We were on this cruise. I booked first day prices came out. When they announced Star Wars Day, I thought about trying to change it to the cruise that left the week earlier, but as we are in Australia & our trip was for 5 weeks, everything else had been booked and planned, so it wasn't going to work.
We are not really Star Wars fan, but everything I read about the day sounded great, so thought this was going to be fun.
Well let me say , we had a nice time , but it wasn't as magical as I thought it was going to be, I read so much information & looked at so many photos of Disney cruises, this was going to be the highlight of the trip , or so I thought.
The Sail Away party, we were up on deck and I stood my kids behind a short lady & her daughter, little did I know after standing there for 30 mins, she was only holding the space for the rest of her family as she had seen the show before, the rest of the family turned up on their scooters just as the show began, so we got pushed back, so feeling a little annoyed I told the kids to stand on one of the steps behind us.
Things got better, we enjoyed Cozumel, apart from the rain in the morning, had a lovely day in Grand Cayman.
I was very disappointed to find out there was no Pirates Menu & that the servers didn't wear their pirate uniforms at dinner service. Oh well, but I made sure the kids got up on deck and got a spot on the railing to see the show, lol yep it rained, so the show was moved inside, wow too crowded. & noisy & too late to get a good view after making our way from the deck.
Star Wars day, really ? Saw a couple of storm troopers at the pool, we didn't get to go to the meet & greets, even though we handed in the form? Kids not interested in the Jedi training.
I was. Again dissapointed at dinner, I thought the servers would be dressed to fit the scene, nup.
Got up on deck about an hour before the so called show, people already staking their spots, so walked around & then walked up to where one person was standing, she literally ran & pushed me out of the way, I must admit I let her have a few choice words, there was enough room for 3 or 4 more people to stand there, but she was obviously saving the space for the rest of her party. That was enough for me, I took the kids down to the pool area , they sat & watched there & I walked up to the 18plus area, had a drink & watched the fireworks in piece, they were excellent, I must say.
BTW, where was the laser show? Was that with the show?
The kids recorded the show & said see " it was pretty crappy, you didn't miss much mum". Lol
The biggest disappointment was not docking at
Castaway Cay, I understand the safety issues, but that was hard to take, then when the rain came and you couldn't go outside, we just walked around, nothing they arranged really appealed to us, in fact I just wanted to be back in Port Canavaral and off the ship.
We felt that the menus at dinner, were nearly all the same, just different names, our servers were good, but nothing to rave about, we had 2nd serving & always felt like it was rushed to get us out. They never offered us more of anything or mentioned you could have 2 appetisers or 2 desserts. Even when we didn't eat something because we didn't like it, they never asked if we wanted something else.
The cabin attendant was nice & funny, I didn't realise though he threw out most of our navigators, I kept them in a neat little pile and wanted to bring them home, we managed to bring 3 home.
Also we did have to ask for soap & shampoo twice.
All in all it was good, but as I said not magical.
We did manage a few photos with characters, not Star Wars ones as they seemed to run off as people were trying to take a photo.
I think we were sick of lining up as we had just spent 2 weeks at WDW and some of the lines for character photos were always soooo long.
I did get tickets for my daughter to meet the princess & we all did the frozen girls.
I doubt if we will get the chance again, 19 hour flight and costs, probably not!
We were really looking forward to this and then the reviews came out. If we had found this out prior to the full pay date, we would have cancelled and chose a non-SWDAS cruise. Not having the celebrities and only getting two real meet and greets is not acceptable to us. I disagree that it would have been difficult to accommodate celebrity guests. Most of us would have been happy just to have some voice actors from the animated series or maybe people who worked on the movies. We're not talking A listers here. I'm sure a free seven day cruise with a veranda would have sufficed. It also doesn't help that I've seen star wars themed parties on pinterest with more thought and effort. My personal opinion is Disney is trying to see how much extra they can charge for a "themed cruise" while providing as little extra as possible.
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