3/28/09 Spring Break Magic in St. Croix

[ps17]

Has someone posted or does anyone know what the "nights" will be for our trip? For example, formal, semi-formal, Pirates, etc? I would think that if this is not yet published, the current "Eastern" Itinerary would be our best guess - substituting St. Croix for St. Martin....

 

[mumom95]

Has someone posted or does anyone know what the "nights" will be for our trip? For example, formal, semi-formal, Pirates, etc? I would think that if this is not yet published, the current "Eastern" Itinerary would be our best guess - substituting St. Croix for St. Martin....

I read somewhere that this is the order (but I'm not sure if this is right or not):

Saturday - casual
Sunday - Formal
Monday - Casual
Tuesday (St Croix) - Casual
Wednesday (St Thomas) - Pirate night
Thursday - semi formal
Friday (Castaway) casual

There is someone who is on the St. Croix cruise right now (ends tomorrow), who promises to right a trip report and give feedback (on the trip report thread) when she gets home. We can double check it all with her.

 

[Weedy]

We will be there also. This will be our 5th Disney Cruise. It will be my husband and myself and my son (who will turn 13 on the cruise) and my daughter 11.
We can't wait.

 

[disneyfreak1]

Hi Weedy,

Would you like to join in our Fish Extender exchange?

Pam

 

[ps17]

OK, reports are starting to trickle in from people who just got done sailing the St. Croix itinerary. The following link contains the "night" information as well as shows, etc. etc.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2055051

Preliminary reports on St. Croix are lukewarm at best - however, we should be able to use these reports and information to pick the best itineraries, excursions - or at least know how to plan our day and what to avoid.

It will be interesting to here how most of us in this thread plan to spend that day.

 

[Weedy]

No thanks for the Fish Extender, but I would like to meet up with everyone.

 

[mommavon]

Thanks!!

Hello, Does anyone know if I will be able to still get in on this deal, or is it too late?

 

[mommavon]

Hello, everyone!

My name is Yvonne my two children and I will be joining the cruise on March 28th. I am SOOO excited and can hardly contain myself. I have NEVER been on a cruise before. I have always wanted to go so this is a huge treat for us all. My little Princess will be turning 5 on the trip, it is also our Spring Break. I am having a hard time keeping everything to myself. I want to tell my children so bad but I can't. As you other parents know, they will drive me up the wall if I tell them. However, they know something is up as I have clued them in on something magical is about to happen. I really wanted to go to the Western Carribean but was unable to with my travel dates so we are going Eastern. I am so happy typing this post today and look forward to making some great new friends. I have a 100 questions and I will continue to read to see if they have been asked before but please bear with me as I join in a little late. I've read about the fish extenders, can we join? I am a single parent and I am looking forward to the kids having a great time away and some real R&R AND adult time with others. I hope that their are other single parents on the trips as well. One of my BF's just took the Western cruise in October 08 on the Magic so she told me about this board and of course I hooked up with this after I bought everything, I hope I got a great deal?? We are still looking for decent airfare. I found that Airtran has some great fares but it appears that we cannot fly to Florida on their blackout dates which correspond with the trip. YIKES! Any advice would be nice.

Well, tootles! Please write soon.

 

[Deweysgirl]

Another casualty...we have also had to cancel our cruise as my job has been outsourced to India and I will no longer be employed as of February 20th, but I do hope you all have a wonderful cruise!

 

[disneyfreak1]

Hey Liz,

I am so sorry to hear you won't be sailing with us. I have noted it on my Fish Extender exchange list.

Pam

 

[disneyfreak1]

Hey mommavon,

You certainly can join in on the Fish Extender exchange. Email me your names (first and last), ages of your children, and your stateroom number. I also would like to know what day your daughter is turning 5.

Pam

 

[mumom95]

Another casualty...we have also had to cancel our cruise as my job has been outsourced to India and I will no longer be employed as of February 20th, but I do hope you all have a wonderful cruise!

I'm so sorry to hear that. Hopefully you can find something soon.

 

[mumom95]

Hello, everyone!

My name is Yvonne my two children and I will be joining the cruise on March 28th. I am SOOO excited and can hardly contain myself. I have NEVER been on a cruise before. I have always wanted to go so this is a huge treat for us all. My little Princess will be turning 5 on the trip, it is also our Spring Break. I am having a hard time keeping everything to myself. I want to tell my children so bad but I can't. As you other parents know, they will drive me up the wall if I tell them. However, they know something is up as I have clued them in on something magical is about to happen. I really wanted to go to the Western Carribean but was unable to with my travel dates so we are going Eastern. I am so happy typing this post today and look forward to making some great new friends. I have a 100 questions and I will continue to read to see if they have been asked before but please bear with me as I join in a little late. I've read about the fish extenders, can we join? I am a single parent and I am looking forward to the kids having a great time away and some real R&R AND adult time with others. I hope that their are other single parents on the trips as well. One of my BF's just took the Western cruise in October 08 on the Magic so she told me about this board and of course I hooked up with this after I bought everything, I hope I got a great deal?? We are still looking for decent airfare. I found that Airtran has some great fares but it appears that we cannot fly to Florida on their blackout dates which correspond with the trip. YIKES! Any advice would be nice.

