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What loving crazy town do you people live in where you're trying to justify a casino on a cruise ship? Not having one if one of the best things about Disney cruises.
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Screw that, how does a lack of casino make it More expensive?? 
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Sep 14, 2022 16:36
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because the ship doesnt make money off gambling, so they charge more overall
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I wouldn't play on a cruise ship casino being from Nevada already, I can find better odds taking a brisk walk, but back when I was looking up NCL it seemed easy enough to avoid them if you don't care.
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As I’m currently on an Alaska cruise…. I loving love cruising. I have not, however, taken a Disney Cruise yet because it will ruin every other cruise line. Plus, my kid is barely a year old and I’d rather he remembers the Disney ones. I did however secure buy-in from my wife to try to get us on an inaugural Treasure sailing provided she’s not pregnant again.
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Nothing is ever gonna convince me that the words on Splash Mountain aren’t “Pretty good show us your bum.”
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Fartington Butts posted:Nothing is ever gonna convince me that the words on Splash Mountain aren’t “Pretty good show us your bum.” Well that's ruined for me forever. Working on a DCL write up that I might post in the next few days since Arquinsiel asked nicely
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couldcareless posted:What loving crazy town do you people live in where you're trying to justify a casino on a cruise ship? Gambling rules
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couldcareless posted:Well that's ruined for me forever. Well you don't have to worry about it for much longer. Done with my DLR trip and probably the last one with my magic key. Not gonna renew. It was so loving crowded at all times that I kept leaving the park because there were not really any good options to kill time. Trader Sam's was probably the biggest highlight for me. Shout out to Bengal Barbecue for being awesome in the morning. It was way tastier than it is at night when I usually get it. I got a shoulder Tuk Tuk and he is awesome.
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Oh, also, if you go to DLR get your rear end to Joe's Italian Ice. That poo poo is worth the hype it gets.
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Fartington Butts posted:Nothing is ever gonna convince me that the words on Splash Mountain aren’t “Pretty good show us your bum.” Pretty good show us your bone
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Fwiw livestreams are nice when you're running a 105.4 degree temperature on your couch because you got food poisoning and your immune system is trash (for real, I started to get sick Saturday night and I'm still not capable of driving or standing for more than a few minutes) I wonder what the SD would think of a cruise. Also I was watching that livestream, braks, and it sucked. I really want more bayou adventure details and I'm vaguely frustrated that we really don't have interior sketches. I wanna see the pretties
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couldcareless posted:Well that's ruined for me forever.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:I wonder what the SD would think of a cruise. There was a really good doggo on our boat and thought of you when I saw it. He seemed annoyed about being dragged to every character picture in the boat but he was a champ about it.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Pretty good show us your bone This is all I’ve ever heard
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See I always heard 'Pretty good show us your bong'. Always felt there was a subtle 'g' sound
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couldcareless posted:There was a really good doggo on our boat and thought of you when I saw it. He seemed annoyed about being dragged to every character picture in the boat but he was a champ about it. Its like an unspoken rule that if you have an SD they have to suffer through pictures. What a good dog.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Pretty good show us your bone This Im trying to think of other misheard lyrics or sentences in the parks
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I always heard pretty good sure as yer bon Headed onto the Wish in 15 days and am excited to compare to HAL cruises lol as I’ve only been on them
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"Sure as you're born", in case anyone was genuinely unsure what the intended line was.
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i always heard “pretty good <unintelligible>” because the audio system in splash is trash
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I was driving back home (and by Universal) when this happened a little over 2 hours ago, it was flooding like mad and had zero visibility, but later found out this was why: https://twitter.com/ScottGustin/status/1570563009952755712
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I saw it from US-192. I don't think it was a real funnel cloud but it caught me off guard at first.
