It is an important time of year for Disney Cruise Line, and all you Disney Cruise Line lovers out there! For the longest time, we talked about DCL’s newest ship, the Disney Adventure, and awaited its maiden voyage on March 10th. We got to be on board for that first sailing, and are catching up on telling you all about it!

It’s time to set sail!

The Disney Adventure sets sail from Singapore and cruises through Southeast Asia on 3 and 4-night voyages. Before you can get on the ship, though, you’ve got to check in at the port, and in Singapore, things are different than in the United States. Now that we’ve had a chance to check it out, we have lots of pics and tips to share with you!

Someone still needs to pinch us, because we can’t believe we’re in Singapore getting ready to check out the newest Disney Cruise ship. The Disney Adventure has a focus on heroes and villains with seven themed areas featuring Disney, Pixar, and Marvel stories. In fact, the godfather of the ship is Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr.

We’re here!

Before you even arrive at the Marina Bay Cruise Centre, you need to know that, depending on how you arrive for the cruise, that will change how you’re going to get your luggage tags. We encourage you to check on the website for official details, but they will not come to you in the mail before your trip. If you are doing ground transportation from the airport, you’ll get them at the airport, but otherwise, they will print them for you when you get to the cruise terminal and attach them to your bags. When we stepped out of the car, that’s the first thing that happened!

We’re so ready

It’s also important to note that you won’t be able to have anything hanging off your checked bags (the bags they’ll bring to your stateroom for you), and nothing can be on the outside. For us, that meant we had to take our water bottle (that was in an outside pocket) and our neck pillow (which was hanging off our bag) with us. We’ve never run into this issue sailing in the U.S. with DCL, so it seems to be a unique rule here.

Luggage Drop

It’s also extremely important that you have your Port Arrival Form downloaded onto your phone, or have it physically, and it has to be a version that says what time your arrival is. We noticed that the wifi and service were pretty slow for us, and we had trouble pulling it up. While we had it saved in our Apple Wallet, it didn’t say the essential time! We also noticed they weren’t scanning your paper at most of the checkpoints, until you get closer to the front, so if you don’t have it ready, then you’re REALLY close to boarding and might run into issues.

Be sure you’ve got it downloaded!

While we could connect to the ship’s wifi relatively quickly inside the port, the Navigator App wasn’t up and running yet, since the ship hadn’t set sail, which means we couldn’t pull up our Arrival Form on there, unless we disconnected from the wifi, which slowed things down pretty immensely. Again, just have it downloaded, and you’ll be okay!

Be ready before you get in line!

We were able to get in line at noon for a 1 PM arrival time, so we do recommend getting to the port about an hour early. We moved slowly through some spots, up until about 12:25 PM, when our line was allowed to start going through security. We were then through security and officially beginning to check in by 12:30 PM! Even though it says not to arrive before your scheduled time, it appears that you may be allowed through early.

Lots of people in line

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There is seriously SO MUCH that this new Disney Cruise has to offer, and we can’t wait to dive into it all. We’re going to be sharing every little detail with you, and you’re not going to want to miss it. So, make sure to keep following us at the Disney Food Blog, and let’s embark on this new ADVENTURE together!

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