08/15/2009 -Eastern- Tortola Treasure Seekers

[Andrew DEREK UK]

We were actually going to do parks for 2 or 3 days before. I was interested in Seaworld for 1 of those days too. How will I be able to wait for this long????

Well I booked 08 in January so thats about 16 months and the Med was 14 months in advance.

 

[goingsouth]

We are booked! 2 adults and 2 kids, 12 and 13 (yikes--that's old!) cat 6

joanne

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

We are booked! 2 adults and 2 kids, 12 and 13 (yikes--that's old!) cat 6

joanne

WELCOME!!!

My kids will be 13 and 10.

 

[goingsouth]

WELCOME!!!

My kids will be 13 and 10.

thanks! mine are both girls...yours?

I see we are both on the Eastern Repo next year--(too hard to post there..81000 posts?!)

 

[CustardTart]

Well I am nominating myself for biggest turnaround - I was really disappointed yesterday, we had said any Med or European itinerary would be doable but nowhere else as we will have a 19 month old by then (due in 4 weeks time) and I am not sure about the long flight with a toddler. But....

So was I TBH! I'd managed to get myself all psyched about the prospect of a cruise out of NYC (goodness knows why! ) - so the prospect of an Eastern with a twist didn't really feel like much of consolation. Then I told DH about it last night and he said why not do it as it would fit nicely for our DS who'll have just finished his GCSEs by then! And I don't need telling twice...

...I have only cruised once with DCL and that was on the Wonder for a 3 nighter in 2004. We LOVED Palo and will be repeating it, I am looking forward to trying some of the otheronboard facilities which we didn't get chance to experience last time around...

Currently, we have one Western Caribbean under our belts and we loved it! We're doing a Mexican Riviera over on the West Coast next summer and the whole family (including our grown up children and their partners) are hoping to be on the Magic for New Year's Eve 2008!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

So was I TBH! I'd managed to get myself all psyched about the prospect of a cruise out of NYC (goodness knows why! ) - so the prospect of an Eastern with a twist didn't really feel like much of consolation. Then I told DH about it last night and he said why not do it as it would fit nicely for our DS who'll have just finished his GCSEs by then! And I don't need telling twice...

Currently, we have one Western Caribbean under our belts and we loved it! We're doing a Mexican Riviera over on the West Coast next summer and the whole family (including our grown up children and their partners) are hoping to be on the Magic for New Year's Eve 2008!

Its funny about NY,I know a few Dissers there and on the when will 09 prices come out we were discussing possibilities and we talked about Bermuda, then a post said it would be neat to cruise out of NY, we generally knew that wouldn't really happen.

Suddenly someone read that and a whole thread started up saying how great it would be to cruise out of NY, I knew it was based on our posts so I tried to put a disclaimer in saying don't get your hopes up, but that thread ran and ran.

West coast should be good but maybe 'cool' out of LA, our Panama cruise in 05 was cold the first sea day out of LA.

 

[caitlinsdad]

I would have loved to cruise out of NY, living in Ct, but I knew that wasn't going to happen this year, but it was fun to dream about.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

I would have loved to cruise out of NY, living in Ct, but I knew that wasn't going to happen this year, but it was fun to dream about.

A lot of people had that dream and maybe sometime, it will happen with a NY>Southampton cruise.

 

[PrincessMom2002]

Looking at my Passporter, I guess the itinerary will be something like this...

Saturday: Port Canaveral - Casual...
Sunday: At Sea - Formal...
Monday: At Sea - Casual...
Tuesday: Tortola - Tropical/Pirate Night...
Wednesday: St. Thomas - Casual...
Thursday: At Sea - Semi-formal...
Friday: Castaway Cay - Casual...

Exciting, eh?

Anyone have any idea if they're going to WDW before/after?

What rotation options to request are there? On our Western we requested APL so we were in Parrot Cay for Pirate night, and Lumiere on Formal and Semi-Formal night. I'm trying to figure it in my head how to work that out on an Eastern but I can't figure it out. For those who've done an Eastern before, is there a specific rotation that is more desireable? Does my question make any sense? LOL

 

[CustardTart]

I guess you'd want PLA then - actually I rather hope that's what we get...

What seating does everyone have?

 

[PrincessMom2002]

I guess you'd want PLA then - actually I rather hope that's what we get...

What seating does everyone have?

Thanks! I will call back and change my request. We have main seating and I requested APL, not knowing what the schedule looked like.

