*Dreamy Spring Double-Dip* March 13, 2012

[AmandaRG]

So excited for our Spring Break on the Dream! Can't wait to meet those that will be joining us!!!

[IrishCowboy]

I have added your thread to the cruise meet list :thumbsup2

[sparty7798]

We are also very exicted about the 5 day DREAM cruise. This will be our 2nd cruise and of course the first on the DREAM. It will be myself (Ali), husband (Vann), son Jack (5) and unknown baby that is due this June!

[AmandaRG]

At the time of sailing, one dd will be 5 and the other 4! I can't wait until the debut of the Dream so that we can finally see pics and know what is REALLY there!!

[sparty7798]

Yes, me too! Have you been on a Disney Cruise before? Also, where are you from? We went on the Wonder before and we are from Savannah, GA.

[AmandaRG]

No cruise ever. We will be on the Magic in March and then with you guys the following March! We live near Memphis, TN and I loved Savannah when we went (when I was a teen). I can't wait to visit it again.

[Nicoledee44]

Hi everyone! Just booked a room on this cruise for DH, DD(5) and DS(2). We will be sailing our first Disney cruise in May 2011 on the Dream and now decided to book something during my daughters March Break. We are from Toronto and look forward to meeting everyone in 2012. :banana::banana:

[AmandaRG]

Hi Nicoledee44! We will be on the Magic in March, then the Dream the following year! It will be during our oldest dd's spring break as well!

Can't wait to hear about your May cruise as well!

[nnyl_irret]

DH, DD and I are highly considering this cruise (we actually booked it but might change dates) - we aren't sure if the 5 night cruise will be long enough after doing the 7 night cruise in the past...

[binab]

Hiya all! Please add us to the list, I just booked today. It will be myself, dh, and dd (then 8) going for her spring break. Looking forward to a few days at the parks beforehand as well. This will be our 10th cruise, but first on DCL. Can't wait to get on that water-coaster!

[AmandaRG]

I haven't canceled just yet, but it is looking like this date won't work for us. I have gone back to finish my degree and my spring break is different from the girls'. We may be moving it to late May and do a land and sea type thing on our own!

[Fleury]

We booked this cruise along with my husband's brother and his wife. We are both childless couples in our early thirties. From near Toronto, Ontario. I'm the planning freak in the group who spends her lunch hours trolling the message boards. :surfweb: The rest of them don't do anything except show up and that's just fine with me! :banana:
Can't wait - 400+ days is just too far away!

[UmmGooD]

We are also registered for this cruise. It will be me, my wife, DD8 (on spring break), and DD3. We are also trying for another baby so if she gets pregnant we might have to postpone but hopefully not.

We are from Austin, TX.

[Fleury]

We are also registered for this cruise. It will be me, my wife, DD8 (on spring break), and DD3. We are also trying for another baby so if she gets pregnant we might have to postpone but hopefully not.

We are from Austin, TX.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you - we are also hoping that the way to get pregnant after a long time of trying is to book a Disney Cruise - on the up side though, if she were to get pregnant in the next month or two, you could just bring the new baby along :) Good luck!

[UmmGooD]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you - we are also hoping that the way to get pregnant after a long time of trying is to book a Disney Cruise - on the up side though, if she were to get pregnant in the next month or two, you could just bring the new baby along :) Good luck!

Thanks!

Deciding to bring a new baby would be a hard decision. We booked the cruise knowing we can cancel close enough to the cruise and not incur penalties. In the past it took us a long time to get pregnant so it is a large possibility that she won't be pregnant by the cruise or maybe a few months pregnant.

[aamove]

This will be our first Disney Cruise and daughter 11s first. We look forward to our 2012 cruise

[FortWorthLeonardFam]

Hello Everybody!

We just booked a room on the Dream for our 2012 Spring Break! After watching all of the news media on the Dreams maiden voyage we decided we had to book one for ourselves. We have been on two Disney cruises on the Wonder but have been only 4 days. Looking forward to the 5 day and having two days on the Castaway Cay! Love it there! So far its just Me, DW, and 2 DD's that will be 9 and just turning 7! Our last Disney Cruise was March of 2009 and we did the park afterwards, big mistake! This time we may do a day or two before of madness at DW then will chill out and relax the rest of our vacation. If you have children 5-10 that will be on the cruise my DD's Avery and Ayden will be glad to meet them as they are outgoing and eager to please and make friends. Can't wait! Let us hear from you.

I have wondered if anybody does cocktail parties on the Disney Cruises? I have set up meet and greet before on another cruise line and it was a good time. Had made reservation with the line for an hour for a set amount of RSVP's that prepaid me and we had an open bar to meet and mingle on the ship. If Disney does this I'd be interested. Only like 14 more months!? Ugh!

Cheers,

D'Man
Fort Worth
Go Horned Frogs!

[UmmGooD]

Welcome fellow cruisers :)

FortWorthLeonardFam,
Hey we are from Texas too (Austin) so that will be fun. We have two daughters. One is around your kids age at 8 and the other will be three. Maybe our oldest will have something in common with your two :)

Also I have been reading about the Cabana's on CC and am interested in booking one. I might be interested in sharing one we'll have 4 in our party so if we can get another group of 4 with kids that would be great. (I would hate to subject a couple to kids). I think having the shaded area and less crowded beach would be great for our kids. It would come to $300/group.

I am not booked Concierge so hopefully a concierge guest will want to share or I can try to get one when we board.

[binab]

FortWorthLeonardFam - We're practically neighbors - we live about 30 mins west of Ft Worth. Are you part of the Ft. Worth famous Leonard family? I grew up in west Ft Worth, went to Marvin and Obie Leonard Middle School (ages ago), and have worked for RS in downtown FTW for nearly 20 yrs. I rode the M&O Subway til the last day. :( A group of my coworkers and I visited the Leonards museum in December - we enjoyed it very much. I'm too young to remember the actual store, but several of them did. Fort Worth is very proud of the Leonard family, past and present. :)

UmmGooD - I just posted in the Aft picture thread to you; seems we were after the same room. I've been kicking myself for messing that up, but still happy to be center aft. (...and if for some reason you end up getting preggo and have to cancel, PM me. Would still love to have that room. ;) )

[FortWorthLeonardFam]

Welcome fellow cruisers :)

FortWorthLeonardFam,
Hey we are from Texas too (Austin) so that will be fun. We have two daughters. One is around your kids age at 8 and the other will be three. Maybe our oldest will have something in common with your two :)

Also I have been reading about the Cabana's on CC and am interested in booking one. I might be interested in sharing one we'll have 4 in our party so if we can get another group of 4 with kids that would be great. (I would hate to subject a couple to kids). I think having the shaded area and less crowded beach would be great for our kids. It would come to $300/group.

I am not booked Concierge so hopefully a concierge guest will want to share or I can try to get one when we board.

I know our girls would love to have a playmate or two. I am not sure about the Cabanas on CC, haven't ever done one there but do know I am a redhead that needs some shade. That's something I'll have to look into and get back with you on. Last couple of times I was actually content sitting in the sun all day because the weather was perfect and the beer was cold.

We have family in Austin and Round Rock, so definately would like to meet y'all.

[FortWorthLeonardFam]

FortWorthLeonardFam - We're practically neighbors - we live about 30 mins west of Ft Worth. Are you part of the Ft. Worth famous Leonard family? I grew up in west Ft Worth, went to Marvin and Obie Leonard Middle School (ages ago), and have worked for RS in downtown FTW for nearly 20 yrs. I rode the M&O Subway til the last day. :( A group of my coworkers and I visited the Leonards museum in December - we enjoyed it very much. I'm too young to remember the actual store, but several of them did. Fort Worth is very proud of the Leonard family, past and present. :)

UmmGooD - I just posted in the Aft picture thread to you; seems we were after the same room. I've been kicking myself for messing that up, but still happy to be center aft. (...and if for some reason you end up getting preggo and have to cancel, PM me. Would still love to have that room. ;) )


I wish we were a part of the rich and famous Leonard's. They were a big part of shaping this great city we live in. Before the Bass family it was the Leonard's. I am proud to share the name and do what we can to make sure we don't tarnish it. We are making our own legacy though I guess.

I am also too young to remember the Leonard Store, but have had many conversations with older Fort Worth folks that remember it as the first and only Department store around to shop at. People would travel from far away to shop there. I also remember the long forgotten M&O Subway and the ice rink. We need something like that again around here.

My wife has RS as one of her accounts with MSFT. If you know anybody dealing with MSFT retail division they will know her, name is Robin. She just had dinner with some VP's last week at Del Frisco's.

We have spent the last few weeks driving around your neck of the woods, dreaming of more land and possible spot to build down the road after the girls get older. Driving around Aledo mostly, we have a place at Possum Kingdom that we may or may not keep as a weekend lake house. Just love the quick convenience of everything from where we are at. We live in the TCU/ZOO area and love it.

Where is the countdown clock at for our cruise?

[UmmGooD]

FortWorthLeonardFam - We're practically neighbors - we live about 30 mins west of Ft Worth. Are you part of the Ft. Worth famous Leonard family? I grew up in west Ft Worth, went to Marvin and Obie Leonard Middle School (ages ago), and have worked for RS in downtown FTW for nearly 20 yrs. I rode the M&O Subway til the last day. :( A group of my coworkers and I visited the Leonards museum in December - we enjoyed it very much. I'm too young to remember the actual store, but several of them did. Fort Worth is very proud of the Leonard family, past and present. :)

UmmGooD - I just posted in the Aft picture thread to you; seems we were after the same room. I've been kicking myself for messing that up, but still happy to be center aft. (...and if for some reason you end up getting preggo and have to cancel, PM me. Would still love to have that room. ;) )

I'll definitely let you know first if I do have to cancel but I would be very disappointed to have to give it up :)

I know our girls would love to have a playmate or two. I am not sure about the Cabanas on CC, haven't ever done one there but do know I am a redhead that needs some shade. That's something I'll have to look into and get back with you on. Last couple of times I was actually content sitting in the sun all day because the weather was perfect and the beer was cold.

We have family in Austin and Round Rock, so definately would like to meet y'all.

It will be our first time on a cruise so I am not sure if I would want a cabana or not. It might be nice when our youngest wants her 3 hour afternoon nap. I guess the other option would be to take her back on the ship while one parent stays with our oldest on the beach.

[TXCrew]

OK, hopefully I not going to jinx this trip....I have booked 2 Disney cruises previously, only to cancel them as my wife ended up pregnant both times :scared1:!! A little too much "magic" I guess :rotfl2:. It'll be me, dw, dd (17 at cruise time), ds (15), dd (13), ds (11), ds (7), and ds (3). We, too, are from the Austin area. Glad to hear there will be a lot of Texans on board!!

[FortWorthLeonardFam]

OK, hopefully I not going to jinx this trip....I have booked 2 Disney cruises previously, only to cancel them as my wife ended up pregnant both times :scared1:!! A little too much "magic" I guess :rotfl2:. It'll be me, dw, dd (17 at cruise time), ds (15), dd (13), ds (11), ds (7), and ds (3). We, too, are from the Austin area. Glad to hear there will be a lot of Texans on board!!

You must be a fellow Irish Catholic with that many kids! I am the oldest of 10 combined! Either way you all deserve a Disney Cruise by now! They are very family oriented and have something for everybody in the family. We have told our girls if they are good and get good grades we will take them on another Disney Cruise! Hopefullly they realize one day how good they had it. We never got to do this as kids, so we are kind of living through them now as grown ups.

[aamove]

Just finished booking on the 3-13-2012 Disney Dream cruise. Cast of characters include me DW and DD12. Booked in a deluxe inside cabin and DD can' wait to see the virtual porthole. Only been on one cruise before and it was a 5 day cruise on the Carnival Ecstacy out of Galveston. Looking forward to seeing the Disney difference. We are also from Texas, Just east of Dallas.

[Fleury]

Hi everyone! Just booked a room on this cruise for DH, DD(5) and DS(2). We will be sailing our first Disney cruise in May 2011 on the Dream and now decided to book something during my daughters March Break. We are from Toronto and look forward to meeting everyone in 2012. :banana::banana:

Yay! Nice to know some Canucks will be on the cruise! :) :yay: Though, I figured with it being March Break and all ... We live in a little town about 2 hours northwest of Toronto (Mount Forest) and my husband's brother and his wife who are also coming along, live in Oakville. We're trying to convince some friends of ours who live at Wasaga Beach to come along as well! :)

[UmmGooD]

OK, hopefully I not going to jinx this trip....I have booked 2 Disney cruises previously, only to cancel them as my wife ended up pregnant both times :scared1:!! A little too much "magic" I guess :rotfl2:. It'll be me, dw, dd (17 at cruise time), ds (15), dd (13), ds (11), ds (7), and ds (3). We, too, are from the Austin area. Glad to hear there will be a lot of Texans on board!!

Welcome fellow Austinite! You have quite the age spread for your kids. I too am hoping we can go on this cruise. If my wife does get pregnant again it would be wonderful but bittersweet at the same time.

I will have to bring some longhorn flags to fly from my balcony!

You must be a fellow Irish Catholic with that many kids! I am the oldest of 10 combined! Either way you all deserve a Disney Cruise by now! They are very family oriented and have something for everybody in the family. We have told our girls if they are good and get good grades we will take them on another Disney Cruise! Hopefullly they realize one day how good they had it. We never got to do this as kids, so we are kind of living through them now as grown ups.

I never got to do it either. I am the first on my mom's side of the family with a college education and enough disposable income to do something like this so it is pretty special. Now to just have to figure out how to make them not so spoiled.

