12/19/2009 - 12/26/2009 Magical Christmas Cruise! It's not that far Away?

[TammyAlphabet]

Great Tina! It will be fun.

 

[Downrivermama]

Great Tina! It will be fun.

Thanks. Told my dd and she is so excited! We are really looking forward to it. We have a sideways cabin on deck 6. Can't remember the number!

 

[TammyAlphabet]

I will be right below you on Deck 5.

 

[itutorfortravel]

Hi there! I just officially moved our spring break 2010 cruise to this one today! Some great cat 12 rates are popping up and I couldn't resist Christmas on the Magic, let alone at Castaway Cay....oh my goodness!

It will be me, DH, and DD(7). We went on our first Disney cruise in April, also the Eastern itinerary. While it would have been neat to go to the other ports, we've done all those before either by land or sea, and none really thrill us as much as the Eastern. I am so looking forward to doing a St. John excursion this time!

CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[momtomari]

Hi there! I just officially moved our spring break 2010 cruise to this one today! Some great cat 12 rates are popping up and I couldn't resist Christmas on the Magic, let alone at Castaway Cay....oh my goodness!

It will be me, DH, and DD(7). We went on our first Disney cruise in April, also the Eastern itinerary. While it would have been neat to go to the other ports, we've done all those before either by land or sea, and none really thrill us as much as the Eastern. I am so looking forward to doing a St. John excursion this time!

CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i was able to get one of the awesome category 12 rates.

 

[itutorfortravel]

i was able to get one of the awesome category 12 rates.

Yeah! I'm so excited for you! Can you believe it...that they had these rates for the week of Christmas? I would have never guessed it...

 

[itutorfortravel]

i was able to get one of the awesome category 12 rates.

Hello again momtomari!

It just dawned on me that you were also booked for the December 12th cruise like we were and decided to move your date...I remember your post about your DD missing school...that was sort of the same situation we were in. I soooo wish we could take DD on a TA cruise like you're going to do, but I don't think it's in the cards for us. I am just extremely excited about Christmas on the Magic!

Now our girls will not have to miss the last week of school before the holidays and their parties and such...I would have done it to have seen DCL at the holidays, but I am so happy that we don't have to. Our DD really enjoys those celebrations with her class.

Is it still going to be just you and your DD on this cruise, or will more of your family be going as well? I remember your saying that your whole family would be going on the TA cruise but maybe just you and DD in December.

Does your DD know about the cruise and how are you going to handle the Santa thing? I keep asking lots of people how they are doing it with small children so I can get lots of ideas for how to keep the magic of Santa alive even though we won't be home. I am not ready for DD to stop believing. Gotta keep 'em young and innocent as long as possible!

Look forward to meeting you and your DD! I know there is another little girl who is 7 and whose parents are on this thread as well...looks like it will be a nice opportunity for the girls to make friends on the ship.

 

[SoCalDCLfan]

We received our cruise planning packet yesterday! We just returned from four fabulous nights at the Disneyland Hotel. It was sad to leave, but coming home to the DCL packet in the mail made it a little sweeter. Can't wait for December!

 

[Debs Hill]

What happens if you have booked a GTY Cat 12 at the higher price...........does Disney now refund you difference, or is it tough!?!!
Debsx

 

[itutorfortravel]

What happens if you have booked a GTY Cat 12 at the higher price...........does Disney now refund you difference, or is it tough!?!!
Debsx

I think you can just call them and ask them to adjust your price. Try pricing it out on the DCL site first with exactly the same options you chose when you originally booked before you call them though...that way you know what to expect in an adjustment. When we priced ours, it was $999 each for DH and me, and $799 for DD(7).

 

[itutorfortravel]

We received our cruise planning packet yesterday! We just returned from four fabulous nights at the Disneyland Hotel. It was sad to leave, but coming home to the DCL packet in the mail made it a little sweeter. Can't wait for December!

What fun! I have not been to DL since I was 12, and I'm not telling how long ago that was! LOL I'd love to go back someday, but being on the east coast it's not an easy trip to make...

How exciting to get your planning packet. I just can't believe that the cruise is THAT close!!! The first Disney cruise we booked didn't happen until 15 months after we decided to go, so this is a little weird to me to think I'll be sailing again in just a few months!

 

[momtomari]

Hello again momtomari!

It just dawned on me that you were also booked for the December 12th cruise like we were and decided to move your date...I remember your post about your DD missing school...that was sort of the same situation we were in. I soooo wish we could take DD on a TA cruise like you're going to do, but I don't think it's in the cards for us. I am just extremely excited about Christmas on the Magic!

Now our girls will not have to miss the last week of school before the holidays and their parties and such...I would have done it to have seen DCL at the holidays, but I am so happy that we don't have to. Our DD really enjoys those celebrations with her class.

Is it still going to be just you and your DD on this cruise, or will more of your family be going as well? I remember your saying that your whole family would be going on the TA cruise but maybe just you and DD in December.

Does your DD know about the cruise and how are you going to handle the Santa thing? I keep asking lots of people how they are doing it with small children so I can get lots of ideas for how to keep the magic of Santa alive even though we won't be home. I am not ready for DD to stop believing. Gotta keep 'em young and innocent as long as possible!

