11/22/08 Thanksgiving 2008 cruise thread. Double Dipping Travelling Turkeys!

[tjeagle]

What are the ages of any kids going with you?? My DS and DD will be 10 when we cruise (yup..twins).
We are going just the 4 of us...anyone else going without extended family??

 

[cjckclan]

DS will be 16; DD will be 14; DH will be 40something....oh you didn't mean big kids did you?!?!

 

[alwayslisad]

Hello all

it looks like this for our group.... lets see we have to add one year right??

Me - Lisa - age at cruise 45
DH - Charlie - age at cruise 44
DD - Renee - age at cruise 16
DSis - Sharron - age at cruise 47
DBil - Chip - age at cruise 47
Dnephew #1 - Tyler - age at cruise 19
Dnephew - Dalton - age at cruise 16 3/4
Dnephew #1 GF - Chris - age at cruise 20


looks like we will try for deck 2 adjoining rooms is possible --- arrival day before - stay at Hotel in airport...

anyone know anything about this DD - food for Tday - what is at Costa Maya????

 

[zakatak]

We're in and so excited!!!!

It will be me, dh, ds (12), dd (10) and dd (8). This will be a complete surprise to them! We'll pick them up early at school on Friday and fly down - plan to stay at the Radisson the night before (anyone else)?

We'll be on the Eastern Feb 16th, 2008 as well so they will have NO IDEA that we'll go again that year!

We have connecting Cat 9s.

How many days now?

 

[DisneyZell]

Ok, well even though we started this thread, we decided to do the 12/20 Christmas cruise instead. We are so excited--we got a great price and the rooms we wanted! We hope you all have fun on this Thanksgiving cruise, though. We'll be thinking of you when the time comes!

 

[hmansure]

We're official as well. We transferred our 1/19/08 Eastern, which we booked onboard in 12/06, to the Thanksgiving '08 cruise.

Anyone cruise during Thanksgiving before? Special menus?

 

[AF5FAM]

Hi there, we're the other half of the CJCKClan party! Can't wait for the trip, we've been trying to plan this week together for over a year! Our family includes Dh and I (40 something) DD 15; DD 7; DD 5 (at the time we sail.) Yes, dad is definitely outnumbered. Here's to a Double Dip!!

 

[zakatak]

Anyone have any plans yet?

We're definitely interested in the Mayan Ruins in Costa Maya! I think the kids will be good ages for it (12, 10 & 8). In Cozumel, we'll just hang out at Chankanaab. We did the Dolphin Swim this past November and it is EXCELLENT!!!! Well worth EVERY penny spent (we did it on our own). Maybe we'll do the Sea Lions this time, who knows...

Since we're at CC twice, I'd like to do one excursion at least - maybe something along the lines of a Kayak or Jet Ski (don't know about the kids, yet).

Nothing like planning ahead!

 

[cjckclan]

Anyone have any plans yet?

We're definitely interested in the Mayan Ruins in Costa Maya! I think the kids will be good ages for it (12, 10 & 8). In Cozumel, we'll just hang out at Chankanaab. We did the Dolphin Swim this past November and it is EXCELLENT!!!! Well worth EVERY penny spent (we did it on our own). Maybe we'll do the Sea Lions this time, who knows...

Since we're at CC twice, I'd like to do one excursion at least - maybe something along the lines of a Kayak or Jet Ski (don't know about the kids, yet).

Nothing like planning ahead!

Are you kidding?? DD (now 12) would have the entire trip planned if she could just find out what excursions will be offered at Costa Maya! She's planned the teen party for the older kids, parasailing, and banana boat rides at CC. She would like to do a horseback ruin tour at Cozumel I think and snorkeling somewhere. As she says, she is the travel agent once the tickets were purchased. She actually had everything planned for a summer 08 7-day western until DCL changed the itinerary. We'll have to see what options they give us for the alt western.

Since you went this past Nov, can you tell me what the weather and water temperatures were like????

We are sooooo very excited!!!

AF5FAM - glad to see you on board.

 

[zakatak]

Hi cjckclan!

We were on the November 4-November 11th Western. We had FANTASTIC weather! Hot, sunny and calm seas!

