A frank review from a veteran cruiser, to include 5 Disney cruises. First of all, as always, attentive service is a Disney hallmark. However, the crew is under such pressure to achieve "excellent" ratings that they begin to push you for it and we had numerous private spiels on how anything less than an excellent is tantamount to destroying the employee's career. Therefore, it is very difficult for Disney to receive honest reviews in their surveys. They even ask in the post-cruise survey, were you pressured to provide an excellent ? Well, the answer has to be no, or else some poor worker who is trying to support his family back home loses his source of income.

1) Entertainment was tired on its good days and something akin to an off-strip Vegas sideshow on its other days. You absolutely would not pay money for this entertainment off of a cruise ship. They present three Disney productions, and the rest are the typical cruise ship night club act. This is partially due to the fact that this ship in particular has not changed its lineup of shows for a considerable time. There is no reason that Disney cannot change its enterainment line-up every year or so. One night the main entertainment was a movie showing of Star Wars. Three weeks after its release and after the ship showed it in the theater daily. It was like the kings of entertainment were struggling to imaginear a show to put before its guests. There was so little adequate entertainment in other venues that it was not worth pursuing, some very tired lounge singers with less than a handful or people watching. Remember there is no casino on Disney, but Disney has not made an entertainment compensation for the adults. The most energetic and frequent presentations were the Shopping Guide and the unending Vaction Club presentations.

2) As mentioned in other reviews, dining opportunities are regrettable. You dine on a designated rotation at a set time. The menu was exactly the same in all three restaurants on three nights and then was a set place menu based upon where you are seated in one of the three restaurants. The food is so trying that the servers frankly tell you which dishes to try, usually one-two from each category, and then honestly and quietly tell you that you will not enjoy anything else. They were unfailingly accurate in that assessment. So the menu may have 5-6 choices for the main entree but there are only a couple that are acceptable. Fish is consistently dry and tough as are the chicken choices. Read more