00:00.00
dclduo
Welcome back everybody to this week's episode of the Dc L Duo Podcast brought to you by my path unwinding travel and Sam it is like start of the week Monday night and how are you doing over there in your green room.

00:16.37
Sam
I am doing just fine. Um I might get a little angry because I haven't eaten dinner yet. But I'm super super excited for tonight's show because we are welcoming 2 guests who have their own podcast and we have been on their show. Actually I've been on. 2 of Jen's show um but we are welcoming Frank and jen from the Dilo 's diz podcast and they are brother and sister and they are awesome and I'm so excited to talk to you guys about your first disney cruise welcome guys

00:48.68
Jen
Thank you! We're excited to be here.

00:51.33
Frank
Thank you I'm I'm so excited I don't know what to do I'm I'm shifting in my seat nervously? yeah.

00:58.29
Sam
I think I think we should all get on a cruise right now. Ah.

00:58.41
Jen
Ah.

01:00.18
dclduo
Ah there you I'm just happy I'm just happy. We didn't destroy their ratings enough with our show that they showed up So so there you go um there you go.

01:00.75
Jen
Ah, okay I mean that's fine.

01:10.10
Jen
Ah, guys you have a Hallmark Love story that could never destroy the ratings come on.

01:10.57
Frank
Yes, yes.

01:15.86
Sam
That's true. That's true. Ah.

01:17.32
dclduo
Well I don't want to jump ahead to spoilers here but Jen and Frank we were excited to we were well we are excited to have you on because this's your first ever Disney Cruise so normally ask people. What's your cruising background or what's your Disney Cruise line background. But I'm I'm just going to ask have you been on a a cruise before and then.

01:19.79
Sam
I Already did.

01:20.96
Jen
S.

01:34.55
dclduo
You know you got to give folks your Disney creds because you've got a ton of Disney Creds just not a ton of Disney Cruise line creds so if you've been on a cruise before and what are your Disney creds.

01:41.75
Jen
Yeah, so I ah confession I have been on one other Disney Cruise but it was nine years ago so it's basically like going on a first one all over again and that was like a three or four night so it felt like.

01:47.75
dclduo
Ah.

01:49.40
Sam
Um, yeah, yeah.

01:56.97
Jen
First real Disney Cruise but we um Mama and papa dilo as we call our parents are big cruisers so they used to go on a cruise every year when we were growing up without us I think we went once when we were little but um, ah right.

02:11.10
Sam
Oh Mama and Papa Dilo I love you guys? Yeah, but couples goals couple of goals. Love it.

02:14.00
Frank
A.

02:15.84
Jen
Right? They are they continue to live that life. Um, yes, um, so we did go on one I think I was 7 frank was way older at 14 ish um, and um.

02:19.13
Frank
On a.

02:32.99
Jen
And then I probably didn't go on 1 again until my early 20 s but I've been on royal caribbean princess carnival msc ah celebrity. So yeah I've been on ah quite a few and I love cruising and I hadn't been on any kind of Cruise. Ah, since becoming a parent eight years ago so it had been a while. So this one was ah so anticipated. Um.

02:58.22
Frank
Right? And that yeah this is yeah this is my first it is my first it was my first Disney Cruise I want pretend. It's coming up still but it's not it was my first Disney Cruise but like je I've been on a few cruises before on on different cruise lines but I am more of one with the seasickness.

02:59.68
dclduo
Um, what have I yeah.

03:16.65
Frank
So often I am ah weary of getting on a cruise for my vacation.

03:17.57
Sam
Yeah now.

03:18.60
Jen
Thin.

03:20.50
dclduo
Well, you went for the you went for a seven night on the fantasy. We always love to ask people, especially when the like first time or first time Ish disney crewise like how'd you land on that itinerary. So what attracted to you to the seven night eastern caribbean one of our favorites on the fantasy.

03:27.90
Jen
Who.

03:36.93
Jen
So I think that it's probably all papa dilo. They kind of arranged this whole cruise because this year they were married 50 years and they also turned 70

03:45.65
dclduo
Oh wow.

03:45.86
Sam
Oh.

03:49.89
Jen
And then it is ah me and my husband hit 10 years in January and frank and his wife are about to hit 10 years in a few weeks from now. So um, it was kind of a big year for all of us so he kind of wanted to get everyone together. Do this cruise and ah they prefer Eastern Caribbean so I ah went to one of my friends who's a travel agent and you know papaillo was like Eastern Caribbean 7 nights what is there and we kind of went from there.

04:21.83
dclduo
Well it immediately immediately locks you in for Disney on the fantasy. No question. Um, yeah, so yeah, just we always tell people. There's like the matrix layered approach to choosing your crews like time of year ship. You want to be on itinerary and pretty quickly. It gets you down to about one ship. So.

04:34.87
Jen
Yeah, yeah.

04:36.48
dclduo
Ah, yeah, it's fascinating what would by the way I got to pause and say what an accomplishment 50 years of marriage for papa and mama dilllo um, if we asked them what the secret was to a 50 year marriage which I'm sure somebody had to what would they say.

04:41.90
Jen
Yes.

04:52.70
Jen
Ah, you know I we probably should have asked that during our cruise. Ah yeah, right? Ah, well now we're just bad children I I don't I don't know I mean.

04:54.66
Frank
I know but it would have been nice would have been a nice thing to do.

04:55.77
Sam
I.

05:00.60
dclduo
Um.

05:04.77
Sam
Ah.

05:07.21
Jen
All of our nostalgia and hoarding and love for Disney comes from them. So I mean but they you know they have they were high school sweethearts and ah you know they have always taken vacations and time for themselves. So I'm sure that plays a big role.

05:10.70
Sam
And.

05:25.00
dclduo
Sure.

05:25.76
Jen
And things and and kind of making sure their relationship got some attention.

05:32.82
Sam
Yeah, you know I think the secret sauce is just the um you know going on a cruise without your kids every year. That's what I'm gonna I'm going to bank on being that. So but.

05:33.18
dclduo
And ah.

05:37.33
Jen
Yeah, exactly That's true now. No.

05:42.90
dclduo
Ah.

05:44.48
Frank
Yeah, we weren't too happy about it at the time but it makes it makes sense now and we we talk a lot on the podcast about ah dillowing expectations like we try to keep things cool.

05:44.94
Sam
Yeah.

05:55.21
Jen
Who.

05:55.51
Frank
Keep our anxiety levels down and and I think we got that from Mama and papa dilo as well that they they know nothing it was ever like blown out of proportion. There was never nothing was ever like over dramatic explosions at least when I was growing up I don't know what happened when I went to college and Jen was home for a while but I can't speak to that.

06:10.47
Jen
And.

06:12.60
Sam
Ah.

06:13.16
Frank
But I think there was a lot of that too that you know nothing was ever at ah at a heightened state of crazy I would say in our home.

06:17.66
Jen
Right? Yeah, true.

06:17.76
Sam
E.

06:20.29
dclduo
Yeah, yeah, well frank you mentioned that you deal a little bit with the seasickness. Um I'm wondering how much apprehension did you have going into a seven night cruise yeah ah

06:26.60
Frank
Ah.

06:28.45
Frank
Well I did the Disney but the Disney part of it helps that's for sure so that was that was a key part of it I'm generally apprehensive and I will and I know I haven't found the secret formula yet because I think it's different every time based on time of year and all that.

06:34.95
Jen
Um.

06:46.65
Frank
And I think this time I probably didn't need to ah drug up as much as previous because I felt it was very. It was pretty smooth and and in in some ways. Um the the medication sometimes I I double down on medication separately. It's not good.

06:52.17
Jen
Um.

06:54.80
Sam
So.

07:02.55
dclduo
And.

07:03.92
Frank
Ah, with fit that with a patch the patch usually makes me irritable. Never good and then whatever drama mean bo nine thing I'm taken. Yeah, it's like you know and then I tried not to drink for three days and then I'm unhappy about that I haven't had a drink for three days it's you know it's it's all the things.

07:07.56
Sam
Right? Then it makes you go to sleep? yeah.

07:14.35
Jen
This.

07:18.26
Sam
Ah, it's like well I I think you chose ah a good itinerary for um, for motion sickness and I know it sounds like a weird thing to say but definitely um, the further out to see you go the rougher.

07:20.30
dclduo
Ah, nice.

07:33.86
Sam
Typically the seas get so you probably should shy away from a transatlantic or transpacific Cruise um going over sailing in the Pacific Ocean might not be a good idea for you in general frank.

07:37.28
Jen
Think.

07:39.82
Frank
Ah.

07:40.40
dclduo
Ah.

07:44.94
Frank
Get him noted. Yeah.

07:47.32
Sam
Um, and sailing in like the north sea. Also maybe not such a good idea so stick with the caribbean the Bahamas basically is what I'm saying that's like this the sort. yeah yeah I'm not I'm I'm I'm thinking not yeah so

07:49.11
Jen
And.

07:53.61
dclduo
Yeah, so Frank is national geographic expedition cruising in your future I can tell ah you're headed to the arctic you're headed to the Arctic. Yeah around the cape of good hope. Yeah, ah.

08:00.51
Jen
Ah.

08:02.00
Frank
Ah, ah, ah about eight years ago we did a Mediterranean Cruise and I remember the first night destroyed me so I that's kind of the the barometer these days like it can't be as bad as that.

08:05.66
Sam
And yeah.

08:09.62
dclduo
Oh yeah, yeah.

08:09.67
Sam
Oh yeah, yeah, you can't be as bad as that. No the caribbean is typically pretty I mean obviously not in like not if you get caught in like Hurricane Ian or something but generally speaking the caribbean is. Pretty calm seas as compared to some of the other itineraries that Disney in particular goes on so so I think that was a good choice I I too get some seasickness but not too bad. But yeah, there are times where I end up having to take medication and. Yeah, sometimes it means I have to miss out on some fun stuff because I'm sleeping in my cabin and from the.

08:50.54
dclduo
so so I'm curious was this mama and Papa Dilo's first Disney Cruise as well or did they have castaway club status to help you out with all of your pre-cruise activity booking.

08:52.84
Frank
Um.

09:01.93
Jen
So they have also been on one other one also about nine or ten years ago so that one ah we had sent them on for their fortieth so ten years ago actually um and we kind of just sent them on a weekend 1

09:09.85
Sam
Oh wow.

09:09.87
dclduo
Wow.

09:15.20
Jen
And ah so they did have Castaway Club status um and but they they also you know had been on quite a few since then that were non disney so being there for a week was also good for them to to kind of get a real feel of a Disney Cruise overall

09:16.52
dclduo
S.

09:31.32
dclduo
Yeah, now just.

09:33.53
Sam
Yeah, so you guys had silver status and Frank had no status is what you're saying but ah oh yeah.

09:36.73
Frank
No status I was like where you getting all the swag from what's happening. Why did you guys have this stuff.

09:39.50
Jen
And that's right I know we got cool backpacks and we're like oh this is nice and then we're like what you didn't get 1 wine. Oh we? ah.

09:41.57
dclduo
Ah.

09:51.36
Sam
Ah, yeah, ah.

09:52.46
dclduo
Well now in addition to both of you. You're significant others Mama papaillo je I remember you're a mom from the from the podcast that see I haven't did with you and and Frank I don't know if you have kids but any kids in tow with you or was this adults only vacationing.

09:59.97
Jen
Yes.

10:08.95
Jen
Nope kids as well. So I have an eight and a 5 year old and then Frank has a six year old so all about the same age range there. Yes.

10:14.10
dclduo
There you go there, you go all right.

10:17.13
Sam
All and perfect kids club ages I love it. Ah this this is like prime Disney Cruise age like I mean I think you can probably until they're you know in their twenty s but I feel like this is like it's there I I feel like these ages are.

10:17.49
Frank
Oh yeah.

10:23.68
Jen
Yes.

10:34.46
Sam
Perfect for the kits clubs.

10:36.40
Frank
Right? Yeah now I think that was the biggest takeaway honestly of the whole of the whole week was ah the you know the ocean Air club and and and how much the kids you know went for it at any given moment. Can we go now. Can we go now. Can we go and which gave us a lot of free time which was fantastic.

10:36.95
Jen
Yeah.

