June 14, 2014 - Taking the Magic to Venice

[bigAWL]

Taking the Magic to Venice
12-night Mediterranean Cruise from Barcelona to Venice
Aboard the Disney Magic
June 14-26, 2014

Itinerary

Day 1 Barcelona, Spain
Sat, June 14, 2014
Sail away at 5:00 pm

Day 2 At Sea
Sun, June 15, 2014

Day 3 Villefranche, France (Monte Carlo, Cannes, Nice)
Mon, June 16, 2014
7:30 am 6:30 pm

Day 4 La Spezia, Italy (Florence, Pisa)
Tue, June 17, 2014
7:15 am 6:30 pm

Day 5 Civitavecchia, Italy (Rome)
Wed, June 18, 2014
7:15 am 6:45 pm

Day 6 Naples, Italy (Pompeii)
Thu, June 19, 2014
7:30 am 5:45 pm

Day 7 At Sea
Fri, June 20, 2014

Day 8 Catania, Italy (Sicily)
Sat, June 21, 2014
7:00 am 3:45 pm

Day 9 Corfu, Greece (Greek Isles)
Sun, June 22, 2014
9:00 am 5:45 pm

Day 10 Dubrovnik, Croatia
Mon, June 23, 2014
8:00 am 4:45 pm

Day 11 At Sea
Tue, June 24, 2014

Day 12 Venice, Italy
Wed, June 25, 2014
7:30 am Late

Day 13 Venice, Italy
Thu, June 26, 2014
Disembarkation at 7:00 am

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Cruise Critic Port Guides
Barcelona
Villefranche
Florence (Closest one I found to La Spezia)
Rome (Civitavecchia)
Naples
Catania (From CruiseReviews.com, not Cruise Critic)
Corfu
Dubrovnik
Venice

And here are some Disboards threads that you might find interesting
Barcelona hotels pre-cruise
Med Cruisers . . . Let's Discuss 2013 Planning!


Here are a few photos to whet our appetites...

Barcelona Basilica and Church of the Holy Family (Sagrada Família)

Villefranche Bay at Villefranche-sur-Mer

La Spezia Leaning Tower of Pisa and Cathedral (Piazza del Duomo)

Rome Too many sites in Rome (Roma) to pick just one:

The Coliseum (Colosseo)

Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi)

Vatican City (Stato della Città del Vaticano)

Naples Mount Vesuvius (Monte Vesuvio) above the city of Naples (Napoli)

Catania Cathedral of Catania (Duomo di Catania)

Corfu Pantokrator Monastery on Mouse Island (Pontikonisi)

Dubrovnik Old Town (Stari Grad) and its fortifications

Venice Saint Mark's Square (Piazza San Marco) and Gondolas on the Grand Canal (Canal Grande) in Venice (Venezia)

 

[3princessMommy]

ROLL CALL


DisName.....................................First Names...............Kids Ages & Genders
bigAWL & 3PrincessMommy.........................Aaron & Joann................12, 10, 7 (3DDs)
Ltl Mermaid.....................................Honeymooners
Johnny Quest, Poison Ivy & Ironman..............Jim, Christine...............Mark
1stDisneyCruiseForUs............................Steph & Brian................Tyler(10), Alex (7), and Andy (7)
StJohnFamily....................................Pam & Shayne.................DD12
cwbagne.........................................Matt & Carianne..............Grant (DS18), Paige (DD15)
lgbroq..........................................Lysa & Luis..................DD8, DS5
Tink2182014.....................................Honeymooners
Griffith6.......................................DW & DH......................DD13, DD11, DD9, DS7
2003Eeyore......................................Patti........................DD10
KandiB47........................................DW & DH......................DS8
PrincessBestDayEver.............................Michele & Pete...............Matthew (8) and Julia (5)
Silvermist59....................................DW & DH......................DD10
BabyDiver.......................................Sue & Richard
Degrapevine.....................................Rose & David
Sunmoon620......................................Stacey & Sonny...............DD19, DD17, DD12
RosiePA.........................................Jeff & Rosie
Allyse..........................................Deanne & Larry...............DD16
Burma.......................................................................DD10 & DD12
Mehaul......................................................................DD10 & DD13
Ame.........................................................................DD10 & DD12
MootBoss
Magical Dreams..................................Mario & Kristi
Jonassa.........................................Jonas & Steinar
DPuck1998.......................................DH & DW......................DS15 & 13, DD9
SimivalleySarah.................................Sarah, Scott, DM & DD........DS18, DD14, DD5
AinW............................................Alice........................DD13
Time for Travel.................................Carol........................DD8
TreyFamily4.....................................Beth & Joe...................Sophia (9) and Nya (7)
nicis……………………………………………..……………….…...……………………………..Nic, Mark, & Papa……...……………….Alex (16) & Kate (8)
saamh………...……………………..………….……………………..…………………………….DW & DH…………………..…...………..……..DD9 & DD6

 

[momof2disprincesses]

Maybe! We're currently booked on the Fantasy for this week, but I'd love to switch. Can you tell me the itinerary?

