05/09/2009 May 9, 2009 7-Night Eastern St Maarten... Watch Out!

[Royfam]

hey are you sure it's tonight for 90 days out? It's not letting me book. anyone else having a prob or just me I know they have us as castaway members?

 

[scottie]

Darn it, right in the site when it opened and could only snag 8:30pm for Palo on Sunday. Would have had to miss the show if we wanted to do the earlier time that was open. Oh well, maybe I will try to change it when we board the ship to closer to 7:30.

Got the 12 meter regatta scheduled, but couldnt get Flouders scheduled as a just-in-case for our Palo time because it was erroring out... I guess because I listed Dylan as being potty trained?!?

 

[Royfam]

HELP! what is going on? I'm on the wast coast and my husband is on the east coast and neither of us can access resorvations

 

[scottie]

Anyone having trouble being able to make your cruise plans online? I thought it was midnight eastern time...

I have read lately of issues with the site when the booking window opens... guess we are having that tonight- which STINKS. I dont know how I lucked out and got thru to book some stuff but I am now locked out and cant edit anything.

 

[ufcabear]

Got on. Hope everyone was successful.

 

[SCDizneyDawn]

We got everything we wanted! It was very slow but we got it to work. So sorry for you guys that had problems

So, we have Brunch on Sunday, Dinner on Tuesday and Tea on Thursday, all with the times we wanted.

 

[lyn9856]

Hi from UK, at 5am! ZZZZZZZZ
Hows everyone doing? If you cant make ressies, try logging out of the site and then back in. I had trouble at first, kept refereshiung but it still wopuldnt open. Logged out then back in and...whoop whoop...got exactl the Palo ding I wanted. Dinner on Monday 8pm, and Brunch Thursday 1130. Reserved a couple of floats for Serenity bay floating also but will do our own excursions, so not booked any of those. Now to look at the Spa......
Wanted to prarsail at CC, but..with the credit crunch am thinking maybe not. We have 2 weeks in Disney before the cruise and we booked before the economy nose dived so are a bit more conscious of costs this time.
Will still have a brilliant time though!! Have fun
Lyn

 

[ufcabear]

We also got brunch on Sunday at 11:00. We have never done dinner in Palo, I am thinking about going back on and booking diinner. Just not sure when I want it.

 

[wingawh]

Got in too and got what we wanted...I hope.

 

[scottie]

We also got brunch on Sunday at 11:00. We have never done dinner in Palo, I am thinking about going back on and booking diinner. Just not sure when I want it.

Well if you can manage to find a Sunday at 7:30pm Palo for 3, I will buy it from you for $1.00


Off to bed I go... hopefully I can get back in tomorrow to make sure my reservations held!

 

[j2bmickey]

We managed to get most of what we were trying to get.

We're in for the Fish Extenders too!!!! I sent PM to DisneyMommy1022 to say all in our travel party was interested. I'm not sure where that stands now. She was organizing this a while back.

Hope everyone is doing well and got what they wanted.

Can't wait to meet everyone!!!!

 

[scottie]

Got back in finally, you all may want to check your bookings because my 12 meter regatta magically disappeared! So now it looks like it saved this time and will hopefully stay there!

Off to bed for real now this time, I promise!

 

[Royfam]

Finally got in Yep got what we wanted. I think I saw Palo's Sunday for 8pm just a second ago

 

[Royfam]

We also got brunch on Sunday at 11:00. We have never done dinner in Palo, I am thinking about going back on and booking diinner. Just not sure when I want it.

Do book dinner, It's so worth it!

 

[Royfam]

I have read some reports on other cruisers FE excitement onboard and I do agree some of the reports sounded like it took some real effort to be part of the group and seemed to requiring bringing a whole lot of stuff with you.

I have read other reports where they agreed to a one-time delivery of a gift to the other stateroom FE hangers in the group (at whatever point of the cruise they chose to deliver their FE gift- kind of a surprise).

There also seemed to be reports where you agreed to deliver a minimum of one time to the other staterooms and had the option to deliver more frequently if you decided you wanted to.

I think with all the stuff we all find ourselves doing onboard that keeps many of us going from sunrise to well past sunset; I would prefer to not have a whole fancy plan for our FE exchange and kind of lean towards the latter two scenarios above. Not sure if I am in the minority with this thought or not??

Sound good to us... So a one time, surprise? I'd still like to find out how many adult/kids. Do we know where we can make a list or can you put a mark by the names of people who want to do the FE (on the 1st page list) I total agree, there's so much to do (on the boat) and that more then once might be hard. plus with the limitations the airline have now on #of bags and weight, it's so hard to pack! and on the green bracelets sound good too. If someone orders I can pay them back with paypal. we'd need 7. there's 8 of us but I don't think it'll stay on the little guy Thanks for everything!

 

[WILDCATMICKEY]

Stayed up until after 12 est and the system would not take any reservations. So I woke up at 4 and did not have any problems, making Palo reservations and spa reservation for the DW. Even went on and checked in.

Friday made my reservation for the Animal Kingdom Lodge Boma and Sunset Safari.

Now we just have to wait and pack.


90 days and counting down.

 

[scottie]

I think I figured out the Palo thing, reservations of parties of 3-4 only seem to have a 7 or 8:30 reservation time (at least from what I saw for all night of the cruise) and the parties of 1-2 had some times in between that.
Guess I will stick with 8:30 and just try to adjust maybe onboard. 7pm is too early for us if we want to see the show.

 

[j2bmickey]

Got back in finally, you all may want to check your bookings because my 12 meter regatta magically disappeared! So now it looks like it saved this time and will hopefully stay there!

Off to bed for real now this time, I promise!

Everybody should definetly double check their reservations. We went back in this morning and everything was gone. And contrary to our normal behavior we didn't write down any of the confirmation numbers.

Luckily we were able to get everything again except for a Palo brunch for friends that are cruising with us. The help desk said they would put in the request so hopefully it will go through.

 

[moebear]

Help.....I just booked Palo, for 4, for Sunday night at 7 and it went fine. But the High Tea and Brunch are greyed out so I cannot select them. Would this be because they are already full?

 

[scottie]

Everybody should definetly double check their reservations. We went back in this morning and everything was gone. And contrary to our normal behavior we didn't write down any of the confirmation numbers.

Luckily we were able to get everything again except for a Palo brunch for friends that are cruising with us. The help desk said they would put in the request so hopefully it will go through.

Amazing after all these years they still cant get their system working correctly!

Well we decided to make a change in plans for Palo and dropped the 8:30pm reservation and replaced it with a 6:30pm reservation instead for Sunday. I think that will still give us enough time to enjoy dinner then head to the late Golden Mickeys show if we want.