10:49.46
dclduo
But and.

10:49.60
Sam
Um, yeah, yeah.

10:52.90
Frank
And yeah I guess we should have known because when I went on a celebrity cruise with my family three years ago we went to bermuda you know, just you know the quick down to Bermuda stay a couple of days on in tow and then come back. And you know she loved when she was 3 she loved the camp that they had on the celebrity crews. So I kind of knew that she would you know be pulled towards The Ocean Ear Club and and I just was really blown away by just what they offered and and how much she loved it. Honestly.

11:12.10
Sam
Um.

11:24.31
dclduo
Well and it helps to have ah like built in friends right? like I assume the kids all get along together and once that happens it's like it's like west side story right in front of you. They all want to go the kids all together. You know? So um, so yeah, um I don't know is going for like a gang approach.

11:25.51
Sam
Right? cousins. Yeah.

11:25.80
Jen
Yeah.

11:35.64
Sam
Sweet west side story. How is this west side story westley story is like when they're when they're like fighting each other because they're in 2 different gangs. The jets versus the sharks and and Maria is in the middle and it's like this is.

11:40.95
Frank
Do do do did do.

11:40.99
Jen
Um, ah.

11:41.73
dclduo
I was going I'm not the theater guy I'm not the theater guy I'm not the theater guy. Everyone listening everyone knows everyone knows Stan I'm not the theater guy I was going for a gang analogy. It didn't really work. Yeah.

11:51.91
Frank
I.

11:51.98
Sam
Romeo and Juliet Brian you do not know your theater like didn't work didn't work at all. But.

12:00.95
dclduo
Right? fine. So so ah, um, all right got ask? Ah so I got to ask your booking window comes for your activities were you able to get kind of what you wanted. Did you end up booking short excursions. We can talk about them later but like.

12:01.37
Frank
Um, ah.

12:16.80
dclduo
Adult dining Shore versions were you able to get what you wanted.

12:20.25
Jen
So we were horrible at the planning Brian um, but.

12:24.19
dclduo
Ah, you're Disney World people aren't you supposed to be planning experts. Ah.

12:26.16
Jen
Ah I know. Ah.

12:26.57
Sam
Ah. Now. Are you be like you guys are like the uber planners. You guys should know like exactly like dining opens at midnight I better be on my phone to book it.

12:27.14
Frank
Um, but but but but but I.

12:34.81
Jen
Know we didn't pay 1 bit of attention to this. Um, we I actually um because I turned 40 this year and ah, nice enough Mama Papaillo for my fortieth.

12:36.26
dclduo
Ah.

12:45.58
Sam
Um.

12:48.38
Jen
Ah said hey go to the polynesian for four nights and I was like ah ok, um, so me and my family did that in July and I feel like you know my attention went there and then all of a sudden the cruise was sneaky up on me and I was like we what we haven't done anything for this and just all of us.

12:51.85
Sam
Ooh, no.

13:01.57
Sam
Um.

13:07.26
Jen
Ah, we were very much jillowing this cruise because none of us were thinking about anything and then all of a sudden we're like we should probably look into booking things and it was like a week out and you know there's nothing but I knew that if I could try to I had done umpollo dinner.

13:09.25
Sam
So.

13:25.53
dclduo
Even.

13:26.25
Jen
Nine years ago I was kind of like oh if I could get a paulo brunch that would be great I don't know if I want to do too many things because I you know I know this is a big family cruise and all of that. Um, so I didn't get that beforehand and I'll let Frank speak to his side of it. Ah, and then.

13:27.69
Sam
Eaten.

13:34.60
Sam
So.

13:46.50
Jen
We honestly didn't book any sure excursions we it was the most ah basic laid back Disney Cruise I think possible but Frank did end up at Apollo dinner which resulted in my Apollo brunch. So ah.

13:47.69
dclduo
And.

13:57.40
Sam
Oh yes.

13:58.26
dclduo
So wait. That's that's fasting ended up at a pallo dinner makes it sound like none of the rest of you were there. So Frank I can't wait to hear the story of this Palo dinner.

13:58.80
Frank
Um.

14:10.99
Jen
Ah.

14:11.65
Frank
Ah I went by myself I left my wife there at the at the enchanted garden as well and well and was we played around on the app I would say maybe two weeks out is when we like sorry like oh we should start paying attention to this and.

14:13.41
Jen
I.

14:14.24
Sam
And.

14:24.31
Sam
So.

14:27.31
Frank
So the the degree of difficulty in locating things was at ah at ah, an all time high and then the stress levels increased over time going. Oh we have to get the Covid tests and all that stuff and we just felt that like crunching on top of us. So it actually worked out the other thing that we got.

14:29.60
Jen
Um.

14:36.70
Jen
I.

14:36.34
Sam
I.

14:44.95
Frank
Separately and then ended end up pulling them together where were ah bibbity Bobbby Boutique reservations. So I was was happy to knock that out and then randomly just again just playing around not Pao dinner came up for like the fifth night or something like that I was like oh got it.

14:47.45
Jen
This.

14:48.51
Sam
Oh yeah.

15:01.12
Jen
But.

15:02.67
Frank
And so I locked that up jen had gone on a waiting list for the brunch. So when we finished the Palo dinner. It was just my wife and I and as we're leaving because we we drank a lot of wine and.

15:19.39
Jen
Um.

15:20.40
Frank
They were like oh you're going to be back for brunch tomorrow. You're on the wait list come on spend more money and we're like oh that's not that's off for us. That's for my sister and you ah wait what and so then it became a little bit of a back and forth with our our friend Judy who we both loved and and so it turned out in the end that Jen got the brunch but.

15:27.56
Sam
Yes.

15:32.20
Jen
And.

15:38.77
Sam
Um, oh good. Ah so so I I kind of I kind of love that you didn't book anything because I like I I feel like when we talk to first time cruisers. Um.

15:39.60
Frank
I Think in great parts to the amount of wine that we drank our load. Yeah.

15:42.27
dclduo
Well yours is.

15:43.74
Jen
Ah.

15:53.72
Sam
We we tell people listen you really can have such a great time without booking any of those extra things and so you know they are fun and great experiences. But they're not necessary to having an amazing cruise and sometimes I actually discourage people from booking some of those kinds of experiences.

15:58.70
dclduo
Oh.

16:12.58
Sam
Um, their first cruise because there's just so much to do you know.

16:13.28
Jen
Um, yeah.

16:13.93
Frank
Yeah, and we don't like doing it for Walt Disney world either we we find more success in the day before two days out you know we might put some things placeholders in but I would say I mean I don't know how Jen feels but I would say 50% of what I set in advance I am that not using and so.

16:23.52
Sam
Yes.

16:33.12
Frank
And or switching out for what I really wanted 24 hours 40 8 hours out

16:33.50
Sam
So.

16:36.40
dclduo
M.

16:36.27
Jen
Yeah I was going to say that earlier too that although we are Disney World people we hate all the planning we are like we grew up going in a time where you could be hanging out the pool at two o'clock on an afternoon be like where should we have.

16:52.81
Sam
Me yep.

16:54.26
Jen
Dinner and just call up and make the reservation for that night. You know so we very much miss the old days of that. But I agree I mean even for this trip we had gone down to Orlando two days before all of us and ah, you know we were trying to figure out. Can we all like get a reservation somewhere. All all 9 of us and the day before we got oh Hanna breakfast and we were like ah yes, lock that in. Um, so yeah, it. It's kind of it's all just playing and gambling and it's crazy.

17:13.74
Sam
Yes.

17:20.99
Sam
Yum! yeah.

17:28.44
dclduo
I was going to say you're both, You're both like the cautionary tale but also a tale of success because we always tell people if you don't get what you want on your booking window just keep checking just keep watching the website we get on board ask because they they a lot of times hold back availability for some of these things even when you get on board. So yeah, no I mean.

17:37.26
Jen
Okay.

17:48.16
dclduo
You can make this a heavy plan or a lightweight plan always lighter weight than a parks trip for sure. Um, on the cruise law always lighter weight. Um, but no good.

17:53.70
Jen
Yeah, yes, and I think oh sorry um even with um Bibbity Bobby Boutique we had were able probably a few days before we were both able to get reservations but they were like different days and times for the girls and we were like.

18:07.76
dclduo
Button.

18:10.43
Sam
Um.

18:11.70
Jen
Well hopefully they'll let us you know, match it up and we went there and they were like oh sure, no problem but it had been for like 9 a m and we were like do you have anything later because all we thinking of like or like 9 a m and then the pool and then it's going to be crazy and they're like oh sure, what time. Do you want to come and. They had all this availability and we were like oh a house for right before dinner that would be great so it it all worked out. Yeah.

18:35.32
Sam
Oh perfect, they they really do hold back a ton of availability I think people worry so much about getting those things in advance. The only I would say the only exception is maybe on the wish that it's.

18:37.96
dclduo
Nice.

18:50.83
Sam
More difficult to get some of those experiences either in advance or on on board. But I feel like as as long as you go and ask like that first day you know within the first couple of hours of being on board. You really can get a lot of what you you know. Wanted to book or switching things and you know spa appointments all that stuff. There's so much availability then.

19:10.21
Jen
Yeah.

19:13.32
dclduo
So I'm I'm curious. Let's find out if we if if we collectively did the right thing or made yet another fatal error. No I'm kidding. Ah did we go down before the cruise. Ah and I'm assuming if you did you had to stay at Walt Disney world because I can't imagine the Dilos is staying anywhere other than Walt Disney world before a cruise. But. Did you fly down the day before at least? Ah, ah, nice. Nice. Nice.

19:33.32
Jen
We flew down 2 days before because we were very scared. Ah um, so yeah, so we are new yorkers for those who don't know um and we you know had been watching the madness of the airlines all summer going oh my god we need to be down there.

19:35.48
Sam
That's right, That's right.

19:45.54
Sam
No.

19:51.10
Jen
Ah, so yeah, we flew in on Thursday and we ended up actually staying at the dolphin which none of us I think mom and papaillo maybe did ah but the rest of us had not before so that was nice and we're on the boardwalk and we were actually I think not that i.

19:57.57
dclduo
Oh yeah.

20:10.50
Jen
Perhaps we delo our expectations. But ah we we weren't really sure what to expect? We're like this is great and we're right on the boardwalk and the the pools were great. Um, and then on Friday we had planned a whole day at magic kingdom and we also got the park copper to go. Epcot at night and it was kind of rainy and whatever. But um, we have a picture from January eighteen of all of us. Ah in front of the castle. So we kind of opened it to mama paadillo like we're going to go recreate this picture again. So we made that for Friday and then so it was nice. It was.

20:41.32
Sam
Oh.

20:48.47
Jen
And for us we often Frank and I when we do little dillos trips we will plan them two weeks out and we'll go for like 36 hours and so having Thursday a Saturday morning I was like well this was basically a vacation I can't believe I'm about to go away on a cruise ship for a week. This is great.

21:03.39
Sam
Another week

21:06.37
dclduo
Ah, ah, nice. How did you get from ah Disney World over to the cruise I mean with with geez you got a big group so I'm assuming private transfer was was an order not Disney transportation.

21:06.90
Jen
Yeah.

21:17.71
Frank
Right? Jen what was the name of the the shuttle do you remember it.

21:21.72
Jen
I know I got I need to look Ah, ah it was happy hour I think it was happy hour no wasn't happy limo because I did see happy limo. So let me I'm going to double check that. But.

21:24.69
dclduo
Oh happy limo.

21:25.15
Sam
NappyLomo oh happy hour huh. Oh.

21:33.97
dclduo
But please tell me this transportation came with drinks because of the name like happy hour. They're missing a Shervette nice.

21:37.71
Frank
It should have.

21:40.86
Jen
It should have but it didn't yeah happy hour shuttle. They are actually based out of um coco right? Frank because you you kind of heard about that just on a whim through family.

21:44.28
Sam
Ah, um.

21:47.56
Frank
Yeah, correct yeah that was one of the things like we were worried about was getting everyone over there and and and exploring the options and ah I was at my wife's families in Connecticut on a saturday.

21:55.15
Sam
So.

