khertz
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2008
Living the Verandah Life! A Feb/March 2022 DCL TR
We read the wind and the sky when the sun is high
We sail the length of the seas on the ocean breeze
At night, we name every star
We know where we are
We know who we are, who we are
We read the wind and the sky when the sun is high
We sail the length of the seas on the ocean breeze
At night, we name every star
We know where we are
We know who we are, who we are
Hello, and welcome to my second Disney Cruise Line TR! This was a trip a long time in the making, so I’m really excited to share it with you all! First of all, let’s get some introductions out of the way.
I’m khertz, and I’ll be your TR narrator. I do the note taking and TR writing, while my DH does the photography side. I work as a nurse doing outpatient hematology/oncology with both kids & adults to fund our vacation habits. This is my 2nd Disney cruise, but my 3rd cruise overall (DH and I cruised on Viking with the DIS crew a few years ago). My favorite character is Rapunzel, so I was hoping we’d come across her on this cruise!
Next is DH! Like I said above, he will be responsible for a lot of the photography you’ll see in this TR (although we both took a lot more phone photos than we usually do on vacation). He works in the oilfield and loves all things Disney just as much as I do! We make a perfect pair in that way, although that sometimes means we end up enabling each other when it comes to taking more Disney trips. I can’t decide if that’s a good thing or a bad thing sometimes!! Lol He is a big Donald Duck fan, and never hesitates to tell him he’s #1 which usually makes for a great interaction.
IMG_6023 by disneymom1024, on Flickr
Next up is DS. He is a 5th grader whose other hobbies include Minecraft & Roblox, Pokemon collecting, and reading (especially Dragon novels). He is also a big Disney fans, and won’t usually say no when it comes to meeting any of the Fab 5. His favorite character is definitely Pluto!
Finally, we have DD. She is in 1st grade and is not as big of a Disney fan in her everyday life as we are, but she definitely turns into one whenever we are in the parks or on the ship! She loves meeting the princesses, and wanted to do so several times over the course of the week. She is also pretty good at making friends with different entertainment CMs, which she did again this trip. Sometimes she likes seeing her “friends” even more than the characters!
IMG_6418 by disneymom1024, on Flickr
Our cruise took place over the Mardi Gras break when the kids had a week off of school, departing 2/26 and returning 3/5. We had one pre-night at the Boardwalk Villas and a post-day/night at Universal Orlando with a night at Royal Pacific Resort.
This cruise trip was a long time in the making! We had booked a cruise for January 2021 over MLK week using the placeholder we had bought on our 2019 cruise, and even when the pandemic started, we thought January 2021 was so far away that there was plenty of time for things to get better before then, right?! HA! We all know how that turned out!!
So when it became obvious that it wasn’t going to happen in 2021, we got with our Dreams Unlimited TA Kathy to see what our options were. We were able to move our cruise and keep our placeholder discount even though it was outside the 2 year mark, and decided on Mardi Gras week so the kids wouldn’t miss any school. Our original date had been chosen because Mardi Gras week in 2021 overlapped with Presidents Week and the cruise fare was higher, so we chose a week in January when the kids would have a couple of days off for MLK day. But by moving it to 2022, we were able to go to Mardi Gras week for just a couple hundred dollars more and the kids would have the week off so it worked out better.
This time, we were visiting ports that were new to all of us, and after 2 full years away from a Disney park, we were more than ready to be on a DCL ship! I hope you’ll join in!!