7/13/2016 Magic Copenhagen to Dover Geothermal Cruise

[angelinaxox]

I have been watching this thread from the beginning but since we were not 100% when we first booked it I forgot to actually join the roll call. Here it is now:

Name: DIS name: Jasrhon First name: Rhonda and DH (Jason)
Family: DD: Zara (turns 16 in June), DS: Kieran (turns 8 in May)
Home town: Vancouver, BC Canada
Something: Like Mom of a *Princess* I did go to Disney as a child. My first Disney trip was on my Honeymoon just after I turned 24. Also, like Mom of a *Princess* I have more than made up for it since.
This will also be our 3rd cruise with thestewarts and our DDs are looking forward to meeting up again. Send me a PM if you have a teen wanting to connect before we sail.
How many DCL cruises: This will be number 13 for me, number 12 for my DH and DD and number 9 for our DS (I went on a girls only cruise in January with friends I met on DCL and had so much fun!). In all of our cruises we have never done the same itinerary on the same ship.

Welcome to our group!

 

[Cliffside]

I have been watching this thread from the beginning but since we were not 100% when we first booked it I forgot to actually join the roll call. Here it is now:

Name: DIS name: Jasrhon First name: Rhonda and DH (Jason)
Family: DD: Zara (turns 16 in June), DS: Kieran (turns 8 in May)
Home town: Vancouver, BC Canada
Something: Like Mom of a *Princess* I did go to Disney as a child. My first Disney trip was on my Honeymoon just after I turned 24. Also, like Mom of a *Princess* I have more than made up for it since.
This will also be our 3rd cruise with thestewarts and our DDs are looking forward to meeting up again. Send me a PM if you have a teen wanting to connect before we sail.
How many DCL cruises: This will be number 13 for me, number 12 for my DH and DD and number 9 for our DS (I went on a girls only cruise in January with friends I met on DCL and had so much fun!). In all of our cruises we have never done the same itinerary on the same ship.

Welcome

Glad to see a familiar name from the Baltics.

We also were not sure at first if we were going to be able to go on the cruise. I'm so glad we are going to be able to sail.

 

[Jasrhon]

Welcome

Glad to see a familiar name from the Baltics.

We also were not sure at first if we were going to be able to go on the cruise. I'm so glad we are going to be able to sail.

Yes, it will be nice to see you and your family again. It looks like the teen group will be happy too!

 

[bravecub]

I have been watching this thread from the beginning but since we were not 100% when we first booked it I forgot to actually join the roll call. Here it is now:

Name: DIS name: Jasrhon First name: Rhonda and DH (Jason)
Family: DD: Zara (turns 16 in June), DS: Kieran (turns 8 in May)
Home town: Vancouver, BC Canada
Something: Like Mom of a *Princess* I did go to Disney as a child. My first Disney trip was on my Honeymoon just after I turned 24. Also, like Mom of a *Princess* I have more than made up for it since.
This will also be our 3rd cruise with thestewarts and our DDs are looking forward to meeting up again. Send me a PM if you have a teen wanting to connect before we sail.
How many DCL cruises: This will be number 13 for me, number 12 for my DH and DD and number 9 for our DS (I went on a girls only cruise in January with friends I met on DCL and had so much fun!). In all of our cruises we have never done the same itinerary on the same ship.

Welcome!

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

 

[luckylady131]

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Cruise map by ANDREW PORTER, on Flickr

7/13/2016 Disney Magic cruise 12 nights from Copenhagen to Dover via
Norway, Iceland and Scotland, Geothermal Cruise.

Becky Lollar called DCL and was able to get the schedule for each night:

7/13: Copenhagen, Denmark: Casual
7/14: Oslo, Norway: Formal Night
7/15: Kristiansand, Norway: Casual
7/16: Bergen, Norway: Casual
7/17: at sea: Casual
7/18: Akureyri, Iceland: Casual
7/19: Reykjavik, Iceland: Casual
7/20: Reykjavik, Iceland: Casual
7/21: at sea: Casual
7/22: Kirkwall, Scotland: Frozen Night
7/23: Invergordon, Scotland: Semi-Formal Night
7/24: at Sea: Casual

Rotations.