Just finished booking on the 3-13-2012 Disney Dream cruise. Cast of characters include me DW and DD12. Booked in a deluxe inside cabin and DD can' wait to see the virtual porthole. Only been on one cruise before and it was a 5 day cruise on the Carnival Ecstacy out of Galveston. Looking forward to seeing the Disney difference. We are also from Texas, Just east of Dallas.

Welcome fellow Texan! My wife and I almost took a RCCL cruise on the Voyager out of Galveston in November last year. We had to cancel because my work sent me to Switzerland (and let my wife attend) in June and we didn't want to leave the kids 2 times in the same year so we cancelled.

I'll let you enjoy my verandah for awhile if you let me check out that virtual porthole. I am a bit disappointed I don't get to experience it.

[MerissaAndMomLoveDis]

Hello Everyone! My daughter Merissa (10 at time of cruise) and I (Rhonda) are on this cruise during her spring break 2012. We are from Desoto, TX, just south of Dallas. This is our first Disney cruise and we are very very excited! :yay:

UmmGood--I had considered finding a family or two to share a Cabana at Castaway Cay. It IS expensive, but I may be interested. We are not in concierge though, so cannot help you with early booking.

FtWorthLeonardFam--re: cocktail hour dismeet--I don't drink much, but I saw on a trip report that some Dis'ers set up a Make Your Own Mojito Tasting meet. Each person had the setups to make 4 kinds of mojitos and were led thru how to make them by the bartenders, then, of course, the tasting! It looked incredibly fun and I would definitely be in for something like that!

aamove--My brother in law is a principal in Forney. Great little town!

Nice to "meet" you all!!!!

[Ted in Halifax]

Ok, I'm not a Texan ... but I'd love to join Y'All .... I'm booked! Excited! :banana:

`Me, DW (Tracey), DS10 (James), DD8(Avery).

We are Disney world experienced, but Cruise rookies!

[kelly1275]

:cheer2::cheer2:[QUOTE=UmmGooD;39592446]Thanks!

Deciding to bring a new baby would be a hard decision. We booked the cruise knowing we can cancel close enough to the cruise and not incur penalties. In the past it took us a long time to get pregnant so it is a large possibility that she won't be pregnant by the cruise or maybe a few months pregnant.[/QUOTE

Must be in the water cuz we've been trying for almost 4 years to get pregnant so hoping booking this cruise will do it, good luck!

[kelly1275]

Hello everyone, we're not from Texas either but we love it there does that count :). We are from Ohio. We are booked for March 13 and can't wait. Have my disney app on phone counting down. This will be our first cruise! We have an oceanview room. Can't wait to try the slide and mojito's if we all meet. So far this trip includes me, DH, DS(will be 7 when cruise), mother in law. Would love for my son to meet some kids around his age to hang out with. He doesn't meet a stranger so if anyone has kids around his age maybe we could get them together. Going to be a long year waiting for this cruise, especially since we cancelled this years vacation so we could go!

[Queen of Oakville]

Hey all! Coming at you from Oakville, Ontario (hey, to my fellow Cannucks!)

Just booked this week and we're uber excited .... to the point, we're I'm just "enh" about our cruise on Holland America next month! I need to stop thinking about Disney, and focus on how much fun we'll have on Eurodam.


When we sail next year, it will be DH and myself, and at the time my daughter will just have turned 6 and my son will be 4 1/2.

[Queen of Oakville]

oh ... and i came here looking to see if there was an explanation for "fish extender". I understand that its a giveaway of sorts .... but why do they call it fish extender?

[ambushangel]

I know it's still over a year away but we just finalized our 3rd cruise.

My DS (15 now) is so excited. We just love DCL.

Looking forward to connecting with fellow cruisers on this trip.

:cutie:

:cloud9:

[FortWorthLeonardFam]

oh ... and i came here looking to see if there was an explanation for "fish extender". I understand that its a giveaway of sorts .... but why do they call it fish extender?

Hello there and welcome to the Dream Cruise forum, we can't wait. There are threads posted about these fish extenders in depth. Basically they are ornamental fish things extending from every cabin door I believe with the cabin number, that can hold mail letters, or a bag of goodies that people will hang up. I know lots of people will buy goodies like candy, home town keepsakes, magnets, sometimes little bottles of liquor, or whatever. They will get a group together from these boards and exchange room numbers and basic info about who is in the cabin and anonymously give little surprises to other DIS cruisers on the boards on on board. It sounds like fun and gives the kids a little extra surprise at the end of a long day or morning to start the day. Just do a little search about it and you'll see what I am talking about.

[Queen of Oakville]

THansk! I was looking at the door magnets thread this morning (Show your door?) and it "clicked". Once i saw the fish, the "extender" part made sense.

Does this group want to do the FE gifts?

[UmmGooD]

UmmGood--I had considered finding a family or two to share a Cabana at Castaway Cay. It IS expensive, but I may be interested. We are not in concierge though, so cannot help you with early booking.

FtWorthLeonardFam--re: cocktail hour dismeet--I don't drink much, but I saw on a trip report that some Dis'ers set up a Make Your Own Mojito Tasting meet. Each person had the setups to make 4 kinds of mojitos and were led thru how to make them by the bartenders, then, of course, the tasting! It looked incredibly fun and I would definitely be in for something like that!


Well we'll have to consider that Cabana. I really think it would help with the kids having a place we could take a break.

We aren't much drinkers either but we recently have taken a liking to some black cherry Mojitos they have at a restaurant near our house. Super yummy.

:cheer2::cheer2:

Must be in the water cuz we've been trying for almost 4 years to get pregnant so hoping booking this cruise will do it, good luck!

I hope you get pregnant. Our first child took about 2 years and the second took over 3.

Hello everyone, we're not from Texas either but we love it there does that count :). We are from Ohio. We are booked for March 13 and can't wait. Have my disney app on phone counting down. This will be our first cruise! We have an oceanview room. Can't wait to try the slide and mojito's if we all meet. So far this trip includes me, DH, DS(will be 7 when cruise), mother in law. Would love for my son to meet some kids around his age to hang out with. He doesn't meet a stranger so if anyone has kids around his age maybe we could get them together. Going to be a long year waiting for this cruise, especially since we cancelled this years vacation so we could go!

As long as you love it here it is fine.

My daughter will be 8 and is very outgoing. I am sure she'll be happy to drag your son to whatever activity she thinks suits her best. :rotfl:

[ambushangel]

THansk! I was looking at the door magnets thread this morning (Show your door?) and it "clicked". Once i saw the fish, the "extender" part made sense.

Does this group want to do the FE gifts?

Hello Queen,

After looking at what feels like a million different ideas, I'd be up for the FE exchange.
:cloud9:

[Queen of Oakville]

Hello Queen,

After looking at what feels like a million different ideas, I'd be up for the FE exchange.
:cloud9:


Is there a veteran here who can organize this? does it need organizing?

[Queen of Oakville]

Is there a veteran here who can organize this? does it need organizing?

I just wanted to clarify too, that I'd be up for doign it, if the numbers are small. I read on one of the threads, that someone had to do 150 FEs. I could not imagine doing so many or carting them to Oralando from home. It sounds like a lot of fun and added magic for the children.

Who else is interested?

[ambushangel]

Decision to cruise made. - check.

Pick out cruise dates - check.

Pick room - check and got !!!

Make arrangements and book - check.

Dining rotation picked - check.

Signed teenager up for Vibe - check.

All there is left to do is wait....... that's the part I'm not looking forward to. Guess I'll be on the boards often to kill time.

Count us in for the FE as well.

[binab]

Removed my comments about pricing - seems the 6a's are sold out now and I must have caught it when the system was in a wierd place. :) It was showing nearly 5K for a party of 3, but it looks like all the other categories are still pretty much where they were... whew, that was freaking me out.

I would love to participate in the FE - sounds like so much fun!

Anyone else planning a few days at the World beforehand? Any idea when we'll be able to start booking for resort stays?

[kelly1275]

UmmGooD Your daughter sounds like my son. If it's a girl he'll follow her anywhere...lol.

[kelly1275]

I wouldn't mind participating in the FE to, sounds like fun.

[Texasmomof3]

:cool1:Looks like Texans are taking over the March 13, cruise. This will be our second cruise with Disney. The last one was when our youngest was 6 months old and she will be 6 when we cruise this time. We also have a DS who will be 14 and another DD who will be turning 11 right after the cruise. My husbands whole family is joining us to celebrate his parents 50th wedding anniversary along with our good friends who were on our last cruise with us. I think we are up to 21 people now. So there's more Texans to add to the group! I am hoping to find a little friend for my 6 year old to play with since she is the baby of the family and has no cousins or friends close to her age. We need to get a bunch of Texas magnets for our doors as we take over the ship.:yay:

[ambushangel]

Can't believe that in almost 1 year we'll be on the ship.

It will be Ontario March Break and I'm sure that we'll be able to fill up a couple of more rooms with Canadian Disney Fans.

I'm looking forward to chatting with my fellow cruisers for the next little while and passing the months away.

Our party is very small, just 2 of us. My DS will be 16 when we travel but we both really enjoy cruising with the Mouse. This will be our 3. It's been a while since our last trip (2006). We're very much looking forward to enjoying some much needed time away.


:cloud9:

[csidisney]

I just booked this cruise to lock in the rate. Unless some awesome kids sail free or something comes up, I'll be on this cruise for Spring Break next year. I really want that "double dip". :goodvibes

It will be me, DH, and DS (almost 6 at sailing), and DD (4).

We are going on a 4 night Dream cruise this May...if anyone has anything specific they want me to check out, let me know. :cool1:

[MerissaAndMomLoveDis]

:cool1:Looks like Texans are taking over the March 13, cruise. This will be our second cruise with Disney. The last one was when our youngest was 6 months old and she will be 6 when we cruise this time. We also have a DS who will be 14 and another DD who will be turning 11 right after the cruise. My husbands whole family is joining us to celebrate his parents 50th wedding anniversary along with our good friends who were on our last cruise with us. I think we are up to 21 people now. So there's more Texans to add to the group! I am hoping to find a little friend for my 6 year old to play with since she is the baby of the family and has no cousins or friends close to her age. We need to get a bunch of Texas magnets for our doors as we take over the ship.:yay:

Hi! :wave2: My daughter Merissa will be 10 on this cruise also. Just the two of us traveling, so she will definitely be looking for friends to hang out with. Love the idea of Texas magnets!

[Queen of Oakville]

So, any takers for organizing the FE gift exchange?

Can we set some dollar limits? I'd personally like to keep it inexpensive. From what I can see, some do one gift per cabin, whereas others do one gift per child or per person? My preference would be one gift per child or one gift per cabin.

Who wants to organize??????????????? My thought is it should be someone who's done this before.

If anyone wants to start a list..... When we sail, DD will be 6 and DS will be 4.

I'm so stoked about this; everytime I go shopping, I've got my eyes open for gift ideas. I know its still plenty early, but I'd love if we could set down some guidelines for our FE.

[spitfirern]

And a newbie to the board. We are soooo looking foward to this! Can't wait! Our son Holden will be 12 when we go.

:banana:

Oh! And totally count us in on the FEs!

[Kias]

And a newbie to the board. We are soooo looking foward to this! Can't wait! Our son Holden will be 12 when we go.

:banana:

Oh! And totally count us in on the FEs!

Welcome newbie! Very strange... My son's name is Holden, and my wife's name is Julia also. :rolleyes1

[spitfirern]

Rob (Kias) and I are from Ohio, and I saw Kelly from OHio on this board too.

I love the sound of mojitos! Our DS (11) was looking at videos on youtube today of the ship, etc and is super geeked! He saw all the video games and I think he lost consciousness for a minute. LOL :worship:

Planning my FE and told Holden he's in charge of the magnets! We will be driving down from the Toledo area and probably going to Universal for the day before to see the Harry Potter Wizarding World. H has been a big Harry Potter guy since he was little.

Looking forward to getting to know everyone. Would LOVE to do a mixer when we get there, like someone mentioned.

We are big Geocachers and Letterboxers and have started looking for those on the stops as well :mickeyjum:

We have 3 older kids in college, and this will be our first big trip without them and our first cruise ever.

[sparty7798]

Hi,
We went the same cruise week in March and it was mainly Texans and people from Canada. We are very much looking forward to this cruise. We did the Wonder in 2010.

We will have a son that will just have turned 5 and a 9 month old son who is due this June.

We are looking forward to meeting everyone!

[ambushangel]

Rob (Kias) and I are from Ohio, and I saw Kelly from OHio on this board too.

I love the sound of mojitos! Our DS (11) was looking at videos on youtube today of the ship, etc and is super geeked! He saw all the video games and I think he lost consciousness for a minute. LOL :worship:

Planning my FE and told Holden he's in charge of the magnets! We will be driving down from the Toledo area and probably going to Universal for the day before to see the Harry Potter Wizarding World. H has been a big Harry Potter guy since he was little.

Looking forward to getting to know everyone. Would LOVE to do a mixer when we get there, like someone mentioned.

We are big Geocachers and Letterboxers and have started looking for those on the stops as well :mickeyjum:

We have 3 older kids in college, and this will be our first big trip without them and our first cruise ever.


Hello there,

Just wanted to let you know that your post made me smile. My DS and I are also on the cruise and he's such a big Harry Potter Fan as well. We actually stood outside the house where they filmed the street that he lived on, "under the stairs" shots. We did a Harry Potter's London tour last summer. Have the pictures of the trolly going through platform 9 3/4.

We're working Universal into our plans before the cruise.

