kiford
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Nov 9, 2012
That photo was from Miami port building. lol
Glad to hear it. I was doubting my own memory because it didn't look like any part of the terminal I recall at PC.
On our cruise in Dec 2008 on the Disney Magic, a dessert buffet was served on the deck for Pirate night and I believe that dining experience is what is in the picture.
Yes, that is what it is - you can tell by the pirate head which they only bring out for the pirate buffet. And it's a carefully selected portion of the dessert table. When we went, there was so much food, we bypassed most of the line (which included turkey legs, tacos, salads and breads as well as desserts) and went just for the crepe station.
some pictures are wrong and they obviously picked those that fit their narrative
I noted that they compared the DCL picture of someone sitting in a hot tub (I think it's the adult-only hot tub) to the family pool. If they'd taken a picture at the same location or even at the adult-only pool, it would have looked far different. If they'd compared an empty family pool to the reality - which is crowded - it would have been accurate although true for any cruiseline. I also noted that they didn't mention that there are three pools. The implication from the picture is that this is the only pool.
Comparing the bunkbeds to a complete stateroom was more deceptive in my mind than what they are claiming DCL (or any other cruiseline) shows. If you had shown the entire stateroom with the bunkbeds down, it would have been more useful. And the claim that DCL has "teeny" staterooms - compared to what? My bedroom at home? Or other cruiselines?
When you are going to do a comparative of what the "insert company" shows in their marketing compared to the reality, you actually should be comparing apples to apples, showing the same object or same scene from the same perspective. It might even have been better to have been written as cautionary story about cruising versus other types of vacations as opposed to an individual cruiseline since there was nothing specifically different about DCL in it. But even if that had been the aim, it was still a very unbalanced in presenting the options/alternatives to cruising and started off as very biased against cruising. I get that they have to publish a lot on various topics and get people to read them, but I've seen comparative articles before on various resorts or other products which can be very useful; this was a lazily written "article" indeed.
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