Disney Cruise Characters! Who have you met when and experiences!

[CampbellzSoup]

I am BEYOND a excited for my Disneh cruise I can't not wait for photos with Mickey in his sailor outfit as I knkw got him j. His regular halloween christmas and Hawaiian ones!

What characters did you guys meet! Where did you meet them and how were the lines!?

Share you experiences and may e some photos!

 

[dugthetalkingdog]

My daughter who is 20, met Mickey twice, once in formal attire and once in captains uniform, Minnie in her formal dress, Snow White, Chip and Dale, Goofy and Pluto all by the staircase,
Donald in his formal attire by the Walt Disney Theater. On Castaway Cay, she met Goofy, Pluto, Stitch, Chip and Dale who were all in swimming outfits. There are some meet
and greets that require a ticket. The lines were not bad at all. Mickey was the longest..maybe 15 minutes. Some of the characters had no lines waiting at all..just walked up.
My daughter and I were on the Disney Dream for the New Year's Eve cruise. I know there is more characters she met, but too many to remember. All characters took pictures with
her and signed her autograph book.

 

[CampbellzSoup]

What an awesome reply thank you so much!

 

[KBinCO]

I posted a rather detailed response to a similar post just a couple of days ago:
http://disboards.com/threads/character-interactions.3385872/#post-53176650


a copy and paste of my response:

I was on a 7 night Fantasy, so I can only speak for that.
There are a lot of characters scheduled. If we showed up 10 mins before schedule, we were 1st or 2nd in line. If we showed up at the scheduled time, we had a 5-10 min wait.
Right when we got on the ship, there were unscheduled characters on the balcony that the kids were able to walk right up to.
We only had crazy long lines for the princess gathering (skipped it) which is now ticketed.
For the Sea Ya Real Soon party, there were about 12-14 characters in the atrium with no photographers- it was take your own pics- and my girls literally got to walk up to almost all of them. There were maybe 2-3 people in front of us for all of them. We jumped from line to line and saw about 10 characters that I took pics of the kids with in about 10 mins.
My kids were constantly bumping into characters in the halls who would interact and visit with them- princesses would stop and talk to them and pose for a pic and many of them "knew" my kids by the end of the cruise, chip and dale would stop and dance with them and play ring around the rosie, pluto would stop and pretend to dig for bones with them. Rapunzel came up to us in the hall when my grumpy 4 year old had to leave dinner and we were walking to the kids club. She knelt down and talked to her and then took her hand and walked her to the kids club with me.
The clubs themselves also have plenty of activities with the characters. I would often pick up my kids and they'd be curled up in a princess's lap reading a story.
Also, wake up with Disney Jr and other dance activities in D Lounge and dance parties were very close encounters. The kids got to dance up close with Goofy and Jake and for some of the activities, there would only be 6 or 7 other kids there.
This was all for a September cruise.
We did not have Aurora on our ship, so we stood in line for her at the park after, and gosh, it was more waiting than almost all of our waits combined on the ship.
Also, Disney is super strategic and the main characters- Mickey, Minnie, et al have difference costumes for difference days/events. DCL attire, tropical attire, CC attire, Pirate attire, formal attire... so even if we hit them up and got a photo, we had to get a photo for each "costume".

 

[ludari]

I've met so many and I enjoy adding to my long list of cruise characters. All the character meets and times will be posted in the daily navigator. Please look for those special character meets that require advance tickets such as the Frozen characters. From my experience lines depend on all sorts of things, length of cruise, popularity of character and rareness of character. The longest lines I had ever experienced was for the princesses meets. I also experienced some long lines when I was on the special Disney/Pixar cruise when the majority of the characters where from Pixar movies. Bon voyage!!!

 

[KBinCO]

this is about half the pics I got of the kids that I put in our photobook:

 

[lmhall2000]

Our must sees are Captain Jack Sparrow, Peter Pan, and Captain Hook...those three provide such entertainment!! We love the rest, too but these three we will wait in a long long line for

 

[kiford]

DH and I were sitting outside the Cove Cafe on our 2013 Med cruise. I saw something moving in the periphery of my vision, looked up and there was Minnie Mouse sitting on the couch across from me waving. She and Mickey were there in traditional Italian dress just wandering about with their handler and visiting randomly with people. The handler took a picture of us with the two of them using our iPad.

