00:00.77 dclduo Welcome back everybody hold on I say again welcome back. Don't stop laughing I'm gonna mute you see I'm I'm gonna mute you. Okay. 00:07.80 Sam Sorry sorry I'm sorry I'll mute myself. Yeah. 00:13.54 dclduo Welcome back everybody to this week's episode of the DCL duo podcast brought to you by my path unwinding travel and as always my lovely co-host Samantha is joining me today. Welcome Sam. 00:25.55 Sam Why thank you Brian I am drinking some coffee this morning. This is a Sunday morning that we're recording and I yeah I could I should be on my second coffee but I'm towards the end of my first coffee right now. 00:38.13 dclduo Yes, yes, well caffeination is important to maintain your energy level overcaffeination However, leads to a samantha that none of us want to see so. 00:49.56 Sam Right? Really Jittery Sam You don't want. Yeah, you don't want me on cold you drink cold brew for our audience. Um, ah you don't want me on Cold brew because I'm like I got I get the shakes on Cold brew. 01:00.78 dclduo Yes I I always joke that my autobiography will be titled life at the bottom of a vente cold brew. So there you go there, you go it says everything you need to know about me. So. 01:08.67 Sam I Love that that's. 01:13.50 dclduo But we have a we have another fabulous guest to welcome today and want to start by welcoming Julie to our show. Welcome Julie. 01:18.12 Julie Thank you you. 01:19.72 Sam Yeah, thanks for joining us Julie we are going to talk to you about 1 of my favorite topics which is first time cruising on Disney Cruise line for anyone who's listened to the show before you know this is like my favorite topic because I love. Like welcoming people into the Disney Cruise line bubble community I love it that's right 01:38.83 dclduo Welcoming to the castaway club is says we should yes yes, well Julie we always like to start by getting our guests Disney Accruising backgrounds or Disney Backgrounds is your first time. Cruising dcl will expand that to a general cruising trips to the park that kind of thing. So what's your background with Disney. 01:58.29 Julie so yeah so I went to the parks for the first time as a child with my family and then probably went a few times with ah friends in my early twenty s. And then once I got married and had kids. We've pretty much gone every year since then and that's to Disney World in Florida and then as for. 02:19.89 dclduo Nice and if I were. 02:26.31 Julie I I can. 02:26.74 dclduo Up. Can you still hear me. Okay, my something? Yeah no I don't I and then I got a whole bunch of static in my ears. So I'm not sure what just happened there. Okay, well we're still recording so that works. Um I was. 02:28.94 Sam You just interrupted. That's why she stopped talking. 02:38.40 Sam She. 02:41.46 dclduo But Julie do you own Disney Vacation Club I think you said that you might and the the sport questionnaire was. 02:43.80 Julie We do? Yeah, we do we own at Bay Lake tower and Saratoga springs I and this year we've been to alani for the first time. 02:50.40 dclduo It. Nice Nice andca. 02:50.84 Sam Nice. 02:59.00 Sam Um, oh our other favorite place. Awesome. 03:03.20 Julie I guess it was wonderful and then ah this cruise that we went on was supposed to be in the summer of 2020 and we did. 03:10.41 Sam Of course. 03:15.14 Julie So in 2019 we did a trip to Disney world and then we spent a couple of nights in Cocoa Beach and we went to Nasa and we had planned having a late lunch early dinner at one of the hotel or one of the restaurants that's near the port and we watched one of the. Dcl ships sail out of port and when our sons came back to the table we had made shirts for them that said Disney Cruise 2020 so that that was how we told them that we were going. 03:48.90 Sam Um, ah oh that's awesome. Um, how old are they. 03:55.58 Julie Um, now they're 13 and 9 So at the time they were 10 and 7 03:57.93 Sam Oh yeah, oh that's so cute though I love that what a great surprise. Did you have to update the t-shirts say 2022 instead Or did you just use like some sharpie on them. That's right? yeah based on those ages there. They grow kind of quickly. We We know that. 04:14.77 Julie Um, I mean I should have although they wouldn't fit them anymore. Unfortunately, ah i. Yeah, and that's sort of my hobby is making shirts so that we all match when we go to the Parks. So I made all new Disney Cruise line shirts for us and I have a silhouette which is similar to a cricket. 04:30.99 Sam Oh nice, awesome. Do you have one of those cry cut machines. Yeah yeah, a cricket Cry Cut Cricket and you. 04:43.80 dclduo I don't know something you're probably going to buy for for Christmas at some point I I'm guessing whatever it is sam however, it's pronounced. We will have 1 04:45.93 Julie I'm not sure which one is right? so. But what I did do a spreadsheet to look at the difference between buying the machine and continuing to buy things off of Etsy and I'm sure it's paid for itself. So. 04:51.00 Sam Ah I honestly I don't yeah I don't have time. Yeah, Etsy. Yeah so I was literally just going to say I honestly, it's one of those things where I would love to do it but I feel like doing it. Well. Actually takes like quite a bit of a time investment. Um, you know making the designs and planning them out and whatnot and so I just buy my I know it's cheaper probably to buy the machine. Um, but the hours of time investment I just do etsy I'll be honest, yeah. 05:19.16 dclduo Well may not be yeah, it may not be because if you want to make magnets you have to have the material to make magnets if you want to make t-shirts you got to buy the t-shirt. So yeah I I saw something recently about 3 d printers because you can print on with metal with plastic with all these things but keeping all of the different materials that you want to print in and stock is. 05:28.80 Sam Right. 05:38.65 dclduo Potentially more expensive than buying the machine and the materials than just sending it to a third party to print for you. But. 05:41.72 Sam Well, it depends I Think what you're making right? like if you're just making t-shirts I think it's probably is. 05:46.70 dclduo Sure much like deciding if you want to buy dvc we could wrap it hold down in economics conversation for a half hour but yeah yeah, yeah, 05:54.89 Julie Ah, you can work the math. However, you want. 05:55.28 Sam Right? Exactly it exactly the point right? and but if you it's something you enjoy doing I think that's cool I would love to like I said I would love to do it. It's just one of those things where I feel like to do it. Well I'd have to invest a lot of time and I got a podcast to do you know. 06:10.80 Julie There are some shortcuts to getting started and getting designs. So if you ever decide to do it. Let me know and I can walk you through it. 06:19.90 Sam Cool. Thank you Julie I appreciate that so let's talk about? yeah all it's a. 06:23.40 dclduo Well Julie we got to start? Well Julie we got to start talk I got it to well Julie we got to talk about your fabulous a first time aboard the disney fantasy I believe it was and so or no the Disney was it the dreamer the was the dream wasn't it fancy. Ay ok. 06:37.24 Sam No, the fantasy. No the fantasy. 06:37.80 Julie It was the fantasy. 06:42.40 dclduo Well Julie we got to talk about your fabulous first trip aboard the Disney Fantasy and so first let me ask which sailing did you take where did you sail out of and who was with you. 06:52.67 Julie So we took the western caribbean sailing out of port canaveral at the beginning of August and took with my husband and our 2 sons. Who at the time were just 13 and nine. So. 07:16.10 dclduo Okay, and how long was the cruise it was a five night seven night so you did do the full the full week ok um and you mentioned that you had done some sailing on now I'm free. The new a dive boat basically, but. 07:17.49 Julie Seven night we did. 07:30.49 Julie Yeah, my husband and I are certified scuba divers and in the years before kids we did a live aboard dive boatat trip in Australia to the great barrierry reef and. 07:43.74 dclduo Okay, so you knew you were going to get seasick on board that was the important thing. Yeah, yes, yes, and and I guess how did you decide first time cruisers sometimes they go for a three night or a fortnight to make sure that you know. 07:47.65 Julie Exactly exactly but a very different experience from a cruise ship and. 08:03.69 dclduo Everyone's going to have fun and enjoy it. How did you land on the seven night 08:05.68 Julie But we had originally booked a five night out of Port Canaveral for Twenty Twenty but covid had other plans for that cruise and then when we got the one hundred and twenty five percent cruise credit that enabled us to. Book a longer cruise with the same funds. So. That's what we did. 08:26.30 Sam Oh yeah, that's a yeah, you turned a five night into a seven night without paying extra money. That's perfect. 