Merrytime Cruise if you don't celebrate xmas...

[Dug720]

Who are the 2 mice in green shorts? I know Donald has the 3 nephews, but are the 2 mice related to Mickey or Minnie?

Probably Mickey's nephews Morty and Ferdie.

 

[wilkeliza]

Who are the 2 mice in green shorts? I know Donald has the 3 nephews, but are the 2 mice related to Mickey or Minnie?

I believe they are Mickey's nephews.

 

[lklgoodman]

Thanks, it would have driven me crazy. I didn't know Mickey had nephews. Now I'll have to search for some videos that have them in them.

 

[mmouse37]

I have one from Israel too! I'll have to take a photo.

Mine was just from the Disney Store a few years ago but I love it!!!

MJ

 

[wilkeliza]

Mine was just from the Disney Store a few years ago but I love it!!!

MJ

I live close to a pretty good jewish bookstore (Levine's) and they have a ton of Disney stuff. My favorite are the kids mezuzahs. I love yours too! I never can being myself to use ours.

 

[mmouse37]

I live close to a pretty good jewish bookstore (Levine's) and they have a ton of Disney stuff. My favorite are the kids mezuzahs. I love yours too! I never can being myself to use ours.

I will have to look up the mezuzahs...would love a Disney one.....I am not even Jewish but my husband is! I have a ton of Disney Christmas and Hanukkah stuff!!! We celebrate it all!! I make a mean noodle pudding!

MJ

 

[DisneyConvert]

Kind of feeling / wondering the same ourselves as we are Jewish too and don't particularly enjoy the (normally) 7-week saturation of the winter-solstice-gift-giving-season that Disney "turns up to 11" and begins right after Halloween.

Yet, I am actually happy if/when people who are genuinely Christian make the celebration, the season and even their greetings to one another (or to me!) about the birth of their savior. So many people I respect and like are getting joyful meaning around the reminder of God's gift of his son to mankind. To me, that's Christ's Mass. Am I wrong here?

To me, Disney's version of "Mickey's Mirthful Money-making Merrytime" isn't about Jesus, except for the "Candlelight Processional" as far as I can figure. And throwing in a stray menorah is kind of patronizing as Hanukah isn't a particularly important holiday on the Jewish calendar (it became important as a Jewish substitute for Christmas). And what about Muslims and Hindu's . . . I suppose many of them give gifts at the Winter Solstice too, and perhaps spend $$$'s at Disney?

I am not saying don't celebrate Christmas. Not at all. Along with Lent/HolyWeek/Easter, this is the story of the deity for the majority of our wonderful country. But I don't get Disney's celebration (or the Disney Corp.) to be in any way connected to a deity or religion.

I hope I am not offending anyone with this little rant, but we have made 20+ trips to WDW/DLR and taken 11 Cruises and none of them have between Oct 31st - Jan 1st, and that's not a coincidence.

 

[AllyBri]

I have a Disney themed menorah!!!

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MJ

Have this also, I am thinking the Disney Store about 10-15 years ago.

 

[nearlyfallinstar]

No, I didn't mean to offend anyone. I just think it would be kind of cute. Do you think another character would be less offensive?

I know some people are offended by the use of the term "xmas", although, I'm not one of them.

Typically, character themed nativity scenes don't use a specific character for baby Jesus. Just a manger with a bundled baby.

 

[nearlyfallinstar]

Kind of feeling / wondering the same ourselves as we are Jewish too and don't particularly enjoy the (normally) 7-week saturation of the winter-solstice-gift-giving-season that Disney "turns up to 11" and begins right after Halloween.

Yet, I am actually happy if/when people who are genuinely Christian make the celebration, the season and even their greetings to one another (or to me!) about the birth of their savior. So many people I respect and like are getting joyful meaning around the reminder of God's gift of his son to mankind. To me, that's Christ's Mass. Am I wrong here?

To me, Disney's version of "Mickey's Mirthful Money-making Merrytime" isn't about Jesus, except for the "Candlelight Processional" as far as I can figure. And throwing in a stray menorah is kind of patronizing as Hanukah isn't a particularly important holiday on the Jewish calendar (it became important as a Jewish substitute for Christmas). And what about Muslims and Hindu's . . . I suppose many of them give gifts at the Winter Solstice too, and perhaps spend $$$'s at Disney?

I am not saying don't celebrate Christmas. Not at all. Along with Lent/HolyWeek/Easter, this is the story of the deity for the majority of our wonderful country. But I don't get Disney's celebration (or the Disney Corp.) to be in any way connected to a deity or religion.

I hope I am not offending anyone with this little rant, but we have made 20+ trips to WDW/DLR and taken 11 Cruises and none of them have between Oct 31st - Jan 1st, and that's not a coincidence.

I agree that Disney's Christmas celebration has nothing to do with religion and the birth of Christ. Same with all of the department stores that stock their shelves with Christmas items right before Halloween (at least Disney makes it through till Halloween is over).

 

[NYCMommy]

Could you do the New Year's one instead? I think the Merry Times only go up to Christmas.

Does anyone know if there is any Hanukkah celebration with the Merry Time theme?

The one we are looking at leaves December 24th. So would the entire five nights be merrytime or would the decorations come down after the 25th for the rest of the cruise?

 

[psac]

The one we are looking at leaves December 24th. So would the entire five nights be merrytime or would the decorations come down after the 25th for the rest of the cruise?

