We recently sailed on the Disney Wonder for the Westbound Panama Canal cruise (trip report here) and experienced the Bibdidi Bobbidi Boutique for the first time, on land or at sea. I also wrote about this experience in my trip report, but I wanted to give it it’s own post to make it easier for people find without having to dig through a 14 day trip report.
I made the reservation online when our booking window opened. I knew that there would be 2 formal nights on our sailing and wanted to choose one of those days. I was pretty sure I had figured out which nights would be the formal nights and I chose the second one, which would be day 9 of our cruise. It turns out I was right and we had an appointment for 4:00 that day. I didn’t choose the first formal night because it was the first full day of our cruise and we tend to be pretty busy doing other things that day. I knew our schedule would be much more relaxed the second week of the cruise.
I chose the Crown Package ($64.95) because we have tons of princess dresses at home and my daughter was perfectly happy bringing one of those along. You can see all of the packages and prices here on the DCL website.
When we arrived in our stateroom after boarding the ship we had an invitation waiting for us.
My daughter was so excited that we just had to go take a peek at the BBB right after this. No one was in there so I managed to get some good pictures. First, the stairs leading up to the Boutique are so cute! They are located just outside the entrance to the spa on deck 10 forward. This is at the bottom of the stairs:
It killed my daughter to have to wait a week for her turn! She managed and when her turn finally came, we took her dress and shoes and headed up those magical stairs.
We checked in at the counter ands chose her hairstyle. I think she had 3 to choose from: All up bun, half up bun/half down, and a bun with some fake hair that came in several different colors. She chose the half up/half down. Next it was time to get into her dress. The dressing room is so cute!
We met our fairy godmother-in-training and started the transformation. I had washed her hair shortly before this and it was still a tiny bit damp but that didn’t seem to matter.
Once the hair was done it was time to move on to the makeup. They don’t use much, just a little bit of eye shadow, blush and lip gloss.
Next she got to choose her nail polish. I didn’t see how many choices there were, she just asked my daughter what color she wanted and she chose gold glitter.
Then it was time for the glitter sticker for her cheek. She got to choose a sticker from a sheet and the rest of the sheet we took home with us at the end.
And finally, some pixie dust!
Here she is admiring her new look:
The whole thing took about 30 minutes from the time we got there until the time we left.
We got to take with us a pink sash and a drawstring backpack with her leftover stickers, makeup and nail polish in it.
I tried to get some close-up shots of the hairstyle. They used a net over the bun which I don’t think I had seen them use before. It wasn’t as visible as it appears in these photos. The camera flash made it show up more than it did in real life.
Overall it was a fun experience and my daughter LOVED it! We’ll definitely continue to do it on cruises until she’s not interested anymore.
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I remember this post from your PC trip report but it was nice to have a refresher 🙂 Both our girls are doing the crown package on our upcoming Alaska cruise next month so I’m going to have them read this entry, too. Well, maybe not my eldest because she likes to be surprised but I’m showing my youngest because she can be very iffy about things like this (still not convinced she’s going to like it, she’s not a super girly-girl) so hopefully this post will be the deciding factor and at least if she decides not to do it I still have time to cancel (but I do hope both of them end up doing it!)
My oldest is not a girly-girl either and I don’t think she would have liked doing this past age 5. I hope these photos help your daughter decide so that you don’t end up wasting money – although I know what you mean about hoping that she’ll do it! 🙂
Hi!! We just got back from a Disney Cruise and did the BBB! It was so fun! They had a Rapunzel Dress like your daughter is wearing….we didn’t purchase it at the time and it’s all my daughter has talked about since. Can you tell me where you got your daughters dress? Thank you!! 😊
Hi Kristal! My daughter’s dress was actually bought from the Disney Store in 2012, when Tangled Ever After was released. It is a bit different than the newer version you saw onboard in that it does not have sleeves, but I believe is otherwise the same. As far as buying either version, I think the only option is checking EBay.
Hi,
I’m just loving your blog! It’s so informative. So my family and I are taking our first DC this Sept. (Halloween at Sea) and I booked my daughter’s boutique day. I’m unclear on what they include in the 64.50 (crown package) but noticed princess dresses in the background. Do you know the estimated cost on the dresses? My daughter also has a few gowns of her own to chose from but just curious in case my anxious 5 year old wants a new dress. LOL. Thank you! Btw, your kids are adorable!
Hi Stella! So glad you’re enjoying the blog! The crown package includes hairstyling (with a jeweled Mickey barrette and tiara), a face gem, shimmering makeup, nail polish, a princess sash and cinch sack. The package that also includes a dress, wand and crown is called the “castle package” and costs $199.95. So, you are basically paying $135 for the dress, wand and crown. I would assume that you could just buy a dress in addition to the crown package, but I did not look at the dress prices while we were there. My best guess would be that they are in the $70-$100 range but that is just a guess based on the prices of the costumes in the gift shops onboard. I did see a stunning Cinderella dress in the BBB that was a limited edition exclusive and it was so stunning that I asked the price and it was $350! And, they told me that a family once bought 3 of them for their 3 daughters! There were only a couple of limited edition dresses in the BBB and most of them were the same types & styles that you see in the parks or online. Hope this helps!
is there an age limit?
Here is a link that shows the age limits: https://disneycruise.disney.go.com/faq/kids-teens/bibbidi-bobbidi-pirates-league-age/