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DCL Duo Podcast: A Disney Cruise Line Fan Podcast

Ep. 164 - An Avid Disney Cruiser Decides to Live on the Edge

DCL Duo Podcast: A Disney Cruise Line Fan Podcast

Brian Flock

Hobbies, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode we are catching up with Chris (aka ChrisInTheConciergeLounge on Twitter). Chris recently sailed in an Iconic suite aboard the Celebrity Edge, and he may now be a bit of a convert! Chris shares his experience aboard Celebrity and also compares his experience with sailing Concierge aboard Disney Cruise Line. 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

About a month out, you can see what the activities were, and they load all the fitness ones first.

0:04.2

My wife sends me a screenshot one day.

0:06.0

It's like, are we on a cruise with only exercise people?

0:22.9

Welcome back, everybody.

0:25.4

This week's episode of the DCL Duo podcast.

0:29.3

And I don't know how many times Chris has been on the show at this point.

0:34.0

But he has been on because we love following all of his cruising adventures.

0:36.5

So let me start by welcoming Chris back to our show.

0:37.2

Welcome, Chris.

0:41.4

Thanks for having me back again. This might be five or six. I lost track. Yeah.

0:48.4

We love having you on though, because you, we live vicariously through you and your concierge experiences. Well, I was going to set this up as saying we have concierge Chris back on,

0:54.1

but he's actually started a new handle on Twitter, Celebrity Chris, I think it is, right? Yeah. We're going to talk about his, it's normally Chris in the concierge lounge, but this time it was Chris aboard the Celebrity Edge, and we were following along, his fabulous travels, and Chris was saying, he's going to have a hard time going back to Disney concierge a little bit, it sounds like. So we had to have him on to do the compare and contrast for all of our listeners out there who love to steal concierge. So Chris, let's start this off. Just remind folks really quick, because we've got a deep back catalog now. So they can go back and listen to your cruising experience. But give folks a sense of the number of cruises you've been on, the kinds of Disney sailings you've done. And then what's your experience been with celebrity? So I've been on 16 Disney cruises. 15 of those were concierge. Before concierge, it's just a one-bedroom suite with the upgraded perks. I've done a couple carnival cruises a long, long time ago, one Norwegian cruise, one Royal Caribbean

1:50.1

cruise this last August, and this was actually our first celebrity cruise. So starting off at the

1:54.7

Celebrity Edge, that is quite the way to start with Celebrity. Our last Celebrity Cruise was

1:59.0

aboard maybe the Celebrity Millennium, I think it was. I think we were on the infinity one time and the millennium one

2:06.6

time. Yeah, they do not even compare any longer. I don't even think those ships would compare to

2:11.3

the magic and the wonder. So yeah, anyway, Chris, where did this cruise go?

2:19.0

How long was it?

2:20.6

Let's get the particulars and the details on your celebrity group.

2:23.8

So this was an Eastern Caribbean sailing that left out of Fort Laudale on September 25th.

2:28.2

It was a seven-night cruise.

2:29.6

And this was my 51st birthday and my 26th Wayne anniversary kind of making up for last year. And we originally had a Disney cruise booked. And when Disney wasn't telling us what's going on, I was like, I have to be somewhere. We booked this. And I'll admit in late July, early August, when Disney started saying what they're doing, the fantasy was going to sail, I had a little FOMO, but I am so glad we ended up on this sailing, opened up a whole new world to me. Nice. How was it, I'm curious how it was sailing out of Fort Lauderdale, because Disney has announced that they, I think, are going to be homeboarding the dream out of Fort Lauderdale moving forward, moving over from Miami. What was it like sailing on a Fort Lauderdale? It's super easy. We've flown in the Fort Lauderdale or Miami airports on different trips to go to Miami. They're all, I think it was a 25-minute drive from downtown Miami to Fort Lauderdale. So super easy, modern port, you know, Celebrity has, you know, they must have built in the last five, 10 years, I imagine, really modern and nice port there.

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