08:32.40 Julie Yeah, it was great. 08:34.00 dclduo Nice and was your original five night a similar itinerary or did you did you get to pick a different itinerary. 08:41.20 Julie Um, it was a different itinerary. It was I think it was the double dip at Castaway key and Nasa yeah. 08:49.85 dclduo Who that's a tough one to get to get ah of a double dip the covervet a double dip. Yeah, and then your first time it cast away you would have had 2 bites at it. That's ah that is a tough one to to leave but 7 nights I longer cruising is always better. Yeah, longer cruising is always better. 09:00.91 Sam Yeah, but 7 nights. Yeah, even if yeah, even even giving up a a double dip to me the the seven night is is the is the worthwhile sacrifice to make. Ah. 09:13.47 dclduo Yeah, for sure for sure. Um, and where did your cruise stop. 09:18.90 Julie We stopped at tortola in the british virgin islands and then St Thomas in the us virgin islands and castwayki. 09:28.16 dclduo Okay. 09:29.99 Sam Ah, that's actually Eastern Caribbean caribbean not western. That's all right? No worries eat. Yeah, that's actually our favorite itinerary. Yeah. 09:31.94 Julie So a wizard I'm sorry. 09:33.13 dclduo Yeah, yeah, that's the eastern. Yeah, that's the eastern that's the eastern itinerary that's a great itinerary. It's one of our one of our favorites. Yeah, love stopping at tortola for some painkillers and St Thomas for Megan's Bay Beach so um, so yeah there you go 2 great stops. Well, let's back up for a second What did you do actually see that again. Let's back up for a second where were you coming to the cruise from. 09:57.59 Julie We live in the Chicago area so we flew down to Orlando four days earlier than the cruise and we spent three days in the parks and then went over to the cruise. 10:05.10 dclduo Okay. 10:13.92 dclduo Dice yeah, always always a good strategy couple the crewise with a little bit of a park say we do that ourselves love to use those dvc points pre ah pre cruise to I guess not save a little money although the $0 bill at the end is nice. Um. 10:24.48 Julie Yes, yes. 10:25.83 Sam Um. 10:27.31 dclduo So and then how did you get to the port from Disney World did you take the Disney bus or did you drive over use private transportation. How'd you get out to the port. Okay, yeah, smart that tends to be the smart move because the Disney buses are a little erratic in terms of their pickup times and sometimes pick up pretty late in the day so you. 10:32.81 Julie We use private transportation and. 10:46.84 dclduo And sort of miss that part of at least part of that first day of cruising. Um, how did the ah how was the online activity booking and check-in process for you because you you would have had no castaway club status. So ah, you're kind of at the tail end of both processes. Well everyone. 10:59.49 Julie Um, yeah. 11:03.10 dclduo They're checking at the same time but you're at the tail end of the booking process At least did you did you get the activities you were hoping to get for your family. Okay. 11:10.60 Julie We did not um, you know my husband and I stayed up until midnight the night that we could check in and you know we're ready to be sleeping but we couldn't be because we had to make all those decisions and ah. 11:22.95 Sam E. 11:26.59 Julie When we couldn't get the excursions that we wanted. We had to you know make some compromises which I don't think that clearly at midnight was. 11:35.37 Sam Yeah, ah, yeah that it is one of the hard things I think is knowing what's going to even be available. No matter what your booking window is frankly, um, you know you can look on the Disney website and get the list of. All the excursions that they've like ever offered in those ports but they're not always the excursions that will be offered on your particular sailing. Um I I that's one of the things I wish Disney would change that you could at least. Browse them. You know browse what's available or what will be available before your before your check-in time because it makes it very difficult for people. You know who who maybe haven't decided what they want to do because they don't know what's actually available if you're if you're a more seasoned cruiser and you've been to. You know St Thomas had whole number of times you probably already know what you want to do. But if it's your first or second or even third time there. It's kind of hard to know what you? what? you even want to do well when you're there. What did you guys end up booking if anything through Disney. 12:42.22 Julie Yeah, so we booked a ah I think it was called the treasure island snorkel cruise out of Tortola and then we had booked the st john bay snorkel and. 12:47.44 Sam Oh nice. 12:58.97 Julie Beach visit for St Thomas but we ended up canceling that and we just explored St Thomas on our own. 13:05.32 Sam Nice. Yeah I'm saying Tom. 13:06.19 dclduo Yeah St Thomas is a pretty pretty pretty decent island to explore on your own I will just keep putting in the plug that I think one of the best beaches in the caribbean and is Megan's bay so if you end up not being able to get a Disney excursion and you're headed to St Thomas just grab a cab and head over to Megan's Bay Beach there's a bar there where I'm sure they can call you another cab to get back and there's usually cabs just kind of hanging out in the parking lot there to take people back. So if you can't get a disney excursion I actually think that's not a bad way to bad way to go. 13:36.22 Sam Yeah, and it's it's us territory. It's quite. You know a safe place relatively speaking. Um, yeah so I think St Thomas is ah a fairly easy one to kind of explore on your own so that was probably ah. 13:52.20 Julie I Yeah, definitely. 13:52.60 Sam Good call there. What about any of the you know adult dining or anything.. How do you?? How do you thought about that ah in advance and oh you had your kids with you So You don't kind of know at that point how they're going to do with the various kids clubs and with the dining and all that had you guys thought about doing or trying to book any adult dining in advance and. And if so did you get any. 14:12.74 Julie I yeah, we definitely thought about it. Um, we listened to your podcast while we're making dinner. So we've heard plenty of awesome reports about remy and Paulo and um, that was definitely on our agenda. 14:21.68 Sam Governess. 14:29.85 Julie Our kids have been to the kids clubs at Disney World back when they used to have them in the evenings and the first time they went there. We tried picking them up about nine o'clock after we had gone and had dinner and. 14:35.43 Sam Um, yeah. 14:47.85 Julie We were told do not come back until this place is closing so we had a pretty good gauge as to how this was going to go on the ship with the kids clubs. 14:51.80 Sam Um, yeah, that's awesome. 14:54.62 dclduo Ah. 14:59.50 Sam Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. That's I I Wish you know I Wish most parents could have had expectation I we try to tamper people's expectations because the kids clubs are so great and the counselors are so great, but it. Not every kid does well in them and not every kid is going to take to them right away and you know and depends on you know the the personality of your kids and the ages of your kids and whether or not they make friends and there's just so many variables. So It's one of those things where so most parents can't have that expectation but I love that you were able to. So What did you guys end up booking anything and were you able to book it in advance or wouldn't be surprising to me if you that was something you actually had to book on board. 15:43.88 Julie I Yeah so we were able to get ah Pallo and remy for dinner in advance. Um I would have loved to have done a brunch because I love brunch food but we couldn't get that. So. 15:46.59 dclduo Oh nice. Okay. 15:46.82 Sam Nice. Um, yeah. 15:54.91 dclduo Now Did you try for it when you got on board at all. Okay, well let her finish you. 15:58.57 Julie And we didn't and I think I think it's because I found when we got on board. You know I went to the spa and I booked a bunch of spa appointments and we got the rainforest room and I was sort of feeling like. 16:01.37 Sam You know I sorry. 