If it's listed as Merrytime, they'll probably keep them up the whole time. In general, most people keep the decorations up until New Years. The parks keep everything decorated until New Years as well.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

The one we are looking at leaves December 24th. So would the entire five nights be merrytime or would the decorations come down after the 25th for the rest of the cruise?

The last of the Very MerryTime cruises on all the ships is the cruise that sails over New Years Eve. Then the decorations come down.

 

[cmph]

We departed on the 7-day Wonder on 12/30/16 and the decorations were down. The only Christmas-y thing left were Christmas movies playing on one of the TV channels, and that was gone pretty soon after we departed. I'm sure they didn't want anything Christmas-y left for the NYE celebration, although I had kind of hoped to see something up still.

 

[FairestOfThemAll37]

Kind of feeling / wondering the same ourselves as we are Jewish too and don't particularly enjoy the (normally) 7-week saturation of the winter-solstice-gift-giving-season that Disney "turns up to 11" and begins right after Halloween.

Yet, I am actually happy if/when people who are genuinely Christian make the celebration, the season and even their greetings to one another (or to me!) about the birth of their savior. So many people I respect and like are getting joyful meaning around the reminder of God's gift of his son to mankind. To me, that's Christ's Mass. Am I wrong here?

To me, Disney's version of "Mickey's Mirthful Money-making Merrytime" isn't about Jesus, except for the "Candlelight Processional" as far as I can figure. And throwing in a stray menorah is kind of patronizing as Hanukah isn't a particularly important holiday on the Jewish calendar (it became important as a Jewish substitute for Christmas). And what about Muslims and Hindu's . . . I suppose many of them give gifts at the Winter Solstice too, and perhaps spend $$$'s at Disney?

I am not saying don't celebrate Christmas. Not at all. Along with Lent/HolyWeek/Easter, this is the story of the deity for the majority of our wonderful country. But I don't get Disney's celebration (or the Disney Corp.) to be in any way connected to a deity or religion.

I hope I am not offending anyone with this little rant, but we have made 20+ trips to WDW/DLR and taken 11 Cruises and none of them have between Oct 31st - Jan 1st, and that's not a coincidence.

You're not wrong, what Disney does has almost nothing to do with religion. Nor does the way many many Americans celebrate Christmas. It sounds like you have a problem with the secularization/commercialization of the religious holiday.

I personally love the secular version of the holiday season (I'll give you most of it is around Christmas) there's a lot of love and kindness and people are reminded to help those in their community in need. I also happen to love lights and decorations and the movies!

You are actually making the same arguments that many more traditional/fundamental Christians make about the holiday. It's an opinion shared by many.

 

[MUN]

We departed on the 7-day Wonder on 12/30/16 and the decorations were down. The only Christmas-y thing left were Christmas movies playing on one of the TV channels, and that was gone pretty soon after we departed. I'm sure they didn't want anything Christmas-y left for the NYE celebration, although I had kind of hoped to see something up still.

We were on the NYE cruise on the Wonder in 2015 and Christmas decorations were still up. We are on the same cruise at the end of this year. It will be interesting to see if the Christmas stuff is still up. Based on your post and others I have seen, DCL may have changed their tune on how long they leave these decorations up. On our NYE in 2015, they still were using the Christmas coffee and soda cups at the drink stations.

MUN

 

[FigmentSpark]

There are these. They aren't listed as Merrytime cruises.

 

[cmph]

We were on the NYE cruise on the Wonder in 2015 and Christmas decorations were still up. We are on the same cruise at the end of this year. It will be interesting to see if the Christmas stuff is still up. Based on your post and others I have seen, DCL may have changed their tune on how long they leave these decorations up. On our NYE in 2015, they still were using the Christmas coffee and soda cups at the drink stations.

MUN

It wasn't advertised as Merrytime, so I wasn't expecting the full deal, but I thought maybe bits would still be up b/c the previous was also 7-day and obviously Merrytime over Christmas itself. My guess is it depends on the proximity of the sail date to NYE. Leaving on 12/30 meant they had a really short turnaround from one holiday to the next.

I guess I neglected to say, but was my primary point to the OP and others reading this - anyone needing to travel over the winter school break could avoid the advertised Merrytimes and consequently Christmas stuff by booking a late Dec sail date.

 

[Dug720]

It wasn't advertised as Merrytime, so I wasn't expecting the full deal, but I thought maybe bits would still be up b/c the previous was also 7-day and obviously Merrytime over Christmas itself. My guess is it depends on the proximity of the sail date to NYE. Leaving on 12/30 meant they had a really short turnaround from one holiday to the next.

I guess I neglected to say, but was my primary point to the OP and others reading this - anyone needing to travel over the winter school break could avoid the advertised Merrytimes and consequently Christmas stuff by booking a late Dec sail date.

Unless they are in NYC or another system where they are ONLY out the week between Christmas and New Year's and are back in 1/2 or whatever the day after the federal holiday for New Year's is if it falls on a weekend.

 

[MUN]

It wasn't advertised as Merrytime, so I wasn't expecting the full deal, but I thought maybe bits would still be up b/c the previous was also 7-day and obviously Merrytime over Christmas itself. My guess is it depends on the proximity of the sail date to NYE. Leaving on 12/30 meant they had a really short turnaround from one holiday to the next.

I guess I neglected to say, but was my primary point to the OP and others reading this - anyone needing to travel over the winter school break could avoid the advertised Merrytimes and consequently Christmas stuff by booking a late Dec sail date.

Our cruise wasn't listed as a Merrytime cruise either. We were very pleased to see decorations on the ship; however, I don't think we will be disappointed if they are down for our cruise out of Galveston on December 29th.

MUN