Full disclosure I also got a Sundae with my Cheesecake!
I'll have to pay better attention to my notes!!
I've only done something like that once, but it is a lot of fun. It was several years ago when my family stayed at AoA, they had a trivia contest every afternoon at the pool. The one day we played they did Disney song trivia and played little clips. We actually did well and ended up in 1st place and DD got a little blow up pool toy. But I think we just got lucky with the songs they played because I can see how it would be really frustrating with certain songs.
Our next trip we'll have a down day at AKL so hopefully they have something like this going on while we're down at the pool. It's fun! I think the Tunes Trivia was made more difficult because they were playing it on the piano instead of the original song. It was fun that they asked bonus questions too though, because sometimes that helped at least point us in the right direction. lol
Looks like fun! Definitely a good way to keep kids occupied while you wait for food.
It was a lot of fun! It was really cool being right next to the tank too. I was really giddy when I walked in the restaurant and saw that!
So I have a question (as someone who has never done a cruise). Do you have to eat at Animator's Palate? My family are pretty "plain Jane" eaters and the meals look good, but a touch on the "fancy" side. If I ever do a cruise, I'm just wondering how this type of restaurant would go over with my bunch. I have read about rotational dining but don't know much about it, and if you have options to skip a restaurant if you want.
You pretty much never have to do anything you don't want to on a
Disney cruise! It will be on your rotation at least once, but on any given night, you can eat somewhere besides your main dining room. The pool grill is open until like 11 pm, and Cabanas is a buffet at breakfast & lunch but is a table service at dinner and you can order selections from any of the dining rooms from there. Plus there's always the complimentary room service, just need to tip. However, I will say, we are very plain Jane eaters too, and found the food really good. You can ask for it as plain as you want, there are always a steak, roasted chicken, and salmon on the menu, and if you aren't sure about something, you can order more than one. DH did that a few times with apps, but you can do it with any course. The menus are posted in the Navigator app too, so you can look ahead and see if you want to skip the restaurant that night, which we did one night.
Just to give a quick rundown on the rotational dining, our key to the world cards had the rotation on it. Ours was I think RAERAAE (Royal Court, Animator's Palate, Enchanted Garden). So whichever restaurant you are assigned to that night is your restaurant, you can't for example say well I don't want to go to Animator's tonight, I'll just go to Royal Court. You have an assigned table that is the same each night at each restaurant (so every night at each restaurante we were at Table 6). So while you can't just go to another one, like I mentioned above there are several other options for dinner. Hopefully that helps!
As much as I enjoyed Happily Ever After, I really do miss the music from Wishes. So nice that they have it in a show on the cruise.
I do too!! Not only did they play the music from Wishes, when the cruise director came out on stage they always played a clip of music from the old castle stage show Dream Along With Mickey, which I also loved. DS and I used to listen to it all of the time in the car when I'd bring him to daycare because he loved it, so it's always held a special spot in my heart.
You are living up to your DIS Dad status!