16:10.31 Sam E. 16:17.58 Julie Oh geez. There's a bunch of other stuff I want to do and now I have to work around these appointments. So I think we just sort of backed off on the brunch because of that. 16:26.66 dclduo Yeah, well something to look forward to the next time you sail for sure. 16:28.84 Sam Yeah, and and and honestly I think that's a I think that's a good call. Um, not because the brunch isn't wonderful. The brun and pollo brunch is wonderful. Um, but I will say I it's not I don't think you go to Apollo for the. 16:30.71 Julie So definitely. So. 16:46.31 Sam Brunch food I Know that sounds weird but like I don't We always order the Italian food at Brunch Apollo Um, not that the brunch food isn't good I Just think the Italian food is really the star there. So we always get like lunch foods when we're at brunch honestly. But anyway it's a. 17:00.21 Julie Okay. 17:01.21 dclduo Yeah. 17:05.67 Sam I agree with Brian it's a ah thing. Ah an experience to save for your next cruise. 17:11.79 Julie Definitely. 17:11.92 dclduo Yeah, for sure. Well let's talk about you. You actually what we're still talking about booking things I'm curious. What did you want a book that you couldn't book because the Pao remy is usually the thing that people get bummed. They can't get ah but what? what were the short excursions you were eyeing that were sold out. 17:27.54 Julie Yeah, we really wanted to do the snuba in St Thomas Our kids aren't really old enough to learn how to Scuba dive yet. So we were really hoping to be able to do that with them instead. So. 17:28.97 dclduo Remember. 17:33.35 Sam Um. 17:35.93 Sam Are e. 17:40.39 dclduo Fun, fun. Yeah, that would probably be a smaller excursion for sure if it's for the equipment. So yeah, well good to know for folks. 17:48.26 Sam Yeah, there probably are third party. Yeah there's probably third party vendors. You can book through. But obviously you know we always tell people you've got to be willing to take some risk when you book directly through third party vendor as as opposed to booking through Disney so a lot of people do it. Um, and ah. You know have a great experience and then there are those experiences that are not so great. So yeah, some risk there. 18:09.83 dclduo Yeah, yeah for sure for sure. 18:10.51 Julie Yeah, we we we investigated that a bit and really came to the decision that you know it's our first time doing this. We don't want to take the chance of missing the boat so we decided not to do it and. 18:24.24 Sam Um, yep. 18:26.63 dclduo Yeah, makes sense makes sense. Well as you are rolling up to port canaveral you're getting some of your first glimpses of the Disney dream. What were the? Ah what were the emotions this gosh sorry I'm so confused. Ah all right? Let me try this again. 18:36.29 Sam Disney Fantasy fantasy. 18:43.13 dclduo Well as you're rolling up to port canaveral you're getting some of your first glimpses of the disney fantasy and what was the mood like in the car. 18:51.77 Julie Ah, we were very excited, especially my 13 year old because he was pointing out all of the ships that were in port. He's very into ships and planes and what they do and how they're run and watches all sorts of Youtube videos about it. 19:07.78 Sam Oh cool. 19:09.58 Julie So he was pointing out different things about all the different ships and. 19:14.69 Sam That's cool and did you know he realized that the most beautiful one is always going to be the Disney one that's in port ah, not to say there aren't other beautiful ships out there but you're at port canaveral you look at those carnival ships and you're like um. 19:19.90 Julie So he did he did and I I. 19:32.29 Sam Pretty glad I'm going on that Disney one. 19:34.48 Julie Yeah, ah. 19:37.81 dclduo Well, how was the boarding process for you. You know the path through the port. Um, you know how how did that go for you. 19:45.69 Julie That was pretty smooth. We had to do our covid tests um on our own 48 hours before boarding so we did that in our room at Disney world and you know got the okay to sail the day before so that was great. 19:51.15 Sam E. 20:02.58 Julie It was pretty smooth going through security and answering the questions and then getting into that big waiting area and. 20:09.43 Sam Nice and. 20:12.22 dclduo What was your port arrival time. Okay, that's freak that it's pretty good I mean usually the earliest you can get is like sometimes 10 30 more likely 11 So um, so that's pretty good to be able to get what time did you manage to get onto the ship. 20:12.78 Julie I think it was twelve thirty and 20:27.29 Julie It was probably about one o'clock and 20:30.55 dclduo Okay, yeah, we're in good. 20:34.13 Sam That's not bad for I was gonna say that's not bad for boarding process. Um, what kind of state room had you guys booked. 20:42.71 Julie So we had the deluxe stateroom with Veranda and. 20:50.38 Sam Very nice. That's perfect for a family of 4 and the fantasy and the dream ah setup is as we have said on the show before better than the wish for 4 people, especially with just the storage space and whatnot. Um. Let's talk about your boarding onto the ship. Um, you know this is your first time getting on a disney ship. You've heard on our podcast. You know what happens at the beginning but did you know what did it live up to the hype did it not live up to the hype. How was that. 21:22.64 Julie You know for me, it lived up to the Hype. 1 thing I didn't expect was you know as we're walking through that tunnel to enter onto the ship and I told my sons that oh yeah, they're going to announce her name and they were going to walk through and they were. A little bit embarrassed by that and they were sort of like I don't want everybody looking at us I'm like you know what? everybody's doing their own thing. They're not going to be looking at us. Yeah. 21:42.55 Sam Oh. 21:50.51 dclduo And. 21:50.71 Sam Yeah, that's cute though that they were embarrassed a little embarrassment of your kids is you know is healthy. 21:59.43 Julie I Yeah, it's pretty much my job now that they're heading into the tween and teen years so that. 22:05.58 Sam Um, that's right, That's exactly right? ah. 22:06.57 dclduo Just just remember when they're embarrassed, they're scarred and that's a memory there yougo that's pink can pinpoint an actual memory that they made on board a dizzy cruise. So there you go? Um, well where did you head first after the atrium did you. 22:09.63 Julie And bing. 22:19.93 dclduo Choose your own adventure in Kannas or did you head for a sit down lunch which which directions did you head or did you go straight to your state room or did you go to the pool. There's so many options. 22:28.29 Julie Yeah, we walked around a little bit. Um, the boys were really big on when we first get on the ship. Can we explore so we went and we did the check-in for our muster station and. 22:34.35 Sam E. 22:40.58 Sam E. 22:43.91 Julie And then we walked around a little bit and then we went to Cabanas and. 22:46.22 Sam Nice and did you do some of the open houses and whatnot that day to kind of check out the spaces. 22:55.59 Julie We did. We did We went to the oceane's club and the oceane's lab. Um, and then I went into the senses spa and I did. 23:06.64 Sam Nice get all your treatments booked. Yeah, nice, Awesome. Well would you think about Cabannas and I Guess let's let's talk not just at the embarkation day but sort of overall we won't go into other food yet because we love to save other food stuff kind of. Towards the end of the show. But what did you think of the buffet I mean obviously we talk about it a lot on the podcast. Um and it gets mixed reviews from folks I think it's better than it was during a lot of the the sort of the reopening the restart I thought I think it was sort of the the worst experience in cabanas. But it's gotten back to kind of. I'll call it the normal cabanas experience. What do you guys? think. 23:49.87 Julie Yeah I mean I think it's fine for what it is. It's obviously not as good as the dining rooms and definitely not as good as poo or remy. But um, you know. 1 of my sons is a pretty picky eater. So. It's great that there's options there for him and we can at least get some food in him and. 24:07.51 dclduo What did they go for what did the kids go for in Cabanas Chicken Fingers Mac and cheese fries. Yep meal of champions right? There is chicken fingers and fries. Yes. 24:08.90 Sam Um, yeah, that's always helpful. 