Regarding our dinner service times, yes we did bring it up to guest services that night but did not talk to the head server of the restaurant until the following night. We made a post in the cruise Facebook group and asked if anyone else had the same experience and A LOT of other families had similar issues with dinner taking a long time. It wasn’t just us. After we brought the issue to the head server our night 6 dinner was MUCH faster!

@Doronin

Жыл бұрын

I had asked if you addressed the issue with the staff, and just got off the final Alaska sailing of the year myself. We had the exact same experience with super long dining times with no solution. I literally came back to this video almost 2 months later just to say, you described that accurately. I also refused to go to sit-down breakfast because it was taking an hour or more just to get some basic stuff you could get at Cabanas in no time. Speaking of which, Cabanas has improved dramatically since we sailed the Wonder in October 2021. Wow.

I was losing it at your facial expression when the lady said you had to go backward. 🤣

The fear in his eyes of the outhouse was great. You did alot of excursions on this trip. By far this is a wonderful video on the wonder. And i miss Koda greatly this video has made up my mind Alaska 2025 i need to do this.

That train ride looked so beautiful, but a little scary too. 🚂

Dude! You and your vlogs are on another level. I love them! The music, your reactions to situations, and your joy are amazing!

It's hilarious that I was randomly following someone's insta stories and they happened to be on that same train which broke down lol!

@sassydasheng

2 жыл бұрын

Oh and for the train, I noticed you guys had tables and cushioned seats. Someone else who did it said they didn't have pads on their seats and it was uncomfortable. Was yours the only car or were there a bunch more? (Trying to strategically figure so we get comfy seats lol!)

@ThemeParkExpress

2 жыл бұрын

I think there were several other cars mid train that had tables. But we just lucked out really with where they put us

I have consistently liked your honesty in your videos and feel like you bring a different perspective for those that have various abilities. You reading the menu out loud is so helpful, thank you. So thoughtful! 🙂

I am so proud of you and all the hiking you did. You must have slept good at night.

Quite the adventure! Thank you so much for the honest opinion. I'm loving your Alaska series and it truly makes me want to go to Alaska even more. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us! ~Kim

Throughout this cruise series you have delivered STUNNING B-roll of the Alaskan scenery. Perhaps it's easy, with all the amazing surroundings, but you absolutely captured it. Great work!

Awesome Adventure!!! Thank you for bringing us along!! Triton’s looked amazing!! Love the trail you found!

Awesome vlog, Adrian! Thank you for your honest reviews!

Lol, what an adventure. I am very much enjoying this cruise vlog. So glad you are having a magical time 🤓

Adrian again beautiful country and also thank you so much for bringing us along with you and your family on this cruise. This is family time personal time for you and your family so thank you

This is such a nice video of the train ride. A real tunnel , a real mountainside and the train going over the bridge. A wonderful trip. Great info on the need to eat something before going on the train. 👍

The train ride looked like so much fun. Between a mix of Harry Potter and Christmas. Definitely going to put this on my list of places to go.

highlight of my day when you post these!

I've had to take a break from watching videos because of a lot of unexpected things happening this summer. It was nice to return to such a serene and peaceful video. Thank you! 🙂

Cheers to being alive indeed!

We did quite a few hikes because we first week land tour then one week cruise. Great but tiring. When we were there they brought the puppies on board and we got to see them on the tour and when we got back. So cute to play with. I can see where your wonderful personality comes from. Your mom is a woman after my heart. A little bump in the road is just that and nothing to detract from all that is wonderful. Great video!!!!

The lady making the announcement sounded very unsure lol glad everything went well lol. I just discovered your videos and I've been watching all day lol. You have a great personality. Definitely a new fan😁

Love your content!! My husband and I were supposed to go to Alaska but canceled due to the uncertainty with Covid. You have gotten us both exited to plan to reschedule the cruise.

The break down was so part of the adventure!! U got that dumbo experience with an expedition everest twist! Yeah BAYBEEEEE

After watching the unedited footage on Patreon (which I LOVED!) this morning I was curious to see the version on here. At least it led to an interesting memory, haha. Thanks for sharing!

Can't wait to see your time at the puppy camp!!! Thank you for sharing your adventure...and as much as I love Everest I would not want my train to do that...

Another great vlog 🤩

Oh man, four hours! Definitely eat beforehand. It looks like an awesome ride (minus the breakdown), beautiful views.

