May 28, 2011 - 11 Night Mediterranean Sailing from Barcelona

[DopeyFan1966]

Anyone else out there going on this cruise. I just booked it last week while on the cruise.

Here is a website I've started on this cruise. Someone on our last cruise did the same thing, hopefully I will be able to make this one half as good as his. I will continually update it as I can. I have not completed all the pages yet. Eventually as people start booking private excursions and have openings for others I will post that on the site also.

http://5-28-11-medcruisers.weebly.com/


Useful Info issued by DCL re: Med cruises

Barcelona Port info and times

Airport to Port - 30-40 mins drive
No parking at terminal

Check-in open - around 10-10.30am (DCL brochure says 10am, email says 10.30)
Check in at terminal to be complete by 4pm, after 4pm check-in done onboard
Embarkation - begins approx 1pm
Mandatory Lifeboat drill - 5pm
Sails from barcelona - 9.30pm

Disboard Members on this Cruise:
1. DopeyFan1966 (Cindy) 44 (Belgium)
DH (Andy) 45
DD (Skylar) 9 (at the time of sailing)
Celebrating: 17th Wedding Anniversary
Stateroom: Cat 5C GTY
early seating

2. CmpkC (Cathy)
DH (Chris)
DD (Caitlin)
Celebrating: Graduation
Stateroom:

3. TizzrdLizzrd (Leslie)
DBF (Ed)
DD (Chelsea) 18
DD (Reagan) 4
Celebrating: First Cruise, Chelsea's Graduation
Stateroom: 8548

4. Htmlkid (Glenn) (Florida)
DW Barbara
DD Christina (11)
Celebrating:
Stateroom: 6026
late seating

5. Friends of Htmlkid
DH Mong
DW Htwe
DD Jennifer
Stateroom: 6024

6. Disneymom13176 (Amy) (Kentucky)
DH (Brian)
DS (Chris) 12
DS (Andrew) 6
DM (Sue)
Celebrating:
Stateroom: 6637 and 6638

7. Jettybean (Jeanne) (Tennessee)
DH Billy
DD Jagger(10)
Celebrating:
Stateroom: 7138
early seating

8. Lawelch (Laurie) (Colorado)
DH Doug
DS Alexander (17)
DD Catherine (14)
Celebrating: 24th Anniversary
Stateroom 7001

9. Kaceyisme (Karen) (New York)
DH Ken
DS Bryan (18)
DMIL Theresa
Celebrating:
Stateroom Deck 7 "secret" verandahs
early seating

10. Marymom (Mary 44)
DH David-42
DS Andrew-17
DD Kirsten-15
DD Rebekah-13
DS Will-11
Celebrating:
Stateroom: 2107 and 2109
late seating

11. Scrappycruiser (Bruce) (Virginia)
DW Gina
Celebrating
Stateroom: 7632
early seating
Traveling with Cousin Orvill
celebrating 1st Platinum cruise and 35th Wedding Anniversary

12. Cousin Orville (Kevin) (Texas)
DW Kate
DS Liam (1)
DS Gavin (6)
Celebrating:
Stateroom: 8076

13. Flower91882 (Danielle)
Stateroom:
Celebtating:

14. Floridahippy (Fi) (United Kingdom)
DH Pete
Stateroom:
Celebtating:

15. Silvergoldberry (Pennsylvania)
9 or 10 cruisers
4 staterooms

16. Halo (Don) 46 (London)
DW Gaynor
DD1 Caitlin 11 (just - at the time of sailing)
DD2 Grace 8 (9th birthday on the cruise )
DS Jack 5
Celebrating: the girl's birthdays
Staterooms: 2122 and 2124

17. RaglanRoad (Trisha) (California)
DM Gloria
DA Cindy
stateroom: deck 6 w/veranda
Celebrating:
early seating

18. David & Jane (David) (Manchester, England)
DW Jane
Stateroom: 7088
Celebrating:

19. Madclfan (MA)
DW
Celebrating:
Stateroom:

20. dsjames
DH
DS
Celebrating:
Stateroom:

21. Annichan (37) (Annika) (Germany)
Christian (34)
Celebrating: 3d Anniversary
Stateroom: 7618
late seating

22. Vicky29
DD Elizabeth (3)
DM Janet
Stateroom:
Celebrating:

23. kcashner
DD (20)
Stateroom:
Celebrating:

