Ep. 319 - The Royal Treatment: Brian and Nathan Review Their First RCCL Cruise

DCL Duo Podcast: A Disney Cruise Line Fan Podcast

Brian Flock

Leisure, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Hobbies

4.8 • 580 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Brian and Nathan are back from their first sailing ever on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines - a three-night sailing on the RCCL Independence of the Seas. We couldn't wait to share their experience with you - from booking, boarding, stateroom, food, entertainment, the Casino and, of course, Perfect Day at Coco Cay, Brian and Nathan are sharing it all. Will they sail RCCL again? Do we need to rebrand our show? Come listen to this supersized episode to find out! If you want to join the DCL Duo Inaugural Podcast Crusie aboard the Disney Magic for her three-night sailing on June 19, 2024 from Ft. Lauderdale to Nassua and Lighthouse Point, you can head over our to our booking page at My Path Unwinding Travel to secure your room today!! Rooms are going fast and some categories are already sold out. So, book today to ensure you can join us for all the fun in Summer 2024!! We've got so many exciting things planned, you won't want to miss this opportunity. If you are looking to book your next Disney Cruise, have been thinking about sailing concierge, have been eying an Adventures by Disney Trip, or are interested in what other kinds of vacations might be available, then head over to My Path Unwinding Travel so Karen and her team of expert travel professionals can help you find the perfect vacation for you and your family. Karen and her team are knowledgeable, responsive and welcoming and we are so excited to have them as a sponsor of your show! If you use Sea Bands to help prevent seasickness and motion sickness, then you need to check out Blisslets (via our affiliate link), a stylish alternative to traditional sea sickness bands designed to fit your lifestyle. Would you like a little downtime for date night or just some time to reconnect as adults on your next Disney vacation? Be sure to check out Nanny Land!! They've got tons of options from babysitting services, in-park nannies, and even nannies who will come with you on your next DCL vacation. They cover all of the Disney parks and resorts, world-wide, and are probably much more affordable than you might imagine. Use our affiliate Crown Code: KING85 to get a discount on your next Nanny Land booking. 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

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0:00.0	All right.
0:00.3	Last question, Nathan.
0:02.2	If you had to choose tomorrow to do a cruise on Royal Caribbean or a cruise on Disney, which cruise would you do?
0:10.6	This is a hard decision.
0:29.4	What? Welcome back to another episode of the DCL Duo podcast brought to you by my path unwinding travel.
0:30.6	I'm going to be your host today, but my guest is someone you all know very well.
0:35.0	It is my co-host, my partner, my husband, Brian. Welcome to the show, Brian.
0:40.3	It's great to be back. So today we're going to talk to Brian about the Royal Caribbean cruise
0:45.3	that he and Nathan just took over a Memorial Day weekend. We're going to do a little bit of a trip
0:50.0	report and find out all of the different activities they got up to on the independence of the
0:55.8	seas as well as at Cocoa Key. As everyone knows, I'm going to call it Cocoa Key. I don't care
1:00.9	that Royal calls it Cocoa K. And so we thought we would do this as an episode where I host and
1:07.7	ask Brian some questions. So Brian, why don't we start with the booking
1:12.6	process for Royal and tell us maybe some of the differences between booking for Royal versus
1:20.0	booking on Disney Cruise line. So the booking process was relatively easy for me because I used a
1:24.4	travelation to book this cruise. We had a placeholder with Royal Caribbean or not a placeholder. I don't know what they call it, but we had a cruise credit with Royal Caribbean off of a cruise that we couldn't take. And so I just had it moved over to this one. I thought a key difference though between Royal Caribbean and Disney was that moving a cruise around actually cost me like a change fee of some sort. And so I thought that was a little annoying. I prefer Disney's
1:45.4	method of, you know, you can kind of shift the cruise around at your leisure if you need to.
1:49.5	So it was a little frustrated by that. We also encountered some interesting accounting difficulties
1:53.7	with Royal Caribbean on the front end of this cruise where they had actually, we had booked a cruise
1:58.9	on, I think it was Harmony of the Seas. and they moved that cruise over to Wonder of the Seas.
2:04.9	And then when I moved it to the independence of the seas, they wanted to charge me not one change fee, but two.
2:10.4	They said they hadn't ever collected the change fee for the switch from Harmony to Wonder.
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