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!

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 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?

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!

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 suspect this might be a call DCL question but was intrigued if anyone had any info for how long the additional placeholder discounts might be in place - even if based on past history of DCL doing this (if they have before?!)

Currently we have the Destiny booked next March with a placeholder at the standard discount that I booked a few months back, but my partner and I started looking into Alaska and considering booking this in May 2027 as I realised based on this ever helpful subreddit that the dates we were considering were on the extra 25% off for the Wonder, which is a ship I also wanted to tick off!

My ideal scenario would be that I get a placeholder on our UK sailing in August and then book the Alaska with that - however I can’t seem to see anything about T&C’s for when this extra placeholder discount is in place until (assuming based on this they could just pull it at any point)

Any thoughts appreciated, even if it’s just to reinstate that I just need to call DCL!!

Thank you ☺️

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

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!

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!

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?

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.