Ep. 698 - Sailing Alaska on the Disney Magic: A Repeat Guest Tells All

She's sailed the Disney Magic to Alaska three times, and this trip finally convinced her to skip one of Disney's own shore excursions for good. Repeat guest Shannon joins Sam solo this week (Brian sits this one out) to recap her family's ninth Disney sailing, a group cruise with nine people, two private excursions that beat anything booked through the app, and one Broadway star shoutout her teenager will never stop talking about.

In this episode:

• Why Shannon's group skipped Disney's totem-pole-painting excursion at Icy Strait Point, and what a string of guest complaints had already warned her about
• The $80 private crab feast with a local Hoonah family that turned into the highlight of the whole sailing
• A rare bear sighting on a private, Haida-guided tour of Ketchikan's Totem Bight State Park
• What it's actually like sailing Alaska with a group of nine, and how to plan excursions together without locking your whole trip together
• The Disney Magic's Broadway Stars Series, including an onstage shoutout for one very starstruck teenager
• Why "Disney sells it" doesn't always mean "book it" when it comes to Alaska shore excursions

"You do run into a lot of the same people, and so you kind of become your own little floating community, which I think is really cool." — Shannon

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