24. kelvinwyng
Iris
Stateroom:
Celebrating:
First Cruise
late seating

25. DaisyKate
Fiance
Celebrating: Honeymoon
Stateroom:

26. micknstang (Scott)
Jason
Deck 5, SPH
Late Seating
Celebrating Scott's 40th B-day and Jason's 45th B-day
going to DLP for 3 nights after cruise

27. livelovelaugh06 (Rachelle) (39)
DGM Lee aka Grandma Peabody (65)
DD Jessica (21)
DS Joseph aka cub (6)
Deck 6
late seating
Celebrating:

28. Nanarella (Nancy)
DH John
DS Greg
stateroom: 5622
late Seating
celebrating Greg's graduation

29. VickidiBobbidiBoo (Vicki) (32)
DH Dan (32) (DisneyDan24)
Stateroom: 5624
Celebrating:
late seating

30. pamelak (Pamela) (Liverpool)
DH Simon
Stateroom:
Celebrating:

30. Maltese5 (Shirley)
DH Peter
DS Matthew(16)
Stateroom: 7598
Celebrating

31. Elsareen (Elsa) (Puerto Rico)
DGM Elsie
DS Joaquim (11)
DD Elena (9)
Main Seating
Stateroom:
Celebrating:

33. Canadia Koda (Rachel) (25)
DM
Stateroom: 6303
Celebrating:
Late seating

34. EyeDisneyCruise (Trisha)
DH Ben
DD Alexandra (6)
DS4 Zachary (4)
Stateroom: 6550
Late Seating

35. nhmomofson (Kimberly)
DH
Stateroom:Cat 9 gty
Celebrating: Kimberly's 40th Birthday

36. Melo597 (Melissa) (Chicago)
DH Randy
DD Kaylin(4)
DD Allie (3)
Stateroom:
Celebrating:

37. Mog's Mom (Colleen) (Ottowa)
DH David
DS Kieran (14)
DD Jenna (11)
Stateroom: 6532

38. klsdisney (Karen) (Albany)
DM Diane
Stateroom:
Celebrating:

39. LaEsmralda (Jamie) 30 (Germany)
DH Jess (33)
DD Lorelei (5)
Stateroom:
Celebrating:

40. Disney Bob (Rob)
DW Lindsey
Stateroom:
Celebrating:

41. calihannah (Hannah) - 32
DH - 32
DD1 - will be 4 in 2 weeks
DD2 - will be 6.5 months at cruise time
celebrating: 8066
stateroom:

42. taitai1 (Diane)
DH Gary
Stateroom 6634
Early Seating

43. heidielizabeth (Heidi)
DH John
DS Jack (11)
DD Lauren (9)
DS Jesse (7)
DS Justin (5)
DD Annabella (2)
celebrating: Justin and Annabella's birthday
Staterooms: 1068 and 1066

44. Boomerang4 (Meg )
DH Greg
DS Cooper (5)
DS Spencer (3)
Celebrating: A milestone birthday for DH

45. turbojsf (Marchelle)
DH Art
DD Taryn (12)
DS DJ (9)

46. full quiver (Honey)
DH Frank (44)
DS Damien (9)
DS Zane (6)
DS Lucien (4)
DD Season (3)
DS Quinn(1)

47. maddisney (Olga) (Belgium)
DH Marc (43)
DS Florian (1)
Early seating
Celebrating Florian 2nd birthday

48. krystyneb (Kystyne)
DD Angeline (19)
Stateroom:
Celebrating:

49. wildonethirtyseven (Jay)
DS Alex (11)
DS Jerry (13)
Stateroom:
Celebrating: both DS birthdays
50. Thekoeppens (Curt)
DW Sharon
Stateroom: 2100
Celebrating: Birthday

51. Bama4ever (Melody)
DH Matt
DD Gracie (8)
Celebrating: 10 year anniversary and DH Birthday
Late Seating

52. the_cave_crew (Jon)
DW (Beth)
DD (Alyssa) 14
DD (Emma) 12
Celebrating: The first time going to Europe with the girls.
Stateroom: 6012

53. THSMaster (Barbara)
DH Larry
Stateroom: 7072
early dining:
celebrating:

54. Simian (The Netherlands)


55. dylan'smom (Bev)
DH Gary
early dining
stateroom: 7131

56. FLCMPirate82 (Amanda) (Florida)
DH Christian
Grandpa Joe
Grandma Chloetaa
Celebrating: Our first Dis Cruise and 1st Med Cruise, DH's first time Overseas!
Stateroom: One Verandah for the Grandparents, deck 6, One outside view for us, Deck 2
Early Seating

57. tripodjw - Jane
DH - Heath
6th DCL cruise
Stateroom - OGT
No celebrations

58. pj-atsea (Pat)
DD Michelle
early seating
stateroom - 6056

59. Tinkfan4 (Vikki)
DH Ken
DS Tyler
DS Austin

 

[IrishCowboy]

I have added your thread to the cruise meet list

 

[CmpkC]

We booked in April to celebrate DD's high school graduation. Will be me (Cathy), DH Chris, and DD (Caitlin). Really looking forward to it!

