Eastern Caribbean, Here We Come Again…This Time on the Treasure (with photos) - May 2025

[Erica1016]

May 11, 2025

We love this itinerary because we love sea days!

Todd was up at 5:20 to go walk on Decks 4, 5 and 6. As we’ve mentioned, he wasn’t a big fan of the missing promenade. In addition, one side was often closed for cleaning and maintenance. So, he did a lot of back and forth to get all his steps. He walked a bit over 5 miles all in that little space! He came back to wake me up around 7:20 and we took showers and got ready to head to breakfast.

We headed up to Marceline Market around 8:00 for our first buffet breakfast of the cruise. We don’t care for the fact that the buffet isn’t self-serve. Todd was especially missing his waffle toppings, since he could only logistically fit a couple little cups of strawberries and whipped cream - he typically puts A LOT more! I was happy with my usuals of hash browns, bacon and some other things.

Todd’s breakfast. Mickey waffles and Eggs Benedict are staples for him.

I was super excited about POG juice and also what we call “nuts and berries” - an assortment of toppings from the oatmeal bar without the oatmeal​

After breakfast, we headed to Easy Disney Trivia (with Violet - who we remembered from the Fantasy the previous year). I don’t recall our score, but we did not win. Our experience on the Wish-class ships is that the trivia sessions are very crowded, so there’s a lot more competition (and fewer available seats!). We still had fun! After trivia, I headed up to Deck 11 to relax and watch some of The Incredibles on Funnel Vision while Todd headed to the gym to work on some of his physical therapy exercises.

While I was hanging out, I contacted a fellow DisBoards member (@DisneyWitch ) to see if she and her partner wanted to meet up with us at Brainteasers Trivia. Todd came and found me and I grabbed an ice cream on the way to trivia. This trivia was in Triton Lounge and was super crowded, definitely standing room only and we didn’t end up being able to sit near Andrea and Frank. We did say hello and then we were able to chat a bit and planned to meet up at another trivia after lunch.

Ice cream!​

We went back to Marceline Market to see what was available for lunch. I had another great salad, this time with strawberries, radishes and walnuts. Todd was very excited about the cream puffs he found for dessert!

My cruise of salads is off to a good start

All told, Todd had three dishes of the cream puffs​

Coriander and Sage were doing a Jungle Cruise: An Interactive Adventure Story in the Grand Hall at 12:45, so we headed for that. We thought that the two playing these roles were fantastic and enjoyed everything we watched them do. This was no exception. They were funny and the people participating seemed to be having an excellent time! We walked around for a bit and took an adventure down to Deck 2 to see our room (2623) location for the Destiny. We’ll be doing that in May 2026!

Part of our Deck 2 exploring included a stop outside the kids club area​

To be continued in Part 2…

Question of the Post: Do you like to get up earlier or sleep in on sea days?

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[graviela]

We like to get up around 7. My husband doesn’t like to sleep in. He also likes to go to the sit down restaurant for breakfast because they make better coffee. Enjoy reading your trip report! We are cruising on the treasure in August.

 

[Erica1016]

We like to get up around 7. My husband doesn’t like to sleep in. He also likes to go to the sit down restaurant for breakfast because they make better coffee. Enjoy reading your trip report! We are cruising on the treasure in August.

I agree with him about the coffee in the main dining rooms. While I do enjoy my coffee most days, I'm not a have-to-have it person. So, I typically don't unless we go to sit-down breakfast.

The Treasure was great! What other ship(s) have you been on?

 

[graviela]

I agree with him about the coffee in the main dining rooms. While I do enjoy my coffee most days, I'm not a have-to-have it person. So, I typically don't unless we go to sit-down breakfast.

The Treasure was great! What other ship(s) have you been on?

After the treasure in August all of them. We plan to cruise the destiny in January.

 

[Erica1016]

After the treasure in August all of them. We plan to cruise the destiny in January.

Nice! We also have done all of them! We have the Destiny booked for May 2026. It'll be a while before the Adventure is in the cards, so our full collection will have an asterisk soon.