1/ LACLACLACLAC
2/ ACLACLACLACL
3/CLACLACLACLA

Animators show. (3) First visit, (1/2) Second visit.
Animators animation magic. Last visit.

Cruise ports of call by ANDREW PORTER, on Flickr

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A great planning thread. http://www.disboards.com/threads/norway-cruise-iceland-copenhagen-dover-tips-consolidated.3254799/

On post 5 there are extracts from the above thread and with thanks to them.

DCL Destination guide0002 by ANDREW PORTER, on Flickr


Copenhagen Port Terminal
Address
Port of Copenhagen
Ocean Quay (Oceankaj)
100 Osterbro
Pier No: 330–334
Copenhagen, Denmark




If everyone can post the following I will cut and past in in this first post as a roll call.

Name Disboards name and first name.
Family first names and ages for children.
Home town city.
Something about you.
How many DCL cruises.


ROLL CALL.

Name Disboards name and first name. DISNEY FANTASY ANDREW
Family first names and ages for children. With wife Susan and Stephen 17
Home town city. London England
Something about you. We are a family of four but our daughter is at Uni and not coming, we are on the Magic 7/22 this year to the Baltic for 12 nights.
How many DCL cruises. This will be 13.

Name Disboards name and first name. DISGRL13 - Jill
Family first names and ages for children. Chaz, Jill and Nick(16)
Home town city. Virginia USA
Something about you. We love Disney Cruises did the 12 day Med cruise in 2014 and loved it. (We were with you DISNEY FANTASY )
How many DCL cruises. This will be our 8th Disney Cruise.

Name michele3572, Michele
Family Ariel (17), Thomas (14), Esther (11), Zachary (9), Isleigh (6), Scarlett (4)
Home town Toronto, ON
Something wanted to book this for 2015 but it sold out, stomaching the sticker shock of this year's opening day prices
How many DCL cruises This will be cruise #4 for us. We've done the Bahamas on the Wonder (2013), Alaska on the Wonder (2014) and Fantasy Eastern Caribbean in November of this year


Thanks so much for starting this thread!!
Name Disboards name: MrsG and first name:Maryann
Family: Travelling with DH Tom
Home town : Long Island, NY
Something about you: I'm a teacher who loves to travel!
How many DCL cruises: This will be #9

Name: Bravecub, Kim
Family: DH Ron, DD Sophia(12 at emb.)
Hometown: Saranac Lake NY
Something: Five time WDW visitors...but never cruised before!
So, we might as well start with the best


The Stewart's

OK, we'll we add to the party. We are booked and set to sail. We're from Sunny (lol) Scotland so it'll be a little strange to have two ports in our own country. If anyone is looking for information on Kirkwall or Invergordon let us know and we'll see what we can find out.

DISBOARD Name: RRBB Name: Robin
Family: David (DH), Ian (DS-11), Sophia (DD-9)
Home town city: Dallas, TX, USA
Something about you: I love to scrapbook, DH is a computer geek, DS has been our Relay for Life team captain since he was 6 years old - raising money and awareness for the American Cancer Society, DD started walking on the Disney Wonder when we did a 15-day through the Panama Canal
How many DCL cruises: This will be #12 - kids don't know about it yet, we're waiting until after this summer is over to tell them


TeamBalaton,We are Team Balaton from California, MD. I am Eileen and my husband Ed. We have a 15 year old son Michael and a 13 year old daughter Christina. Michael will turn 16 on the cruise. This will be our 4th Disney Cruise. We just came off the Magic in April cruising the Caribbean. Looking forward to this exciting adventure.

