11/22/2009 3 Night Wonder Cruise

[MissMousey]

We'll be on this cruise and are looking for others to join us. This is the early part of the week of Thanksgiving (Sun-Wed). Come on along!! We have kids in the 9-14 yr range and they are hoping to find some friends to pal around with.

 

[dceks cruisers]

We are hoping we can do our bounce back on 11/22. If the bounce back is offered for this sail date, we plan to be on it. We have DD9 and DS14.

We just did the 2/7/09 Western. It was our first ever cruise and we loved it!

 

[MissMousey]

That would be great! The kids will be so excited to have some new friends to hang out with onboard. Hope you're able to book it

 

[dceks cruisers]

We'll be on this cruise and are looking for others to join us. This is the early part of the week of Thanksgiving (Sun-Wed). Come on along!! We have kids in the 9-14 yr range and they are hoping to find some friends to pal around with.

We'd love to be on this cruise but re-evaluated and switched to the 12/17 3 night cruise. It works out better for our schedules.

Have a super time!

 

[MissMousey]

Aww, that's too bad. But I wish you all a wonderful voyage

 

[Momfromva]

We have booked this cruise to (hopefully) use our bounce back offer. We are cruising on the Magic this Saturday. Unless Disney blacks out this cruise for use with our offer, we'll be there with you! We have two sons, ds6 and ds5.
We will be combining the cruise with a few days at the MK where we'll celebrate Thanksgiving.

 

[MissMousey]

OMG I can't believe how close we live. I'm about 45 minutes east of you in Western Loudoun. How funny!

Anyway, hope you're able to use your offer on this cruise. And WOW, you leave this Saturday? Which cruise are you going on? I'm so jealous . Have a great trip and make sure to tell us all about it

How did you get a bounceback offer??

 

[nydisfan]

We will be going on this cruise too. This will be our first cruise with disney. We have one child (DS 5) that will be coming with us. We are doing the Land and Sea package plus adding 7 days post cruise. Can't wait.

 

[MelissaE1]

Hi everyone,

We just booked this cruise also, so unless the bounceback offer suddenly has restrictions tomorrow (official first booking date), we'll be joining you.

It will be myself, DH, DS15 and DD11 (at time of cruise).

We are planning on spending some time in the parks afterward.

MissMousey, the bounceback offer was a special deal available to those who sailed on a 4 or 7 night on certain weeks in Feb and Mar 09. It is a voucher for a $99 per person 3 night cruise between mid-August and mid-December 09, in whatever category you booked on the longer cruise (except suites). You also have to pay taxes and fees of around $40 pp.

Hi Momfromva! How goes the adjusting to being back to real life? I don't like it!

 

[MissMousey]

Oh how exciting to log on today and find two more Dis'ers on this cruise .

the bounceback offer was a special deal available to those who sailed on a 4 or 7 night on certain weeks in Feb and Mar 09. It is a voucher for a $99 per person 3 night cruise between mid-August and mid-December 09, in whatever category you booked on the longer cruise (except suites). You also have to pay taxes and fees of around $40 pp.
MelissaE1, Thanks for the explanation! It sounds like a Great deal

Look forward to chatting with you all in the months remaining before our cruise

 

[MelissaE1]

Darn, we were not allowed to book this with the bounceback offer. We ended up with December 10. I guess it saves me money since we won't be able to book 4 days at the park afterward (can't take DS15 out of high school for a week).

Hope you all have a great cruise and vacation!

 

[nydisfan]

Man, every time I get excited about more people booking this cruise it turns out they can't. Must be this is going to be a really popular cruise since Disney won't let you use the bounce back offer on it.
Oh well, we are still definitely going. Can't wait to hear from more people (oh and the cruise too).

 

[MissMousey]

We're still on too! Although now I'm kinda wishing it was a 4 night cruise so we could enjoy a day on the ship. Oh well, at least we're able take a cruise

We have a DD 13 and a DS 10 (at time of cruise). Look forward to meeting you guys nydisfan!