 

[Nicnicnic.nic]

May 11, 2025

We love this itinerary because we love sea days!

Todd was up at 5:20 to go walk on Decks 4, 5 and 6. As we’ve mentioned, he wasn’t a big fan of the missing promenade. In addition, one side was often closed for cleaning and maintenance. So, he did a lot of back and forth to get all his steps. He walked a bit over 5 miles all in that little space! He came back to wake me up around 7:20 and we took showers and got ready to head to breakfast.

We headed up to Marceline Market around 8:00 for our first buffet breakfast of the cruise. We don’t care for the fact that the buffet isn’t self-serve. Todd was especially missing his waffle toppings, since he could only logistically fit a couple little cups of strawberries and whipped cream - he typically puts A LOT more! I was happy with my usuals of hash browns, bacon and some other things.

Todd’s breakfast. Mickey waffles and Eggs Benedict are staples for him.

I was super excited about POG juice and also what we call “nuts and berries” - an assortment of toppings from the oatmeal bar without the oatmeal​

After breakfast, we headed to Easy Disney Trivia (with Violet - who we remembered from the Fantasy the previous year). I don’t recall our score, but we did not win. Our experience on the Wish-class ships is that the trivia sessions are very crowded, so there’s a lot more competition (and fewer available seats!). We still had fun! After trivia, I headed up to Deck 11 to relax and watch some of The Incredibles on Funnel Vision while Todd headed to the gym to work on some of his physical therapy exercises.

While I was hanging out, I contacted a fellow DisBoards member (@DisneyWitch ) to see if she and her partner wanted to meet up with us at Brainteasers Trivia. Todd came and found me and I grabbed an ice cream on the way to trivia. This trivia was in Triton Lounge and was super crowded, definitely standing room only and we didn’t end up being able to sit near Andrea and Frank. We did say hello and then we were able to chat a bit and planned to meet up at another trivia after lunch.

Ice cream!​

We went back to Marceline Market to see what was available for lunch. I had another great salad, this time with strawberries, radishes and walnuts. Todd was very excited about the cream puffs he found for dessert!

My cruise of salads is off to a good start

All told, Todd had three dishes of the cream puffs​

Coriander and Sage were doing a Jungle Cruise: An Interactive Adventure Story in the Grand Hall at 12:45, so we headed for that. We thought that the two playing these roles were fantastic and enjoyed everything we watched them do. This was no exception. They were funny and the people participating seemed to be having an excellent time! We walked around for a bit and took an adventure down to Deck 2 to see our room (2623) location for the Destiny. We’ll be doing that in May 2026!

Part of our Deck 2 exploring included a stop outside the kids club area​

To be continued in Part 2…

Question of the Post: Do you like to get up earlier or sleep in on sea days?

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Following. I like to get up early because I like walking around with a coffee with barely any people, just enjoying the ship

 

[Erica1016]

May 11, 2025 (continued)

At 2:00, we headed to Skipper Society for Imagineering Trivia, which was where we had planned to meet up with Andrea and Frank. Luckily, they’d gotten there early and had snagged a table (and chairs) for us! We scored 19/20, but lost a three-way tiebreaker. Again, still lots of fun, and now we’ll hopefully remember that tiebreaker answer!

We walked around a bit more and took a stroll through Mickey’s Mainsail to see what was for sale. We’re not big shoppers, but we do like to browse. I had my eye on a bag from our previous cruise, so I was on the lookout. At 3:00, we stopped by Sarabi to watch the game show, Heard That (with Suzi). As we’re writing, I’m trying to remember if I participated. I’m pretty sure I did; I love this one. We met a woman named Ashley who was a fellow veteran cruiser and compared notes about the Treasure. We’d end up running into her several times and would quickly compare our experiences each time!

Again, food! We went to grab some second-lunch at Donald’s Cantina. You know, to tide us over until late dinner. We walked through Jumbeaux Sweets to see the decor. I love those little lemmings! We then headed back to Skipper Society to check out what crafts were being made. We made some 3D Yodas (with Maxx) and then dropped them off on the door for Frank (he’s a big star wars fan!).

