5 Mistakes to Avoid When Planning Your Disney Cruise
Disney Travel Secrets - How to do Disney
Kerri Stuart
3.7 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
443 - Planning your first Disney Cruise? Don't make these costly mistakes! Join Disney vacation experts Rob & Kerri Stuart as they reveal the top 5 Disney Cruise Line mistakes that can ruin your magical vacation - and how to avoid them.
🚢 What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Why choosing your Disney cruise stateroom based only on price is a huge mistake
- Disney Cruise Line's unique differences that separate it from other cruise lines
- How to book Disney cruise excursions before they sell out (including Castaway Cay tips!)
- Disney specialty dining secrets and beverage policies you need to know
- Hidden Disney cruise costs and booking policies that catch families off guard
🏰 BONUS Disney Content:
- Our honest review of the new Villains: Unfairly Ever After show at Hollywood Studios
- Behind-the-scenes Disney World secrets and Disney vacation planning tips
- Travel agent myths busted - what it really takes to become a Disney travel agent
- Disney Destiny inaugural cruise updates and booking tips
Perfect for: Disney cruise first-timers, Disney World veterans planning their first cruise, families looking for Disney vacation tips, and anyone wanting to maximize their Disney cruise experience without breaking the bank.
Rob & Kerri are Professional Travel Agents and Agency Owners with Creating Magic Vacations, an Authorized Disney Vacation Planner. They bring you insider Disney travel secrets from their Orlando studio right next to Disney World. With experience on 15+ cruise lines and several Disney cruises, they share the Disney hacks and Disney vacation planning strategies that save you time and money.
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📅 Original Air Date: August 11th, 2025 🎙️ Hosts: Rob & Kerri Stuart, Authorized Disney Vacation Planners 📍 Recorded in Orlando, FL
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Disney fans from around the world. Welcome to another exciting episode of the Disney Travel |
| 0:05.2 | Secret Show with your host, Robin Carey Stewart, broadcasting from the city that was built |
| 0:09.7 | because of a mouse, Orlando, Florida. This is episode number 443, original air date, August 11th, |
| 0:16.4 | 2025. And last week, we talked about the five top mistakes people make when making their Disney World vacation. |
| 0:24.1 | But this week, we are headed to the sea and we're sharing the top five for Disney Cruise vacations. |
| 0:29.6 | And these are mistakes to avoid. |
| 0:31.0 | Yes. |
| 0:31.4 | I think most are, but these are big ones. |
| 0:33.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.7 | Also, our take on the new villain show over at Hollywood Studios. |
| 0:37.5 | Plus, we have a few misconceptions or myths. Also, our take on the new villain show over at Hollywood Studios. |
| 0:44.2 | Plus, we have a few misconceptions or myths about what it means to be a travel agent. |
| 0:51.2 | Also, if you want to learn more about an Alaska cruise tour, listen to the latest episode of our other podcast, Travel Inspired. |
| 0:56.5 | And we know that many of you take at least two vacations per year, and only one of them is at Disney. |
| 0:58.0 | We also have some great topics over on that show, including cruising both the Danube |
| 1:03.6 | and Doro Rivers in Europe. |
| 1:05.7 | We also have an episode dedicated to pickleball vacations, which we're going to tell you a little bit |
| 1:10.6 | more about that on |
| 1:11.7 | today's episode. And coming very soon, How to Do Yellowstone with a stay at a very authentic |
| 1:17.3 | dude ranch just 10 minutes from the Yellowstone National Park in Montana. That was an unbelievable, |
| 1:24.5 | I think, almost a life-changing experience, something we'd never planned on, so we |
| 1:27.8 | can't wait to tell you about that. Again, over on the other show, Raval Inspired. So, okay, Hugh, |
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