What Is One Thing You Would Change About DCL?

[insureman]

Bring back Castaway Club private receptions for cruises less than 8 days.

 

[RedHead0186]

Bring back Bermuda

Did DCL hide it somewhere?!

(Sorry, I couldn't resist )

 

[Drfate102]

It's too bad the exchange for DVC points into a DCL cruise is so over priced. Maybe thats my one thing instead

Yes, but you could rent out the points and use that cash to get a much better room on the cruise.

Add casinos to their ships.

I have done so many more Disney Cruises, when we did a Royal, I was kind of shocked that there was a Casino on board

 

[VGCgroupie]

Yes, but you could rent out the points and use that cash to get a much better room on the cruise.

Thats what I did for my upcoming cruise. The exchange rate is absurd, I cant believe anyone does it TBH

 

[tntstults]

My #1 request would be better food. I think I can eat better at restaurants at home. But if this means the price goes up due to this, then never mind!

I agree that they need better itineraries in the Caribbean instead of just repeating them. The last few years we opted not to do Disney Cruise so that we could see some new places.

I truly only want to go on a 7 night cruise. But with my husband being a teacher we can only go in the summer. The cost for 7 nights in the summer is out of our price range unfortunately. I just can't justify spending that much money.

 

[sponica]

A regular season out of NY. I know this year and last year didn't happen because of drydocks. I can drive to NY and it's an easier port for me to plan around than anything in FL. Technically speaking, Boston is the easiest port but I'd be happy with NY!

 

[DCL58]

I have also seen this change even mid cruise (my guess is someone complained to guest services about people cheating because they didn't win). I run enough WhatApp Group chats for sailings to think it is better to just swap and save all the finger pointing. Phones face down on table (or in a bag) and swapping seems to help.

The thing I HATED was in Sept on the Fantasy every trivia they made us hold up our phones and list all the ways we would not cheat including apps (or websites Im still not sure) I had never even heard of. It was a giant thing each time (not a quick simple dont cheat, dont use the internet, Mickey is watching like normal). I would much rather save the big speech and just say don't use the internet and then swap papers.

They did not do this at trivia on the fantasy in December. Maybe this is cast related? Some like giving the speech, some don’t?

 

[DCL58]

My wish list:

Bring back 7+ night sailings on the Fantasy/Dream. Just did the Treasure. Made me wish to be sailing 7 nights on the Fantasy. And we met so many others on the Treasure with the same wish - sooo many people love the Fantasy.

Add shade to the adult only area on the Treasure/Wish. And a walking track.

Sail to Bermuda. Or just some different places out of PC.

 

[dreamer17555]

They did not do this at trivia on the fantasy in December. Maybe this is cast related? Some like giving the speech, some don’t?

It was across the board for crew in Sept. I did ask why they just didn't swap papers and they said due to guest feedback they weren't allowed to. I am guessing the feedback changed since then... or maybe a different Cruise Director on the ship deciding how to handle it. The crew was great, many of them I had on cruises before that one and no long speeches previously, but for whatever reason they were told to for our Sept sailing.

 

[mamaburrito]

It depends on who is leading the activities. We did a back to back once and the first host let us grade our own and the 2nd made us switch.

The introvert in me likes not swapping but it was nice to win when someone else graded our paper.

 

[dreamer17555]

It depends on who is leading the activities. We did a back to back once and the first host let us grade our own and the 2nd made us switch.

The introvert in me likes not swapping but it was nice to win when someone else graded our paper.

It can but it can also change mid cruise for the entire sailing. We have had cruises with no swapping at all the first few days and then everyone was having people swap (including hosts we had before that did not swap previously in the cruise). I believe it is tied to guest complaints about potential cheating but who knows for sure.

Adult only trivia was 50/50 on swapping, and very crowded ones like 90's 2000's music ones we rarely have seen them swap but I think it would be nice if they just stuck to a standard practice but apparently DCL likes to mix it up with swapping for grading. I now bring gold star stickers with me so if they do swap I can put one on the paper I grade (no matter the score) because who doesn't want a gold star?

 

[SnowWhite2]

Thats what I did for my upcoming cruise. The exchange rate is absurd, I cant believe anyone does it TBH

If you book last minute for a very popular cruise that has had the price escalate, it might be cheaper to use DVC points/cash. That happened to us once. The price is set early in the booking period and the price from DCL could exceed the price asked by DVC. Granted it doesn’t happen often but I was surprised it happened for us. It’s free to check.