 

[DopeyFan1966]

Welcome.

Have you done this cruise before? We just did it in May of this year and it was amazing. If you have any questions please let me know and I will try to answer them for you. I am not a Disney Cruise expert but I will try to give you any information that I might be able to.

Cindy

 

[tizzrdlizzrd]

My DD (Reagan) and I (Leslie) will be on this cruise, our first, and we are so excited! Reagan will be four when we sail, and we are in stateroom 8548. The only thing we are celebrating is our first cruise. Woo hoo!

 

[htmlkid]

We will be on the cruise. Myself, My wife and our 10 year old daughter. hoping to meet up with people from here and other girls for my daughter to hang with.

 

[DopeyFan1966]

Welcome to all of you. If you have any questions, ask me and I will try to answer.

Let me know what your stateroom is and if you are celebrating anything on the cruise and I will add that to the first post.

Cindy

 

[tizzrdlizzrd]

Cindy,

I updated some of my information in my previous post.

I was wondering what your favorite and least favorite things were about the Med cruise you just finished? What will you do differently on your next cruise, and what do you think is a must do/see for a first timer?

Leslie

 

[DopeyFan1966]

Cindy,

I updated some of my information in my previous post.

I was wondering what your favorite and least favorite things were about the Med cruise you just finished? What will you do differently on your next cruise, and what do you think is a must do/see for a first timer?

Leslie

We enjoyed the entire trip. You may not be interested in doing an excursion in Tunis (unless you leave your daughter at the Kids Club). We will probably not do any excursion in Tunis next year, if we do it will be only to Carthage. We will definatley go to Pompeii again, it was awesome. Rome was incredible. Next year we are going to do Cinque Terra from the port of Le Spezia. And, we might not do anything in the port of Villefranche.

Your daughter is going to have a great time. There are so many characters out everyday. My daughter loved the kids clubs.

I'm working on a website to post here for you guys to go to for more information.

We only did Disney Excursions in Malta, Tunis, and La Spezia. We didn't do anything in Corsica but walk down to the beach for a while. The other ports we did private excursions with other families and split the cost (it ended up costing less and I feel we got a better tour). I will be adding links to private tour companies to the website I'm creating, plus I will post who is taking private tours and if they have any openings to share with others. (Someone else on our trip did the same thing, I don't know if I will do as well as he did, but I will try to do my best)

I will try to start a facebook page for this cruise also and post some pictures from this year's cruise.

Hope this helps for now.

 

[DopeyFan1966]

My DD (Reagan) and I (Leslie) will be on this cruise, our first, and we are so excited! Reagan will be four when we sail, and we are in stateroom 8548. The only thing we are celebrating is our first cruise. Woo hoo!

We stayed in 8010 this year and it was a really nice room. Does your room have a balcony? I think you will really like it, especially with just the two of you. You will have sooooo much room.

 

[tizzrdlizzrd]

We stayed in 8010 this year and it was a really nice room. Does your room have a balcony? I think you will really like it, especially with just the two of you. You will have sooooo much room.

We do have a balcony. She still goes to bed quite early, or will have to take a nap so I wanted to make sure we had plenty of room to spread out! This is our first cruise and will be my daughter's first international flight. Lucky for me she is a superb traveler!

I'm working on a website to post here for you guys to go to for more information.

We only did Disney Excursions in Malta, Tunis, and La Spezia. We didn't do anything in Corsica but walk down to the beach for a while. The other ports we did private excursions with other families and split the cost (it ended up costing less and I feel we got a better tour). I will be adding links to private tour companies to the website I'm creating, plus I will post who is taking private tours and if they have any openings to share with others. (Someone else on our trip did the same thing, I don't know if I will do as well as he did, but I will try to do my best)

I'm so glad to hear you are putting this together. With it just being the two of us, and on some excursions, just me, going in with some other families will be a HUGE help. I saw the website I think you are referring to, and it looked like a great place for info.

Next year we are going to do Cinque Terra from the port of Le Spezia.

After everything I've read Cinque Terra seems like so much fun! Tunisia looks like a great day to stay on the ship to me.

