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DCL Duo Podcast: A Disney Cruise Line Fan Podcast

Ep. 161 - Christmas Parties, Ratatouille and Genie+ at WDW Pre-cruise

DCL Duo Podcast: A Disney Cruise Line Fan Podcast

Brian Flock

Hobbies, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this week's show we're sharing our experience from our pre-cruise stay at Walt Disney World! We did a hard-ticketed Christmas party at the Magic Kingdom, and experienced Ratatouille for the first time. We also share our confusing experience with Genie+.  All that and more on this week's episode. If you're looking to plan your next fabulous Disney Cruise, Disney vacation or really any cruise or vacation, be sure to support our show and reach out to the fabulous folks over at Touring Plans Travel, our show sponsor.  We use Touring Plans Travel for our own family vacations, and love their service and expertise.  Touring Plans puts you, the customer, ahead of the product and will always recommend the best options for you and your family.  Head over to http://touringplans.com/travel to get a free quote today!! The DCLDuo Podcast is a weekly Disney Cruise Line and Disney travel focused podcast.  If you like our podcast, please subscribe and leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts. Our podcast is also available on Pocket Casts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google,TuneIn, Amazon Music, and most other major podcast providers. You can also like and follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @DCLDuo. You can also join our Facebook Group, and subscribe to our YouTube channel for even more great content. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, you can email us at dclduo@gmail.com. You can also connect with us and read our blog at our website. Or you can become a supporter of the show over at Patreon. The views in this podcast are our own, and are not those of the Walt Disney family of companies, Disney Cruise Line or the Walt Disney theme parks or resorts. If you have questions about a Disney vacation or any of the Disney offerings discussed in this podcast please contact Disney directly or discuss with your Disney travel agent. Thanks for listening!! We're also listed alongside some other great Disney podcasts at:  Top 100 Disney Podcasts

Transcript

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0:00.0

What was your favorite part?

0:01.0

Cookies and hot chocolate, riding the teacups, People Mover, Seven Dwarves?

0:06.3

Popcorn.

0:07.6

There you have it.

0:08.5

Well, now we know why the lines were so long.

0:10.1

It was the popcorn.

0:11.1

The popcorn was his favorite.

0:29.0

Okay. Hey, DCL Duo fans, just a quick note before we get into today's show.

0:31.1

You might be able to maybe hear from my voice.

0:32.6

I have a little bit of congestion going on.

0:43.9

So we took a break for the week of Thanksgiving because we were on a cruise and we wanted to spend some time as a family, just making some memories. But yeah, we caught colds aboard the ship. And we will talk about that a little bit more in how it impacted our cruise in our episode coming out next week.

0:49.0

But today's episode is just a short episode. We wanted to get back into the groove here of getting

0:53.4

some content out to you. So this is an episode that we recorded about our pre-trip stay at Disney World before we boarded the cruise on the fantasy. Just want to let you know it's a little shorter than normal for that reason, but wanted to get this out to you all. So we are feeling better. We are all on the men. And spoiler, it was not COVID. So we're all doing fine.

1:11.1

But just wanted to let you know that was the reason that we didn't have a bonus show out this

1:13.8

week and that this show is a little shorter. With that, on our episode.

1:21.9

Welcome back, everybody, to another edition of the DCL Duo podcast. We're on the road today in our recording studio in the parking garage across from the fabulous Disney fantasy.

1:33.4

We can see her from our window of our gigantic land yacht of a rental car, otherwise known as a suburban.

1:38.5

But we are waiting for our COVID test to come back.

1:41.3

But while we do that and fingers crossed and not to jinx it talking about the cruise itself, we're going to talk about the couple days we spent in Disney World and what we did and what kind of fun we had over there. So we are embarking on this cruise hopefully here Sunday. We came in on Friday and we spent one evening at Magic Kingdom. And then we stayed at Beach Club, and we were at Epcot yesterday, and so

2:01.4

let's just kind of walk through some of the fun things that we did. Sam, after we got in to

2:05.5

MCO, we headed straight to the Magic Kingdom for a little after-hours holiday event over at Magic

2:11.3

Kingdom. What did you think? I thought the event was really quite fun. There was a festive,

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