6/7/11 - It's a double dip DREAM!

[tchrrx]

We are staying at the Radisson Sunday and Monday night prior. I would be glad to head up the FE list.

Yeah! Thank you so much. I would have volunteered, but since this is my first cruise, I really feel like I have information overload. I think this is going to be fun! Thanks again!

 

[smsnorthup]

We are staying at the Radisson Sunday and Monday night prior. I would be glad to head up the FE list.

Thanks for offering to head up the list! Please let me know if you are going to do a kids only or kids/adults. We will definitely be in if it's just for kids.

 

[kellyb2000]

I've got a confession...I have always saw these threads talking about FE exchanges and I always thought "seriously???" My thoughts were, of all the things going on on the ship and wanting to savor every moment of it with your family, how in the world do you find the time to prance around finding all the different staterooms to hand out gifts?
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BUT - I just spent the better part of my afternoon looking through the "homemade FE gifts thread" and dang it if it doesn't look like a lot of fun! I would consider myself pretty crafty, and looking at all the stuff these DISers have made makes me want shout COUNT ME IN!

We are staying at the Radisson Sunday and Monday night prior. I would be glad to head up the FE list.

I'm about 99% sure we'll be at the Radisson at least Monday night before.

 

[smsnorthup]

I've got a confession...I have always saw these threads talking about FE exchanges and I always thought "seriously???" My thoughts were, of all the things going on on the ship and wanting to savor every moment of it with your family, how in the world do you find the time to prance around finding all the different staterooms to hand out gifts?
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BUT - I just spent the better part of my afternoon looking through the "homemade FE gifts thread" and dang it if it doesn't look like a lot of fun! I would consider myself pretty crafty, and looking at all the stuff these DISers have made makes me want shout COUNT ME IN!






I'm about 99% sure we'll be at the Radisson at least Monday night before.

I thought the same thing too before I actually participated in one. We only did gifts for kids and I only did one drop with the goodies...not everyday. My dd went with me to find the rooms and had a blast sneaking them in the FE's so no one would see. We only did a 3 night cruise so I'm not sure what we'll do for a 5 night.

 

[udflyer00]

It's been awhile since i've posted on our thread... We'll be staying at OKW 3 days prior to the Cruise trying to get some of the parks in!! With a family of 6, flying is out of the question, so I think we're going to try and hit HHI on the way home for a few nights...

But I really wanted to ask about the "FE exchange"? This is something that I'm not familiar with, what is needed to participate? If someone can explain or point me to a good thread I'd love to learn more about this...

Mark

 

[kellyb2000]

this is the thread I was looking at that got me all excited... http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1980639

Lots of good info on FE exchanges. I know there are a ton of other threads, but that's just the one I read.

 

[miker1251]

Granddaughter Delilah

 

[kellyb2000]

Awwww! Is that not the sweetest thing???? She's precious!

 

[luv2boys]

The FE is a lot of fun, and all you really need is a bag of some sort for people to drop off your gifts, and of course gifts for others. Last year was our first year, and we loved it. My kids are 14 and 11 and they had a blast finding things when they would return to their room and also taking gifts to others. We did gifts for everyone and only one gift per person per stateroom. Some people do a gift every day for every stateroom, which on a 5 day may be too much. We can decide as time gets closer and more people get signed up on this board as to how we want to do it. Kids only, everyone, one gift from each person per stateroom, etc.

 

[tchrrx]

Definitely count us in for the FE. It will be myself, DH, and DD11.

 

[kellyb2000]

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/07/starting-the-disney-dream-engines/

 

[mrp4352]

Saturday night, we got together with my brother's family and celebrated 300 days until we leave home on the drive to Orlando for our pre-cruise stay!!

 

[kellyb2000]

Saturday night, we got together with my brother's family and celebrated 300 days until we leave home on the drive to Orlando for our pre-cruise stay!!

what a fun bunch! There's always a reason to celebrate and that is for sure a fine excuse!

 

[bigedwin]

Hello

Thanks so Much to LUV2BOYS for offering to head the FE.

We participated on our last Disney Cruise and we all had a grest time with it.
We started early working on our Small gifts and had a lot of fun both receiving and giving on the ship.

We have a A group of about 12 so far for this sailing.
So we will forward the Information later on.

THANKS again for Voluntering to keep track of the FE List!!!

 

[dbarker]

Waiting to hear from TA......................

We are changing from the 4-night June 3, 2011 in order to take advantage of Free Dining the week before our cruise.

Will let you know, when we are confirmed.

 

[lenshanem]

Hi everyone. It has been awhile since I posted. It is hard for me to think about the cruise since it is a surprise and I haven't told anyone.

Looks like there are a couple other cruisers from my area going! We're neighbors nextcruz and saratogashan!

We sure do have a big group going here. Is our sailing sold out yet?

The Radisson is the hotel across the street from McDonald's, yes? We stayed there last cruise and we got in with a group on another cruise forum that had set up a group discount. I wonder if we're a large enough group to do that here? Has everyone already booked their hotel for the night before? I hadn't even thought about it until now...

Thanks luv2boys for heading up the FE. We have never done that so I'm gonna go over and look at that thread kellyb2000 posted.

Any other people sailing with tweens?
4newtocruise, I really haven't found much info about The Edge, yet. I'm a little nervous to be honest. I wish my daughters were together. First cruise they were separated and it was really hard. Second cruise they were in the same group and it made things so much easier. This time my 13 year old will be in the new tween group. I think they pretty much come and go as they please and it looks small, I hope they have alot of activities going on in there. Do people feel safe letting their tweens walk around the boat all by themselves? I'm like Marlin from Nemo, totally overprotective. How did you communicate and find each other?

 

[mwc5858]

Sailing with a tween. Also another family is going us and their DD is also a tween. I too am nervous about letting them have free roam. I guess there will have to be a firm set of rules before we leave. I would love to hear more information as the time gets closer.

 

[dbarker]

We have a tween. Our characters are: Me, DH and DS12 (at time of cruise).

 

[kellyb2000]

We stayed there last cruise and we got in with a group on another cruise forum that had set up a group discount. I wonder if we're a large enough group to do that here?

Very interesting! I would definitely be in with that group should we have enough. I wonder how many rooms you have to book to be considered a "group". (and yes, it is the one across the street from McD's)

 

[dbarker]

Hi all!

We are definitely in We will be in room #7090. And we will definitely be participating in the FE.

BTW, this is our first cruise ever.

Characters:

Me
DH
DS12 (age @ sailing)