Disney Cruise Line Navigator

Provided what you would expect out of basic app for a cruise... times, locations, ship map etc, as well as a basic chat app... having VOIP would be a great asset... or some way to ring others... found that messages would get missed if initial buzz was not detected. Also would have been great to have a location tracking system built in. With all of the rfid on board, adding tracking for others should be possible. Also would like reminder feature built in... something like an alarm that you could set for a show that you wanted to see. With disney, was expecting a wow factor...

App is a must have if you take a Disney cruise, but as of 06/17 it's not the most stable. Sometimes it lags real bad, and messages are sometimes delayed. You really do want it to communicate and keep track of shipboard activities thought.

This app not only has a countdown to your cruise, but comes to life when you get on the ship. It makes it so much easier to communicate and find out what is going on and at what time without having to carry your navigator AND room phone around.

Usually a great way to stay connected with family and friends while on board the Dream. Only suggested improvements would be boosting the WiFi signal in the Teen Hangout on Castaway Cay as it is nonexistent and caused some delay in finding family in the late afternoon. We also found when the time changed on my son's phone all of his chats with his new cruise friends disappeared. Manually setting the time to GMT one of the chats came back but none of the others.

This app is really great for any cruise. It tells you everything you need to know about activities around the ship, as well as restaurant times and menus. The chat feature is really useful for talking to family and keeping them informed, however there are still bugs to be worked out. Any time I tried to open a group chat, the app would glitch and I would have to restart it. There could also be a lot of lag time between when a message was sent and when it was actually recieved. A voice chat/phone option would be a really helpful addition; traveling with my elderly grandparents they didn't really understand how to use the chat feature and preferred to call on the wave phones disney provides in the stateroom. Overall, a great resource and worth downloading for any length cruise, but be aware that it is not perfect.

Really good for ship activities, not so great for chat. The app locks a lot less, but it still seems that the protocols are less like texts and more like Instant Messaging, i.e. you must be active in the app to receive/transmit. It can and will lock up even while in app and not doing anything. Improvement to router query protocols would help this a lot. Don't skip this on board though, very worth while.

Hey all just got off the boat today!!!! Did a seven day cruise and this lil app was amazing. It helped with meals and to navigate the ship. I didn't use the text part because I had walkie talkies but this app was a hit

This app was necessary to my cruising survival. I only wish you could also program your port adventures and dinner reservations into it as well. The WiFi went down so the app wasn't useable for a day or two as it didn't reflect the proper activities onboard.

App was only half effective. Friend installed on her phone and wrong cruise date was selected. Even uninstall and reinstall wouldn't reset the date of the cruise. So we couldn't use her app. On mined it refused to let me pick a birthday older than 5 years so it wanted my parents permission to log in to use communicator. I'm an adult. It had its issues but has potential to be helpful.

It is a Great connection tool but it still needs some work. Msgs were often delayed but still a huge improvement from the in cabin phones from before. The daily navigator paper copy was still nice to have in addition.

My app crashed at least 2 times, and 3 other times it had to be cleared of data and cache- meaning we had to reenter chat numbers each time. When it worked, I liked it.

This app was super helpful. 1. I could text my family without using my data. 2. I could see what time activities were held ( time and place). 3. I could see at what time characters would come out ( time and place). It was very useful throughout my trip. It works very well. I totally recommend it

This app is great for keeping up with your schedule, maps of the ship, communicating with your party on ship and the kids used it without any problems. It's improved drastically since 2015. With no cellular access, it works on ship without any issues.

Expected so much better... The app hangs and crashes constantly. Does not work when you need it to, and drains your battery faster than constant netflix with no Wi-Fi.

Useful to see most times and menus and times for meal options. Great for being able to create favorite activities and to see list, BUT alert vibrating only then gone . Needs pop times up alert. One thing I really wanted to do, Disney tunes trivia, changed time to earlier on printed Navigator, but it was NOT corrected in app, even after closing and restarting phone and app. Very disappointing to miss the event with no alert of change. Sometimes messages went thru righg wway, good to find each other and meet up. Somrtimes messages not received or delivery very much delayed, which was confusing.

This was perfect for knowing everything from the meal menus to the events occurring around the ship. The only flaw was the dedicated screen for character appearances did not work. The information could still be found, but by navigating through other links.