Did everyone book the cabin they wanted? I re-booked the same cabin that we just stayed in, but I want to look for something quieter. My family was not bothered by the noise but I am a light sleeper. And the cabin we had is one of Passporter's "noisy" cabins. We are on Deck 2, aft, which for us is a great location!

Abby

 

[caitlinsdad]

We have main seating The standard 6pm line they say ,

We will see.

 

[hmansure]

I guess you'd want PLA then - actually I rather hope that's what we get...

What seating does everyone have?

Main seating here. This will be our 3rd trip on DCL. First was the 10th DVC anniversary member cruise (4 day) and we had the late seating. Despite one DS only being 3 it had its benefits because he otherwise would have crashed after dinner. One year ago this week we were on the Western (can't believe a year has gone by already) and had the early seating.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Main seating.

 

[TinkTatoo]

Looking at my Passporter, I guess the itinerary will be something like this...

Saturday: Port Canaveral - Casual...
Sunday: At Sea - Formal...
Monday: At Sea - Casual...
Tuesday: Tortola - Tropical/Pirate Night...
Wednesday: St. Thomas - Casual...
Thursday: At Sea - Semi-formal...
Friday: Castaway Cay - Casual...

Exciting, eh?

Anyone have any idea if they're going to WDW before/after?

Thanks for that

We'll be in Orlando before and for a few days after. We usually go for 4 weeks so we'll probably fly during the last week of July and fly home mid week after the cruise. We'll stay a mix of DVC (including Vero) and off site, probably in a villa

WELCOME!!!

My kids will be 13 and 10.

Mine will be 11 & 12

What seating does everyone have?

We've got main too and thanks for the tip to request a rotation

.....Did everyone book the cabin they wanted? I re-booked the same cabin that we just stayed in, but I want to look for something quieter. My family was not bothered by the noise but I am a light sleeper. And the cabin we had is one of Passporter's "noisy" cabins. We are on Deck 2, aft, which for us is a great location!

Abby

Cost was a factor for us so we've gone for a cat 11. We're in a cat 6 for our first 3 night cruise next August and I really hope we won't be disappointed I'm worried about motion sickness and wanted to stick to the middle of the ship so that ruled out the SPH rooms.

Has any one gone from a veranda to an inside room and not been disapointed

 

[CustardTart]

Morning all!

Glad my Passporter perusings could be of some help regarding the itinerary- just hope I got it right now... I think the PLA rotation sounds perfect - would it be worth emailing my TA and asking her to request that for me?

Dinner-wise, we've opted for the late seating - we eat circa 8pm at home so it feels right for us...

Currently I'm thinking of staying in AKV after the cruise. We won't have stayed there before this 2009 trip and it would be nice to finally get to experience it. Need to fool around with my DH's vacation entitlement and see what works best...

 

[joanflo]

I was underwhelmed when the 2009 itineraries were announced (we missed the PC repo and have got used to longer cruises after the med repo), but now I'm excited - Tortola looks really beautiful and Virgin Gorda too. That will be Tom's last year in the Stack (where has the time gone?) and he will be so sad because he's had such a great time there. We did the Eastern in 2003.

I wouldn't worry too much about motion sickness - my ds and I are very prone and we have always been fine, except for 2004 when we ended up in Texas to avoid Hurricane Charley! Small boats are much worse.

As far as must do things - definitely Palo (love the brunch), spa (tried a spa villa which was fab) and my daily fix at Cove Cafe.

We will probably stay in a DVC after the cruise, but don't know where yet (we own at VWL and AKV).

Can't believe I'm already into planning mode for 2009 - Passporter is already well thumbed!

 

[joanflo]

Talking of planning, has anyone tried Mouse Manager? It's set up by someone on the Dis, it's free and runs on Windows and Mac. You can organise all your vacation details on it, including DVC points. I've been playing with it and it's brilliant (nothing to do with me I hasten to add). Try it!

 

[CustardTart]

...Can't believe I'm already into planning mode for 2009...

Same here! Seems a little crazy (a lot crazy to the outside world!) but I'm happy to know what we're up to...

...Passporter is already well thumbed!

I even took mine to bed with me last night...

 

[CustardTart]

Talking of planning, has anyone tried Mouse Manager? It's set up by someone on the Dis, it's free and runs on Windows and Mac. You can organise all your vacation details on it, including DVC points. I've been playing with it and it's brilliant (nothing to do with me I hasten to add). Try it!

Sounds good. Where would I find it, Joan?