Funniest DCL Cruise Experience

[RJake1]

Mine had to be my first 3 day with DW and DD then 4 years old.
At that time the Princesses were featured in Disney Dreams show, but Belle was not available during cruise for photos or autographs (that has since changed).

Since Belle was DD's favorite, I asked Guest Services why she would be in the show but not out for photos. They said they'd have someone responsible for that area call me with an explanation.

Shortly afterward, I received a call from someone in Guest Svcs, who explained to me (with a straight face) that Belle was flown in with Pixie Dust just for the show, and the Pixie Dust magic doesn't last long enough for her to stay on the ship. She had to fly away immediately after the show.

I was dumbfounded at first, but once I informed the person that my question was a legitimate inquiry from an adult, I was put in touch with Costuming Dept who explained the intricacies of costume licensing for certain events, etc, which was very interesting and understandable.

Looking back I am both amused at this experience, but also appreciative of the fact that DCL thought I was a parent seeking help in providing an explanation to a child and crafted one for me.
That's kind of nice.

 

[debm]

Mine had to be on Castaway Cay when I overhead some people talking on the beach. They were obviously a couple of families traveling together with their children. They were remarking how nice Castaway was and wondering what happened there every day of the week. What other cruise ships docked there? Maybe Carnival? But there were lots of signs around with Disney icons on them? Hhhmmm....How could that be?

I didn't have the guts to interrupt their conversation to let them know that this was Disney's island. How could someone have gotten that far and not realized this?!?!

 

[mmouse37]

On 10 DCL cruises we have had a bunch of funny stories but the best was last May on the Magic.

My 18 year old son had become friendly with some girls who were on the same dining rotation as us but a few tables away. They hung out most of the cruise. On the last night of the cruise he decided he would be gallant and send over drinks...well since he knew they were underage and so was he he asked our asst server to send over a tray of shirley temples and tell them it was from the handsome guy at our table.

My son pointed out the table with the girls and the our server took it from there. Imagine our surprise and shock when we saw our sever deliver them to the wrong table....2 little girls about 8 or 9 years old sitting with their father!!!! We could see our server explaining to the father they the guy from our table sent over the drinks for his girls and we could see the look on the father's face when he saw our son.....Brian thought he was a dead man!!!

Our server rushed back to our table and was so excited that he completed his mission....we explained to our server that he went to the wrong table and then Brian went immediately over and explained to the dad that he was not trying to pick up his little kids and that the drinks went to the wrong table. The original older girls saw what happened and were about rolling on the floor and we almost wet our pants laughing so hard!!! It was priceless. All ended well!!! It made it all the funnier since our son is quite the jokester and this time the joke was on him!!!

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MJ

 

[zachsmomie]

My son was 7 when we went on our first cruise. During dinner at Triton's, he saw escargot on the menu and insisted that is what he wanted as an appetizer. So we let him have it and he ate them all saying how great they were. All the adults at the table, and the one other child who was 13 or 14, were just amazed and couldn't stop laughing. He never asked what they were and we never told him.

When we returned from the trip, he was telling his Uncle Matt about easting "scargots" and when I said escargot, my brother said "You ate snails?!" My son said "No I didn't" to which I replied, "Yes, you did" The look on his face was priceless!

Sandy

 

[tvguy]

We had a table of 8 and our server didn't write any of the orders down, he had a great memory. Never got an order wrong UNTIL Thursday night. We all conspired to order what the person across from us wanted....then when he tryed to give us our food, corrected him. The look on his face was priceless.....we were SO mean, but when he figured out we were pulling his leg, he laughed, and was VERY relieved.

 

[RellingTwin]

Love the stories! Here is mine:

DS (then 5 y/o) had a little "accident" in his pants When this happened at home, he would clean his underpants in the toilet (holding them very carefully by the waist band and "dunking" them). He set about the task without telling me.When he flushed, the toilet SUCKED the underpants right out of his hand! Scared the daylights out of him!!!!Then he was laughing so hard he couldn't tell me what happened!
Everytime we flushed for the rest of the trip we laughed!

 

[goofyshell]

mmouse37-that is hysterical! That dad had to be ready to call security!
Anyone else have a funny one?

