Star of the Seas Trip Report: The Good, The Bad, and The Massive
Addicted to the Mouse: Disney Podcast | Disney World, Universal, & Cruise Vacation Planning
Dan and Leslie Lowry
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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We just got off the world’s largest cruise ship this morning: Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas. We spent the past seven days enjoying everything this massive ship has to offer, from rock wall climbing and laser tag to watching Back to the Future: The Musical (spoiler, it’s our current favorite stage show at sea). Join us as we talk through our experiences and all of our tips and tricks to make the most out of your next Royal Caribbean cruise on Star of the Seas. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | We just got off the largest cruise ship in the world this morning, and we are here to talk all about it. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello and welcome to a tick of the mouse. |
| 0:06.0 | Today is Sunday, June 7th. You're listening to episode number 80 today. Oh, my goodness. We had such an amazing time. It was, it was just a really solidly good cruise. It was a great cruise and we're going to get into all of it. |
| 0:39.7 | And by the way, it was a seven-night cruise, which is super fun. |
| 0:43.1 | So before we do that, do we have any news? |
| 0:46.2 | Yes. |
| 0:46.6 | So a couple of quick, I mean, this is going to maybe take a little while for us to talk about all the great things about Star of the Sea. |
| 0:51.5 | So a couple of quick news stories. First off, |
| 0:55.8 | Walt Disney World have, they've released the bounceback offers for 2027 finally. That's a big one, |
| 1:01.8 | actually. There's a lot of folks have been waiting for that to come. Yes. So there are, you know, |
| 1:05.8 | it's not all dates. It is only select dates. And they only have it through October 31st right now |
| 1:11.9 | because that's all you can book through for Disney World you know for 2027 so but |
| 1:17.8 | you can save up to 25 to 35% off a future stay so if you are interested in a |
| 1:23.9 | book a bounce back you no longer have to book a fake trip for the end of |
| 1:28.4 | 2026 and then move it to 2027, which is so nice. It is nice, though, that Disney does allow you to |
| 1:35.4 | book a bounce back, even if they don't have 2027, you can book it in 2026 and then move it when |
| 1:41.1 | 27 does come around. I kind of wish that they would do it like cruise, though, where it's like, I'm booking a future stay that can be used in the next however long. Yeah, like pay the $200 deposit and you get a bounce back to use within whatever two years or something. Yeah. That makes sense. I would actually prefer that, I feel like. It would be less, like what awkward well it not awkward it would just be |
| 2:04.1 | because when you book a room you're technically taking out of inventory to other people so it |
| 2:08.4 | would be better to just just have a placeholder like you do on cruise line and then you wouldn't take a |
| 2:13.3 | room that somebody else might be in. Yeah yeah exactly, exactly. So anyway, we also have some Halloween |
| 2:18.7 | Disneyland news and some Monstropolis news, but we're going to save both of those news stories for |
| 2:23.3 | Wednesday. Yes. Because it's, we just, we have a lot to talk about today. And then the last |
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