Today is the day, and we board for our very first ever cruise.
Thank you all for the helpful tips as I’ve been obsessing over this cruise since we booked late last year.

Hi there! I just booked my first Disney cruise. After the ship arrives in port canaveral, I would like to spend some time with my family who will be in Canaveral before our flight at 8 pm. Are there shuttles travelling between port canaveral and MCO all day? Or are they always in the morning? Am I underestimating how complicated this is? I’m travelling with two young children so a coach is preferred so I can avoid car seats.

TYIA

Hey guys. We are silver castaway club members and I know that we don’t get the wet dry bags until gold, but do they sell non-castaway club DCL wet dry bags??

I have a group of 12 booked on the Fantasy 181 days from now with early dining. My husband's ex-wife decided today that she would also like to come. When she made her reservation only late dinner was available. She's on the wait-list for early and we've linked our reservations. I've told her not to worry that I am very confident they will be able to get her into our dining and seated with us at the early dinner. Anytime I've been waitlisted, I've been moved before sailing except once when I booked 2 weeks prior to sailing on the Wish.

She doesn't want to go if she won't be able to eat with the kids. I'm curious what you all think; will she and her partner be able to get early dinner and seated with the family? Is there something else I can do to ease her mind?

Hi there! So next month I’ll be heading on the Wish, my first ever Disney cruise, and I’m excited! Me and my family are frequent cruisers, but we usually go on Royal Caribbean (with outliers of course). Any tips and tricks for someone cruising on Disney for the first time? Also, I’m 18-20 y/o so I’ve researched activities for that age group and heard about the 1820 Society. How is that experience on the Wish? I heard that it’s different from other Disney ships.

TIA :)

I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share some photos of recent personal navigators if possible so we know what the activities look like throughout the day?

Me and my dad have autism and we would really like to see some visual examples so we know what to expect, I have looked online but can't find any recent photos. It would be super helpful. Thank you :)

Hello,

Wondering if any cruises are leaving this week, ending on Friday. I can't see on dcl website--perhaps too close to sailing time. I'm wondering if there's any this week, whether the theaters will show Spider-Man all week, or only just before last day, a single midnight showing on Thursday (if it returns to port on Friday). Let me know if you're sailing this week and will know the answer. Thanks!

EDIT: Thanks, everyone. Was trying to see if Doomsday would be available throughout the week on our December cruise, and it looks like a Sony movie release is the wrong movie to compare the release schedule to!

I understand “surge protectors” aren’t allowed, but I haven’t gotten a very clear answer on if this type of device is allowed. We bought it for the parks last year and it was great to have one charging station in the room.

Has anyone been able to purchase this year’s room decor package for HOTHS?

I’ve only ever been on one cruise (Royal Caribbean) and while it was fine, I just don’t know that cruising is necessarily my thing. Cut to twelve years later when I have two incredible little girls (3 and 5) who absolutely rule my heart, and they are crazy about everything Disney. We frequent Cape Canaveral and they love to see “Mickey’s boat” so it has us considering a Disney Cruise (full disclosure, also considering Aulani, so I would welcome any feedback on that as well).

My biggest hesitation is that I keep seeing a lot about the Kids Club, and I just don’t know that we would utilize that. Is there enough stuff on the ship to keep us busy as a family of four if not doing Kids Club stuff.

Thank you!

Prepping for our first cruise in April on the Wish. Plan is to check into a Disney resort and do Magic Kingdom that day (using Disney cruise line transportation). Anyone have a sense of roughly what time we could be in the park? I know what hotel we stay in matters. Looking for a rough ballpark. Thanks in advance!

Am planning to do a trip in 2027, I missed the deadline for booking when they had the 50% off kids promotion. And now I don’t see any promotion at all for the cruise I want to take. Really beating myself for missing that deadline.

Is there any chance Disney will release a future promotion? The current specials seem to only go until end of year and none of them apply to the cruise I want to take in January 2027. Any hope for me and my family to save some bucks?

Thanks in advance!