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Atricks posted:I was driving back home (and by Universal) when this happened a little over 2 hours ago, it was flooding like mad and had zero visibility, but later found out this was why: Nope
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https://twitter.com/parkerbranton/status/1570547317736116224?s=46&t=tI5we543Gv6iB8ucjIcGDg Universal was having virtually hurricane-like weather last night. That tornado is probably just southwest of them.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Fwiw livestreams are nice when you're running a 105.4 degree temperature on your couch because you got food poisoning and your immune system is trash (for real, I started to get sick Saturday night and I'm still not capable of driving or standing for more than a few minutes) You were watching the livestream? I wonder if I was on it. I just got off the Wish a few hours ago. I’ll write a post when I get back home to my computer. There was a service dog or two on the ship. I watched one of them meet Pluto and it was cute as hell.
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Disney Cruise Effort Post First, I’d like to note that I have only cruised with Disney and Carnival. I last did Carnival probably a decade ago with my wife and I don’t remember too much from it. I’m saying this because someone is inevitably going to say “well you don’t know what it’s like on [other cruise line] so how do you know this is any better” and my answer is, I don’t. I’m just trying to comment on my experience with Disney cruising and honestly my memories of Carnival are so distant and their stuff has likely changed enough that any opinions I have of them are likely invalid at this point. I just completed my fifth Disney cruise. I’d list the itineraries but honestly I’m terrible at retaining that sort of stuff and the Castway Club site doesn’t seem to be listing old cruises at this time, but here’s the years, ships, and ports: Wonder 2017 - Port Canaveral Dream 2018 - Port Canaveral Wonder 2020 - New Orleans Dream 2022 - Port Canaveral Wonder 2022 - Vancouver We got to see the Wonder pre and post “New Orleansification”. Basically they just rethemed the garden dining room to Tiana’s and the generic bar outside of it to a French Quarter lounge. Anyway, let’s get started: Pricing Right out the gate, this is what’s going to be talked about the most and honestly is the thing I see the least. My wife does all our bookings for basically any vacation and she is crazy and will constantly shop and refresh pricing and cancel and rebook for best deals. I quickly pulled up Virgin cruises (arbitrary) and Disney cruises side by side and searched for 5 day cruises in the next 4 months. Prices are comparable enough with Disney a little bit more than Virgin just slightly without comparing destinations/ports. Also to note that most cruises display their cost by passenger when listing them out while Disney seems to just list prices based on a stateroom with double occupancy. I’m sure if you did some shopping and timed your bookings well, you can get a pretty affordable cost. In addition, disney offers a bounceback 10% off deal while you’re on board that is a no brainer. It requires $250 down, 10% off will be available to use for up to 2 years, if it goes unused you get your down payment back. With a bit higher price tag, I do find stuff on DCL ships affordable. Beer is reasonably priced (especially if you opt for draft and get the mug), cocktail of the day is $5 and more than serviceable, and all of the bars on ship have regular happy hours dropping drink prices another 30% during those times. I’ve only found things get really expensive if you start going up on the liquor quality. In addition, we like our espresso and lattes instead of mediocre drip coffee and will typically order 1 to 2 coffee drinks from the onboard cafe without thinking much about it (I think espresso was 3.50 for a double, lattes were $6 for a large) and they give you a 5 slot punch card for a free drink every 5, and if you’re nice to the barista they regularly hand out extra punches just because. Needless to say we cashed in a lot of free drinks. You are also allotted a six pack of beer or 2 bottles of wine *per port of call*. I don’t know if this policy is on every cruise line, but if you’re smart enough to just grab a sixer at each stop, you should be more than ok drink wise if you’re trying to pinch pennies. The pricing for upcharge restaurants, Palo on all ships, Remy and Palo on big ships (I’m not getting into Wish stuff), used to be much better. I believe Palo was $35 a person and Remy $100 a person previous, but a wave of price hikes went through and those numbers are up to $45 and $125. I will say I think Palo dinner is just “ok” for that price, but the brunch is fantastic. Remy I believe is easily worth the price tag, but I will go into food stuff