Do you like Disney Cruises?

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Anonymous wrote:Can I go and not see a lot of kids?

Honest question. I don't want to see shows. I could adjust my dining and where I go on the ship. Could I go just to have a relaxing time? I don't drink or want a party atmosphere, obviously.

Yes. My DH and I just went on our 3rd Disney cruise to celebrate our anniversary and we went without our kids. We spent our days in the adult pool area. On the private island day, we spent the day in the 18+ area of the island. At night, we went into the bars. We weren't drinking in the bars - we would go to listen to live music or play trivia. The servers would ask us if we wanted a drink, but they didn't pressure us when we said no. There was a comedian that did a show every night. One night he did an 18+ show; it was borderline R rated during that show and absolutely hilarious.

We ate the late dining time. There were kids eating when we were eating, but not many because it's so late. We also had dinner one night in one of the 18+ speciality restaurants.

I like that people aren't drunk because they're around their kids. There is no casino. I'm seriously thinking of doing organizing a girlfriend only cruise and do some spa treatments. I love Disney cruises.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can I go and not see a lot of kids?

Honest question. I don't want to see shows. I could adjust my dining and where I go on the ship. Could I go just to have a relaxing time? I don't drink or want a party atmosphere, obviously.

Yes. My DH and I just went on our 3rd Disney cruise to celebrate our anniversary and we went without our kids. We spent our days in the adult pool area. On the private island day, we spent the day in the 18+ area of the island. At night, we went into the bars. We weren't drinking in the bars - we would go to listen to live music or play trivia. The servers would ask us if we wanted a drink, but they didn't pressure us when we said no. There was a comedian that did a show every night. One night he did an 18+ show; it was borderline R rated during that show and absolutely hilarious.

We ate the late dining time. There were kids eating when we were eating, but not many because it's so late. We also had dinner one night in one of the 18+ speciality restaurants.

I like that people aren't drunk because they're around their kids. There is no casino. I'm seriously thinking of doing organizing a girlfriend only cruise and do some spa treatments. I love Disney cruises.

THis is an interesting perspective--the lack of casinos and lack of drunks is a really good point. I think without kids, I would do a Celebrity cruise, or do a NCL cruise on the Haven Club level (which is probably similarly priced to Disney). I've done two disney cruises and found that there was not a ton for adults to do -- I ended up taking some cartoon drawing classes, which was sort of fun, but otherwise was wandering around a bit. I also was a little turned off by the "floor show" aspect of the dinners. Our last Disney cruise was on the new ship, and the only restaurant I really liked was 1923. The Marvel restaurant was realyl loud and obnoxious and the food was pretty bad. The Frozen restaurant was cute, but I would not be super excited to see that floor show more than once. And the food there was just okay, nothing really memorable although I did like the buttercake. I guess you can upgrade to the "fine dining" restaurants to avoid those more disneyfied restaurants, but there's an upcharge and those reservations are really hard to get.
Anyway, we are doing NCL Haven for our next cruise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I go and not see a lot of kids?

Honest question. I don't want to see shows. I could adjust my dining and where I go on the ship. Could I go just to have a relaxing time? I don't drink or want a party atmosphere, obviously.

I did this in February as a solo momcation and didn't interact with any kids. There are still a lot of kids around, but I spent 95% of my time in the adult area or on my verandah. I've been on 6 DCLs before and wanted a vacation where I didn't have to make any decisions, where I didn't need to spend the first two days figuring out the lay-of-the-land, and where I could just listen to podcasts and read books. It was perfect for that. The only part I wasn't crazy about was dinner--I wasn't in the mood for dining alone in the big restaurants, so I generally just got room service or pizza and ate it on my verandah with wine that I brought on board.