 

[natdencro]

On our first cruise, our DD (CM)and a male colleague CM (who also had his Mother cruising)were able to join us one evening for dinner at our table.
After the meal, as customary, there are always "birthdays" being celebrated in the Dining Room - where cakes are duly delivered. So, it was no surprise to see the Head Server and many Servers heading our way with a large cake.
Not knowing whether our fellow table-guests were celebrating anything, we assumed the cake and "chorus" would be for one of them. Suddenly, the cake bearing the words "Happy Engagement" was thrust down on the table, and the CM's proceeded to sing "Happy Engagement" to our DD Gemma and her UK pal David. Well, DH and I were dumbfounded, as was David's Mother. The "happy couple" blushed and kissed each others cheeks, and DH and I were mentally working out our bank balance to see if we could run to a "wedding" in the near future!

Guests were hovering to wish them well, and asking to see DD's ring: she said "Oh, he is getting it tomorrow in St.Thomas". Wine glasses were filled, and us "parents" were just getting used to the idea (as David is lovely - but just a good pal), when Gem and David said "oh, dont worry about it.................these sort of things happen all the time to CM's!!!" Seems they all try and "outdo" each other with practical jokes!!!

Needless to say, we saw the funny side of it. The "culprit" made himself known to us the next day and it was no surprise to find it was none other than cheeky Adrian from UK. One day Adrian, one day....................I will get my own back young man!haha.

Nat

 

[CheapMom]

mmouse- that is hilarious.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

The one night I remember laughing so hard was when my mom and I had the giggles, we could not stop laughing at everything. My boyfriend and dad did not find us very funny but we couldn't stop. My name is Heidi and all through the cruise our server would call me Heady, didn't bother me at all and we would laugh about it when the server wasn't here. Well this night he asked "Heady" what she wanted for dinner and I busted out laughing, laughing so hard I had tears in my I. Poor guy, he didn't know what happened or what he missed. The look on his face was priceless. My mom had to explain that my name was Heidi.

 

[mmouse37]

bumping up...anyone else....???

Come on....you know you have a funny story somewhere!!!

MJ

 

[abitjaded]

These are so funny! Mine is not as funny, but is more a cautionary tale.

I also have a toilet story. You know those pagers? Well, you are not supposed to jump in the water with them, but they also slide out of the holders pretty easily. Had to take DS8 on a fast emergency potty run while everyone was shopping on the ship, so what the heck. Our family motto is if one goes, all go. So I went, and sure 'nuff the pager slides out of the holder and takes a header in the toilet. I fished that puppy out so fast and rinsed and dried it off, but it was dead as a doornail. Went back up to the kids' club and got a new one andwas reminded of the warning about how you would have to pay for it if it got wet. Got a new one, gave it to DH, no way was I gonna carry that thing again, after all, guys stand up, ladies have to bend a bit. Went to the return cruiser cocktail show and I was telling one of the officers about it, and he demonstrated how his has NEVER slid out of the holder, he was very red when he showed how easily HIS came out, several times. So I called it my most expensive cruise memento, with nothing to show for it. But wonderful DCL, they never charged me for it. So I bought a pair of earrings at Treasure Ketch, but cannot wear them without remembering my toilet diving.

Carla

 

[musicgirl]

Ours has to do with our server, Sammy.

First of all, he couldn't understand our group. He couldn't believe we all got along so well and we hadn't met before. I had e-mailed Mom2Belle&Peter many times, but that was it.

When we were in St. Martin, we ran into Sammy. My dh is a tall guy, who sweats alot. When Sammy saw him dripping wet, he offered to go get him a towel or something. My dh replied, "No Sammy, it's ok, that's what we tall, white guys so in the hot sun!"

Sammy just shook his head, like he was saying "you crazy white folks."

Lorie

 

[NAT&MAGSMOM]

I think this was more embarrassing for me...funny for everyone else...especially DD and DH.

It was the opening night show...starring the fabulous(and I use that term lightly..lol) Freddy Fuision. I didn't want to go in the first place...I was tired...just wanted DH and DD to go on without me.....NOT.

He said he needed an "assistant" to help him. He walked down into the audience. Everyone, including DD, had their hands in the air, waving to him, "pick me...pick me". I'm sitting there all mad and po'd at DH because he made me go in the first place. So, guess who the fabulous Freddy picks to be his "assistant"....right .....ME!!!! Oh, and did mention this...he had a DUCK with him....yep...a duck....