Looking forward to chatting.
:cloud9:

[spitfirern]

Maybe we'll have to meet up for lunch or something on Monday at Honeydukes or something. :)

I think I"m looking foward to Universal as much as he is!

Julia

[kelly1275]

SPITFIRERN-Going to Universal does sound awesome. My DH, DS, and I all love Harry Potter and i've been wanting to go there. Especially since the cruise doesn't leave til Tuesday then we are so there. I wanna try the butter beer.

[spitfirern]

Me too! I hope it all lives up to the picture in my head from reading all the books numerous times!

[UmmGooD]

Removed my comments about pricing - seems the 6a's are sold out now and I must have caught it when the system was in a wierd place. :) It was showing nearly 5K for a party of 3, but it looks like all the other categories are still pretty much where they were... whew, that was freaking me out.

I would love to participate in the FE - sounds like so much fun!

Anyone else planning a few days at the World beforehand? Any idea when we'll be able to start booking for resort stays?

I might consider a stay in one of the resort hotels right before the cruise. Maybe some time at DTD but I don't know if we'll hit the parks. I might only allow one day. We have also been considering a beach day before the cruise but the more I think about it we'll have 3 days in port for beach days.

I am glad I booked when I did. I got a great room and the price wasn't too bad for spring break.

UmmGooD Your daughter sounds like my son. If it's a girl he'll follow her anywhere...lol.

Last time I checked she was a girl haha :)

She'll be happy to have an entourage.

:cool1:Looks like Texans are taking over the March 13, cruise. This will be our second cruise with Disney. The last one was when our youngest was 6 months old and she will be 6 when we cruise this time. We also have a DS who will be 14 and another DD who will be turning 11 right after the cruise. My husbands whole family is joining us to celebrate his parents 50th wedding anniversary along with our good friends who were on our last cruise with us. I think we are up to 21 people now. So there's more Texans to add to the group! I am hoping to find a little friend for my 6 year old to play with since she is the baby of the family and has no cousins or friends close to her age. We need to get a bunch of Texas magnets for our doors as we take over the ship.:yay:

I might put my longhorn magnet on the door ;)

With this many Texans it might be possible to arrange a clay pigeon shooting festival off of the upper deck. j/k...

[ambushangel]

Well we're almost at the year mark. Hopefully time will start to move a little faster for everyone.

The snow is starting to disappear here in Ottawa and that puts us in the mood for trip planning.

Looking forward to chatting with everyone to count down the days!!

M
:cloud9:

[Kias]

Looks like we picked the popular cruise! Inside staterooms, and Oceanview staterooms appear to be sold out! Prices are skyrocketing too! One year and three days to go!!!

[Queen of Oakville]

Ha ha, it was you! I thought I recognized your screen name Ambushangel ... I posted to you at CC.

[bluenosemickey]

Hey there everyone! Big group of Atlantic Canadians coming aboard!
There are 7 families coming in my group. Kids are going to be 5,5,8,9,9,10,10,11,11,12,14... Only two boys 9&12.

We are all newbies to cruising. We've been to WDW in smaller groups together over the past few years and once word of the cruise got out, everybody jumped on board!:rotfl2:

Got over the one year mark, should fly by now.;)

[Ted in Halifax]

bluenosemickey ..... we need to compare notes on airfare! :cool1:

[Texasmomof3]

SPITFIRERN-Going to Universal does sound awesome. My DH, DS, and I all love Harry Potter and i've been wanting to go there. Especially since the cruise doesn't leave til Tuesday then we are so there. I wanna try the butter beer.

:)We did Universal over Thanksgiving break this year - very very crowded but way cool! We stayed at one of their hotels and got admission an hour early to HP land which was so worth it. Butter beer is better frozen very sweet!

[bluenosemickey]

Yes, Ted, we'll have to do some searching. I've read your posts on the transportation board. I think you're the flight guru for Halifax. At least it will give us something to do until next march!

[Ted in Halifax]

I think you mean Researching! :) That's my specialty ... and I suspect your too! ;)

[spitfirern]

YAY! Looks like my son will have some company! GOOD! He will be 12 in January


:dance3:

Julia, Holden and Rob

[jenerra11]

Just got off the 3/13/11 sailing and re-booked on board for the 3/13/12 sailing. You guys will love the ship, She is breathtaking!! Loved all the restaurants except Enchanted Garden(limited menu). However, we had a wonderful time and enjoyed the Aqua Duck. Tip.... The best time to ride the Aqua Duck is on CC morning. We rode it 3 times in a row. Can't wait until next Spring Break:banana:

[aamove]

Welcome fellow Texan! My wife and I almost took a RCCL cruise on the Voyager out of Galveston in November last year. We had to cancel because my work sent me to Switzerland (and let my wife attend) in June and we didn't want to leave the kids 2 times in the same year so we cancelled.

I'll let you enjoy my verandah for awhile if you let me check out that virtual porthole. I am a bit disappointed I don't get to experience it.[/QUOTE]

Sounds like a deal, would love to check out the Veranda and we were originally going to book one but the DD wanted to do the virtual porthole.
It really looks like there will be a lot of Texans on the cruise. It will be great and I look forward to checking out all the door decorations and fish extenders. A lot of Canandians also, great times, honest eh? DW is originally from Oklahoma and I"m from Michigan, daughter is 100% Texan. We will probably represent all three states on our door. We are in cabin 9049 deluxe inside, deck 9 of course. What really surprised me was the number of inside cabins, or lack thereof on the ship. And then to have only 19 of them be deluxe, it is no wonder that they sell out so quick. We look forward to a good time and can't believe that we have less than a year to go.:cool1:

[Kap@abq]

Hello everyone - Just returned today from the Wonder MR Cruise, it being our first Disney cruise (12th cruise all together) we had such a great time we booked on board for the DREAM double dip. If the DREAM is anything like the WONDER I'm sure we will all have a great time. Traveling will be DH, Myself and DD (8) her spring break, we are from Alb, NM We are seeing if friends or family want to join so we will see. We traveled this spring break just the three of us and met some great people aboard the ship. FE is a must :banana: and even though its a year out, I would consider organizing it but it is a year out, I'm a planner but a year out wow! I'm still on the high of the WONDER but know this will be equally great. My DH after we booked told me I couldn't start counting down till after Christmas, but I can frequent the boards, which I know I will. I look forward to getting to know you all and its so fun to start planning a year in advance.

[UmmGooD]

Well I am disappointed but we are going to have to cancel. :(

The good news is my wife is pregnant and she is due in December. We don't think for us the baby will be old enough to sail plus our room won't sleep 5 so we need to cancel our reservation. I am bummed I wanted to go on this cruise pretty bad. We'll have to rebook much later probably if we can even afford the latest prices.

[csidisney]

Hello everyone - Just returned today from the Wonder MR Cruise, it being our first Disney cruise (12th cruise all together) we had such a great time we booked on board for the DREAM double dip. If the DREAM is anything like the WONDER I'm sure we will all have a great time. Traveling will be DH, Myself and DD (8) her spring break, we are from Alb, NM We are seeing if friends or family want to join so we will see. We traveled this spring break just the three of us and met some great people aboard the ship. FE is a must :banana: and even though its a year out, I would consider organizing it but it is a year out, I'm a planner but a year out wow! I'm still on the high of the WONDER but know this will be equally great. My DH after we booked told me I couldn't start counting down till after Christmas, but I can frequent the boards, which I know I will. I look forward to getting to know you all and its so fun to start planning a year in advance.

If you don't mind me asking, what price did they quote you onboard? I wanted to reshop this onboard but I am thinking I probably already got the cheapest that will be out there.

And Ummgood, congrats on the new baby!!

[FortWorthLeonardFam]

Hi,
We went the same cruise week in March and it was mainly Texans and people from Canada. We are very much looking forward to this cruise. We did the Wonder in 2010.

We will have a son that will just have turned 5 and a 9 month old son who is due this June.

We are looking forward to meeting everyone!

No Offense if you aren't Texan or Canadian, but I haven't met many of either I didn't like, just good people. Cheers to y'all eh! and another cheers to everybody else!

We'd be down for some FE's if I can find anything cool and small to pack. Two DD's 9,7. Haven't done the FE's before on previous Dis cruise, but was kinda jealous of those that did it.

Dman

[FortWorthLeonardFam]

Well I am disappointed but we are going to have to cancel. :(

The good news is my wife is pregnant and she is due in December. We don't think for us the baby will be old enough to sail plus our room won't sleep 5 so we need to cancel our reservation. I am bummed I wanted to go on this cruise pretty bad. We'll have to rebook much later probably if we can even afford the latest prices.

Sorry you have to miss it but kids are more important.

[krishouse]

Hi everyone!
Another Canadian to add to the mix!
It will be myself, DH and DS 11, and DS 8.
I am so excited, we have not cruised in a couple of years and that was on the Magic, I am reading all about the Dream.
Kristin

[Kap@abq]

[QUOTE=csidisney;40425836]If you don't mind me asking, what price did they quote you onboard? I wanted to reshop this onboard but I am thinking I probably already got the cheapest that will be out there.

10% off the web price plus on board credit. Hope that helps.

[Ted in Halifax]

Thanks Kap@abq, I was wondering that too!

[kelly1275]

Just got off the 3/13/11 sailing and re-booked on board for the 3/13/12 sailing. You guys will love the ship, She is breathtaking!! Loved all the restaurants except Enchanted Garden(limited menu). However, we had a wonderful time and enjoyed the Aqua Duck. Tip.... The best time to ride the Aqua Duck is on CC morning. We rode it 3 times in a row. Can't wait until next Spring Break:banana:

I was wondering what the temp is like this time a year. Was it warm enough to get in the ocean? What was the temp like on board, sailing? Never been on a cruise but i'm guessing i'll love it enough to book again for another cruise while on board this one ha ha.

[jenerra11]

I was wondering what the temp is like this time a year. Was it warm enough to get in the ocean? What was the temp like on board, sailing? Never been on a cruise but i'm guessing i'll love it enough to book again for another cruise while on board this one ha ha.The water was a little cool but far from cold. Many kids and adults were in the ocean. The weather was beautiful (mid 70s). In addition, you may want to bring your own alarm clock. The stateroom clocks were very difficult to operate.

[csidisney]

I looked today and the price is nearly 2000 more than what we locked in! Gheesh! No way I'll be able to reshop this onboard and beat the price...but maybe they will manually adjust to give me the OBC :confused3

[Queen of Oakville]

I was wondering what the temp is like this time a year. Was it warm enough to get in the ocean? What was the temp like on board, sailing? Never been on a cruise but i'm guessing i'll love it enough to book again for another cruise while on board this one ha ha.

We just got off HAL Eurodam .... the water in Grand Turk, was less than warm, but certainly swimmable. We had warm water in Magen's Bay, St. Thomas. And we had wonderful swimming water (slightly less than warm, with hot sun beating down on you) in HMC, Bahamas. I'd expect CC to be similar to HMC.

[Ted in Halifax]

Has this cruise sold out? I just looked on the Disney Cruise website and it doesn't show up when I search.

[bhayes]

Woo Hoo! So excited to be sailing the Dream! We just moved our summer 2011 cruise to this (March 13, 2012) one! This will be our 3rd Disney Cruise (Magic - 7 night, October 2007 & Magic - 12 night Northern Europe, July 2010).

Sailing will be DH, me, DS12 (almost 13 at time of sailing) and DD10.

[krishouse]

Has this cruise sold out? I just looked on the Disney Cruise website and it doesn't show up when I search.

I just checked today, and it looks like it is. The date does not show up at all!

[Kias]

It's back today! Not much of a choice in rooms though. It's probably sold out, but rooms probably become available as people move/cancel their cruise dates around.

[dawnette]

WOOOO HOOOOOO!!! We're in! How do I find out what all of these abreviations mean on these posts?

[Kias]

WOOOO HOOOOOO!!! We're in! How do I find out what all of these abreviations mean on these posts?

Welcome!

Who's "We"?

You can start here for general abbreviations: http://www.wdwinfo.com/abbreviations.htm

Then go here for Disney Cruise Line Specific abbreviations:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2068966

You can ask too. :cool1:

[krishouse]

Hi everyone!
Have we decided if everyone is in to do a Fish Extender Exchange?
I am in if we are.... I have been in one before but never organized it, has anyone decided if they would like to?
I do remember that we all posted our party information including, age, male, female etc... As the cruise got closer we did an excel spreadsheet with room numbers and grouping, this made it easy when you were handing them out.

I should be studying for nursing exams and I find myself on the disboards looking for more and more info on the Dream!

Cannot wait to cruise!

Have a great day!:thumbsup2
Kristin

[Kap@abq]

[QUOTE=krishouse;40591513]Hi everyone!
Have we decided if everyone is in to do a Fish Extender Exchange?
I am in if we are.... I have been in one before but never organized it, has anyone decided if they would like to?
I do remember that we all posted our party information including, age, male, female etc... As the cruise got closer we did an excel spreadsheet with room numbers and grouping, this made it easy when you were handing them out.

Hi Kristin - Earlier in this posting I said I would take on the organizing the FE if no one else would but thought it was a bit too early to get this started right at the moment. I'm thinking I can start getting the list together by Nov 2011 but have the deadline to sign up be Jan 2012. I just got off the Wonder and that is about the time our organizer got it going. People start getting anty around Jan on how many people they have to prepare for. Does this sound good to everyone. I guess I've taken the task on unless soneone else wants it.