Hi all! We are confirmed since booking opened and just decided to look for a cruise meet! So excited!
Name Disboards name: NYKaren and first name:Karen
Family: Traveling with DH Greg and DS Tyler (15 at cruise time)
Home town : Staten Island, NY
Something about you: New Yorkers and this is our first trip to Europe!
How many DCL cruises: This will be #3 (NYC to Halifax, Alaska were previous cruises)

Booked!!!!
Name: sherry66,sherry
Family: travelling with my DH Jim
Hometown: CBS,Newfoundland,Canada
Something: This will be our first trip to Europe! We will be celebrating our 25th anniversary.
How many DCL cruises: This will be our 4th cruise. We've done the Fantasy western Caribbean(2012) Alaska on the Wonder(2013)Bahamas on the Dream(2014)

Name: Mom of a *Princess*, Barbara
Family: Brent (DH), Matthew (10) and Alicia (8)
Hometown: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Something: I was Disney deprived as a child. My first visit to a Disney park was when I was 22. Making up for it now with all things Disney!
How many DCL cruises: This will be our 4th cruise. We've done the Fantasy Eastern Caribbean (2014), Magic Western Caribbean (2015) and doing Alaska on the Wonder at the end of July 2015.

Name mfams, Michelle
Family Joey(DH), Cooper(DS, 12) and Gabbi (DD, 10)
Home town Nashville, NC (east of Raleigh, NC)
Something Our family loves to travel. We've done Alaska, Mediterranean w/Greek Isles & Northern European Baltic!!!
How many DCL cruises. This will be #4 in 4 years!!

Just booked while on the Baltic cruise this week and as an Andrew (DISNEY FANTASY) stalker I just do the cruises he signs up for so that I don't need to do my own research.

Name 3bubs, Shareen
Family Nick(DH), Emily (DD10) Hugo(DS8) and Harry (DS, 2)
Home town Me New Zealand, DH Australia but we live in Hong Kong
Something Alaska 2013 Mediterranean 2014, Northern Europe 2015. We usually book really late (at extortionate rates and guaranty staterooms several decks apart!) so booking onboard and this early is a nice change for us!
How many DCL cruises. This will be #4.

DISGRL13 - I remember meeting you on the Med. We were in the same FE and I think your son was celebrating his birthday?

MFAMS we were in the same FE group for the Baltic cruise!

I see I haven't replied yet. We're also booked.
Name fitnessmouse (Ilja)
family DH (Eelco), DS Twan (13), DD Demi (10)
Hometown Schiedam Netherlands
Dcl #6 (did our first non dcl this year ~ NCL to Hawaii)


Name: ladybugmom, Becky
Family: Ally (11) & Claire (8)
Hometown: Greenwood, Indiana
Something: My hubby is unable to travel with us this time so my parents are traveling with us. This will be their 1st Disney Cruise and will be celebrating their 45th anniversary!
How many DCL cruises: This will be cruise #7 for us. We've sailed on the Fantasy 3 times (will be 4 for Spring Break--Star Wars cruise), once on the Dream, and once on the Magic last Spring Break.


Name lynandandy/ Linda
Family DH Andy/ My parents Robert and Frances are traveling with us on this cruise
Home town Totowa, NJ
Something Love to travel and this is our first time in Europe
How many DCL cruises. This is our 6th Disney Cruise

momma4v3, Hi Everyone!
We have booked this exciting cruise. Only 284 days until this cruise leaves! Iceland has always been on our to do list and doubly excited to see it on the Magic! We are: myself, hubby, 3 daughters Vanessa,18,Victoria,19 and Veronica 20. Also friends of ours are cruising as well. They are a family of 3. We (the 5 of us) will be starting our vacation in Paris and driving up to Copenhagen, visiting places we missed on earlier travels. And then we are staying in England for a few days after the cruise. Hubby is going to brave driving on the left side while in England!

Name dakridge/David
Family We're a family of three including me, my husband Eric and our son Max (12)
Home town Washington, DC
Something We're huge Disney fans, DVC members, etc. Max loves pin trading and will have his collection on board.
This will be our fourth DCL cruise, all on the Magic! One 7-day in Caribbean (2008), 12-day Med/Italy (2013 pre-refurb), and 12-day Greece (2014).