22:04.42
Frank
And just ran like using a pool day and all of a sudden on and on the side someone was talking about a cruise they had just went on and that they used this shuttle service and they got the whole family around I was like what are you talking about? this is exactly what I need right now at.

22:14.37
Jen
I.

22:16.77
Sam
Ah, but.

22:17.40
dclduo
Um.

22:17.83
Frank
So it worked out really really well on especially getting to the dolphin from Mcco and then getting over to the terminal. The the pick got you know Pickup is always a little crazy. You know when you leave but ah but I you know it worked out really well. So yeah, happy hour We we'll we'll give him a plug right here.

22:22.41
Sam
So me.

22:27.14
Jen
Her mother.

22:27.26
dclduo
Yeah.

22:34.80
Jen
Yeah, yeah.

22:36.00
Frank
Ah.

22:36.65
Sam
Neila. Great.

22:36.66
dclduo
There you go where you go well and what time. Ah so what time did you get to the port and get on the ship then.

22:42.62
Frank
I Would in you imagine.

22:42.80
Jen
We we had a late boarding right? We we didn't because because we didn't plan well because we didn't do the online check in that earlier. No no so when we did it. We're like oh it says we.

22:49.73
dclduo
But.

22:51.98
Sam
Ah, well you didn't do the 30 day check in. Ah.

22:53.99
Frank
Now.

23:00.61
Jen
Can get on the boat until like one thirty two o'clock and papaillo was like what do you mean? you can just go at like not they'll let you on it like 11 I'm like no I think they do boarding groups now it's not like how it used to be and he was like wait. What? um but I will say that.

23:01.26
dclduo
And.

23:04.30
Sam
Um.

23:11.56
Sam
So yeah.

23:17.91
Jen
Although we went later one we had some pool time in the morning at the hotel which was nice. We had a little more time to get our stuff together and then getting on the ship. There was nobody in the terminal and like no crowds whatsoever I was like actually this isn't so bad.

23:22.38
Sam
Um.

23:27.74
Sam
Yeah, let's super quick.

23:27.84
Frank
Un rock.

23:33.00
Sam
Yeah I don't you know I mean we like to board early I'll be honest because we like to have as much time on the ship as possible but I don't think I actually think the boarding process takes longer if you are there earlier and it seems to go much faster if you're there later because there's just.

23:42.65
Jen
Um.

23:48.69
Frank
Ah.

23:49.83
Jen
Yeah.

23:52.12
Sam
Not the everybody's sort of sure trying to rush and get on the ship. There's no line. It's yeah, it's I think the boarding process goes really really smoothly if you're if you're there at a later boarding time. So it's It's not a. It's not a bad idea to do it that way you guys. So.

24:06.68
Jen
Um, yeah.

24:08.96
Sam
But for those who don't know you want to do at the 30 day Mark you want to get online at you if you're not if you're sailing regular meaning non concierge when I say concierge is concierge. You don't have to do this because you will get the earliest boarding time you can board whenever you want. But.

24:09.12
dclduo
Ah.

24:12.70
Frank
Famous.

24:26.22
dclduo
You actually you get no boarding time as cons here you can show up. Yeah.

24:27.80
Sam
Um, right, you don't technically yeah, but right, but if you are not saying concierge at 30 day Mark before your cruise at midnight you midnight eastern Nine o'clock for us on the west coast sorry you go online and you up.

24:38.76
dclduo
Oh my gosh see you're giving unlimited caveats here I'll just just all I can do.

24:45.87
Sam
And you upload, all your like passport information and a picture of yourself and then you get a boarding time. You basically upload when you're tell them when your flight is getting in that sort of a thing so it's.

24:54.91
dclduo
All right? Well you you're rolling up to the cruise terminal and you see the ship for the first time frank this is your first Disney Cruise line experience. What did you think of the ship as you were rolling up.

24:57.00
Frank
Airways.

25:02.53
Frank
Yes, I mean I to me I don't know what it is about like cruise terminals in general and maybe it's just Because. We got you know papadolo like to like drive by a lot when we were kids if we were like in the city and you know like going into the intrepid and then the other cruise ships were nearby so you know I Always you know love the the setup you know this out all the ships are presented so even seeing the fantasy next to the other ships.

25:16.40
Sam
It it.

25:17.54
Jen
Um.

25:31.64
Frank
Was like oh my god this is gonna be amazing because it really it really stood out and it like really I think it finally hit me in the face like you're going on a Disney Cruise and so yeah, the excitement was definitely there.

25:34.95
Jen
Um.

25:41.45
Sam
Yeah.

25:43.78
dclduo
Um, and how excited were the kids I'm curious. What.

25:49.71
Jen
Oh my goodness. So excited especially to see the boat. They're like what ah and they could immediately see the slide on top and all of it and you know trying to so you know Frank's daughter had been on 1 cruise before and.

25:56.78
dclduo
Ah.

25:57.77
Frank
E.

26:05.38
Jen
All of our kids have crazy insane memories. So not to say that she hadn't remembered it but especially for my kids It was like we So we're just like staying on this boat like we just sleep here and we eat here like what that's so nuts. But yeah, they they were just a little bit excited I would.

26:05.93
Sam
And.

26:16.85
Sam
Ah, oh awesome. Oh even more fun. Yeah, so they knew they'd get lots of cousin time. Yeah.

26:20.52
Frank
Oh yeah, and we had there and they had ad joining rooms so you know it it was everything? Yeah no.

26:23.18
Jen
Ah, yeah, yes, yeah, ah yeah, yes.

26:25.26
dclduo
Yes, well that was give me my next question. Yeah, well that was give me my next question is what kind of rooms did you end up with onboard. Oh.

26:36.45
Jen
So mom and Papa dilo went for the sweet life. Um, as they should ah and and papa dilo because he kind of left it up to me to be like here I go book some rooms. Um I I didn't automatically assume we should all book.

26:38.24
Sam
Nice.

26:53.45
Jen
Balcony room. So I didn't um and probably a week out. He's like well what do you mean? where are you guys staying. But I also knew for Frank um, in the past he has sometimes liked to stay on the inside rooms due to the seasickness. So I knew this time he was going for. You know the the.

27:06.74
Sam
So.

27:06.77
dclduo
Move.

27:12.71
Jen
What what are they called now the the porthole the the window the ocean view. Um, yeah, okay so um I knew he was doing that I'm like yeah, we'll just do that. That's fine and we can get adjoing room so we did that so we were down on deck.

27:15.71
Sam
Yeah, an ocean view. And yeah, they call it an ocean view State room on disney.

27:15.97
Frank
Um, but yeah, you got it.

27:30.83
Jen
2 and then Momma and papaillo were up on deck but I remember 6 maybe um, but yeah for us I mean the kids loved sitting in the little porthole window and they got bunk beds so they were on cloud nine. Yeah yeah.

27:33.56
Frank
Yeah I get down 6

27:33.82
dclduo
I.

27:43.50
dclduo
Nice, nice.

27:43.81
Sam
Yeah, those are great rooms and there I mean how did you guys find sort of the we liked I like think the rooms are roomy but they're obviously you know they're still on a ship so they're small, but how did you guys find you know your rooms were.

27:47.85
Frank
Ah.

28:00.19
Sam
Did they feel like you had enough space Jen I know you you've got 2 little ones so you had 4 4 in your room and frank you. You had the 3 of you in your room.

28:02.87
Jen
Oh.

28:08.69
Jen
Yeah, oh no I heard you take a breath so I wasn't sure. Yeah.

28:09.57
Frank
I I do write and there's an edit for you right? there? No I think compared to other cruises that I've been on I think one of my big hangups and even just in terms of the seasickness too to keep taking it back to that is like sometimes the the confinement of the room doesn't help me.

28:11.65
Sam
Sorry.

28:14.19
dclduo
So what.

28:28.58
Sam
Um.

28:29.10
Frank
Try to work through the seasickness. So I found this room especially to be ah I don't know I've almost felt like twice the size and whether it was the you know the shower room and then you know the the toilet room and then of the two bathrooms I was like oh this is way more space.

28:41.55
Jen
Only.

28:47.45
Frank
Even though it's probably the same footprint. Ah, it just felt the way the layout was more ah more roomy and more relaxing too I Thought the ah I thought the the the tone was well set.

28:59.38
dclduo
Nice.

28:59.49
Sam
Yeah.

29:00.26
Jen
Yeah I I think I was a little bit worried about it like how is this? actually it's going to be pretty cramped s sleeping and when they took down the Bunk beds and like did turn down service and set it all up and pulled the curtain I'm like this is insane. Why does this room feel. Huge.

29:15.30
Sam
E.

29:17.78
Jen
Um, and and the fact that you could still walk around and there was still room it. It was pretty amazing how it didn't feel cramped at all. Yeah.

29:25.23
Frank
Um, right.

29:32.37
dclduo
Um, well so so you mentioned the kids were excited pulling up to the ship I got to believe they lost their minds when you stepped on board. So how how did the boarding process go for for you.

29:43.30
Sam
Ah.

29:46.66
Jen
Yeah I mean I think when Mickey welcomes you on a boat that really doesn't get much better than that. Ah so boarding was super easy again. There weren't many people so we got on pretty quick and and you know our staterooms were ready so it was great to walk on be announced. See Mickey Mouse and um, kind of I think I think we went right to our rooms and I'm trying to remember well.

30:08.96
Frank
Yeah, yeah, no, we did. But I think too it's you know, even after making and the check in is just then seeing like the pictures and hearing the music in the background and.

30:16.40
Jen
We know.

30:19.37
Sam
Um, you.

30:20.56
Frank
So all of you know all the all the elements basically was like hitting the kids like 1 at a time and everything was just more exciting than the next.

30:26.47
Jen
Yeah.

30:27.23
Sam
Awesome. Did did you guys did you guys do anything to prepare the kids in advance like watching any Youtube videos or anything like that.

30:27.54
dclduo
Well well the all import go ahead say.

30:40.50
Jen
Yeah I had um brought up some Youtube videos probably a couple of weeks before um, just you know it's some random vloggers that I hadn't seen before or families or you know they're big into Ryan's world so Ryan had been on.

30:57.97
Jen
Had been on ah Disney Cruise and so we were I kind of prepped them that way I don't know that they fully could grasp it and for me I wasn't sure if my kids would be be into the ocean ear club I was kind of hoping they would especially knowing that frank's daughter was all in on. Celebrity 1 um and the fact that they were just obsessed with it was amazing and I mean but you know we I'm skipping ahead a little bit but you know we got to see it towards the end of the cruise during one of the open houses and we're like. I want to hang out here all the time I just want to be here.

31:34.77
Sam
Um, ah, totally.

31:38.14
dclduo
Well the all important question is after you get on board where did you head first.

31:46.14
Jen
I'm I'm racking my brain here I think we did go to the rooms. But then we went all the way up to try to grab some food by the pool and we went to just the um that outdoor grill area. Yeah.

31:54.78
Frank
Jim Tur well yeah

31:55.28
dclduo
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

31:58.59
Jen
Um, so we went up there first and because it was later in the day. We also knew we had dinner at five So we had the early seating So we we ate lunch and then we kind of just took it easy. The rest of the afternoon because we also.

32:05.46
Sam
Ah, yeah.

32:06.93
dclduo
Ah.

32:14.32
Jen
Wanted to push the kids later in case, they did do the ocean year club and we could hang out. Um, we didn't want if we could avoid the early bedtimes we were trying to do that. So I think then we kind of took it easy the rest of the afternoon until dinner. Yeah.

32:17.86
Sam
Yeah.

32:27.53
Sam
Very very smart. Yeah, you didn't really need like a sit down lunch at either cabanas or at the one of the dining rooms when you're having such an early dinner and you're getting on on and the later side. So very smart thinking you guys I Love it.

32:30.93
dclduo
Yep.

32:34.54
Jen
Right? Um, thanks. We were totally prepared. So yeah.

32:46.18
dclduo
Ah, well let's look.

32:46.97
Sam
Ah, what did you guys think what did would you guys think of the pool deck and and you know and the food obviously on the pool pool deck as well. But just hanging out on the pool deck.

