2/28/04 Magic Western...anyone onboard?

[ksjayhawks]

We are back in the land of OZ!

What a cruise! It is so hard to get back to reality again--no one to turn the bed down, serve me, remember all my likes and dislikes for meals!!! Disney sure knows how to do it right!!!!

It was great to meet everyone and see friendly faces around the ship and at the ports. We are ready to go again, but not sure when. Trying to get some of our friends to go on a spring break curise in two or three years, so everyone has time to save up for it and their younger kids will be a little older and able to go on some of the excursions without being as scared as some of the little ones we saw.

Thanks Verandah Man for the pics, they will be great to add to the scrapbook. If anyone has a group pic that we took in the lounge, will they email it to me?

Can't wait to read everyone's trip reports!

 

[macker]

did everyone come home healthy? I ended up with sinusitis, my gd has strep throat and my dd has some sort of an eye infection!! I did hear from cruise line and they had found my eyeglasses so that was the good news!! looking forward to hearing some more trip reports. Thanks.

 

[ksjayhawks]

DH ended up with sinusitus, too. DS and I are healthy.

 

[MamaGriz]

We all made it home healthy. With the way some people were hacking away on the plane, I consider it a miracle (5-1/2 hours breathing their air). My skin is drying up again, though, we have very low humidity.

 

[MamaGriz]

ksjayhawks-pm me your e-mail address and I will send you the photo from our Dismeet.

 

[BobandLee]

So far so good. Usually we pick up something from the ship or plane. This time we escaped the bugs.

4 day cruise-1998 7 day eastern -2000 7 day western cruise with Payton-2002
MEMBERS CRUISE --2003
We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About!

 

[Madaboutthemouse2004]

Hi!

Great cruise; first time DCL experience -- only one problem. I am a terrible asthmatic and our verandah room was right next to a chain smoker. They couldn't move us and we couldn't use our verandah The guest services manager was sympathetic to my problem and sent up a Hepa filter/air cleaner. The least I had hoped for was that I get a refund in the difference between a Verandah room and a porthole room, since we could only look out the glass.

I had asked that my reservations be noted with my medical condition; I wish DCL had some way of tagging reservations to try and place non-smokers and asthmatics in a particular section.

Does anyone know of an address to write to DCL concerning this problem? I made certain to write it in on the review forms.

Otherwise -- Key West was great, we snorkled in Grand Cayman (shipwreck -- the stingrays were booked), did the Dolphin Experience in Cozumel (my 4 year old liked the Mexican cab ride!) and chilled on the beach at Castaway Cay.

The ship was beautiful! The food great! We were early seating and Silvio and Pieter were our waiters -- what sweethearts!

We didn't rebook as I am trying to find out what can be done to try and prevent the asthma vs. smoker verandah problem.

Kathy

 

[Verandah Man]

Kathy,

I just sent you a PM with an address for you to use.

 

[BobandLee]

In cace anyone would want to see them. I have pictures posted at Lee and Bob's 2004 Disney Cruise
Just of few pictures of the ship, crew, excursions, ect.

 

[macker]

thanks for posting the picutres, they are great!

 

[MamaGriz]

Awesome pictures, thanks for posting!

 

[BobandLee]

This is an addition to the above post---
WRITTEN REPORT of LEE and BOB's 2004 DISNEY MAGIC WESTERN CARRIBEAN CRUISE
I hate to write, but this is different. This allowed me to re-live the cruise two weeks after. To those waiting for you cruise, make sure you enjoy every minute. Try to take in as much as you can until the last day. Castaway Cay is the relaxation day. We've been on five cruises and this was definity the best.

Contructive criticisms, compliments or corrections accepted. I already know I am not Hemmingway, so I don't need to be told that.
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We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About!

 

[mississaugamom]

Hi All!

This is my first trip back to the boards since the cruise. After disembarking at Port Canaveral, we headed to Pop Century resort at DisneyWorld for a second week of vacation. Lots of fun, but everyone arrived back in Canada with "bugs" in various stages. Martin actually missed his first two days back at work. I dragged in to try catching up (and crashing right after work) and then Lara got a stomach flu last Thursday which kept us really busy.

This cruise was the most incredible vacation! I just loved every moment of it (well, maybe not the seasick ones in the first couple of hours ) but everything else was so memorable!

I started working on my trip report. Day One is ready for posting now. Can't wait to read about everyone else's adventures.

Arlene