Perfect for a hot summer day

Really beautiful footage! I’ve never had any desire to go to Alaska whatsoever, but your vlogs are starting to sway me…

Hello watching all your adventure thru out the cruise since going in an Alaskan cruise is on our bucket list

Wow!! What a day. Crazy train 🚆. We have done Alaska twice with Disney. Have never had a problem with the dining and timing. Hopefully it gets better for you and your family.

Thanks so much for sharing I think I might do Alaska on the Disney cruise

Thanks for all the info

I just off the Dream yesterday and I had the same issue with my first night at Animator's. The rest of the nights, the food came out quickly. One thing to note, our Server told us this was his first time being a Server (he was previously an Assistant Server) and he was just thrown into this because they are short staffed. I could tell he was nervous but he got it together and the rest of the trip was flawless. Also noting that in this cruise's FB group, people said their servers were catching covid so that definitely does not help the staffing issues.

11:28 "Chugga-chugga! Chugga-chugga!" LOL

Your cousin cracked me up when she motioned a cross on your forehead. 🤣 Thank you for sharing your adventures- so beautiful! It’s funny tho, you were worried about a bear & I’m sitting here saying “don’t fall, don’t fall, don’t fall!!” Obviously you are okay but if you fell, injured yourself, & no one saw you is scary. …I know it was an unplanned adventure but Always bring a buddy! 🧡

On our cruise we had an option for a luxury train car and if you can do it! Comfortable lounge chairs, food, drinks, personal narration, large observation section and only 14 people! We were on a Holland American cruise that goes to glacier bay which was amazing and we got to see calving glaciers. ❤️ Alaskan cruise.

Oh my gosh the same thing happened to me this past wknd with food service down at Grand Californian!! I had the weirdest/slowest service just at the Craftsman!! Anyway.. loved the vid and this series 💯💯

Thank you for this Vlog. My wife and I did an Alaska Cruise with another cruise line in 2018 and stopped in Skagway. We took a tour bus instead of the train as the price was significantly lower and the views were just as spectacular plus we got to go a little farther than the train. In part of your video you could see the road we took. I suggest on your next trip that you look into a tour bus trip instead of or in addition to the train. We agree whole heartedly that Alaska is beautiful. If Disney has a land and sea package where you can go to Denali National Park, I highly recommend that. It is a great experience.

Good music choices so far!

Thank you for your videos blogs

Part 2 complete... its interesting to hear about the dinner service.. in the Facebook groups nobody has mentioned it yet.. maybe it is a staffing shortage servicing your area in the kitchen.

You said the baked potatoes near harry potter were good, my wife fell for it. It is foul.

I sailed on the Dream a few weeks ago and we had the same dinner experience. We were usually early, but our dinner was always 2 hours or longer.

Thanks good video !

I could use some of that cooler weather. I'm out at the ranch in Texas and it's over 110 !

Skagway is my favorite port so far. I haven’t cruised a lot (3 DCL) but I loved that day. We did the bus and rail tour. The bus took us up and allowed several stops at scenic places for pics. Took the train back down. Beautiful. I wanted to chime in on your comment about dining service. We just got off the Dream July 9 and had the worst dining service. Our team was nice but seemed disjointed and we spent waaaay too much time in the dining room each night. We skipped the last night because we just didn’t want to go and spend 2 hours in there. I have to wonder if they pulled a lot of their seasoned crew members and moved them to the Wish….

All of this and then the ship having engine trouble. Hope you take another Alaska cruise and it goes better.

Experienced long wait times on the Disney Fantasy Restaurants too in early July. This was our 23rd Disney Cruise! 😉 Our Grandson never got his food until I asked what happened!! 🤦🏻‍♀️

We were on the 6/27 cruise and both my nieces took turns taking naps on the morning train ride. We were able to make it back for lunch at the Tritons with just a minute to spare. For me, the beef satay served during lunch was the best food on the entire cruise. After lunch, we were supposed to go back out to explore Skagway but didn’t. I’m bummed that we missed the hike you did in Skagway.

When the Dream launched they brought on mostly new crew causing horrible experiences. We were on the 11th sailing and it was not great. With Fantasy they opted to re-deploy experienced crew to the Fantasy. Most likely, you are working with newer crew that hasn’t found their footing while seasoned crew were training for the Wish. And thanks for helping me on Twitter to get details of the hike for my cruise next month.

the train ride freaked me out lol

Same thing happened to us on the train!!

Thank you for the videos. It really helps a lot with planning vacation/cruise to Alaska. I’m wondering what camera do you use for taking videos and pictures? Any recommendations please…

I’m leaving on this exact cruise in 3 weeks. I have this exact excursion for Skagway. Wondering if I should choose something else. Although, the scenery is so beautiful.

