WDW with cruise or separate trip?

[justme0729]

I’m trying to decide if I should use our points to add 2-3 nights to our 3 night cruise from port Canaveral in April or just book a separate long weekend at another time of the year. We live 1 hour from Disney and 2 from port Canaveral so I’m thinking a separate trip but combining would give us priority to get on the ship earlier with DCL transport and maybe make it seem like a longer vacation. What would you pick?

 

[Dug720]

Granted I'm coming from NYC, but I'm doing 5 nights at WDW followed by a 4-night cruise.

 

[peder]

We've done a Parks/Cruise/Parks trip with a short 3-night Wish itinerary in the middle and really liked it, but just like Dug720, we traveled a long ways and it's not possible for us to visit often, so a longer, less frequent trip makes sense for us.

 

[cruisehopeful]

I travel too far to do the cruise on its own and I am tacking on a few days before the cruise in Florida.

When I cruise out of San Diego (my home port), I just do that and I go to Disneyland a different time. I usually get on board around noon.

Have you done a 3 night cruise before? It goes by very fast. Our first cruise was a 3 night out of Port Canaveral and it was back when taking the transfer from WDW resorts took forever. We got on board after 3pm. I never saw the whole ship because I was in the ports the next 2 days and then after that, it was time to leave. So, if a couple extra hours on the ship will make it more enjoyable for you, do the resort stay.