What's your worst DCL dream?

[Caboosey]

My first Disney cruise is coming up in August. I am the type of person who likes to know what to expect - I google the menu ahead of time when going to a new restaurant, I read a lot of reviews, etc. I've done WDW a bunch of times so I know what that's like, but with my first cruise I'm a little nervous, so I've done a LOT of research.

I had a recent stress dream that it was the morning of our cruise, and we were getting ready to check out of the hotel. My stuff was strewn everywhere in the hotel room and I couldn't get my carry-on organized, I didn't know where my boyfriend was, and the hotel room didn't have windows so I couldn't really see what I was doing. THEN I realized that I had forgotten to book transportation from the hotel to the port!!!

 

[KashasMom]

I don't have any dreams about DCL but my nightmare would be no Mickey Bars on board.

 

[dad of 3 addicted to DCL]

My DCL nightmare is arriving at the port only to realize we forgot our passports

Oh gosh, I thought that was only me! Terrifying!

 

[Theresa35]

Dreams I have as I get closer to my cruise:
-the ship is leaving in a few hours and I'm still packing (I live in NY).
-arrive at the terminal and realize I dont have my passports.
-the cruise is over before it really starts.

 

[dclpluto]

I don't have any dreams about DCL but my nightmare would be no Mickey Bars on board.

This happened to my uncle and aunt. They had no Mickey bars for the entire cruise. It was a 7 night cruise that left from San Juan.
I was on a transatlantic back in 07 we ran out of Mickey bars and some other food. The wonder dropped some food for us at castaway cay. So we had Mickey bars for the last night. We were out for a few nights.

 

[KashasMom]

This happened to my uncle and aunt. They had no Mickey bars for the entire cruise. It was a 7 night cruise that left from San Juan.
I was on a transatlantic back in 07 we ran out of Mickey bars and some other food. The wonder dropped some food for us at castaway cay. So we had Mickey bars for the last night. We were out for a few nights.

Oh no! I didn't really think that was possible!

 

[VeronicaZS]

I dreamed I could not fit into the Aquaduck, the entrance was the size of an airplane window. I was very disappointed

 

[hardis5]

More a nightmare but having my OB account cc compromised and not having a means to pay our OB account.

 

[over50visits]

Showing up a day late! This isn't a joke, for some reason I keep checking that as the cruise approaches.

 

[SamFaniam]

Last night, I dreamt I just got off the Fantasy, collected all my bags and realized that I hadn't bought a placeholder. I was panicking and trying to get back on so I could buy one, but couldn't find the the entrance.

I guess if that's the worst nightmare about cruising my brain can give me, I'm doing okay. lol.

So what's the worst dream or nightmare you've had about cruising?

This video sums it up. If all aboard is 4:30, my butt will be back onboard at 3:30. The only place I would not worry about is CC. They will come and find you!

 

[ChicosWife]

This video sums it up. If all aboard is 4:30, my butt will be back onboard at 3:30. The only place I would not worry about is CC. They will come and find you!

I wonder how many people have just decided to stick around at CC for as long as possible?

 

[Davistigers]

I think I would feel stressed just watching this!!

This is real, not a dream. About 10 years ago, on our first DCL cruise to the Mexican Riviera, my husband was the last one on the ship in (i think) Mazatlan. My kids and I had come back to the ship earlier to rest but he wanted to shop. I swear they called us twice in the stateroom to ask if he had actually come back already and they just missed his card being scanned. I kept looking out our porthole for him but nothing. he made it within 10 minutes of their announced departure time. He swears he heard the ship's horn calling his name. I wanted to kill him!

We're going on another DCL Mexican Riviera cruise in 10 days. I will most definitely lie to him about the return times to the ship to make sure he is early!

 

[mamaburrito]

I always dream that I forgot the kids

 

[katmigordon]

Last night, I dreamt I just got off the Fantasy, collected all my bags and realized that I hadn't bought a placeholder. I was panicking and trying to get back on so I could buy one, but couldn't find the the entrance.

