VERY SPECIFIC QUESTION to “frequent” Disney Cruisers.

[Mom24Princesses]

Now for MY question my definition of “Frequent “ cruiser is can you answer this question with a YES.

“We have done 5 or more, SEVEN or more night, Disney Cruises in the past 9 years?”
THAT’S NOT THE SURVEY QUESTION. A YES TO THAT QUESTION ALLOWS YOU TO ANSWER MY SURVEY QUESTION!

So, If you answered yes to that question-

Where ELSE have you traveled for “vacations” during the past 9 years? (NOT ON DCL). For the sake of length of responses only list 6 night+ trips.

The reason for my question was a family member questioning our loyalty to Disney vacations.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Now for MY question my definition of “Frequent “ cruiser is can you answer this question with a YES.

“We have done 5 or more, SEVEN or more night, Disney Cruises in the past 9 years?”
THAT’S NOT THE SURVEY QUESTION. A YES TO THAT QUESTION ALLOWS YOU TO ANSWER MY SURVEY QUESTION!

So, If you answered yes to that question-

Where ELSE have you traveled for “vacations” during the past 9 years? (NOT ON DCL). For the sake of length of responses only list 6 night+ trips.

The reason for my question was a family member questioning our loyalty to Disney vacations.

Yes.

2 European river cruises (19 & 15 nights)
China & Tibet (17 nights)
Southern Caribbean (10 nights)
Hawaii/Tahiti (28 nights)
2 Alaska (7 night and 19 nights)
Panama Canal (21 nights)
California Coastal cruise (7 nights)
Hawaii (15 nights)
Plus numerous RV trips of varying lengths, including 2 1/2 months to Canada & Alaska; 3 weeks to Yellowstone; 2 weeks to Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta; a week at Death Valley, and 2 weeks near Mammoth Lakes. And a bunch of less-than-6 night trips (over 20 of those).

 

[Club Disney Chandler]

Now for MY question my definition of “Frequent “ cruiser is can you answer this question with a YES.

“We have done 5 or more, SEVEN or more night, Disney Cruises in the past 9 years?”
THAT’S NOT THE SURVEY QUESTION. A YES TO THAT QUESTION ALLOWS YOU TO ANSWER MY SURVEY QUESTION!

So, If you answered yes to that question-

Where ELSE have you traveled for “vacations” during the past 9 years? (NOT ON DCL). For the sake of length of responses only list 6 night+ trips.

The reason for my question was a family member questioning our loyalty to Disney vacations.

1 week in Hawaii
4 Carnival Cruises of 7 or 8 nights each

 

[auntlynne]

2010 - Hawaii, 3 weeks, land, all 4 islands
2010 - London, Brussels, and France
2012 - Hawaii
2012 - Princess to AK
2013 - Phoenix and NM
2013 - Royal Caribbean W Caribbean
2013 - Hawaii
2013 - California
2013 - Princess to AK
2015 - Princess to AK

 

[Dug720]

Yes!

1-week beach trip to Ocean Isle Beach, NC multiple years
February 2011 - Florence, Italy
September 2011 - Disneyland
July 2014 - Alaska cruise on Holland America
July 2015 - Alaska cruise on RCCL
July 2016 - 12-night Med cruise on RCCL
December 2016 - 7-night Cuba cruise on fathom
April 2017 - 7-night Cuba/DR cruise on fathom
February 2018 - Walt Disney World
June/July 2018 - Rome and Greek Isles cruise on RCCL

Scheduled:
February 2020 - Western Caribbean on Celebrity
February 2021 - Eastern/Southern Caribbean from San Juan on Celebrity

 

[Deb T.]

Yes

IMHO, your family member has a lot to learn about travel. Why does it matter how you reach vacation destinations? We've traveled literally all over the world on Disney cruises. Most are places we never would have ventured to on our own. Not only is a Disney cruise the perfect traveling hotel and resort, they take all the hassle out of planning your itinerary. Plus, we love not having to pack and re-pack to move from location to location.

With that said, in the last 9 years we've taken 6+ night non-Disney vacations to Austria, Bermuda, China, and France. We also cruise on Celebrity and three months ago we did our first 14-night riverboat cruise down the Rhine (because as stated above, we enjoy the convenience of traveling on ships). We also travel all over the U.S. every year.

 

[Bonnie1222]

YES

1 business with fun added in trip to Vegas
1 Princess Cruise
All the rest of our vacations have Disney Cruises & Disney Staycations (DVC & local to FL) because we love it so much

My family thinks we're nuts because we not only are almost exclusive DCL people, we do the same islands most the time. My answer to them when they question what we do it... "It may not be for you, but it makes us happy and that is all that counts."

 

[dad of 3 addicted to DCL]

Yes

Going backwards in time...
1 week in Belize snorkeling the reef
5 day visit to Vancouver (amazing)
1 week in San Diego (combined family visit/vacation)
Many many (tent) camping expeditions in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Long weekend trips to WV mountains
Week in Ireland
Car vacation across country stopping along the way for 1.5 weeks

 

[Meriweather]

European river cruise
Alaska cruise/tour
Alaska just cruise
Caribbean.....many
Norway/Iceland/ transatlantic
Hawaii
Cuba
West coast cruise
east coast cruise
Disney world....many times
Panama Canal cruise

 

[smmco]

Now for MY question my definition of “Frequent “ cruiser is can you answer this question with a YES.