Please add us to the list we will be arriving from Australia and had lots of fun with fish extenders this year on the wonder to Hawaii
Name Erin dis board name aussiecruiser
Number of people 3
Email em_rooke@tpg.com.au
Number of disney cruises 5
Hometown Sydney Australia

Mum to a princess, Hi we are also booked !!

Family of 3, my husband and i and our 5, going to be 6 before cruise, year old daughter!

This is our 2nd Disney cruise and we will like to take part of the fish extender exchange but have no idea how to do that- can anyone please help??
Welcome.

Disboard Name: MEB51 (Marie)
My Husband Steve and I are the only ones in the family sailing this year
Both of us are college professors who like to travel in the summer.
Hometown: Starkville, MS
This is my 9th DCL cruise (first one without kids)

Disboard name: TravelingGirl (Heather)
Family: Emily (sister)
Hometown: Hemet, CA
Something about you: I'm traveling with my sister--we are both special education teachers who love to travel and this will be our first time traveling outside North America.
How many DCL cruises: This will be #1.


Disboard name: Goofydisneyfan - Ute
Family: Renate - my mother, Celina (19) and Denise (17) - my daughters
Hometown: Düsseldorf , Germany
Something about you: Thought about this cruise since booking opened but it doesn`t fix with my husbands holiday. Now we decided to do this cruise as a present for my mums 70 birthday, at this time neither my mum nor my daughters know about going on this cruise. My poor husband has to work but we will do another Disney Magic cruise out of New York in October together with him.
How many DCL cruises: This will be the 6th., 2011+2013 Med, 2012 Alaska, 2014 Bahamas, 2015 Baltic ( The 3rd for my mum, she was on one med and baltic with us ).
Besides this we have done two short cruises from Germany to Norway, Oslo in 2014 and 2015.

I guess it's about time I joined the roll call. We had booked on opening day but it wasn't until recently that we figured out if we could go.

Disboard Name: Cliffside- Susan
Family: DH -Rick DD Shari (16)
Hometown: Livingston, New Jersey
Something about you: I am a DVC member (home resorts are Beach Club and Bay Lake)
Also should of known when I took a class my senior year at college on Disney that I would become a life long Disney fanatic.
How many DCL cruises: This will be my 15th. Favorites include inaugural Venice sailing, maiden voyage on Fantasy, Alaska and Baltics last summer.

Name: DIS name: Jasrhon First name: (Rhonda) and DH (Jason)
Family: DD: Zara (turns 16 in June), DS: Kieran (turns 8 in May)
Home town: Vancouver, BC Canada
Something: Like Mom of a *Princess* I did go to Disney as a child. My first Disney trip was on my Honeymoon just after I turned 24. Also, like Mom of a *Princess* I have more than made up for it since.
This will also be our 3rd cruise with thestewarts and our DDs are looking forward to meeting up again. Send me a PM if you have a teen wanting to connect before we sail.
How many DCL cruises: This will be number 13 for me, number 12 for my DH and DD and number 8 for our DS (I went on a girls only cruise in January with friends I met on DCL and had so much fun!). In all of our cruises we have never done the same itinerary on the same ship.

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We booked this cruise back in December, but am just now getting around researching everything for it! I forgot how all-consuming Disney trips can be!!
Name Luckylady131, My name is Laura
Family Brett, Laura, Audrey (10), and Tessa (6)
Home town Houston, Texas, but currently living in Breda, Netherlands
Something about you: We moved to the Netherlands this past summer, and will be here for 3 years on an expat assignment. We are trying to see as much of Europe as we can while we are here. So far we've explored the Netherlands, Cologne, Germany, Antwerp, Belgium, Paris, France, and Barcelona, Spain. Can't wait to see these new countries this summer!
This is our first Disney cruise. We have been on a couple of other cruises throughout the years. Been to WDW once about 6 years ago.

