How Is Trick or Treating Done?

[DisneySince1967]

My husband and I, both spritely 50-somethings, are planning our first Disney cruise--vulturishly eyeballing the EBPC in October 2015. How does trick or treating work on a Disney cruise? I've read other threads where it appears that there is an organized activity, with mediocre success, and other threads where trick or treating appears to occur more informally within FE groups.

We will be traveling without children and don't celebrate Halloween ourselves, but if trick or treating is something that is done cabin to cabin, we wouldn't want to miss out on passing out candy and seeing all of the cute kids decked out in their Halloween costumes.

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

I have been on a Halloween cruise and never had children calling door to door for trick and treating but we did have an organised activity where we went ship wide and they had stations accross the ship.

Unless you choose to get invovled in yuor cruise meets and they organsie this, then it doesnt occur.

 

[MouseMomx2]

Disney will not organize a door-to-door trick or treating event. There is simply too much liability in having guests hand out their own candy. I believe they do have an event around the public areas of the ship though and individual cruise-meet groups (DIS, Facebook, etc.) often organize their own exchanges.

BTW, we are on the EBPC with you!

 

[Meriweather]

last Oct.....stations were set up in the atrium and they handed out bags and candy there. It was way too crowded. We didn't stay long.
All the other activities were going on there too.

 

[samily]

We sailed on the Wonder last year over Halloween. DCL had a trick or treating event where they had stations set up where the kids could get candy. They also left a bag of assorted candy in the staterooms.

Our cruise meet group also organized a trick or treat that you could sign up for if you wanted to participate. All the trick or treaters that had signed up met in the Promenade Lounge and were given a list of cabins that were participating. The kids were broken up into small groups and were sent off at staggered times. It seemed to work well.

 

[bumbershoot]

The 2 Dream halloweentime cruises I've been on = bag of cheap candy left on your bed that night.

Wow.

 

[Melissa S]

We have done two halloween cruises on the Magic. Both times for trick or treating there were long folding tables COVERED with pounds and pounds of candy. Good stuff too. The first time we saw a table outside Canbanas. We took a reasonable amount but then people walked up with backpacks and filled them like they have never seen candy before. The second time we went to the activity in the atrium where a CM distributed a few, but you could keep going back for more.

 

[budafam]

We were on the Dream last Halloween (it sailed away ON Halloween). Disney organized their trick or treating in the atrium for November 1st, not Halloween night which I thought was odd. We did join a group and they organized their own trick or treating... it was fantastic. I would highly recommend doing something like that if you want the true experience. We skipped the one that Disney did. It seemed very unorganized and not much candy was given out.

 

[js]

Im sailing September 14 on the Dream. I am not going with my kids they are older and actually disappointed its labeled as a Halloween cruise. Will they also be doing this candy give away in September if its a Halloween cruise. I may have to partake lol.

 

[Donna3271]

On the Magic we were given a map with trick or treat bags left in our stateroom. There were about 10 spots/stations dispersed thought the ship. The last station was on the top deck followed by a dance party. We loved it. I believe it was at 4-ish. We were on Key west that day, and I had to make sure to get the kids back early to get their costumes on. There were copious amounts of candy on our cruise.

I do remember the trick or treating lasted only about 45 minutes. There were so may kids, it basically was a line going from one station to the next.

This was Oct 2010. We set sail the day before Halloween (30th), and the TOT was held on Halloween. My kids were very little. They could have changed things by now.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

The 2 Dream halloweentime cruises I've been on = bag of cheap candy left on your bed that night.

Wow.

We did the Dream & Fantasy (B2B on the Fantasy) - 3 cruises during Halloween on the High Seas. We never got a bag of candy in our room.

 

[Weedy]

Really no candy. We got a bag. No candy for Shmoo(

 

[jdb in AZ]

We were on the Fantasy and our stateroom host took pity on DH and me and left us a small baggie of candy. (They were supposedly just for kids.) The candy was just generic junk -- not a Snickers or Baby Ruth in the bunch. Did not see any carved pumpkins or tables of candy. They had an adult costume party in the atrium.

Who knows what they'll do on the Fantasy this year.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

No candy for Shmoo(

I like candy.

 

[IWannaCruise]

Last Oct on the Magic we got a bag of candy hanging on our door handle.
Next Oct our cruise group is doing a door to door trick or treat.
One Adult will stay in the cabin & hand out treats and the other adult will go to participating cabins with the kids

 

[Liat]

If you pop over to the cruise meet for the Panama cruise there was talk of room to room trick or treating. I think the plan was for each floor to hand out candy for 30 minutes or so and for the kids (and supervising adult) to work their way up. I thought it sounded like a great idea to supplement anything that the cruise line did and it wouldn't impact anyones night for more than 30 minutes.