Also does anyone know what princess the Dream has. For instance the Wonder was all Ariel jsut wondering who the Dream is about. Thanks

Oh and welcome Dawnette!!!! We are so excited your going with us on this cruise. :banana:

Kathy

[krishouse]

That is great Kathy!!
I must have missed your post! I think that it will work out perfectly to get a list together for November. That way if there are changes, such as cancellation it is not a huge deal.
You are wonderful for taking on this task. Thank you!
Kristin

[nancynymomof3]

but we will be on this cruise. Our first cruise ever and I'm so happy it will be with Disney!:goodvibes Cruising with me (for my 40th birthday, ouch) will be DH (38 when we go. Yea, yea, he's younger than me.), DD (will be 14), DD (will be 11) and DS will be almost 8.

I'm a planner so I started reading these boards as soon as we booked. I've learned so much and don't think I can wait another year. Although, turning 40 I can wait for.:scared1:

[kelly1275]

The water was a little cool but far from cold. Many kids and adults were in the ocean. The weather was beautiful (mid 70s). In addition, you may want to bring your own alarm clock. The stateroom clocks were very difficult to operate.

Thanks for the info. Sounds like it will be warm enough for me :) Good idea on the alarm, I had heard about those pesky ones they have onboard.

[kelly1275]

We just got off HAL Eurodam .... the water in Grand Turk, was less than warm, but certainly swimmable. We had warm water in Magen's Bay, St. Thomas. And we had wonderful swimming water (slightly less than warm, with hot sun beating down on you) in HMC, Bahamas. I'd expect CC to be similar to HMC.

Thanks for the info. Can't wait to go!!!

[kelly1275]

but we will be on this cruise. Our first cruise ever and I'm so happy it will be with Disney!:goodvibes Cruising with me (for my 40th birthday, ouch) will be DH (38 when we go. Yea, yea, he's younger than me.), DD (will be 14), DD (will be 11) and DS will be almost 8.

I'm a planner so I started reading these boards as soon as we booked. I've learned so much and don't think I can wait another year. Although, turning 40 I can wait for.:scared1:

Welcome aboard pirate: This is our first cruise to and this waiting is driving me batty:eek: I have 5 years until i'm 40 but i'll be there before I know it but 40 is the new 30 right :rotfl2: My DS will be 7 1/2 when we go. I've been reading everything on these boards since we booked in January. My DH is like if you keep looking at pics and stuff you won't have any surprises but I know pics don't do the real thing justice so i'll keep looking.

[csidisney]

I just cancelled my reservation on this cruise. I decided to go on the Magic instead before it leaves Port Canaveral. We'll be on the Dream in a few weeks and my goal is to experience all 4 Disney ships while my children are small...I hope you all enjoy your spring break next year!! :goodvibes

[BrennaM]

Hey All!

Well you can add another Canadian Family to the mix! Seems like we Canucks have to gather on a cruise to meet each other. heheh. Anyways We are a family of 4, Myself, DH and 2 DDs (14 & 13 at sailing) and staying in adjoining Verandah rooms on the 7th floor. We have a late seating for dinner. We hail from Loretto, Ontario..and for you fellow Canucks we are located about 10 minutes south of Alliston.

This is our second cruise. We did the Western Caribbean on the Magic just this past December and can I say that I think we have switched from being just Disney World addicts to Disney Cruise and Disney World addicts. We are going to be doing a Land and Sea using our DVC membership in Animal Kingdom Resort before the cruise and then sailing. BTW March 13th is going to be my birthday, so you could say I got one heck of a birthday present for next year!

A few things from reading through the boards....first...is our original poster no longer on the cruise? Wondering if we should make a new thread to someone that is on the cruise so we could keep an updated list of passengers on the first page as well as any other important info. We did this for my last cruise as well when the original poster left.

Second...Cabanas....WORTH IT!! Love love loved ours! Just the private beach section alone makes it worth it. Of course I loved the little red button as well....heheh instant service. I'll post pics if people would like.

Third...Fish Extenders...gotta research it a bit more, but I just might be interested this time around.

Fourth...Cruise Meet/Meets... I would recommend more than 1 cruise meet if you are doing one on the first day (day of boarding) of the cruise. (actually I recommend we do it on the second day) My last cruise had a meet at 3pm on the day of boarding, but we didn't even get on the ship till 3:30. We did a transfer from the Animal Kingdom resort so we were stuck on their bus schedule.

I think that is it for now...Anyways looking forward to another awesome cruise!

[UmmGooD]

Well the good news for us is my wife wants to take our new baby on the cruise. So I called to add the baby to our room but we can't because we are already at capacity for that stateroom. The people at DCL were nice enough to offer to move us to a cat 5 for the price we already booked but the connecting stateroom would have been a price increase so to add the baby would have boiled down to about 3k more than the price we had our 6A booked at.

No cat 4's were available.

I decided to move to the Wonder cruise on the same week. I got nervous about the pools being so crowded and our kids are pool fanatics. I think we'll enjoy the Wonder but I am disappointed we won't be sailing on the new ship. :( Maybe another time. I am excited though that I'll be able to get an In-n-out burger on the way to the port :)

[BrennaM]

UmmGooD - Sorry to see you aren't going to be on our cruise, but thrilled you are able to still take one. Congrats on the baby! I hope everything goes well for the DW!


Fish Extenders - Ok I've researched and I don't mind heading up a FE for this cruise. If you are interested in joining in the fun just give me a PM and I'll set things up. I think once we establish how many approx. will be in the list we can set up a dollar amount and discuss other specifics.

Cabanas - If you scroll down to the end of the gallery here http://gallery.me.com/brennamount/100120 you can see some of the cabana shots on Castaway Cay.

[Kap@abq]

BrennaM - (QUOTE) Fish Extenders - Ok I've researched and I don't mind heading up a FE for this cruise. If you are interested in joining in the fun just give me a PM and I'll set things up. I think once we establish how many approx. will be in the list we can set up a dollar amount and discuss other specifics.


In my posting #89 I said I would organize the FE but thought 300+ days was to early to even start planning for this. We are still having people leave and join and I'm sure this will continue for the next 6 months. It was decided we would start the list in Nov and then the cut off would be Jan, this will give everyone plenty of time to plan and create. More details to come when the list is started in Nov. Thanks Kathy

PS and yet is it sad I know we have 300+ days till this amazing cruise. :scared1:

[BrennaM]

Kap@abq - Yeah I went back and reread all the posts and noticed that you had posted that. I'm sorry I gapped out on it. Well you can for sure count me in on the Exchange! heheh If you need any help with anything just let me know.

[krishouse]

Happy Easter weekend everyone!!! I am going to indulge in my sweets this weekend and then my plan is to get my butt on a bicycle so that I will not horrify everyone on Castaway Cay in March! lol.
Kristin

[aamove]

BrennaM - (QUOTE) Fish Extenders - Ok I've researched and I don't mind heading up a FE for this cruise. If you are interested in joining in the fun just give me a PM and I'll set things up. I think once we establish how many approx. will be in the list we can set up a dollar amount and discuss other specifics.


In my posting #89 I said I would organize the FE but thought 300+ days was to early to even start planning for this. We are still having people leave and join and I'm sure this will continue for the next 6 months. It was decided we would start the list in Nov and then the cut off would be Jan, this will give everyone plenty of time to plan and create. More details to come when the list is started in Nov. Thanks Kathy

PS and yet is it sad I know we have 300+ days till this amazing cruise. :scared1:

We would love to participate.( I would have PM'd you , but I don't have enough post yet). Told DD12 about it and she is already coming up with ideas.

Happy Easter to all.

[akasleepingbeauty]

We are booked on this cruise as well so add another Texas family to the list :)

This will be our 5th Disney cruise (the others were all on the Magic) and we are excited to try out the new ship. We love going to CC twice - we were lucky enough to do 2 double-dips on the Magic in the past!

Our group consists of me, dh, dd (11 almost 12 at time of sailing) and ds (8 almost 9). They are both looking forward to meeting other kids on board.

We'll be glad to participate in the FE exchange once the cruise is closer and the serious planning has begun :)

We booked this cruise onboard last fall right when the dates came out and were very lucky to get a great price and just the connecting rooms we wanted on deck 7. I have been following the sailing online and have been amazed to see how quickly the rooms have been booked (and thusly how quickly the prices have risen!). We visited IOA and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter before last fall's cruise and had a great time. So, we are planning a return trip before this next cruise for some more fun and butter beer lol.

Looking forward to meeting you all onboard in 11 months!

[Kap@abq]

We would love to participate.( I would have PM'd you , but I don't have enough post yet). Told DD12 about it and she is already coming up with ideas.

Happy Easter to all.


I haven't started the list since it's way to early to get it going. I will post in November to start the list. I'm sure by then you will have plenty of posting it PM me. Hope you had a great Easter. Kathy

[krishouse]

Happy Mothers Day to everyone!!!
Have a great day and I hope the sun is shining for you!
Kristin
:)

[coleykross]

I will read the posts above later but I wanted to join. :) Cast is DH, DD5, DD2!! I can't wait!!

[Queen of Oakville]

Sorry, I've been MIA ....I've been busy planning our Dreamworks cruise on Royal. I'ts not disney, but we've got KungFu Panda, Shrek, and Madagascar Penguins. HAven't told the kids yet but they will be sooooooo excited. We wont tell them about DREAM until Chrismas.

I know it was decided that we would wait until November to get a list going on FE gifts .... but I for one would like to get a head start .... even to get some tentative numbers. I have some things in mind now and if I wait too long, they'll be gone. I don't mind overbuying, but i don't want to underbuy.

[krishouse]

Sorry, I've been MIA ....I've been busy planning our Dreamworks cruise on Royal. I'ts not disney, but we've got KungFu Panda, Shrek, and Madagascar Penguins. HAven't told the kids yet but they will be sooooooo excited. We wont tell them about DREAM until Chrismas.

I know it was decided that we would wait until November to get a list going on FE gifts .... but I for one would like to get a head start .... even to get some tentative numbers. I have some things in mind now and if I wait too long, they'll be gone. I don't mind overbuying, but i don't want to underbuy.

Hey there, the Dreamworks cruise sounds fantastic!! I have to take a look at it for sure.... I agree about a little earlier on the fish extenders, I feel that with Christmas and holidays in there it will be crazy busy. I would like to get an idea of how may people and start picking up odds and ends... and get a bit of a head start-- my last cruise we kept adding people at the end and I had to switch some of my gifts around.... what ever works for everyone I am in either way!:) K

[kelly1275]

Sorry, I've been MIA ....I've been busy planning our Dreamworks cruise on Royal. I'ts not disney, but we've got KungFu Panda, Shrek, and Madagascar Penguins. HAven't told the kids yet but they will be sooooooo excited. We wont tell them about DREAM until Chrismas.

I know it was decided that we would wait until November to get a list going on FE gifts .... but I for one would like to get a head start .... even to get some tentative numbers. I have some things in mind now and if I wait too long, they'll be gone. I don't mind overbuying, but i don't want to underbuy.

Yeah i agree to a bit earlier so I can get stuff around Thanksgiving when stuff might be cheaper for the holidays. Been seeing some cute stuff but it is hard when we have no idea how many are going to do this. i'm not really sure how all this works anyway but it sounds fun

[aamove]

Less than 10 months to go:yay:

[krishouse]

Less than 10 months to go:yay:

I just noticed that too!!!! I cannot wait to see the cost of flights :sick:... but I am still excited!

K

[Kap@abq]

I'm reading all the concerns on the FE list. Still saying it too early to start a prelim list, since we are still having alot of people dropping and adding to this cruise, I think if we have a list now it will be more work, sorry. I can tell you we took the Spring Break Wonder trip this year and I can tell you we had two group of 12 families. My hope for the list is that we can have 12 family in each group since it makes it managable. If I were you and see something that you would love to include into your gift I would suggest picking it up and putting it away, I've done that already keeping in mind that the goal is to have 12 no more then 15 in one group. I promise the weekend of Thanksgiving I will post that I'm taking names and we will close it the second week in Feb. The next 10 months will fly by and I can't wait. Have a great week everyone Kathy

[aamove]

I just noticed that too!!!! I cannot wait to see the cost of flights :sick:... but I am still excited!

K

We ended up booking two days at Disney World after the cruise and have already lined up the return flight to Dallas for the three of us. Totaled in under $200.00 for all three of us. Now we just have to find a decent outbound flight.

[BrennaM]

We are staying at Animal Kingdom for 2 nights after the cruise as well. We plan on more relaxing for those 2 days. heheh we are doing our park visits before the cruise. Staying for 5 nights before the cruise as well.

[krishouse]

We ended up booking two days at Disney World after the cruise and have already lined up the return flight to Dallas for the three of us. Totaled in under $200.00 for all three of us. Now we just have to find a decent outbound flight.

WOW!!!! that is a great price for a flight! We fly out of Buffalo and generally are looking at 600 ea way, I am concerned about the fuel costs....nothing you can do to change it though!
We did get a great rate on a rental from MCO to Cape so that makes me happy!!
Have a great weekend.
Ps
What airline do you use out of Dallas?

[aamove]

WOW!!!! that is a great price for a flight! We fly out of Buffalo and generally are looking at 600 ea way, I am concerned about the fuel costs....nothing you can do to change it though!
We did get a great rate on a rental from MCO to Cape so that makes me happy!!
Have a great weekend.
Ps
What airline do you use out of Dallas?

We are on American Airlines out of MC0 to Dallas. And we just booked our outbound flight to Orlando, price was a little higher. It was $97.00 per person. So for under $500 we got the round trip for all three of us.

