Halloween on the Excessive Seas returns to Disney Cruise Line with extra sailings than ever earlier than and new one-of-a-kind experiences in September and October 2024. This submit shares the information, plus fast ideas from Sarah’s expertise throughout DCL spook season occasion.
In accordance with Disney Cruise Line, the 2024 Halloween on the Excessive Seas will convey again extra guest-favorite leisure and actions, together with trick-or-treating, spooky events, elaborate décor and themed meals and beverage gadgets. Throughout these limited-time voyages, every ship within the DCL fleet transforms right into a ghoulish wonderland.
Halloween on the Excessive Seas voyages will probably be provided aboard choose Disney Cruise Line sailings aboard the Magic, Dream, Fantasy, and Want ships. Departure dates happen from mid-September via October 2024, with a complete of 35 totally different voyages (down 4 from final 12 months).
Chart a course to tropical locales on a Bahamian or Western Caribbean voyage from Fort Lauderdale or uncover dazzling locations within the Japanese and Western Caribbean and The Bahamas on a crusing from Port Canaveral. Notably, there aren’t any 2024 Halloween on the Excessive Seas sailings out of wherever besides Florida.
Every Halloween on the Excessive Seascruise will embody stops at Disney’s new personal island vacation spot, Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Level, or Castaway Cay. There’s even one 6-Night time Bahamian Cruise from Port Canaveral with 2 stops at Castaway Cay!
In the case of particulars about Halloween on the Excessive Seas, let’s begin with the one new factor that’s been introduced for 2024: new character costumes for Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck:
Mickey and Minnie are each dapper and spooky of their new, batty ensembles. By no means to be outdone, Donald has put collectively a gentleman spider costume positive to impress Daisy Duck. All of his spidery legs are able to boogie. Whereas Mickey & Minnie have spooky-tacular new outfits, they’re new twists on what we’ve seen earlier than. Donald’s is next-level.
Be sure to pack your individual Halloween garb for Mickey’s Mouse-querade, a particular occasion with Mickey and his buddies dressed of their Halloween finest. You’ll be capable of get a spooky selfie in your scary fits throughout themed meet and greets with Disney characters!
Company of all ages received’t need to miss this spooktacular occasion. The atrium in every Disney Cruise Line ship will come alive with ghoulish video games, trick-or-treating, and dancing, plus the well-known Disney characters of their Halloween costumes.
Up on deck, try the campfire-style Haunted Tales of the Sea, that includes a spooky ghost story or two. Moreover, Halloween-themed films will probably be proven on Funnel Imaginative and prescient by the household pool and in staterooms.
One other Halloween on the Excessive Seas spotlight is normally Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas Sing and Scream. It’s “Season’s Screamings” throughout this interactive film expertise—with Jack Skellington and Sally greeting visitors plus a particular interactive Sing and Scream expertise that includes the basic movie, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas. (Nonetheless, I don’t see this on the 2024 checklist–may very well be an oversight or perhaps it’s not returning.)
The character spotlight of Halloween on the Excessive Seas is the Sanderson Sisters meet & greet, featureing Minnie is dressed as Winifred Sanderson, Daisy as Sarah Sanderson, and Clarabelle as Mary Sanderson. Every Disney fur character embodies their respective counterpart from Hocus Pocus, melding their very own personalities with the Sanderson Sisters. This meet & greet is improbable.
Different enjoyable household actions throughout Halloween on the Excessive Seas embody pumpkin-carving, a ghostly takeover of Disney Cruise Line ship bulletins, and rather more. Company can even take pleasure in particular Halloween-themed meals and beverage gadgets throughout rotational eating and elsewhere in DCL eating places.
Lastly, proving that Halloween isn’t only for youngsters, adults could have their enjoyable and (not-so) frightful festivities. Grownup-exclusive venues throughout the fleet will develop into a ghoulish setting for costume contests and a Villainous Takeover on the dance flooring.
The Disney Want, nonetheless the latest Disney Cruise Line ship as of Halloween 2024, will as soon as once more convey its distinctive twist on a Halloween on the Excessive Seas hallmark. The centerpiece of each ship throughout Halloween sailings is the signature magical Pumpkin Tree towering over the atrium foyer, every with sprouting Jack-O-Lanterns and flickering lights.
Aboard the Disney Want, visitors will discover the Pumpkin Tree within the “Cinderella”-inspired Grand Corridor. That includes lighter bark, swish branches and a mystical face, this enchanted tree that grew excellent gourds with the assistance of a Wishing Star at night time produced the right pumpkin that grew to become the coach that carried Cinderella to the Prince’s Ball.
By way of commentary, we even have expertise with Halloween on the Excessive Seas. Effectively, half of us do, at the least. A pair years in the past, Sarah took a cruise aboard the Disney Surprise together with her girlfriends throughout Halloween on the Excessive Seas.
Sarah completely beloved Halloween on the Excessive Seas. She thought that the character costumes have been lovable and distinctive, with the Sanderson Sisters being certainly one of many highlights. The general environment of the ship was spooky because of quirky decorations, loads of pumpkins, and the Halloween tree. A lot of little touches, like distinctive meals and low enhanced the environment even additional, and gave a Halloween-infused environment to the cruise.
We’ve beforehand completed one of many Christmas sailings aboard Disney Cruise Line, and it was a bit underwhelming. (See our Very Merrytime Christmas Cruise Assessment.) Actually, in reviewing all of Sarah’s pictures and listening to what she needed to say about Halloween on the Excessive Seas, it sounds to me like Very Merrytime Christmas Cruise is the extra ‘sturdy’ of the 2 occasions.
So quite than doing Halloween on the Excessive Seas, we now have a Very Merrytime Christmas Cruise booked for 2024. We’re desirous to take Child Bricker on her first cruise (though we all know she’s nonetheless too younger for us to totally admire the ‘DCL Distinction’ for households) and we needed to cancel our Lighthouse Level preview crusing in June, in order that appeared like an excellent comfort prize.
Finally, Halloween on the Excessive Seas feels like quite a lot of enjoyable, and we’re glad to see Disney Cruise Line bringing it again once more. Possibly we’ll lastly give it a go in 2025 when the Disney Treasure begins taking part in Halloween on the Excessive Seas. In spite of everything, what’s a greater solution to have fun spook season than within the Haunted Mansion Parlor?!
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