Land and Sea or just Sea?

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musketeer

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I have a problem, and if there has ever been a first world problem, this is it. We're trying to decide what to do. My dad is into taking my family on cruises. We did one last year, another coming up in a few months, and he's already looking ahead to next summer. We did carnival last summer, we're doing royal caribbean this summer, but next summer he wants to do the Disney cruise. But then he suggested that instead of doing the 7 night disney cruise, we do 4 nights, then do a few days at the parks.

A little background, we've been on many cruises. The one this summer will be #9. We've done royal caribbean, princess, holland america, norwegian, and carnival. And we've been to disney many many times. Pretty much every other year if not more often. It's just that we've never done the disney cruise. So my question is...which option should we go with? 7 night disney cruise or 4 night plus probably 4 nights at the parks?

At first I think that it'll be nice to break it up a bit because I do get kinda antsy around day 5 of a 7 night cruise. And I could see myself and family getting kind of sad that we spend a week on a disney cruise ship but then don't actually go to disney. But then again, I've never been on a disney cruise, so maybe it does make sense to do just the cruise. My kids will be 6 (twins) when the time comes if that helps.
 
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belledream

belledream

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I would do parks first, then cruise. The only Disney cruise I've been on was 4 nights and we didn't have plans after that. We had so much fun, it did seem a little short, and I was dying to go to the parks. Of course, if we were able to stay on the cruise for another 3 nights, I would not have complained at all, but if I had choices, I'd pick land.
 
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Tom

Tom

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In Feb/March we stayed one night on property so that we could transfer to the port without worrying about a late arriving plane on embarkation day. Then a 3-night sailing, then back to WDW for 4 nights.

I'm not one who "needs to relax" after the parks. We don't run ourselves ragged anymore either. The cruise was a nice way to start the trip, then finish at WDW and head home from there. I would repeat that scenario again.
 
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Lunamis

Lunamis

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We did a 4 day only cruise in 2012 and it kinda hurt to go straight home without any Parks.

This time we are doing a night at Coronado followed by a 3 day cruise on the Dream and back to French Quarter for another 4 nights. We thought it best to unwind and relax on the cruise then tackle the Parks. I don't need to relax AFTER the Parks...I'd rather have the cruise get me in the mood ;)
 
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