10/6/2011 Disney Dream

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

Welcome to the thread for the October 6, 2011 3 Nt Disney Dream Cruise!!

I am Michelle and have booked the 4nt'er before this cruise as well so we will be doing B2B cruises! We have gotten one of the few Caty 10A rooms.

 

[dismom73]

Here I am Michelle...finally! I wanted to get our deposit down before I posted. Anyway, we are all booked. It will be my family of 5, 3 DD's 17, 12 and 7 at time of travel and my DH. We will be meeting up with my brother and his family and some friends from home once we get to Florida. I'm really excited to do the new ship! We have connecting cat. 11a's on deck 9. We will be doing a b2b too!
(side note...I got lazy and just copied this post from the 10/2 thread )

 

[IrishCowboy]

I have added your thread to the cruise meet list

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

Thank you Irish Cowboy!!

 

[denversees4me]

Hi Michelle
when did you sail in Oct ? We were going to go for halloween again this oct but decided to bump to 2011 so we might be sailing on this cruise - Waiting to hear back from guest services on HA cabbin availability fingers crossed we will be joining you all !

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

Hey Cari We sailed October 3-10, 2010. Actually there are like 6 of us from our Dis thread from that cruise doing a back 2 back on this cruise and the one before this one! I am really excited. I do not prefer a back 2 back but wanted to go on the Dream and couldn't do less then 7 nts. Well good luck I hope you join us!

 

[unclescroogefan]

Add us on to the Disney Dream sailing 10/06/11 3 nights. 1st cruise ever!!! Family of five, with adjoining cabins. Cant wait.

 

[dismom73]

Welcome unclescroogefan! You will LOVE DCL! Be prepared to become hooked. We are a family of 5 too, we have adjoining cabins too, you will love all the extra space. How old are your kids?

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

bumping

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

http://www.cruiseship-gallery.de/ Here is a link to some pics taken of the ship by a DIS board memeber. Neat! See who can find their room.....LOL Not me cause I am inside.

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

I just wanted to let everyone know that we decided to be on the Mexican Riviera next Oct. (2011). We really weren't fond of the B2B idea and we will cruise on the Dream and Fantasy in 2012 so 2011 was our yr to head west! Hope to cruise with ya in the future! Have a great Dream cruise!

 

[discorsner]

Hi everyone. We are thinking about doing this one so I thought I would check in and see if anyone is here... Hello?

We are planning on going to WDW this week in October and now we are thinking instead we may split between land and sea. Haven't made a final decision yet. For now just gonna go on and do a hold.

We are planning on 2 DCL cruises in 2012 and we are looking forward to it but it seems so far away! We made need a 2011 DCL fix since we didn't get to go this year in 2010.

I thought there may be more people chiming in on this one after a WDW stay. We want to go to WDW at this time frame because we have never gotten to do MNSSHP. Also we are excited to be there for the 40th bday of the Magic Kingdom on October 1st.

Well, I am rambling on but hi everyone!

 

[dismom73]

Hi discorsner! This thread has been a bit quiet, I think because most of us on it so far know eachother, so we talk more by phone than on here. I'm glad to see a new face (so to speek). There are a few people on this cruise that will be in WDW the week before this sailing. You will love MNSSHP. We have done it twice and had a blast!
We are a family of 5, meeting up with a group of 26 (so far) and about half of us our doing a b2b, going on the 3day right after this one. Let us know if you book, if you have kids, how many DCL you've been on before, etc.....anything you care to share. EDITED: I ment, we are going on the 4 day right before this 3 day, oops.
I'm feeling accomplished....this week I booked our rental car (minivan from Hertz) both ways and our hotel the night we arrive in Orlando around midnight, Hyatt at the airport, and the night before the cruise, Residence Inn. Trying to get the best deal possible on everything, so I will keep checking. We are in connecting cabins 9077 and 9577 for both cruises, so we don't have to move either. This will be our first time doing a b2b and our first time in inside cabins, so I hope those virtual portholes work out well.

 

[Stephieann]

Ok, everyone i am joining this 3 nighter....we are doing the 4 nights afterwards so we are doing a B2B. Where is everyone, time to get this threading hopping!

Look forward to meeting you guys!

 

[discorsner]

Well guys we did it! We took the plunge and we are joining you officially on this 3nighter! We are so psyched!