32:55.11
Frank
Well I mean I think one and I guess I didn't do the videos as much and you know I feel like I I've seen things over the years so I felt like I had a I grasp but but I don't think I really did and you know funnel vision. Just. Kind of blew our minds all week and just how much you could get pulled into those movies is is is amazing. Whether it's and' in the middle of day or at night it was just not non stop. You go can I just sit here all week and watch movies is that bad is that a bad thing to do and so you oh no I think that'd be a great thing to do.

33:23.39
Jen
Um.

33:24.66
dclduo
And and and how did this ice cream cone end up in my hand notice.

33:28.37
Sam
I Think that's great. Yeah, wait in how many? yeah oh yeah I what I was gonna say I wonder how many ice creams you all? ah.

33:28.76
Frank
Ah, that's right? yeah yeah I don't think anyone realizes that I would probably the winner of the ice cream cone eating all week is is. It's not one whenever I get a chance.

33:31.76
Jen
Ah, exactly great.

33:43.63
Jen
And especially at oh sorry, go ahead? Oh at night we would you know, kind of go up again to refill our mugs with waters and the kids cups with waters and all that and I know Frank and I kind of had done that separately on different occasions and different nights. But I think we both probably.

33:44.10
Frank
Ah, Elva. Um here guy jen no, you go.

34:03.48
Jen
Also took a few extra minutes to just sit there with the night breeze watching some funnel vision going right now I got to get back downstairs. Ok all right? Yeah, ah.

34:10.90
Frank
Specific The specific.

34:12.54
Sam
Ah, oh yeah I have just talked my kids and.

34:13.63
dclduo
Ah, love it. Did you did you get to experience the the Aqua No the Aqua guy I'm getting confusing. Yeah yeah, did you get a chance to experience the aqueduct.

34:19.16
Frank
Yeah, the aqueduct.

34:21.63
Sam
Aquaduc.

34:24.34
Frank
We did I I had several rides on the anqua duck and je I me you did that you did a couple right? That's right.

34:28.73
dclduo
So.

34:32.58
Jen
I I did you? Yeah I did one with Papa Dilo um and then I did one with ah my husband as well. So got I got to I think frank you did how many did you do 2 or more.

34:36.29
Sam
Nice.

34:44.84
Frank
I think I did 2 or 3 I think my them 3 overall yeah yeah.

34:48.97
Jen
Yeah, yeah, that was pretty cool I didn't think I would like it ah because it's you know, just the thought of being in a tube and looking out and seeing the ocean didn't really excite me but I realize I don't think I ever.

34:49.15
dclduo
Yeah, what you? what? you think? what'd you think of it. Overall.

35:05.90
Jen
Actually looked out that way I was concerned with let me wave to everyone by the pool. So I never looked the other way. But um I think you know it was a lot of fun and as the week went on. That's it. That's a good tip as well and I'm sure you've covered it ah to you don't.

35:08.33
Sam
Right.

35:22.67
Jen
Have to get on it the first day and wait online for over an hour. You just wait that out and the line gets better as the week goes on. Yes.

35:26.50
Sam
Um, Oh yeah, especially port days. That's the Tip. We always give people on port days. Um, a lot of people obviously are off the ship. So Even if you just come back a little early you can probably ride that slide with. Out any weight multiple times. Yeah.

35:44.22
Jen
Yeah.

35:46.32
dclduo
Yeah, yeah for sure. Um, oh no, go go for it.

35:48.45
Frank
Um, and the sorry I sorry I get of it sorry I was going to say that you know I that'st a as well into my adult years now I.

35:51.78
Sam
Goat No go ahead.

35:58.84
Frank
Ah, grown amused by how people's feelings are about water parks because I think you could feel very many different ways about water parks in general especially in in in the you know the the pandemic life. Everyone has been going through and but I love waterslides So this was right up my alley for me because ah.

36:03.34
dclduo
Yeah.

36:03.49
Sam
M.

36:17.54
Frank
I Mean anytime, there's a tube and the end of rushing water I'm in you got me every time.

36:21.37
dclduo
Nice, Nice. Thanks.

36:22.72
Sam
Funny I'm not a big water park person at all. In fact, I always joke like why would I ever go to one of the water parks at Disney World like there is when I could go to like a you know real amusement park but I love the water slides on the ships.

36:31.15
Jen
Yeah.

36:38.54
Jen
Are all.

36:40.44
Frank
Um, right.

36:41.60
Sam
Except for the aqua dunk on the magic because it's terrifying. So yeah Brian and I disagree on this one. But yeah, yeah, not going on it again. Not going to make me.

36:45.26
Frank
Ah, okay, oh.

36:45.47
dclduo
What what? you're just wrong about you're just you're wrong. It's fine. Sit there and be wrong and you're wrongness. Um, so yeah, so we know the kids love the kids clubs did you.

36:51.80
Frank
The fuck. Never.

36:59.66
dclduo
Either of you take a chance to go down to an open house and check out the kids clubs yourself.

37:04.21
Jen
Yeah, so we got to do that on the it was the castaway key day I think um and we had just we were like you know what we're going to let the initial crowd get off the ship and then we'll go. We didn't realize how efficient Disney is and that went really fast. Ah, but.

37:13.69
Sam
E.

37:20.87
Jen
We were like oh the kids were like oh let's go to the kids club and so we went up with them and they were like well it's an open house but you're welcome to come in and I'm sorry you're telling Dilos di you're welcome to come. Yeah, we're in yup, let's go. Let's take all the pictures and video weekend. Ah, but yeah, it was.

37:30.85
Frank
Um, my mother.

37:32.41
Sam
Um, they were in. Yeah.

37:39.60
Jen
Amazing I mean and they had been. You know every day coming back with the backpacks of crafts and talking about the games they played and the dances they did and the characters they saw but just to see the rooms and the details of the rooms and it's it's awesome. Yeah.

37:53.59
Sam
Um, yeah, the theming is just like on points like over the top fantastic and and and when you're seeing it in open house mode. They don't even have a lot of the activities and stuff out that.

37:57.80
Jen
Yes.

38:06.57
Jen
Right.

38:09.21
Sam
Kids are doing when it's in when it's in secure mode and but if you if you do get the chance sometimes they'll do in like afternoons or evenings. They'll do like ah 1 of their activities and they'll invite people for open house. So it's it's really fun where they do like stitches space goo and you know what.

38:22.42
Jen
Okay.

38:28.10
Sam
Just all kinds of fun, fun stuff that you can sort of watch and participate in sometimes with characters too. So oh yes, yes.

38:33.26
dclduo
Well I I want to hear Frank's review of the handwashing stations at the kids club.

38:39.13
Frank
I You know I was going to say in general that I the whole system is great right? The magic band kind of in and out the passwords and and the handwashing stations. Why aren't this in all the all the schools and all the places I think we we deserve them all everywhere.

38:44.58
Sam
Yeah.

38:50.54
Sam
Yes, yes.

38:51.25
dclduo
Yes.

38:55.11
Sam
Yeah I want a handwashing station in our house. Okay, that's like my that's my goal. This is a right totally totally and you know.

38:58.40
Jen
Yes, why don't we have that in the dining rooms. Why did we have to wade with the water. Why can't we stick our hands at the handwashing stations come on.

38:59.20
Frank
Is.

39:00.80
dclduo
Well.

39:06.60
dclduo
Yeah, that I agree with that I agree with.

39:11.25
Sam
That they're washing your hands way better than how most people wash their hands.

39:13.30
Jen
Oh yeah.

39:14.71
dclduo
Well so while your kids were taking you know advantage of the kids clubs What kind of activities did you all get up to on board. Did you do any activities or did you just lounge by the pool and be basmerized by a funnel vision.

39:17.35
Frank
Ah.

39:28.33
Sam
The.

39:28.92
Frank
Well well during the day we we were definitely pool did the pools during the day at at night because after dinner and we would we would send them and we we we found that our spot became oels. And yeah, we.

39:33.87
Jen
The list.

39:41.98
Sam
Um, yeah.

39:42.95
dclduo
Nice, yeah.

39:45.91
Frank
We had a little corner of ogall's and that became our thing for multiple nights.

39:48.95
dclduo
Nice, okay.

39:48.98
Sam
Awesome! Did you guys do any of the trivia and ogis speaking of ogis.

39:50.71
Jen
Um, yeah I think we ah we sure did and Frank won and it was probably yeah, the most excited you, you'll ever see Frank in your life.

39:56.59
dclduo
Oh.

39:59.20
Frank
That's right? Yeah, nice.

40:02.16
dclduo
Which which one which trivia did you win Frank and.

40:05.46
Frank
I think it was it was it was early in the week so it's kind of I don't remember with like a pop culture. It was a general pop culture kind of it wasn't that the Disney villains quoteswecame in second at the end of the week but I think the earlier in the week it was more of a general pop trivia kind of thing.

40:05.55
Sam
Ah.

40:13.24
dclduo
Ah.

40:21.17
dclduo
Yeah, you you will be absolutely humbled by. You will be absolutely humbled by the Disney fans on that ship in terms of but 100% right answers across some questions that I think I would have to spend a week researching to figure out. So yeah.

40:22.83
Sam
Um, yeah, well people don't realize like how hard. Yeah.

40:33.39
Sam
Oh yeah, somebody somebody had said to us on on a prior show. Oh like I'm sure you guys win Disney Cruise line trivia all the time like actually we really don't we don't even bother playing because it is like hardcore like how.

40:33.49
Jen
So.

40:34.28
Frank
Um.

40:42.76
Frank
Get that.

40:43.30
dclduo
Nope.

40:49.37
Sam
How many feet tall is the Disney Magic and ah I have no idea like how many pillows are on board like just crazy trivia questions that no person in their right mind should know. But guess what there are people who actually know the answers to them. But those people are not.

40:51.17
Frank
Oh no.

41:03.10
dclduo
Well yeah, yeah, yeah, meanwhile meanwhile your friend who went with us Sam knew exactly the head of the the Disney fantasy when asked and even went so far as to say and it changed at the dry dock when they up the the I was say oh my god all right too much information. So yeah.

41:06.52
Sam
Brian and Sam from the dcl duo.

41:12.16
Sam
Yes, yes, yes, that's true. Yes, but yes, there are there exactly there are people there. There are real people who know that stuff. Yeah.

41:13.31
Jen
Oh My god. Ah, all the details.

41:19.17
Frank
1

41:22.29
dclduo
Yeah, well did yeah well did you get up to any of the like adult nightlife activities since you were sending the kids to the kids club you know, match your maid or any of those kinds of shows. But.

41:34.48
Jen
We actually did not I think one night we were going to go to something and I don't even remember what it was and we're like what time does it start never mind. Ah and we the very first night though we did go to ula la first um and then ah and Josh freli.

41:43.52
Sam
Yeah, ah, they're late. Yeah.

41:52.40
Jen
If I'm saying his name right was the piano player that night and he was amazing. It was so good and we were the only ones in there at first and so he heard we were from New York and just started playing all these Broadway songs and it was like we just had our own little sing along it. It was.

41:52.67
Sam
Get up there? Yeah yeah.

41:55.13
dclduo
Yeah.

42:10.42
Jen
Awesome! yeah.

42:11.31
Sam
Oh fantastic. Yeah, they have some just just wonderful performers throughout the all all 4 alts are all 4 ships I was about to say all 5 ships. But yeah I we I mean just sitting and listening to piano is ah is a fantastic way.

42:18.10
Frank
Um.

42:23.17
Jen
Ah.

42:23.83
dclduo
Um, I mean ah go ahead him.

42:29.40
Frank
Oh yeah.

42:29.24
Sam
Enjoy any evening on a Disney Cruise I want to know though if you saw like the real shows because you know as a fellow. Okay, all right.

42:29.78
dclduo
Yeah, although a tear wait hold hold on one second sam hold on one second boy let your transition real shoes I just I have to say a tears rang down my cheek that Mama and papa dilo.

42:29.89
Jen
Yeah.

42:45.99
dclduo
We're not at match or mate because a fifty year anniversary couple would have definitely been on stage but jen and Frank probably saved themselves a lifetime of therapy. So um, ah now fair enough fair enough.

42:47.52
Sam
Ah, true.

42:51.45
Jen
Ah.