[Queen of Oakville]

I'm reading all the concerns on the FE list. Still saying it too early to start a prelim list, since we are still having alot of people dropping and adding to this cruise, I think if we have a list now it will be more work, sorry. I can tell you we took the Spring Break Wonder trip this year and I can tell you we had two group of 12 families. My hope for the list is that we can have 12 family in each group since it makes it managable. If I were you and see something that you would love to include into your gift I would suggest picking it up and putting it away, I've done that already keeping in mind that the goal is to have 12 no more then 15 in one group. I promise the weekend of Thanksgiving I will post that I'm taking names and we will close it the second week in Feb. The next 10 months will fly by and I can't wait. Have a great week everyone Kathy

So KAP, are you organizing?

I think you are saying above that we can count on having no more than 12 to 15 in a group?

Can you provide some rules for the FE exchange such as:

just gifts for kids or adults too? [so even if we have 12 families, we could have as many as 24 kids or more?]
age limit for kids?
is it one gift for the week, or gifts for each day?
suggested dollar value?



I've never done an FE before, so I'm unsure of all the rules. It would be nice, if someone wants to organize, to get a table going, with kids ages, just so we know which families have kids in our same age group. My kids will be 6 and 4 when we sail.

[krishouse]

[QUOTE=Queen of Oakville;41229259]So KAP, are you organizing?

I think you are saying above that we can count on having no more than 12 to 15 in a group?

Can you provide some rules for the FE exchange such as:

just gifts for kids or adults too? [so even if we have 12 families, we could have as many as 24 kids or more?]
age limit for kids?
is it one gift for the week, or gifts for each day?
suggested dollar value?


Hi, Getting a working list together at the beginning of the thread is a great idea! Just how many are in the party, children boy/girl and ages. That way it is not as so much work when we start in November... and people can tell you that they cancel and it is on the page.
When i was a participant we did at least 30 in a group-- so 15 sounds much easier... we bought for each child and adults something small, but many people would just put together a keepsake or a group family gift... not sure what others will say about their experiences.
Happy Sunday Everyone!
Kristin...
ps
take a look at other meets and see how they are doing the exchange it might give you great ideas!

[Kap@abq]

[QUOTE=Queen of Oakville;41229259]So KAP, are you organizing?

I think you are saying above that we can count on having no more than 12 to 15 in a group?

Can you provide some rules for the FE exchange such as:

just gifts for kids or adults too? [so even if we have 12 families, we could have as many as 24 kids or more?]
age limit for kids?
is it one gift for the week, or gifts for each day?
suggested dollar value?


Hi, Getting a working list together at the beginning of the thread is a great idea! Just how many are in the party, children boy/girl and ages. That way it is not as so much work when we start in November... and people can tell you that they cancel and it is on the page.
When i was a participant we did at least 30 in a group-- so 15 sounds much easier... we bought for each child and adults something small, but many people would just put together a keepsake or a group family gift... not sure what others will say about their experiences.
Happy Sunday Everyone!
Kristin...
ps
take a look at other meets and see how they are doing the exchange it might give you great ideas!

OK it seems their are a few on this board that really really want a list, so you've asked and asked. I request you PM me with the following information. DIS-Name, E-Mail, Your Name, Parent Occupation, Age of all traveling including Children’s names, Dinner Seating, State Room#, Hometown.

Our last cruise Spring Break 2011 on the Wonder, we left it up to each family if they did a family gift or just the kids. We as a group didn't feel we needed to dictate price/gift etc. Most of us did one gift for the week. You make this experience what you want it to be. A list can be started but you will not know who's in your group till we close it in Jan 2012 but I will try to keep it to 12 to 15 families. Thanks everyone, please understand I'm not on the board as much now so it might take me a few weeks to respond to you. I really do not get on the boards Religiously till after Thanksgiving. Kathy

[aamove]

We are staying at Animal Kingdom for 2 nights after the cruise as well. We plan on more relaxing for those 2 days. heheh we are doing our park visits before the cruise. Staying for 5 nights before the cruise as well.

We will be staying at Saratoga Springs for 4 days before the cruise and still making plans for the two days afterward. Maybe Bay Lake Tower

[krishouse]

Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians!!
And Happy Early 4th of July!
I hope that everyone is having a wonderful restful summer.
Kristin:goodvibes

[HerrQSmee]

Booked this cruise last Thanksgiving on the Magic but haven't had time to focus on this cruise until now. With 100+ temps outside, decided to think about cool tropical breezes. Add another Texan to the list-live near DFW airport. Sailing with me is DH and 2 DD's (16 and 13, time of cruise). Participated in FE's the last 2 cruises- so much fun! Will have to make a new FE- last two over Thanksgiving so it has a turkey theme. Been on the Wonder, twice on the Magic and can't wait to see the Dream!:cool1:

[jfis1020]

We just booked last weekend for this cruise. This will be our fourth DCL trip. We did the Western in 2003, Mexican in 2006, and Tortola in 2009 all on the Magic!

It will be myself, Jenny; DH Mark, DS14 Marshall (will turn 15 March 18th), and DD13 Mallory (at time of sailing). Our DS18 will not be joining us.

We live in Indiana, so this is our spring break. Originally my DH had booked us in January and with my being a teacher and the kids' school schedules, I just couldn't do it.:confused:

So glad to be "back in the planning saddle"!:cool1:

[aamove]

Less than 8 months to go:cool1:

[jenerra11]

Still watching the prices on the airfare. If these prices doesn't fall, we might have to back out.:confused3

[jfis1020]

Still watching the prices on the airfare. If these prices doesn't fall, we might have to back out.:confused3

They are ridiculous! I cannot believe how high they are!:confused3

[Cruellafan]

I just booked (August 29) Jet Blue from LaGuardia in NYC to Orlando for $375, including trip insurance.
Best price I've seen to MCO for a while.
However, I;m leaving on Thursday, March 8, and spending a few days at DW. Flights on March 12 or 13 might be more expensive, as it's Spring Break.

[Cruellafan]

I'm REALLY looking forward to traveling on the "Dream!" As awesome as the other two ships are, this one seems to take Disney Cruising to a new level.
Of course, I still love the "MAgic" and look forward to taking the lengthier Caribbean cruises on her.

[Pinkocto]

Joining in for the fun! This will be our first cruise ever. I'm treating my Mom to a, hopefully, awesome fabulous trip of a lifetime! This trip will be right between both of our birthdays, so that makes it even more special for us. Will be staying at WDW after the cruise, I'm hearing from some people that that's not too good an idea? My thought was I didn't want to get off the boat and know our vacation was over... We're from Maryland, Southwest still hasn't posted their flights so I'm not sure how much they'll be yet, hopefully not too bad.

So glad to have found you guys, it makes it even more exciting (if that's even possible!)

[Queen of Oakville]

It's been months ... but I'm back.

Just got off the FOTS and now I'm ready for DISNEY! The Dreamworks characters were great; but I can't wait to see how Disney does it! If anyone has questions about the Dreamworks cruise, let me know!


Where did we leave off with the FE gift exchange? Were any decisions made?

[Queen of Oakville]

BTW - Southwest flights have no openned up .... was getting a pretty good deal on a flight this morning ($1320 for the 4 of us) but had trouble booking with DH's reward number (turns out they had his first and middle name together). I'm not sure why/how that happened because I've never had a problem booking before.

By the time they got it fixed .... the flight went up by $100. Oh well, at least with SW, you get a credit if the flight goes down.


For anyone considering Direct Air. .... we just flew them to Lakeland, and it was a reasonable (about 90 minute) drive to port. THey have a voucher deal on right which gives you a return flight (any two destinations) for $169. Pretty good deal ... but they nickel and dime you (no complimentary drinks, and they charge for all checked luggage). I like the comfort of flying into MCO (more options for car rental), and I just really like SW.

[sparty7798]

Hi all,
We now have our new addition, Will, he was born on June 10th so he will be joining us on his 1st Disney cruise with big brother Jack who will be 5 at the time of sailing!

I am so excited about this trip as I booked it on the 1st day in October of 2011 so it is a long time coming.

I am looking forward to the FE exchange!

[Pinkocto]

Queen of Oakville, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!! Just bought tickets. :banana: I was actually on their website yesterday looking for prices for my December trip, and didn't even notice they had extended the bookable window! What a bummer about the price going up :( That's true though, I love that you can get a credit if the price goes down. We also really like Southwest, when I have to fly with others because SW doesn't go to the destination I'm reminded why we like them. So easy, everyone is so nice, and no baggage fees!

sparty7798, congratulations on the new addition! So exciting!

[Queen of Oakville]

Queen of Oakville, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!! Just bought tickets. :banana: I was actually on their website yesterday looking for prices for my December trip, and didn't even notice they had extended the bookable window! What a bummer about the price going up :( That's true though, I love that you can get a credit if the price goes down. We also really like Southwest, when I have to fly with others because SW doesn't go to the destination I'm reminded why we like them. So easy, everyone is so nice, and no baggage fees!

sparty7798, congratulations on the new addition! So exciting!



lol you're welcome, you're welcome! glad it worked out for you!

I was really worried about missing the "open" window. I emailed SW before leaving on our last trip, and unfortunately, the bookign window openned before we returned.

[Pinkocto]

Hope you had a great vacation! I'll be curious to see what you think or Disney. I've read tons of people who say they've cruised with other companies, but once they go Disney they don't go back :) Looking forward to excellent service all around. Regarding the FE, Kathy, username 'kap@abq' has kindly offered to organize. She's going to get things started in November.

Trips seem more 'real' once you've bought tickets! HOORAY! :cool1:

[Queen of Oakville]

Thank you! We did have a great holiday .... we did the Dreamworks cruise through Royal, so we had characters from Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and Shrek. it was good, but I'm expecting Disney to do better!!!!!


We actually folled Dream around .... in port on embarkation day, she was right before us .... we followed her out to sea, then we docked near her in Nassau, and then pulled in behind her back in PC. I took lots of pictures!


What are everyone's plans? We're flying in on the 12th and staying at the Wingate that night. Booked through the Windham website and got a rate of about $90 including breakfast. Hotel reviews look great. On the way back, we are staying at the same Wingate again and got an even better rate for about $80 including breakfast. Also got cars booked for the drive in and the drive out.

We normally stay in PC ... but the drive is so short, and hotels were much more expensive. We just stayed at the Radisson for $97, and on March 12 it goes up to $150.

We've been to PC a few times now .... If anyone has questions, I can try and help.

[BrennaM]

Been awhile but I thought I would check in! Welcome to all the new arrivals and congrats to Sparty!!!

Hey Queen of Oakville...did I ever tell you I used to live in Oakville? Before I got married I lived in Glen Abbey for 10 years. :goodvibes

Anyways our plans are as follows. We will be staying in AKV from the 8th till the 13th where my brother and sister in law will be staying with us. (We have a 2 bdrm suite through DVC) From there we will be parting ways with them and we will head onto the Dream.

btw I have to re-iterate that if we do a cruise meet we should either make it later in the evening or the following day if we want everyone to have a chance to make it. My last cruise meet was at 3:30 on departure day and we didn't even get on the boat until that time. We would have loved to have been earlier but we had to wait for the Disney transport and they were running late that day.

After the cruise we are heading back to Animal Kingdom and staying there (through our DVC once again) for another 2 days before we head home.

Time seems to be flying around here and I can't believe how much closer we are to living a dream on the Dream!

btw do we have a name for our cruise at all? Just wondering if I plan on doing some personalized stuff for the FE's.

[Queen of Oakville]

Brenna! Cool! I used to live in West Oak Trails (near Loyola).

A name for our meet and greet sounds great!

I'm really looking forward to seeing the "lists" and the ages of the kids sailing.

What kind of dinner ressies did you guys ask for? We asked for a private table, but now I'm wondering if we should have let Disney magic pair us up with another family?

I'd read stories on the main board about kids with atrocious behaviour, and the last thing I wanted was to be paired up with one of "those" familes.

I've recently been hearing stories about friendships formed at dinner and how nice it was for the kids to have playmates.

Now I'm second guessing myself.

The TA did warn me that private table are very hard to come by, so I maybe I will jsut let fate work its course.:wizard:

[Pinkocto]

Greetings everybody!

We'll be flying in the morning of the cruise (8:30 a.m.) and paying for the transfer to the port, I know a lot of people like to be there the day before, but I'm hoping everything will be fine. Then after the cruise we'll be staying at AKV Jambo House, studio, until Wednesday, so a good four days post cruise. I'm not sure if there will be any Spring Break crowds, but if so we can just enjoy the hotel, we fell in love with Animal Kingdom Lodge this past January which actually convinced me to buy DVC.

Since this is our first cruise I'm going to just let the cards fall where they may reguarding table mates. We're pretty outgoing so it should be fun. I've heard Disney does a really good job pairing up parties, if you're a family they'll pair you with a family of similar aged children, and if you're just adults they'll pair you similarly. Should be great fun. Planning to go to Palo and Remy, so if we don't like the table mates we'll only see them three times :rotfl:

I'm totally fine with a cruise meet later in the evening or another day, we'll be there early but definitely don't want to miss anybody.

[Queen of Oakville]

First sea day is generally a good time for a meet. I'm not sure when our first sea day is though?

On HAL, .... we did it on debarkation day, but it conflicted with the sail away party and early dinner.

[Kap@abq]

Hi everyone and welcome to the new cruiser that have added. Its been a while since I've checked in. I'm organizing the FE and as mentioned in an earlier posting I will get things started in November but I have started the spreadsheet and have a few names already. If you want please provide the below information to me and I will get you added to the list. The final list will be provided to those particpating in late January/early February, which should give everyone plenty of time to get things going. We are very excited but DH won't let me start the count down yet. Enjoy the fall weather, we are in Albuquerque and the weather is truly wonderful. Can't wait to meet you all.