 

[3princessMommy]

Here's the itinerary:

Saturday
14-Jun-2014
BARCELONA
4:00 PM

Sunday
15-Jun-2014
AT SEA

Monday
16-Jun-2014
VILLEFRANCHE
7:30 AM
6:30 PM
TENDER

Tuesday
17-Jun-2014
LA SPEZIA (Pisa)
7:15 AM
6:30 PM
TENDER

Wednesday
18-Jun-2014
CIVITAVECCHIA (Rome)
7:15 AM
6:45 PM

Thursday
19-Jun-2014
NAPLES
7:30 AM
5:45 PM

Friday
20-Jun-2014
AT SEA

Saturday
21-Jun-2014
CATANIA (Sicily)
7:00 AM
3:45 PM

Sunday
22-Jun-2014
CORFU
9:00 AM
5:45 PM

Monday
23-Jun-2014
DUBROVNIK
8:00 AM
4:45 PM

Tuesday
24-Jun-2014
AT SEA

Wednesday
25-Jun-2014
VENEZIA
7:30 AM

Thursday
26-Jun-2014
VENEZIA
4:00 PM

 

[Ltl Mermaid]

My fiancé and I are sooooo excited to have booked this cruise as our honeymoon! Our first choice was a Baltic cruise but this itinerary look amazing...lots of variety which is nice

We will also be celebrating my birthday onboard (6/25) which wasn't necessarily intentional but worked out well!

I've been on a Disney med cruise back in 2007 (I was on the inaugural round trip Barcelona). Though many of these ports are repeats for me DF hasn't been to Europe at all plus there are a lot of options available at each port. Plus we love that we get to visit so many different countries!

I'm most excited about Greece. Even though I don't know much about Corfu I know it'll be gorgeous! I've always dreamed of visits Greece so I'm super excited for that!

We booked one of the 11b sideways rooms which are a layout I love. We had originally planned on a secret porthole but in the interest of saving money changed our minds

 

[3princessMommy]

Yeah! Congrats!!!!!!


What's crazy is that right now the porthole cabins are cheaper than the inside cabins! A friend if ours just booked and a 10AM was $1k more expensive than out 9B! Needless to say, they booked the 9B, next door to us!

 

[Johnny Quest]

Hi everyone,
We just booked this fantastic cruise. What a Valentines Day gift!

We are me(johnny quest), DW(poison ivy), and DS(Ironman). We booked a cat 5B on deck 7. Can't wait. Glad to be here.

 

[Lisa Lisa]

Thanks for the invitation, 3princessMommy! Quick question for you... Do you and DH compete for highest number of posts?? I couldn't help noticing that you are only 4 apart (at this moment).

I woke up at 5:45 EST this morning and could not go back to sleep. I kept checking DCL's site and caught the new dates when they went live at about 7:30. I snagged one of the secret verandah rooms (7620) and could not be happier! I hope the price doesn't go up much as I'll be reshopping the cruise onboard the Fantasy next month.

So excited!

 

[3princessMommy]

Hi everyone,
We just booked this fantastic cruise. What a Valentines Day gift!

We are me(johnny quest), DW(poison ivy), and DS(Ironman). We booked a cat 5B on deck 7. Can't wait. Glad to be here.

We can't wait!!!

 

[3princessMommy]

Thanks for the invitation, 3princessMommy! Quick question for you... Do you and DH compete for highest number of posts?? I couldn't help noticing that you are only 4 apart (at this moment).

I woke up at 5:45 EST this morning and could not go back to sleep. I kept checking DCL's site and caught the new dates when they went live at about 7:30. I snagged one of the secret verandah rooms (7620) and could not be happier! I hope the price doesn't go up much as I'll be reshopping the cruise onboard the Fantasy next month.

So excited!