 

[nydisfan]

We're still on too! Although now I'm kinda wishing it was a 4 night cruise so we could enjoy a day on the ship. Oh well, at least we're able take a cruise

We have a DD 13 and a DS 10 (at time of cruise). Look forward to meeting you guys nydisfan!

Yeah we are starting to wish it was longer too.
This will be our first cruise with Disney, and we thought we would start small and make sure we like it before we go fo a lot of days, but the more I read about it (especially here at DIS) the more I wish it was going to be longer.

At first I thought three days would be plenty of time, but it is really going to be more like two days, and one will be at Castaway Cay so we will end up just getting a taste of what DIsney cruising will be like.

Oh well there will be lot's of time for more cruises.

 

[MelissaE1]

Crossing fingers... it looks like DCL may be going to let us have this date after all. I saw where some people had had their reservations honored if previously told it was OK by a CM, so I called back and politely asked if they were doing this for people, and if so would they honor mine? The people I spoke to were incredibly nice and a supervisor called me back the next day and they have switched it back. Now I just have to wait and make sure they apply my voucher, which I mailed Wed.

So you all might be stuck with us after all!

 

[nydisfan]

Good Luck Melissa. I hope you get the cruise you want. I have read on some other threads here, about some other people who have successfully done exactly what you are trying to do.

 

[MelissaE1]

Good Luck Melissa. I hope you get the cruise you want. I have read on some other threads here, about some other people who have successfully done exactly what you are trying to do.

Thank you nydisfan. It looks we are officially on with you. They applied our voucher today to this date and it shows up that way on the DCL site. Yay! It's such a relief since we have that week off. I used to not mind taking my kids out of school, but with DS taking a heavy load of weighted classes next year and really wanting to get into a difficult college, it's suddenly a whole different ball game.

Hopefully as time goes on we will get even more people on our thread. I'm hoping people might be interested in FE's, we've never gotten to try them.

Anyway, SO excited to be on this cruise!

 

[MissMousey]

Welcome Back to this cruise Glad it all worked out the way you wanted. I know it's a short cruise, but I think it would be fun to do a Fish Extender exchange too I think more will book this cruise as time goes on and people start to make plans for later in the year.

 

[MelissaE1]

Hey Michelle and Deb (at least I am assuming it's Deb... could be Mike! ) Just checking in to our thread.

How is everyone? I have been so busy (mainly doing the pics/setup for the yearbook at DD10's school and also my DH is the local soccer commissioner so I inherit lots of jobs there, lol) but mostly the spring projects are finished for now, yay.

We have booked POR for the rest of the week and are now trying to decide where to eat on T'giving. MVMCP doesn't seem to be available that week, only on the Friday before, so we will probably come down then and stay Fri/Sat at WDW as well. Kind of our own land and sea. What are you guys doing for Thanksgiving? We've never seen the parks or the ship decorated for the holidays, so that's pretty exciting!

We surprised DD10 on the last cruise, and that didn't go over so well, lol, so this time she's in on it, and the MVMCP as well... but not the park stay after the cruise. We are not letting that one out of the bag yet for either child.

Is this both of your first Disney Cruise? Have you cruised other lines? I never thought I'd be able to say this, but this will be my family's fourth and my fifth Disney Cruise. Ask away if you have any questions you can think of.

 

[nydisfan]

Hey Melissa, it actually is Mike . Although Deb is here right now.

I have been real busy to. I have been traveling for work. I will be on the road during weekdays for the next month, Deb's not loving that right now.

We are doing a land and sea package and then staying in POR for the next week also, we are staying until the 2nd. For the land portion before the cruise we are staying at the Polynesian we arrive on the 18th. We are planning on going to MVMCP on either the 19th or 20th, but we haven't decided yet, there is a MVMCP on the 29th if that fits your schedule. What a coincidence that we both have similar plans.

We have heard that Liberty Tree Tavern does a really good Thanksgiving Day meal, so we are tentatively planning on doing that. Although if anyone knows of a better place let us know.

This will be our first Disney cruise, I have been on a day cruise before but never an overnight one. Deb and Sean have never been on any cruises before.

We don't have any questions right now but I am sure some will come up.