Dis Name:
E-mail:
Name:
Parent's Occupation-
Parents Ages:
Sons:
Dinner Seating:
State Room:
Hometown:

Thanks
Kathy

[MerissaAndMomLoveDis]

Kap@abq - just sent you a PM with our information for the FE. Thank you so much for organizing it! My daughter and I are really looking forward to it.

Re: trip plans - My daughter and I have free dining ressies at POFQ from March 10 thru the 13. The plan is to fly in on the morning of Saturday March 10 and fly out on the afternoon of Sunday March 18, but so far the only airfare I am finding is outrageous--about three times as much as I'm used to paying.

I know there are a lot of Dallas/Fort Worth area folks on this cruise--I would really appreciate it if we could share information on any good flight deals. We have always flown American or Airtran in the past, but I am speculating that since Southwest bought Airtran (Airtran's site says no flights out of Dallas after November 2011) and it is complicated to fly Southwest out of Dallas (always more expensive than flying southwest out of Austin or Houston and longer flights due to stopovers because of Wright Amendment), now American has little incentive (and little competition) to give flights out of Dallas good prices. I looked at Southwest out of Austin--the prices are better but the flight choices are limited, so probably not worth it to drive three hours (plus have to pay to park). Anyone get what they consider a good flight deal already out of Dallas?? Anyone still looking and monitoring like I am?? Any ideas??

TIA

[BrennaM]

Brenna! Cool! I used to live in West Oak Trails (near Loyola).

I know that area well. I went to W H Morden Elementary for Grade 8 and then Blakelock for high school. A bunch of my friends went to Loyola before it turned Catholic. heheh

Our dinner rezzies are for the late seating, and we didn't specify private or not. Our last cruise we got our own table, but we ended up talking with the people next to us. They were a couple that got put together with a family with very young ones and didn't speak a lick of English. I suppose if you let it really get to you it could make for crappy dinners. I would imagine though you could speak with the head waiter and see if things could be shifted somehow.

Does anyone have any suggestion for a cruise name then? For some reason all I can come up with are "The Bahama Dreamers".

It doesn't look like we get a Day at sea until close to the end of the cruise so a meet on that day might not be the best. We would either have to plan something between a port day and dinner, or perhaps we could wear something distinguishing to alert a fellow DISer? I'd love for my daughters (14&13 at time of cruise) to get a little more adventurous this cruise...they stuck to us like glue on the last one (not that I minded!).

[Pinkocto]

Yep, we don't have our sea day until Friday, but that could be ok, we could see how everyone's doing. We still have six months to go, I'm sure more people will be in a little later to help with ideas :)

[Queen of Oakville]

On our FOTS cruise, we signed for a Cruise Critic Meet & Mingle .... (we actually could all do that too). Cruise Critic is prolly the largest cruising message board and the cruise lines know it. I'm not sure what they do for Disney though. We had 100 people on our last one (Royal). We get a reception in the Viking Lounds with food and drinks and we all got little giveaways from the line. I can look into it..... For Royal, you need a min. of 25 people to qualify for the party.


We could all wear a plastic hawaiian lei on the first day. Of course, as Queen, I can also wear my crown.

[diheartsdisney]

We are fortunate to be doing B2B, with this cruise being the second of the two. I will be traveling with my awesome brother (Joe) and one of my two daughters (Alyssa 12y.o.) My husband and oldest daughter are passing on this trip for some reason.

We will be new to the Disney Dream, but have cruised twice on the Wonder. First on a 3-night "try me" cruise and then again this past January on the Panama Canal cruise. That may explain why a 5-night cruise just isn't long enough. We are really looking forward to trying the new ship. I hope we like it as much as the Wonder. The ship was unable to dock at Castaway Cay during the Panama Canal trip, so we are hoping to make up for missing that with the double dip!

I talked my brother into flying in a couple days early. We will arrive late on Tuesday, March 6th, staying at the Pop Century for 3 nights with the free dining offer. We are planning on going to DHS and Epcot. Then use DCL transfers from Pop Century.

I'm looking forward to trying some of the adult only areas and activities. I'm hoping DD can make a few friends and enjoy spending time at the Edge. Although I know it won't be hard to enjoy ourselves on this trip.

Happy planning,

Diane

[Pinkocto]

Welcome Diane! So excited for this trip!

[stinksmom]

Wow! It looks like us Iowans will be surrounded by Texans and Canadians! We (DH 42, me 41 and DD will have just turned 10) are really looking foward to the cruise. We sailed on the Dream in June for 4 nights and fell in love with CC so we decided we needed to book the 5 night cruise to get 2 days at CC. :cool1:

Looks like a great group of people and kids. Since DD is an only child she always looks forward to making friends. :hippie:

And we would definitely be interested in a meet at some time. I will continue to watch this thread to see what pops up.

See everyone in March! :goodvibes

[AKMOUSE]

Just found out yesterday that we will be cruising on March 13!! Cannot wait, we are going to be doing WDW prior to the cruise and looking forward to it!

This is our second cruise and if an FE is being one, we would love to participate!!

[Pinkocto]

Welcome aboard newcomers! I can't wait!

[HerrQSmee]

Just checking in... Fall has finally hit us here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I know once we get past all the holidays, the cruise will be just around the corner! So excited! Have cheap tickets to fly back from the cruise- now just need to find some to fly there!:cool1:

[aamove]

Just checking in afer a while. Been busy planning another cruise with the DW on the Carnival Magic on her first cruise out of Galveston. DD12 is getting excited about her first cruise and can not wait to see her experience it. The way airfares are going up, I am glad we booked months ago. DFW to MCO is getting real expensive. Looking forward to doing the FE thing and we're already looking for things to give away.
Welcome to all the new cruisers on the thread.

[AKMOUSE]

aamove - small world, I am from Mabank, TX - just a few miles from Forney. CRAZY!!!


Tonight we are sitting down to plan our airfare. Flights from Alaska are limited to get there and all are red-eye, so we have to buffer a travel day on each end to adjust accordingly. We are the only ones that are OK with the late dinner seating. LOL!!



So, tonight I was thinking, on our last cruise we had a Facebook page for the group to get to know each other by face. What do you think??


Amber

[Pinkocto]

Traveling from Alaska, that must be exhausting! How long is the flight?

You're not alone, we're ok with the late dinner also.

I'm not on facebook so I won't be able to join you there.

So looking forward to this vacation! :cool1:

[AKMOUSE]

The flight down is 11 hours travel time. I believe we have a 2 hour layover.
I just dread sitting that long.
Seriously - didn't planes have lounges with like a bar and dancing?? Or was that only in the movies? Like 1970's movies?

I am thinking someone is missing out on some major moolah, as I would so fly that airline everytime!

[Pinkocto]

Wow, that is a long flight! I think the longest I've done is 7 hours to Europe, and that seemed like forever. I've seen planes like that in the movies, think they're all private jets though. :rotfl:

[abdmom]

We will be joining you on this cruise. 4 more Canadians. :thumbsup2 I'm interested in a FE if someone is organizing one.

[abdmom]

This morning, I will be releasing one of the corner 9A's at the front of the ship. These are supposed to be around 400 sq. ft. But they only sleep 3. Somehow I ended up with 2 reservations for the sailing. :rolleyes1

[Kap@abq]

Happy October Everyone!

For those that have just joined this group, WELCOME! Just in case you haven't read all 11 pages of this board, I've taken on the task to organize the FE list. The list will close in Jan which will give everyone on the list plenty of time to plan and get their gifts ready.

Update: We have 9 kids, that is 7 families total. Each month the list is growing, how exciting.

If you haven't joined us please PM me the following information: DIS-Name, E-Mail, Your Name, Parent Occupation, Age of all traveling including Children’s names, Dinner Seating, State Room#, Hometown. I will send you confirmation that you've been added. I'm only on once a month till November and then I'm on more after Thanksgiving. So if you don't hear from me for a month that's why.

Thanks and I truly do not know who's more excited my husband and I or our daughter.

Kathy

[aamove]

aamove - small world, I am from Mabank, TX - just a few miles from Forney. CRAZY!!!


Tonight we are sitting down to plan our airfare. Flights from Alaska are limited to get there and all are red-eye, so we have to buffer a travel day on each end to adjust accordingly. We are the only ones that are OK with the late dinner seating. LOL!!



So, tonight I was thinking, on our last cruise we had a Facebook page for the group to get to know each other by face. What do you think??


Amber

Sorry it took so long to answer back, but the facebook page sounds great. We are getting ready for a cruise out of Galveston on Carnival and someone organized a page and we have over 100 members. I think it would work out great if we did the same thing. Anyone know how to set it up?

[HawkeyeMickey77]

Wow! It looks like us Iowans will be surrounded by Texans and Canadians! We (DH 42, me 41 and DD will have just turned 10) are really looking foward to the cruise. We sailed on the Dream in June for 4 nights and fell in love with CC so we decided we needed to book the 5 night cruise to get 2 days at CC. :cool1:

Looks like a great group of people and kids. Since DD is an only child she always looks forward to making friends. :hippie:

And we would definitely be interested in a meet at some time. I will continue to watch this thread to see what pops up.

See everyone in March! :goodvibes

You'll have some other Iowans to keep you company. It's me, DH, & DSs ages 7 & 4. After falling in love with WDW & DL, we're taking our first DCL trip. DH & I have done other cruises before, but this will be our first as a family & first DCL. Looking forward to a fun spring break cruise & a few days @ WDW beforehand. Will keep watching the thread to see when a meet might take place. :goodvibes

[Pinkocto]

Fellow Cruisers, I had a terrible dream last night. I dreamt that I had slept through the first four days of our cruise and woke up to find out I had missed everything. It was such a horrible feeling. This wonderful vacation I've been looking forward to for so long had passed me by! To say I was relieved when I woke up and it was all a dream is an understatement!

[AKMOUSE]

Hello Fellow Cruisers,

Well, I started paking. Not pull-out-the-suitcase, but more of a stockpile.
Yep....what do we have another 4 months?
We are getting very excited and cannot wait!!
Once we get through the holidays (not that I am rushing them along) the cruise will be right around the corner!! :yay: Aren't you excited?!?!? :woohoo:

[BrennaM]

So the hubby and I started scoping out the excursions for the cruise! Still undecided as to what we are going to do. We are trying to stay away from Atlantis because we would eventually like to do a full trip there in the future.

What is everyone here planning on doing?

I've got to start printing out our door magnets. Can't go without our ears on our door numbers!

I can't wait till the trip!! Really excited and it is amazing how quickly time seems to be flying.

[Pinkocto]

Time only seems to fly when I stop looking at my countdown calendar for a few days :rotfl: Like AKMOUSE said, once the holidays are over it will seem that much closer, but I definitely don't want to speed them along since it's part of the year I look forward to the most.

Our plan is Atlantis Aquaventure for Nassau, and parasailing for Castaway Cay. Atlantis looks so awesome! We'll be going again in May, and my plan is to do the sealion encounter on Nassau, and the kayak/walking tour on Castay Cay.

Must also start on our door magnets. Have been making a list for FE gifts, but haven't bought anything yet.


I'm so so excited!!!

[HerrQSmee]

So excited that we are getting closer to the holidays because it means that we are that much closer to the cruise!:cool1:
Sending a shout out to who have joined lately! Sounds like a fun crew!

[AKMOUSE]

We haven't decided on an excursion yet - although we need to figure it out!

:confused3

[stinksmom]

You'll have some other Iowans to keep you company. It's me, DH, & DSs ages 7 & 4. After falling in love with WDW & DL, we're taking our first DCL trip. DH & I have done other cruises before, but this will be our first as a family & first DCL. Looking forward to a fun spring break cruise & a few days @ WDW beforehand. Will keep watching the thread to see when a meet might take place. :goodvibes

Well from your name I can already tell we will like you! We are Hawkeye fans :cool1: we have two more families joining us :thumbsup2 but one family has cyclone fans :confused3 and the other has an illini fan :confused3 what do you do? Hoping to get a couple more families if any more reservations open for kids..... Where will you be staying for the first part of your trip? Me, DH and DD will be staying at wl for a few nights. We can't wait for spring break!

Looking forward to meeting everyone if a meet gets set up!

[kelly1275]

We got our airline tickets a couple weeks ago after watching every single day the prices stay the same for 3 weeks & then boom they went up $100. We are arriving on the 11th & staying at the Pop Century. Going to see Harry Potter!!! Our plane tickets were $100 cheaper picking Monday to return home instead of Sunday. I'm so excited to go. I have had no vacation time left since August so I will be so ready to go!!! Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving! I'm forgoing my weight loss journey this day & Christmas day :rotfl2: I've lost 44 pounds so far & hope to add at least 15 more before we go. Hope we get to do a meet & greet!

[BrennaM]

Hey all,

Just wondering about the FE list and if anyone has received anything yet. I thought we were going to get a prelim list in Nov. so just making sure that I'm not the only one that hasn't heard of anything yet.

Someone had also mentioned a facebook page...anyone started that yet as well?

[Pinkocto]

I'm pretty sure she was going to send the FE list out in January.

[aamove]

Hey all,

Just wondering about the FE list and if anyone has received anything yet. I thought we were going to get a prelim list in Nov. so just making sure that I'm not the only one that hasn't heard of anything yet.

Someone had also mentioned a facebook page...anyone started that yet as well?

I would be willing to start a FB page, just need some to PM facebook names to get a friends list going to get it rolling.

[AKMOUSE]

I created a Facebook Page. It is called:
Dreamy Double Dip Disney Dream March 13-18, 2012

I have it set as an open group. Once we get everyone in it I will make it closed so our posts are private.

