Disney Wonder review: What to expect on the Disney Cruise Line ship with the coolest itineraries

Table Of Content

• Read more about the Oceaneer Club and the Other Disney Wonder Kids’ Clubs
• Are Disney Excursions Necessary on a Disney Alaska Cruise?
• Night Alaskan Cruise from Vancouver
• Our Alaska Disney Cruise Itinerary
• Read More In Our Quick Guide to Meeting Characters on the Disney Wonder
• Travel
• Follow Smart Mouse Travel

We used all of these money-saving tricks — and the Alaska vacation was still very expensive. We happened upon Belle while eating some ice cream inside on Deck 5. She stopped to take pictures with a few people (not us, because of the toddler holding the ice cream).

Read more about the Oceaneer Club and the Other Disney Wonder Kids’ Clubs

We’re sharing all our experiences in the posts on this blog to help you get the most out of your Disney Alaska Cruise. If you need to do that from your room, book the verandah if possible. Additionally, on truly exceptional viewing days, you probably don't want to be confined to the specific angle you can get from your cabin. Better to embrace the 360-degree view from out on the top deck. It was fun to look out the window and see where we were, but honestly, I'd happily sail in an interior room if it meant we got to do the cruise all over again.

Are Disney Excursions Necessary on a Disney Alaska Cruise?

A relatively new addition to Icy Strait Point is the gondola which gives spectacular views of the area. This is an amazing experience and is often the highlight of a Disney Alaskan cruise. Each of these experiences has something different to offer.

Night Alaskan Cruise from Vancouver

Mind you, if you’re bringing small children, consider the toll that 4.5 hours of talking  grown-ups and natural landscapes may do. For adults, this can be heaven, but for kids- well we saw quite a few asleep by the time we got on the train. Included in this Disney Excursion are the Skagway Alaska Street Car Tour, the Klondike Highway Drive and Talk, and the White Pass Railroad Train Ride. Again, depending on your cruise, these activities may be done in reverse.

We then headed to the Embassy Suites Hotel, which is located right next door to the King Street Station. This is where we grabbed the Amtrak Cascades Train and headed for Vancouver. Disney Cruise Line does not depart from Seattle, as they depart from Vancouver, Canada.

Alaska Cruise Prices for 4 guests on a Disney Cruise to Alaska range from $5000- $11,000 depending on the length of trip and time of year you visit. While Disney Alaska Cruise Prices don’t include Alaska shore excursions, there are ways you can save money on your trip. Check out the Alaska Cruise Specials and ways to get them in our How to Save Money on a Disney Cruise to Alaska post. If you’re looking for great pizza in Vancouver, then the Pacifico Pizzeria and Ristorante is what you’re looking for.

Disney Cruise Line recommends $14.50 in gratuities per guest per night; this is the amount auto-applied to your onboard bill unless you request to increase or decrease it. The gratuities are split among your dining room server, assistant server, head server and cabin host. To do a weeklong Alaska sailing with a family of four, prices will start at $5,100 for an inside cabin in the early or late season. Prime summer sailing dates from June to August cost a couple of thousand dollars more for that same interior cabin and thousands more still for a balcony cabin. However, some of the best character interactions will be the ones that aren't announced or planned. You may see a character on the promenade waving goodbye to land as you sail away from a port or "sleep-walking" in their pajamas at night when no one else is around.

Travel

Alaska is a checkmark for about three-quarters of all passengers headed there, according to the Alaska Tourism Industry Association, and the same can be said for two ships this season. “This magical corner of the world has so much to offer beyond being a checkmark on people’s bucket lists,” she said. Disney Wonder has been the setting for family vacations for about 25 years, and it doesn't show any signs of hanging up its waterslide anytime soon. In port, you may wish to carry cash in a local currency or a credit card to buy snacks and souvenirs or to tip your tour guide.

Disney Cruise Line Offers Worldwide Adventures to Europe, Alaska, The Bahamas and Caribbean in Summer 2025 - PR Newswire

Disney Cruise Line Offers Worldwide Adventures to Europe, Alaska, The Bahamas and Caribbean in Summer 2025.

Posted: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 07:00:00 GMT [source]

This is a cannery museum, a few restaurants, and lots of stores. A guide provided some information about the glaciers for much of the tours. You could also use a cup of glacier ice for your beverage. They accepted card and cash, but you cannot charge back to your room (the tour is run by a third party, remember). We were in the area of the South Sawyer Glacier for about 30 minutes. The Wonder didn’t itself visit the North Sawyer Glacier, though to be fair the South Sawyer Glacier is more fun to look at.

After our railway tour we still had a chance to walk around the town. We stopped at a Christmas shop and enjoyed chatting with the owners who turned out to spend winter in San Diego, California. This is a must stop for your day in Skagway that you'll find on one of the side streets. The film can be found in the National Parks building at the end of the street closest to the cruise ship slips. For research sake I compared prices between the offering from Disney Cruise Line and booking some experiences on our own. The pricing was often the same or only slightly more when purchasing from Disney when I could find it.

It is a spectacularly beautiful place and most guests enjoy the views from the ship. You will only visit Hubbard Glacier on a Disney Alaska Cruise if you are sailing on the 9-night itinerary. This 75-minute flight will have you flying over spectacular scenery and enjoying a view of the surrounding fjords, waterfalls, and lakes. The cost is $499 for adults and $409 for children aged 2 to 9. However, you will most likely want to combine your visit to Skagway with some Disney cruise excursions to make the most of your time there. These Disney Alaskan cruise costs are shown as correct if you were booking on November 27, 2022.

For our itinerary, there were two times for the Glacier Explorer excursion, an early time and a late time. If you have the earlier time, you’ll transfer from the Wonder to a smaller boat that goes ahead of the Wonder to visit the glacier. Then once the Wonder catches up you get back on the Wonder. At that point, the people with the later time get on the smaller boats.