42:57.14
Sam
Listen there listen Brian they're from New York they're already in therapy. Okay, ah.

42:57.32
Jen
That's a really good point. That's also also true. Um, yeah, at first I was like yeah I missed opportunity but I have been to those shows on other ships and yeah, ah, no I don't need.

42:59.82
Frank
I have.

43:03.89
dclduo
Well.

43:08.63
Sam
Yeah, you don't need to hear about your parents? Yep yeah, like exactly. But but speaking of New York you know as fellow new yorkers i.

43:12.38
Jen
Those kind of bills to pay the therapist. No ah now.

43:22.47
Sam
Feel like it's my duty to ask you about the shows and I'm pleased tell me you went to see the Disney Cruise line stage shows or at least one of them on your seven night cruise because they are so fantastic. But I'd love to hear what you guys saw and how amazing it was. But.

43:38.42
dclduo
And why it was amazing.

43:40.60
Sam
And why it was amazing.

43:42.39
Frank
Um.

43:44.17
Jen
Um, yeah, so we saw Aladdin and frozen. Um, we did not see forgetting the name. What is the the show that the yeah.

43:53.20
Frank
Let's see end if week. Its the variety kind of it's.

43:53.90
Sam
It's yeah yeah, probably um, it's probably camera if it's believe or Disney dreams I think it's believe.

43:59.81
Frank
I I think that sounds correct. Yes.

44:01.22
Jen
Belief sounds right? Yeah, um, but ah we did that was on the last the final night and and we opted for one more go of the club and drinking instead. So ah, separate activities.

44:07.59
Sam
You didn't. Yes you made no you made the right? you made the right option there that listen there are people who love believe I'm not I'm not 1 of them. So.

44:16.82
Jen
Okay, good. Okay, excellent. But we loved Aladdin and frozen um mom and papaillo are not big showgoers typically I think on cruises. So. We dragged them along with it because they were you know they were up for anything. They were really excited to be on the cruise and seeing it like through the kid's eyes. So um, and if papa dilo is all in on the aladdin music I wouldn't be surprised if he has the cd in his car right now? Um, but yeah, the.

44:39.50
Sam
Um.

44:49.13
Jen
The music was great. The performers were great I thought um Aladdin was awesome and then we saw frozen and I'm like oh well, it just raised the bar a little bit. Ah so yeah I you know? ah Frank is probably in the broadway scene more than I am but.

44:57.30
Sam
Me.

45:05.53
Frank
Yeah, yeah I mean I think well frozen just you could You could tell it seemed um, ah fresher I guess and you know one one of the things in our home is you know.

45:12.14
Jen
Perfect.

45:14.18
Sam
Isn't it.

45:17.26
Frank
At party to March Twenty Twenty we were planning to go to see frozen on Broadway finally and and never happened because then it closed so it it was nice to see a live version of frozen because you knew it was meant to be when you saw the movie all those years ago and Aladdin is very near and dear to my heart. So ah.

45:22.70
Sam
Yeah.

45:35.99
Frank
Ah, both both of those you know and in some ways. Ah I don't want to I don't want to like go off on the terrible tangent here but Jen and I and our spouses saw Aladdin on Broadway when it was in previews and we did not like it and so in some ways. Um.

45:49.82
Jen
I.

45:51.38
Sam
Um, ah.

45:54.37
Frank
I Found myself enjoying this version of a Latin a little bit more.

45:58.13
Sam
Oh that's awesome. Yeah I um so I this version of Aladdin has actually been refreshed 1 or 2 times it's it's it's good, but it is not as good as frozen by any means so frozen is my opinion.

46:10.67
Jen
A.

46:14.94
Sam
Um, one of the best of their stage shows on Disney Cruise line um, only really beaten by perhaps tangled and beauty and the beast which are phenomenal. So it's kind of hard to yeah, it's kind of hard to beat the.

46:23.80
Jen
M.

46:27.52
Frank
Yeah, and yeah, no spoilers on like the on the show I guess but like you know I'll put the air quotes around. It's easy. You see the kids at the beginning you're like oh this is a good quality right here. So it really brought you right in.

46:35.80
Sam
Yeah, yeah I Love I Love that? Yes, that's my I think that's so smartly done exactly exactly what you're talking about but I I will.

46:40.36
Jen
Ah.

46:42.16
Jen
Oh.

46:51.20
Sam
Ah, will refrain from using the the word that would spoil it as well. Well I would love to know what you guys thought about main dining and the food overall because I feel like that's a oh Okay, okay sorry.

47:02.87
dclduo
Ah, wait wait wait. No no, we have to say food. We have to say food till Ti end we have to say food till end got to keep everybody going like say it. So let me I want to ask about ports and and castaway. Yeah, so you hit up.

47:04.43
Frank
Well.

47:09.28
Sam
Oh yeah, yeah ports I forgot about ports.

47:10.30
Jen
Of the.

47:13.40
Frank
Ah, interesting.

47:15.80
dclduo
So you hit up 3 port stops and we're going to save the best for last with castaway key but assuming it was probably what St Thomas and either tortola or st martin which all right and what and did you get up to I know you didn't.

47:28.34
Jen
Yep Tortola and St Thomas are correct. Well I'll make it easy and say ah nope I stayed on the boat. But.

47:33.45
dclduo
Book short excursions in advance but did you get off the ship and and what did you get up to in those ports. And.

47:43.20
Jen
Ah, Frank did get off in St Thomas

47:46.50
Frank
Ah, yeah, got off say Thomas we get off in Tortola. Ah we haven't talked about this on our podcast yet. So ah for the purposes of of this recording first. maybe maybe I'll end up saying it on theme park thursday first I don't know but for you guys it's a scoop right now. Is that is that we got off and we're just like we're just gonna go to one of the beaches and that's it and ah so we go to we decide to go to Sapphire Beach so we're you know, getting all the stuff ready for the beach I have ah 2 2 wads of.

48:03.65
dclduo
Ah.

48:04.40
Jen
Ah.

48:17.98
Frank
Of Cash and I know that one hand has the cash I need like for the cab ride and everything. So ah, we get in and and the cab we see how much it is to Sapphire. We go to sapphire and as we're going I'm like oh I got to get ready and and he's like no, we'll pay on the way back because he just did the shuttle thing. And as I'm as I'm going through I realized that I did not take the correct wad that I only have the wad with the singles in it and and I was like ah oh we're where we're stuck here for oh and the six year old actually said we're we're going to stay here forever and.

48:40.55
Sam
Oh no.

48:42.93
dclduo
Now.

48:55.27
Frank
And and so we had to do some coordination with ah Jen and Mr Snydillo as we call him to bring some cash down when we when we got back.

48:55.58
Sam
Ah.

49:02.41
dclduo
If.

49:04.77
Sam
Oh when you came back to pay the cabby. Ah.

49:05.81
Frank
Well we came back so that we yeah so there was a little bit. There's a little bit of tension on my side and a little anxiety during the trip to say I don't really remember anything too much I was trying to call trying to get a cash advance try to use the Atm with my credit card. It wasn't working with the disney vsa I tried calling. This's like you can have your pin in 7 to 10 days I'm like I am.

49:18.70
Sam
All Link maintenance.

49:23.80
dclduo
You might end and yeah, need my pin in 7 to 10 minutes yeah

49:25.40
Frank
I am on the beach in St Thomas yeah and it's fake now that's not going to work so it's all a blur st thomas for me. Really.

49:26.70
Sam
I Mean name me with now. Ah.

49:31.66
dclduo
Now that's too bad.

49:33.50
Jen
But if that's going to happen. It's good. It happens when you're on a vacation with your entire family where someone can come rescue you. But.

49:39.79
Sam
Right? right? Yeah, good call. Yeah because the cabbies probably don't take credit cards there um in in some places they do but in islands that's kind of a rare thing probably.

49:40.20
Frank
Um, yes.

49:47.88
Jen
Yeah.

49:48.11
dclduo
Yeah, yeah.

49:52.67
Frank
Right? and I and I for whatever reason did not have like the atm card I had the Disney Chase V I was like nope I brought the wrong card and the wrong wad of cash this is going really? well yeah, well of course. Yeah.

49:57.98
Sam
Right? oh.

50:03.74
dclduo
Hey you I get those Disney points. How was he going to pay for everything? Yeah, ah well.

50:05.14
Jen
Right.

50:09.59
Sam
Ah, we aren't by the way not sponsored by Disney Visa but disney visa if you would like to sponsor us you know, just call us because ah.

50:15.17
Frank
Sure.

50:16.90
Jen
Ah, they are open. Yes, they are open to discussions.

50:17.53
dclduo
We we are willing we are willing. Um well I assume everybody got off a castaway key so I got to ask about Castaway key and I mean that is the Disney Private island experience it probably doesn't get any more Disney Cruise line than that at least for the moment and so ah.

50:22.89
Jen
Yes.

50:33.15
dclduo
Jen what did you think about Castaway key. Okay.

50:35.42
Jen
Um I loved it. So we um, nine years ago when it was just Mr Snyidillo and I pre-kids we had gotten off and then I then we're I'm pretty sure we just went to the adult side because I don't even remember anything I was at this time or and so like it was a lot. Choir to oh there's an adult side. That's probably what we did? Um, but um, yeah, we all got off I was happy because again mom and papaillo being on so many cruises they've been everywhere and seen everything they're like I don't know maybe we won't get off. We're like you must.

50:52.30
dclduo
We.

50:54.48
Sam
Right? ah.

51:08.92
Jen
You must get off at this island. Do you will love it and I'm glad they did they like spent most of the time we were all kind of just hanging in the water because it was an amazing day. The water was great. Um, and yeah, it's just it's so cool there and we could we were starting to I think that night probably we're starting to be like we.

51:18.35
Sam
Um, and.

51:28.36
Jen
There's itineraries that go there twice. We need to look into those cruises. Um, but yeah, you know they had the barbecue lunch which was great and all the food and drinks and it it was just it was a really perfect day there I thought.

51:29.30
Sam
And.

51:41.76
Frank
Yeah, the Mrs and Mrs Dilllo as we call her on the podcast I would say she is the she is the least of the Disney fans amongst us all not Abe like she still got sir his right on a disney trivia I was so impressed and so proud. But but.

51:51.39
Sam
Oh oh.

51:51.43
Jen
A.

51:58.46
dclduo
Ah.

51:59.97
Frank
So you know were it's ah it's a process and ah you know So that's right, yeah chipping away at it and um.

52:03.49
Jen
Ah, right? yeah words and so try and ah.

52:03.99
Sam
It'll it take it'll take years I Guess you got you know.

52:12.50
Frank
Yeah, so the the 2 if there's an itinerary with 2 cast away key days I think she would be all in 100 I think that was the first time she was like okay now this this is what I'm looking for is just this's right here.

52:20.77
Sam
Yeah, that's right.

52:21.33
Jen
Yeah, yeah, because she's a big beach person and this was just like here's everything at the beach and you don't have to worry about anything. Yeah.

52:30.30
Sam
Yeah, it's so easy and it's and the great thing is you? There's no, you don't even have to take a cab ride. You're like right there you don't have to worry about Frank Swana cash you he just have to have your your room key and that's it.

52:30.42
dclduo
Nice.

52:35.39
Jen
Right? yeah.

52:40.37
Frank
Right? Um I.

52:44.76
Jen
Exactly Yes, yeah, and you have the view of the ship while you're in the water I mean it's like does it get better I don't know. Yeah.

52:46.77
dclduo
Well in this ship. The ship will not leave without you. So ah so one port stopped the ship 8 leaving without you. So yeah, yeah, awesome.

52:51.22
Frank
Um, ah.

52:52.52
Sam
Ah.

52:57.39
Sam
Yeah, did you guys do like the the water slides out at Pelican plunge or any of the Jungle gym type stuff out in the water just kind of hanging out in the water.

52:58.90
dclduo
Yeah, yeah.

53:07.89
Frank
My kid was out there for a little bit. Yeah, she was she was out on the Jungle gym for a little bit but mostly just hanging out in the water. My kid loves to swim so she was just all about swimming around the ocean.

53:08.17
Jen
Get we've.

53:18.24
Jen
Yeah, yeah, so we kind of just we we stayed pretty stayed put pretty much. Yeah, yes.

