12/26/2009 - 1/2/2010 Magical New Year's Eve Cruise!

[HFC1969]

i've never spent a NYE at disney

this time our cabin is in the middle of the ship deck 8 rather than aft like Christmas that may make it a bit noisier right?

The best NYE my DW & I ever had was at Pleasure Island in 98/99; I think. There were several bands: Huey Lewis, Rick Springfield and other,, the next morning we boarded the DCL.. Slept the entire bus ride to the ship.

We are booked for deck 8 also.. did you get your room assignment already? I looked all over the confirmation sheet and don't see a room..

Oh well... its like 350 and some change til we cast off...

 

[MN Dis Fans]

Welcome aboard SnowWhite2 Who is all cruising with you? I've added you to our cruise list on Page 1.

Kez250 Welcome aboard to you as well. I've also added your details to our cruise list.
We've always done late dining, so can't comment on the early seating. A couple of comments that I would make about late dining: It seems that our DS's have missed some good activities in the kids clubs because of late seating. In fact, often either the DW or I are having to nip out during the meal to drop one / or the other off, as there is something that they "can't" miss!
The plus side is after port days not having to rush to get ready for meal time, and on debarkation morning, not having to get up for the extremely early breakfast.

HFC1969 At least we're down to less than a year?

 

[Kez250]

HFC 1969, we do have our room assignment , but only because we booked a suite I think.

You know i hadn't looked at it from the what they miss in the clubs perspective only a what extra they may get in the daytime so I think I'm gonna go back over the navigators for the christmas cruise but looking at it from a late dinner perspective rather than an early one and hopefully that'll help make up my mind - although with soooo long to go i'll probably change it back and forth about 20 times

 

[HFC1969]

HFC 1969, we do have our room assignment , but only because we booked a suite I think.

You know i hadn't looked at it from the what they miss in the clubs perspective only a what extra they may get in the daytime so I think I'm gonna go back over the navigators for the christmas cruise but looking at it from a late dinner perspective rather than an early one and hopefully that'll help make up my mind - although with soooo long to go i'll probably change it back and forth about 20 times

Ah man... we are wait listed for a suite... Was supposed to have one for Easter 08 but our DS got pnemonia 2 days before we were supposed to leave.
So now we are patiently waiting to see where we are on deck 8

As far as dining goes.. We have never had early seating.. I guess we are just trained into late seating now and like it. The only night you have to rush a bit is Pirate night. The only request we have ever made was this past cruise and that was for private table with just us 3. That ROCK'D

 

[CrusinLattas]

We are in a suite as well this time - it is our first time in a suite and I am really excited about it! I hear we can get Palo's for room service! We like early seating. This past cruise I heard about a lot of people with late seating where the meals ran really long/late and with early things seem to go a bit quicker. I have been tempted to just eat on Deck 9 some nights so that I am not as rushed for the other activities - but I do enjoy the dining experience!

 

[HFC1969]

11 months 1 day til we head to the Cape....

How is everyone surviving winter?

We are planning a few trips to WDW durring the year,, took advantage of the 4 days get 3 free deal.. but defiantley the NYE cruise is the grand finale.

 

[Kez250]

just got back from a weekend in Boston - it was blue skies, but oh so cold. I guess after a few years I'll get used having seasons again - eight years in Houston musta really made my blood thin

We are heading down in February for a week while the kids are on winter break

Apart from that I'm going to try and fit in a weekend with DD and a seperate one with DS and if I get really fortunate a couple of days during the F&W with DH

 

[HFC1969]

Just think 11 months from today... we are on the ship...


7" of snow in the STL today..

 

[HFC1969]

Somewhere around 310 days til we cruise I think....


60+ degrees today in the STL area...


I think we are down to 100 days til WDW..


Anyone cruising this spring?

 

[SnowWhite2]

Well, I finished my room ressies for before the cruise. We are planning to fly down on either the evening of the 22nd or the morning of the 23rd, stay at SSR until Christmas afternoon and then head to the port and stay at the Residence Inn. One item checked off the list

 

[HFC1969]

10 months from today people!!! We will be cruising!


Its actually 60 degrees in the STL today,, rainy but warm.

Whats everyone up to?

We are on an 83 day count down til WDW..



Question: I have never traveled on Christmas day.. we are thinking of flying down the day before and staying at the airport as usual. But, have never traveled on Christmas Day. Whats it like?

