Last weekend got back from our two week summer adventure and we had a BLAST! We traveled over 4000 miles driving, including a 22 hour straight drive from Bradenton FL to Alpena MI. IT.WAS.CRAZY. But I'd do it all again because it was worth having the extra day in Michigan. We drove from Durham to Bradenton FL, spent some time there, then headed to Cape Canaveral where we set sail to the Bahamas on our 3 night 4 day Disney cruise on the Disney Dream. IT.WAS.AWESOME!! After that we hightailed it to Alpena Michigan to spend some time with my grandparents for five days before heading back to home sweet home in Durham. A lot of people have been asking, how was the cruise?! Well it was much better than my first cruise experience in high school, even though at the time I thought that was the coolest thing ever. Disney definitely does it best. Below are a few of my favorite things about the Disney Dream and our trip to the Bahamas and I highly recommend each one of them if you are about to embark on Disney's beautiful Dream boat.1) Eating at Animator's Palate
By far the coolest regular dinner restaurant on the boat. The others are cool and all, but this one had a Finding Nemo theme and Crush interacted with your table. It also had the best food and desert out of the three dinner restaurants in my opinion.2) Riding the Aquaduck at Night
So awesome during the day, even more awesome during the night. If you plan your day right, you can hang out on Castaway Cay in the morning, then head back to the ship early around 1pm and ride that slide with less than a 10 minute wait until about 3pm. But if you want to go at night, head there right after the evening show, we only waited like 5 minutes both times we went. SO LEGIT.
3) Playing with the Dolphins
This is a big ticket item as it costs about $300 to do the deep water dolphin excursion. You can pay more at Atlantis, but we did the Blue Lagoon Island tour and while the Island itself was "ehh" the Dolphin excursion was AWESOME. Well worth the $300. Do this in a group if you can, because you can get a USB of all your pictures and split the cost with your group. It honestly didn't even seem real that the dolphins were right there with you and they legitimately seemed happy to be there! If you can avoid eating on the island, I would suggest it because it's crowded, hot, and overpriced. Just head back to the boat and eat there.4) Unlimited Ice Cream
I know this is on most cruises, but for real? As much as you want all day?! And it's freaking delicious. I don't remember it being that good on my last cruise.
5) Disney Everything
I am Disney obsessed. Many people on the Disney cruise love Disney too. You wouldn't pay the high ticket price for the Disney cruise if you hated Disney (or at least I wouldn't). They have characters on the boat, Pirates Night (with awesome fireworks), Disney shows, Disney trivia, Disney Karaoke. Hidden Mickey's everywhere, all right up my alley. The movie theater had new release movies like Spiderman: Homecoming and Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man Tell No Tales. So much to do and see. If you want to be busy the whole time, you can be busy the whole time. When we have kids I would totally shell out the extra cash to do a Disney cruise vs. a regular cruise.Anyways overall we LOVED our cruise. It was expensive, and not something I would do over and over again, but if you want to cruise and also love Mickey (or have little ones who do), save a little longer to take this trip. Honestly I would probably have enjoyed three nights and four days at Disney World just as much but this was cool because you got to relax and have unlimited food that you already paid for so it was pretty legit too. We've had a busy busy summer, but the month of July alone has been SO busy and crazy. Watch our video below to highlight our awesome month and catch some footage of what we've been up to this month! So what do others who have been on a Disney cruise think? Better than a regular cruise? Or overpriced and not worth it? I'm curious to read thoughts.
Thanks for keeping up with us,
- Olivia
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