further below. Onboard drink seminars - these used to be killer. Formerly $25+ a person and I never walked out of one not satisfied, but now they are up to $40+ a person and that’s a bit harder to swallow so we are way more selective. These can range from some mid to high end spirits and are typically decently heavy pours for “tastings”. Even at the steeper price, some of these are definitely a blast and a great way to meet people (unless you’re a goon where talking to strangers on a boat is a negative) Excursions are probably priced up if you book through Disney, but almost all of them offer a way to book directly that I assume would cost the same as any other cruise line. We are just lazy and also overly cautious and just book through the ship for a single point of payment and making sure it’s something that’s vetted and will get us back in time. When it comes down to it, it takes some effort for us to rack up a big bill on ship, and we drink a lot. I think the scummier charging things I can think of that they pull off is the drat popcorn and drinks outside the theaters. You smell that poo poo and immediately want it and they want $3.50 for a bag and to charge you for a can of coke (because your rear end is too lazy to go up deck and fill up your cup at the machine). Port Not much to say here. Canaveral terminal is nice because it’s been their home for awhile. Everything is well organised and you flow through security and check in pretty smoothly. New Orleans and Vancouver are a bit of a mess. New Orleans I can kind of excuse as it’s a fairly new Disney port all things considered, but Vancouver was total chaos. This is such a small blip in the grand scheme of things, though. Entertainment Entertainment on board is pretty great. Their main stage shows every night are of surprisingly high quality, better than some touring broadway stuff we have caught for sure. We have seen Believe, Golden Mickeys, Dreams, and Frozen and all have great choreography and solid cast talent. The shows unique to DCL are basically just a series of Disney hits with stage direction, though, with the loosest of plot connecting it all. If that’s not your cup of tea, then there’s the movie theater(s) on board that show a rotating list of recent releases (sometimes brand new/in theater releases). Go grab a sandwich and some cookies from a food spot and park your rear end in there and watch Thor in a theater where you can easily space yourself because it’s rarely near capacity. The deck parties are fun and cute if that’s your thing, but they aren’t ours, so we usually stand by awkwardly sipping a beer or a drink of the day. Pirate night is a blast. If you’re planning a DCL cruise at any point, start putting together a decent pirate costume. I was disappointed to learn that the Alaskan cruises don’t do pirate night or fireworks and replaced it with a Frozen themed night and deck party with “snow”. Meh. The fireworks are decent, don’t expect a park quality show. It can be pretty easy to find a decent vantage point on the boat even if you show up late. Some misc onboard activities that I find fun: any and all adult only trivia, Anyone Can Cook cooking demonstrations (includes a free glass of wine!), DVC member parties (free drinks and chances for merch!), crafts Some misc onboard activities that I have little interest in (but others might): silent disco, karaoke (family and adult only), game shows, basically any spa stuff with the exception of the Rainforest Room Rainforest room is like a ticketed spa lounge with aromatherapy showers and some saunas (wet and dry). I think you can either buy a single day pass or a full cruise length one. For example, for our 7 day alaskan, it was $140 a person I think for the full length of the cruise. These passes sell out (to prevent overcrowding) so if this is something that interests you, make your way to the spa on day 1 and purchase. Also worth noting about the spa in general, they are not affiliated with Disney and it shows. They try and hard sell you everything and it’s incredibly annoying, watch out for that. Every cruise we have been on will have a small cast of performers who rotate around the lounges and sometimes the adult pool playing music. Usually violin, acoustic + singing, piano, etc. These people are typically unaffiliated with disney and you will likely see them on board as regular guests when they aren’t playing. We met two sisters that were on the boat who were doing the duelling pianos at a few points throughout the cruise and they were lovely. If character photos are your thing, those are abundant. You can sometimes get them in unique outfits you won’t see anywhere else. On the Alaskan cruise, they had Goofy in one of those crabber outfits on top deck doing pictures with the beautiful scenery as the background. In cabin TVs have access to most of the Disney catalogue to stream, if you like just hanging out in there. Adult