Look forward to meeting you and your DD! I know there is another little girl who is 7 and whose parents are on this thread as well...looks like it will be a nice opportunity for the girls to make friends on the ship.

yes i switched so that i will not have to go to court. if i would have kept the december 12-19 and then taking her on the ebta she would miss a total of 15 days which is considered excesive truancy.

my daughter will still be missing 2 days as they do not get out of school for winter break until dec 22, but i am ok with that and she would definately rahter be on a cruise then to get the christmas party. last year she didnt get the christmas party because we cruised dec 14-18 and then school was closed on the 19th due to snow, so she hasnt had a christmas party at school yet.

 

[Disneyday]

I can't believe a week ago I was feeling depressed with the British weather and decided to cheer myself up on the DIS boards.

Someone had posted the new reduced prices, and....

here I am a week later with 2 GTY 12's. Woohooooo
I am still not sure we can afford it, but what the heck. Christmas day at Castaway Cay!
This will be our 2nd cruise, we did the Western last Nov and loved every minute of it.
In our party is me (Sue) DH, DD17, DD11 and DM80!

For those of you who have cruised at xmas before, do they change the menu's at all? Are there any extra xmassy activities?
See you all soon

 

[Downrivermama]

I can't believe a week ago I was feeling depressed with the British weather and decided to cheer myself up on the DIS boards.

Someone had posted the new reduced prices, and....

here I am a week later with 2 GTY 12's. Woohooooo
I am still not sure we can afford it, but what the heck. Christmas day at Castaway Cay!
This will be our 2nd cruise, we did the Western last Nov and loved every minute of it.
In our party is me (Sue) DH, DD17, DD11 and DM80!

For those of you who have cruised at xmas before, do they change the menu's at all? Are there any extra xmassy activities?
See you all soon

Welcome!

We are excited too and we got our packet last week. I will have to check out the prices to see if ours has gone down.

 

[TammyAlphabet]

Hello Everybody! I have switched to the Carnival Dream. My friends are going on this ship and I want to be with them. Hope you guys have a wonderful cruise!!

 

[itutorfortravel]

Hello Everybody! I have switched to the Carnival Dream. My friends are going on this ship and I want to be with them. Hope you guys have a wonderful cruise!!

Sorry you won't be coming on this cruise, but I hope you enjoy the Dream. Isn't that Carnival's new ship?

 

[itutorfortravel]

I can't believe a week ago I was feeling depressed with the British weather and decided to cheer myself up on the DIS boards.

Someone had posted the new reduced prices, and....

here I am a week later with 2 GTY 12's. Woohooooo
I am still not sure we can afford it, but what the heck. Christmas day at Castaway Cay!
This will be our 2nd cruise, we did the Western last Nov and loved every minute of it.
In our party is me (Sue) DH, DD17, DD11 and DM80!

For those of you who have cruised at xmas before, do they change the menu's at all? Are there any extra xmassy activities?
See you all soon

Welcome Disneyday! Errr, uh, I would be that culprit who likely lured you into this cruise with the post about the cat 12's during Christmas week - LOL! I was so excited to see those prices posted I couldn't help myself but to let the Dis-world know about it!

Our family also had no intention of sailing again so soon. But I had become increasingly interested in doing a holiday cruise and looking at prices for Christmas 2010 , I figured I better grab the opportunity to go at a decent price while I can. I am sure this will be our last Disney cruise for some time...I really thought we'd be going to WDW in January and a small part of me is disappointed that we won't be doing that now because of the cruise. But I figure I can always make a WDW affordable by staying offsite, while on a cruise you pay whatever they charge, there's no real cutting corners so to speak. So 2011 will definitely see us back in the parks...but for now, I am very excited to be able to say we are cruising at Christmas!

 

[itutorfortravel]

yes i switched so that i will not have to go to court. if i would have kept the december 12-19 and then taking her on the ebta she would miss a total of 15 days which is considered excesive truancy.

my daughter will still be missing 2 days as they do not get out of school for winter break until dec 22, but i am ok with that and she would definately rahter be on a cruise then to get the christmas party. last year she didnt get the christmas party because we cruised dec 14-18 and then school was closed on the 19th due to snow, so she hasnt had a christmas party at school yet.

momtomari, that's great that you are now going to be able to cruise without the stress of school absences, too. I am sure it would have worked out fine, but removing stress from one's life always feels good!

And the fact that your DD hasn't had the school party experience at Christmas yet will also work in your favor in regards to her missing it again this year. I guess some kids could care less about the parties, perhaps your DD would be more laid back about it than mine is, but my DD got really upset about missing one of the parties at the end of last school year. So upset, in fact, that the teacher tried to rearrange some of the day's activities so DD could join in. We had a sweet teacher!

The fact that we are not telling our DD about the cruise ahead of time would make it more difficult if she had to miss the party because I couldn't say "You have to miss your 2 hour party at school so we can go on a 7 night Disney cruise!" to get her to see things my way

Anyway, glad it worked out for you.

 

[itutorfortravel]

This thread has been sooo quiet lately!

 

[lovesDCL]

Hi everyone! My DH and I will be joining you all!

We had to cancel the EB Transatlantic because we couldn't get the time off....then we moved that to a cruise during Winter Break in February, but a 3 day is just toooooooo short, so DH said "Why not Christmas?" and so here we are!

Booked in a Cat. 12 for a pretty good price. We did lose the 10% re-booking discount but we did keep the onboard credit so that's still good!

Can't wait!