kid is a picky eater. It is. It is very easy for them to accommodate stuff like that if they particularly if they know after the first night you can tell them at the first night of dinner. Hey. He's going to probably order chicken fingers and fries every night. So that way they'll know to have that available. Yeah. 50:10.82 Chelsea Rousso And that's exactly what happened we tried to have him be adventurous. The first night we were on the ship and he said absolutely not I will have chicken fingers and fries and. 50:19.89 Sam Um, yep. 50:25.91 Chelsea Rousso So help you if there is not honey mustard and ketchup involved as well. I just refused to try anything else. 50:33.43 Sam That's all right? That's right? but remember kids you can always have a mickey bar for desserts. But yeah, that is the one area where our son he will eat different things for dinner but he. 50:36.26 Chelsea Rousso Absolutely and we did. There were a lot of mickey bars. A lot of ice cream. A lot of good desserts. 50:50.40 Sam Inevitably wants just a scoop of chocolate ice cream with Mickey sprinkles for dessert. Um or he might want soft serve from up on deck because he actually prefers the chocolate vanilla swir else officer serve ice cream from on deck. Yeah so speaking. The marininara sauce though and chocolate and all these kinds of things that stain your clothes. Um I imagine laundry might be something you do when you have little ones that you're traveling with that are end up covered in their food after pretty much every dining experience. Did you do laundry on your cruises with the kiddos and or did did you plan on doing it how did and and had it all that all shake out. 51:30.64 Chelsea Rousso I actually had brought enough clothes that we didn't need to do laundry but we ended up having to do laundry anyway because my toddler had an accident one night and ended up peeing through his. Um. 51:49.43 Sam Oh oh yeah. 51:50.11 Chelsea Rousso Pajamas and his blanket and allliver his loveies so we ended up having to throw everything in the wash so that it was ready for bedtime. Um, but it wasn't an issue. Everything was done really quickly. Um, it was very easy to use. Our room was. Not that far of a walk from the laundry room so it was pretty easy to do it in an afternoon and have it ready for bedtime. 52:12.19 Sam Yeah I am a notorious laundry doer. Um, and and I have friends that laugh because I will literally on a week long cruise I'll do laundry None to 3 times and that might seem excessive. But. I don't like to go home with a pile of laundry to do and I find it pretty easy to you know you know, throw it in particularly if it's like an afternoon and we're just kind of lounging around the room I'll you know throw stuff in the wash and then you know it tells you on the app when it's when the wash is done and then tells you you know. The drawing's done and all that so I find it to be quite easy to do on board. But I know there are others who think I'm crazy to do laundry on vacation but they're wrong. Ah um, I'm trying to think ah other topics that we should cover. 53:05.79 dclduo Well I just kind of wanted to ask the question Chelsea is there anything we haven't talked about in terms of sailing with little kids that you wanted to cover but we haven't. 53:06.71 Sam Um. 53:15.72 Chelsea Rousso Um I guess just just a note maybe um I know one None question that I get. That I have seen circulating and like some of the the cruise groups and everything on Facebook is how to be an exclusive pumper or bottle feeder on board a ship. Um, and. 53:38.87 Sam Um. 53:45.29 Chelsea Rousso The nice thing about the Disney ships is that they have the split bath and so there's 2 sinks so I was able to very easily wash all of my bottles and pump parts in 1 bathroom while. 53:48.68 Sam This is. 54:01.31 Sam Right. 54:03.81 Chelsea Rousso You know my husband was bathing our kids or one of them was using the the potty or something like that I could use the other sink and then just put them out on the vanity to dry. Um, so it wasn't really taking up any extra space on board. 