This way we can share photos and get to know each other. A face with the name, so to speak.

I am not saying the FB page would replace this, but can be an additional resource.

[Ted in Halifax]

Could you post a link to the facebook page, I can't find it!

[Kap@abq]

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!! Its offical I can now be on the board once a day or more and start my count down to the cruise. Thoses that have sent me a message about joining the FE party I will be sending out a the final list in January so we all have plenty of time get the gift ready. We still have plenty of room so please do not hesitate to join in on the fun. Have a wondeful Thanksgiving weekend. Let the countdown start. Kathy

[aamove]

I created a Facebook Page. It is called:
Dreamy Double Dip Disney Dream March 13-18, 2012

I have it set as an open group. Once we get everyone in it I will make it closed so our posts are private.

This way we can share photos and get to know each other. A face with the name, so to speak.

I am not saying the FB page would replace this, but can be an additional resource.

AK what is the link to this page, I could not find it on FB

[AKMOUSE]

AK what is the link to this page, I could not find it on FB


Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/201671929912187/

[Kap@abq]

Thanks for posting.
Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/201671929912187/

[Kap@abq]

Hi everyone

Wanted to give you all an update since I'm on the board now almost everyday. We have 10 families equaling 15 kids. We still have room for more so please PM me and I will get you added to the list. The final list will be sent out in January and that will be the final one, no names will be added at that time. I will put one last notice out the first week of Janaury before I close it in out and send it. This will allow everyone that has signed up plenty of time to get the gifts ready.

Just last night DH and I were talking about how many suitcase we were going to take. We are headed to a National Dance competition in Denver the weekend before we leave on the Cruise. Yes we are crazy. Friday NM to Denver for the weekend then leave on Sunday for Orlando. Monday we will spent at the magical kingdom. I'm going to need a vacation with how busy that weekend is going to be. Who's headed to the park before the cruise? We are doing a day before and a day after. After the cruise we plan on staying at a Disney property...any suggestions?

Well everyone have a great week.:goodvibes

[Pinkocto]

Kathy, you are definitely going to be busy! We are heading to AKL for four days after the cruise. Have you stayed on property before? I have not encountered a resort I don't like. Each and every resort has their charms, but AKL is my absolute favorite.

[sparty7798]

Hi,
Does anyone know the dining rotation for our trip and what night pirate night is?

Thanks

[Pinkocto]

Pirate Night is on the At Sea Day, Friday 3/16, which I've never read about before so thought it was odd. From what I understand I think everyone gets a different dining rotation, and we won't know what it is until the day of sailing. Is that right cruise veterans?

[sparty7798]

Thanks, do yo know what night is formal night?

[Pinkocto]

I have no idea about formal night. I haven't heard that we'll technically have one. I've only read TRs for the 5-night that have 2 semi-formal nights. The Pirate Night I'm 100% positive because it's on the DCL website under the calendar, but there's no notes on anything else besides the Sail Away Party.

[sparty7798]

My travel agent checked and Pirate night is on the Nassau night and semi formal night is on the Sea Day.

[HawkeyeMickey77]

Well from your name I can already tell we will like you! We are Hawkeye fans :cool1: we have two more families joining us :thumbsup2 but one family has cyclone fans :confused3 and the other has an illini fan :confused3 what do you do? Hoping to get a couple more families if any more reservations open for kids..... Where will you be staying for the first part of your trip? Me, DH and DD will be staying at wl for a few nights. We can't wait for spring break!

Looking forward to meeting everyone if a meet gets set up!

Yep - we're fellow Hawkeye fans! Funny that you have Cyclones & Illini fans in your group. My husband & I are originally from North Central Iowa (where there are lots from our family that have been led astray & are Cyclone fans!) and I spent my Jr. High & H.S. years in Illinois where so many there cheer for the Orange & Blue. We are doing a few nights @ All Star Music prior to the cruise. Looking forward to it!

[BrennaM]

Dunno if anyone else is interested in doing so, but just in case our cruise meet doesn't fall early in the trip I thought I would post a picture of us so people would know what we look like at least. heheh This was from last Dec. on our Western Caribbean Cruise!

http://pics.livejournal.com/brennamount/pic/000zwtcq

[Cruellafan]

Booking shore excursions begins on Dec 14 for me.
Does anyone have any thoughts about the "Discover Atlantis" excursion?
Thanks,
Cruellafan

[BrennaM]

I think that is the one that we decided to do ourselves. We book on the 14th as well. We were so undecided about all the other excursions and thought that the fact that you get to work on your own schedule after your initial tour worked best for us.

The shuttle runs consistently throughout the day so you can leave whenever you want. We figured the waterpark was probably going to be a zoo what with being March break and all. I may carry suits with us though just in case we change our minds and want to hang out in the lazy river or something. The hubby can sneak off for a quick game of roulette as well. heheh

[Wazzo]

Hi everyone! :goodvibes I haven't said hello yet, so HELLO!! ;)

I had a question about the current pirate night conversation/confusion...

Hi,
Does anyone know the dining rotation for our trip and what night pirate night is?

Thanks

Pirate Night is on the At Sea Day, Friday 3/16, which I've never read about before so thought it was odd. From what I understand I think everyone gets a different dining rotation, and we won't know what it is until the day of sailing. Is that right cruise veterans?

My travel agent checked and Pirate night is on the Nassau night and semi formal night is on the Sea Day.

When I look up my reservation online under "My Cruise Activities" the itinerary says that the "Pirate Deck Party" is on Day 4 when the ship is at sea. Can anyone else confirm this?

91 days!! :dance3:

[Cruellafan]

I think that is the one that we decided to do ourselves. We book on the 14th as well. We were so undecided about all the other excursions and thought that the fact that you get to work on your own schedule after your initial tour worked best for us.

The shuttle runs consistently throughout the day so you can leave whenever you want. We figured the waterpark was probably going to be a zoo what with being March break and all. I may carry suits with us though just in case we change our minds and want to hang out in the lazy river or something. The hubby can sneak off for a quick game of roulette as well. heheh


Thanks for the opinions. I think that the "discover" tour doesn't include admission to the water parks, so you may want to check that out before you lug bathing suits around.
I, too, like the free time allotted us, although I'll spend extra time in the aquarium, I probably will only stroll through the casino, if even that (sensory overload in casinos, too many lights and bells). Here's wishing good luck to DH at roulette!

[Pinkocto]

Hi everyone! :goodvibes I haven't said hello yet, so HELLO!! ;)

I had a question about the current pirate night conversation/confusion...

When I look up my reservation online under "My Cruise Activities" the itinerary says that the "Pirate Deck Party" is on Day 4 when the ship is at sea. Can anyone else confirm this?

91 days!! :dance3:

That's exactly why I wrote what I wrote, that' where I saw the information. I would think the DCL website is correct....

[Wazzo]

That's exactly why I wrote what I wrote, that' where I saw the information. I would think the DCL website is correct....

Thanks, Pam! I hope so too! :goodvibes

[sparty7798]

Thanks, Pam! I hope so too! :goodvibes



Sorry to have created confusion, it was not my intent to question what you had written. Between your answer, the website, my travel agent, asking and calling Disney Cruise Line myself, I have gotten five different answers so I was just letting everyone know what I had found out. I won't do so in the future!

[Pinkocto]

Sorry to have created confusion, it was not my intent to question what you had written. Between your answer, the website, my travel agent, asking and calling Disney Cruise Line myself, I have gotten five different answers so I was just letting everyone know what I had found out. I won't do so in the future!

Oh my, no need to take it personally.... Shared info is why we get on here isn't it?

I don't know why they make it so confusing. I would think it's already scheduled, so when they send out confirmations it would be helpful if they included that stuff also.

[Wazzo]

Sorry to have created confusion, it was not my intent to question what you had written. Between your answer, the website, my travel agent, asking and calling Disney Cruise Line myself, I have gotten five different answers so I was just letting everyone know what I had found out. I won't do so in the future!

Oh my, no need to take it personally.... Shared info is why we get on here isn't it?

I don't know why they make it so confusing. I would think it's already scheduled, so when they send out confirmations it would be helpful if they included that stuff also.

I agree! No worries Sparty! :flower3: Disney is notorious for giving out different information, so who knows!! ;)

[sparty7798]

I am very excited...I was able to book today and got everything that I wanted:
Early arrival time
Palo dinner and brunch
Some Spa stuffhttp://www.wdwinfo.com/images/smilies/banana.gif
Nursery hours
Excursion for my son and husband

This looks like it is going to be a great trip if we can get the baby to sleep...praying that he will!

Thanks for everyone's help with the scheduling...I think it got worked out now!

http://www.wdwinfo.com/images/smilies/banana.gif

[Pinkocto]

Congratulations!!! Did you do it exactly at midnight? I have to wait until the 29th, this being our first cruise. I'm hoping there will still be some openings at Palo.

[sparty7798]

Congratulations!!! Did you do it exactly at midnight? I have to wait until the 29th, this being our first cruise. I'm hoping there will still be some openings at Palo.

Hi,
I went on about 2:00 a.m. as that happened to be the time the baby got up. The website worked well for a while and then I could not do anything again until this morning as I kept getting an error message. Also, I could not get Palo brunch earlier this morning but when I went back in at 7:00 a.m. there was an opening.

Good Luck with everything...it is nice being able to go early for sure.

[Queen of Oakville]

Hey Guys! I haven't been on in MONTHS!!!!! I discovered gardens of time and have been wasting all my time there!


okay, what's new? what did I miss?

I just made final payment.

Did we ever get the FE stuff sorted out? I know I emailed my info to the person here who is organizing, but I haven't heard anything.

[Pinkocto]

I'm pretty sure she's going to send out a list in the next month and a final request to anyone who wants to join. I started gathering things that will be good for all ages. I received notification that my FE has been shipped so I'm excited about that.

Happy Holidays everybody!

[BrennaM]

Thanks for the opinions. I think that the "discover" tour doesn't include admission to the water parks, so you may want to check that out before you lug bathing suits around.

... Here's wishing good luck to DH at roulette!

No it doesn't include the admission...but I figured they certainly wouldn't say no to you if you decided to pay for the waterpark entrance while you are there.

Thanks for the good luck. Would be nice to pay off a bit of the excursion with a bit of luck. heheh

[Cruellafan]

No it doesn't include the admission...but I figured they certainly wouldn't say no to you if you decided to pay for the waterpark entrance while you are there.

Thanks for the good luck. Would be nice to pay off a bit of the excursion with a bit of luck. heheh

You're probably right that they wouldn't be shy about letting you into the water park for a fee ;-)

[AKMOUSE]

We realized today we are in the '80's' on our countdown.

:woohoo: After Christmas we will be creating a countdown chain. So excited!!!

What are you most excited about? I am worried I will be doing comparision of Dream vs. Magic, and I hope that we can do everything!!!

We even have started thinking about FE items!! :yay:

[Ted in Halifax]

After Christmas we will be creating a countdown chain. So excited!!!



Great idea!

[rdnkmommy]

Add another family of Texans to the list. We have a party of 7 (2 families) joining from Forney! We are so excited to say the least!

[Pinkocto]

Welcome!!!

I am ignoring my countdown for now since I dont want to speed Christmas along which is my absolute favorite holiday.

I am so excited to explore the ship, she looks so gorgeous!

[AKMOUSE]

Add another family of Texans to the list. We have a party of 7 (2 families) joining from Forney! We are so excited to say the least!



Are you coming with the other Forney family - or are there two families in your group?? I am originially from Mabank - nice to meet you!!!

[rdnkmommy]

Are you coming with the other Forney family - or are there two families in your group?? I am originially from Mabank - nice to meet you!!!

Wow, we are practically neighbors! The Forney family I am coming with is not on the DIS boards yet. What a small world!! I would have never thought so many people were coming from such a small area!

[Kap@abq]

We have 10 families this inclueds 16 kids already signed up for the FE fun. I will divide the list up and forward you the group your in with all the names and ages at the end of January, which should give everyone plenty of time to get things going. If you want to participate please provide the below information to me and I will get you added to the list.

Dis Name:
E-mail:
Name:
Parent's Occupation-
Parents Ages:
Sons:
Dinner Seating:
State Room:
Hometown:

Thanks
Kathy

[Kap@abq]

Hey Guys! I haven't been on in MONTHS!!!!! I discovered gardens of time and have been wasting all my time there!


okay, what's new? what did I miss?

I just made final payment.

Did we ever get the FE stuff sorted out? I know I emailed my info to the person here who is organizing, but I haven't heard anything.


You are on the list and the final list will be coming out in late January. Thanks Kathy

[Kias]

Final Payment: Check
FE Signup: Check

Check-in next Thursday: Almost Check

Can we get excited now? :confused3

[Pinkocto]

I'll be super excited when Thursday is over and I get all my reservations I want. Who am I kidding, I'm so excited already!!!

[AKMOUSE]

After all the hoopla of the weekend, we sat down yesterday and got to figuring it all out. You see - my wonderful DH planned this cruise without my knowledge 10 months before my birthday - a huge surprise as I normally do all the planning (Serious Type A issue). :confused3 What? At least I know!

Anyway, it would appear that the airlines know exactly when Spring Break is here and double the cost of flights. So, in realizing this, we booked our flights way out (like a week) before the cruise.
Hindsight, I am betting what we spend at the kennels for the dogs, hotels and tickets at WDW, food, etc.....it was all in vain.


so yesterday we booked the vet for shots, the kennel for keeping :dog::dog:
Then it was "OH YEAH, we have to check in". We did all of that and then realized we need to plan our 'land' portion. And once we get that figured out the transportation to-from-and inbetween. :eek:


Needless to say, we are STILL trying ot figure out if we explore Orlando, hang out at WDW the whole time or what. UGH!! In the past we have done a week at WDW. We have done a week on DCL. But we have never done a week at each, back to back. Granted - I would LOVE it. But would I be exhausted trying to do it all???

