I love reading negative reviews!

[dpuck1998]

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[missy604]

just got back from my first ever disney cruise on the disney wonder to alaska. i still can't imagine how anyone can go hungry on a disney cruise. there are just so many options available, both healthy and unhealthy.

 

[BethA]

We have been cruising since 2001 with DCL. At that time my now 17 yr old was very picky. Would I have expected his favorites to be delivered to the room? never. The whole review is ridiculous! Maybe you did not know the excursions would be charged right away, but any other charge you do get a receipt and a receipt with the excursion tickets.
Some people complain to complain, some complain to get something free, some can never be happy. On one cruise the family next to us ruined our service by coming late every night, and complaint about every aspect of the meal. The servers brought different wine, food, and cleaned up huge messes . We rarely saw them at our table.
DCL is not perfect, in 17 cruises we have had some issues, but these complaints were unrealistic

 

[KSDisneyDad]

This thread reminded me of breakfast on debarkation day on one of my cruises.

I was standing in the buffet line at Topsiders thinking how great the crusie was and I wish it were longer.

Across the buffet line from me was a lady yelling at her son. After yelling at her son about something trivial, she went into a loud rant about how miserable a trip she had and how she'll never take a Disney cruise again.

Same trip....two vastly different experiences.

 

[jjje]

I like reading reviews and you can always tell if the person has a legitimate, valid complaint complaint of if they're just kind of a big whiny-pants who can never be happy with anything. As much as I find the over-the-top eye-rollingly bad reviews amusing I would hate to be the kind of person that went around that miserable all the time.

 

[jiminyC_fan]

I am active on another travel forum as well and write reviews for all our vacations and restaurants. Never once have I left a negative review. I think some people just like to complain. A vacation is what you make of it whether on land or by sea.

 

[karmacats]

just got back from my first ever disney cruise on the disney wonder to alaska. i still can't imagine how anyone can go hungry on a disney cruise. there are just so many options available, both healthy and unhealthy.

This just made me laugh, remembering our first (and only, so far) disney cruise. DH (who was DF at the time) and I went on the Magic in 1998, after she'd only been sailing about 2 months. obviously disney didn't have the details worked out yet, because on the day we docked in Nassau, they seemed to expect everyone to get off the ship - all of the restaurants and entertainment venues were closed for the afternoon and evening because they gave the crew the night off. All they had to eat was a disgusting barbecue up on the top deck. So, we were pretty hungry that night! We had a friend with us who was vegetarian and there was literally nothing for her to eat all trip except rice and vegetables; on the last night she begged our server for something different and he got the chef to whip her up some cousous thing that turned out to be inedible. i don't know for the life of me why we didn't order room service, but maybe it wasn't available all the time either, or maybe we just didn't know about it, as it was our first cruise ever.

we were so "traumatized" we didn't go on another cruise until 2006, and only did so then because we wanted to go to the Galapagos and cruising is the best way. after the wonderful Galapagos trip, we were hooked, and have been on 5 more cruises and hoping to give disney another try with a 3-day dream cruise in october. i'm presuming at this point they've got the food and entertainment worked out....

that said, i read that crazy cruise critic review about the dream and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. totally ridiculous.

 

[missy604]

This just made me laugh, remembering our first (and only, so far) disney cruise. DH (who was DF at the time) and I went on the Magic in 1998, after she'd only been sailing about 2 months. obviously disney didn't have the details worked out yet, because on the day we docked in Nassau, they seemed to expect everyone to get off the ship - all of the restaurants and entertainment venues were closed for the afternoon and evening because they gave the crew the night off. All they had to eat was a disgusting barbecue up on the top deck. So, we were pretty hungry that night! We had a friend with us who was vegetarian and there was literally nothing for her to eat all trip except rice and vegetables; on the last night she begged our server for something different and he got the chef to whip her up some cousous thing that turned out to be inedible. i don't know for the life of me why we didn't order room service, but maybe it wasn't available all the time either, or maybe we just didn't know about it, as it was our first cruise ever.

we were so "traumatized" we didn't go on another cruise until 2006, and only did so then because we wanted to go to the Galapagos and cruising is the best way. after the wonderful Galapagos trip, we were hooked, and have been on 5 more cruises and hoping to give disney another try with a 3-day dream cruise in october. i'm presuming at this point they've got the food and entertainment worked out....

that said, i read that crazy cruise critic review about the dream and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. totally ridiculous.

oh my! that experience was terrible. so far i think disney has straightened that out. we were well fed for 7 days and now i have 9 extra pounds because of it. they have vegetarian options now too.

yeah, as for that review that says all her child ate was fruit loops and apple juice...yikes! maybe she didn't read her navigator or walked around the deck to see what was open. they have some small snacks at the coffee shop and had snacks at a couple of the lounges.