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    Let's use this thread to keep track of IGT, OGT and VGT assignments?

    #1. Did you book a IGT, OGT or VGT room, and on which ship?VGT Fantasy #2. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 9 #3. What category (ex: 7a, 4c, 11c or whatever) and room # did you get? 4A 9136 #4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a...
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    On the Western Fantasy 10/11/14

    The Rum Point Beach excursion is full (for four people, anyway). I'm hearing that it's not likely to open up as people aren't wont to cancel this one. Is anyone interested in going in and chartering a private boat to get us there? We aren't interested in a tour with Stingray City or the...
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    When excursions are full....

    well, pooh, Kathy that doesn't sound very promising for either of us :( I guess I could see if anyone would like to go in for a private charter but I imagine most everyone has their plans in place by now (I'm on the 10/11).
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    When excursions are full....

    This is for Rum Point Beach in Grand Cayman. We don't want to do Stingray City or snorkeling, just Rum Point, so Disney is pretty much our only option. Taxis are cost prohibitive and we aren't comfortable renting cars and driving there.
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    When excursions are full....

    Booked the cruise rather late and now finding the excursions I want are full--or full for the four spots I would need, anyway. I usually book earlier and am quicker on the draw about booking these things so this is new for me....do people tend to put stuff in their cart they really might not...
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    Just how bad IS the drive from Tampa?

    Yeah, geekboy, I actually really don't want to do the one way thing for that very reason. Since I'm the ringleader of this foursome without DH, I'll be the one doing all the schlepping of luggage and schlepping back and forth to drop off and pick up cars. I think before I did one way, I'd bid...
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    Just how bad IS the drive from Tampa?

    Okay, then, let me throw this out there... I had gotten shuttle/car quotes and they were astronomical so we threw that option out. However, got a call yesterday from a service and said they would drive us from Tampa to Port for $200 one way since it was slow season (Tampa Van...
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    Just how bad IS the drive from Tampa?

    Geekboy, do those same directions apply if we don't need to stop in Orlando but are going straight to port area hotels? We are most concerned about maneuvering out of Tampa airport area and around Friday afternoon Orlando traffic, didn't know if we just bypass around Orlando to get to port...
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    Just how bad IS the drive from Tampa?

    Due to crazy plane fares, we are flying into Tampa instead of MCO next month. We've always flown into MCO, walked upstairs to the Hyatt and back down the next morning to the Disney bus. Easy peasy. This is a whole other animal. It will be me, my senior citizen mom and the kids. We live in...
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    Western beach excursions - book through DCL or do on your own?

    My bunch kind of wants to do stingray city but NOT snorkel, too, and all of the tours and excursions combine those two. We would just like to see the stingrays and then have beach time. Is this possible or too far apart? Anyone know of a tour group that does this?
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    Duke TIP?

    My DD just got her letter Friday that she got in her first choice--but it's in San Antonio. Anybody have any experience with Trinity University there? Hard to send your 12 year old off a couple states over to a place you know nothing about!
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    Guess on Homeschool Day 2014

    Gosh I just discovered there WAS a homeschooling days at Disney (this is our first year homeschooling). But please excuse my confusion--can somebody clarify what exactly this is for me? Are there two separate entities--a homeschool days AND YES programs? Or are these two separate things?
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    What is the rule about saving a seat by the pool?

    We have an NCL cruise booked and, apparently, they have implemented some type of "blue dot" policy to ferret out chair hogs. (First noticed a post about it on their fb page). On the "other" boards, someone just posted this: We were on The Jade last month and they were tagging chairs. It was...
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    2014 Itineraries~NOT the answer I wanted from DCL!:furious:

    We did the 11 night Magic Christmas Cruise in 2010 and had some wonderful ports, like Martinique, Guadeloupe (our favorite day ever) Barbados and St. Thomas. It was just a fabulous cruise and holiday. It was also $$$ but worth every penny, in retrospect, for the friends we made. Said...
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    Any NCL cruisers here?

    Yes, I posted there but not much on the Sun over there and even less on those that have done both. I guess I am just trying to reassure myself that all will be well. :)
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    Any NCL cruisers here?

    Leslie (sorry, don't know how to quote from multiple sources) We did the 2010 Christmas 11 day cruise on the Magic, which is what led us to want to do this one. In fact, a family from that cruise was just here visiting us for the Fourth and also booked the NCL cruise, as did another family...
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    Any NCL cruisers here?

    Wendy, we were on the new Celebrity Eclipse. An absolutely beautiful, new, modern ship--Apple computer lab, big globes and reading libraries in the common area on every floor (stateroom decks)--really, really pretty. But, it just left me cold, I don't know any other way to describe it...
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    Any NCL cruisers here?

    Hi-- LOVE LOVE my Disney cruises but now find myself booked on a 10 day NCL Sun Holiday cruise. It was kids sail free and the price was just too phenomenal to pass up for that length and over the Holiday. Must admit, however, a bit of worry about how we will adapt to the NCL experience. (We...
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    looking to see if these shoes are on the Dream

    I have these!! Bought them on the Dream in October. I didn't need any shoes and felt silly for buying them but always get caught up in the wave of emotion on these dang Disney boats and spent the money. Well, I have LIVED in them every since. Guess I have probably worn them every day...
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    Non US citizen check in

    No, you can't. We were just on the Dream in October and stayed at the MCO Hyatt. My husband is a German citizen and I've always loved that check in at that line at the port was so short and quick. I was disappointed when I realized that wasn't an advantage this trip but it ended up being NO...




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