Adult only areas are where we spend most of our time on the boats. The adults only pool/deck space is one of them. They are typically top deck forward or back and include a pool, hot tub(s) and a bar with more than enough lounge chairs (and if they are all claimed, just talk to one of the deck hands and they may even just pull a new set of chairs and set them up for you). These areas rarely ever feel crowded and they do a good job about keeping the noise to a minimum. There’s usually a waiter or 2 coming around to you either in the pool, hot tub, or lounge chair asking if you need anything. I also might be crazy but I’m pretty certain they brought around fruit and other small snacks on a recent trip as well. A big asterisk on this is the Wish which from what I’ve seen from reviews and complaints is that the adults only pool area has been significantly scaled back and you get a ton of noise pollution from the surrounding areas. I’ll be on the Wish next May so I’ll be able to get a first hand experience with this. There’s usually a spread of different themed bars on the ship, typically concentrated in a specific area. Usually a beer/pub bar, a cocktail bar, maybe a wine centric one as well. Check the app schedule for happy hours, also get to know the staff at these as they are usually the same folks and making friends is the easiest way to get a little extra here and there (i.e. some dude on our cruise was given 4 unique Blanton’s tops because he was buddy buddy with the bartender by the end of the cruise). I usually spend a lot of time at the pub ones because they seem more inviting. A nice surprise on the Alaskan cruise was seeing some unique drink specials, in particular a $6 mulled wine which was killer. Pro tip, bring your own large cup with a lid for filling at drink machines or transporting your alcohol in spill proof cups. I briefly mentioned it, but there’s a mug deal on the boat where you pay like $20 (can’t remember actual price, it’s been years since I bought mine!) and you get a 21oz mug for draft beers. The best part is you can exchange the used mug back to any bartender for a card to let you exchange for a fresh mug at any other bar when you order. I think the idea is you keep the mug at the end of the trip, but I have just been holding onto a card at the end of each trip then starting the cycle again on our next. Combine this with happy hour at the pub and you can easily get 21oz of a pretty decent beer (abita, longboard, guinness) for $6 which is honestly a deal even on land. Food Dining is pretty good. The only time that I straight up just don’t care for the food is one particular menu in Tiana’s place (I’m looking at you “boudin” balls and a sad excuse for a bouillabaisse). I think my biggest complaint is things can sometimes be a bit on the blander side and I desperately seek out salt and hot sauce. The quick food on top deck can be surprisingly good at times. If your ship has a shawarma spot, get the chicken shawarma on a hamburger bun fully dressed. Really, just go wild and order weird things (when they aren’t slammed). The main buffet changes things up just slightly day to day. We had some mediocre sushi and some pretty solid indian food on different days this past trip which was a fresh surprise. Let’s talk about Palo. They changed how Palo dinner works and jacked up the price this year. People are angry about this because it’s disney people and they get upset over everything. At $45 a person, it’s still a drat good deal and honestly my past experiences with Palo dinner are sort of a whirlwind of italian meats, pasta, wine, and leaving uncomfortably full. It’s good, it’s classy, it’s fairly easy to score a reservation. Palo brunch, though, is the real catch and it’s also basically the hardest reservation to score due to it being limited to days at sea and all the plat and gold folks getting a much bigger window to gobble up the limited seats. We haven’t been able to get it since pre covid, but it was a stacked higher end buffet with a small menu for plated offerings. You also get 1 free mimosa. Remy is only available on the big ships, carries a hefty price tag, and requires formal dress but holy poo poo this place is good. Since it requires formal dress, I recommend either not booking it the day of departure or if you do, make sure to carry on your formal wear so you can change before dinner in case your luggage takes too long to get to your room. I’ve eaten at my share of fine dining establishments and really this place really holds its own. We have not managed to do the Remy brunch nor have we done the dessert experience, so I can’t comment on those. We have done the dinner twice, once with wine pairings and once without. The menu has 2 options: french tasting menu and american tasting menu. Obviously with 2 people, this is an easy decision. I forget what the menu says regarding the number of courses, but just add 3 