New speciality cruise takes guests around World Showcase Lagoon

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Thursday May 18, 2017 11:00am EDT · "World Showcase"
New speciality cruise takes guests around World Showcase Lagoon
Day Cruise Around the World is a new offering at Disney's Yacht Club Resort.

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World Showcase overview

World Showcase overview

A new speciality cruise from Disney's Yacht Club Resort takes you and up to 9 friends or family around World Showcase Lagoon.

Day Cruise Around the World takes place daily at midday, departing from the Bayside Marina at Disney's Yacht Club Resort on a pontoon boat,

The 60 minute cruise travels around Crescent Lake and the World Showcase Lagoon, with bagged snacks and soft drinks included. Private Dining can be added to turn the cruise into a lunch experience.

Day Cruise Around the World costs $149 plus tax and gratuity per boat, and accommodates up to 10 guests. Reservations can be made now on 407-WDW-PLAY, and can be made 180 days in advance.

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Or you could take the friendship boats for free and bring your own snacks? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
↩ replying to DznyGrlSD
I had the same thought. What the heck?
So it's basically just an hour long pontoon boat rental with a driver included? That lets you go into the World Showcase lagoon?
↩ replying to dreamfinder
Well, it's an hour spent boating past the lands of World Showcase as you eat snacks or have lunch on board. So, no.
If you decide to add private dining to make it a lunch cruise it could be something nice. I think this is something similar they already offer on Seven Seas Lagoon? If you're having a non park day and wanted to do something different it could be an option.
There better be some really good narration going on to make this of any value to me.
Let me ride around in one of those cool boats the pyro crew uses to push fireworks barges into position and maybe I'd throw some cash around, but a pontoon boat, yawn.
The questions that I have about this are:

1) How close to the shore will the boat travel, and

2) How will guests partaking of this 'addition' behave while on the boat?...

http://inspiringscience.net/2013/08/14/no-secrets-by-the-lakeside-how-water-affects-sound/

This could be why this hasn't been offered yet...
This is just a daytime version of the fireworks cruise that they offer - with no fireworks of course.
↩ replying to rael ramone
Why the obsession about people having an cocktail and how they will act..? I swear these boards seem like they are frequented by Puritains... I am sure if they are paying $149 for a one hour cruise with a snack and soft drink, everyone will behave themselves... And if they don't, I am sure Disney would give you your money back if you complain...But honestly the drinking is not out of hand during lunch...
I don't understand why someone would do this
ROTFLOL
↩ replying to rael ramone
Doesn't matter. Someone should be along shortly to make something up that fits the narrative you're looking for.
Ok... raise your hand if the first thought that went through your head that this was going to be using one of the Friendship boats and pull it out of service to do it (ala the Tianna Riverboat Parade Fleecing)?

Congrats TDO, you're making progress - monetizing without diminishing services at the same time.

I'm sure it's going to be very classy having a pontoon party boat floating around the Lagoon in the middle of the day. It's one thing do it outside the stage of the parks... it's another to do it inside onstage. The fireworks viewing boats at least were discrete and stayed at the edges and they were only at night.

Wake me up when we get to water ski and fish Around the World. With all the booze... they will have turned it into your average lake/reservoir on a hot summer day.
↩ replying to Bocabear
I wasn't actually thinking about adult beverages.... I was thinking about noise in general coming from the lake. Imagine a cheerleader group renting a boat and 'practicing' out on the lake...

The goal of every upcharge SHOULD be *do not disturb day guests*. A family quietly enjoying a boat ride around the lake shouldn't be an issue. A group doing their 'cheer' would...