17 Oct 2015 Disney Fantasy Western Caribbean

abitagirl916 · May 27, 2014

MASrules said:
Hey all. I moved this cruise to this date after booking a dummy. At the time of cruising we will be me, DW, DS (11), DS (10), and DS (2). We are from Noblesville, IN and have been on many Disney Cruises. This will be number 12 for me. I am pretty sure we are in for the FE. We are excited for this cruise because we love the Fantasy, have never been to Falmouth, and usually travel spring break instead of Fall break. I will join the FB page soon and try and keep up with the group.

raymeswh said:
Hi Everyone! I'm Ray, and my DW Christal and I will be celebrating our 4th anniversary on this trip! We've done the Magic twice before she was renovated and are excited to see how much is different on the Fantasy. I'll be spending most of my time on the FB group, but will pop in here from time to time. We've never done the FE, but it sounds like it can be a good time.

We're from Southern CT, about 10 minutes from Yale University and will be either flying down a day or two in advance or staying a day later for MNSSHP (hopefully!).

Normally, we go to Disney World every year in September. My company hosts a conference in Orlando so we get a good vacation in around that. DW has been an annual passholder for the past 5 years, and we splurged on the Premier Passport so we could visit friends in Huntington Beach.

Look forward to meeting everyone!

to both of you. I will be traveling with my DD (26 at time of cruise, but developmentally disabled). We live in Southeastern Louisiana. We love cruising with DCL, but this will only be our 4th cruise. Wish I could cruise more. We have sailed on the Magic, Dream and the Fantasy. We decided to sail the Fantasy again because we really liked it (of course, we liked the other ships too) and we have never been to Jamaica.

Looking forward to meeting all of you! :goodvibes

arneyb6654 · May 28, 2014

tigerlilly878 said:
Hi Arney... Glad to have you here for some super early planning fun. I have been on the Fantasy one other time and that was our first Disney cruise... Man we had a blast . We are also DVC members. Our home resort is AKL.. what is yours? If you have any questions feel free to ask! Have you guys heard of the FE? Next year sometime we will start organizing FE and meet ups. Last year I hosted the initial meet and greet on the first day and an adult wine meet in our room... It was great but I definitely drank wayyy too much...

Happy planning

Thanks! Never to early to start planning, right? Just seeing the number of days to go is a tough pill to swallow, though. Haha.

Our home resort is AKL, as well. We just recently joined (about 2 years ago), so it's still a bit new to us. I've heard of FE, and I'm sure our 3 kids would love to do that. Only concern for me would be how much it ends up costing. I guess that's probably everyone's concern.

I've seen other groups put together private mixology classes, etc. I think it'd be great if that happens for this cruise (thus saving those of us that don't sign up in time!), but regardless, we'll have a great time! Looking forward to more discussion... :cool1:

arneyb6654 · May 28, 2014

Survisfamily said:
We just moved our dummy cruise to this date yesterday and are so excited! We are a family of 4, my husband and I plus our 2 kids who will be 5 and 7 at the time of the cruise. This will be our third DCL cruise, we've been on the Wonder and Fantasy previously. We really wanted to try the Magic this time but the scheduling just didn't work for us so we decided to go back on the Fantasy. We're looking forward to joining an FE group as well, I'm hoping someone in this group will be organizing one? Looking forward to meeting all of you over the next year and a half!

Looks like we'll have a couple of kids the same age at cruise time (DS will be 7 and DD will be 5, another DD will be 9). Are you planning on having them spend much time in the kid's clubs? Being our first Disney cruise, we obviously haven't used them before, but have only heard great things!

arneyb6654 · May 28, 2014

tigerlilly878 said:
Cool I will defiantly keep that in mind and add you guys to the spreadsheet... Oh how I love a good spreadsheet

I am also going to add you as an admin for the FB site if that's cool with you... and anyone else who wants to share in driving this ship...

Saying you love a good spreadsheet. You must be an Accountant. It's the same way I am, too. My wife is always asking me why I put things into spreadsheet form. The CPA in me knows no other way! :laughing:

I guess I should have quoted multiple posts instead of just adding one after the other. Sorry for the clutter! I'll have to check into getting on the facebook group and yahoo list.

abitagirl916 · May 28, 2014

arneyb6654 said:
Saying you love a good spreadsheet. You must be an Accountant. It's the same way I am, too. My wife is always asking me why I put things into spreadsheet form. The CPA in me knows no other way!

I guess I should have quoted multiple posts instead of just adding one after the other. Sorry for the clutter! I'll have to check into getting on the facebook group and yahoo list.

It's okay that you posted individual responses. It helps you get your post count up. Please, go ahead and and join the FB and Yahoo groups. I know tigerlilly and I will be posting on both of those as well as here. Will you be joining us on boarding day for the Meet & Greet?

