Disembarkation Breakfast - Birthday

[tgarre06]

We are going on a cruise next month, and my kids’ birthdays are one day apart. My son’s birthday falls on a full cruise day, but my daughter’s birthday is the next day when we disembark. Do you think they’d sing happy birthday to her at the disembarkation breakfast, or will they be done with us at this point and want us off the ship? Half joking lol I just don’t want my daughter to be cheated out of some birthday fun. If not, I was going to try to squeeze in something special for her before our flight takes off in the late afternoon, which I might still try to do regardless. TIA!

 

[lorimay]

We are going on a cruise next month, and my kids’ birthdays are one day apart. My son’s birthday falls on a full cruise day, but my daughter’s birthday is the next day when we disembark. Do you think they’d sing happy birthday to her at the disembarkation breakfast, or will they be done with us at this point and want us off the ship? Half joking lol I just don’t want my daughter to be cheated out of some birthday fun. If not, I was going to try to squeeze in something special for her before our flight takes off in the late afternoon, which I might still try to do regardless. TIA!

They will definitely sing and bring a little cake for her the night before, make sure you mark her birthday in special requests before the cruise. Dibarkation morning is a very go, go, go morning so I'm not sure. But they pass around pastry at the breakfast. You and your family can certainly sing to her at the table. The servers are really good and if you let them know that you would like that to happen, I think it can. **Tell the head server when he visits your table nightly**.
We sailed a couple weeks ago with my grandson, his birthday was the day after we disembarked, they sang the night before the last dinner. However, I sang to him quietly nightly. LOL it was his birthday cruise and he wanted that....

 

[sponica]

You could also have them do her birthday on a different night of the cruise, if the kids don't want to get the song and cake on the same night.

 

[ladyofthetramp]

I wouldn't plan for it the day you leave. Celebrate another night so everyone can enjoy.

 

[lanejudy]

Would the kids mind if both are celebrated the night prior? We had back-to-back birthdays in my family and the celebrations were often combined, so it wouldn't be an issue for us but I know some families prefer to celebrate each individually. If the kids don't mind sharing, I would have both celebrated the night prior to debarkation. However if that's a no-go, either bump DD's to the day before DS or push each back 1 day. I wouldn't try to have the staff celebrate at breakfast; it's pretty hectic that morning.

 

[Flcruising]

We are going on a cruise next month, and my kids’ birthdays are one day apart. My son’s birthday falls on a full cruise day, but my daughter’s birthday is the next day when we disembark. Do you think they’d sing happy birthday to her at the disembarkation breakfast, or will they be done with us at this point and want us off the ship? Half joking lol I just don’t want my daughter to be cheated out of some birthday fun. If not, I was going to try to squeeze in something special for her before our flight takes off in the late afternoon, which I might still try to do regardless. TIA!

"will they be done with us at this point and want us off the ship? Half joking lol"
You say you are half joking which means the other half seriously does understand. They try to be nice but they do want you off the ship.
Do celebrate a different night. But also as a family the day of...rather than being cheated she's being treated more special because she's getting 2 days of celebrating. It's the other kid that's being cheated with only one day of celebrating.

 

[Racer X]

It is literally a ZOO. Especially on debarkation.

 

[Geomom]

I would ask your kids if they'd mind celebrating their birthdays together at dinner the last night, that way they'll both get the birthday dessert/waiters singing. Explain that there isn't time in the morning to celebrate before leaving the ship. I'd say that it's just the singing/dessert that will be together and anything else you do will be just for them on their birthdays. Debarkation breakfast is very early (6:45/7am for main dining), and quicker than a normal sit down meal and they probably won't have the birthday dessert available that time of day.

The other option if you want to keep celebrations separate is to push the celebrations a day earlier ..have each celebration start the night before their birthdays at dinner....so a birthday would go 6pm-6pm

Good luck!

 

[Liastaob]

If your kids are young enough they might not even realize exactly what day it is. Just saying, if everything got left shifted by a day they probably wouldn't notice ;-)

 

[Geomom]

I will also add that Disney doesn't care when the actual celebration dates are, if you are celebrating on a different day, they'll celebrate with you. That includes the parks. It's hard to get life to match up to celebration dates. Our 2023 cruise was actually over my birthday, so we celebrated that day. The next day/last full day of cruise, we celebrated our 30th anniversary 38 days early... because we weren't doing another cruise for 2 yrs and our kids were with us on the cruise vs at college.

 

[tinkerbell1991]

As the day prior to disembarkation is a full sail day, could you eat in the restaurant listed as being open for lunch and have one childs birthday be acknowledged there with singing and a cake brought out, then have the other childs birthday too be recognised at the dinner meal restaurant with again a cake and singing?

 

[Dug720]

I will also add that Disney doesn't care when the actual celebration dates are, if you are celebrating on a different day, they'll celebrate with you. That includes the parks. It's hard to get life to match up to celebration dates. Our 2023 cruise was actually over my birthday, so we celebrated that day. The next day/last full day of cruise, we celebrated our 30th anniversary 38 days early... because we weren't doing another cruise for 2 yrs and our kids were with us on the cruise vs at college.

Exactly! In 2022 we celebrated my dad's 80th birthday on a cruise in May even though his birthday was in January - they rescheduled their cruise due to Omicron's rise in the Winter, and that enabled me to get vacation days for the Spring Break that was stolen from us in 2020 (NYC...they insisted on keeping remote learning going rather than giving us the scheduled break and had to give us all 7 unrestricted vacation days we can use whenever with 10 days' notice).