I don't know what it says about me, but DH tends to follow a lot of different boards. I just stick to DCL. If I need to know something about DVC or WDW, etc. I just ask him. I can hardly keep up with the cruise boards, let alone everything else on here! (But strangely enough, we do tend to stay pretty close to each other in numbers...)

We have been bugging our TA for WEEKS about these dates! We had a 2013 Med cruise booked, but couldn't do it because we are moving this summer to The Netherlands. So I really couldn't wait to move it to 2014.

Then when the dates finally came out and they didn't have that same itinerary, I was not really thrilled. This was the only itinerary I really wanted, because I've never been to Italy and I really, really, really want to see all of these great cities. But the kids don't get out of school until June 19!!! So I didn't think we could go.

But, since we'll already be in Europe, it won't be too hard for us to get to Barcelona on Friday night or early Saturday morning without taking the kids out of school. So the school gave us permission to take them out the last week!

Our TA booked us as soon as the phones opened for Gold/Platinum! And I'm not changing it! You're stuck with us!

DH has already started designing a logo to add to our signature pages! He'll post a draft here shortly so you early birds can comment before it goes final.

It will be a long year to wait, but it definitely gives me something exciting to look forward to! Can't wait to meet you all!!!!

Joann

 

[1stDisneyCruiseForUs]

We just booked too! So unbelievably excited. It will be our 3rd DCL voyage. Anybody have kids sailing with them? We will have our three boys (twins who will be 9 and an older son who will be days away from 13). Let the planning festivities begin!

Steph

 

[3princessMommy]

We just booked too! So unbelievably excited. It will be our 3rd DCL voyage. Anybody have kids sailing with them? We will have our three boys (twins who will be 9 and an older son who will be days away from 13). Let the planning festivities begin!

Steph

We have kids the same age, but all girls! They'll be almost 13, 10, and 7 on this cruise.

 

[bigAWL]

Hey everyone!

Check out the first post!!! I'll be keeping track of new information as it comes available for this cruise on that post.

Take a look now to see the draft of a cruise logo I've been working on. It's still a work in progress, but I'd love your thoughts on how I can make it better. The picture includes landmarks from each of our ports of call! Can you guess what they are????

 

[StJohnfamily]

We are booked!! Excited and nervous at the same time!! There is myself, DH and DD (12).

BigAWL.....love the logo!!

 

[3princessMommy]

We are booked!! Excited and nervous at the same time!! There is myself, DH and DD (12).

BigAWL.....love the logo!!

Pam, Shayne and Elizabeth, we are Sooooooo excite to be cruising with you guys again!!!!!

 

[1stDisneyCruiseForUs]

Ok so this is total OCD planning, and way too early, but is anybody else considering the Adventures by Disney add on? Either the Barcelona pre or the excursion add ons? It's pricey but just thinking about how much the kids would get out of it, and how fabulous it would be to have absolutely nothing to plan

Steph

 

[3princessMommy]

Ok so this is total OCD planning, and way too early, but is anybody else considering the Adventures by Disney add on? Either the Barcelona pre or the excursion add ons? It's pricey but just thinking about how much the kids would get out of it, and how fabulous it would be to have absolutely nothing to plan

Steph

Have they announce it for 2014?

I'm sure it's priced out of our range, but I'd take a look at it. We can't do anything early in Barcelona because the girls' school. We'll arrive late Friday night or early Sat morning. But maybe if there's an after program in Venice...

 

[poison ivy]

Just a quick hello to all my fellow cruisers!

I'm Christine, my DH is Johnny Quest on the Dis.

We are really looking forward to this trip. Our first to Europe.

big AWL thanks for getting the thread started. The logo looks great.

We too are going to research ABD when it's announced but aren't too optimistic given their pricing.

really can't wait to go!!

 

[3princessMommy]

Just a quick hello to all my fellow cruisers!

I'm Christine, my DH is Johnny Quest on the Dis.

We are really looking forward to this trip. Our first to Europe.

big AWL thanks for getting the thread started. The logo looks great.

We too are going to research ABD when it's announced but aren't too optimistic given their pricing.

really can't wait to go!!

 

[Lisa Lisa]

I'm sorry to say that I'm going to have to take my leave! DH and I talked about our options last night and agreed to go with the 9-night on 6/26 instead. We have never been to Greece and really want to see Athens and either Mykonos or Santorini. Dang, I really like that logo!

Have an awesome cruise everyone!