I’ve only done Disney once, last year, have done RC 4 times. But my last RC was not long before my first Disney. Actually have another Disney and RC planned for next year. If it wasn’t for the price I would be doing Disney all the time. Keep in mind I have 3 young kids who love Disney.
The kids club is phenomenal and for young kids awesome. My kids who are not easy drop off and leave them kids loved it and it felt crazy safe with their procedures.
The shows were phenomenal. I’m usually not going out of my way to make shows on RC here we saw each show and we all loved them.
For a short weekend cruise I found the food to be awesome in the dinning rooms and loved the fact we switched venues. I found the buffet to be about the same as with RC. But the two Bahamas cruises compared, the main dinning on Disney was much much better, not comparable honestly.
The service was awesome. I’ve heard Disney is one of the lines cruise employees really try hard to get on and stay with, they need to provide good service to do that.
Their app is great, with showing everything going on. With the kids they loved seeing the characters albeit sometimes we waiting 15-20 mins in line.
The pool areas was not as large for kids as you find on the larger RC ships, but they still had fun.
No casino if you want that and less of a late night crowd as well. I also did Cococay is a better island, even after seeing what they have on the new island, which we did not stop at. Castaway Cay was good, but mainly just a beach spot.
Yes, things are certainly more expensive.
It was nice to have soda, coffee and other drinks available and complimentary.
Overall Disney in my opinion is a step up in service and luxury. The ship I was on was a 4,000 passenger ship but never felt like it, and doesn’t look like it too. No huge promenade, more of a classic layout to the ship. Certainly kid centric, but even for adults lots of up scale places and some nice bars too. You’ll enjoy it.