or 4 to that number to cover for things they don’t include like the amuse bouche, cheese plate, and one or two extra desserts just because. Everything about this dinner exudes class and the service is somehow even better than the standard dining room service team. If you do this, it’s typically advised to tip big. As a couple, we typically tip ~50% (just about the amount of 1 person’s meal) The regular dining rooms have unique menus, at least 2 each I think as well as 2 different “shows” in each (except Tritons or the Triton equivalent). As I mentioned, I don’t care for some of the items on Tiana’s menu because they just read as a poor, bland attempt at the real thing and I just don’t have time for that. What I can say about the regular dining room food is it’s serviceable to great. Your waiter will likely make recommendations and you should probably listen to these as we were typically pleased with them. Misc One of the biggest standouts on DCL (imo) is the service. Your dinner service crew follows you around to your dining room each night and you can tell they go out of their way to make the experience very personal and well done. If they notice you eat and leave quickly every night, they will make sure everything is fine. If you don’t seem to be finishing your food, they will ask if you liked it and if you’d want something else (they can get food from other dining rooms for you, just ask!). My buddy that was with us on the Alaskan cruise works in game development and our assistant waiter was super into that, they ended up exchanging discord handles and chatted a whole lot. Our head server has been in the cruise line industry for 25 years, was the first Filipino employed by DCL, he told us all about his family back home and how their work schedule goes (~6 months on, 2 months off). They didn’t shy away from mentioning how “vocal” the DVC cruise that was the week before us was and how this group was way better. I honestly just enjoy the personal touch. The dining room staff is consistently great. Ditto goes for your room attendant. On our first cruise we asked our room attendant where we could get a bucket of ice to ice down our bottle of champagne. He said we would find out for us. Later that day we returned to the room with the champagne in a bucket iced down and 2 champagne glasses ready to go. He even made sure to restock the ice bucket every day. As I mentioned, make friends with bartenders, pool wait staff, and the cafe folks. Freebies are not uncommon, and they will definitely be more likely to grant them to someone that chats up with them. Keep in mind these folks are somewhat starved for normal human interaction. Some other random tips that I may have already mentioned: If this is your first cruise, get yourself a lanyard with a plastic card holder. After your first cruise, don’t worry about this as silver members will get a lanyard every trip as well as a sling backpack. Bring a large plastic sealable cup. This is good for drink machines or just dumping your cocktails into for easier transport and/or friendlier pool consumption. Bring dramamine and make sure to get the non drowsy kind. The boat can and will get rocky and this is a life saver. The state room doors are metal (so they take magnets). Decorating your door is pretty common, so go look on google image search and get some ideas. On the same note as the door decorations, fishing or go fish is a thing. Each room number placard is a fish and regulars will typically hang a canvas pocket or something on it as a way to give or receive little gifts. Think of it as a reverse trick or treat. These are usually coordinated with facebook groups or something, though, so you might have to dig through social media cesspool. If you’re somewhat of a particular drinker like me (I don’t want some sweet garbage), try and get a regular drink order you like that is simple because the bartenders aren’t always perfect. They can make the items on the menu with their eyes closed, but beyond that you’re somewhat gambling. Alaska I figure I can dump some stuff about the unique experience of the Alaskan cruise. It is a decently long cruise clocking in at 7 days and leaving from Vancouver. Side note, Vancouver is gorgeous and if you've never been, I recommend setting aside a few days either before or after the cruise to check out the city and surrounding areas. This cruise spends the whole time hugging the Alaskan coast line and navigating through the various straits. Of the 7 days, we only had about a day and a half of rough waters, the rest of the time we might as well have been cruising on glass. You have to hope for clear days as it seems to be a mix bag of fog, rain, bad overcast, and sunshine. When the sun comes out, it's unreal how beautiful things are, especially on Dawes glacier day. They cut all the top deck noise sources during the slow trip to the glacier and bring out some hot chocolate and