Disney Treasure Day 5 - Judging Doors, Tale of Moana

Day 5 aboard the Disney Treasure is all about the details that make a Disney Cruise feel personal.

We kick things off by highlighting some of the most creative stateroom door decorations onboard, a Disney Cruise tradition that turns every hallway into a gallery. Then it’s game time as we try to pull off a second straight trivia win, because bragging rights matter at sea. C

arrie treats herself to a signature Old Fashioned at Hook’s Barbery, one of the most unique lounges on the Disney Treasure, before we head to our second rotational dinner at 1923, celebrating Disney’s storytelling roots through food and design.

The evening continues with The Tale of Moana, a stunning Broadway-style stage show exclusive to the Disney Treasure, and wraps up at Periscope Pub, where Carrie samples one of the ship’s signature beers.

If you’re planning a Disney Treasure sailing or love seeing the quieter, character-filled moments that happen between ports and big events, this is a full look at what Day 5 has to offer.

Transcript

It's another day at sea on the Disney Treasure.

Hey everybody, welcome to the channel. I am Joe, and today we are on our second sea day aboard the Disney Treasure. This is day five of the cruise. We are currently in the presence of some mountains as we're passing through the Cuba-ish area on our way to the Bahamas for both Lookout Key at Lighthouse Point and Castaway Key. A very, very unique itinerary for this one.

Depending on when you're seeing this, this might be lost on you already, but a hurricane tore through Jamaica. And while Falmouth, Jamaica was supposed to be our stop today, they were just unable to accept guests right now. And of course, our hearts go out to everybody in Jamaica. Donate if you can to relief and things like that.

Disney has pivoted and basically moved this to a sea day, moved tomorrow to Lookout Key. So, we still have four port stops, and it's a really exciting trip still. But we’ve got a lot going on today. We’ve got our second dinner at 1923, we’re going to get to see The Tale of Moana, and so much more going on today.

Yeah, I’m still wearing this. I’m not taking it off. Well, I won’t wear it tomorrow because I don’t want to wear it around the Bahamas and potentially lose it. But for now, let’s go get some breakfast.

Breakfast at Marceline Market

We started with a quick breakfast at Marceline Market to get a little energy going for the day.

I had my usual bacon and eggs with a hash brown. God, they are so good.

And Carrie had her usual more colorful breakfast.

Door Decorating & Magnet Awards

So, today we’re traveling around giving these out. So, I made these up so we could tell people that we love their doors. And then we’ve actually got three medals—they’re just magnets—but they’re medals for the people who do doors good. So, let’s go and have a look.

Door decorating on Disney Cruise Line ships has become a huge tradition. It’s a way to express yourself, give your fellow cruise mates a little eye candy, and frankly identify which room is yours.

We wanted to honor that and show a little appreciation for the hard work put into these doors, but we only made 50 magnets, so we had to be a little bit picky at times. I really wanted to put one on a blank door just to be funny, but also not to exclude the non-decorators, but we couldn’t afford to waste a magnet like that.

As we traveled between floors, we got to take in more of the amazing art in the stairwells. Not going to lie, this one makes me pretty emotional. It’s the Treasure joining the rest of the fleet. I’m sure the Destiny has one similar.

Navigating the ship is as easy as knowing what the colors of the carpet are. The blue carpet here is representative of the aft of the ship, and the red carpet is going to be the forward, so you always know where you’re at when you get on the elevators.

As we continued honoring doors, it’s important to point out the fish extenders on many of them. If you’re new to Disney cruising, fish extenders are laid out so cruisers can come by and leave a little pixie dust at your door.

While we were placing these magnets, the family was putting the 200 packages that we made for people in the fish extenders as we passed by. It’s great for the kids to come back to the room at the end of the day and have a little gift there waiting for them.

For our gifts, we left a wide arrangement of Canadian treats, including fun-sized Canadian chocolate bars, Tim Hortons pencils, and then some tiny Christmas axolotls, which aren’t Canadian, but they’re adorable and they kind of feel Canadian.

Okay, so we’ve given out all the “we love your door” magnets. Now comes the three medals. So, we’re going to convene tonight, I think, and discuss them and decide and give them out tomorrow.

If you want to get ahead on the planning for things like that, you can actually go on to Facebook and search a Facebook group for your specific sailing, both the ship and the date. You’ll find that hundreds of people have joined, and a lot of people have already organized these kind of things. So, they’ll tell you what rooms they’re in, where you need to go looking for gifts.

We were there for the very Maritime cruise, so we actually did a gift exchange as well. But it’s also a great place if you haven’t cruised very much and you have questions—you can ask them there. And there are always experienced cruisers that’ll be able to help you out. So, it’s definitely worth looking for.

Trivia Champions (Again)

Fresh off our trivia win last night, we thought we’d try our luck one more time—this time with general knowledge trivia.

Okay, so we did the general trivia, and winners again. It was a good one. It was pretty tough, but I think we got, what, 16 out of 20. And it actually was a three-way tie.

And we had to guess the distance between New York and London and be the closest—that was the tiebreaker. And somebody said 2,386. And I was like, “No, maybe 3,386.” And it was actually within 100 miles in. So, we walked away with more championship.

My mom got one too, because she was part of our team. But yeah—winner, winner, chicken dinner.

Now, I will say an interesting phenomenon that I’ve seen on the ship. I don’t want to be a constant jocking the mouse kind of guy—I will point out when I have something to criticize.

Apparently, they’re not doing great in the mac and cheese department. We’ve found so many empty trays with just a full thing of whatever the mac and cheese was. And it’s quite consistent in the halls where room service is. Everything’s been eaten—the mac and cheese has been left alone.

