This summer for our family trip we decided on a Disney Cruise. The idea came about because our girls are at the age where most of their friends have started visiting Walt Disney World. Unfortunately, I was not keen on making a trip to a giant amusement park full of people in the hot and humid weather with two young kids who can’t sit still and do not like long lines. I was never interested in visiting Disney, not even as a child. I come from a low income home and the thought of my parents spending so much money on a vacation just did not make sense to me, not even as a kid. So I grew up perfectly happy not having been and had no desire to go. Once I had children I made it abundantly clear to my husband that I was not interested in visiting.
As the girls got older we realized I may have to suck it up, so I started coming to terms with the fact that we might be going to Disney World. That’s because like everything in parenting, it’s easy to have opinions before you have kids, but once they arrive everything changes. After speaking with colleagues and friends who had been on the Disney Cruise, my husband decided this would be the way to go. Great, two of the least appealing things I could think of COMBINED for my extreme disdain. I was not a believer. I love to travel but cruises have never appealed to me. Trapped on a ship with strangers for a week or more, in close and confined space, bad food and poor hygiene. It seemed like 7 days on an airplane. No thanks!
Disney was something I could not run from, I want my girls to have the happiest of childhoods. The more I thought of it, the more perfect it seemed. Disney has an inarguable reputation for high quality and standards. Their cruise line would have to be better than the horrible images I had stuck in my head from the news. As a bonus it would condense the park experience for us to make it easier on me. The more people I surveyed the more I was convinced. So I gave my husband the green light and off he went on full planning mode… Can’t wait to share more about our planning process and experience.
See you soon!