Also, wondering if anyone will be dressing up for Pirate Night. We wore pirate costumes on our last cruise and had a lot of fun.

tigerlilly878 · May 28, 2014

Yes we will be dressing up for pirate night again, we have pirate zombie costumes and we had a great time watching peoples reactions... the adults were more freaked out than the children :lmao:

tigerlilly878 · May 28, 2014

I was doing some research on buying Disney Gift cards from Target and using a redcard and getting 5% off and saw that if you have 5 prescriptions filled at Target you get a 5% off coupon that you can use in addition to the 5% off with redcard for Disney Gift Cards that you can in turn use to pay on the balance of your cruise... I don't have any prescriptions to transfer, but I thought others may be able to use this info.

If anyone has a 5% coupon they are not going to use I gladly use it for them

KalamityJane · May 28, 2014

tigerlilly878 said:
I was doing some research on buying Disney Gift cards from Target and using a redcard and getting 5% off and saw that if you have 5 prescriptions filled at Target you get a 5% off coupon that you can use in addition to the 5% off with redcard for Disney Gift Cards that you can in turn use to pay on the balance of your cruise... I don't have any prescriptions to transfer, but I thought others may be able to use this info. If anyone has a 5% coupon they are not going to use I gladly use it for them

The pharmacy coupon doesn't work on Disney gift cards any more

tigerlilly878 · May 28, 2014

KalamityJane said:
The pharmacy coupon doesn't work on Disney gift cards any more

Bummer.... Well even with the 5% off for doing your purchase through red card it will still be worth it

arneyb6654 · May 29, 2014

abitagirl916 said:
It's okay that you posted individual responses. It helps you get your post count up. Please, go ahead and and join the FB and Yahoo groups. I know tigerlilly and I will be posted on both of those as well as here. Will you be joining us on boarding day for the Meet & Greet?

Also, wondering if anyone will be dressing up for Pirate Night. We wore pirate costumes on our last cruise and had a lot of fun.

Just put my request in for the Facebook group and the yahoo group.

abitagirl916 · May 29, 2014

arneyb6654 said:
Just put my request in for the Facebook group and the yahoo group.

Great....added you to both.

MDKLHunter · May 29, 2014

Hey there! I'm Kari, just booked our second cruise and since our first was only the 3nt on the Dream, we are SO excited for a longer trip. Our daughters will be 13 & 9 at sailing and I would love to get in a Fish Extender group. I'll check out the two other message groups, please keep me in the loop!

tigerlilly878 · May 29, 2014

MDKLHunter said:
Hey there! I'm Kari, just booked our second cruise and since our first was only the 3nt on the Dream, we are SO excited for a longer trip. Our daughters will be 13 & 9 at sailing and I would love to get in a Fish Extender group. I'll check out the two other message groups, please keep me in the loop!

Welcome Kari... We are happy that you found us! Yeah 3 nights just isn't enough

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Happy planning

eickhoff06 · May 31, 2014

Hubby and I just joined this cruise!!!

Is there an FE started? I am willing to head one up if needed. Please point me to where I need to sign up if there is already one started.

My name is Shannon and I will be cruising with my DH (Mike) and 2 DS (Brandon-11 and Evan-5...12 and 6 at time of sailing)

tigerlilly878 · May 31, 2014

eickhoff06 said:
Hubby and I just joined this cruise!!!

Is there an FE started? I am willing to head one up if needed. Please point me to where I need to sign up if there is already one started.

My name is Shannon and I will be cruising with my DH (Mike) and 2 DS (Brandon-11 and Evan-5...12 and 6 at time of sailing)

Welcome!!!! We are excited that you found us! For the FE, Meet and Greet and other information please check out the Yahoo Group page (under database in the more tab)... we also have a Facebook page as well. Check out the initial post in this thread for details :hyper:

eickhoff06 · Jun 1, 2014

gravyboatcaptain said:
Hi! We just changed our dummy date to this cruise, and are so excited!
I'm Meri, and my DH is Christian. We're kind of Disney obsessed! We have two children, who will be 7 & 3 (almost 4) at the time of sailing. We're from Palm Coast, FL. This will be our third Disney Cruise! Our first two were both Bahamian, on the Dream. Can't wait to enjoy a new ship, and explore some places we've never been before.

We are totally in for a Fish Extender exchange in fact, we're already brainstorming gifts!

We booked an aft room for the first time, with an oversized balcony. I totally searched the DIS for a trip report featuring our room, and now I'm practically drooling over that huge verandah. Oh, October 2015, you can't arrive soon enough!

Please leave me your info so we can get you signed up for the FE. Names, ages for kids, fave characters, allergies, and room #.