Second lunch!

So cute! (The lemmings, not Todd!)

Todd’s 3D Yoda is seeing the world a little sideways​

We went back to our room to get cleaned up for the evening. We had a wonderful surprise in our fish extender - we were given a $25 gift card as pixie dust! This was very generous and we were a bit shocked. At some point during the day, I’d gotten a notification reminding me to call for our additional Platinum gift. You’re allowed to choose between sparkling wine, non-alcoholic Cloudem, truffles or a fruit plate. Todd called and asked for the truffles and they got delivered while I was in the shower.

We saved one box of chocolates to eat at home.​

This evening’s entertainment in the Walt Disney Theatre was Seas the Adventure. We really like this show! It has great songs and we really enjoy the part that Merida, Elsa and Moana sing together. It was also super fun to see a bunch of main stage cast members from other shows sitting in the front to watch. They were having such a good time!

Between the show and dinner, we went to Muppets Trivia (scored 15/21) and then went to the Officer’s Gathering, which was happening because it was formal night. We spent some time talking with Assistant Cruise Director, David, who we sailed with last year on the Fantasy. In not too long, it was time for dinner at 1923.

I love the decor in this restaurant, so I was looking forward to it. We were on the Roy Disney side on the Wish and this time we were on the Walt Disney side. We were happy that the assistant server automatically brought us our drinks that we’d had the night before. This is a detail that we liked on previous sailings, but had not really experienced on the last trip or two. We also chatted more with our tablemates, which was nice. It was still a bit strange that they had menus and bread before we even got there. We were definitely being treated like two, separate tables. Dinner was great, as usual. We often see people commenting that they don’t love the MDR food, but we really enjoy it!

Todd’s Moroccan-Spiced Roasted Kabocha & Butternut Squash​

The late-night entertainment was a juggler, Ivan Skinfill. We’ve seen him on two other cruises and he’s not one of our favorites. He’s fine, but not really our style. So we skipped his performance. We headed to Triton Lounge for Ultimate Disney Trivia (with Sarah) and it was hard! We ended up scoring 12/20, which is a pretty low score for us - we live for Disney trivia facts. At 10:30, we headed to the Grand Hall to catch the end of the formal night character dance party, which is super fun to watch!

Since Todd’s not a dancer, we usually watch things like the character
dance party from above. It’s still fun, even as a spectator!​

We weren’t quite ready to call it a night, so we headed back toward Sarabi to watch some Karaoke. Ivan was still finishing up (ended up going 20 minutes late), so we walked out on Deck 4 for a bit. The moon was great, so we just hung out outside for a while. We then watched some of those brave enough to sing karaoke, there were some good singers on this ship! One of our comments is always that there should be karaoke-length versions of songs since they always seem a bit too long.

Back at the room around 12:30, we found our towel animal for the day, a bunny, and lots of chocolates for Mother’s Day. Todd was happy about that! We had crammed a lot into our sea day and I was ready for bed!

Our Mother’s Day towel animal and chocolates​

Erica’s Sleep: 7:17
Erica’s Steps: 12,957

Todd’s Sleep: 5:21
Todd’s Steps: 22,959

Question of the Post: What’s your favorite (or least favorite) variety act that you’ve seen on DCL?

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[graviela]

I love to watch the broadway shows. My husband enjoys the magicians.

 

[enzy65]

John Charles, he was a musical act that many loved to see. He is no longer with DCL after I don’t know how many years. Last we saw him was in 2017.

 

[Nicnicnic.nic]

I've been on two 5 night cruises and so far skipped every variety act.

 

[Erica1016]

I've been on two 5 night cruises and so far skipped every variety act.

Do you skip the Disney shows, too, or just the variety acts?

 

[Nicnicnic.nic]

Do you skip the Disney shows, too, or just the variety acts?

We make the Disney shows a priority. Last cruise we did late dining so the kids would be more awake for the shows.