 

[Trishde]

Counting down!
Just booked Boardwalk for Christmas night and waiting to hear about Jan 3rd-the flights are cheaper if we fly in the day before and out the day after.
Extremely excited-going to be a long 10 months!
So those of you who have been on a NYE cruise-what do they do for New Years?
I'm at work & forgot my reservation number-was going to check if they still offer the cooking excursion in cozumel-dh & I did that in 2007 and had a blast!
Now we just have to remind our families that Christmas dinner won't be at our house (unless my husband cooks the day before which he usually does anyway and they come down without us there lol)
Now it's the issue-it's not so much DS-12 as much as DS-8.
Maybe he can make a special stop Christmas eve (depending on when the flight is-could you imagine-ok presents opened leave them here gotta go to airport )
Guess I'd better get back to work!
Be back on real soon!!

 

[SLK1]

We're booked! Originally set for June, but due to a conflict, we had to move to this date. We are very excited to ring in the New Year on a Disney Cruise!!! It'll be me, hubby, and four kids - DS15, DD13, DD8, and DD2.

 

[JoePizzarello]

We are planning a trip on this cruise. Great to see that we can talk beforehand.

 

[MN Dis Fans]

We've been fairly quiet on this thread for the past couple of months. I have been trying "unsuccessfully" to re-arrange my rotational work schedule to get X-Mas / New Year's off this year. I had X-Mas / New Year's off last year, so can't blame my back to back for not wanting to give this time off to me.

Unfortunately, it's not going to happen, so we're going to have to jump ship on you folks.

Good news is that we did book a June 6 Eastern yesterday, taking advantage of the Kids Sailing Free Promotion, so we'll be sailing in less than 2x months.

Anway, just to give my fellow Dis'ers a "heads up" that we'll be releasing SPH's 5520 / 5522 / 5524 for this cruise a little later today.

We'll also be releasing 5520 for the 19 - 26 Dec. (The Back to Back Cruises won't be happening this year.)

 

[HFC1969]

Sorry to hear that you are leaving us!

I think we are around 8 1/2 months til we go!

We actually just cancelled a big WDW trip, because or our son's Tae Kwon Doe summer camp.. Im still in a little shock.. LOL

I actually was cleaning the basement the other day and placed a couple things together for the DCL trip already. Never to early to pack!

 

[MrToady]

Joining...

I forgot to check if there was a thread for this cruise until today. This will be our 3rd cruise and our 2nd NYE cruise. Last time, we were very impressed with the effort Disney puts into all the extras for the cruise. The kids club was even open until 2am for all the late night partyers.

I will be cruising with my wife and DD7.

 

[mdwings]

The 2009 dates are out! Just over 2 years to go. Who's with us?

Who's Booked:
MN Dis Fans: DH, DW, DS-14, DS-12 (late dining)
oklamomof4boys: DW, DH, DS-16, DS-14, DS-13, DS-11 (7505 & 7507)
SnowWhite2: DW, DH, DD-13, DD-15
flexsmom: (4-staterooms 15x in total sailing)
IMDory: DW, DH, DS-8
oceangirl: ????? DS-15, DS-17
NM Dis Fans: DW, DH, DS-7
Hobbitmomma: DW, DH, DS-11, DD-9
HFC1969: DW, DH, DS-10
E&B Mom: DW, DH, DD-15 1/2, DS-12 (late dining)
Trishde: DW, DH, DS-8
arabians207: ????????
BibbidyBobbidyBoo: DW, DH, DD-15, DS-12, DD-9 1/2
imsomaha: DH, DW, DD-14, DS-12
JOHNHORAZ: DD-19, DS-16, and DAD (7616)
Bullseyebaby: DW, DH, DS-17, DD-12
CruisinLattas: DW, DH, DD-5, DS-3
SnowWhite2:
Kez250: DW, DH, DS-8, DD-6

Add mdwings and the family to your list:
DH, DW, DD-7, DD-5 (by then), DFIL , DMIL

The Grandparents can't wait! Do I hear "a little adult free time" for the parents? Glad to join the crowd. I will start reading the thread but is anyone discussing doing Fish Extenders yet?

 

[oceangirl]

It's been a long time since I was on this board, but I received an email with wdwings' post and realized we are still on the cruise list (albeit with numerous questionmarks!) . We have unfortunately had to cancel our cruising plans and will not be joining you on this cruise. I wish you all a "bon voyage"!

 

[PE_TCR]

I am a pretty new poster here. Been trolling the boards for a bit but my DW and I just got back from a land/sea honeymoon on the 19th and while we were onboard we booked this cruise. The 3 day cruise was just too short. We can't wait. It sure did make leaving the ship a lil easier though. We knew we would be back the day after Christmas. I wish we could cruise in off peak times but as you can see my job isn't too condusive to that. Add us to the list. Me- 36 DW 40 at the time of the cruise. Can't wait to see what NYE will be like on the ship! Hope to get to know some of you before we get there.