I guess if that's the worst nightmare about cruising my brain can give me, I'm doing okay. lol.

So what's the worst dream or nightmare you've had about cruising?

I dream it's the last day of the cruise, we're packing up... and yet somehow, the cruise never started... as if I were missing from my body and so have no memory of being on the cruise, but there I am packing to go home.

 

[MomOTwins]

I dreamt that my DH and I each thought the other one had left the luggage with the porters but really it was sitting on the curb while we were on the ship sailing away. I was so stressed out, not about having to get replacement stuff, but because of not being able to distribute my fish extender gifts!

 

[CM Dad]

Our worst dream turned out to not be a dream. We were cruising from Quebec to NYC, stayed the night before and booked Disney transportation to the port. We were told to pack our luggage and leave them in the room with the luggage tags. We got to the ship, boarded and were having lunch, when I saw I had voicemail. It was the hotel saying that they could not find our luggage to send to the ship. When I eventually was able to call them back, they said something about our suitcase were open and unpacked in the room. I was getting ready to take a cab back to the hotel to deal with it in person, when DCL was able to figure out what happened. The hotel sent someone to the wrong room, so the open suitcases weren't ours. Luggage made it safely on the cruise.

 

[MomOTwins]

Our worst dream turned out to not be a dream. We were cruising from Quebec to NYC, stayed the night before and booked Disney transportation to the port. We were told to pack our luggage and leave them in the room with the luggage tags. We got to the ship, boarded and were having lunch, when I saw I had voicemail. It was the hotel saying that they could not find our luggage to send to the ship. When I eventually was able to call them back, they said something about our suitcase were open and unpacked in the room. I was getting ready to take a cab back to the hotel to deal with it in person, when DCL was able to figure out what happened. The hotel sent someone to the wrong room, so the open suitcases weren't ours. Luggage made it safely on the cruise.

OMG—can you imagine if they had sent you some other vacationer’s luggage? And think how mad the other vacationer would be too!

 

[Lisa F]

My last cruise before 2018 was in 2005 but occasionally I had have these weird DCL dreams where I had forgotten to get a Palo reservation in advance and then the ship was so big I couldn't get to the spot where I had to go to get one once I got on board. It was that typical panicky sense of not being able to get where you need to go, elevators kept popping up at the wrong end of the ship and stairs led to nowhere.

The funny thing is that my last cruise was with my son and my parents and only 4 nights and so I didn't make a Palo reservation at all (by choice). Not sure why that was a sense of inner anxiety so many years when I couldn't afford to cruise.

I am still trying to figure out what premium experiences I want on my 7 night Fantasy in February though! I want to still have dinner with my son every night so I'm thinking Remy brunch and then late Palo dinner on one of the port nights when there is no major show after a glass of wine at our main seating.

 

[BRC6C]

Mine was last night! We leave in 2 weeks for our first Disney Cruise and in the dream I got up this morning and found a message asking where my FE gifts were... I was suppose to have mailed them to someone and the last day for them to arrive was yesterday. Needless to say I was very relieved this morning that there were no messages and am working on my FE gifts today because clearly some part of me is worried about getting them done

 

[WikiWiki]

I have soooo many bad cruise dreams. I have a recurring dream though. There's a captain's reception following sail away. Free champagne. Very elegant. I want to go to it so bad, but in probably dozens of dreams, for a dozen different reasons, I don't make it. I forget, or fall asleep, or fall down the stairs, but I can never make it to this captain's reception. There's no such thing (on sail away day). I frequently dream that we miss the boat. We are going on cruises that I didn't know about, pulling up to port and I'm like OH NO, I DIDN"T PACK ANYTHING! We miss the boat while docked at a destination. I can't find the rest of my party. This, that , or another event I was really looking forward to I missed. A treasure trove of nightmares. I've had these since before my first cruise on '09! In 2013 we DID miss the boat and had to reschedule our cruise, and in 2017 I did just plain forget 2 different onboard activities that I really wanted to do (one was mixology and the other was the character breakfast- I bawled with my 5 year old nephew over that one). Dreams do come true!