Agreed, we were wavering ourselves, but ended up booking a 7 night on the treasure in dec 2025 for a very merrytime cruise. Yes it's probably around 3k more expensive then some of the other cruises I was looking at, but we just want that disney touch to it.
That is how I feel, but I do have to say, the higher the prices are getting the less I am willing to keep toeing the line there….
We did a trip to WDW in March (prime Spring Break ) - with a stay at Boardwalk - because it was cheaper than doing a Disney Cruise
My mom wanted to splurge, but an 8 day WDW trip - made more sense than 4 days Wish for the price.
Que the latest doom and gloom thread - "DCL 3% EMPTY, how can they ever survive without a full ship!"
There was a fight on Royal last week. And some woman sliding down banister on The Wish before that. On our May Wish cruise we had security need to escort a group of guests from Luna balcony for being disrespectful and also leaning as far over as possible (dangerously so) to argue with the CM on stage. Bad behavior is not limited to Carnival.
This is how we’ve always felt about DCL that we pay more but we feel “safer” less drunks and fights, a calmer family crowd. But we just got off a Mediterranean cruise which was seriously expensive and the behaviour we experienced was pretty bad. We had a clearly drunk woman roaming the halls (drink in hand) with her 2 young kids knocking doors to find the “big good cabins” . We had a HA room so had a doorbell which the kids rang on 10 times in the space of 5 mins. Stateroom host saw it and laughed and allowed her to peer into next doors cabin he was cleaning. I reported it and he denied ever seeing them. Also many other people visibly very drunk around the pool most days shouting and screaming. Kids running and pushing past me in the hall, nearly knocking me into the wall. At cabanas a family were arguing loudly about yogurts and one of them launched a yogurt pot across the room narrowly missing me, another family and crew. Because we paid so much it felt like we could have had a similar experience on Royal for half the price. The cruise was sold out too. It just felt like the whole vibe was off and turning away from everything we used to love about Disney cruising
I am sure it happens, just as I am sure someone will come up with their anecdote that proves the rule, but not enough to be relevant. Finally, so what? what cruise does NOT offer employee discounts? so if they all do it, what relevance to this discussion?
The banister sliding video from the Wish is viral on TikTok if you want look it up.
Agree. When you look at the discounts being offered right now, they're obviously better than full price but nowhere close to 90%. I just checked a few random ones and it's more like a 20% discount.
