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DCL Duo Podcast: A Disney Cruise Line Fan Podcast

Ep. 81 - Bonus - Traveling Internationally with our Son and Re-Thinking an Upcoming Sailing

DCL Duo Podcast: A Disney Cruise Line Fan Podcast

Brian Flock

Leisure, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Hobbies

4.8580 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On this week's bonus sailing we're talking about the considerations we have with planning and traveling with our eight year-old son on an upcoming Adventures by Disney Christmas Markets river cruise we've booked; and also chat through how we're thinking about an upcoming international cruise we've booked and what we're looking to potentially move it to when new itineraries come out. 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 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 Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xNDZlYjkzYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== TuneIn Radio: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/DCLDuo-Podcast-p1319273/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/744bd586-7298-4804-96c5-be20a1fff61f/DCLDuo-Podcast 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 We're also listed alongside some other great Disney podcasts at: Top 100 Disney Podcasts

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0:00.0

I mean, I also want to complete our grand slam.

0:01.7

We still have not been on the magic.

0:04.3

And the only way we're going to get there is through.

0:05.9

I know.

0:06.3

Europe cruise, really.

0:07.8

Yeah.

0:08.1

Yeah.

0:08.8

Yeah.

0:28.1

Welcome back, everybody, this week's bonus edition of the DCL Duo podcast.

0:35.1

And kind of in between two small ship and expedition cruising episodes here on the podcast,

0:38.0

we thought we would be responsive to a question from a listener. So this week's main episode was with Heidi from quirkycruise.com talking all things

0:44.2

small ship cruising, including expedition cruises, river cruises, coastal cruises, and ocean-going small ship

0:52.0

vessels. We've got an episode coming up later this week

0:54.9

with a guest talking about Ponant cruises,

0:57.8

which is the cruise line that Disney is going to be using

1:00.1

for its new venture into expedition cruising with adventures by Disney.

1:04.9

In between those two episodes,

1:06.5

we did have a listener who asked us to talk about our own thinking

1:09.7

about doing a river cruise with our son. We've talked a few times now on the show about the fact that in December of what's now this year, we are going to be taking her son on an EBD river cruise. It's a Christmas markets river cruise. We had Aaron Foster on the show not too long ago talking about her experience with Adventures by Disney, and she had been on this Christmas markets cruise. And we've also talked to a few other guests who've been on that cruise and just really piqued our interest and we wanted to take it. But the listener who wrote in was asking our thinking around taking our son over to Europe on this Adventures by Disney cruise. And so we wouldn't talk a few minutes about that. And if we have time at the end, we are wrestling with what we're going to do with our September cruise out of Dover to the northern British Isles. And we thought we would talk through some of our thinking there and maybe even your feedback on what we should do. Let's start with Sam, our thinking on taking Nathan over to Europe for this Christmas markets river cruise. I think we have talked in the past about going over to Europe

2:02.8

with our son at this age, in some ways, feels like we might be taking him to a different place on Earth

2:07.4

and a different set of parks. People might, you know, talk differently than he's used to or talk a

2:11.9

different language than he's used to, but he may not get the most out of it. So we had a different

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