2016 Disney Dream Cruise Day 3 at Castaway Cay

Disney Institute facilitator jeff noel
Photo 2013 at Disney’s Animal Kingdom before Park opening. The Guest asked for this photo.

 

2016 Disney Dream Cruise Day 3 at Castaway Cay.

We spent more time in the Church than expected. None of us were in a rush to leave. We had the place to ourselves.

It felt good.

As it should.

 

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2016 Disney Dream Cruise Day 2 at Nassau, Bahamas

Disney Customer Service author jeff noel
Photo 2013. Flip charts reveal my classroom’s key insights and goals.

 

2016 Disney Dream Cruise Day 2 at Nassau, Bahamas.

The food buffets aboard cruise ships are stereotypically gluttonous. There’s a reason this stereotype exists. On high-end cruise ships, extravagance is part of their intentional reputation.

 

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2016 Disney Dream Cruise Day 1 at Port Canaveral

Walt Disney Partners statue on bookshelf
A replica of the Walt Disney World “Partners” statue in front of Cinderella Castle. This one is only six feet from where i’m typing this.

 

Today is our 2016 Disney Dream Cruise Day 1 at Port Canaveral.

Google maps says it’ll take 75 minutes to drive the 68 miles.

Love that i’ll be able to write the Disney Business books every day from the Disney Dream, since it is “on Disney property”.

Last night i did the math – for the first time ever – and discovered our home is less than one mile from the closest Walt Disney World property line. This is a straight, as-the-crow-flies line.

 

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Sixteen acres, then 160 acres, then 27,443

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The smaller sign at the bottom: World-Famous Jungle Cruise Cuisine.
Top Disney Institute Speakers
Love that my initials are in this and the over-focus on the compass point (spear tip) at the top of the “J”.
World Famous Disney Skippers
World Famous Jungle Cruise meets texting.

Did you know that Walt Disney’s original plan was to use 16 acres at the Disney Studios to create a sort of year-round carnival attraction?

The city council never approved the request.

Walt could have abandoned the idea, or he could have kept going.

He kept going and that led to 160 acres in Anaheim, what we now call Disneyland.

What he originally thought was plenty of land (ten times more than his first thought of using 16), also became far too little to hold all his ideas and dreams.

But he didn’t know what he didn’t know.

He became land-locked in Anaheim as all the available land got taken. This was unfortunate because Walt kept dreaming.

Walt could have accepted reality and stopped with Disneyland. It was, by all accounts, insanely popular with the American people. But no.

He quietly began purchasing 27,443 acres near Orlando.

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

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