Lets move on to the planning! As mentioned previously we will be staying offsite in a villa. We are looking forward to this as its going to be a whole new experience for us. The villa we will be staying at is under 4 miles away from Disney which suits us well. We will have to look into car hire and pay those crazy parking fees but it will give us a lot of freedom and the chance to try some of site places to eat.
The villa has 5 bedrooms and 3 of those have ensuite bathrooms. There is a private pool, hot tub and games room so is plenty to keep us occupied while we aren't at the parks. We will be staying here for 14 nights.
Well so we thought. We started to discuss the option of going on a Disney cruise again. While on holiday we started to look at prices (Does anyone else look at Disney while on a none Disney holiday?... just me?) We were looking at maybe doing the 4 night cruise this time giving us an extra night to really enjoy the ship. This holiday we wanted to make sure we didn't just repeat the same things as last year just because we enjoyed them we wanted to build a different holiday. We started to price up between the 3 night and 4 night Bahamian cruises with a balcony as we both enjoy being able to go out morning and evening and look at where we are. We were trying to decided when Ryan hit me with something completely different. The words that came out of his mouth next shocked me “We should go Concierge” I actually thought he was joking. Turns out he wasn’t. I check and rechecked the prices and what extra’s were included before we decided we were doing it!
We came back off holiday and used the Dis boards to do research on the rooms. They have a great section on their website that has reviews of most, if not all of the cabins on the cruise ships. We checked all the rooms that were available and read their reviews and decided on deck 12 Concierge Family Oceanview Stateroom with Verandah. EEEEKKKK.
We have done a lot of research into whats included with Concierge. We know some people will think its wasted money however we were really keen to try and not sure this will be a possibility in the future so we thought grab the chance while we can.
A list of the perks we can find are as follows:
-Before embarking we can book activities sooner than other guests
We can embark the ship any time we want so we are hoping to get there as soon as embarkation opens and be some of the first on the ship. Normally we use the disney transportation which gets you there around 1/1:30pm so we are hoping we can now make the most of this day.
-Once on board your taken by one of the Concierge hosts, who takes you to Concierge Lounge to give you drinks (champagne!), food, and a folder containing a personalised itinerary listing our activities for the duration of the cruise.
-Fridge in the room stock with water and drinks
-You can also order any food from the restaurants that evening to your stateroom through room service.
-Extra Wifi
-Provided with robes and slippers in our room
-Upgraded bath products
-Access to the private concierge lounge (free cocktails) and sun deck
-Pillow Talk Program: Guests of our Concierge Suites may choose from pillow options including hypoallergenic, feather and therapeutic memory foam.
It may not seem like much but we are very excited and cant wait to experience all these new parts of the disney dream.
We want to spend this cruise really making the most of the the ship. We have looked into the excursions but at this point unsure. The cruise is booked in the middle of our holiday. So we will be staying at the villa for 6 nights off on the cruise for 3 nights then back to the villa for another 5 nights. We thought it would be a nice break in between all the park time.
The holiday is starting to take a little shape now. We were thinking about staying at a universal hotel again but again we are unsure so for now its Villa, Cruise Villa.
Well I'm going to leave the planning there for now. If anyone has any experience on Disney cruises or Concierge then please feel free to share them will me
