Leaderboard

The sail away party was in typical Disney style, family friendly with the classic characters leading the fun including a count down to sail away and the unique horn song “When You Wish Upon a Star”. Disney uses rotational dining for dinner in the main dining room. That involves going to one of three different restaurants in which you are assigned to go to a specific restaurant each night and your same wait staff accompanies you each night at the same table number in each of the restaurants. Each restaurant has a unique theme and our first night we went to Royal Court. It was supposed to be like eating in the palace of one of the Disney princess dining hall. There was some mosaics of different princess stories on the walls including Cinderella and Belle. The bread baskets were a royal carriage. The cake was purchased in advance and they brought it out for his Birthday and sang Happy Birthday and served it for us. I don’t have many pictures of this dining room because another large party was seated adjacent to us which blocked the ideal photo area and my wife and I went to a specialty restaurant on the other night we were assigned to go here. The evening entertainment was a good introduction to DCL and a preview of the week to come and part entertainment including the characters and some of the singers and dancers and guest entertainment from the shows. It doesn’t have a high repeat value. Our cruise director, Lesley Dallas was a refreshing change to have a female CD but she liked to promote what seemed like nearly activity happening which made for some tremendously long post show and overhead announcements. it was a very exciting first day. We finally got a chance to experience our first day on DCL and it did not disappoint. I plan to post more as I can.

Line? For me, I’m going to be selfish and suggest Celebrity. Selfish because I have been primarily Royal but am planning to check out X anyways. And a big part of me selecting X is the coverage by Bill and Cruise Habit. Where? I vote Caribbean. Done it enough that I know how to enjoy but feel free to spend more time with the group activities. Activities? Maybe group takeovers of ship specific venues, like the Lawn Club or Sunset Bar. Opportunities to mingle and meet and talk ship. That’s what Cruise Habiteers do, right? How different? I think skip some of the more traditional group activities like pub/cabin crawl, maybe arrange a session with performers or other staff/crew. Just my random thoughts as I flatten the curve. BobJ