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Disney Removes Mattresses From $1.8 Billion New Luxury Cruise Ship​

Disney Cruise Line is in the middle of one of the most ambitious expansions in its history. The company brought in more than $10 billion in operating income from its cruise division in the 2025 fiscal year, and The Walt Disney Company has committed to a $12 billion investment that will nearly double the fleet from seven ships to thirteen by 2031.

The newest addition to that fleet, the Disney Adventure, is the largest passenger ship Disney has ever operated, designed specifically for the Asian market and departing from Singapore’s Marina Bay Cruise Centreon its maiden commercial voyage on March 10, 2026.

The Disney Adventure is carrying a significant amount of firsts. It is Disney Cruise Line’s first ship built for Asian market cruisers, featuring entertainment and shopping inspired by Duffy and Friends, the Ironcycle Test Run roller coaster at sea, and the Disney Imagination Garden, an open-air interior courtyard with a performance stage.

The ship runs three and four-night itineraries with no port stops, structured to maximize time with Disney characters and brand experiences in a way that functions more like a floating theme park than a traditional cruise.

The inaugural sailing is also carrying something else: a growing list of issues that guests and press have been documenting in real time, and the details are specific enough to warrant a clear-eyed look at what is happening on board.

The Room That Did Not Have a Mattress​

Theme Park Express, a Disney-focused social media account, is sailing on the Disney Adventure in an interior room rated for four guests. They shared a photo on X of what the room looks like with all four beds down for the evening, writing: “Here’s what the room looks like when all 4 beds are down for the evening. Very little floor space. I can’t imagine having 4 people in here.”
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That observation about space was notable on its own. The follow-up post was something else entirely.

“I DONT EVEN HAVE A DAMN MATTRESS!! They just put a cover and a thin pad on the couch cushion!”
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A passenger on an inaugural sailing of Disney’s newest and largest ship discovering that their sleeping surface is a thin pad on a couch cushion rather than an actual mattress is the kind of detail that lands differently than a general complaint about room size.

It is specific, it is documented, and it is exactly the kind of thing that should have been caught before guests boarded for the first commercial sailing. Inaugural voyages are the moment a ship is supposed to make its best possible impression. A missing mattress is not that impression.
 
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I don't remember the last half of the cruise I took because I ended up with a fever delirious in my cabin and was sick for an entire month after. But I do remember that there was a crew member who from morning to midnight his entire job was to make nothing but hotdogs for drunk entitled middle aged white people and that sounds like hell.

I feel like half the experience for cruise people is that they get to treat the crew like slaves. There is an app they have you put on your phone thats like ship doordash and there is an option where you can just hail an underpaid slave to do whatever you want to you.

5/10 Would have liked more off-shore time.
 
Idk maybe I’m old and lame but to me, a vacation where I’m fighting with ten thousand other people to “experience” bland corporate IP isn’t my idea of fun. Especially when it costs massive amounts of money.

Also cruises aren’t enjoyable to me as it is (I went on one as a teen and did not like it at all) AND I have always hated Disney, even as a kid, so this is even more baffling. But it’s Asians and they like to do status seeking behavior, so I imagine a “Disney cruise” would be a prized thing over there, depending on how much $ you have to throw around to impress other bug people both on the ship and back in your bug hive on land.

Basically, a fool and their money are soon parted.
 
My cravat doesn't flutter said:
I think part of the reason poor people see them as luxurious is simply the ability to just be on vacation for an extended period of time. I don't know anyone who actually goes on vacation who isn't salaried. Being able to just not work for more than a couple days is a luxury. Hell, it's been almost 3 years since I took two days off to see REO Speedwagon and that's the closest thing I've had to a vacation in the last 10 years.

A cruise ship is the pinnacle of taking time off. You're at sea and couldn't even go back to work if you wanted to.
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3 to 4 day extended weekend dirt bike trips once a year are the closest thing to a vacation I've had in about a decade.

But does it really count as a vacation when the trip includes my boss? He was my best friend before he was my boss/business partner. And we have been doing our little long weekend expeditions since well before we worked together. Still, it seems wrong, just on general principle.
 
Gap Hag said:
Imagine going on a cruise ship and there's niggers, the tales i've heard...
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Not on DCL. Too expensive. They are on Carnival especially. You can read between the lines on reviews: ‘overcrowding’, ‘entitled customers’, ‘fights’. I’ve heard it’s the biggest problem on East Coast embarkments. West Coast is less so.
 
all these travel videos about “tips” and shit about cruises are stupid. We only care about one thing:

1. How hard is it to get laid by sluts on a cruise?

No one dares to ask this.
 
