I am more of a facial person than massage but every spa service I’ve ever gotten usually ends with “here are the products I used if you would like to purchase.” I usually just say that I’m all set and that’s the end of it. I’m not sure I would call it a sales pitch.
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Is this just princesses or is it also the other characters? We do not need princesses but definitely want characters in costumes! Especially Pixar and Fab 5.
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You’ve gotten lucky. The few times I’ve done one even when I say “I’m good, thanks” they keep going. The only thing that shut them up was my asking to speak to the spa manager because they knew that meant I was going to have the gratuity removed.
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Royal Gathering is just the princesses but longer or themed cruises will have some other options (i.e. a Pixar Pals meet on Pixar Day at Sea, Marvel on Marvel Day at Sea).
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I don’t know about DCL, but on other cruise lines the spa is a third-party vendor so the rules for upselling and such are different.
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It’s a third party.
These options will be able to be booked or just that these will happen on our cruise? Our is Halloween on the High Seas. I don’t need the Sanderson Sisters thankfully! But definitely Mickey and Minnie!
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If it’s a group of characters where you wait in one line to meet all of them in a row then my understanding is that will usually be one you need to have a reservation for. There may be some limited availability to grab on embarkation day too. To enter the line for any meet that had a reservation, you’ll need to show your reservation to enter the line.
I don’t know that I’ve heard of how they handle the characters in Halloween costumes. I believe that’s one that where you wait in line for each character individually, but I haven’t followed or paid a huge amount of attention to HotHS since we’ve never been able to make one work (that was originally why we started planning a cruise though, was for HotHS).
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This will be my third Halloween on the High Seas. The Halloween characters are out on party night stationed at various places around the atrium area. You just wait in line for them. the Sanderson Sisters had a long line as did Jack and Sally.
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I’m looking thru pictures and there were Halloween themed Chip and Dale too in addition to Sanderson Sisters, Pluto, and Goofy, and Mickey and Minnie. We didn’t wait around for pictures as DS13 was not interested. I just snapped some pics from a distance. Pretty sure Donald and Daisy were in Halloween costumes too but I’m not certain.
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Thanks! That’s helpful. I think we will try for the classic characters. Turns out the Halloween party night is our port day which is frustrating. I wonder why they do that? I would think it would make so much more sense to do it on one of the TWO sea days.
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That would make more sense. We had Optional Dress-Up Night on Day 2 which was our Castaway Cay day, not Day 3 or Day 5 that were both sea days which would have been a LOT less of a scramble.
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Random news: people on my cruise FB page are saying Disney told them that our cruise (3-night out of San Diego) has only a Halloween party night, no pirate night. Just in case that is relevant to anyone else.
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The cruise Facebook world is up in arms over this. It’s fun and missing out on fireworks at sea is a bummer BUT I’m also thinking that once the kids grow out of the costumes we got them this year for the couple of cruises we have that do have pirate night, it will be one less thing to pack.
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Oh I didn’t realize that meant no fireworks! Bummer.
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I’m not sure if they did fireworks on Baja cruises before. I know for sure they can’t on Alaskan and N. Europe but generally did for Caribbean and Mediterranean. I never have researched where the Baja cruises fall on that. They were cool, but also, paled in comparison to the fireworks in the parks and the deck gets pretty crowded with lots of obstruction from the funnels and slides and things. So it’s not the saddest thing. Plus I know o would have an amazing time on the ship, fireworks or not.
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Yeah the fireworks wasn’t necessarily something I was even looking forward to. Getting crammed on the deck craning my neck trying to see them.
So is the “no pirate night” thing universal for all Halloween cruises, or just 3-nights?
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A lot of the talk I am seeing in the general groups is the folks who booked 3 night Australian cruises and are now mad they don’t get a pirate night. So my guess is it’s a 3 night thing. And because that’s such a short amount of time on a ship, I would be grateful to have one less thing to try to fit in before disembarking.
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There was a similar outrage at the beginning of the summer when Disney started sending out emails to specific sailings that their cruise wouldn’t be able to do silver anniversary fireworks. And it was mostly all 3 nights and some Mediterranean.
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