Hi! My name is
Kimberly and I’m a Disney addict. It’s
been 12 years since my last Disney Cruise. GASP!!
Actually, the Disney Cruise was my first cruise experience
ever. Having grown up watching the Love
Boat TV show, I thought that cruises were for old people, were boring with
nothing to do and that the boat was basically a floating glorified hotel. How wrong I was!
In January 2001, my husband and I were still newlyweds and
used our Disney Vacation Points (purchased for use on our Hawaiian honeymoon)
for a 4-night Bahamas sailing on the Disney Wonder. One word – WOW!
The Port Canaveral building was beautiful. The ship was beautiful. The food was good. The room was clean, well decorated and
comfortable. There was plenty to do and I
wasn’t bored even for a minute! Our
Disney Cruise Line experience was fantastic and we didn’t even have children
with us!
Cut to 12 years later and we are going on our second Disney
Cruise aboard the Fantasy! We are taking
a 7-night Western Caribbean cruise and will have our two children, ages 10 and 6, with us. Why did we wait this long to go on another
cruise? The ages of our children and
cost were the biggest factors for us. 
The children cannot wait to experience the Oceaneer Club. On our last trip, we saw first hand children visibly
upset and yelling at their parents for picking them up “early” from the
Club. It was at that moment that I knew
I couldn’t wait to voyage again aboard Disney Cruise Line with children!
New (to me) from last time are “fish extenders” and “pirate
night.” If you don’t know what a fish
extender is - don’t worry, I didn’t either.
It is basically a file you hang next to our stateroom door from a fish
light. You sign up prior to your cruise
with others on your sailing and you exchange gifts with each other!
I don’t know what happens on pirate night – and I’m looking forward
to the surprise since I don’t get many NEW TO ME Disney surprises – but I know
that we should “dress for the occasion.”
I made each member of my family Captain Jack Sparrow inspired pirate
garb for this DCL experience!
We are traveling with our good friends
and have several fun experiences lined up including a Dolphin Swim,
Chacchoben Mayan Ruin tour, beach excursion as well as dinners at Remy and
Palo. I’m most looking forward to stopping
in Castaway Cay. I can’t wait for the
children to have fun on the beach (reminds me a little of River Country –
remember that!!!) and I really want to run the 5K to add the medal to my
runDisney Bling! Sea you really soon…..!
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