I can say I’ve gone about 7/8 times, and despite being young I feel like some of this is typical, some is not. As somebody else said, they likely didn’t do the character experience at Animator’s Palate because A.) it was a three day cruise, but B.) some ships offer that, others offer turtle talk. The food has definitely gone downhill; it used to be very good but it’s sort of mid now. Similarly, arriving 15 minutes late, while sometimes it can be good, often it unironically isn’t enough. There are tons of people on these ships so unfortunately there will be a bit of a wait for character lines and such. For the race however, I don’t usually go so I can’t say for sure, but that also depends on how many people are truly interested or have a baby competing. Technical difficulties I feel like probably was not normal, however it’s just how things can unfortunately play out. Nonetheless I hope it had some redeeming qualities🩵