54:10.94 Sam A. 54:20.37 Sam Um, that's yeah, it's still extra enough to pack right? and but. 54:23.33 Chelsea Rousso The the ship. Um, it's just it's still extra stuff to pack. Um I'm very much looking forward to the next trip that we go on not having to bring my pumping equipment. 54:36.75 Sam Me. 54:38.86 Chelsea Rousso Um, I'm very excited about it I'm counting down the days to being able to fly without bottles. 54:42.37 Sam Oh yay, that's awesome. None 1 other thing we haven't talked about is pools and splash pad and and I want to bring this up I know we've talked about this before in an episode we did about cruising with younger kids. But if in case somebody only listens to this episode and hasn't doesn't listen to our prior episodes covering this topic. But maybe I'll have Chelsea tell our listeners can your kids go in the pool on the Disney Cruise ship 55:16.25 Chelsea Rousso No, and this is pretty much universal for all cruise ships you have to be potty trained in order to go in the pools swim diapers are not allowed. Um, they are allowed to go in.. There's a ah splash zone specifically for toddlers that they are able to go In. Um and both of my kids Absolutely loved the splash pad they were crawling around. They were both getting stoking wet. 55:35.17 Sam This is. 55:50.20 Chelsea Rousso Um, there didn't seem to be that many other kids in their age group. Um on the last ship that we were on and so they pretty much have a run of it to themselves maybe like None or 3 other kids. Um, so they really had a blast and we did not miss. The fact that they could not go in the main pool I don't think my toddler ever even asked to go in the main pool. 56:10.97 Sam Um, yeah, yeah, and and just for the for people listening the reason for that is the pools on ships are not. They're not chlorinated so they. There even if your child if your child's using a swim diaper and poops in the pool. The idea is that the bacteria spreads in the pool and so in order to keep ah hygienic standards all major cruise lines as Chelsea said, do not let diaper wearers in. Even swim diaper wears in the pools. So the splash pads are awesome. There. There's ah one of them is dory themed. One of them is nemo- themed and that's on most of the ships. Um and then on the wish there is a toy story themed splash pad and they even have like little I'll call them baby slides. But they're super cute. They have slightly different age limits on the different ships on the the wonder and the magic. It's a slightly younger age limit than it is on the fantasy the dream and the wish. However, I have never seen those age limits enforce. They just don't want like teenagers like running around in the splash pad. So if you have a a young child that is like None and the sign says you know up to 4 you're not going to get kicked out of the splash pad area. So yeah. But those are those are great and then you have pools and beaches on land right? Yeah, okay, oh sorry yeah. 57:43.75 Chelsea Rousso Exactly and I mean we didn't miss not being able to go in the main pool at all so they had a great time. 57:56.85 Sam Awesome. 57:57.25 dclduo Nice, well Chelsea I think we've reached that point in the show where I need to hand you over to only one second are you hey Chelsea sorry my printer is going off just one second you can't hear it at all. 58:09.80 Sam We can't hear it. So no I can't. 58:15.39 dclduo Okay, all right? Well Chelsea I think we've reached that point in the show where I need to hand you over to Sam for some rapid fire. So Sam won't you take it away. 58:21.60 Sam Yeah, all right? Chelsea so this is rapid fire. This is where I ask you for your Disney favorites and Disney Cruise line favorites now. Um this is not your toddler's favorite your husband's favorite your infant's favorite this is Chelsea's favorite things okay and then the other caveat I will give you is there are no rules to rapid fire except I might make arbitrary rules as we go along. Okay, all right, all right? Who is your favorite Disney or Pixar character. 58:47.60 Chelsea Rousso Okay. 58:54.33 Chelsea Rousso Oh auto. 58:58.82 Sam Ooh I like it. What is your favorite Disney or Pixar movie. 