We had awful service on our cruise years ago. Those were the longest meals we ever had. Ever since the Alaska cruise we now book the first seating. For the train ride we only went one way on the train. The bus driver was amazing and we kept getting off the bus to take photos of waterfalls. We also were able to take a photo with the Alaska sign.

What month was your cruise? The weather looks beautiful 😍

Where was that hike that you took? We didn't have much time to look but we did see the main hiking trail!

Love the vlogs! This is really helping us prepare for this same cruise in September. But on the dinner service, did you say something to your head waiter about the pace of service? We had a similar issue once to the point where I got angry. Asked the head waiter if we could speed it up and they corrected it the rest of the trip.

YAAAAAS.

Love your videos!! I’m so glad I found you, we are setting sail on 8/15 and was wondering if you liked the Klondike Breakfast? SO excited to do this cruise! Thanks for all your time and effort!

@ThemeParkExpress

2 жыл бұрын

We are gonna post a full review of the experience soon and it was cute but I wouldn’t do it again. However it is one of the cheaper excursions to do so it’s up to you

Yikes not what you want to be experiencing up in the maintains, trains going the wrong way 😆 but overall it looks like an awesome excursion

If you cruise Alaska again, rent a car and drive up the other side of the valley. We drove all the way to Canada, had lunch, shopped and returned before train tour did.

I’m curious if you think you would have preferred the White Pass Rail and Skagway Street Car City Highlights (SW50)? You would have had a bus tour up (stopping along the way to see highlights) and just taken the train back down the mountain.

Did you tell anyone about your slow service? We go in August and I don't want to be stuck there for a couple of hours to eat.

staffing is short during this start up season for cruising

"Put your feet up" = "you're in for a hefty wait"

Were you and your family the only ones to experience long wait times for your food?

Dinner delay? Who kept ordering their steak well done?

Love you and your channel. PleAse in future let the maitre de know any concerns about your meal, timing or service concerns. They want you to be happy. Let’s face it they want good tips. Also they don’t know unless you tell them and should probably bring that concern before saying about it on KZread. They will fix the problem. At least on your second night let them know. I’ve had this type of issue many times and it’s always been fixed when I bring it to the Marie de, that’s what he’s there for.

i was on this cruise

We had the same dining experience with our 2019 Disney Alaskan cruise. We had a very polite and cordial waiter. But other waiters actually came to us and asked where is your waiter? Have you not had dessert yet? One actually went to get desserts for us. It made us late for the evening plays. Which made it so I could not sit with my grand children. All three of us had to separate for the program. Same with our cruise, other families sat down after us and left a long time before us and we were sitting and just waiting. It was frustrating. I will tell you that the food was a much higher quality on the Alaskan cruise than our April 2022 Caribbean cruise.

Please talk to the Guest Services about your concerns with your dining experience especially if it has happened consistently for 4 nights. They can't address it unless you tell them. From my experiences in the past, they will listen and work on whatever the issue is at hand. Other than that, enjoy the rest of your cruise and keep sharing!

@ThemeParkExpress

2 жыл бұрын

We did talk to them. Sadly nothing changed. We had one night of quick service

@marieyoung9169

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThemeParkExpress that is so unfortunate and I am sorry that you experienced that. We get on the Wonder in December. Fingers crossed that the service will continue as the prior cruises.

Do you think the food service was taking longer than other times because of employee shortage? 🤔

that mess up

22:49 YOUR EATING DONALD😳😳😳🤯😳

Random question, do many people wear their Mickey ears? That’s disappointing, waiting for food that long. Make sure to tell them on your survey at the end of your cruise…

@ThemeParkExpress

2 жыл бұрын

Yes lots of people wear their ears on the ship but not at port

looks boring. But its a rare Alaska Video I've watched where the weather looks perfect. Nicely edited.

As a vlogger who is always filming everything Disney. It’s your duty to find out why the service took so long. Especially when you said it was all four nights. No reason why you couldn’t ask the waiters why. But I can see you have a big party with you. And we all know that you’re not just having one entree and one app and one dessert. You are having a couple of them. I imagine a lot of your family are too. So it could be just the vast amount of food they have to serve your party. But regardless, you should be asking why. This way the problem can be addressed. You have no problem complimenting things no reason you can’t complain about something

There’s worser places to be on a broken train than in Alaska Adrian

If u didn't pay extra for that meal I would have walked out and gone somewhere else. Just my opinion

You look just like your mom! And it looks like you were going to hogwarts