20060902--Eastern Sept 2nd, 2006

[Luckymommyx2]

I've made several calls out and thought I'd try again. Is there any Dis'ers out there on the ship with us? I'm starting to think we're going to have it all to ourselves!!!

 

[cbcable]

if it makes you feel any better i am on the cruise to the west when you get back, Sept 9,2006 i have the same feeling about having the whole ship to ourself.

i hope you have a great cruise and the waters are calm

western 9-9-06

 

[Luckymommyx2]

I got really excited when I saw a reply to my thread! LOL! Oh well, it's still over a year away but I thought maybe someone from the DIS would be on our ship by now!

Best wishes for a magical cruise and smooth sailings...

BTW...welcome to the DIS!

 

[taeja71]

Hello all! never mind.

 

[joshua121301]

We will be joining you on the Sept 2, 2006 Eastern Cruise. I have been twice before, but not for five years. It's the first time for my DW and DS3 & DS2 & DD due next month. I hope to find more people cruising so that we can meet up. Hope to see you there.

 

[Luckymommyx2]

Welcome aboard! I'm glad to see someone else sailing with me. Actually it will be me, DH, DS and DD. We were on the Wonder way back in 2003 and the kids had a blast. I have a few WDW trips planned between now and then to "get us through" until the cruise. DH can't wait to be on a seven day, and neither can I!! What category stateroom did you book? We're in a six because we love the balcony so much and last time we were in a six we were right above the kids club and had a two minute walk to get them in the evenings. Hopefully there will be some more joining us between now and our sailing.
Chat with you again soon!
BTW...Welcome to the DIS boards and congrats on DD next month!!

 

[joshua121301]

Thanks for your congrats on our newest addition to the family. We booked two rooms, one in catagory six for my in-laws, and one in catagory one for us. We are new to the board, but excited about the enthusiasm that everyone shows for all things Disney. We are regulars at the Disneyland Parks (about 40 times last year), but relative newbies to the Florida parks. I have visited when I was young, but not the DW or DS's. I hope that others on the board will join in later so that we can all meet up onboard. It is soooo far away right now. We drove down to the port of Los Angeles on Saturday just to stare at the Magic in port. We are booked for the early seating for dinner and am not certain that this is the right thing to do. Our kids are still pretty small and not sure if this will help us to get dinner or help us to miss shows. Anyhow, thanks for your reply and here's looking forward to many more in the year to come.

 

[joshua121301]

Just bumping

 

[joshua121301]

Well maybe we will be the only ones on this cruise. I hope not, I was really looking forward to making friendship s prior to sailing.

 

[ksumom]

We may be on the ship with ya all!! We're going this Sept. 17th on the Eastern and may re-book for next Sept. around Labor Day.... Eastern is the only one at that time... I figured we'd just do different excursions, or if we like it well enough, the same ones!!! We may be cruising with DH's family, this year we're going with my Sis, her family & my mom.

I'll keep ya posted if we'll be on the ship!!

Susan

 

[joshua121301]

We hope to see you there. I wish that I was going this year with you!!

 

[joshua121301]

Well Lucky, it looks like it might be just us for now. Maybe the hurricane season is fending them off. I would love to host a dis-meet party on board, but it might just be our families.

 

[Monstro]

I don't have a lot of time to post many specefics now, but we're on this cruise with our friends from Georgia. We have 14 total in our party in 4 cabins on decks 5 and 6. We did some fun things with our disgroup on our last cruise.

More later....

Jeff

 

[Luckymommyx2]

Wow, our group just took quite a leap! I heard that this is supposed to be a really bad hurricane season, but no one ever knows for sure until it happens. It does remind me that I still need to get my cruise insurance! I've had this booked (through Costco) since the day the dates opened up in Sept/Oct of last year! Has anyone used insuremytrip.com? (I think that's the site everyone keeps talking about.) Here's to calm seas for our trip.

 

[joshua121301]

Now that is quite a leap in numbers for only one post. Welcome aboard!! It will be great fun to travel with such a large group of friends and family. We will be a party of 7 ourselves and are waiting for the days to pass so that we can see the look on the faces of our kids. They already talk about it all of the time. We even drove to the port of Los Angeles to see the ship in port. I hope to hear lots of suggestions in the future that might maximize our trip.

 

[Monstro]

Thanks! We're excited! This will be our 6th disney cruise - 1st eastern.

 

[Monstro]

We will be a party of 7 ourselves and are waiting for the days to pass so that we can see the look on the faces of our kids. They already talk about it all of the time.

Us too! The kids get so excited for our cruise vacations. I'd recommend riding the disney shuttle to the port. Once you're on the bus... your vacation has started.

They plan a little video about the cruise and disney music... it's a great kick off.

 

[joshua121301]

We are planning to book our own air trans, but take the bus either to the port to to WDW for a few days prior to the ship. We haven't made any arangements for the WDW portion yet, so we haven't booked the transfers. They aren't difficult to get last minute are they? And if I make the arrangements for our air, do they still retrive the baggage from the air carrier?

 

[Monstro]

We've always arranged our own air as well. It's difficult for us to get a flight to get in early enough on Saturday so we always fly on Friday. We stay near the airport at a hotel with a complimentary airport shuttle. I've heard if you stay at the Airport Hyatt the night before Disney will pick the luggage up from your room.... not sure if that is true or not. I'd imagine they have shuttles running from the WDW area if you're staying at a WDW resort hotel the night before. I'd check into that.

One of the things we liked about riding the shuttle on our first cruise was seeing the Magic for the first time. You can see it when your about 5 miles out - The energy in the bus goes through the roof when the driver points it out to people.

Ask as many questions as you'd like. I'm going to get my freinds from Georgia on this thread with us. This will be their 7th Disney Cruise. I'm sure they'll have a lot of good tips for you.

 

[rocketralph]

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