53:19.20
Sam
Nice.

53:23.10
Frank
Yeah.

53:23.96
Sam
Yeah, that's the way to do castaway. You don't need to do anything other people Also always ask oh what should I book it castaway nothing. Why would you book anything passed away. Why wouldn't you just sit in a chair and drink like beautiful you know frozen.

53:26.61
dclduo
Right.

53:32.53
Frank
Yeah, yeah.

53:32.56
Jen
Yeah.

53:41.84
dclduo
Out of 10

53:43.00
Sam
Drinks do nothing.

53:43.88
Jen
Exactly go there and do nothing I think the only like criticism if you want to call it that that we had later on is that was our very last day. Um, and we're like oh if this could have just been one day earlier and then we had a day at sea and only because like.

53:44.11
Frank
Message.

53:54.67
Sam
Is um.

53:57.10
dclduo
Yeah.

53:58.50
Sam
Yes.

54:01.81
Jen
It was nice to end the trip that way but at the same time we're like well no now we don't want to get off the boat yet I didn't want to just go from here to home I Need a little breather.

54:05.88
dclduo
And.

54:07.39
Sam
You that's that's yeah that's the 1 negative about that itinerary. Always we've done that itinerary multiple times and castaway is always the last day and there's no c day after and it's way better if you've got that.

54:10.78
dclduo
I Always hate the pressure of yeah.

54:23.89
Sam
Seadays then you can have the full day castaway not worry about packing and yeah, it's just yeah.

54:25.48
Jen
Yeah.

54:28.58
dclduo
Yeah, yeah, but the the dream does the ah that well used to what whatever ships do in the 3 fornites usually does the castleoway key day before a sea day but it's like a mixed bag because you're only on a three or four night crew so so like where's the tradeoff. But yeah, um.

54:36.68
Sam
Yeah, the wish right.

54:38.70
Jen
Um, right.

54:45.41
dclduo
Well we can't talk about a Disney Cruise without talking about the food and so we always love to round out the show talking about the food experience on board. Let's talk about your rotational dining experience first and so.

54:52.12
Frank
You know.

54:59.56
dclduo
What did you think about the rotational dining options and you know the shows and animators palette and all that stuff. Ah Frank why won't we start with you right.

55:05.95
Frank
Well I you know I think my thing for any Disney Cruise I might go on in the future is I want to start at animator's palette on a on a seven day so I can get it 3 times in my cycle because that was that was the one I found most.

55:14.20
dclduo
M.

55:18.00
Sam
Yeah.

55:23.89
Frank
Enjoyable I found the most like Disney experience within it I think I think the royal court was fine for you know, just you know, traditional cruise dining I guess with ah with a little flavor I would have liked to have seen a little bit more thematically maybe? um.

55:39.76
dclduo
E.

55:39.94
Sam
And.

55:43.26
Frank
And then ah the garden I the garden I and I enjoyed but I didn't but we started with the garden. So the third time around I was like okay I'm done with the garden. Ah.

55:52.68
Sam
Um, we need we need to get you on the wonder Frank yeah.

55:53.39
Jen
Ah.

55:53.47
dclduo
Ah, and what and what I guess what? Yeah yeah, yeah, what do you think about the food though in terms of the the options and the quality and that sort of stuff. Yeah.

55:57.80
Jen
Oh.

56:01.70
Frank
Um, interesting.

56:03.88
Sam
And what did the kids think too.

56:06.49
Frank
I Think the kids were fine Jen Would you say the kids were fine.

56:09.44
Jen
Um, yeah yeah I think the kids were fine I think this was this was a discussion for us while we were on the cruise because. 1 of the things 1 of my big takeaways from that cruise nine years ago was of course like a Disney Cruise amazing you're never going to get better than a Disney Cruise you have the Disney service you have you know the theming and you end the food was amazing and I think all of our expectations were so.

56:35.00
dclduo
Then.

56:40.25
Jen
Super high for the food. Ah we did not dillow them. Um, and and unfortunately I felt like I think we all felt that they did not meet those expectations. Pollo aside I mean we can talk about Apollo as a whole different thing. Um, but the kids.

56:42.31
Sam
Um, yeah.

56:42.67
Frank
No, we did not.

56:52.80
dclduo
And.

56:53.46
Frank
Even.

56:53.54
Sam
Um.

56:59.82
Jen
Fine. We we have 3 picky eaters among them and they're all picky in their own ways. But they all found common grounds and we we always found things for them to eat I think I am now in the last year or two gluten free. So I appreciated that every night. The.

57:16.57
Sam
Um.

57:17.73
Jen
Um, waiter was asking me what I would like the next night so they could kind of make any switches or accommodations and that was great. Um I think just the food overall didn't like ah wow us I guess and we weren't sure if maybe it's just the times that we're in and.

57:29.62
Sam
M.

57:36.98
Jen
Staffing issues and the just everything in the world being a little crazy still um, but yeah I think we were a little underwhelmed by the food in general. Yeah.

57:48.52
Sam
Interesting.

57:50.88
dclduo
That's too bad to hear we've been I mean that's one not great to hear but 2 unfortunately've been hearing it a little bit more these days. So I I think I think disney continues to struggle post post restart here. So yeah, yeah, how is this.

57:56.27
Jen
M.

58:01.71
Frank
Right? There seemed to be yeah, there seem to be a lot of that and and and I think what really surprised me too was on previous cruises I've been on I've always like had to struggle between like 2 and 3 menu options and I had I was struggling finding one good menu option for.

58:02.41
Jen
Yeah.

58:18.82
dclduo
Now.

58:19.37
Jen
For.

58:21.54
Frank
You know and I was like wow the options aren't even that and I don't know what it don't know what it was and maybe the first night I didn't find the the meat the the beef to be that great and so I was left to go in different directions I'm use it seafood I can always do but it would then when it came to the menu options for seafood I wasn't.

58:29.10
Sam
Mean.

58:31.93
dclduo
Um.

58:40.55
dclduo
Yeah.

58:40.62
Jen
Yeah, just.

58:41.27
Frank
Bowed either? yeah.

58:42.56
Sam
Yeah, well the menu hasn't changed at all. Um I think they in like years and years and years. Um I think they do need to do some sprucing up of the menu just to have some new offerings. The problem is of course you know Disney fans love when you change things.

58:56.70
Frank
What that's I feels I feel seen Sam How Dare you yeah

58:58.25
Sam
As long as you keep them exactly the same right right? so so so I feel like that's you know that's the there's that catch 22 of course. Um, but right so I mean I want yeah i.

59:03.84
Jen
Ah, ah.

59:05.60
dclduo
Ah.

59:09.76
dclduo
And Meanwhile Sam will burn the ship to the ground if they ever remove pruffle perettes from the menus. But.

59:16.14
Frank
Ah, and even.

59:18.13
Sam
But ah but I have a you know there. But there are certain menus like like more than others there. Um and some of them are on different ships and things like that. So there are definitely. There are definitely hits and misses on all of the menus I would say um and sometimes hits and misses even on a particular night that you know should be the opposite. So.

59:23.96
Jen
The.

59:37.85
Sam
Yeah, it's not um I'm I'm sorry that you guys didn't have a wonderful food experience because I feel like Disney food on the ships is quite good typically but um, but that's not always the case and I do.

59:46.16
Jen
List.

59:52.50
Sam
Think Jen makes a great point though about the allergy friendlineness of the ships I think that's I mean Disney's kind of known for that in general and that translates pretty well to the ships. Especially if you let them know early so that you can be ordering things in advance and we we saw that on our cruise on the wish with a.

59:57.36
Jen
Ah.

01:00:00.00
Jen
Yeah, yeah.

01:00:12.45
Sam
Ah, friend of ours who's gluten free as well and she was you know for better or worse having to order you know in a day in advance and I think at times that works out really well and at other times maybe not so much because you have a little bit less flexibility.

01:00:18.60
Jen
I.

01:00:26.88
Jen
Yeah, yeah, and you know I I think there was one morning um in the ah Caba what were we called the non-win jammer or we were ah going off caba is um that they had churro.

01:00:33.94
Sam
Yeah I yeah banist. Yes.

01:00:35.59
Frank
Um, yeah.

01:00:41.55
Jen
Mickey Waffles I think that was probably the best morning for everyone and everyone's like whoa. What is this? Um, but yeah I mean for me apollo brunch was insane and I was like well if we ever do this cruise again. We are all doing apollo brunch because.

01:00:43.64
dclduo
And of cook.

01:00:45.45
Frank
Um, but.

01:00:47.30
Sam
Um.

01:00:57.48
Sam
That's right right.

01:00:58.80
Jen
And I also can't eat for three days beforehand because I did not come prepared. My stomach was not ready for all the food I was eating but it was so good and I think Frank felt the difference I won't speak for you. But um, between the pollo dinner and the regular dining dinner.

01:01:05.77
Sam
Ah.

01:01:14.95
Frank
Oh no, yeah, definitely 100% and and almost too but too big of a gap right? I wanted it to be obviously better than but that the the gap was quite large and I mean I think you know yeah I think we put a lot of steak in an no pun intended in the food. Ah I didn't mean to do that wow ah, and and so that.

01:01:16.10
Jen
Yeah, and.

01:01:19.29
Sam
Um, me.

01:01:28.70
dclduo
Um.

01:01:32.41
Jen
Ah, ah.

01:01:32.52
Frank
What what was good about it for me too. Is it kind of forced me to change my perspective of how I was seeing the cruise as a whole and kind of like how Mama and Papa Dilo were're seeing it through the kids eyes I just became more ah entranced I guess by the Disney experience kind of thing which is why I love the parks and everything else and.

01:01:39.13
Sam
6

01:01:47.47
Sam
E.

01:01:51.69
Frank
You know I was a cast member in the 90 s and I I worked very closely with the Disney characters and so I then was just hooked on the characters and what they were doing all week and I really thought the character experience on the cruise was amazing and I would you know.

01:01:55.30
Jen
Is.

01:02:07.80
Jen
Ah.

01:02:09.60
Frank
Again, Kind of you know it gets a little better midweek. Don't start right out there. You might be like but these lines are crazy. Um, but the but I just thought what was offering? Yeah right.

01:02:10.79
Jen
No.

01:02:12.83
Sam
Yeah, except for the special outfits special outfits are always gonna have lines like pirate night and things like that you're gonna wait in line if you want pictures during those times. But yeah, that's a really good point.

01:02:12.93
dclduo
In that.

01:02:20.10
Jen
Yeah.

01:02:24.45
dclduo
But almost but almost no line on Disney Cruise line for a character as as long as the line you'll see at a park. That's my contention. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:02:30.31
Jen
Oh yeah, for sure and I think you know speaking to our nostalgic souls. You know, growing up in Disney in the 80 s and 90 s where characters were just walking around and roaming we've gotten so used to like.

01:02:32.83
Frank
Oh no, yeah um.

01:02:46.17
Jen
Ah, you need fast passes for some characters now or the lines are crazy long and it's so hard to kind of interact with them and here there's so many characters just roaming to the point where we almost felt like ooh don't bother them. They're probably on their way somewhere. No, they're just hanging out and we can go up and talk to them and.

01:02:48.74
Sam
Um, and yeah.

01:03:05.28
Jen
You know we had this amazing moment with um, the girls after Bibyty Boty Boutique now dressed as princesses and Cinderella comes around the corner like what is this magical moment. We're having you know and it's just that I think the characters ah was um i.

01:03:12.89
Sam
Oh.

01:03:16.12
dclduo
But.

01:03:24.33
Jen
It's like we expected it but didn't at the the same time so that definitely exceeded our expectations. Yeah.

01:03:29.49
Sam
Yeah.

01:03:29.61
dclduo
Nice, nice. Well Frank I've got to know what you had at your dinner at pallo because I'm so curious. So what did you get for dinner Apollo.

01:03:37.00
Jen
Um.

01:03:37.30
Frank
Oh okay I luckily I pulled up the menu in advance so that I could answer this question properly I'm a big. Ah.

01:03:42.59
dclduo
I.