Aren't you EXCITED!!?!????!!? I can't stand it!!!!!!!!

[Pinkocto]

That is one magnificent birthday surprise! Just take things easy the week before the cruise if you can, I don't think it'll be exahusting if you plan it out. What a wonderful DH!

[Queen of Oakville]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had a VERY disney Christmas! In addition to all the other stuff they got (hello kitty, star wars, power rangers .....) my kids got tons of disney stuff:
-disney headbanz
-disney panoramic puzzle
-disney trival pursuit
-pirate headbands
-Belle and Cinderella gowns from the disney store
-cars t-shrits
-princess t-shirts

I made up a countdown chain and sent the kids on a treasure hunt around the house to find it. I wish I could post video here, because my 5 year old daughter was jumping up and down and screaming and crying when she realized we were going on a disney cruise! I also wanted to wrap up the disney planning DVD but I left it at the office. So, instead we watched some of the videos on the DCL website. She now has the video page bookmarked on her computer and watches them over and over (she's doing that right now!) Her biggest dilemna is that she has a tinkerbell outfit + 6 princess gowns, and there are only 5 nights to our cruise! [she doesn't know it yet..... but we've booked Fantasy for Sprink Break 2013 - so hopefully those gowns all still fit her!]

We realized today we are in the '80's' on our countdown.

:woohoo: After Christmas we will be creating a countdown chain. So excited!!!

What are you most excited about? I am worried I will be doing comparision of Dream vs. Magic, and I hope that we can do everything!!!

We even have started thinking about FE items!! :yay:



If you want, I can email you the countdown chain that I made? Either post or pm me your email addy and I can send it to you. I set it up in a word doc, and has all the princess characters, wall-e, jake & pirates, monsters, toy story, cars etc.

You are on the list and the final list will be coming out in late January. Thanks Kathy

Perfect - thanks!

I think we may start builing our FE today.

[Queen of Oakville]

Just sent a request to Join the facebook group.

[Pinkocto]

Which Fantasy cruise did you book? I booked one myself.

Too cute about the treasure hunt.

[Texasmomof3]

Thanks for the opinions. I think that the "discover" tour doesn't include admission to the water parks, so you may want to check that out before you lug bathing suits around.
I, too, like the free time allotted us, although I'll spend extra time in the aquarium, I probably will only stroll through the casino, if even that (sensory overload in casinos, too many lights and bells). Here's wishing good luck to DH at roulette!

It doesn't include access to the pools or beach and believe me during spring break there is no sneaking (we tried it a couple of years ago LOL) A friend that stayed there last year said they even stopped and interrogated her when she was wearing a band from the day before. She had not been to the towel place to get the current days band yet. She said security is serious there. We tried to buy a day pass a couple of years ago and they didn't sell them as spring break is crazy. My friend did say last year that it was a madhouse the day all the cruise ships were in port and they complained to the hotel. Unfortunately I just found out that there are 4 cruise ships due in the day we are there so expect long waits. I may just decide to stay on the ship instead of Aquaadventure and ride the duck. LOL:banana:

[binab]

Hello all! I haven't posted since page 3, but I'm still around and very much looking forward to this cruise. I've been travel plan crazy the last fews days - final payment made, online check in done, Palo ressie made, airfare booked today, hotels and car plans finalized. I'm in my element. ;)

For Nassau, I had booked a Comfort Suites room back in March, but I'm still not sure about that... I'd rather stay on the ship than go through a runaround just to save a few $. Unfortunately being first timers, the regular Aquaadventure tour is already sold out as expected.

Kathy, do you possibly have us on the FE list? Just wanted to double check since it was very early in this thread that I expressed interest. I actually bought some things back in Oct and have been working on the design for my FE hanger. So I'm hoping we're there. :)

[Pinkocto]

Are four cruise ships something to worry about? Isn't Atlantis huge? And they limit how many people can enter. I'm really excited about this excursion but now you guys are making me a bit nervous about it.

[Kap@abq]

Kathy, do you possibly have us on the FE list? Just wanted to double check since it was very early in this thread that I expressed interest. I actually bought some things back in Oct and have been working on the design for my FE hanger. So I'm hoping we're there. :)

Hi Tina - Got your PM and I do not have you on the list, no worries we still have time to get you added, please forward the info. to me via PM Thanks Kathy

[Kap@abq]

With the holidays over I believe everyone will start getting on the boards kicking their planning in high gear. So for the new members I'm organizing the FE. we have 11 families so far. At the end of January I will divide the list up and forward to the group via email. With that said you have a month to decide if you want to join in on the fun :banana:. If you choose to participate in the fun please PM the following information:

Dis Name:
E-mail:
ParentsNames:
Parents Occupation:
Parents Ages:
Children Name/Age/Sex (if the name isn't apparent to the sex):
Dinner Seating: Early or Late
State Room:
Hometown:

This is great fun to enhance your cruise. Look forward to seeing many more families join.

Happy New Year to all and be safe tonight
Kathy

[Queen of Oakville]

Which Fantasy cruise did you book? I booked one myself.

Too cute about the treasure hunt.

We booked on the Mar 2 2013 sailing. I wouldn't say we got a great deal, but we did get a balcony. I will check again on board to see if we get a better deal.

I think my daughter has figured out her dress dilemna princess: She will take one dreass for every dinner, her pirate princess outfit for pirate night, and all of her extra dresses for character mights. *oy* I've got a little diva on my hands, .... I think we will need an extra suitcase JUST for her princess gowns.



I've been checking in at facebook, have to keep reminding myself to come back here!

[HerrQSmee]

Packing away the Christmas decorations and thinking about cruising! Got our ressies and pre-cruise accomodations worked out! Can't believe it is 2 1/2 months away! Need to think about door magnets and FE's....:yay:

[aamove]

Wow, we are practically neighbors! The Forney family I am coming with is not on the DIS boards yet. What a small world!! I would have never thought so many people were coming from such a small area!

We are also from Forney.
Keith, Trina & Allison 12

[Pinkocto]

We booked on the Mar 2 2013 sailing. I wouldn't say we got a great deal, but we did get a balcony. I will check again on board to see if we get a better deal.

I booked the March 9, 2013. Considering the prices for the 2012 7 night I thought it was a pretty good price. Is it much more than previous years? Yep, I will definitely reprice on board though.

[Queen of Oakville]

I booked the March 9, 2013. Considering the prices for the 2012 7 night I thought it was a pretty good price. Is it much more than previous years? Yep, I will definitely reprice on board though.

Mar 9 was my preferred date. My kids get 2 weeks off. I know for sure one of those weeks will be the 9th. Their second week will either be the 2nd or th 16th. I was worried about gambling with the 2nd but then DH assured me the kids would survive missing a week of school (if that is the way our spring break falls!)!

[auntiedot]

We're on this cruise with two girls who are so excited and want to know if there are any other girls their ages. Michaela is 11 and Haley is 8. Anyone?

[MerissaAndMomLoveDis]

We're on this cruise with two girls who are so excited and want to know if there are any other girls their ages. Michaela is 11 and Haley is 8. Anyone?

Hello Auntiedot! My daughter Merissa is 10. I posted this same question on our Cruise's Facebook group--lots of answers over there--I think if you look back a few pages in this thread you will see the link to join the facebook group page.

[BrennaM]

Did I see that there was a facebook page for our cruise? If so what is the link for it?

[MerissaAndMomLoveDis]

Did I see that there was a facebook page for our cruise? If so what is the link for it?

See post #177

[BrennaM]

Thanks a bunch!:banana:

[Kap@abq]

We're on this cruise with two girls who are so excited and want to know if there are any other girls their ages. Michaela is 11 and Haley is 8. Anyone?

HI Antiedot - My daughter is 8 and she is looking forward to find a new friend on this cruise.

[Kap@abq]

HI Everyone

As we get closer and closer to the cruise I don't know about your house but ours is buzzing about it. You have 2 weeks before I close the list for the cruise. Send me a PM message and we will get you on the list so you can enjoy the fun! 63 days till the fun starts.

Kathy

[AKMOUSE]

HI Antiedot - My daughter is 8 and she is looking forward to find a new friend on this cruise.

By time we cruise my daughter will be 8. She is so scared that she will not know anyone as her brother is all too glad to be going to Edge. (Although - I am betting that he will show up in the Club).

I think that if we plan on a meet the first night and the girls can meet, that may help. Kate loved the club and shut it down nearly everynight. :rotfl:
One of my fave pics was the night of hte pajama party and her make up was....well......lovely. And they painted her nails!

Does anyone have the late seating for dinner?

[Jump4Joy8390]

HI Everyone

As we get closer and closer to the cruise I don't know about your house but ours is buzzing about it. You have 2 weeks before I close the list for the cruise. Send me a PM message and we will get you on the list so you can enjoy the fun! 63 days till the fun starts.

Kathy

Hi Kathy! I just sent you a PM with our info. Please add us to the FE list. This will be our 4th Disney cruise and we've done fish extenders every time. SO much fun!!

And Hi to our fellow cruisers! I have to go back and read through this thread - but our DD is looking for friends her age, too (she's 10), so please let me know and maybe they can write and/or email a bit beforehand.

Thanks!

[Pinkocto]

By time we cruise my daughter will be 8. She is so scared that she will not know anyone as her brother is all too glad to be going to Edge. (Although - I am betting that he will show up in the Club).

I think that if we plan on a meet the first night and the girls can meet, that may help. Kate loved the club and shut it down nearly everynight. :rotfl:
One of my fave pics was the night of hte pajama party and her make up was....well......lovely. And they painted her nails!

Does anyone have the late seating for dinner?

We have late seating, but no kids. Isn't Disney pretty good about grouping the same ages together? I hope you'll get lucky and have a wonderful family to sit with :)

I'm so excited everyone!!!

[Kap@abq]

HI AKMOUSE
Would love to get the girls together. We have first seating but let figure out a time and get the girls to met. Reese is worries she won't have anyone to hang with at the club. I'm sure finding a friend early on will be very nice.
Kathy

By time we cruise my daughter will be 8. She is so scared that she will not know anyone as her brother is all too glad to be going to Edge. (Although - I am betting that he will show up in the Club).

I think that if we plan on a meet the first night and the girls can meet, that may help. Kate loved the club and shut it down nearly everynight. :rotfl:
One of my fave pics was the night of hte pajama party and her make up was....well......lovely. And they painted her nails!

Does anyone have the late seating for dinner?

[Kap@abq]

Since we are getting closer to the closing of the list, I thought maybe it would be good to list who I actually have on the list. If you do not find your Disname on the list this mean you are not doing the FE. If your missing, I apoligize please PM and I will get you on the list. List closes Jan 30th. Thanks and make the next 60days fly please. :goodvibes

kap@abq
Pinkocto
sparty7798
MerissaAndMomLoveDis
Queen of Oakville
AK MOUSE
aamove
Live2vacation
Herrqsmee
BrennaM
Kias and/or SpitfireRN
binab
Jump4Joy8390

[auntiedot]

I can't send my information because I don't have 10 posts on the board. We do want to partipate in FE. Actually picked up a few things today. Not sure exactly how it all works but sounds like fun. I will keep posting "sweet nothings" until I get 10 posts. Please be patient with me.

[auntiedot]

Still posting so I can join in on the FE fun.

[Pinkocto]

Are you guys doing any excursions?

[nancynymomof3]

I had introduced myself last January. Been counting down the days so patiently. I requested to join the Facebook group so that my kids can potentially meet kids their ages. My 3 children will be all in different aged kids' clubs.

59 days and counting......

[Cruellafan]

It doesn't include access to the pools or beach and believe me during spring break there is no sneaking (we tried it a couple of years ago LOL) A friend that stayed there last year said they even stopped and interrogated her when she was wearing a band from the day before. She had not been to the towel place to get the current days band yet. She said security is serious there. We tried to buy a day pass a couple of years ago and they didn't sell them as spring break is crazy. My friend did say last year that it was a madhouse the day all the cruise ships were in port and they complained to the hotel. Unfortunately I just found out that there are 4 cruise ships due in the day we are there so expect long waits. I may just decide to stay on the ship instead of Aquaadventure and ride the duck. LOL:banana:

Thanks for the first-hand info on security at Atlantis. I'll be happy with their aquarium and looking at other sites included in the excursion. :littleangel: Riding the duck on port days is probably a good idea, as the lines may be shorter.

[Tiggerfan1973]

We are thinking about booking this cruise. (I know it is a little close, but we are waiting for something to be finished. Once that is finished, we are SAILING!!!) When is the deadline to sign up for the FE?

[hgrimsley]

Just got our trip booked. My inlaws are taking us (husband, me & 2 boys) on this cruise for a spring break trip. So excited! :goodvibes

What do I need to know? I really want to make this a super fun trip for my boys. They are 7 & 5.

[hgrimsley]

Just saw the FE list (trying to catch up and read back!) I'm just learning about this, but it sounds like something my boys would have a blast doing. I'd love to get signed up!

[hgrimsley]

Would love to join the FB group! We are so excited for this cruise!

[Pinkocto]

We are thinking about booking this cruise. (I know it is a little close, but we are waiting for something to be finished. Once that is finished, we are SAILING!!!) When is the deadline to sign up for the FE?

End of the month I'm pretty sure. I hope the something gets finished so you can cruise soon!!!