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View Poll Results: Which pirate cruise would you choose and why?
Albatross Treasure Cruise - Yacht Club
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Disney's Pirate Adventure - Grand Floridian
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58.82%
Bayou Pirate Adventure Cruise - Port Orleans Riverside
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Islands of the Caribbean Pirate Adventure - Caribbean Beach
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none of them - please post your reason (price, time, ages, etc.)
I'm thinking of booking one of the pirate cruises for the kids for our Sept 09 trip. They all look similar so I'm looking for some first hand information. Which one would you choose and why?
I thought that the Albatross Treasure Cruise sounded the most fun. And since your saving money with the free dining plan and all of the cruises are the same price, I thought the money part sounded good.
I hope your kids have fun!
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We haven't done any of them, but I voted for the Albatross Cruise because that's the one that my 4 year old son will be doing in May. We choose it over the others because we are staying at the YC. So, it will be easy for us to get to and we'll have easy access to lot of entertainment between the Epcot resorts, Epcot, DHS for the time while DS is on the cruise. When we've stayed at the Epcot resorts before, DS has always been very interested in the marina and he'll be thrilled to learn he's going to get to take a cruise there. They do all sound pretty similar and all have glowing reviews...so I'd pick the one that's most convenient for your family.
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I am so happy you asked this question, I was getting ready to ask this as well. We will be traveling in Sept 09 also & staying at the BC so I was considering Albatross as well. Does anyone know if they are basically all the same or are there differences in the different pirate cruises?
I had to vote none of them, but only because Stefanie won't do one as she says they are for boys. Otherwise, we'd do the GF one. She also doesn't want to eat at T-Rex because it is for boys. She may have to give that up though as Luke and I would to eat there.
I am so happy you asked this question, I was getting ready to ask this as well. We will be traveling in Sept 09 also & staying at the BC so I was considering Albatross as well. Does anyone know if they are basically all the same or are there differences in the different pirate cruises?
All the descriptions are similar according to my PPer - all provide a light lunch, tell a story, get some loot, and on all but the Albatross the kids get a pirate bandana. The Albatross is also $33.75 and the others are $31.95.
I have seen the pirate cruise from GF. They bring them over to Poly. and take them through the gardens. The kids seemed to enjoy it. My son didnt want to do it, he is not into pirates. Have fun choosing.
I had to vote none of them, but only because Stefanie won't do one as she says they are for boys. Otherwise, we'd do the GF one. She also doesn't want to eat at T-Rex because it is for boys. She may have to give that up though as Luke and I would to eat there.
That is soooo funny! I actually think that would be Brooke's reaction if Luke wasn't going She can't be anywhere without him!
My dd had done two of the pirate cruises...the one at POR (at 6.5yo) and the one at GF (at 7yo).
She told me that one wasn't better than the other but "I" think the GF one was slightly better than the one at POR.
They were both basically the same... small boat w/ about 10-15 kids and 3 CMs. Follow clues to put together a map that leads to "pirate treasure" and everyone gets a loot bag. Lunch is an Uncrustable, juice box, and Pepperidge Farm goldfish.
The differences were:
POR gave each child a pirate bandana, GF gave each child a MICKEY pirate bandana (red stripes w/ mickey ears).
POR had a boat decorated w/ a pirate flag, GF had a boat painted w/ a pirate theme.
POR had fun CMs (the kids "kidnapped" the boat captain...only thing I thought was better at POR), GF had CM's dressed as pirates!
POR went to POFQ, OKW and DTD...ending back at POR's lobby to "find" the treasure. I have NO idea where GF went. Dd wasn't allowed to tell me. I did find out that there was a talking parrot involved though!
POR had life jackets, GF had pirate themed life jackets!
Dd had fun at both of them. POR was so much fun she picked the cruise at GF OVER a visit to BBB during her birthday trip in July!!! I would definitely NOT consider this a boys only activity. The gender split was pretty even on both of dd's cruises.
I have ONE photo of the POR cruise that I can share easily here...the rest of the POR cruise and the GF ones haven't been resized for the web yet. I can try and do that tonight for you!
This is the POR "pirate" boat..and that is one of the CMs that went w/ the kids.
One thing that I should mention is to make sure that they ask for your cell phone number. The POR cruise didn't ask until I asked about beepers (I had heard online they gave them out to parents). Apparently when they first started the cruises they did the beeper thing but now just asked for cell phone numbers (beepers are still available if needed). The POR "crew" had us all come back and write the number on the bottom of the forms we filled out...seems they had "old" forms that didn't ask for cell numbers.
I'll try and gather some more photos of dd's pirate cruises tonight or tomorrow night!
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