4/24/2011 'Dream'ing of Easter with Donald Duck April 24, 2011

[jilljill]

Thought I would start a thread for this sailing.

It will be myself, DH and DD(16). Booked a cat. 8D on deck 5.

 

[jilljill]

I guess there aren't any other gold/platinum cruisers booked on this cruise yet?!?

 

[scottishwee35]

look like you are sailing all by yourself

I am waiting for 7 April 2011 on Monday, sorry as it won't be 24 April

I would love to meet you all... Is that easter time in us?

Our start 10 april for two weeks....

Scottishwee35

 

[jilljill]

look like you are sailing all by yourself

I am waiting for 7 April 2011 on Monday, sorry as it won't be 24 April

I would love to meet you all... Is that easter time in us?

Our start 10 april for two weeks....

Scottishwee35

April 24, 2011 is Easter Sunday, very late in the month.
Have fun waiting for your cruise.

 

[jilljill]

Anyone book this cruise today?

 

[IrishCowboy]

Added to the 2011 Dream cruise meet thread list....

 

[jilljill]

Just thought I would bump this up to see if anyone else has booked this cruise?

 

[jilljill]

Still no one else on this cruise?

 

[kakelly03]

We just booked the Easter cruise on the Dream today. Can't wait to see the new ship.

 

[jilljill]

I was beginning to think we were going to be the only DIS family on the ship.

 

[kakelly03]

Hopefully more people will join. We are going to Cancun this year for spring break and I have to admit I am really more excited about next year's cruise. can't stop thinking about it!

 

[ellenmiele]

Just booked the 4/24/11 cruise this morning !!
We've only cruised once before and it was on the Wonder in 2008 (loved it!!!). Soooooo excited for the Dream next year!!!!

 

[esbrick]

OK the Krick and Brick (Can you stand it I went from being a Brick to a Krick when I got married!) families are in! It will be my DH, DSD, my parents and me! Can't wait. DH, DSD and I cruised the Wonder in 08 and 09 and we are so excited! I realize it's a new ship, and pretty big, but I'm up for FE's too! Anyone interested?

 

[jilljill]

Looks like we have to cancel this cruise if DD's school calendar stays the same as the way I learned it yesterday. She has always had off the week after Easter, well I guess since Easter is so late in April they decided to change their week off to the week before Easter. Yesterday I made a ressie on the 4/17 sailing, but I'm not cancelling this one until I get the final school calendar in August.
Actually I won't be cancelling that ressie since it was made onboard and I got the discount and OBC so I'll move it to 2012 for either the Dream or the Fantasy, whichever ship is doing the 7 day sailings.

 

[ellenmiele]

Looks like we have to cancel this cruise if DD's school calendar stays the same as the way I learned it yesterday. She has always had off the week after Easter, well I guess since Easter is so late in April they decided to change their week off to the week before Easter. Yesterday I made a ressie on the 4/17 sailing, but I'm not cancelling this one until I get the final school calendar in August.
Actually I won't be cancelling that ressie since it was made onboard and I got the discount and OBC so I'll move it to 2012 for either the Dream or the Fantasy, whichever ship is doing the 7 day sailings.

I'm thinking that same thing will happen to alot of folks next year because Easter is so late. My kids are in Catholic school and we always have off beginning with Good Friday and going thru the week after Easter. But Easter has never been this late before so who knows. And this year we started school before Labor Day which we have never done before but since Labor Day was so late they did make that change. School calendar for nextyear won't be out til mid summer . One thing I did notice was that the week before Easter had better rates!!!

 

[jilljill]

I'm thinking that same thing will happen to alot of folks next year because Easter is so late. My kids are in Catholic school and we always have off beginning with Good Friday and going thru the week after Easter. But Easter has never been this late before so who knows. And this year we started school before Labor Day which we have never done before but since Labor Day was so late they did make that change. School calendar for nextyear won't be out til mid summer . One thing I did notice was that the week before Easter had better rates!!!

Our school calendar isn't released until August, but I emailed DD's guidance counselor yesterday to ask and she said they just received the calendar last week or so and the kids are off the week of 4/17.
The rates are so much better for that sailing, I booked a cat. 4D and it's cheaper than the cat. 8D we have booked for this cruise. I'm sure it would have been even cheaper if I had booked it on day 1 like I had this one, but I'm still happy with the rate. A lot of categories are sold out for that sailing already, and I had a hard time finding a non-connecting cabin in a category that I wanted. I really wanted another cat. 8D but they are sold out along with the 8B and 8C, and cat. 8A is in GTY status.

 

[esbrick]

Looks like we have to cancel this cruise if DD's school calendar stays the same as the way I learned it yesterday. She has always had off the week after Easter, well I guess since Easter is so late in April they decided to change their week off to the week before Easter. Yesterday I made a ressie on the 4/17 sailing, but I'm not cancelling this one until I get the final school calendar in August.
Actually I won't be cancelling that ressie since it was made onboard and I got the discount and OBC so I'll move it to 2012 for either the Dream or the Fantasy, whichever ship is doing the 7 day sailings.

You can also do the same thing and reschedule for the 4/17 sailing. Infact I'm a little nervous about this now and I think i am going to email DSD's principal and see if they have thought of any plans. I will need to change 2 reservations so I would rather take care of this now.

 

[jilljill]

You can also do the same thing and reschedule for the 4/17 sailing. Infact I'm a little nervous about this now and I think i am going to email DSD's principal and see if they have thought of any plans. I will need to change 2 reservations so I would rather take care of this now.

Both my ressies are booked with the onboard 10% and OBC so I'll just move the one we don't use out to 2012.
Cabins are pretty limited for the 4/17 sailing, but it is a lot cheaper. I was able to book a cat. 4D and it's cheaper than the cat. 8D for this sailing.

Good luck with getting the school info.

 

[esbrick]

Wow so I am glad that I emailed the Vice Principal! Turns out they have changed our spring break by a whole MONTH!!!! Looks like we are going to be on the March 27th sailing now! I'm kinda disappointed that we didn't have the week before break. That would have made more sence in my mind! Thanks for the heads up! We did save some money on this change too which is always good! More Disney Dollars!

 

[jilljill]

Wow so I am glad that I emailed the Vice Principal! Turns out they have changed our spring break by a whole MONTH!!!! Looks like we are going to be on the March 27th sailing now! I'm kinda disappointed that we didn't have the week before break. That would have made more sence in my mind! Thanks for the heads up! We did save some money on this change too which is always good! More Disney Dollars!

You are welcome. I'm glad you were also able to save money as well.
Looks like the Easter sailing is going to get less and less empty as people get school schedules.