Congratulations! She is beautiful! Was she was a few days early?
Hope you're all well!
Make sure you're getting lots of sleep!
Cluck cluck here
Kidlette- so cool to be a travel agent!! Congrats on the baby, she is adorbs!!! We also will be traveling with a baby- well he is a baby now (20 months), but he will be almost 2.5 then LOL
If there is someone with experience in organizing FE and want to do is OK with me.
Hi steelek. Welcome to the sailing!
Ryan and I did this same sailing in January and I was the "group leader." I organized the FE, pre-cruise meets, wristbands, a group meet on board the ship, a group brunch in Palo for a select number of us, and Ryan and I also designed the group logo and organized a "vote" for the group name. I even set up and managed one of those free google websites and had people send me pictures, etc. so that we could "get to know" one another. LOL, that's probably taking it a little far though, there's no reason for you to have to do that. Anyway - I would love to help organize, but I'm afraid I'll have to decline and leave it up to you (but you are doing great so far) With a newborn it's just not something I want to give priority and time to. Lorelai comes first right now, but that's as it should be. However - if you have questions or want some guidance on anything, feel free to email me (mrsjeccamcintosh@yahoo.com) or send me a private message. I'm happy to answer any questions if I can.
About a name - how do we want to choose? If you're going to be the "leader" to you want people to PM you with ideas and you post a list that we vote on, or should people just start giving ideas?
Also - if anyone wants to meet before the sailing and will be in the Disneyland area, Ryan and I would be happy to meet you! On our last sailing we did maybe 4 pre-cruise meets and became friends with a lot of people. To this day there are 3 families that we keep in contact with regularly, all of which we've "traveled" with again. We love making friends!
OK Everyone - one last post (sorry there are so many today)
Anyway - Ryan and I took Lorelai to Disneyland yesterday! It was her first Disneyland trip and she was only 15 days old
In any case, here's our "first family photo" - Lorelai, Mommy, and Daddy at Disneyland!
Sorry...the pic is a bit fuzzy.
Ryan and I did the 2 night cruise to nowhere followed by the Wonder's first sailing of this itinerary in January 2011, so we have experience with it too. Now you and I can both tell everyone how fantastic it is! Did you guys do any excursions in September? We only did a whale watching excursion, but we would highly recommend it. We were supposed to go horseback riding in Mazatlan, but as with this sailing, Mazatlan was cancelled then too, so we missed it. We also did our own thing in Puerto Vallarta, and I wouldn't really recommend that to anyone. It seemed the least safe of the 2 ports. Honestly, we were glad to get back on the ship. Cabo was nice though, walking around was comfortable and didn't cause concern.
I think someone mentioned graphic design experience, which is fantastic. If they want to do the logo that would be great. Otherwise, I would recommend contacting someone from the DISigns board soon. We wound up doing it ourselves on the last cruise because these people had so many requests that the wait was a month or two for a logo
Also - if anyone wants to meet before the sailing and will be in the Disneyland area, Ryan and I would be happy to meet you! On our last sailing we did maybe 4 pre-cruise meets and became friends with a lot of people. To this day there are 3 families that we keep in contact with regularly, all of which we've "traveled" with again. We love making friends!
Geezzzz I wish I could do all those things, but I don't have any idea how!!!! I don't feel like the "leader", I just started the FE. If we are going to meet some place or do all the neat things you said, I will really need your help.
I need to explain one thing though... my first language is Spanish so pleaseeeee excuse all the grammar mistakes...
Out last group was pretty simple. We had our first meet on ship (some people met off ship prior) and did FE. I didn't know that there were more groups that did more. LOL What are the wrist bands for?
Can anyone help me deciding were to stay prior the cruise. I don't have any idea!!! I've never been to CA... I only know that I have to be there the day after b/c since I'm from Puerto Rico I will be arriving toooo late the same day. I'm not sure if I should stay near the airport or neart the port... I wish it was in San Pedro (near the port)... What do you think??!!??
Hello!! My daughter (6) and I booked this cruise in December using our DVC points! We are so excited! This will be our second Disney Cruise, our first one was in January 2010. It was a 4 day on the Wonder out of FL.
I think I got all caught up in all the previous posts. LOL
Jessica, congrats on the beautiful baby girl!
I saw some stuff about the FE... I think my daughter and I may be interested... But I don't know much about it yet. My sister and BIL and also my BIL's sis are going as well. I am going to talk to them about it as well.
Right now we live in Yokosuka, Japan. My husband is in the Navy. My daughter and I are heading home to CA in May or June tho, since my husband decided in July he doesn't feel like being married anymore after 8 years. Nice. But we are excited about the cruise! My daughter and I need something to look forward to right now!
Question... how does Halloween on the ship work? Does anyone know?
Hello!! My daughter (6) and I booked this cruise in December using our DVC points!
Where do you own at and how long have you owned? We own at Animal Kingdom Villas. I can't remember exactly when we bought, but it was a few years ago. We LOVE it and would recommend DVC to anyone!
2) If you're coming all the way to SoCal for a Disney Cruise, it seems a waste to not stay the night at Disney the night before. Disney Cruise Line has a pier transfer from the Disneyland resort to the cruise terminal. You have to pay for it, but that way you can stay near Disneyland the night before and have Disney themselves transfer you to the ship. It's a win-win! Heck, you can even do that if you don't go into the parks or stay at a Disney hotel. I know lots of cheaper hotels in the Disneyland area that are good, and I can even recommend to you a specific way to priceline that area for a descent room (we've done it dozens and dozens of times). But again - as far as staying near the ship, I'm sorry that I don't have any recommendations.
Hope that helps.
I'm staying a couple of day after the cruise to visit Disneyland... My first visit
I'm staying in Portofino inn for 5 nights... Still haven't decided where to stay the day before the cruise
We're stuck for before the cruise too, thinking we might do the DL trick or treat party on the Friday before, but not sure yet, we'll be coming from Vegas (at this stage) on the Thursday or Friday before and staying after the cruise at DL (Grand Cali hopefully, jeez i'm waiting for those deals to come out!) and flying home on the Thursday night.
It's getting closer!
I'm still deciding whether we'll do the FE, just thinking of having to take all that extra stuff with us.
Flights over here have gone up, tax increases and introduction of the carbon tax for flights starting July 1, adding around $150 to each flight (thats what the media says anyway).
Hoping we win the $20million lotto draw next week, it would make all our decisions so much easier...