Very helpful. Just wish the text received amount would show up when you see the icon rather than having to go 2 screens in to see responses.

This is a must have app for the cruise. I used it daily to check ruined of activities, Mark favorites, check hours, etc. It is great. It could improve even more if you could incorporate end of cruise survey, excursions and dclphotos . Thanks

It was nice to be able to text instead of call. The only thing I would recommend is there is a way to notify parents if their kiddo wants to communicate (aka out) instead of carrying a room phone AND a cell.

The schedule is great, however the chat section only works half the time. Lots of failed sends or no notifications about messages.

We love this app...it is so helpful to use not only for the planning features, but also the live chat feature...much easier than using the wave phones and the Disney emoji are super cute! My only suggestion would be to include auto correct for the chat feature.

Only only thing I would like added is spell check on the message section for Android. Had some trouble staying connected to the wifi on board but still a must have app.

While able to chat with each other, we were not able to chat with another person to help him out, as he was new to the ship. There was no "send" button. Otherwise it was very useful.

Just returned from a 5-day cruise. Used this app extensively to communicate with my child (12 yo) while on board, and as a single parent, was very comfortable with how it worked for us. As other reviewers suggested, a locator would be a nice feature to have. No signal problems, but the time did reset on day 4 for some reason, must have been a setting that was changing it.

Liked the app really well but don't like how it's completely useless when not on the cruise. Would like to look ahead and back at our itinerary, menus, and so forth.

Kept crashing. We just had to communicate the old fashion way, talking and leaving messages in the room.

Great app! Easy to navigate all the ships activities. Used the ship map often for directions. We enjoyed viewing the dinner menu prior to going to the restaurant, so we were ready to order as soon as we were seated. Especially with the later dining time.

Over all a solid app. The messaging however is unreliable, do not reply on it as your sole option to keep track of your kids with cell phones.

A few things could be added, like the port adventures. I'd like a personal calendar for organizational purposes. There's just too much to do on the boat.

Great app to keep up with shows. Had issues with the communication portion. Half the time the messages didn't go through.

This app was great! We used it to keep track of events and the schedule. It reminded us which show we wanted to go to. And it was great for keeping up with a couple of very active teenagers. The texting feature is the best part about it!

Great tool to use on the ship. Texting made it easy to stay in touch with my family but it only worked in the hot spots on the ship, so some messages were not received. Used it to plan the day each day!

Still pretty basic. Given how key this is to the overall experience and the costs involved of such a trip, it is surprising that Disney doesn't have the app in a better state

Everything that doesn't involve communicating with people works great. It's easy to check what activities are happening where and the hours for different places, including menus, when it's not crashing. Unfortunately, that's not the main purpose of the app. The main purpose is to let you communicate with others on board, and it pretty much fails at that. Firstly, the contact system. You can't search for someone's name, you have to have them give you a number and send them a text, and then you lose the number so you can't give mutual friends that person's contact info. The not having friends numbers also was a problem when the app consistently crashed and was unusable for a full day during the cruise until they told me that the only way to fix it was by deleting all the app data, including contacts, which made it a pain to find people to give me their numbers all over again. At least half of my friends had the crashing problem and had to reset the app. Also, the timestamps don't work, all the timestamps on my group texts turned into whatever time it was at the moment I was reading them. By the end of the cruise, the app also said I had my phone off whenever I wasn't in the app and wouldn't receive messages unless I opened the app. There are some major flaws with the communication but, unfortunately, you still need it if you want to communicate with anybody.

I loved being able to be in contact with the other members of our party. We had 16 of us so it made it easy to get in contact with each ther3. As being what was going n around the ship was awesome.

This app was a wasted download. It didn't even work the first 4 days of our cruise.

Once on board this app is great for communicating with others in your group. Also this is way easier to find out about activities on the ship verses the paper navigator they give you each day.

Great app that is super helpful on the cruise. Loved the notifications so we didn't miss anything and the texting with cute emoticons. Definitely a must for the cruise.

Perfect tool to navigate the ship. All times and events are correct. So get to all events and signings early. And you'll always get a spot.

Only complaint is that it delayed chat messages often and sometimes by 30 minutes to an hour.