24:14.36 Julie Ah, chicken fingers and fries. 24:14.79 Sam Um, yeah, yeah, ah. 24:18.39 Julie Yes, yeah, it's either chicken fingers or something made with cheese for him. So. 24:26.75 Sam Rights hey them they' Mac and cheese is pretty good I have to say it's a. Ah yeah, it is I mean who doesn't like a grilled cheese at any time of day. 24:29.76 Julie Yeah, he was he was hitting up room service for the grilled cheese quite often. 24:40.14 Julie So right? and our server picked right up on that and special ordered a plate of grilled cheese and chicken tenders for him every night so 24:49.68 Sam I Love that is the little things right? That's awesome. That's awesome. So let's talk about maybe some activities and stuff that you guys got up to on board before we. 24:53.66 Julie Yes. 25:05.73 Sam Do a deeper dive into main dining and adult dining. Um, oh actually no, let's go back to your stateroom right? Brian okay, so let's talk. Let's talk a little bit about your stateroom. 25:14.41 dclduo Ah I go wherever you want. 25:20.65 Sam Um, you said you booked the the deluxe veranda The so it's the family deluxe Veranda I think it's called Um, how did that work out for you guys. Did you feel like there was enough space. You know what was your sort of impression of the the stateroom situation. 25:36.87 Julie Yeah, when we first got in there I felt like it was a little small but once I got all our stuff put away. It really wasn't bad. Ah my boys are used to sleeping on Bunk beds as it is so the setup there with the bed that pulls down out of the ceiling. 25:39.80 Sam E. Yeah. Oh nice. 25:54.50 Julie That worked great and um, my husband took the book. 25:57.70 dclduo Was there a was there a fight over the bunk bed. There seems to always be kids always fight over the bunk bed. 26:02.68 Julie Yeah, there was not because they've already settled that here in the house. My oldest occasionally sleepwalks so he gets the bottom bug. 26:16.48 dclduo Ah. 26:17.58 Sam Um, get that makes sense start. 26:21.12 dclduo Um, well, how did how did you find the state room Julie. 26:22.68 Julie I Yeah and my um I thought it was fine I would love to have a room with a kings size bed but a queen is okay and um. 26:32.24 Sam If you. 26:37.68 Julie My husband took the kids to the pool that first day which gave me a chance to just unpack everything and find the right cubbies for them. So I think once I did that I felt a lot better in the room and. 26:52.20 Sam Nice. 26:53.65 dclduo Nice, Yeah, the only King size beds ah in the fleet now are I think in the Royal suites on the various ships I think we've heard that and then the wish. 27:04.49 Sam Yeah, not on all of the ships actually just on the wish and on the I think the wonder I think just the wish and the wonder I think the the magic when it goes for dry dock I think they'll put in the Kings in the royal suites. Um, but I don't think even the dream and the fantasy have. Them on king size beds and even in the royal suites. 27:23.82 dclduo Yeah, yep. 27:25.84 Julie I Yeah I'm guessing I'll have to either get a really big promotion at work or inherit some money to get the Royal suites. 27:35.30 dclduo Ah, you and us both? Yes Yes, Ah, um, where you want to go next him. 27:35.51 Sam Yeah, they're they are pretty pricey. Ah. 27:45.93 Sam Let's talk about activities What kinds of activities did you and your husband and the kids get up to on board. The ship. 27:54.89 Julie Yeah, so the kids were basically on their own most of the time we had a rule that they had to have dinner with us though. Um. 28:02.70 Sam Nice now when you say on their own were they like hanging out running around the ship themselves. You got thirteen and a nine year old I know you said or were they like in their their respective kids clubs at um, most of the time. 28:13.70 Julie I would say probably 70% of the time they were in the kids clubs and we told them if they were going to leave the kids clubs they had to text us on the navigator and tell us where they were going to be and. 28:18.60 Sam Yeah. 28:27.26 Sam Um, nice so they had check in check out privileges that's kind of awesome. That's kind of a you know for the 13 year old not obviously a big deal. But for the nine year old was that sort of his first time having that kind of. 28:42.10 Julie So it was and quite honestly he's probably more responsible with it than the thirteen year old. 28:42.70 Sam Freedom. 28:49.96 dclduo No, ah. 28:51.54 Sam Ah, sometimes age is just a number right? Sometimes Maturity has nothing to do with that. 28:54.81 Julie Yes, Ah, ah yes, um, but even you know they went to a couple of shows and movies with kids from the kids club and. 29:12.50 Julie My first instinct was to say no, you can't do that because that's what I would do on land and when I step back and think about it. You know they're on the ship. They can't go anywhere. There's cast members everywhere and. 29:16.96 Sam Um, right. 29:22.16 Sam Um, yeah, yep. 29:29.39 Julie And they know where the room is and so they did. We had laguards for them and they carried them in the lanyards and you know even to the point where my 13 year old one night asked you know there's a movie playing at ten o'clock 29:30.53 Sam Um, yeah, did they carry their own key cards then with them. Um. 29:48.88 Julie And some of my friends are going can I go and again my first instinct was no that movie's not going to get out until quarter to 12 That's really late but then I thought you know what go just come back to the room when you're done. Yeah. 29:51.94 Sam Um. 29:57.99 Sam Um, right? yeah right? You're on vacation. That's awesome. That is awesome now. Did you give the kids purchasing privileges. This is they feel like another. Yeah, so. 30:11.58 dclduo Ah, ah, ah, no, that is like a step Beyond I got to imagine. But yeah, but. 30:15.20 Sam What? Well let listen listen. Well let me let me explain. Let me let me explain to the to listeners who maybe don't know this right? So everyone in your seat room gets a key to the world card and obviously the adults have purchasing privileges because you have it linked to a credit card. For kids you can give them purchasing privileges but you don't have to give them purchasing privileges and so um, you know Nathan when we go on the ship he doesn't even carry his key card with him because he we don't let him check himself out of the kids clubs. He is eight and a half so I I think the checking himself in and out is coming but but not yet not quite yet and I'm not sure he's responsible enough even when he's 9 um, but we'll we'll kind of play it by ear. Um, but if the kids are carrying around the key card. You know my natural question is you know. Can they buy themselves popcorn at the movie theater or go to the gift shop and buy themselves stuff. You know what did you particularly the 13 year old. What were his what were his privileges. 31:18.16 Julie And yeah, so they did have purchasing privileges ah partly because I think we just didn't think about needing to shut that off but I will say that they were very responsible with it. 31:29.30 dclduo Okay. 31:29.34 Sam E. Good. 31:36.28 Julie The only thing I think my 13 year old charged was some ice cream at the sweet shop and he had texted me on the navigator to ask if he could do it so perfectly fine with that. So. 31:39.72 Sam He. 31:48.00 Sam Oh that's awesome. 31:48.49 dclduo Yeah Nathan could only have purchasing privileges as long as they don't sell Robbux in the the gift shop and. 31:57.59 Sam Ah, you know, but he yeah so he he might go to the sweet shop. Um for ice cream but he actually really likes the soft serve on deck. So yeah, the more freedom he has the more ice cream. He would probably eat. 31:58.10 Julie Ah, we would have that issue too. So. 32:15.20 Sam But you know so we'd probably end up with like a stomachache or something but it would be but it might be the included or free ice cream and not the expensive ice cream. 32:23.52 Julie So I will say having a teenager on a ship is just perfect because there are times of day where he can just sit there and eat and eat and eat. And I did not at all feel like you know what? I'm spending $12 at cheeseburger. Do you really need 2 or 3 yeah. 32:43.89 Sam Right? Like at the parks. Oh my God you know because he's ah too big for the kids portions but that's probably still the style of food. He wants to eat right? like he's eating burgers and pizza. But the kids portions are just too small. 