I will say five people in that room, we have three kids, is better than a hotel room with like two queens in a daybed because none of the kids have to touch each other.

Hey, everybody. Before we dive into this episode, I just wanted to give a quick explanation of what you're about to hear.

This is the second episode in our DCL 101 video series that you can find over on YouTube at the DCL Duo channel.

The series is being kind of co-produced with the DCL podcast who have been really great partners to us.

And so the series is meant to encompass some 101-level topics for first time or more novice-level Disney Cruise Line cruisers.

We will slowly progress through from 101 to a 201, 301, and 401-level set of topics for more advanced cruisers.

So these 101-level topics are meant to be

introductory just to kind of give you the heads up. But I also want to give you the heads up that this is the audio-only version of the 101 series. We're going to continue to post the audio out of the series onto our podcast channel. But if you want the full experience, head over to YouTube, subscribe to our channel, give give the video of you there's lots of additional visual content that we're

producing into the videos so you can see some examples of what we're talking about

this particular episode deals with rooms you'll see room photos and that sort of

thing so if you really want to get the full experience head over to YouTube so

anyway with that on to the episode.

Welcome back, everybody, to the next edition of our DCL 101 series. And tonight, we're going to be talking about how to pick your state room on a Disney cruise. And I'm really excited to welcome

some special guests. And I want to bring in Michelle and Doug from Rope Drop Radio. Michelle, Doug, welcome. Hi, Brian. Thanks for having us. We're going to talk to folks a little bit about picking a stateroom on a Disney cruise. And I thought we would start right at the top of kind of what are the big categories of options for state rooms on board? And Michelle, you're kind of

one of our experts here. So why don't I hand it over to you? Yeah, for Disney cruises, it would be a inside room, an ocean view room, ocean view with Miranda, and then there's the concierge level as well. How do you think about picking within those categories? What are the kind of factors that you would think about. I mean, price is a big one, right? I mean, if you want to view outside and some

daylight, you're going to have to pay more for one, right? I mean, if you want to view outside

and some daylight, you're going to have to pay more for it, right? So, but what are some of the other factors aside from price that folks ought to think about? And maybe, maybe one of them is perhaps size of their party. And maybe you can talk a little bit about some things that Disney does to accommodate families in the different kinds of state rooms. Yeah, absolutely. There's lots of rooms on Disney Cruises that sleep three and four. And there's actually quite a few that sleep five as well. So, but if you do have a five, party of five, you're not going to be able to have an inside room. So that's one thing definitely to look at. Other things that might play into your choice of a state room would be what deck you want to be on. Some of the inside

rooms do not, they're not on every single deck. Some of the Ocean View rooms are not on

every single deck. If you have motion sickness, like Doug, that might also play into your

choosing of a state room as well. It just kind of depends on what location you'd want to be on

the ship as well. There's a lot, there's a lot of factors. Yeah. And so for accommodating larger parties, I know Disney breaks some of their state rooms up into sort of, you know, Ocean View, family deluxe Ocean View, right? And so is that kind of the, is that where you hit the sort of you can have four versus five people or what's the indicator for folks going to be about the number of people in the stay room right yeah so ocean view um you can sleep five in some of those

that would be a deluxe family ocean view on the dream and the fantasy those have a a really large

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