coffee up near the viewing areas on top deck (you can purchase optional shots of booze for your drink if you're feeling that way). I really could have spent all day staring out at everything all around me and snapping photos. Wife and I were lucky enough to snag a spot on the smaller excursion boats that get you much closer to the glacier than the cruise ship does. We did get to see some chunks breaking off as well as a gently caress ton of seals and a few goats. We also got the chance at another smaller glacier that the cruise ship couldn't get to. Pretty solid excursion if you're looking to get up closer to the action. First port was Skagway and you're going to quickly realize there's way too many jewelry shops in Alaskan towns. There was a decent brewery in town as well as a former brothel turned bar/restaurant/museum. You can do a quick brothel tour there which was a nice way to spend 20 minutes. If you need to restock on beer or wine, there is a small liquor store there that's well stocked. We did the White Pass rail excursion (originally had tickets to the drinks included version but they nyxed that a few months ago  ). Pretty simple train ride up the mountain with some narration and chances for great pictures. It was a bit pricey so unless you really want the pictures, you could probably skip this one.Juneau was stop two and this was a much more modern feeling place. For this, we did the musher dog summer camp which I thought was great. You're "guided" by a musher, ours wasn't directly affiliated with the camp but they were letting him stay with his dogs since their season up on the glacier ended early. He seemed pretty authentic, named his dogs after metal bands, his team name was "The Grateful Dogs". You get to pet them all you want and they are all pretty loving adorable and nice. You do a quick ride on a buggy pulled by the dogs then you get off and can hold and cuddle and plot ways to steal one of their puppies. A+ would recommend if you like dogs. Bring hand sanitizer, they smell. Afterwards we walked around downtown Juneau, hit up a gin distillery for a drink, got some oysters, then after attempting to find a tiki bar (there are none in any of these 3 alaska stops wtf) ended up at the town's only cocktail bar worth a drat. We shot the poo poo with the bartender since we were the only people there, told us all about when he visited NOLA once. Cool town, easy walking, you could easily spend a day wandering around here eating and drinking. Ketchikan was the last port. I forget what excursion we had booked for this but it canceled on us at the start of the cruise. It was one we sort of booked out of the feeling of obligation to do something so we didn't sweat it. Walked around town, checked out Creek Street, then wandered over to the Arctic Bar (home of the happy bears!). The owner of this place was featured on Wendover's documentary about Ketchikan during the pandemic and ever since we saw that we had been itching to go. There's a statue of 2 bears loving out front and it definitely has "locals dive bar" vibes. We were lucky enough to catch the owner there, chatted with her about how we saw her and the bar in the documentary and knew we had to visit. She was so excited, gifted both of us 2 tshirts ("Will they let you on the boat with shirts that say 'Ahoy Fuckers'?") and bought us a few drinks. We hung out here for quite awhile watching them prep for their 22nd annual wet tshirt contest (the banner said 24th but the dude who made it is a dumbass that can't count according to the owner). We bought some more merch and wandered back to ship. If it wasn't for that bar, I think Ketchikan would have been a let down, though. I had scoped out a good looking place to grab some smoked salmon for my dad, but they were closed early. Last day was at sea and easy going, not much to note. Alaskan cruise was a nice change of pace from our typical Caribbean jaunts. They offer blankets on top deck as well as towels so if you wanna just sit out and enjoy the weather, you could. The pools are a nice temp and the hot tubs are always great, so we spent a lot of time there, for me more so than I do on the warmer climate cruises. I was bummed at the lack of a pirate night as I had gone through the trouble to pack all my pirate gear. I did bring a board game which wasn't a bad idea at all and playing in the pub started some nice conversations. Really, this cruise was probably one of the best we have ever done and it's gonna be tough for anything else to compare at this point. Anyway, that’s about it unless I think of anything else. This was typed up sporadically over the course of 3-4 days so it might be repetitive and sorta weirdly organized, but I figured I’d just spill my thoughts out onto this. I’m sure Braks will have some thoughts on Wish and I hope if anyone else has been on the other ships I haven’t seen they might toss in some thoughts as well.