I hear it did storm over the ship in Grand Cayman, but we were dry as a bone at Stingray City (well, it didn't rain at least and the sun was over us!).

Castaway Cay was beautiful; water was a bit chilly, but the sun and 82 degrees was wonderful.

 

[hmansure]

We did the Personal Watercraft Eco Tour (waverunners) this past December at CC. Excellent excursion - though we were cut short by a bit of bad weather. A cold front came through the day we were at CC and the water temperature was actually preferable to the air temperature when we got off at one of the Eco Tour stops. The waves were very intense as well with the weather. The waves were literally smacking me in the face - gotta love that salt water taste!

As for Costa Maya, there are some excursion descriptions in the Passporter, a few of which appeal to us. I guess we'll have to wait and see if they offer the same ones or not.

 

[disneylover5]

Right now we are are a group of about 60. We are all booked on this cruise. Once I figure out everyone that is going, I will list all the ages.!!

 

[VBSunGoddess]

Hi, We're in too. It will be me, DH and DS will be 11. I told DH that there probably already was a thread for this week and he thought I was crazy.

 

[dutch_girl_scout]

If I have my way (and I usually do!) we'll be in shortly. We're (I'm) planning on booking on board in a few weeks (March 17-24). Hopefully the prices don't go up too much before then.

It will be me, DH, DS16, DD13, and DS who will just have turned 2. Our kids will still miss quite a few days of school because our school only gives off Thanksgiving and the Friday after but they're only young once.

 

[samkj]

We're booked too! This will be our first DCL cruise! We are in 2 cat 11 because we needed a wheelchair room and couldn't justify (afford) the price of a cat 6 or 8.

 

[dreaming in MI]

Wow you guys are early! This will be our first cruise. We just paid our deposit!

cast: me (will be 32)
DH (will be 32)
DS (will be 6)
DD (will be 4)

My parents will also be with us.

We are sooo excited.

 

[alwayslisad]

We are still on the fence on this - we want to book BADLY - but things are not working to our advantage right now - I will keep posting and hoping that we will all be with you all!

 

[mommykeg]

We booked this cruise as well...actually we have this AND the Nov. 15th, 2008 booked until I decide for sure which one to do! Maybe some of you can help me decide. Background...we've done Mexico with DCL (in 2005) and will be doing the Eastern Caribbean in a few short weeks (March 3rd). The cruise in 2008 will be to celebrate my 40th b-day. Kids at that time will be DD11 and DS7.

Thanksgiving cruise...kids would only miss one day of school for travel, but we will have to stay in a cat 8 forward vs. the cat 6 midship we usually get...will I miss the verandah...will the forward location (#7014) cause us motion sickness problems? The Double Dip is definitely appealing. We will visit CC for the first time in a few weeks, but I have a feeling it just might be our favorite port!

Nov. 15th...we can get cat 6 midship for the same price as a cat 8 on the Thanksgiving cruise, but kids will have to miss 6 days of school. Western itinerary is new to us, so that would still be appealing, but we wouldn't get two days at CC.

Any other points I'm missing?

 

[samkj]

I forgot to mention, travelling with us will be

myself (38)
DH(38)
DD (10)-has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair
DD (8)
DS(7-turns 7 Nov 20, so we'll be celebrating on-board)

 

[cjckclan]

Thanksgiving cruise...kids would only miss one day of school for travel, but we will have to stay in a cat 8 forward vs. the cat 6 midship we usually get...will I miss the verandah...will the forward location (#7014) cause us motion sickness problems? The Double Dip is definitely appealing. We will visit CC for the first time in a few weeks, but I have a feeling it just might be our favorite port!

Nov. 15th...we can get cat 6 midship for the same price as a cat 8 on the Thanksgiving cruise, but kids will have to miss 6 days of school.

We were midship on our first cruise (May 05) so I'm not sure about motion sickness in the front. DD and DS were nausiated the first evening anyway. However we are booked in #7514; AF5FAM is booked one floor above us and had that room their last cruise and loved it. Don't think motion was a problem for them. I'm hoping it isn't a problem for us this trip. I'll be packing the bonine for sure. We chose Thanksgiving because the kids would miss the least amount of high school (3 days) other than Christmas - which was out of my price range.
If you stick with this one, we'll see you at the stairway since we are just opposite you.