Has anyone cuised with Disney in early October? I am concerned about hurricane season. I've found the park to be not too crowded in Oct. but I am not sure if I should risk going then. Any advice?

You might want to post this under the Cruise section. Click under Forums home and click on cruises. I do know that Sept. and October are active hurricane months, so you take your chances. You might want to consider travel insurance if you have to cancel.

Typically the cruise lines know about the storms well in advance and are able to arrange their ports of call accordingly to miss the storms. You really should not have a problem, and check with the cruise line on their policies on possible cancellation and trip insurance is a good idea too.

Have a great time.

Gail

Sheila,

I took the Disney cruise last summer. There is one thing I'd like to point out that you should look into. To take the Disney cruise, you must sign away all of your rights. You know, agree to arbitration, release them from liability, etc. I have never seen anything like this document before. It was really an iron-clad, overreaching document to make sure you had no rights and could never file a claim against them for anything. Its language concerning hurricane cancellations translates roughly as follows: "Once you have boarded the big boat, all of our duties to you end. We have no obligation even to sail away from the dock. In case of inclement weather, we reserve the right to do nothing for you, and we won't give you your money back, so don't even think about it." I have no idea whether Disney would be fair should something happen, but they surely don't have to. So my advice is read this release before you book this cruise and make sure your travel insurance would cover you if your Disney cruise gets sidetracked or cut short.

Had a friend who went on the cruise and HATED IT! The lines were long, and she was not impressed with the overall quality. She was forced to fly in at an akward time and w/ a three hour lay over. Her group was then forced to disembark at 7:30 a.m. even though their flight wasn't untill late afternoon. Please check out all the details before signing on the dotted line.

Wow. I've been to Disney several times before. No suprises there. Actually I thought the cruise would be a change of pace. From what I've read opinions range from one extreme to the other. Now I'm really baffled. Did anyone out there enjoy this cruise?

Disney is notoriously & relentlessly litigious. The can, and will, spend a $million bucks to prevent you from claiming even a $thousand, for fear of opening up a floodgate of other claims. (in this respect, I suppose they are just like insurance companies - look at the hoorible experiences people in the Calif Northridge quake had!).

so if Disney has some detailed contract you have to sign, that waives away many of your "rights", I would take it very seriously. Even though contracts cannot force you to waive away rights that are protected by state law, you could well spend $10s of 1000s to prevail in a court of law ...not much fun. The contract probably states it will be aribtrated in the Cayman ISlands, or somewhere like that!

My stepson and his bride did a Disney honeymoon last year-last wwek in September: 4 days at Carribean Beach resort and 4 day cruise. They loved the whole trip, particularly the cruise. Had good weather on land and sea. The previous poster is right about cruise ships efforts to avoid weather problems. The dock at the private Disney island in the Bahamas had been damaged by a hurricane just before they went, so they docked in Nassau the day they were supposed to be at the Disney Island. As I said, they really loved the entire experience and had no complaints. As with any trip, do your homework, read the fine print, talk to travelers and travel agents, be willing to go with the flow/chance bad weather on a cruise (or even Florida in general!) in hurricane season. Have fun whatever you decide!!

Thanks to all who responed, unfortunately i can't decide what to do. Seven days in Disney will drive my husband and I insane. I thought this would be good alternative. I'll just keep looking into it I guess. Thnaks.