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You're listening to Cruise Radio Rewind. I hope you're having a great weekend. My name is Doug Parker.

And my guest today is Steve from the DCL podcast, a podcast all about Disney Cruise Line.

I personally have never sailed Disney before. So I have a couple of questions. Also, we've been fielding questions across our social media channels over the past couple of weeks to ask Steve. So Steve, I hope you're up to it. Thanks for agreeing to come on and tackle these and welcome to the show. Definitely, Dick. Thanks for having me out and back again. I really do appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely. It's been, I think it's been about two years since you were on last, right? Yeah, I think so when we got back from the Mediterranean, I believe. Just a great cruise that we had, and thanks for having us on for that. Before we jump into the questions here, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started with the DCL podcast. Well, probably like you, Doug, I kind of got into podcasts. I started to listen to him about 10 years ago and got into cruising. We did our first cruise in 2014

with Norwegian, Disney 2015. And just listening to different podcasts. I started, well, I fell in

love with cruising. We just had a great time on Norwegian, had a great time on Disney. And I started

noticing that in the podcast kind of community, the Disney podcast community, they would talk about Disney Cruise Line every now and then, but you really wouldn't get too much of it. And there's two other points, I guess, to this whole story, how I started it, is that with my job, I travel quite a bit. and after you've been traveling and you go to the same places over and over and over again, there's only so many times you can go to San Diego and be excited about it. And you just need to find something else to fill your time. So I was originally going to do a blog about Disney Cruise line, but I'm not much of a writer. My job, I get to talk to people quite a bit. And so it's kind of put two and two together. And that's kind of how it came about. It's just filling my time on my layovers and then just trying to fill the niche that really wasn't there for Disney Cruise Line. Our first question is kind of broad, but you could put some context into it. You mentioned you've sailed Norwegian before. So what's the difference between a Disney cruise and a regular cruise?

So this one I had a tough time find an answer for you, Doug.

I was to be completely honest.

And I think it really – I know you're a fan of going down to Walt Disney World.

And I think it's the attention to detail that they have put on with their ships.

I think it's just the atmosphere. And I know

maybe your audience is going to kind of not be able to understand this, but like when you go to

Disney Park, there's just like a different feel to it or a Disney hotel. There's a different feel

to it than if you go just to, say, a Hilton or a Sheraton or something like that. So to me,

I know this is really answering your question too much, but I really think it's just the atmosphere, the attention to detail,

the quality of the service, the food that they have on board, kind of the family focus center

of the whole crew is I think all that brings it together so that that same feel when you walk inside a Disney park, you kind of have that on a Disney ship. But I think they bring it to just a little bit higher level. Since you said Disney resorts, and I think you had on a good point here, when you're at a Disney resort, you kind of feel like you're separated from the outside world. You're in your own little park. Is it like that on a Disney cruise ship as well? Oh, definitely, definitely. And I think it's almost kind of funny in a way that, like, you can take it to all these different places in the world. You step off the ship and you are, you know, whatever ports you're in. And then you come back on and you're in that like Disney bubble, that Disney atmosphere. And I think that if you're a fan of Disney, that really is why a lot of people keep coming back to Disney Cruise Line. We received this question more than one time is if you don't have kids, can you still sail on a Disney Cruise Line ship and feel comfortable? Like, is there that separated adults-only space? Oh, definitely. And I think this is kind of funny because believe it or

not, when I started my podcast, the very first person that reached out to me to come on was a family

that, or a couple that they didn't have kids. And they had been on eight different Disney cruises.

And she just wanted to come on and talk about why they liked cruising with Disney Cruise Line so much.

So we can go through like a whole bunch of different parts of it.

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