 

[angelinaxox]

We booked this cruise back in December, but am just now getting around researching everything for it! I forgot how all-consuming Disney trips can be!!
Name Luckylady131, My name is Laura
Family Brett, Laura, Audrey (10), and Tessa (6)
Home town Houston, Texas, but currently living in Breda, Netherlands
Something about you: We moved to the Netherlands this past summer, and will be here for 3 years on an expat assignment. We are trying to see as much of Europe as we can while we are here. So far we've explored the Netherlands, Cologne, Germany, Antwerp, Belgium, Paris, France, and Barcelona, Spain. Can't wait to see these new countries this summer!
This is our first Disney cruise. We have been on a couple of other cruises throughout the years. Been to WDW once about 6 years ago.

Welcome to our group! Your names Brett and Laura make me smile, as I have a nephew Brett who is getting married to a Laura in June.

Have fun with your planning! I still haven't made up my mind completely as to what to do in some of the ports.

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

We booked this cruise back in December, but am just now getting around researching everything for it! I forgot how all-consuming Disney trips can be!!
Name Luckylady131, My name is Laura
Family Brett, Laura, Audrey (10), and Tessa (6)
Home town Houston, Texas, but currently living in Breda, Netherlands
Something about you: We moved to the Netherlands this past summer, and will be here for 3 years on an expat assignment. We are trying to see as much of Europe as we can while we are here. So far we've explored the Netherlands, Cologne, Germany, Antwerp, Belgium, Paris, France, and Barcelona, Spain. Can't wait to see these new countries this summer!
This is our first Disney cruise. We have been on a couple of other cruises throughout the years. Been to WDW once about 6 years ago.

Welcome again.

 

[Cliffside]

We booked this cruise back in December, but am just now getting around researching everything for it! I forgot how all-consuming Disney trips can be!!
Name Luckylady131, My name is Laura
Family Brett, Laura, Audrey (10), and Tessa (6)
Home town Houston, Texas, but currently living in Breda, Netherlands
Something about you: We moved to the Netherlands this past summer, and will be here for 3 years on an expat assignment. We are trying to see as much of Europe as we can while we are here. So far we've explored the Netherlands, Cologne, Germany, Antwerp, Belgium, Paris, France, and Barcelona, Spain. Can't wait to see these new countries this summer!
This is our first Disney cruise. We have been on a couple of other cruises throughout the years. Been to WDW once about 6 years ago.

Welcome

 

[Goofydisneyfan]

We booked this cruise back in December, but am just now getting around researching everything for it! I forgot how all-consuming Disney trips can be!!
Name Luckylady131, My name is Laura
Family Brett, Laura, Audrey (10), and Tessa (6)
Home town Houston, Texas, but currently living in Breda, Netherlands
Something about you: We moved to the Netherlands this past summer, and will be here for 3 years on an expat assignment. We are trying to see as much of Europe as we can while we are here. So far we've explored the Netherlands, Cologne, Germany, Antwerp, Belgium, Paris, France, and Barcelona, Spain. Can't wait to see these new countries this summer!
This is our first Disney cruise. We have been on a couple of other cruises throughout the years. Been to WDW once about 6 years ago.

Welcome to the group !
We are from Düsseldorf - near Cologne, come and visit - I am sure you will like it, special the old town.

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

Thursday 24th March.

110 days pre cruise..

Just five days before GOLD can book.

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

 

[Cliffside]

Thursday 24th March.

110 days pre cruise..

Just five days before GOLD can book.

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Good luck to those gold members booking....heading on the Magic tomorrow

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

Good luck to those gold members booking....heading on the Magic tomorrow

Yes good luck to GOLD cruisers booking on Wednesday morning, and Cliffside, enjoy your cruise.

 

[angelinaxox]

Good luck to those gold members booking....heading on the Magic tomorrow

Enjoy your cruise! I am on the cruise right after you.

