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What catapulted Disney Treasure to Favorite Disney Ship status isn’t any one bar, restaurant, venue or attraction. Instead, it’s the experience you find throughout the vessel through bold yet warm and inviting colors, patterns and textures.

While the footprint of Disney Treasures is similar to Disney Wish, the look and feel is completely different. It’s almost like comparing Magic Kingdom and Epcot — they’re both Disney World theme parks but offer completely different vibes.

Disney Wish is undoubtedly beautiful and charming, but it also invokes Cinderella, princesses, storybook castles and fairy tales. While Wish features plenty of intricate detail, my photos also show more plain colored walls and carpeted areas than seen on Treasure.

At Disney Treasures, you’re met with layers of intricacies against a backdrop of dynamic detail. In fact, it feels like you’ve boarded a ship that isn’t looking for treasure; It’s already got plenty.

Jewel tones, rich color palettes and thoughtful designs will remind you of some of the most adventurous Disney stories. The Grand Hall evokes the fictional city of Agrabah from “Aladdin”, its carpet design representing a fountain flowing through a jasmine garden. But if you’re not into that story, you can easily see the space as places like Morocco, Africa, and Asia, and a sense of adventure travel.

You don’t have to connect the design to Disney stories to get the full effect — but if you’re a Disney fan, the thoughtful details will take your experience to the next level.

When it comes to the cabins on Treasure, you’ll find a similar style to what you’ll find on the Disney Wish.

Fun art and design are balanced with a modern, neutral aesthetic. As much as I love a quartet of old Disney ships (Magic, Wonder, Dream, and my one missing ship, Fantasy), the room design has remained largely unchanged since the late 90s and early 2000s. They retain a bold nautical design. I absolutely love the cabins on the two new ships.

Related: Guide to Disney Cruise Line Ships and Itineraries

The physical setting is without a doubt my favorite of any Disney Cruise Line family restaurant, with its warm party lights, painted chairs, greenery, and bright colors that transport you to a plaza in a Mexican village. Like its counterpart on the Disney Wish, Arendelle: A Frozen Dining Adventure, the rooms are spacious and will be crowded on a typical cruise, but a few key differences set the Plaza de Coco apart.

First, the menu is Mexican themed, with churros, enchiladas and other Mexican specialties.

Not only is the menu here likely to be more popular with families than the Scandinavian menu you’ll find at Arendelle on Disney’s Wish, but the live music and festival entertainment at Plaza de Coco is likely to have a broader appeal — and even emotional impact — than the “Frozen” characters. who are centered in Arendelle.

The exceptional Disney Treasure Bar

One of the most famous and most unusual new spaces you’ll currently find only on Disney Treasures is the Haunted Mansion-themed bar, though it’s far from the only notable bar on the ship (and yes, kids are allowed in until 9 p.m. is).

I have never experienced a bar like the Haunted Mansion Parlor.

Haunted Mansion Parlor is full of atmosphere, detail and immersion with no “white space”. Portraits come alive (un?), and there are so many spooky special effects you won’t notice them the first time you visit.

For example, where you sit matters because some chairs offer different listening experiences. Details easily missed in dimly lit rooms (such as written notes) reveal new information about the story behind the parlor only during certain “magical moments.”

What I love about this place is that you can choose to enjoy the unique atmosphere over a smoky cocktail, or you can dive into the details and spend several visits checking out all the clues scattered throughout the room during your seven-night cruise. are you

While I greatly appreciate the Disney imagining and storytelling brought to the Haunted Mansion Parlor, I prefer the Skate Cat Lounge for real drinks and a more traditional bar moment. It won me over with its live piano music schedule, rich and playful design, and innovative cocktails like Strawberry Jam, which is made with gin, lime and bitters and comes with a jar of strawberry jam that you can add to sweeten your drink.

The Skate Cat Lounge is a good example of a place where the physical footprint is not completely identical to the Disney Wish, as the location of the actual bar within the venue is different from that of its predecessor, Nightingale. This allowed for easy placement of some bar stools outside the main footprint of the lounge in the open-air bar in the Grand Hall, which was missing from the Disney Wish.

Skipper Society Lounge and Periscope Pub are two more lounge spaces on Disney Treasures that are inspired by Disney park attractions – Jungle Cruise and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Submarine Voyage respectively.

Both places also made my favorites list because they were ripe with interesting details and imaginative cocktails. In the Periscope Pub, which makes you feel like you’re aboard a submarine, the ceiling above you is filled with ocean waves, changing light and creatures swimming about.

You can order a daiquiri that’s topped with a bubble of smoke and served in a glass with tentacles for a stem so it looks like a jellyfish. This is another great example of the level of detail that takes Disney Treasures from good to great.