32:55.62 Julie Exactly. 32:58.92 Sam Yeah, and then you're spending like $30 for him to get like two cheeseburgers. 33:02.25 Julie You right? right? when you know on the ship I'm like just go over to flows have what you want and. 33:10.48 Sam Yeah, just eat as much as you want to get your fill get to have a growth spurt now so that you don't have to feed you as much at home. Ah. 33:15.59 Julie Bingo. 33:18.61 dclduo Well let's talk activities on board. What kind of things actually did you start with activities. No Sam You started with something else. 33:19.30 Sam Ah, that's awesome. 33:25.95 Sam No, that's where I did we were to we start we were talking activities. We're talking about the kids activities. So let's talk about? Yeah so so let's talk about what activities you guys got up to while the kids were spending a lot of their time in the kids club in the movie theater and eating cheeseburgers. 33:32.76 dclduo Ah, there you go? Okay, go ahead. 33:44.35 Julie So yeah, so I did have a few spa appointments and they were wonderful. Um I had a facial and a massage in the teeth whitening and. 33:47.66 Sam Nice Would you get would you get done? yeah. 33:58.20 Sam Oh nice and and did the teeth whitening work. 34:00.89 Julie I and it did I mean it's not completely dramatic but I could see the difference and. 34:09.56 Sam Okay, I've always wondered about that treatment. That's why I ask. 34:14.42 Julie So yeah I thought about doing the manicure and pedicure. But I just had a pedicure before we left on vacation. So I kind of felt like that would be a waste. So although that said I don't know that I would do all those spa appointments the next time because I. 34:22.39 Sam Um. 34:29.64 Sam E. 34:32.57 Julie I Felt like there were other things on the navigator that I wanted to do that I had to Forego because I already had those appointments. 34:37.92 Sam Yeah, yeah, it's a hard balance. 34:39.90 dclduo Yeah I find that you you you gravitate toward your favorites right? there so sam almost always gets a hot stone massage and a pedicure which you know we can space out over 2 different days and I love getting the men's shave in facial. 34:51.23 Sam Um. 34:57.88 dclduo And so we can usually fit that in. But yeah, we were I think early on we were like multiple massage it got it just it the officer like wore me out I'm like oh my god I don't want to go this Spock. So yeah, totally sympathize. There's so much to do. 35:08.80 Sam Well I I love yeah yeah, there's so much to do I love the massage I would get like 3 massages except I want to do other stuff so it is. It's a balance of figuring out. Ok like I can just do the one massage in the 1 pedicure and I space them out as Brian said like I try I don't do them usually on the same day. Um, because that is like you know it's over an hour I mean the treatment is an hour but over an hour of your time because of you know you showed up a couple minutes early and then you're you know, getting undressed and getting dressed and all that. So. It's yeah it ends up taking ah ah a little bit longer. 35:41.64 dclduo Well the and the other tip is just um, the other tip is we like to do them early in the morning right? So you need a clock spa appointment. You're done by 9 Most people are just getting out of bed and on the ship. So. 35:48.63 Sam Yeah, yeah. 35:56.35 dclduo If you fit them in at Eight o'clock you're not you're not missing too much out of the daily navigator. But if you have spread them out throughout the day then it starts to yeah, you have to make some hard choices at that point. So did your husband do any um spot treatments. 36:03.61 Julie I Yeah, he didn't do any treatments I did sign him up for the rainforest room with me and I I loved it. 36:05.37 Sam Um. 36:14.37 dclduo Um, what did you think of the rainforest room. 36:19.50 Julie I Love doing you know the steam room and then the cold shower and then the steam room and the cold shower. Um, but I think my husband felt like that totally was not his scene and. 36:22.71 dclduo If. 36:24.50 Sam Yeah. 36:30.59 dclduo Yeah, yeah, and this was this was ah after they made the switch away from the private rainforest room right? This was just a regular day pass at this point. Yeah yeah. 36:39.50 Julie Exactly. 36:40.47 Sam Yeah I'm I'm with your husband on that I actually I liked it as a private experience but I'm just not I don't love steam rooms I don't love I like those loungers the warmed loungers to light to sit on or like with a hot tub to get in but like the. The the rain showers and stuff are just not enough of a draw for me, you know to to spend the money on the passes. Really yeah, the wish has a nicer one because has the outdoor area. Um I think if they. If they actually make day passes truly available which they didn't they only had length of Cruise passes when we were on. Um that might be something that you know more worthwhile to try but on most of the ships I can I can pass on the rainforest pass whereas Brian will literally do it every day. 37:28.21 dclduo Well the reinforced I don't do it every day. My tip for people is don't buy a length of Cruise pass ever because there will be a day. You don't use it probably more than one I like to buy 1 or two day passes if I can. 37:37.96 Sam Well sure. 37:44.22 dclduo There's no option but to get a length of Cruise pass I will but then I always feel like I'm probably not getting my my money's worth but I like to go to the rainforest room for maybe you know a couple of hours a day or 2 out of the cruise instead of going to the pool deck so on this upcoming cruise we're taking. Out of London for instance I know it's going to be so cold up on that pool deck in Norway I will seek out a rainforest room so I can have a way to relax ah and enjoy myself without having to be up in the bitter cold of Norway. So but yeah, the the day passes I think are the best value and I hope they actually bring back you to be able to buy them in advance. As an onboard amenity and get a little bit of a discount. They've not brought those back since they restarted sailing so I'm hoping to see those come back at some point and the rainforest room on the wish is just next level. So yeah I would probably hang out in the rainforest room on the wish every day the other ships. It's nice, but it's not as anywhere near as nice as the wish. 38:36.40 Julie If if the rainforest room on the wish is outside does it have sort of the same feel as that outdoor area at the spot. Olani. 38:37.31 dclduo What other kinds of activities. Did you get up to on board. Oh sorry, go ahead. Julie. 38:51.90 Julie So you guys go to that. 38:52.32 Sam Um, no be Yeah I've been to that So it's no because the part that's outdoors is just like loungers and hot tubs. The rain showers and stuff are still indoors. 39:05.26 Julie Oh okay. 39:07.13 Sam And the steam rooms and the ice room those are still indoors so it's um, yeah so I wouldn't say it's I wouldn't I would say it's still yeah, it's still different than what they have at El Lanie I love the one at El Lanie that's really nice. 39:18.97 dclduo It's the one on the wish is a nicer version of what they have on the dream and the fantasy with the addition of some outdoor space that they don't really have on the dream of the fantasy so you get all of the kind of the same stuff that you get on the dream of the fantasy with the addition of the frigidarium. 39:25.90 Sam Yep. 39:36.83 dclduo Ah, packaged up just in a nicer way. The showers are I think a lot nicer. They look big and open and like they don't feel like you're actually getting into like what I would call a dorm room shower for the experience. Um, but then you get this like you get to like twice the size So like the outdoor space is almost the same size as the indoor space but it's just. 39:49.58 Sam Um. 39:54.36 Sam Yeah, yeah, yeah. 39:56.36 dclduo Different stuff out there. So yeah, but it's great. It's great reinforce room what other kinds of activities that you get up to onboard Julie. 