My wife and I just got back from a 7-night Disney cruise to the Eastern Caribbean to celebrate our one-year anniversary. It was my first cruise, and her second; her other experience was on RCCL. We chose to cruise DCL mainly because we are Disney Vacation Club members and we needed to burn two years' worth of 'vacation points' on a one-week vacation, as we won't have time to go next year.
Here were our impressions of the Magic and the Disney cruising experience:
CHECK IN / BOARDING THE SHIP: This took about an hour once we arrived at the port terminal. While that seems like a long time, NOBODY herds crowds of people through long lines as artfully as Disney. The hour came and went painlessly and before we knew it, we were on the ship.