Well, Freddy and his duck, Bill, pulled me up on stage....this duck is biting me fingers....and sorry bird lovers...but I totally dislike birds of any kind.....I dont' want to see them hurt or dead or anything like that...but I dont' want them touching me either.

So Freddy has me by the arm...Bill is biting my fingers....I'm like
"OMG" and they are pulling me up on the stage....in front of what looks like gazillions of people.

Well, we do this little card trick that I pick a card....and Bill...by Freddy rubbing him(Bill) all over me....by doing that Bill is into my psyche(spelling)..and he picks the card I picked. Oh, and did I mention that he SAT THIS DUCK ON MY HEAD????? I turned to the audience and said all the cards were the whatever they were...3 of diamonds or ace of spaces...were all the same. Well, I don't think anyone had ever done this before and you could tell he was a little po'd and the audience was howling!!! So, totally mortified...I went back and sat down. DH and DD still howling..and me even more po'd than ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As we left the theater, everyone was telling me what a great job I did and all that.....so I felt a lot better.

As we were going in to dinner...we were stopped in the corridor by Paige Davis(Trading Spaces) and her DH. She told me what a great job I did. I told her I was so embarrassed. She said I didn't act like I was embarrassed...and what a great ad lib job I did.....anyway...I was totally po'd again..because one of my "idols" had seem someone make a fool out of me!!! But, it broke the ice and Paige and her "people" became good cruise friends of ours.

So, I guess everyone had a big laugh...but me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Phyllis

PS I read where Freddy is still on The Magic....I WON'T be going to his show in December!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DVC'96]

Okay, I have one to add to this thread.
My DD6, who was 3 at the time was in the elevator with us going down to dinner. As we got closer to the dining level, more and more people got on, and we were pushed against the back of the elevator and seperated a little bit.
At one point I couldn't see DD so I asked her if she was okay, and she said, " I can't see you mommy, All I see are butts!" All of us in the elevator started laughing, and at that point the elevator wouldn't even move because we had reached the weight limit and some people had to get off.
We forget that little ones are "butt level" to the rest of us!
Thanks for reminding me of our cruise many years ago!

 

[mmouse37]

These are all great!!!


MJ

 

[Shebbieal]

Speaking of butts,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

We were walking by the promenade lounge, going to Lumiere's, we were docked at Cozumel beside a Carnival Ship, my grand-daughter (age 5) said, look Nana there's a butt. Sure enough we got mooned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sherry

 

[Tluvs2talk]

On our first Disney cruise My Hubby and I took walkie talkies so we could keep in touch. One night I woke up and smelled smoke very strongly. Hubby went up on deck to see if anything was wrong, he took his walkie talkie with him so I would know what was going on. He talked to me the whole time and would say things like "Hey Baby I am at the elevator' , "Hey baby I am On the 9th deck"." Hey Baby I am on my way back to the room". Everything was Ok and we finally went back to sleep.

The next day I decided to eat Lunch in the dining room while Hubby played Bingo. I took my walkie talkie with me and was seated at a table alone. A few minutes later they asked if they could seat a Lady who was dining alone with me. She was seated, and we started a conversation. She noticed my walkie talkie sitting in the table and she said. My kids forgot to turn of their walkie talkies when they came in last night and I was awakened at 2:00 by this crazy man who was playing somekind of game. He kept calling someone Baby and was telling her where he was. She was so mad that she was awakened by this person.

I said That was me! I am so sorry. I told her the whole story about smelling smoke and sending Hubby around to see if everything was ok. We both Laughed for a long time about that.

Who would think that with 2500 passengers I was seated with the one person who had overheard our early morning conversation. Teri

 

[Mr. Bill]

While in Nassau with my 8-year-old “granddaughter” we went to the Strawmarket to purchase three beach towels as gifts. After telling the lady I would pay $25.00 for three towels and she had lowered the price to $27.00 we were stuck!

I told her, “Look at this pretty little girl. She needs three towels but only has $25.00”.

Devina’s little face lit up like a Christmas tree and proudly announced, “No, Mr. Bill. My Mom gave me $200.00 to spend!”

I paid the $27.00 for the towels.

Bill

 

[dclwdwlover]

All of these stories are SO funny. Thanks for this thread.