“We have done 5 or more, SEVEN or more night, Disney Cruises in the past 9 years?”
THAT’S NOT THE SURVEY QUESTION. A YES TO THAT QUESTION ALLOWS YOU TO ANSWER MY SURVEY QUESTION!

So, If you answered yes to that question-

Where ELSE have you traveled for “vacations” during the past 9 years? (NOT ON DCL). For the sake of length of responses only list 6 night+ trips.

The reason for my question was a family member questioning our loyalty to Disney vacations.

Were they questioning that you're too loyal or not loyal enough?

 

[PrincessAriel14]

Yes, cruised in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2019

2010-2019: annual one week myrtle beach vacations
2013: one week San Francisco
2017: one week Hawaii
2017: 5 days in San Francisco
2018: one week Hilton Head

 

[Ladybugx87]

Yes

Hawaii
Park city skiing multiple times
Amalfi Coast italy
Croatia
Vienna
Beaver creek skiing
Disney world
Sydney
Paris - Venice -Florence

 

[phinz]

Outer Banks a few times
Key West several times
Atlanta (yearly)
Seattle
San Diego
Gatlinburg many, many times
Chattanooga
Birmingham, AL
Princess cruise to Alaska
Royal Caribbean New Years cruise
So many Disney World trips. Too many to count
Ft. Lauderdale and Palm Beach combined
Asheville
Houston/College Station

 

[DCL Repeaters]

I like to say that I’ve been very loyal to DCL, 37 cruises and counting. DCL has taken my family to some outstanding and beautiful places in this world- Alaska twice, Hawaii, Panama Canal twice, Europe, Bermuda and all over the Caribbean. However the last 5 years we have discovered and fallen in love with Italy land only trips 3 times at 2 weeks at a time. So we’ve cut back a bit with DCL (they need some new itineraries!) and look forward to the next European adventure.

 

[Mitura]

I tell everyone that we've drank the "Disney Kool-aide" when it comes to cruising. The cruise is our family's major vacation for the year. The rest of the year is interspersed with day vacations. So over the past 6 years its been Myrtle Beach for a week and then day trips to DC, NYC, Phila (our home town) etc. to fill in the gaps.

The issue for us is work and limited time to take off. Summer is the busy time, with baseball tourneys, work is very busy in the summer and its cheaper for us to cruise in the winter.

Next year we are planning to take a 2 week trip thru Germany and France in the summer!

Hope this helps with your opinion poll.

 

[kiford]

Ten DCL cruises in total, six of seven or more days in the last 9 years (one 7-day upcoming in Jan 2020).

Italy 21 days (5 cities)
California & Hawaii (14 days) - this was to DL and Aulani - does it count?
Jamaica (5 days)
San Francisco (6 days)
Germany (3 weeks)
Germany (2 weeks)

On our European DCL cruises we had side trips of 3-5 days to Germany (DH has family there), plus some days in London on one of them. Several trips to WDW in that timeframe. Plus several 3-4 day trips more "locally" (i.e., within 1-2 hour flight or drive).

 

[kendall]

Hawaii (Hawaii, Maui, Oahu) - 3 weeks
Costa Rica - 1 week
Barcelona (Spain) - 1 week
Alaska land & cruise with Princess - 2 weeks
Eastern Caribbean cruise with Celebrity - 1 week
Western Caribbean with Princess - 1 week
Yosemite-San Francisco - 1 week
Northern Michigan - 1 week

 

[cgolf]

Every year we do a 7 night stay in a cabin to get lots of fishing in. Sometimes we do multiple cruises in a year too. I think I just sneak in based on the 9 years since the last 3 have been on other lines.

 

[Mom24Princesses]

Were they questioning that you're too loyal or not loyal enough?

Too loyal

It started when my married- living in Orlando daughter posted a picture of us at F&W with the 2019 logo in the background that included the Eiffel Tower. My brother said why don’t you go see the real Eiffel Tower instead of going to Disney. ( Now we drove 6.5 hours and stayed with DD and we have APs so it was a very cheap trip lol.)

And while there are a number of places on my future travel bucket list, Paris isn’t very high up - personal preferences.

I was just wondering about others travel experiences.

 

[Vicki106]

2010 1 week New York City
2010 1 week Williamsburg, VA - Busch Gardens
2011 1 week Virginia Beach
2011 1 week Orlando WDW and Universal
2012 2 weeks London and Scotland
2013 1 week Acadia NP in Bar Harbor, Maine
2013 +1 week Columbus Zoo
2014 1 week Grand Canyon, Bryce and Zion NPs
2014 1 week Orlando - Sea World and Discovery Cove
2015 1 week Clearwater Beach, FL
2015 1+ week Los Angeles, Disneyland and Yosemite
2015 1 week Orlando WDW
2016 1 week London
2016 1+ week Ireland
2016 1 week Barbados
2017 1 week London
2017 1 week Carnival Cruise Western Caribbean
2018 1 week Niagara Falls
2018 1+ week Alaska Princess Cruise
2019 1 week RCL Bermuda RCL Cruise
2019 2 weeks Australia