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

Enjoy your cruise! I am on the cruise right after you.

Enjoy that one!

 

[angelinaxox]

Enjoy that one!

Thanks! So looking forwards to it.

 

[Goofydisneyfan]

 

[Goofydisneyfan]

Thanks Cliffside and enjoy your cruise .

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

The Gold 105 days ALERT.

Launching this as just three days to go, and we are getting many questions.

So who is booking? What you after?

Whilst many here are seasoned cruisers we are coming up to some important dates, so let's have a recap.

Note the DCL website has been upgraded and things will be different to what you booked in 2015.

Gold Booking ( 5/10 cruises with DCL) online for actives will open for the 105 days mark,on Wednesday 30th, you should also now be paid in full.

The Wednesday window relates to Gold, (platinum and concierge already have had theirs released), if one or more Gold cruisers are in your stateroom you will be classed as Gold , but if travelling with another stateroom that's Silver you can't book together until 90 days.

The next booking Windows will open up at ,90 days mark, for Silver ( 1+ cruises) to be followed by 75 days, new to DCL cruisers.

You may have booked on DCL many times before but the website has changed and you have to make decisions fast.

Check in online starts at 00.00, thats Eastern USA time and thats 5am UK time. The U.K. swaps on Easter Sunday at 1am moving to BST from GMT currently the time difference has just been four hours.

Do not log into your reservation until 00.00.

You can log into your DCL profile before 00.00.

The best route is via Castaway club just before 00.00 -if your registered and then go to’ view my cruises’.

Just before 00.00 hit this cruise reservation, on the right hand side and also then click ‘my activities' then after that, my online check in’ right hand side.

Now be sitting on the my online check in page at 00.00 and the moment your internet clock says 00.00 or 05.00 UK, click, my cruise activities.

You can try this a few times in advance the screen will come up but you will not have the toggles for booking.

Note only one person can log in per stateroom, if two log in it will freeze!

Now the best route is to have a plan in advance. Have a plan A, plan B and plan C agreed with the family if your desired activities go. Each day of the cruise is shown go to the day you want to do something, click add activity on that screen and then options come up for adult dinning, port adventures, spa, and even my onboard fun for the BBB on the Magic, just added recently. I have known new port adventures to show up they haven't been advertised on the site before, and care due to our port times dome long trips may not be available.

Brunch will go quickly at Palo, two days now have some slots gone, Dinner on sea days will go fast, Any shore trip with animals ( horses) will go fast. .

You can search adult dinning and spa from the main landing page without selecting a date if the day you prefer isn’t available.

Now when you select something, add all the names you have in your party, click check availability times should come up, select one, and confirm, now it goes to a shopping cart, my advice to you is to confirm that on the top right hand side before you move on to book the next thing.

The DCL site often boots you out and if you do this anything you have confirmed from your shopping cart will be safe, if you get booted out and haven’t confirmed, it will be lost.

I think first sea day Brunch will go fast, then second sea day, and Palo midweek say Frozen night will go fast, or movie night will go fast, my guess Iceland overnight, night, when there is not a show. Spa goes on formal nights.

If you have logged a email a reservation will email to you for every confirmed item.

To be on the safe side you can email all of your activities to yourself at the end and I would store them as DCLs website does strange things.

Online check in starts at 00.00 Eastern or ( normally ) 5am UK, but in the past for me sometimes it wasn’t up until late afternoon. This includes your port arrival time and its best to book this asap, unless you are on DCL bus transfers. Platinum and concierge didn't need a PAT. They will start later times than port Canaveral, I guess 11 am, and embarkation will be from 11.30 am.

You need your passports and travel information, flights and credit card for this process; you will need to print out a document at the end with a bar code for port arrival. Ensure printer has ink.

If you have more than one reservation with DCL do not look at the other reservation before this, but log out and clear cookies.

Note if unlucky on Palo booking online, about 45% of slots are held back for reservations on embarkation.