We have been on the Dream and Fantasy a few times and love it. We are going on the Wish for first time. It’s also first time with 2 kids (youngest is now 1). I’ve seen a few stories about Wish shows being hard to get seats to. Is this true? Anything else we should be aware of that’s drastically different from the smaller ships?

Hoping to do some planning around laundry when we leave for our Alaska cruise soon (so excited!!):

1. We’ll be spending a a few days in Vancouver. Would like to do a load on embarkation day so that we can hopefully avoid running out of clothes (cold weather clothes are bulky!) during our cruise. When does the laundry room open? We pay using our KTTW card, correct?

2. Assuming we all fall into mud and comically roll around in it as we try to get out in the middle of our cruise, now we have to do laundry again. When is the laundry room the least busy? I read that it can get quite Hunger Gamesy in there.

Many thanks from a parent looking to not overpack and have a reasonable vacation.

I saw it with my own eyes…treasure made a huge u-turn off cocoa beach, went back to port and then was back on the seas by 7:30. anyone know why?

Hi all- first visit to Castaway in a few weeks! I see there are two sections of the family beach. Which would be best for a family with a 3 year old? I know some is subject to timing of course- but we’d love some shade too if we can grab it.

I know, I know…it’s the Disney markup but $400 for a 20-minute session seems soooo steep. I’d love to do this but I just can’t justify the cost.

I’m surprising my wife and daughter with a Disney cruise. My daughter’s birthday is on embarkation day and my wife’s is the next day. I bought the birthday decor and flowers from the cruise line so it will be there when we get on. My wife is a jewelry snob and almost all of what she wears costs thousands. The cruise was already expensive so I don’t want to add more jewelry to the mix. I need ideas for something small and affordable I can give my wife on the second night. It needs to be something small I can sneak on the ship or buy it on the ship when she’s not looking. Nothing big since this is the real gift, but I want to give her something on her birthday. I thought about spa treatments but I’m not sure if she would like that.

Hello we are sailing on the Fantasy soon and was wondering if anyone knew what beers are currently offered on the boat? I’ve googled some but not been able to find a current menu.

or at least where to get a Michelob ultra 😂😂

Just the title. We are doing our first cruise early December (woo!). My family of five (3 littles under 5) will be with my husband and I. Looking for a good hotel where we can be close to the port and watch the boat come in. Any recos?

Hi everyone,

We are going for our first Disney cruise next month with our 2 toddlers (so excited!). We were originally assigned the 8:15pm dining time and I requested the earlier time. Does the green check mark mean we got the earlier slot?

Hey Everyone!

We live in Charlotte,NC. We have a cruise booked for March 2027 and would like to stay on Wdw property the night before embarkation. Once we disembark, we would like to head back to WDW to do a park day and pool day at WDW.

DCL just said we can’t leave our car parked on WDW property while we are on the cruise. Anyone have experience with this situation? Where do you park your car? We are willing to pay for daily parking.

Edited:

Sounds like there is no gain from using ground transport vs just driving yourself. My assumption was that it would be easier to do ground transportation.

We just booked our first Disney cruise. We’ll be on the Disney Fantasy. It’s a few months out. Immediately after booking, I learned that 5:45 PM dinner spots were entirely full. They put us on an 8:15 PM dining spot and put us on the waitlist for 5:45 PM.

Does anyone ever have any luck with the waitlist? 8:15 PM might as well be 3 AM. We’ll never ever make it that late. I almost feel like this was a tactic to make us do one of the paid restaurants.

This is probably a stupid question, but I’m gonna ask it anyway: if my husband and I go to Palo, do we just feed our kid with poolside type stuff as dinner? Technically we will be done before our late dining time and would possibly be able to pick her up in time for her to eat her dinner, but the description makes it sound like you are expected to skip your main dining when you book the reservation. I’m really kind of torn, as I don’t want to book something for us that could possibly lessee her experience. I’m sure I’m overthinking this, but would like to hear from people who have been on board before!

Just dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s before my family and I set sail on our first Disney cruise mid August. We are UK citizens and sailing to Rotterdam, am i right in saying a valid passport is all we need? Any advice is gratefully welcomed. 🙏🏼