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Just remember that once you transfer the reservation to Costco Travel it is no longer YOUR reservation. It is Costco Travel's reservation. If you have any major changes needed, you cannot change it yourself, you have to go through Costco. Just like plane tickets: if your flight is cancelled the...

Much easier just to rent a car at the cruise terminal, drive to Disney (or Space Center or anywhere else) and enjoy your visit with your luggage stored in your rental car.

We enjoy formal and semi-formal nights as an opportunity to dress up. But as stated, you will see a full range of people ignoring it to formal clothing. On our last 7 night, I was in a tuxedo but the only other male passengers I saw dressed up in any manner were 8 year old boys who had done the...

Just make sure that you remind them what to do if they lose their room key. When my youngest DS (on the autism spectrum) was about 14 we trusted him to be going around the ship on his own. We'd run into him happily walking through hallways and exploring the ship. One time when he had gone back...

The law changed a few years ago. You still cannot buy Cuban cigars while in Cuba, but you can now buy them from a third country and bring them back for PERSONAL use. (Still illegal to import them to sell in the US) It will be duty free unless you bring in more than 100 cigars.

We've always had first sitting. We had the private table request honored for our first 4 cruises, the 5th cruise we ended up being seated with another family of 4.

Obviously there will be additional itineraries past May 2025 since that is only how far out they have released them. If you are asking if there will be additional drops of 2023, 2024, and early 2025 cruises inserted into the existing options, the answer is no. If you follow a ship, you can...

Makes sense; I've done them twice and never did an advance reservation because you don't know what the wind will be like the day you are at CC. I had wanted to do them on a third cruise but there wasn't enough wind so I shifted to snorkeling.

I don't know if you CAN wear it. However, you probably SHOULD NOT wear it. Way too bulky to be moving around on a crowded cruise ship.

I think a lot of it has to do with your overall physical shape. My oldest is not a swimmer; however, he had heard me talk about having fun in the snorkeling lagoon on one trip so he really wanted to try it when he was 15. With the floatation vest and the fins, he was fine going all of the way...

I'm assuming that you mean that you had the Pirate deck party and fireworks on every cruise, but only had the "Pirate night menu" in the MDR on a 4 night cruise. OP was primarily concerned about missing a MDR themed dinner. You are not asserting that you had the Pirate night menu on a 3 night...

In 8 years of following these boards I've never heard of Disney having the drawing on your placemats except when everyone gets a 2nd time through Animator's Palate so no one gets left out. Are you sure that you aren't confusing a previous Magic 5 night with a different cruise?

Each to their own; if it was my first cruise I'd be focused on having a good time and not taking on administrative tasks for a function that you've never participated in. (Kind of hard to tell other first timers asking you for advice when you don't know what you are doing......) I've done 5...

My son tried the salmon once and didn't like it. I tried a bite and it was fine; he just was used to fish with a milder taste. Not as fancy as some of the main entree options, but perfectly acceptable if you don't like anything on the menu. As a side note, this experience was what made me...

Agree with Marc's comment; itinerary is more important on the first cruise than the ship. I will say that I feel we got lucky on our first cruise. We weren't sure if my kids would like it, so instead of a week on the ship we spent 3 days at Universal Studios and then a 3 night cruise on...

My favorite character interaction was with Capt Jack Sparrow. In my observation, most of the characters focus on the kids, but they will interact with adults if you say something that is core to their character. (Example: I saw Cinderella walking past Guest Services and asked her, "Where are the...

I vaguely recall seeing a thread from years ago saying that your Castaway Club perks don't apply on a charter cruise. It isn't an "official" DCL cruise; the chartering organization has purchased it. Why would you expect a DCL sling bag (or other CC status gift) on a TCM charter? But I did a...

I disagree strongly with this statement. I've never been unable to get a Palo brunch, couples massage, etc. for all of my Silver status cruises. The only thing I've struck out on was a sports simulator reservation on Dream when we made the reservation 10 days before the cruise. While I would...

You definitely want a Silver in each room (and then fix the keys once you are on the boat. It isn't hard; they do it dozens of times each cruise) because otherwise the grandparents won't be able to reserve excursions or ship activities until their own window opens. Silver books 90 days out...

Agreed that this is the policy, but they sometimes make exceptions. On my 3rd cruise we had my mother-in-law along with 2 staterooms; my wife and MIL officially in one, and myself and 2 sons officially in the other. There were probably about 3-4 pictures of just MIL mixed in with 100+ that we...