We WERE doing WDW in 2011 and waiting til 2012 to cruise again but we just couldn't handle not seeing one of the new ships til 2012 so we are going to do a combined WDW stay and this 3 nighter to give us a little DCL fix in 2011.

Do we have a list of people and their cabins? Are we doing Fish Extender gifts on this cruise?

We have only been on 2 short Wonder cruises and they were before we chatted much on the Dis or we knew what fish extenders even were. lol. So we have never done them before. However we are on 2 different 7 nighters for 2012 and those boards are chatting away like crazy so we have learned a lot more about how all this works now. Just wondering if anyone was organizing that over here?

It will be me (Deb) 34 at time of cruise, DH (Bryce) 37, DS (Derek) 11, and DS (Nicholas) 8.

Look forward to meeting all of you!

 

[lucyem]

Hi! We will be joining you Me, DH & our two DS's. We are planning a 4 night stay at WDW beforehand. It seems almost surreal making reservations so far out.

 

[discorsner]

Hi! We will be joining you Me, DH & our two DS's. We are planning a 4 night stay at WDW beforehand. It seems almost surreal making reservations so far out.

Hi lucyem! So glad to see you are joining! You sound like me with the DH, the 2 DSs and the trip to WDW before hand! How old are your boys? Mine will be 11 and 8 at the time.

I think I am going to start a list here so we can see who is with us!

 

[lucyem]

Hi lucyem! So glad to see you are joining! You sound like me with the DH, the 2 DSs and the trip to WDW before hand! How old are your boys? Mine will be 11 and 8 at the time.

I think I am going to start a list here so we can see who is with us!

My boys will be 6 & 9.

Have any idea where you will be staying at WDW yet? We are DVC and I will be calling this week for a room at BCV.

 

[discorsner]

Well I asked a few posts ago if anyone was starting a list and then I got to thinking how I just talked to my students about "taking initiative"!
Figured I should take some of my own advice and start one myself.

I am new to this so if someone has a better way then PLEASE speak up!

Just going to list the dis name, the real names if I can tell them from the posts and the room numbers if I can tell them from the posts. There is a lot of missing info but if you want me to add on to your info just tell me and if I get anything wrong tell me and I will keep editing this post. Also there were a few posts where people said they may join but never returned to say they booked so I guess I will leave them off for now until we get confirmation of something different. ??

I'm just putting in order that people posted.

Here goes.....

dismom- DW (Andrea), DH (Ryan), DD17 (Ashley), DD12 (Riley), DD7 (Bailey) connecting 9077/9577
(meeting up with others, total of 13)

unclescroogefan- family of 5

stephieann- DW37, DH41 room 7022

discorsner- DW34 (Deb), DH37 (Bryce), DD11 (Derek), DS8 (Nicholas) connecting 7677/7679

lucyem- DW, DH, DS9, DS6

Well guys it's a start!

 

[discorsner]

My boys will be 6 & 9.

Have any idea where you will be staying at WDW yet? We are DVC and I will be calling this week for a room at BCV.

hi! So glad to be chatting with you. Here is the planned plan! I laugh because it could change but here goes...

September 29- October 6 Port Orleans Riverside
October 6- October 9 Disney Dream

We did the 29th as it was last day of free dining promo. We are going to book under that but look for pins or other deals that may come up. We have never been the MNSSHP so we are so excited to be going in October and we are hoping to hit it where we will have a couple of party dates to choose from (or do more than one party!).

We also wanted to be there for the 40th birthday/anniversary of Magic Kingdom on October 1st. No one seems to know if they will be doing anything special yet but we are hoping so and if not it will still be cool to us Disney fans!

We have booked moderate for now because we also booked a couple of 2012 cruises already and adding up all the costs are getting out of control. What else is new with us and Disney though. We have stayed at all the levels and do not mind the moderates. We are on a quest to stay at all Disney hotels some day and the Port Orleans Riverside will be our last moderate to finish off.

My hubby and boys would have liked to do Beach Club or AKL this time but I decided on this for now and then if a fabulous offer comes out or if we pay on our trips easier than planned we may switch.

We have never stayed in the villas. Do you like them? Are you DVC? We are not (obviously) but maybe someday. Right now we are on a DCL kick. My hubby even carved a DCL logo pumpkin tonight with the boys.