40:03.56 Julie So um, we spent quite a bit of time in the adult pool area and I did go to there was the art of the theme show and yeah, that was really nice. 40:07.30 Sam Nice. 40:16.27 Sam Oh yeah, the tour I Love that? Yeah, we we find that um the it's just like so well so to listeners who haven't been on a cruise or haven't. 40:20.83 Julie Really informative and um. 40:33.77 Sam But or or just didn't know this was available. It. It wasn't available right at the Restart. It's back available the art of the theme ship tour is an adult only tour of the ship where they go through the ship and show you different things and where the inspiration come from and give you sort of little tidbits if you go on that tour. More than once on the same ship you will actually get different information because different I'll call them guides but they're part of the entertainment staff. They are allowed to sort of change up. You know what what? their? What information they give you depending upon their own personal preferences. So but it's a really cool tour and you know it'll be different. Each time anddifferent on every ship. Yeah I love that. 41:14.41 Julie Yeah, that was really nice and honestly I wish they had an all ages version of that because I know my 13 year old would really enjoy it too and I went to one of the drawing classes and. 41:23.73 Sam Yeah, for sure. Cool did oh I Love those. 41:34.40 Julie I And um, actually ran into our nextdoor neighbors at the drawing class. So I stayed with them. There was like a family game show afterwards that they wanted to go to So I hung out with them and did that too and no no. 41:45.69 dclduo Wait Could you know that they were on board. 41:51.35 Julie So the next door neighbors for our cabin who we met when we were all hanging over the railing watching the sail away. Ah. 41:54.11 dclduo Um, oh ok, ah. 42:01.57 dclduo Ah, nice a community of verandas. Yes. 42:02.97 Sam Ah, no. 42:04.45 Julie Yes, yes, and their children are around the same ages as our children and they ran into them at the kids globes and so yeah, with nice having them around to. 42:19.30 dclduo Nice, nice. Did you make it into did you make it to any of the nighttime adult activities like the ah you know the additional variety act shows they do for the adults or matcher made or anything like that. 42:29.24 Julie So we really didn't We had the late seating for dinner and we did make it to a couple of the shows before dinner but most of the nights after dinner we found that we were just ready to go back to the room and. 42:35.44 Sam Um. 42:46.20 Sam Yeah, it's exhausting I mean it's it's not like a parks vacation. Although you had had a couple of days at the park so you needed the relaxation. But if you're trying to you know run around and do and ah we always trying to tell people like for your first Disney Cruise like 42:50.23 Julie Um, yeah. 43:01.90 Sam Don't try to do everything like so you know prioritize the things that you really want to do and do those things. But if you try and do everything you're just going to need another vacation from your vacation right? I mean that's um, it's definitely more relaxing than parks trip of course leaps and bounds. But there's still. You. You know there's still a lot to do and and you you just can't accomplish everything you were you guys were though on a seven night cruise so you can accomplish a lot more on a seven night cruise than if you're doing a 3 or four night cruise for sure. Yeah, did you end up going to seat. 43:32.13 Julie Yeah, definitely. 43:36.98 dclduo Did you check out hold on like I have a I a have a difference. Um, did you experience any the adult spaces on board like ah you you mentioned the pool but but any of the sort of the bars on board like I can't remember I always get the confused Ola La pink. 43:38.35 Sam See any movies I know I know the kids went and saw movies. Ok. 43:54.73 dclduo Carousel bar and. 43:54.93 Sam It's OlaOla la the carousel one. Its I forget what it's called, but the one with the carousel in it and then the tube and the pub. Yeah oh in skyline. Yeah oh Gail's that's right. 44:05.69 dclduo Skyline. Yeah oh gills. Yeah. 44:08.39 Julie Ogills. Yeah yeah, the only time that I saw them was on that tour. We never made a to there after dinner. So yeah. 44:12.86 Sam Um, oh yeah. 44:20.81 Sam Ah, next time next time the kids will be up late. You know they'll be a little older the next cruise you're on, they'll be up later you you'll have to ah you'll have to rally and and do some of that adult stuff because it's It's pretty fun. 44:33.20 Julie I. 44:35.81 dclduo What about shows Sam always wants to know about shows. 44:36.30 Sam Awesome! Oh yeah. 44:40.60 Julie Yeah, so we saw Aladdin and believe that yeah they also had frozen and we missed that I think that was the night we had Apollo and. 44:45.35 Sam Nice. 44:54.45 Sam Awesome. 44:58.14 dclduo What'd you think? what'd you think of the 2 shows. Thank. 44:58.43 Julie And I really liked him I really liked both of them and you know both feature the genie who did a great job first. 45:05.77 Sam Yeah, that's the genie is gonna make or break both of those shows for sure. Yeah, nice. 45:11.41 Julie F. 45:12.71 dclduo Did your kids like them did they go or were they in the kids club. 45:20.19 Sam Um. 45:20.86 Julie Ah, so my oldest went to part of Aladdin and he liked it. My youngest did not go and. 45:31.99 Sam Yeah, our son doesn't often skips the shows he's that he's just not a you know, not a big show kid. Um. 45:38.91 Julie Yeah, yeah. 45:39.14 dclduo Yeah, we sometimes have him watch them on the stateroom Tv because he'll he'll kind of sit through that and and watch the show that way. So that's not not a bad way to go either. 45:49.68 Julie Yeah, yeah, my oldest Aladdin is one of his favorite movies. So I'm sure that's why he stopped in there and. 45:49.88 Sam Yeah. 45:58.94 Sam Um, oh awesome. So I think yeah I think that's we got to talk main dining first right. 45:59.13 dclduo Yeah, well we haven't talked about dining. Oh sorry, go ahead. Yeah rotational dining. So how was your experience with rotational dining where did you? ah. Where'd you head first and what'd you think. 46:16.99 Julie So we had enchanted garden first and um, you know our servers were amazing and the food was pretty good I don't know that it was outstanding. But ah. 46:18.51 dclduo Okay. 46:34.19 Julie You know the servers were definitely attuned to what you like and what you don't like it definitely wasn't the first night but 1 of the nights we were in a chanted garden and I had gotten I think it was the grouper and it was dry. It was overcooked. And our server noticed that I was picking at it. He came over and he was like no no no I'm taking this I'm going to bring you something else because I want you to be 100% happy with what you're having. So I yeah, very very proactive on it. 46:52.19 Sam Um. 46:55.39 Sam If. 47:02.68 Sam Um, yep, yeah, That's yeah, That's the great service that you get you know we I have to say we've had a lot of really wonderful main dining food and then we've had some. Kind of mediocre maintaining food. Um you know and sometimes it just depends on you know is the kitchen having a good day. Um, and sometimes they're just dishes that just don't do well. Um, with you know. Being made in mass quantities right? like fish is one of those things where sometimes they can do it really well like I've had the sea bass at times where they've done it well and I've had at other times where it's like just super overcooked and so it's yeah, it's that can be hit or miss. But I but the the great thing that. 47:39.89 Julie Yeah, yeah. 47:58.55 Sam You know is when your weightstaff notices and fixes the problem by getting you something else and smart that they didn't just bring you another grouper because odds are if yours was overcooked. They were all overcooked. Yeah yeah, very very smart. 48:03.83 Julie Yeah. 48:09.84 Julie Ah, exactly so. 48:12.12 dclduo Yeah it's so important to have great weight staff for that reason I I find one they do what you mentioned but 2 I always ask our waiter like I'm going to order this What do you think right? and if it's not 1 of the recommendations. He's given for the evening. Usually. He or she will give me an honest answer about like no to just avoid that at all costs and I will say fantastic I'm not ordering that I will order something else I always go with the server recommendations because they are seeing the food come off the line and they've also seen if you have late seating then I see as they've seen other guests react to the food already and so. 48:36.23 Julie Ah, yeah. 48:36.77 Sam Brick. Yeah. 48:47.42 Sam Is. 48:49.39 dclduo If they had a bunch of guess are like it wasn't great then they're going to tell you oh my God Just don't even don't even bother. So yeah, now in enchant. 