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Elendil004 posted:Any covid precautions or are people just boosted and praying? For our cruise, they required a proctored negative test 2 days prior to board which you were on your own for getting and providing as well as at least 1 completed series of vaxx. I believe the negative test requirement was just lifted or will be lifted next week. The crew were pretty much masked 24/7 save for anyone on stage or doing announcements of any sort. They also still don't seat you with random people for dinner. Since covid they have always kept seating to just your party.
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I'm writing a thing about the history of Marvel in theme parks. Has there been any instances of Marvel being used anywhere before Islands of Adventure? I don't even mean rides or anything, as it could be something with character meet and greets.
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Gavok posted:I'm writing a thing about the history of Marvel in theme parks. Has there been any instances of Marvel being used anywhere before Islands of Adventure? I don't even mean rides or anything, as it could be something with character meet and greets. In an official, licensed capacity? Not that I can think of, at least in North America. Wouldn't surprise me if there were knockoff stuffed prizes available at sketchy carnivals over the years, though. fake edit: there was at least one Marvel pinball machine produced prior to 2000, and the Marvel vs Capcom arcade game franchise started selling cabinets in 1996, so there was probably a presence in amusement park arcades long before IOA was a thing.
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Gavok posted:I'm writing a thing about the history of Marvel in theme parks. Has there been any instances of Marvel being used anywhere before Islands of Adventure? I don't even mean rides or anything, as it could be something with character meet and greets. https://www.greatadventurehistory.com/MarvelCharacters.htm
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Are Ubers the best method of getting from LAX to DLR? My wife is telling me the prices she's seeing are like $120 for the ride over for the two of us. That seems like...a lot?
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Sep 18, 2022 21:35
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Thank you. That's perfect.
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Sep 18, 2022 21:47
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Nanigans posted:Are Ubers the best method of getting from LAX to DLR? My wife is telling me the prices she's seeing are like $120 for the ride over for the two of us. It’s a 35 to 40 mile trip. Depending on the dynamic pricing it could be 100 bucks or more via rideshare. It’s 100 for a taxi for sure. I’ve looked at karmel shuttle and I’m getting quoted 215 each way for my dates next year. The least expensive way is public transportation but I’m not going to try to negotiate a strange cities public transportation with my kids and luggage at 8pm at night when we land. You can try flying into one of the closer airports that are like 20 miles from DLR
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Sep 18, 2022 22:21
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Nanigans posted:Are Ubers the best method of getting from LAX to DLR? My wife is telling me the prices she's seeing are like $120 for the ride over for the two of us. That’s the easiest but not the cheapest. It’s a long ride.
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Sep 18, 2022 22:27
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Braksgirl posted:That’s the easiest but not the cheapest. It’s a long ride. If I remember right there's no really direct bus or rail so you end up with like four transfers minimum and a three hour trip. You might look at flying into John Wayne Airport instead, you may pay more for airfare but save on taxi.
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Sep 18, 2022 22:46
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Thanks, everyone. Airfare was bought months ago, unfortunately. John Wayne didn't have any decent options for us at the time, so we just went with LAX. Oh, well.
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Sep 18, 2022 23:04
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I've complained about it before in the thread. The fact that there's no direct, mass-transit way to get from the world's third busiest airport to a world famous tourist attraction is amazing. It's sort of surprising Disney doesn't just choose a regional bus operator and give them the Blessing of the Mouse (and maybe toss them a few dollars to kickstart the operation). Like, at least Mears connect exists.
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Boxman posted:I've complained about it before in the thread. The fact that there's no direct, mass-transit way to get from the world's third busiest airport to a world famous tourist attraction is amazing. It's sort of surprising Disney doesn't just choose a regional bus operator and give them the Blessing of the Mouse (and maybe toss them a few dollars to kickstart the operation). Like, at least Mears connect exists. they originally had helicopter rides...
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