We LOVE the character calls! But we've never used them as the reveal, just afterwards for a fun follow up . But now that we're mentioning them, maybe I *will* use just that as our reveal , our kids are old hats at cruising and will DEFINITELY be excited for (and understand) the call!My experience with the character call was a fail. My kids only caught half of what mickey said and didn't make the connection they were going until I brought out the cruise book with their names in it.
This was my experience as well. It seems like on any Disney call, whenever there is a recording (e.g., touch-tone prompts, on-hold music, these character calls), the recording mutes whenever it senses noise coming from your end of the line.My experience with the character call was a fail. My kids only caught half of what mickey said and didn't make the connection they were going until I brought out the cruise book with their names in it.
We also did the ship ornament on the Christmas tree. We just told the kids our family present was on the tree and they had to find it. The littlest one was the first to figure it out!We bought Mickey and Minnie rolling luggage for each of our three girls and packed them with swim suits , Disney t-shirts, snorkel and masks and printed out personalized messages (I downloaded a disney font and DCL cruise graphics) . HUGE hit, and followed it up with phone call. For following cruises , I had purchased the replica ship ornament and hung it on the tree for them to find. Have fun with it !