I was just in a bathroom where there was a full thing of mac and cheese. I don’t think they’re doing great here.

Drinks at Hook’s Barbery

I took Carrie for a celebratory drink at Hook’s Barber, which we’ve tried a few times to get her into since my shave on day two.

While we waited, we took in some of the decorations. This place is packed with Easter eggs for Peter Pan in general and Captain Hook specifically.

And this is for sipping right here in the corner. Okay.

This is from the 1916 era, right here on top. Sipping, sipping, sipping. Do you have a couple drinks?

Yes, I do.

Watching Nur, our mixologist, take the time to methodically make this drink was reminiscent of a Breaking Bad cook scene. He has these recipes down to a literal science.

All right. First time I see her.

Yeah, we’ve tried a couple times, but things haven’t worked out. So, yeah—another celebratory drink.

Dinner at 1923 (Roy Disney Room)

Next up was our second dinner at 1923 in the Roy Disney Room.

On today’s menu, you had appetizers like the double-baked three cheese soufflé, sliced prosciutto, copa and soppressata, baked oysters, and the baby iceberg salad. Soups included the white onion soup and braised oxtail soup, and a sourdough bread service with olive oil and rosemary.

Entrees included the oven-baked lobster tail, roasted Green Circle chicken breast, ratatouille, California riesling risotto, juniper marinated venison loin, and lighter notes like the soy and miso glazed duck breast salad, along with standard steak, chicken, and salmon.

Carrie started with the baked oysters with spinach, shallots, pancetta, and crisp Japanese breadcrumbs.

The baked oysters are really good. They’re very similar to a Rockefeller. Just nice crispy breadcrumb on top, little lemon from the fresh lemon, some spinach. They were really good.

Abby had the double-baked three cheese soufflé with Roquefort, gruyère, and goat cheese with baby leaf spinach. This was a highlight for her on the cruise, and she gave it a 9 out of 10.

I had the braised oxtail soup with roasted sweet carrots, celery, thyme, and porcini tortellini.

The oxtail is incredibly tender. The tortellini is really good. There’s a little tang in the broth that I’m okay with. I’m not mad about it. Yeah, no—it’s a tasty soup.

Carrie also tried the Belgian endive, radicchio, and escarole lettuce salad with brie cheese, Valencia orange, candied walnut, and aged sherry vinaigrette, which she called a refreshing dish.

For entrees, Abby had the ratatouille with pan-roasted eggplant, zucchini, bell pepper, pistou, and basil Provençal. She found this really disappointing, as she was hoping for a more traditional ratatouille like the one we had at Chefs de France last year. She gave this her lowest score for any entrée on the cruise at 3 out of 10.

Reese had the pizza with fries and mac and cheese. This mac and cheese wasn’t as runny as what I was talking about earlier, but it was still the only thing that he didn’t finish on his plate.

Carrie had the juniper marinated venison loin with tupelo honey parsnip purée, roasted shallots, heirloom carrots, game chips, and a Napa Valley port wine jus. She said the meat was cooked perfectly and the game chips were light yet flavorful.

I had the oven-baked lobster tail. They told me I could order two tails, so yes, please. It was served with a sun-dried tomato lemon pesto mash, roasted asparagus, and drawn butter.

The lobster was rich and not dry, which is a hard task when you’re baking lobster in bulk. It was an incredible dish.

Dessert Highlights

For dessert, Carrie had the California grapefruit cake, which she loved, saying it was very moist and flavorful.

Abby had the raspberry vanilla crème brûlée. Despite its lack of coconut—seeing as she had coconut for every other dessert—this was a close second favorite dessert of hers, and she gave it a 9.5 out of 10.

I had the old-fashioned apple pie with braised cinnamon apples and vanilla ice cream. Apple desserts are my absolute favorite, and this pie with its giant apple pieces hit on all cylinders for me.

Reese had a Mickey-shaped chocolate chip cookie, which he loved on whimsy alone.

Then our server Hernand made him a paper fish out of his kids menu. You can see by his face that he was impressed.

The Tale of Moana (Walt Disney Theater)

After dinner, we went to the Walt Disney Theater to experience the flagship show on this ship: The Tale of Moana.

The play is a condensed retelling of the movie, but told as if it was a story shared with villagers after the fact.

This show was absolutely incredible. The stagecraft, the sets, the lack of sets at some points, the lighting effects, the singing—just everything was so good in this play.

They did a really good job of condensing this into a sub one-hour performance. You didn’t feel like you lost anything from the movie that made it so beloved. It felt like they were just trimming fat.

Even though those parts are good in the movie, it just felt like it was stuff that you can do without if you’re going to tell the story.

It was just another perfect example of Disney magic at sea.

Nightcap at Periscope Pub

After Moana, Carrie and I headed over to the Periscope Pub so she could try one of the signature beers—the Flapping Fish Gose from the Terrapin Beer Company.

It’s very light, and it’s got almost like a sour watermelon flavor. It’s quite nice. It’s good.

Wrapping Up Day Five

And that was the end of day five—our day at sea aboard the Disney Treasure.

Our final two days aboard the Treasure are both port days, and they’re both Disney ports. We’re going to Lookout Key at Lighthouse Point and Disney’s Castaway Key. And I can’t wait to share those beautiful places with you—and maybe do a little bit of a comparison.

So stay tuned.

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But this is where we’re going to wrap up. Thanks so much for watching. I really hope you enjoyed.

And until the next one, whatever you do, make it magical.