Well, tootles! Please write soon.

Welcome, this is our first Disney cruise also. My daughter will also be celebrating her birthday while we are on the ship, she'll be turning 8. I have a son who is 9.

Can't help you on the airfare. We are from the Cincinnati area, and we've decided to just drive, to save money and to make packing easier (we don't have to worry about weight limits for bags or anything). We drove to Disney this past Christmas and it took about 13 hours driving time, not ideal, but doable, especially since there are two of us to take turns driving.

 

[mumom95]

OK, reports are starting to trickle in from people who just got done sailing the St. Croix itinerary. The following link contains the "night" information as well as shows, etc. etc.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2055051

Preliminary reports on St. Croix are lukewarm at best - however, we should be able to use these reports and information to pick the best itineraries, excursions - or at least know how to plan our day and what to avoid.

It will be interesting to here how most of us in this thread plan to spend that day.

We've booked the snorkeling trip to Buck Island on our St. Croix day. We are also snorkeling on Buck Island on the St. Thomas day (The Dabloon snorkel). We considered doing the Sprat Hall Reef snorkel in St. Croix, but the one review I read for it said the snorkeling was bad, so I decided to stick with Buck Island. We are also doing the tram ride in St. Thomas. We are just going to enjoy the beach at CC. I think we'll rent bikes for an hour, but other than that, nothing specific planned.

I'm hoping they get some of the kinks worked out of the St. Croix problems by the time we sail.

 

[6mouskateers]

We are finally getting to go on our very first cruise, and of course it HAS to be Disney. It will be me, DH, DS16,DD11,DS10, grandma and grandpa. So sad that DS20 won't be able to come also. I have had a lot of fun planning and researching. We have decided to book a couple of excursons through Disney, even though they are a bit pricey. We figure, we'd go our first time and get an idea of how it all works. Plus I have an irrational fear of missing the ship!

We have decided on the Salt River Kayak tour in St Croix and the Buck Island Catamaran/Snorkel excursion at St John/St Thomas.

I was trying to book some parasailing at CC but it won;t let me, I am too tired to mess wiht it tonight. I am either too late or need to break us into smaller groups.

As for Palo--got on the first day I could to make ressies and they were all gone except for our first night. I am hoping that some fairy dust will find me when we get there and I can book on board, really wanted to do a high tea and a brunch also, guess it's all a good reason to go again if it doesn't work out this time

Looking forward to this! Hope you all have a wonderful time.

 

[SandieT]

As for Palo--got on the first day I could to make ressies and they were all gone except for our first night. I am hoping that some fairy dust will find me when we get there and I can book on board, really wanted to do a high tea and a brunch also, guess it's all a good reason to go again if it doesn't work out this time
time.

6mouskateers,
I did not get the Palo reservations I wanted on our first cruise as well but when I got onto the ship I raced over to the area where you make Palo reservations. (I think it was in Beat Street right next to the entrance.) and they had lots of openings. I think the save plenty for when people get on the ship but make sure you go right when you get on, just one person from your party needs to go and it only takes a minute.
Sandie

 

[mommavon]

Hey mommavon,

You certainly can join in on the Fish Extender exchange. Email me your names (first and last), ages of your children, and your stateroom number. I also would like to know what day your daughter is turning 5.

Pam

It won't let me PM you until I have 10 messages, so I guess I will respond to stuff today so i can start PM'ing people.

 

[disneyfreak1]

Just email me at pammurphy1963@embarqmail.com.

 

[mommavon]

6mouskateers,
I did not get the Palo reservations I wanted on our first cruise as well but when I got onto the ship I raced over to the area where you make Palo reservations. (I think it was in Beat Street right next to the entrance.) and they had lots of openings. I think the save plenty for when people get on the ship but make sure you go right when you get on, just one person from your party needs to go and it only takes a minute.
Sandie

Palo? I am guessing it's the fancy restaurant and I can go thre to eat at least once but need reservations? Can I do high tea anytime with my daughter? Doesn't everyone get a chance to eat there at least once? I mean we all paid for the cruise? What happens if we don't get a reservation, we're SOL??? What if this is the only cruise I can never afford to do this again? HELP - what should my expectations be?

 

[mommavon]

Welcome, this is our first Disney cruise also. My daughter will also be celebrating her birthday while we are on the ship, she'll be turning 8. I have a son who is 9.

Can't help you on the airfare. We are from the Cincinnati area, and we've decided to just drive, to save money and to make packing easier (we don't have to worry about weight limits for bags or anything). We drove to Disney this past Christmas and it took about 13 hours driving time, not ideal, but doable, especially since there are two of us to take turns driving.

I can't wait to meet everyone - super greta news!!! I found airfare for roughly $700 bucks round trip from Indianapolis to Orlando 3/27 outbound and returning 4/5 sure I will spend money on the hotel but it was a heck of a lot cheaper than $1500 bucks for all of us plus if we really wanna spend one day at Disney afterwards we can.

Does anyone recommend doing one day at Disney afterwards or are you pretty much pooped from it all???? MY bff went in October and they did 3 days before the cruise and it was well worth it. IDK...I've only done animal kingdom and magic kindgom in the past one day each.

Tootles!