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Disney Cruise
IT’S TIME TO TAKE A
By John T. Garcia
On the rental car shuttle bus to the cruise ship terminal, I started chatting with an older couple. They were boarding a different cruise line and telling me that they had taken about
50 cruises the previous year on various lines. I told them
I was taking my first cruise,
a 15-night Panama Canal cruise, on Disney Cruise Line. The husband said, “We’ve never done Disney because we don’t have kids.” “Neither do we,” I replied.
His response, and our interaction, should be part of a DCL commercial. Turning to his wife, he said, “That, right there, is why we should consider Disney.”
And, if you are reading this far, you have either cruised with Disney or are considering it. I’ve done more than consider it: I have taken more than 20
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Disney cruises, sailed on all four ships and have spent more than 150 nights aboard the DCL fleet.
People ask me why I keep returning to Disney even
though my wife and I don’t have children and we could
get better deals on other
cruise lines. The No. 1 reason is the same thing Disney
Cruise Line was recently ranked No. 1 among various companies, not just in the travel industry: customer service. In Newsweek’s inaugural listing
of America’s Best Companies for Customer Service, Disney Cruise Line was top among the 423 companies that U.S. consumers would recommend.
My recommendation would be to decide first where you would like to cruise. Disney offers a variety of destinations, but two of its ships are dedicated to
the Caribbean and Bahamas. It also offers cruises in