10/31/10 Halloween Wonder

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Hi weve booked our cruise using our DVC points does anyone know if we get free wifi like we do in the resorts? i know its a long shot but i thought i would ask

That was funny! DCL charges $0.75/minute to connect to the internet.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Just checking in and saying hi.... I am into day 10 of my craziness till I leave. No more days off for. I work everyday 12 hours +. 11am till midnight and before that planning my day. This vacation can't come quick enough. I may crack soon!!!

Hope everyone else is having non stressful days!!!!

Tony

Okay, that was funny too! I'm with you on the craziness. And Penn Station last night!!! Holy cow folks! For those that don't know NYC, that is our large train hub. We had serious storms roll through and the place just shut down. Imagine 10s of thousands of people all trying to get home. We are wet, the trains aren't running and everyone is nasty!! And I'm with you on the 12 hour work days with the 4 hours of total commuting/daily on a good day (yesterday's debacle doesn't count).

I have everyone's FE stuff (for those that sent me email). I will update the spreadsheet soon.

 

[frangi]

Allison

I drove into the city last night to pick up two friends. 6 hours later I was home! BTW going in took 20 mins.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Allison

I drove into the city last night to pick up two friends. 6 hours later I was home! BTW going in took 20 mins.

Insane, wasn't it?? And you are a true friend going to pick them up! It was a total mess.

 

[frangi]

Crazy continues. Two weeks worth of my clothes are missing from laundromat. Including new stuff for cruise. Let's just say I'm not a happy camper.

 

[warbiespig]

That was funny! DCL charges $0.75/minute to connect to the internet.

Oh well i thought i would ask
Hope everyones holiday preperations are coming along nicely i've bee busy packing today(roughly) were all so excited

 

[:)cruisehappy]

Hi Everyone
My family will be joining you on this cruise. I am so excited reading the boards and trying to get as much info as possible to make this the best family vacation. I have a DS 16 DD 13 DD 7 DD 5 and my DH and MIL joing us.
Do you need to make reservations for the kids clubs or do you just show up when the kids want to go in?
Allison I sent you an email abut the FE I hope you got it.
I already bought a ton of stuff at Target's $ section. Now I have to work on maybe doing mickey tye dye Tshirts, getting the FE and costumes. If I can get my family to dress up. It's not cool for the teenagers anymore.
I look forward to getting to know you all
Bridget

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Hi Everyone
My family will be joining you on this cruise. I am so excited reading the boards and trying to get as much info as possible to make this the best family vacation. I have a DS 16 DD 13 DD 7 DD 5 and my DH and MIL joing us.
Do you need to make reservations for the kids clubs or do you just show up when the kids want to go in?
Allison I sent you an email abut the FE I hope you got it.
I already bought a ton of stuff at Target's $ section. Now I have to work on maybe doing mickey tye dye Tshirts, getting the FE and costumes. If I can get my family to dress up. It's not cool for the teenagers anymore.
I look forward to getting to know you all
Bridget

I received your email. In fact, I've received several emails from different individuals. I have been quite swamped at work so I will try to update the list and get back to everyone soon.

Yes, everyone can participate. For those that are new to FE, this is how it works. If you are sharing staterooms for one family then you don't need multiple stateroom FEs. We will have 2 cabins but they will be in different parts of the ship. You will receive gifts from both of us and we will each have our own FE up for receiving gifts. If you only want one cabin to participate then you only need to put up one FE. Make sense?
As an example, on our last cruise we had one family with 4 kids. They needed connecting staterooms. They had up one FE for one of the staterooms. Another group was traveling and they put up FE on each stateroom and then gave out gifts from each stateroom.

FE gifts are given only once from a stateroom. So there is no need for you to walk around every day. We usually try to do ours late at night so the halls are less crowded and the kids wake up to a nice little treat in the morning. But others do their's in the middle of the day or in the morning. Its all up to you on how you do it!!

As for the kids clubs, yes you do need to register for it. You can register on line when you do on line check in before the cruise or you can do it at the port. Do it before you get on the ship definitely!!! Don't wait until you get on board and go to the club. It will be a pain in the hiney then and registering ahead of time and getting the band at the port is very easy!! Hope this helps.