Then later in the cruise, everyone at our table (eight adults) left dinner one night (late dining) from Lumieres and saw Mickey in the lobby dressed in traditional Greek dress and there was no one in line. We all decided right then to get our photo taken with him. It's one of the few pictures I've ever actually purchased on a cruise.

We've also had Daisy Duck stop in to wave us off in the morning while everyone was gathering in Studio Sea for an excursion, Goofy stand near the stairs as people were disembarking at some port, and Pluto drop in at the Promenade Lounge just before we docked somewhere. We've never stood in line for photos since it's just DH and I (no kids) but we've encountered many characters just by accident. One night we were dining and Alice suddenly rushed up to the table and started babbling about the white rabbit. She never dropped character no matter what we said to her. So much fun!

 

[boardwalkbride729]

When I was getting coffee one morning I ran into goofy and he was wearing pjs. It was the cutest thing

 

[Crisi83]

This board is just getting my hopes up so high I can't wait to see all the characters! And I know my 2 yr old is just gonna be in shock

 

[com_op_2000]

On embark for lunch on the Magic we went to PC, after having lunch, and getting our dessert, Goofy came up behind my DW with a pepper grinder in hand, and tried to reach past her to put some on her dessert. Had my camera on the table and the picture I got from my DW in surprise, is priceless. She will not let me post it. ALWAYS have your camera out and ready for use as you roam the ship. The characters will appear out of nowhere and your kids will go crazy. Another time got DW a solo picture with Belle as she was walking down a hallway.
Mickey is always available for pictures at the Castaway Club reception.

 

[NCConch]

I was walking through a rather busy Shutters one night and here comes Peter Pan followed by about five boys, darting through the crowd. I found that to be the most awesome thing. It took me back many, many years to when I wished I was a Lost Boy.

 

[Newsies]

I was walking through a rather busy Shutters one night and here comes Peter Pan followed by about five boys, darting through the crowd. I found that to be the most awesome thing. It took me back many, many years to when I wished I was a Lost Boy.

Aww! Imagine how those boys must have felt! What a sweet story!

 

[ajmomouse]

As far as lines, it depends on the time of year and what ship you are on. On the smaller ships the lines tend to be less (still only 1 Mickey, but a lot less people on the ship)

 

[ForMyBoys]

We sailed during earth week so got to meet Jiminy cricket in addition to those above.

 

[mylittlebuttercup]

On our first Disney cruise, I remember meeting princess Minnie, pirate Minnie, and sailor Donald. We were two adults, and my husband didn't seem like he wanted to wait in line that often since we had a short cruise; I would have liked to have waited for more.

This trip, we plan to do a lot more. We are taking my son, who will be two at the time, and he loved the characters on our November trip to WDW.

 

[ForMyBoys]

oh and on the magic the boys met Captain America

 

[krisinparis]

In addition to most of the above sightings (minus Jimminy Cricket, who we have never seen), we also ran into someone I had never seen before-- Max!

 

[CampbellzSoup]

I want to meet:

Sailor Mickey
Pirate Mickey
Elegant Mickey

Everyone else is just an added bonus, how realistic is it that I'll see all three on my 4 Day Cruise or do I need a longer one!

 

[Four Swampers]

A couple of things:

1. Character meet and greets occur frequently. The lines are much shorter than the lines for characters at WDW parks. Princess lines are fairly long, but most of the princess meet and greets are now ticketed. It is a good idea to go to Guest Services early, as in first few hours on the ship, to get a time.

2. Children in the kids club get character interactions there. In fact, these are probably the best character interactions, because they are often interactive. Captain America might speak to the kids, rather than just standing in line and getting an autograph.

3. You will hear a lot about meeting characters randomly on the ship. This definitely does happen, but don't count on it! You have to be in the right spot at the right time. In ten cruises and about 70 nights on the ships, I have had this happen four or five times. I once came upon Mickey and Minnie who were strolling the top deck and Chip 'n Dale who were strolling the top deck. Captain Hook once came out and stood by my daughter and looked out over the ocean. I do see Peter Pan playing with kids in the atrium rather often; he once hung out with my daughter and her friend and they made faces at Captain Hook, who was in the atrium at the time.