Hi all,
Another newbie here, although I have been lurking for 2 or 3 months. This will be Disney #5 for us, 3 Magic and 2 Wonder (one without the kids!). Cruising with my DW and 2 DDs along with boyfriend/soon to be fiance I think, (let's not go there!)
Just a few thoughts for Drknight:
Tips: The best one I have and you may have seen already, get one(or 2) of those plastic shoe hangers for the bathroom door! I think we got ours at K-Mart. They are great for keeping all that bathroom stuff organized. The more people in the room, the more important this tip is!
Coolers: Please note that this is coming from a beer-aholic!, get one of those soft coolers if it is drinks you are concerned about. They will sell you small yellow
DCL ones on the ship if you buy a six-pack but I usually bring the type you get with a Coors-Lite promotion. (36 pack in a soft-side cooler.) Anyway, they fold up and fit in your luggage nice and you can get ice all week on deck 9. Often, the room stewards will help out as well! When you see the guy filling his yellow DCL cooler with ice up there, it's me! (It's nice for filling the bigger cooler.)
By the way, we've also been on the Norwegian Dawn out of NY a couple times (high marks), we're going on the Spirit the day after tomorrow(Yahoo!),
Rccl Voyager, good but nothing to write home about, and Carnival Miracle (Yuck, but it was an early voyage-maybe too new). Our first cruise was on the Big Red Boat long ago, things have improved dramatically since then!
Hey PADisneyFan, we are in the Scranton area not too far north of you. Maybe we can get together some day.