OK, I just HAD to come on here & post about our experience at the Pirate's League. Last year, we did BBB on our trip & my youngest daughter really wanted to go back, but since my son went to BBB & got the "Cool Dude" last year, I thought it was only fair that we do the pirate's league this time. My oldest daughter & my son were totally excited about it, but my youngest daughter cried. Well, after their experience, even my youngest daughter said that the Pirate's League was her favorite thing from the entire trip & was much, much better than BBB.
The CMs here are so amazing - so nice & sweet to the kids - in character the entire time & so funny. The girl who checked us in & got the kids their "pirate names" decided how to match the kids up with the CMs & she was spot on - my oldest daughter got the "crazy CM" & my oldest is such a ham herself that she totally loved this. My youngest is a girly girl & was matched up with the sweetest CM. My son is SUPER shy & his CM joked around with him the whole time but was also very aware of how shy my son is & so he didn't come on too strong, but was just very sweet & silly with him. My son didn't say a lot during the experience b/c he is so shy, but he can't stop talking about it ever since. Also, ALL of the CMs made a big deal about the fact that he was wearing pirate
crocs & he got a kick out of that.
I can not stress enough how worth the $$$ this experience is. My husband & I couldn't have been happier with our experience. My youngest lost her earring about 20 minutes after we left & I walked back in and told them & they replaced it - no charge.
OH - and I am SO glad that Brenna mentioned somewhere (either on this thread or somewhere else on the dis) about using shaving cream to remove the eye makeup for the skeleton face - NOTHING else would take it off - make up remover, eye cleanser, baby wipes - it wouldn't budge & then I remembered about the shaving cream & it worked! Thank goodness - we had breakfast reservations the next morning & the "black eye" look wouldn't have worked!
Some pics:
Getting their pirate name:
Getting made over:
Taking the pirate pledge:
With their CMs:
Sword Fighting:
With Pirate Goofy:
At the pirate tutorial with Jack Sparrow:
Sorry for so many pictures - with three kids it was hard to narrow the pics down & still show how cool this experience was!