 

[SSRFred]

I just wanted to pop in and say "hi." We've been dealing with the clean-up from last week's tornado in NY so we're a little busy, but definitely looking forward to next month and some well deserved R & R.

 

[jfstorm2001]

We're staying at Riverside we booked por as a package holiday then later we decided to use our dvc points to stay for three nights at kidani village and then dh booked this cruise so we have an action packed three weeks dh has already decided he is going fishing quite a few times over the three weeks

Well, enjoy it! wish we could, but school is ... well, school. tell DH to say hi to the nice old fellow who mans the fishin' hole. He is an absolute joy to visit with! Have a qiuck trip up to the bar on Wed afternoons late (7 i think???) the piano player is there thru the weekend and his shows are great! Enjoy Kidani as well. One secret MUST DO: Go to Sanaa and have lunch or dinner, especially if you like Indian food. one of the most fabulous dining views EVER! even if you dont like indian food, go for the deserts. they have a cream/ custard dessert that is just awesome. our waiter described it as "Christmas in a cup" and that is def. what it was. We ordered 2 and have been jonesing for some ever since we got home!

 

[jfstorm2001]

So it sounds like some people are receiving details on there cruise yet? I haven't I am now excited to get something. Is this early or when do you think I will receive something? I am excited to see what room I am in now.

I just happened to get mine when I was doing the online check in. Give it a shot, it could be there!

 

[jfstorm2001]

Hi Everyone
My family will be joining you on this cruise. I am so excited reading the boards and trying to get as much info as possible to make this the best family vacation. I have a DS 16 DD 13 DD 7 DD 5 and my DH and MIL joing us.
Do you need to make reservations for the kids clubs or do you just show up when the kids want to go in?
Allison I sent you an email abut the FE I hope you got it.
I already bought a ton of stuff at Target's $ section. Now I have to work on maybe doing mickey tye dye Tshirts, getting the FE and costumes. If I can get my family to dress up. It's not cool for the teenagers anymore.
I look forward to getting to know you all
Bridget

Glad to see some teens in my son's age bracket!

 

[Phil & Deborah]

Disney documents arrived today. Airline tags, pre-resort info and cruise info. 5 weeks until we leave for WDW

Phil

 

[frangi]

Just checking in. Going to be a long month. I can't wait till the end of October. Need to finish a bunch of stuff plus I have work that's kicking my butt.

Upgraded our stay at the poly before our cruise. We got free dinning and park tickets for less than our rack rate rooms. Add mnsshp on top of that then the cruise.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Just checking in. Going to be a long month. I can't wait till the end of October. Need to finish a bunch of stuff plus I have work that's kicking my butt.

Upgraded our stay at the poly before our cruise. We got free dinning and park tickets for less than our rack rate rooms. Add mnsshp on top of that then the cruise.

oooohhh, super jealous! Sounds like you deserve the treat though! Enjoy!!!

 

[warbiespig]

Fed ex tried to deliver our cruise info the other day while i was at work so i now have to wait til tuesday for it to be redelivered and thats when i will be bouncing around the room


im going to make me FE on sunday ( iknow i should have done it before now) im going to get my two boys to help so it will be a family affair and not so perfect looking but we should have fun making it

 

[frangi]

Got my cruise docs Today!!!! Super excited!!!!

 

[nolojo00]

Greetings from Louisiana ! ---can't wait until Oct. 31st. I will be traveling with my DH, our 4 year old DLB and my Dsis. Our 4th cruise, 1st DISNEY !!!! We would love to take part in the FE, I will email our information to Allison.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Crud! No cruise docs here. Boo!! I did buy new shorts for the trip though!!

Please send all FE requests to me by this coming weekend at the latest. I will try to email it to everyone by no later than this time next week (end of day 10/3).

Email address is: allisonmcyr@gmail.com
I need your stateroom number, who is participating. And if there are kiddos in the room please put down the sex and age of kids. This is important because I know I don't want to give a 3 year old girl the same thing I would give an 11 yo boy. Not sure he would like princess stuff.
Also, if there are allergies please make sure you note that as well.

Thanks all!!!

 

[bnacpa]

I am very new to the board and my family just booked for the 31st last week. We have a 4yr old and a 2nd old and this will be there 1st cruise. This will be the 2nd Disney cruise for my wife and I and we are very looking forward to having a great time!