 

[DopeyFan1966]

After everything I've read Cinque Terra seems like so much fun! Tunisia looks like a great day to stay on the ship to me.

Carthage is really amazing. I wouldn't take it off my list yet.

Cindy

 

[disneymom13176]

We just booked! We are so excited! We have 2 staterooms one with DH and I and the other with my mom and our 2 DS. I have spent all day looking at shore excursions.

Is anyone planning to organize a FE group? I have never organized one, but I could try if someone is not already doing it. Let me know if anyone is interested.

Amy

 

[DopeyFan1966]

I had planned on starting one, but not until we got closer to the cruise date. I will add all the information to the website I'm working on also.

We did this cruise this year and did several private excursions with other families and the cost was less than with Disney, we also ended up doing less walking and got to see more. I will put a list of private companies on the cruise website when I get a chance. I'm working on it slowly. I have never created a website before and I'm finding it quite interesting, fun, and sometime aggrevating. I should have it complete before November.

If you give me your information I will add it to the roll call list I have started also.

Cindy

We just booked! We are so excited! We have 2 staterooms one with DH and I and the other with my mom and our 2 DS. I have spent all day looking at shore excursions.

Is anyone planning to organize a FE group? I have never organized one, but I could try if someone is not already doing it. Let me know if anyone is interested.

Amy

 

[disneymom13176]

I had planned on starting one, but not until we got closer to the cruise date. I will add all the information to the website I'm working on also.

We did this cruise this year and did several private excursions with other families and the cost was less than with Disney, we also ended up doing less walking and got to see more. I will put a list of private companies on the cruise website when I get a chance. I'm working on it slowly. I have never created a website before and I'm finding it quite interesting, fun, and sometime aggrevating. I should have it complete before November.

If you give me your information I will add it to the roll call list I have started also.

Cindy

Looking forward to hearing your experience! I am looking to hire a private guide for the day in Rome. I heard that it can be done for less than you would expect and with having 5 people in my party we are already looking at $1000 plus to see Rome with the excursions from Disney. I might as well see what I want to see since I cannot find a Disney excursion that goes to the places I want to go to.

Here is our info for the page: 6636 Brian (DH) and Amy; 6637 Sue (DGM), Chris (DS12) and Andrew (DS6). Let me know if you were looking for any additional info.

If I can assist with anything let me know. We are really excited!

Amy

 

[DopeyFan1966]

You could definately take a private tour for less than $1000. I think a private tour for 5 - 7 people was only 650 Euro, which is less than $900 (at the current exchange rate). As soon as I can get to do more work on the website I'm working on I will add the links for the private tours. Hopefully I will have it all done by November (definately before the end of December).

Our experience was awesome, this was our first cruise. I'm not good at putting things into words so I probably won't do any type of trip report. But I will answer any questions anyone has to ask.

Looking forward to hearing your experience! I am looking to hire a private guide for the day in Rome. I heard that it can be done for less than you would expect and with having 5 people in my party we are already looking at $1000 plus to see Rome with the excursions from Disney. I might as well see what I want to see since I cannot find a Disney excursion that goes to the places I want to go to.

Here is our info for the page: 6636 Brian (DH) and Amy; 6637 Sue (DGM), Chris (DS12) and Andrew (DS6). Let me know if you were looking for any additional info.

If I can assist with anything let me know. We are really excited!

Amy

 

[BigHugsForEeyore]

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[DopeyFan1966]

Welcome everyone to our thread.

 

[scrapycruiser]

Hi ! Planning to book this cruise when we're on our Baltic cruise 7/18.
We did the Med in 2007 and loved it ! Especially liked the Amalfi Coast, Rome and Villefrance. I know some great tour guides if anyones interested.

This time it will be me,Gina and DH, Bruce...emptynesters. Our son,dil,and 2 Grandsons plan to book as well. I'll let you know when we're booked !

 

[DopeyFan1966]

Hi ! Planning to book this cruise when we're on our Baltic cruise 7/18.
We did the Med in 2007 and loved it ! Especially liked the Amalfi Coast, Rome and Villefrance. I know some great tour guides if anyones interested.

This time it will be me,Gina and DH, Bruce...emptynesters. Our son,dil,and 2 Grandsons plan to book as well. I'll let you know when we're booked !

I will list a number of private tour companies on the cruise website when a I get a chance to get it completed. You can find the link to the website in my first post. I'm going to add it to my signature so it will be in all my posts so everyone won't have to keep going back to the first post.