CharlesBarkley said:
all these travel videos about “tips” and shit about cruises are stupid. We only care about one thing:

1. How hard is it to get laid by sluts on a cruise?

No one dares to ask this.
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It sounds like the cruises actually worth going on are going to be filled with old people. I wouldn’t count on it.
 
George Lucas said:
It sounds like the cruises actually worth going on are going to be filled with old people. I wouldn’t count on it.
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Old people can be slutty.

Honestly, I’m just flabbergasted at what a single dude would do on a boat. Probably hop on, hit the bar, and instead of a bunch of sexy 23 year old women throwing back booze, you make friends with some 17 year old nigga and his mom as they talk about warhammer for hours.

And really, on excursions, you don’t have time to meet some local sluts at the port bar. So, you like leave the boat, hit a bar nearby, and instead of hot senoritas you instead get some fat Mexican dude talking about his DOTA2 matches.

It just seems so awful.
 
CharlesBarkley said:
Honestly, I’m just flabbergasted at what a single dude would do on a boat. Probably hop on, hit the bar, and instead of a bunch of sexy 23 year old women throwing back booze, you make friends with some 17 year old nigga and his mom as they talk about warhammer for hours.
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On a Disney cruise, the single women available more often than not will look like this:
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I went on a cruise with family once. I can't say I'm eager to repeat the experience. The whole thing felt like every amenity was there to nickle and dime you, from the cruise itself overcharging for icecream and internet access to the shitty little tourist trap they dumped us off in at Mexico so that dumb gringos can buy counterfeit silver jewelry at one of many many many trinket shops punctuated with small girls and unaccompanied children sitting beside the road begging for money.
 
CharlesBarkley said:
Old people can be slutty.

Honestly, I’m just flabbergasted at what a single dude would do on a boat. Probably hop on, hit the bar, and instead of a bunch of sexy 23 year old women throwing back booze, you make friends with some 17 year old nigga and his mom as they talk about warhammer for hours.

And really, on excursions, you don’t have time to meet some local sluts at the port bar. So, you like leave the boat, hit a bar nearby, and instead of hot senoritas you instead get some fat Mexican dude talking about his DOTA2 matches.

It just seems so awful.
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i watched a couple of travel reviewers on cruises but they were christian guys who either brought their wives or behaved in a christian manner (for the camera at least). the affordable cruises were black and brown (hiv/stdville) and the expensive ones were geriatrics (stdville). sounds miserable either way. Covid put a kibosh on any of my cruise desires, don't want to get stuck on a boat forever. i love to hit the slots but why go on a boat when i can go to vegas?
 
CharlesBarkley said:
Old people can be slutty.

Honestly, I’m just flabbergasted at what a single dude would do on a boat. Probably hop on, hit the bar, and instead of a bunch of sexy 23 year old women throwing back booze, you make friends with some 17 year old nigga and his mom as they talk about warhammer for hours.

And really, on excursions, you don’t have time to meet some local sluts at the port bar. So, you like leave the boat, hit a bar nearby, and instead of hot senoritas you instead get some fat Mexican dude talking about his DOTA2 matches.

It just seems so awful.
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This guy isn’t single, but he is young. I don’t get the appeal of cruises at all. This guy’s reviews are pretty good but he’s kind of insufferable and being Canadian obviously has terrible taste in food so take everything about that with a grain of salt.

I feel like for younger people the appeal is to soyfilled nu-males who want to feel like they are running a plantation and be waited on. I.e. very much faux luxury. This is probably why Carnival has a growing problem with consumers of color. Black people love feeling like taskmasters. I’ve seen it personally at restaurants in California so I can’t imagine how bad it is in the Ol’ South.

Agamemnon Busmalis said:
Third Class on the Titanic was more comfortable than that.
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1500 people died on that ship because the owner couldn’t be assed to install enough lifeboats. Kill yourself.
 
JohnnyG said:
I love when MBAs and marketing #girlbosses turn every interaction into a corporate HR buzzword. Collect all the "brand experiences", then head to our new stadium full of "activation opportunities", and buy whatever crap your favourite celebrity is "partnering" with.
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Activation opportunities makes me think of the borg waking up.
 
JambledUpWords said:
“Here’s what the room looks like when all 4 beds are down for the evening. Very little floor space. I can’t imagine having 4 people in here.”
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JambledUpWords said:
“I DONT EVEN HAVE A DAMN MATTRESS!! They just put a cover and a thin pad on the couch cushion!”
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I'm a big, fat, American Disney Adult who went on a cruise designed for the Asian market and got mad that the beds were made with the comfort of short, skinny East Asians who generally sleep on firm beds in mind.
 
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