For me unless Mickey was my personal butler there is no justification for that price difference. No amount of free soft drinks, movies can make that up.
Agreed. Especially since I almost never drink soda and watching a movie on a cruise, to me, is a colossal waste of time.
The whole time we were on that ship I kept thinking, what would my kids do instead of going to the show
Play in the clubs. My family doesn’t really watch the shows anyway. I definitely don’t. Well I saw the Disney Hades one and the atrocious Golden Mickeys, and after that my family won’t let me watch them. The shows were just too stupid and I was sitting way too close to the front during GM to walk out.
Many other things to do rather than watch a show.
Grease was my favorite movie when I was 9... Oops.
Same for many of us. Embarrassing to think about.
I guess that I just like that fact that I won't have wonder about the shows on a
Disney cruise. I know they will be appropriate for the whole family.
Hmm. A show literally about Hades being appropriate...
I can't think of anything in that movie that wouldn't make it G rated.
I think compared to movies today including Disney movies it's pretty G-rated.
Please watch Grease again with an adult eye, perhaps with captions on so you can catch ALL the references.
Watching it with my son was eye-opening.
In a year or so it’s going to be interesting and somewhat heartbreaking to start watching all the John Hughes movies with him, as he seriously questions all of the behavior in those movies.
(Which, to be honest, I did, too, to some extent...16 Candles had some really weird stuff in it and even then I knew it)
Disney movies aren't exactly G rated anymore. Ironman in bed with two women..
Disney makes a LOT of movies. Some G, some not. “A Disney movie” generally means the G rated ones. A Pixar movie often has tiny jokes for the parents that go right over most kids’ heads. Then there are the other movies.
But they aren’t putting Grease-style storylines into a G movie.
I have done Alaska in a Verandah cabin and an Inside cabin (neither on DCL), and I would be hard-pressed to spend the money on a verandah again simply because I felt like I missed a lot of ship-stuff because I felt like I needed to “get my money’s worth” from that verandah.
Same same same.
At that age, I already knew how babies were made and about contraception.
But that doesn’t mean you know that “Rizzo’s got a bun in the oven” means she’s pregnant or that Kinicki “making an honest woman out of her” means he’ll marry her because she’s pregnant. There’s a LOT that slides past many kids (and adults).
Childhood bubbles don't exist anymore. Internet destroyed that.
Childhood bubbles are a madeup concept from the 50s. For a couple decades Leave it to Beaver and Donna Reed helped us pretend that there was a blissful little time where kids were kids blah blah. But in the ‘20s kids were working in meat packing factories...
Internet caused nothing.
I've always said the "moral" of "Grease" is 'to be happy and popular become a slut'. But, maybe I'm showing my age.
No you’re not; it’s totally the moral of it.
What I see in that movie is that people can be "labeled" wrong. While she may look rough on the edge, Rizzo is a good girl (she made fun of Sandy --jealousy-- but they have a lot in common actually... Danny is not the "cool guy" he pretends to be as he has a softer side, Sandy has more edge than people think and in the end, labels are not important and will change as you get older and meet new people.
Rizzo might have a heart of gold, but her actions are NOT that of a good person. She’s a jerk and making adult decisions while a teen (who looks 30 since that’s how old the actors all were lol). Danny is cool in his own group, but outside of that group he’s a jerk as well. Sitting around making fun of others doing things is not cool. We see it from his POV but if you watch it while realizing that his group of, what, 5 guys is at the outskirts of that school, you realize that they aren’t the ones who will be making good lives for themselves. And Sandy put on makeup and new clothes (and got a ridiculous perm) in order to fit in visually with people. That’s it.
Sooo does anyone on this thread have any tips/comments on Vancouver? We will be there for 3 days before our cruise. I have our days and activities planned, but I am always interested in hearing from those who have previously been to the city.
When we go we generally just wander downtown seeing sights and eating yummy food (crepes and japadog are high on my son’s list) and have a lovely time.
Their aquarium was nice when we went 11 years ago.
Stanley Park is beautiful.
I know RCCL sails the Radiance in Alaska and that class of ship was designed for Alaska with lots of windows to the outside world in addition to deck space. True she doesn’t have all the bells and whistles (rock climbing wall is about it), but she is a gorgeous ship as are her sisters (well, Brilliance is...and I will experience Jewel in a couple of months).
Radiance was our honeymoon and it was perfection for Alaska. It was a round trip from Vancouver and oh I wish they still had that on radiance...
all of the luggage sitting out in the Centrum of each floor was a surprise as well as they took it to each room...
I’ve seen that on dcl, too, as they prepare to bring the bags.
Here are some images from that... We had to grab our bags ourselves and take them to the room..
You probably didn’t *have to*.
On both Disney and royal we’ve passed by their staging area for luggage. When we see our bags in there we snag them if the rooms are open. But we don’t have to.
Fact is that RCCL had a terrible customer service protocol.
Had. On that sailing. Which is a bummer. But it’s not all sailings.
Yeah - I have never seen them use passenger elevators and dump the luggage in the Centrum
Not sure about the centrum but all ships have to have a staging area, and sometimes it’s seen.
But I’ve never heard of them using passenger elevators, and I’ve been around cruisecritic on the royal boards a long long (long) time.
Glad you could kind of joke about it. After reading what you experienced, if it was me I wouldn't want to book them again either. We've had issues at hotels where everything was awful and other people had a great time there - but I figure there are plenty of other places to try once I not impressed with a stay. If we ever "jump ship" from Disney, especially for Alaska, it will likely to be a smaller niche cruise line, Celebrity, or Princess (I have many family members who have cruised with Princess and they all love it). Sorry about your experience.
