dreadpiraterose
I'd Rather Be Cruising
- Joined
- Jul 15, 2014
I just got off the February 20th sailing and completed the lengthly survey Disney asked us to do. I'll do a quick breakdown of our thoughts:
The Good:
The Good:
- Based on earlier reports, I expected the only "pro" photo ops to be the ones that were ticketed. Fortunately that wasn't the case, and we had chances to do pro photos with stormtroopers and the Imperial Guards. Both were a lot of fun, and the CMs were clearly into their characters and enjoying themselves.
- The interactive photo op with C3PO and R2D2 was AWESOME. No words can really convey how great that was. Phasma was okay. Not super interactive by comparison.
- The roaming characters were fun, especially the Tusken raiders and Jawas.
- The fireworks were so epic.
- Seeing cruise director Darren dressed as an X-Wing Fighter Pilot was delightfully fun.
- Hearing the SW music throughout the ship was a nice touch. Even nicer was the Europa section playing "jazzed up" versions of SW songs. THAT is the Disney level of detail I expect and love.
- The SWDAS buffet was seriously lacking decor. It was nothing like pirate night's buffet, which I missed.
- Why couldn't the servers still wear their pirate night outfits on pirate night? It's not like they were swapped for Jedi attire or something. Overall, it felt like pirate night was pushed aside, which was sad.
- The costume "parade" was poorly handled. You have a HUGE two story staircase, and instead of having people stand up there, you have them walking around in a tiny roped off area on the floor so no one on level 3 could even see anything. The host was on the stairs. No one was there to look at him. It seemed an obvious mis-use of space. They should have done one epic parade in the main theater or something so people could actually see something.
- Complete lack of adult activities, aside from a poorly executed trivia at 10:45pm. Everyone got to answer questions, but only 10. Then it went to only 20 people. Basically it became a spectator only activity after 10 minutes.
- The guest speaker was nice and all, but come on Disney. You originally promised SO much more. We had a guy who had the largest private memorabilia collection. Yes, he worked for Lucas for a year, but that hardly counts as an industry insider. At least the other cruises got people involved currently with the franchise. I wish there had been more than one presenter, or at least a better one.
- No cantina. 'Nuff said there. Lame.
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