48:52.36 Sam Yeah, this is not good tonight for whatever reason? Yeah, but I sometimes still sometimes I'll still order what I was going to order but then I'll but I'll also order a second entra so I don't I don't always purely take Brian. 48:55.70 Julie I yeah. 49:09.26 Sam Almost always purely takes the recommendation of the servers I like if there's something I Still really want to try even if I'm being steered away from it I'll still order it because I'm like you know it's I know it's food waste but it's not costing me more. But. 49:23.37 Julie Yeah, there was one night that there were 3 of the appetizers that really sounded good to me and I got all 3 and. 49:31.97 Sam Um, yeah, yeah, that's yeah. 49:34.33 dclduo Yeah, yeah, it's a good strategy I'm curious in an enchanted Garden did they still have the characters coming around or has that stopped yeah I knew that was going to come to an end at some point the character cavalcade was so fun I've got great video of our son just having a blast. Um. 49:39.20 Julie There were no characters. 49:51.29 dclduo What about where'd you head next. What was your second nigh second rotation 49:55.14 Julie Ah, Royal court and. 49:57.15 dclduo And what did you think about Royal court that tends to be a good menu lot of folks who I like that menu but what did you think. 50:03.70 Julie Yeah I thought the menu was good and I really love that room I love all the mosaics of the different you know princess stories I love the lights that look like Cinderella's carriage I love the little breadbaskets that look like Cinderella's carriage it's really a great room and. 50:25.70 Sam Nice and then you had animators of course on the fantasy and you got to go to Animators. Ah at least twice I don't know which I'm one of the restaurants. Well actually you might not have because of Apollo and remy. But which. Which Animators show or shows did you get to see and what did you think of the experience. 50:46.26 Julie Yeah, we did have it twice. Ah, the second nigh second was on the same night we had Pallo but we had a six o'clock at pallo so we met our sons at the late seating for dinner at animator's palette and we were. 50:53.54 Sam Um. 50:59.17 Sam Oh nice. 51:02.33 Julie Unable to eat anything because we were just stuffed but it was great to see the show. Yeah. 51:05.51 Sam Here That's ah, it's great that you made it even. 51:10.34 Sam What did you think of the show is there. 51:11.10 dclduo What. 51:13.57 Julie I really liked both of the shows. Although I wish we had a table that was closer to 1 of the screens because we were sort of in the middle of the room. 51:22.36 Sam um yeah yeah I love um I we have not had a chance to have crush talk to us either. Um I really would love to have that experience. Although we have talked to crush at um. Turtle talk with crush at Disneyland um, which they have of course at Disney World as well and so it's it's it's not that different of an experience but I just love it. I think it's just super super fun. Um, but yeah, the the. You want to be closer to the screens if you if possible for sure what you think of the food quality. Ah sorry what are you going to ask by. 52:01.95 dclduo Well Holden I yeah just I'm going to ask it a slightly different way and then we can wrap up on food or we got to hear about Pell and Rey um I wanted to rewind for a second. Just ask any standout food items for you in the different restaurants that you you looking back really enjoyed sound like you had 3 appetizers at your. 52:18.50 Sam Is just. 52:19.70 dclduo At least interested you but I'm curious from the 3 different restaurants anything that really stood out on the menu. 52:26.00 Julie And you know I'm having trouble thinking of any of them right now. Um, there was some really good food though. 52:34.13 dclduo So how did you I Guess so see why don't you ask your question then. 52:41.32 Sam Um, what did you think of the food quality in maintaining. Overall. 52:47.49 Julie And I think it in general it was quite good that Um, like we said the fish was a little hit or miss. But all of the rest of it was really quite good. 52:56.80 Sam Nice. 52:58.23 dclduo Yeah I mean it's tough to do that kind of catering haul style food and get it right? 100% the time although I will say on the wish I don't know how they did it but they managed to get it just perfect. Um, so the the food quality on the wish is much better than what we've experienced on the other ships I think the other ships now are in a. Have to up their game. Um, what did you think about? let's start with Paulo you had pao dinner. What did you think about Palo dinner. 53:23.68 Julie I Really enjoyed it. Um I lived in Italy for a while so to be able to get that sort of high quality really sort of ah authentic Italian food. Is really great for me and. 53:39.24 Sam Yeah, the food's awesome there. 53:40.90 dclduo Would you have do you remember what you had is your you you and your husband had. 53:47.47 Julie Yeah, so we did the um we did the shacutterri board and the Kalamari at the start it is and the the prawn is gigantic. 53:57.20 Sam Um, yeah, yeah, oh which I norm as I love that prawn I actually like the prawn better than the Kalamari if I'm being totally honest, so good with that like tempor a batter on it. Ah. 53:57.80 dclduo Calamari is delicious. 54:10.90 Julie I yeah I loved them both. Yeah yeah, and the shacuttery board was great too. Um, and then for the main meal we got the I think it's sixty four ounce 54:14.00 Sam So yum. 54:27.86 Julie Steak. It's a porter house. Yeah. 54:28.61 dclduo Oh yeah, yeah, the shareable 1 right? Then we we've done that once haven't we seen them? yeah. 54:29.59 Sam Oh oh yeah, that that the one that you yeah no I don't think we've ever done that because we always like different things I don't think we've ever gotten that? Yeah, we we never get a shareable almost ever at a restaurant give get a shareable entry to be perfectly. Honest. 54:41.85 Julie I We had a ah. 54:48.20 Julie Yeah, we had a small issue with sharing it because I'm more of ah a medium stak person and my husband is more of a medium well steak person. So I told him. 54:57.22 Sam Um, that's rough. 55:00.22 Julie You know you can have the pieces from the outside and I'll take the pieces from the inside I so that was really good and we had the the I think it's butternut squash Angloti with it and. 55:02.59 Sam Yeah, it's a way to do it. Yeah. 55:15.50 Sam Oh yeah, that's good. That's super good. Oh nice. So yeah, the full did you do the souffle. 55:19.54 Julie So yeah, that is really good. I Did the Amarettto souffle and it was really good I. 55:28.24 Sam Nice. The souffle is really what I feel like Paulo is kind of known for It's funny because I'm not a huge souffle person I do like the soufflight but it's just it's not usually my dessert of choice but that's I mean that's sort of the thing there. The signature dessert there cool what it? Oh yeah, yeah, can't go wrong. There. What? Um, what did you guys think about remy. 55:49.65 Julie So yeah and it came with the coffee gelato which was amazing too. 56:01.83 Julie We loved remy and we were trying to get to something that evening so we didn't do the full menu. We did it all a cart and they had a. 56:04.23 Sam Yeah. 56:12.18 Sam Is. 56:18.72 Julie Toothfish appetizer that was just fabulous. It was so good and it's not a fish that I've ever heard of before. 56:22.42 Sam Oh nice. Oh that's awesome. Yeah, ah that's awesome yeah we have. We've only done the full meal experience. But I imagine that that would be especially a nice way to try it for the first time to just you know to just kind of order a couple of courses. Um. 56:45.71 Sam But I I take it. You guys are probably adventurous eaters or you wouldn't have gone. 56:50.67 Julie Ah, my husband and I are my children are not but they're not allowed to go there anyway. So yeah, ah. 56:52.75 dclduo yeah yeah I am just trying to picture Nathan and trying to poke his way through something at remy right now and oh man would that be comical. 56:53.52 Sam Yeah, will write right? No the Mac and cheese. Yeah, the the or the sorry the grilled cheese kid. Yeah for sure and um, yeah, think. 57:07.19 Sam Yeah, no, that wouldn't work. Yeah, we could I mean honestly he would eat probably most of things at Pollo like he that would not be a problem. Um, but he it would be a struggle to find anything that he would actually eat at remy if they if they allowed children there. 