01:03:48.46
Frank
Kalamari fans so I went with the Kalamari and and and and my wife and I alternated so we could taste each ah others the dishes well except for the we both had the the the beef Tenderlinein so that was our second dish for sure and then I went with the chocolate toothlay since she loves the.

01:03:49.30
Sam
Now.

01:03:49.83
dclduo
Ah.

01:03:59.19
Sam
He.

01:04:00.86
dclduo
Ah, nice.

01:04:07.64
Frank
The lemoncello in general so she went with the lemoncello tart as her dessert. So yeah, we did that we did the ah you know the pre is it a prefix. Yeah, it's prefix with then the wine pairing for each course and all the wine.

01:04:16.67
Sam
Yep.

01:04:21.60
Sam
So you were pretty so you were drunk basically is what you're telling me. But.

01:04:21.76
dclduo
Well.

01:04:26.41
Jen
A.

01:04:27.78
dclduo
Well if we if we ever end up on a cruise together Frank I'm gonna I'm gonna make you try the Oo Buco because I think it's one of the best dishes in the fleet. It's so good.

01:04:28.17
Frank
We're in good spirits. Ah I have to say yeah we were it was because of the wine pairing that we went with the prefix but the also Buco was definitely calling my name. Yeah.

01:04:32.70
Jen
A little.

01:04:38.95
Sam
Yeah, yeah.

01:04:41.53
dclduo
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:04:41.72
Jen
Oh it's calling my name now. Oh man and.

01:04:44.50
Sam
It's yeah I mean I I it's funny oftentimes I go for the prefi the price prefix prefix menu um and Brian does the all a cart because he wants the oh so buco or the dover soul but I always get the beef tenderloin. Um, the only thing i.

01:04:46.49
Frank
That.

01:04:56.53
Jen
But.

01:05:02.29
Sam
Like to sort of alter as I have to add a pasta course because I can't be in an italian restaurant and not like actually eat some pasta. So yeah, but you guys get that good stuff all the time you know we live in the Seattle area and they just don't know.

01:05:07.84
Jen
Have.

01:05:09.10
dclduo
Well it.

01:05:14.85
Frank
Ah, it's fair.

01:05:18.53
Sam
How to you know they don't know how to do things here when it comes to like New York style italian food so

01:05:22.30
dclduo
Ah, well that that was where I was headed with jen is so there's a little bit of a pop quiz here. What did you order for your breakfast or your bron shit Palo.

01:05:33.24
Jen
So our brunch was at twelve thirty I think it was technically the last seating. Um, so we were more on the lunch side than the brunch side and they were also like do you have anywhere to be. We're like well we have children to pick up. They're like okay but we can take our time I'm like sure.

01:05:34.15
Sam
Yes, yes, yes.

01:05:38.84
dclduo
Perfect.

01:05:44.68
Sam
Yeah.

01:05:49.49
Jen
I mean I think we could have probably sat there until five o'clock and they wouldn't have said anything and um so I had the basil soup the tomato and basil soup. Um I that was really good. Ah, we also.

01:05:51.22
Sam
And it.

01:05:51.67
dclduo
Here.

01:05:51.88
Frank
And.

01:05:57.87
dclduo
Wow! So good.

01:06:00.28
Sam
Um.

01:06:04.67
Jen
Ah had a a split flatbread I don't know why they're calling it a flatbread. It was a pizza. Um, yeah, so we did the um goat cheese and sundried tomato on one side and then what was on the other. It was no, it was grapes.

01:06:08.92
Sam
It's a pizza and this is pizza.

01:06:11.44
dclduo
Ah.

01:06:15.60
Sam
The spicy Italian sausage. No oh and the gorgonzola. Yeah.

01:06:24.10
Jen
And something Yes, the grape and Gorgonzola and we're like what is this I Never knew I would like grape on pizza but this is amazing. Um, and then on top of that We also had the ah the both antipasas. So the seafood and the meats and the and so by this point I'm like ok.

01:06:24.17
dclduo
Um, oh and Gorgonzola Cracon Yes, s.

01:06:30.73
Sam
Yep, ah.

01:06:37.13
Sam
Um, no.

01:06:42.69
Jen
Ah, good I don't actually need anymore Plus some you know mimosas thrown in of course. Um, so right and I'm like no I'm I'm all so I'm all set here. We're good.

01:06:46.30
Frank
I get but but.

01:06:48.19
dclduo
But you've only but you've really gotten the opening Ase you have to get to the main the main stage now. Yeah.

01:06:50.65
Sam
Yeah.

01:06:59.50
Jen
Ah, so this is why next time I have to prepare for much better because we were had breakfast that was that was a fail on our part. Yeah.

01:07:02.88
Sam
Oh yeah, so that's so we always go also around lunchtime. We like to do either like 11 or 12 and we don't order the breakfast food because not that the I mean I shouldn't say we I have ordered the breakfast food to try it. But it's it's fine. There's nothing wrong with it. But that's not the star. So it's.

01:07:09.13
Jen
And.

01:07:14.48
Frank
Ah.

01:07:16.99
Jen
Yeah, yeah.

01:07:21.57
Sam
If you don't want to be like throwing up your food. Um I Highly recommend skipping the breakfast food both in Cabana's dining room and in Pallo and just you know, kind of having a coffee that morning and and letting your stomach be empty.

01:07:33.58
Jen
Um.

01:07:36.43
dclduo
Um, but we haven't heard but we haven't heard we haven't heard if Jen got to a main course because there's there's um, is an important question.

01:07:37.50
Jen
Yes.

01:07:39.60
Sam
And then yeah.

01:07:42.94
Jen
I Yes I did so I went with the um, the pasta with the smoked salmon. Um, and then my husband had the Parmesan-c Crusted Chicken breast which he loved and he.

01:07:43.70
Frank
Ah.

01:07:51.94
dclduo
Ah, yes.

01:07:53.58
Sam
Yes.

01:07:59.30
Jen
I think his favorite thing at some point he had switched from amosa to ice t and in the ice t was the ice t cubes and this was probably 1 of his favorite things on the entire cruise. The fact that there was right? It's like this is.

01:08:01.81
Sam
Yes, yes, my favorite writing? Yeah yeah, your husband is a hundred percent right that's like literally like my one of my in fact.

01:08:12.44
dclduo
It's mind blowing.

01:08:17.29
Jen
Right.

01:08:19.66
Sam
I I had 1 um one post when we were on I don't even remember which crews on Instagram and it was just a picture of the glass of iced tea and I just said if you know you know and that's it. That's all I said in my post.

01:08:31.30
Jen
Um, exactly Yes, he is like and and then it just started the wheels turning like why don't we do this at home. You know what else we could make and it's like you just start thinking of all these ice cubes. You could be making and it's like why are we doing this? ah.

01:08:37.12
Sam
Price.

01:08:44.33
Sam
Were we thinking I speak cubes at home I know.

01:08:49.26
Jen
Exactly but it it added to the fanciness. Um I liked Ah, he absolutely loved the Parmesan Crusted Chicken Breast I liked my pasta I probably wouldn't go with that next time. Um, but ah yeah I think I felt the pressure of like.

01:08:57.20
Sam
Um, and me.

01:09:06.15
Jen
I Got to change it up for the gluten stuff and I'm so full already I don't know. Um, so again I will go in better prepared to the entire cruise. Ah, next time not just follow. Yeah.

01:09:06.17
Sam
Right.

01:09:08.98
Frank
If the.

01:09:17.40
Sam
Ah, their their lasagna is fabulous but I don't believe they do it gluten free I do believe they'll do the chicken gluten free. But then the chicken won't be breaded. So um, but but I'm sure it's delicious, Even not breaded because the sauce and the cheese are fantastic. So.

01:09:25.70
Jen
Right? And I mean you know. Yeah, yeah, but I mean it was amazing and we were there for I don't know two and a half hours and like I said I think they would have I did not make it to dessert I will say this was the one day I like earlier in the day I felt the boat moving a little bit more and.

01:09:47.20
Sam
M.

01:09:47.91
dclduo
Anything.

01:09:49.62
Jen
Like when we were at the pool I could tell the the pool water was swooshing and I could just and then so but then being up in Paulo with the view I was like hi I feel that a little bit. Um and then eating this huge meal I was like I literally.

01:10:00.23
Sam
Um.

01:10:05.30
Jen
Cannot eat another thing right now I don't I I need to enjoy the rest of my day So I'm just going to stop there? Yeah yeah.

01:10:13.94
Sam
Ah, smart smart thinking.

01:10:16.97
dclduo
Well, we could probably talk about this cruise all day. Ah then we would miss out on our favorite segment to do with guests and we cannot pass up this opportunity to do that segment with you. So.

01:10:18.49
Jen
A.

01:10:20.83
Frank
But um.

01:10:29.27
dclduo
Sam I think we've reached that point in the show where it's time for some arbitrary rules stirred with some arbitrary questions and a dash of judgment or the round we like to call rapid fire. So Sam you want to take it away. Okay.

01:10:37.83
Sam
All right? Well you guys every show. Well I shouldn't say every show almost every show we do a rapid fire round where I ask our guests their Disney favorites and then Disney Cruise line favorites and so I'm going to be asking you guys a couple of questions that are Disney favorites and then I'm going to go. On to asking you favorites from this cruise since I know jenny've been on one other cruise but I want it. Let's let's keep it to the fantasy. So let's yeah, that's right and and I want to be clear. These are your individual favorites. So frank.

01:11:01.70
Jen
And.

01:11:04.51
dclduo
Level the playing field level the playing field. Yeah.

01:11:10.69
Jen
Um.

01:11:14.19
Sam
Answer for Frank Jen you answer for Jen and not your kids I don't care about your kids your husband your wife's favorites. These are yours? Okay, okay, okay, so ah well I like to listen Frank I I like to switch it up. So.

01:11:19.24
Frank
Ah, that right.

01:11:21.86
Jen
Ah, it's fair I'm sweating though I'm sweating I don't do well with rapid fire. Okay, so okay I will all right I go say.

01:11:23.60
Frank
Gen je you're answering first. Just so you know oh no, right by.

01:11:31.22
Sam
I'll start the the first question we'll go to Jen and then we'll we'll kind of switch it up as we go so jen who is your favorite Disney or Pixar character.

01:11:40.77
Jen
Or Pixar you just che up because I'm like I have my static answer and now you changed it it up with you know what? I'm going to go rogue completely am I I oh revt fire. Ah, ah.

01:11:43.23
Sam
There you go.

01:11:51.98
Frank
Um, Rapid fire like.

01:11:56.89
Jen
I'm going to go I'm going to say joy I don't know. Yeah yeah.

01:11:58.79
Sam
Awesome. She's a great character lovejoy from inside out all right frank who is your favorite Disney or Pixar character.

01:11:58.88
dclduo
Nice, yeah.

01:12:09.81
Frank
Um, I'm very beholden to ah the genie of so for many many reasons in in my in my life.

01:12:14.20
Jen
So first.

01:12:14.73
Sam
Yeah, yeah, and and clearly um, the Robin Williams version of the genie right.

01:12:19.10
Frank
Yes, clearly Rob version I mean the Woody what he is is right right? at 1 a probably.

01:12:20.89
Jen
Okay.

01:12:27.92
Sam
Ah, all right favorite Disney or pixar movie frank.

01:12:32.82
Frank
A beauty and the beast is is just kind of a landmark movie in in my life. It just came at the right time I think as I was I was getting into theater a little bit so that is my that is my static answer but sometimes toy store and wally sneak up there as well.

01:12:47.14
Sam
Oh yeah, I know the all good answers. They are all right? Jen your favorite Disney or Pixar movie.

01:12:54.51
Jen
And we just talked about this recently and I don't even remember what I said because I felt the pressure of it So I'm going to go I'm going to go I'm going to keep the joy theme and say inside out there. You go? yeah.

01:13:09.41
Sam
Nice. That's one of Nathan's favorites um that and wally actually are probably his 2 favorite Disney movies. He his favorite movie I'm sad to say is not actually a Disney movie. Ah.

01:13:12.68
Jen
Nice. Love wally.

01:13:21.58
Jen
Ah, no judgment. Yeah.

