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DCL Duo Podcast: A Disney Cruise Line Fan Podcast

Ep. 18 - Adventures by Disney with Erin Foster from the Unofficial Guide Series

DCL Duo Podcast: A Disney Cruise Line Fan Podcast

Brian Flock

Hobbies, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week we're talking Adventures by Disney, or ABD, with Erin Foster, co-author of the Unofficial Guide to Disney Cruise Line and frequent contributor to Touring Plans.  Erin has been on ten ABD trips including land-based vacations to China and South America, river cruises, short escapes and a few DCL "embedded" ABD adventures.  ABD is the luxury arm of Disney's signature vacation offerings, and while it's pricey you get Disney's world class service and vacation planning prowess across six continents with ABD.  Come hear Erin's experiences with ABD, and you might find it's a good option for you and your family. 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 and most other major podcast providers. You can also like and follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @DCLDuo. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, you can email us at dclduo@gmail.com. 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! You can connect with the DCLDuo Podcast and Vlog at: https://dclduo.com Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel at: https://tinyurl.com/u5bj9lv Please review and subscribe to our Podcast on the following platforms (or most major podcast providers): Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dclduo-podcast/id1501550336 Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/gn6f1034 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Fcl8SPuSJFlam2KsJBHx7 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=526093&refid=stpr You can also like and follow us on social media at: The DCLDuo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DclDuo The DCLDuo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dcl_duo/ The DCLDuo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DCLDuo The DCLDuo Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dclduo

Transcript

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0:00.0

I always say I wish I had an ABD guide in my actual life and I could rule the world.

0:14.7

Welcome back, everybody, the DCL duo.

0:17.2

And tonight we've got a repeat guest.

0:19.4

We have Aaron Foster back with us you may remember

0:22.1

Aaron from a few episodes ago when she was on to talk about the Disney cruise line unofficial

0:27.2

guide that she co-authors but we wanted to have Aaron back because I think as we mentioned in

0:31.4

the show Aaron has a ton of experience with adventures by Disney and so we want to talk with

0:36.9

Aaron tonight about ABD. So

0:39.0

welcome back, Aaron. Hi, thanks for having me. I wanted to start off with folks by sort of telling

0:43.6

them what ABD was. Do you want to walk people through Adventures by Disney because it's a pretty

0:48.2

unique Disney product? Sure. Adventures by Disney is the luxury travel arm of Disney that is not related to its theme parks, although it is a little bit. I'll get to that, but not related to the theme parks or necessarily the cruise, although there's a little bit of that, which I'll get to later. It's traveling the world with Disney, but not at Disney. For example, they go to six continents. So if you wanted to

1:14.3

travel with Disney making your arrangements and having a Disney train guide with you, and you wanted

1:20.1

to go to South Africa, you could do that. That's Adventures by Disney. And there's a price premium,

1:26.5

I'll say, for Adventures by Disney. Is that pretty fair? Yes, it's not cheap. It's definitely not cheap. There is a premium. Okay, so that's what the product is, Erin. Now, when the last show we had you on, you mentioned, you had quite a bit of experience with ABD. So can you kind of give folks kind of your background, what some of the trips you've taken are and your experiences with it? Sure. I have been on 10 Adventures by Disney trips and my first one was in

1:50.0

2009 going to Costa Rica. Adventures by Disney itself started in 2005 with only two destinations,

1:57.0

which was Hawaii and the American West. And they've since expanded to several dozen

2:02.6

trips on six continents. There's a couple of different kinds of trips. So there are short escapes,

2:08.9

which are usually sort of like three or four days. And a few of those are standalones. Like they

2:15.3

have a short escape to Disneyland, where they get into

2:19.4

some behind-the-scenes kind of stuff. There's the traditional longer trips, which are usually

2:24.8

between like seven and 12 nights. And then there are river cruises, which we can get into,

2:31.7

it's like a whole separate thing, and they run a little bit different than

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