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<\/a><\/p>\nDisney Cruise Tip 1: Join a Fish Extender Group<\/h2>\n
Fish Extenders are a fun, free way (except what you decide to gift) to ensure that your family gets a little bit of Disney Magic throughout the whole trip. You exchange gifts “Secret Santa Style” with other families on board and throughout the trip you get a little extra pixie dust when returning to your room. Kids and adults love it and its a fun way to get excited planning your trip. I have the how to’s on how to join and play along with a Fish Extender Exchange<\/a> here<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Believe it or not most doors on your cruise will be decorated. Veteran Disney cruiser go all out on door decorations and your kiddos will be sad to have the only blank door on the hall. Ok, it isn’t that bad but they will love coming “home” to their special door each night. Many people use magnets, photos, white boards or custom made door decorations like these:<\/p>\n Disboards\u00a0has lots of patterns ready for you to print, cut and laminate on your own or you can go on Etsy and buy an SVG file for your Cricut machine to make or if you really don’t want to bother you can just buy them already done on Etsy. I bought mine from the seller\u00a0Ashalinaballerina<\/a>\u00a0and was very happy with the quality. Keep in mind that you cannot use tape to affix anything to the walls or doors so everything needs to be magnetic.<\/p>\n I took a lot of photos of real Disney cruise doors decorated on our last cruise and made a post with Disney Cruise Door Decoration ideas<\/a> for you!<\/p>\n Disney does what is called rotational dining. This means you eat in one of 3 predetermined restaurants each night. You can request certain rotation schedules. We happen to love Animators Palate so on a 7 night cruise I called in and asked for the rotation AERAERA, thus meaning that we started and ended the cruise in Animators Palate and had one mid week dinner there as well. On the Fantasy:<\/p>\n Call in and ask what rotation schedules are available and pick what you think your family will like best. Extra tip: Many people do not like to be in Animators Pallet for Formal Night because it is a very casual restaurant. I thought it was perfect for Pirate Night though.<\/p>\n I have been a member at Cruise Critic for over 10 years and I love it. Until this year I would get all my cruise questions answered there. But to be honest, it’s getting pretty quiet there and people seem to be connecting more on Facebook. Cruise Critic is still my go to place for searching specific questions. \u00a0I have never really been involved at Disboards but there is a wealth of information there as well. Here are the links to groups or boards you may want to check out:<\/p>\n Many of the posters on the walls on a Disney Cruise ship are “enchanted” meaning as you walk by them the come to life. These posters are often clues in the Midship Detective Agency game. This is where kids use a special coded badge to help characters solve mysteries. Get your kids started on this game on their first day at sea and they will be obsessed the whole cruise. There are several mysteries to solve and the clues are not the same for every kid and mystery. Look on your deck plans to find the location of the starting points for the game to get a badge. There are usually two per ship (on the Fantasy it is Deck 2 and 5) with the same mysteries offered at each so pick the closest ones. But once you get your badge there is NO ORDER that you must go in. The first day we were running all over trying to find the specific poster it told us to go to. Then we figured out that any of the posters will give you clues so we started grouping our visits by floor. They Muppet Mystery was our favorite. Bonus tip: there are several things you need to find in this mystery that are not posters like Pepe’s Door and a Bulletin Board. Take a picture of them because you need to go back to them several times!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nDisney Cruise Tip 2: Decorate Your Disney Cruise Door<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nDisney Cruise Tip 3: Pre-Arrange Your Dining Rotation<\/h2>\n
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Disney Cruise Tip 4: Join a Group<\/h2>\n
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Disney Cruise Tip 5: Midship Detective Agency<\/h2>\n