01:13:23.50
Sam
I know but I'm like I'm raising my kid wrong if his favorite I mean it's ah it is a it's it's Mitchell's versus the machines on Netflix if your kids haven't yeah, it's a cute movie. Yeah so okay.

01:13:28.44
Frank
Oh and I mean it it never comes up when I answer these like if someone asked me, they're like what is your favorite Disney movie where technically I mean I love the force awakens and I would put that under the disney umbrella. Yeah yeah.

01:13:30.10
Jen
It's a good one. Yes.

01:13:40.74
Sam
That is action. So I will that is a valid answer frank I have we have had people answer with star wars characters star wars movies and I consider all of those valid answers same with Marvel it is if it's owned by Disney you can choose it as your favorite.

01:13:48.10
Frank
M.

01:13:55.72
Frank
Um I don't think I could ever say The original trilogy is my real answer is under the Disney Umbrella but I'm just gonna say that force awakens. Ah.

01:13:55.81
Jen
Moon I look.

01:13:59.72
Sam
I know up parent. Love all right favorite Disney Song jen

01:14:09.45
Jen
Ah I'm going to say thanks to uncle Jesse a dream is a wish or maybe just the wishes soundtrack. But you know ok ah.

01:14:12.51
Sam
Oh.

01:14:19.36
Frank
Oh ah, gosh I Prince Ali I I mean we would just talk about papa dilo probably playing a cd in his car but I do love prince Ali and I mean that's probably just my answer.

01:14:19.65
Sam
What about you? frank.

01:14:33.74
Frank
For today because we've been listening to aladdin a little bit here at home too.

01:14:35.98
Sam
Nice, Yeah, well, it's gonna be in my stuck in my head. So thanks for that. Ah, all right? What was your favorite bar space on the Disney Fantasy Frank will start with you.

01:14:38.93
Frank
And.

01:14:39.18
Jen
Let.

01:14:47.48
Frank
I mean I think we're gonna have the same answer unfortunately but oh gills was definitely with the right place at the right time with the right vibe and we loved it.

01:14:57.90
Sam
Nice Jen That's okay, no, you can have you're allowed to have the listen. You're allowed to have the same answer as long as it's actually the same answer.

01:14:58.50
Jen
Yeah I would I know we shouldn't have the same answer but it will be oh okay, okay, okay, it definitely is because they made me a delicious coffee and Bailey's iced that was like a dessert and I was obsessed. So yeah.

01:15:12.32
Sam
Oh yes, yeah.

01:15:15.20
Frank
Yeah, yeah, shout out shout out to sunny for that sunny took care of us multiple nights there and will shout out Mag who is our trivia master over there as well.

01:15:16.47
dclduo
It it.

01:15:17.64
Jen
Ah, yes.

01:15:24.51
Sam
Awesome! Love it.

01:15:25.24
dclduo
So so I wanted to ask Did you did you check out skyline on board.

01:15:30.49
Jen
Now where did we go? What was another one. We went to now.

01:15:31.62
Frank
We go skyline. Oh no, you know I did like the time that I know the time that Mrs Dilo and I went to go over there I think there was an event going on like there was booked out at the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:15:34.57
Sam
That's like the martini bar with the windows where the walls chain.

01:15:42.37
Sam
And I and yeah, it's a cool space. Yeah okay favorite space on the ship other than ogill so this is doesn't It can be a bar space doesn't have to be a bar space but just favorite space on the ship jen.

01:15:42.59
Jen
Yes, us too. Yes, yeah.

01:15:43.57
dclduo
Ah, oh bummer. It's such a good bar. Okay.

01:16:01.26
Jen
Um, I'm going to say the pool for the funnel vision goodness. Yeah.

01:16:05.78
Sam
Yeah, love it. Frank what about you.

01:16:13.10
Frank
Ah I gosh I don't I yeah I Really I Really like the animator's palette Honestly I like I like to be in in the space and so I'm gonna go with that.

01:16:17.65
Jen
Um, we're really great bad fire.

01:16:22.58
Sam
Um.

01:16:26.72
Sam
All right? Well you just answered my next question so you screwed it up Frank Now I'm just kidding but it's okay, oh.

01:16:33.30
dclduo
Well, you could you could you could change it to favorite restaurants on board instead of favorite rotational dining all right.

01:16:34.61
Frank
Um, that o. I.

01:16:38.31
Jen
Okay.

01:16:40.31
Sam
No I want to ask favorite rotational dining because I know Frank's answer so we know Frank's answer is gonna be anim meters palette. So I'm just gonna ask Jen the 1 question jen what was your favorite rotational dining fair enough I I think it's yeah I think on on the fantasy and the dream I that's my.

01:16:43.58
Frank
No.

01:16:49.20
Jen
Same definitely. Yeah.

01:16:49.99
Frank
Screw that.

01:16:58.48
Jen
Yeah.

01:16:59.20
Sam
My answer as well. Love it. Okay, food item we're gonna talk 1 savory item and 1 sweet item. So Jen let's start with you and let's go savory first.

01:17:07.61
Frank
Um.

01:17:13.40
Frank
A cash.

01:17:14.40
Jen
Thinking I'm thinking oh my goodness. Um, ah what could I that would the pizza count as savory, all right. We'll go with that. Yes, both.

01:17:22.30
Sam
Yes, you listen course. Nice nice. The apollo pizza. Love it. Okay Frank favorite savory item.

01:17:27.31
Jen
Sides Both sides of the pizza. Ah yes.

01:17:33.85
Frank
I would say the the the beef tenderlinein on Apollo I'll go with that. Yeah.

01:17:39.96
Sam
Um, nice, okay, favorite sweet item Frank Yeah, so it's the makey ice cream bar. Yeah.

01:17:42.71
Frank
I had so many mickey ice cream bars at dinner instead of the desserts as well. It's a maybe I mean that in the ice you know the officer of ice cream cones I Probably you know one a day probably.

01:17:47.81
Jen
Ah.

01:17:48.85
dclduo
Um.

01:17:56.93
Sam
Love it. Those are those are excellent items. No no judgment here all right Jen your favorite sweet item.

01:18:02.35
Jen
I was going to say the chocolate ice cream I had every night at dinner. But I think my ice coffee with Bailey's would have to be it because I had whipped cream on top. It was a whole thing. Yeah.

01:18:10.70
Sam
Nice, nice, awesome. All right favorite activity to do on board. Let's say other than hanging in ogills and other than watching funnel Vision Jen We'll start with you.

01:18:29.35
Jen
Well thanks for that? Um, ah, let's see Rapid fire rapid. But I'm going to go the shows. Yeah.

01:18:30.33
Sam
Oh.

01:18:41.37
Sam
Um, awesome What about you? frank.

01:18:41.41
Frank
I mean I my instinct is to say the aqueduct but I do what Don say the aqueduct but I also want to mention though we did not complete it. The muppets scavenger hunt thing they did was a good use of the muppets in in the in the disney universe here.

01:18:49.55
Jen
Oh yeah, yes.

01:18:54.40
Sam
yes yes I love the midship detective agency every time we're on either the dream or the fantasy Nathan and I do at least 2 of the the storylines because.

01:18:56.20
dclduo
Yeah.

01:18:58.31
Frank
So I enjoyed that as well. Yeah.

01:19:11.45
Frank
Okay.

01:19:13.67
Sam
Just each one of them is fun and I love it and I agree with you the muppet one is is 1 best use of ip on the ship and 2 just really fun. So okay, my last question bucket list. Cruise now I got to give you some qualifiers you can sail anywhere in the world.

01:19:14.62
Jen
Yeah, yeah.

01:19:18.84
Frank
Just looks.

01:19:20.73
Jen
Yeah.

01:19:33.20
Jen
Oh.

01:19:33.55
Sam
On a Disney Cruise ship doesn't even have to be someplace that Disney Cruise line currently sails. Where are you going? frank.

01:19:41.27
Frank
Ah, well know it's I said that when I went to the Mediterranean and knocked me out but boy did I love that cruise so that was a royal caribbean so if a Disney Cruise could take me to Florence and Santorini and all the things I would definitely be down with that barcelona.

01:19:54.97
Sam
Awesome! Awesome! What about you? jen.

01:19:57.75
Frank
Yeah.

01:19:58.14
Jen
Yeah I mean my instinct was Europe but then I started thinking some sort of Hawaiian Cruise where I could like stay at alani and then hop on and then do a whole thing maybe that? yeah.

01:20:05.83
Sam
Yeah, you know we actually have an episode we recorded where one of our guests did exactly that they actually sailed.

01:20:19.76
Frank
Um, so.

01:20:20.96
Jen
Ah, ah.

01:20:22.46
Sam
From Hawaii around the hawaiian islands and then back to I think Vancouver. Yeah, so yeah.

01:20:24.89
Jen
Oh nice. That's awesome.

01:20:28.83
dclduo
I'm going to tack on 2 quick questions but just handled like in succession here. So rate this cruise when we give this how many how many ah Dilos Dis points from 1 to 10 was this cruise and would you go on another Disney Cruise frank

01:20:42.63
Frank
I would give it a solid seven and a half and I yeah I would go on in a heartpeat. Yeah I I'm going to chalk up the food to having a bad week.

01:20:56.10
Jen
Um, yeah I'm going to go eight and a thousand percent ah tomorrow is tomorrow good. Yeah yeah, right? like.

01:20:58.61
dclduo
Jen.

01:21:03.43
dclduo
I.

01:21:04.80
Sam
Ah, was that too soon. Yeah, and we when we just like meet in Orlando tomorrow is the thing right.

01:21:11.43
Jen
What's everyone doing. Ah.

01:21:13.35
dclduo
Ah, well it has been an absolute blast hearing about your crewise was so excited to talk to you both about your sailing and so ah, just so much fun. Um, we've mentioned several times your podcast still as dis but tell people how they can come find you and connect with you and fall along with all of your wonderful Disney World travels too.

01:21:31.90
Frank
Sure. Well first of all I think one of the most exciting parts of going on this cruise was knowing that we were going to get to talk to you guys and so so so we were excited for that. But yeah, every Thursday we drop a new theme park thursday with Dilos this episode.

01:21:41.64
Jen
Ah, yes.

01:21:42.96
dclduo
Um.

01:21:43.26
Sam
Um.

01:21:51.33
Frank
All your pod catchers have it. Our social media is at Dilo's Dis Dilos with AnSDis with the z so that's over on Twitter and on Instagram and on the Tiktok which is our biggest social media following. It's very weird and that means we have to keep doing tiktoks is really what it means? ah.

01:22:03.76
Jen
Oh.

01:22:05.76
Sam
That means you have to keep doing silly dances is what you're saying.

01:22:10.42
Frank
That's right? Yeah, we have ah we have a modest Youtube channel at youtube.com/dilo's di but all the things all the places you can go to dilosdi.com when you get to the main page you can go to directly to dilllos diz.com or you can click over to our Patreon at dilllos diresort.com bothings at dillowsdi.com

01:22:10.81
Jen
Ah, exactly yes.

01:22:29.44
Frank
Check it out.

01:22:30.75
dclduo
Fabulous when we will link to at least some of these places in our show notes to help people find you faster and yeah, but above all, just really appreciate you taking the time to come on share your experience with our listeners. We we love listening to your guys show and just we're so excited to have you on. So thanks for coming on.

01:22:32.26
Frank
Awesome.

01:22:44.74
Sam
Um, yes, and and Jen has another podcast as well. Okay, oh okay, never Mindd then never Mindd let's leave it there. Ah.

01:22:46.33
Frank
Do you think.

01:22:49.00
Jen
Well actually we haven't really we don't have to plug it because we haven't done in over a year so yeah but thank you? ah.

01:22:57.91
Frank
Yeah, there still needs to be a final episode I think of that podcast has to be like the this special.

01:23:02.70
dclduo
Ah, look Yeah yeah, well let me redo the ending then um, ah yes, so ah, but bla where was oh so so again, loved having you on to talk about your cruise was so much fun. Love your show.

01:23:02.53
Sam
Um.

01:23:03.42
Jen
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

01:23:20.00
dclduo
Love everything about this was so excited to have you on. So thank you so much for taking the time to come on. Alright.

01:23:22.41
Jen
Well thank you so much for having us.

01:23:24.50
Frank
Thank you both.