1/3/09 Magic - First Time To St. Croix

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[plutojudy]

Great pictures!

 

[plutojudy]

Any guesses if Pirate Night will be on St Croix night or St Thomas night?

 

[tinytink]

Any guesses if Pirate Night will be on St Croix night or St Thomas night?

I'll like to know as well. I sooo need to start packing since we are flying now I have to be careful of how much we bring cuz I'll have to pay for the checked baggage.

Still need to work on putting FE gifts together and making my FE, printing our door decoration....and on.....and on.....and on.....

I can't wait but when I think about my to do list I can wait. well no really.

 

[giljr]

Any guesses if Pirate Night will be on St Croix night or St Thomas night?

From everything I have read here and heard onboard, the night between St. Maarten/St. Croix and St. Thomas is the only night they can slow the ship down enough without affecting arrival times. So, I would expect pirate night to be after St. Croix for this reason.

 

[jrabbit]

Have you ever stayed on Deck 2? We booked our room on Deck 2 for this cruise because we had heard good things about it and even visited there on the last cruise just to check it out. Just wondering ....

We have stayed on Deck 2 for most of our cruises. We really like it - the natural light, being close to the water, and easy access to activities on deck 3, 4 and 5 (want the atrium - go to mid ship, up one flight and you are there -- Parrot Cay or Animators - go aft and up - Beat Street or Walt Disney Theater go forward and up), easy on/off in the ports - only one deck up from where we board the ship. For this cruise we even got the same room as our last cruise - between midship and aft on the starboard side (away from the laundry on the port side). But alas, we will not be staying there on this cruise - because we got upgraded to a cat 5!! Yep, 9 to 5 - what a way to go cruizin'. You know, I think that we have never been on deck 7 before (our first couple of cruises were in cat 10's)

I had been watching / making fake ressies to check on availability and for the past month there seemed to be a lot - so I thought that we would get to port early and try and buy one. Don't have to do that now!! Wooh Hooh!! Sorry for the rest of you that were hoping your gty rooms would be upgraded. Maybe one of you will be in our prior room on deck 2.

Can't stop

And can't wait for the New Year to get here - so looking forward to this cruise!!

 

[plutojudy]

Great news!

 

[tinytink]

We have stayed on Deck 2 for most of our cruises. We really like it - the natural light, being close to the water, and easy access to activities on deck 3, 4 and 5 (want the atrium - go to mid ship, up one flight and you are there -- Parrot Cay or Animators - go aft and up - Beat Street or Walt Disney Theater go forward and up), easy on/off in the ports - only one deck up from where we board the ship. For this cruise we even got the same room as our last cruise - between midship and aft on the starboard side (away from the laundry on the port side). But alas, we will not be staying there on this cruise - because we got upgraded to a cat 5!! Yep, 9 to 5 - what a way to go cruizin'. You know, I think that we have never been on deck 7 before (our first couple of cruises were in cat 10's)

I had been watching / making fake ressies to check on availability and for the past month there seemed to be a lot - so I thought that we would get to port early and try and buy one. Don't have to do that now!! Wooh Hooh!! Sorry for the rest of you that were hoping your gty rooms would be upgraded. Maybe one of you will be in our prior room on deck 2.

Can't stop

And can't wait for the New Year to get here - so looking forward to this cruise!!

Awesome news, CONGRATS. We didn't get upgrade we were hoping for so we're stuck with the cat 11 for the boys but we'll take that over not going at all.

 

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But alas, we will not be staying there on this cruise - because we got upgraded to a cat 5!! Yep, 9 to 5 - what a way to go cruizin'. You know, I think that we have never been on deck 7 before (our first couple of cruises were in cat 10's)

Wow! We have never been upgraded.

Except for the last cruise we have always been on Deck 7. The last cruise we were on Deck 5 and really liked it.

 

[newbydisney]

Here is a cut and paste from another thread..not sure if it will be accurate....we are also on this cruise and I cannot remember if I have posted yet on this thread but have been reading along for awhile. Look forward to meeting some of you on board!!

f things on your cruise are scheduled as those in the past:

Sat @ PC- Dinner - Cruise Casual
Sun @ Sea - Lunch - Italian Buffet / Dinner - Formal night
Mon @ Sea - Lunch - Asian Buffet / Dinner - Cruise Casual
Tue @ STM - Lunch - Mexican Buffet / Dinner - Pirate Night / Fireworks
Wed @ STT - Lunch - American Buffet / Dinner - Cruise Casual
Thur @ Sea - Lunch - Seafood Buffet / Dinner - Semi-Formal night / Midnight Chocolate Buffet
Fri @ CC - Lunch - BBQ on CC / Dinner - Cruise Casual
Sat @ PC

 

[plutojudy]

Has anyone received their documents yet? I keep waiting.

 

[giljr]

Has anyone received their documents yet? I keep waiting.

My parents, who live in Florida, received theirs yesterday. So, it should be any day now.

 

[krhardy]

MINE CAME TODAY!
Although...we're not telling the kids until tomorrow night. I just said "Christmas surprises" when the UPS man came..."can't tell you more than that".
DH is rigging a hidden camera tomorrow night for the reveal.
DD (14) is notorious for listening in on, and getting in trouble for it, other people's conversations. She's at that age where she desperately wants to be an adult (I keep telling her to enjoy being a kid while she can!).
SOOOO, we're going to have a Caribbean dinner with the other family that's going (jerk chicken, johnny cake, sweet potato, and adobo rice). The adults in 1 room, the under 18's in the next room. At some point during dinner, the adults are just going to start talking very openly, and maybe a bit loudly, about the cruise and see how long before somebody comes in with the shouts of "WHAT????" If your eardrums shatter tomorrow night, it's the piercing screams coming from near Atlanta!

 

[plutojudy]

MINE CAME TODAY!
Although...we're not telling the kids until tomorrow night. I just said "Christmas surprises" when the UPS man came..."can't tell you more than that".
DH is rigging a hidden camera tomorrow night for the reveal.
DD (14) is notorious for listening in on, and getting in trouble for it, other people's conversations. She's at that age where she desperately wants to be an adult (I keep telling her to enjoy being a kid while she can!).
SOOOO, we're going to have a Caribbean dinner with the other family that's going (jerk chicken, johnny cake, sweet potato, and adobo rice). The adults in 1 room, the under 18's in the next room. At some point during dinner, the adults are just going to start talking very openly, and maybe a bit loudly, about the cruise and see how long before somebody comes in with the shouts of "WHAT????" If your eardrums shatter tomorrow night, it's the piercing screams coming from near Atlanta!

That sounds like a fun idea. Don't forget to tell us all about it!

 

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Has anyone received their documents yet? I keep waiting.

Not as of yesterday. Maybe today but I have to work late tonight for a Christmas party that I an working the sound equipment for.

 

[tinytink]

I got one of our docs still waiting on the other two. We booked three ressies, one through DVC and two through Costco.

Has anyone thought about calling to see if we can get our Fuel Surchage refunded since DCL recently lifted it? I am thinking about calling to see if I can get OBC for it.

 

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I got one of our docs still waiting on the other two. We booked three ressies, one through DVC and two through Costco.

Has anyone thought about calling to see if we can get our Fuel Surchage refunded since DCL recently lifted it? I am thinking about calling to see if I can get OBC for it.

Let us know how that works out.

 

[don8life]

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness!!

 

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They're here!

 

[plutojudy]

They're here!

As of lunch time they are not here. Maybe when I go home they will be waiting for me.