59:06.60 Chelsea Rousso That's a tough one Peter pan. 59:08.10 Sam Oh that's a good one too. All right? What's your favorite Disney Song this is probably the hardest one I think. 59:15.50 Chelsea Rousso Of you know that one that gets me crying every time I hear it is um from frozen to the song where she um, finds her mother of. 59:31.67 Sam Oh yeah, ah I thought you I thought you were going to stay song from dumbo because that's the one that makes me cry the baby mind don't you cry all right moving on to Disney Cruise line ships 59:35.31 Chelsea Rousso Every time like a baby. Oh that one too. 59:48.97 Sam What is your favorite Disney Cruise line stage show that you've seen of course. 59:53.27 Chelsea Rousso Um, probably probably the little mermaid. 01:00:05.30 Sam Ooh Yeah, what is your favorite rotational dining restaurant. 01:00:11.92 Chelsea Rousso The repunsel. 01:00:15.36 Sam Nice, What is your favorite onboard activity. 01:00:27.50 Chelsea Rousso The spa Definitely the spa. 01:00:29.90 Sam Oh yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. What's your favorite space on the ship other than let's say the spa. 01:00:39.38 Chelsea Rousso Um, probably you know I Really just like the the decks like sitting out around the pool. Um, especially if you can get a shaded spot where you can look out over the ocean. 01:00:47.80 Sam Yeah. 01:00:53.52 Sam For sure I prefer sitting in front of funnel vision. But I hear you all right? What is your favorite savory food item on a Disney Cruise line ship. 01:00:57.18 Chelsea Rousso Um. 01:01:06.73 Chelsea Rousso I mean chicken fingers Just yeah, yeah life changing chicken fingers especially when your toddler forced feeding them to you just. 01:01:12.52 Sam Life changing Chicken fingers. 01:01:18.96 Sam Yeah I bet you better like um, ah all right favorite dessert item or sweet item I should say it doesn't have to be something from main dining. It could be from anywhere on the ship. 01:01:31.47 Chelsea Rousso Now I Love the ice cream that you get on the the deck. It's good. Yeah yeah, it's so good I don't know. 01:01:35.27 Sam Yeah, it's so good. It's so good. Ah no I don't know why it may be because it's free because you. 01:01:45.39 Chelsea Rousso Maybe maybe that's it. There's a little extra kick to it because you don't have to pay for it. 01:01:52.90 Sam That's right, all right? My last question is bucket list cruise now this is some place you haven't been on Disney Cruise line and it might even be some place that Disney Cruise line doesn't currently go. But if you could go anywhere in the world. On a Disney Cruise where would it be. 01:02:07.89 Chelsea Rousso Oh my goodness I would totally do a Mediterranean Cruise that that's a bucket last cruise anywhere anywhere in the mediterranean just take me. 01:02:11.68 Sam Oh yeah, that's definitely on the list. Yeah yeah, yeah, absolutely and then my last question is what's next what have you got booked on Disney anything. 01:02:25.64 Chelsea Rousso So we do have a wish cruise coming up. Um, not until 2023 unfortunately but we are we have it booked and we're joining it with a Disney world trip as well. Yeah. 01:02:29.14 Sam Who. 01:02:40.77 Sam Oh awesome land and sea vacation. Are you doing a three night aforenight 01:02:45.45 Chelsea Rousso Exactly we're doing a four night and then two nights at Disney world. 01:02:51.30 Sam Awesome! Well we might have to have you back to hear about your experience on the wish. Awesome. 01:02:56.36 Chelsea Rousso Absolutely. 01:02:59.43 dclduo Well, Chelsea I really appreciate you taking time today to come on and talk to us about sailing with young kids very young kids. Um, you are also though a travel agent with my path unwinding travel and our fabulous show sponsor and so wanted to give you a chance to let folks know where they can find you if they'd like to book their next. Fabulous Disney vacation. 01:03:19.52 Chelsea Rousso Absolutely you can reach out to my path unwinding travel or you can reach out to me directly. It's Chelsea at my path unwinding travel dot com. 01:03:29.44 dclduo Awesome! Well Chelsea. Thanks again for taking some time we really appreciate it. 01:03:29.68 Sam Awesome. 01:03:33.48 Chelsea Rousso Thank you so much for having me.