57:21.93 Julie So yeah, so. 57:24.11 dclduo Yeah. 57:24.30 Sam We'd have to get him a girl cheese too. Nice Awesome. So would you did? would you say that the experiences at Pollo and remy were worth it like are you glad you did them? Would you do them again that sort of a thing. 57:39.36 Julie Yeah I would definitely do both of them again and we really enjoyed it. 57:42.53 Sam Yeah, we love them. Yeah, we we love Them. We know they're not for everyone and you know we try to tell people especially like I think Pollo really is kind of for everyone but we know remy really isn't for everyone and so we try to you know. People ask us, We try to short find out like how adventurous of an eater are you how willing are you to put a you know yourself into the Chef's hands and let them decide everything for you because if that's the kind of person you are go to remmate if you're not that person don't go to Run. It'll be an expensive check for um. You know, not having eaten anything. So yeah. 58:21.64 Julie And yeah, my husband remarked that after coming out of there. You know everything is a pretty little piece on a plate and he said you know I may not have chosen this to eat at a regular dinner. But since we're here. Let's try it. Let's do it. 58:30.64 Sam E. 58:39.55 Sam Um, yeah. 58:41.74 Julie He's like I loved everything I ate everything and I wouldn't have thought I would but I walked out of there and I was full. 58:48.53 Sam Yes, always we always we feel the same way like the the food is really rich and well when you do that when you do the full meal too. You get? You're getting a lot of courses and so even though the food kind of looks small. It's actually a lot of food. Overall yeah. 59:05.81 Julie Yeah. 59:07.73 Sam Yeah, you don't realize because you're eating it in small and small bites or you know small amounts at times. But yeah, it's fantastic. Well awesome I'm trying to think of the. 59:15.13 Julie Yeah. 59:16.86 dclduo Well Julie is there anything about your cruise that we didn't get a chance to chat about that. You wanted to be sure to share. 59:26.20 Julie So um, we were super excited that they had Thor Love and thunder on board because we hadn't gotten a chance to see it at the theaters. So we definitely went to see it there. 59:31.30 Sam Oh nice. 59:31.20 dclduo Da. 59:41.29 Sam Awesome! You know I am thinking about trying to go see that um in when we're on our cruise in about a week from now. Um from when we're recording by the time that this airs I will have already seen. Well have already been on the cruise and hopefully have seen Thor Love and Thunder but I am I'm actually really excited to see that movie too and I've heard. It's super duper fun. Yeah, and I know's something novel and fun about seeing a movie on a ship. Only do it on a longer cruise because I you know on a three and four night or or even a five night it's 01:00:04.17 Julie I Yeah, it is fun. 01:00:15.00 Sam And got this too many other great things to do but I'll go on a seven night yeah 01:00:20.41 dclduo Well I think we've reached that point in our show then when I need to hand you over to Sam for some arbitrary questions even more arbitrary rules and mixed with a bit of judgment. So Sam you want to take it away for what the round we love to call rapid fire. 01:00:31.90 Sam Ah, but. 01:00:36.35 Sam I love that I love that description always mixed with a bit bit of judgment Julie you have listened to our show before so this really needs. No introduction. But for the benefit of listeners who might be listening for the first time rapid fire is when I ask our guest there Disney. Favorites I will ask a couple of general Disney favorites and then I will ask Disney Cruise line favorites and we'll be talking specifically about on the disney fantasy. Um, there are no rules except the arbitrary rules that I like to make as we go along. So Julie who is your favorite Disney or Pixar character. 01:01:14.28 Julie So um I have a hard time narrowing it down to one but I have to say bopeep Genie especially the Robin Williams genie and 01:01:21.13 Sam Oh I Love that. E. 01:01:29.92 Julie And now that I've seen light year on board socks. 01:01:32.54 Sam Oh I guess sos is great I have to agree with you Robin Williams genie over will Smith Genie 100% all right Julie what is your favorite Disney or Pixar movie. Yes, that's the right answer. 01:01:46.54 Julie Ratatoui. 01:01:48.11 dclduo Ah, yes. 01:01:52.83 Sam Congratulations you've already won I think they think all right? What is your favorite Disney song. 01:01:54.60 Julie Ding ding ding. 01:02:02.50 Sam Oh yeah, keep with the toy story theme I like that and be peep and you've got a friend in me, perfect all right? What was your favorite stage show I know you only saw too but on board the Disney Fantasy That's the right answer for sure over believe. 01:02:02.66 Julie You've got a friend in me. 01:02:17.80 Julie Aladdin. 01:02:21.10 Sam Um, what was your favorite onboard activity. 01:02:29.26 Sam Oh yeah, that's a great one I Love that I wasn't even thinking dining. But yeah, that's an activity for sure. Well speaking of dining. What was your favorite rotational dining. 01:02:29.55 Julie Remy. 01:02:35.33 Julie F. 01:02:42.74 Julie I would say Rail court for the food and animator's palette for the shows. 01:02:50.69 Sam Yes, that's the right answer as well. Good job. Julie you're just knocking out of the park right now. Ah, ah, all right? What was your favorite space to hang out on the ship. 01:03:01.96 Julie So the area around the the adult pool and. 01:03:05.30 Sam Nice, What was your favorite savory food item on board. 01:03:22.38 Julie I I would have to say the Angulloti Apollo 01:03:27.62 Sam Ooh That's a good one all right? What was your favorite sweet food item on board. 01:03:34.22 Julie The gelato. 01:03:37.68 Sam No well Paulo's hitting it out of the park now too I love that all right am my last question for you is a bucket list cruise you can go anywhere on a Disney Cruise doesn't even have to be someplace Disney Cruise line currently sails. Where would you go. 01:03:55.52 Julie I would say the Nordic countries with the fjords and the northern lights. 01:04:02.43 Sam Oh yeah, awesome Well I don't know if we'll see the northern lights but we will be in the Norwegian fjords in just about just over a week So we're super excited about it. Awesome. 01:04:12.44 Julie Ice. 01:04:14.50 dclduo Well Julie I'm also curious. What's next did you enjoy your Disney Cruise enough that you got a placeholder on board or perhaps even already booked another one. 01:04:24.21 Julie Yeah, we got the placeholder and we are already using the placeholder for a spring break cruise on the magic out of New Orleans next spring and. 01:04:35.81 dclduo Oh wonderful, wonderful. 01:04:35.85 Sam Oh awesome wait when are you on the magic because you in out of New Orleans because we might be on at the same time as you nope worldly in february. 01:04:46.97 Julie It's the March Twenty Seventh oh okay so 01:04:47.28 dclduo No, we're in February Sam yeah, how was this a spring break February is too early for spring break. There is nothing. There is nothing spring time about February is yeah yeah, exactly exactly? well. 01:04:53.30 Sam Yeah, yeah, we have we're doing a midwinter break. That's right I forgot forgot I I was not thinking when you said spring I was yeah, we're doing midwinter break. Yeah. 01:05:03.67 Julie Yeah, coming from the Chicago area we we realize that we can drive to New Orleans in 14 hours and not have to worry about the planes so that became our spring break choice. 01:05:07.25 dclduo Julie. 01:05:16.63 Sam Um, oh that's a great idea. 01:05:16.72 dclduo But nice, well sailing out of New Orleans is a blast and you can always head back in our catalog to learn even more about tips and tricks for sailing out of New Orleans and we'll be doing more on it as we approach our sail in February so it will be an amazing cruise. It's so fun and it's so interesting to sail. Out the Mississippi River delta it's always I just think it's such a unique sailing so you'll have a blast I'm sure so Julie just want to say? thank you for sharing your family's experiences with us and our listeners and just really appreciate you coming on. 01:05:38.56 Sam Yeah. 01:05:45.59 Julie Well thanks for having me I've enjoyed it. 01:05:48.21 Sam Awesome. 01:05:49.28 dclduo Great. Let's start.