SnowWhite2
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 1, 2007
Several interesting facts from our Feb 2nd Eastern Magic cruise
The Castaway Club gift was definitely an upgrade from previous years. IMHO, they finally got it right. Except for that ship stack thingy - whatever that is. We used the bag around the ship, it was large enough to carry items in it and it zipped. The flip top drink containers were also nice.
At the CC reception, it was noted that DCL cruises have 50-60% repeat cruisers on each voyage. Much higher than the average cruise rate repeat sailers. Not much room to grow the business with that many repeat customers. Obviously, that is why the two ships are being built now instead of waiting for a more favorable currency exchange rate.
I won a DCL clock at the Clubhouse reception. Yeah!!
We again had LAPLAPL rotation - all four cruises have been the same rotation even with main or late seatings. It is my favorite main seating rotation and my least favorite late seating rotation.
What did really annoy me was the guy a few tables over that wore his shorts and tropical shirt to formal night WITH A PENN STATE CAP on his head. If he were within arms reach, I would have knocked that hat right off his head. You don't eat dinner with your baseball hat on. This guy was about 45 years old and should know better.
The fruit at Goofy's was not ripe. It looked good but didn't have much taste. The pineapple was juicy, though.
Pikey has been relegated to a floater in the kids clubs. My kids were happy but I didn't see him the entire cruise.
The Superbowl party had more food on deck but was still a bit awkward in its placement. It was very windy and therefore a tad cold up on deck watching the ArielVision screen.
Ducky Williams was on our cruise and it was definitely an honor to hear the man discuss his work with Disney and see him sketch the characters. Went to both presentations and did not win a drawing. Went to the art auction to bid on his framed proofs and lost out on every one of them by about $50 - $100. I guess my winning streak ended early at the CC reception.
Didn't win at the DVC reception either. But did add on points and got nothing but a few pins. They gave out more stuff last year during the presentations and if you purchased.
The DVC stateroom gift was a travel log/scrapbook type bound book with a very nice pen and two DVC lanyards. Very nice and very classy. Best thing from DVC.
The Castaway Club gift was definitely an upgrade from previous years. IMHO, they finally got it right. Except for that ship stack thingy - whatever that is. We used the bag around the ship, it was large enough to carry items in it and it zipped. The flip top drink containers were also nice.
At the CC reception, it was noted that DCL cruises have 50-60% repeat cruisers on each voyage. Much higher than the average cruise rate repeat sailers. Not much room to grow the business with that many repeat customers. Obviously, that is why the two ships are being built now instead of waiting for a more favorable currency exchange rate.
I won a DCL clock at the Clubhouse reception. Yeah!!
We again had LAPLAPL rotation - all four cruises have been the same rotation even with main or late seatings. It is my favorite main seating rotation and my least favorite late seating rotation.
What did really annoy me was the guy a few tables over that wore his shorts and tropical shirt to formal night WITH A PENN STATE CAP on his head. If he were within arms reach, I would have knocked that hat right off his head. You don't eat dinner with your baseball hat on. This guy was about 45 years old and should know better.
The fruit at Goofy's was not ripe. It looked good but didn't have much taste. The pineapple was juicy, though.
Pikey has been relegated to a floater in the kids clubs. My kids were happy but I didn't see him the entire cruise.
The Superbowl party had more food on deck but was still a bit awkward in its placement. It was very windy and therefore a tad cold up on deck watching the ArielVision screen.
Ducky Williams was on our cruise and it was definitely an honor to hear the man discuss his work with Disney and see him sketch the characters. Went to both presentations and did not win a drawing. Went to the art auction to bid on his framed proofs and lost out on every one of them by about $50 - $100. I guess my winning streak ended early at the CC reception.
Didn't win at the DVC reception either. But did add on points and got nothing but a few pins. They gave out more stuff last year during the presentations and if you purchased.
The DVC stateroom gift was a travel log/scrapbook type bound book with a very nice pen and two DVC lanyards. Very nice and very classy. Best thing from DVC.