Disney Magic cruise review: sing-along suppers, Frozen parties and exhilarating water slides | Times2

L.Cheers erupted under the wave roof of the Horizon Cruise Terminal in Southampton. One after the other, we watch as passengers who have already been double-vaccinated or tested negative for Covid-19 get the green light for the two-day Disney Magic cruise along the south coast after a final preventive swab test. Families, many of whom are dressed head-to-toe in Disney merch, pound the air when the results they need land. Then they go up the gangway and a few minutes later I join them with my daughters – Belle, ten and Cleo, seven.

Of course, we’d all prefer to be in Orlando or dock in Castaway Cay, Disney’s private island in the Bahamas, but deep in a pandemic, cruise vacations are largely high and