7/18/2010 Mickey's Baltic Ballyhoo!!

[Friend_of_Piglet]

Disname Friend_of_piglet
First name ( of main poster) Sooz (Susie really)Hobbies Disney,Travel, Tv addicted. I'm a Disney Castmemeber. I have been for nearly 8 years.I don't work in the parks though. I'm really shy( hence the piglet name)
Family with you
DPARENTS-Carl (retired), Alicia (retired)

Location.We live in Los Angeles.
We wanted the same cabin we in on the eastern repo. which we got. Cat 6 6620

 

[jilljill]

Thanks for Barb for all the web links she's been sending me. I've now added them to the info post.

You are welcome. I told you I could come up with a bunch of websites for info.

 

[cruisin'Mike]

Serious planning question:

What seating is everyone choosing for dining?

We've always done early with the kids, and it worked out well for us. But knowing that this is a port intensive itinerary, I don't want to worry about rushing back onto the ship and rushing to get ready for dinner. So we're thinking about maybe switching to late dining for a change. Any advice?

 

[jilljill]

I was just goofing around, trying to "viking-ize" the small world picture. What do you think so far? I'll clean it up, add some landmarks, maybe some oars, make sure the fonts are the same, and there you have it---door magnets!

Love this one too!

 

[jilljill]

Disname jilljill
First name ( of main poster) Barb
Hobbies Disney Travel, & former CM of 8½ yrs
Family with you
DH Jay
DD Alexa, will be 16 when we cruise
My brother, sis in law, and nephew (who will turn 15 on the cruise)

Location.Where you live Newark, DE
Cat number if assigned. 7620, cat. 7 aft after calling TA back to have original assigned cabin changed

We have done 6 DCL cruises with one more booked for 6/09. This will be my brother and family's first DCL cruise.

We just did a Baltics cruise this past July. So all stops except for Oslo and Stockholm will be repeats for us. We obviously liked the Baltics or we wouldn't be booking another one so soon.

 

[jilljill]

Serious planning question:

What seating is everyone choosing for dining?

We've always done early with the kids, and it worked out well for us. But knowing that this is a port intensive itinerary, I don't want to worry about rushing back onto the ship and rushing to get ready for dinner. So we're thinking about maybe switching to late dining for a change. Any advice?

We always chose 2nd seating. On our Carnival Baltics cruise this past July, they had open seating several nights when we were in port late.
Why don't you look over the times for all aboard and see if there's a need for you to rush to get ready for main seating? But you also have to remember that most of us will be all confused with the time differences, 5 hours from east coast US to England and then there are 3 time changes on the way up to St. Petersburg and 3 on the way back.
This info will either help you or make you more confused. But it will give you some facts to help you base your decision.

 

[jilljill]

We are onboard too. I'm so excited.
Now it's time to decide what's cheaper...eggs or mac & cheese. The good thing is that on this diet I'll look really good by 2010.

Mac & cheese is cheaper - you can have mac one day and cheese the next.

 

[jlawall]

Great idea Mike!

How about Magical Nights In The Northern Lights

I'm feeling something here....

Northern Nights + Summer Nights = Mickey's Baltic Nights?
Maybe have the date under Baltic Nights: : "7.18.2010"

or

Summer Nights + Northern Lights = Russian Summer Nights with Mickey?

or

Summer Night + Northern Night = To Russia with Mouse?



you know - there's a joke in here somewhere - maybe: What do you get when you cross Mickey with Summer Nights + Northern Lights + Baltic Sea?

Why you get Mickey's Russian Summer Nights!

Can't help myself - I crack myself up!

OK folks, I'll stop now.


Can you all see I'm trying to get that Mouse part in?


JoAnn - please apologize to Tara for me - I'm just talking out loud (and to myself here)

Laura, Good for you I think you absolutely did the right thing, just being true to the DIS way of doing things.

That being said I think we should go on with our brain storming sessions and come up with whatever name we want and then as you said we can tweak it so that it's different to theirs. Both cruises seem to be liking the same ones and each cruise can only pick one so, as there seem to be two names that are standing out To Russia With Mouse and Northern Nights and Magical/Disney Delights I think we'll be just fine. We can still use the Small world based logo with whichever name we finally go for.

Don't apologize, let's keep working until we come up with a great logo and slogan. Tara has no idea, I'm just using her if we need her.

If we use MAGICal Nights in the Northern Lights.....let's highlight the MAGIC in the slogan! I like this idea too!

 

[jlawall]

What you still doing up Laura.....isn't it really , really late over there ?

I'm at work already and counting down the time till I hear, hopefully from my TA

Hey there - I was trolling the other sites. Yes its midnight here. Been having trouble sleeping so the insomnia has hit right on target. I'm nervous seeing as we have several trips "tentatively" scheduled. Not sure if we can do them all but I hope to at least do two. I'm biting my nails as it is. I can't imagine what my stomach would feel like if I was doing the booking. SIGH!

I decided that I would like to settle for a cat 10 or 9 if I have too. Seeing as this is a port intensive cruise plus extended day times - DH would like it at least 1/2 way dark so he can get to bed. If we get a cat 10 that would be an inside with no windows so he'll be asleep in no time.

But as you know - God laughs when we make plans. Or is that Mother Nature? Either way, I am holding my breath until the chips land. And if for some crazy reason I'm allowed to do both, I may be eating "beans on toast" for the next 18+ months (but no fear - I love pinto beans! )

OMG !!!! Could you imagine being a TA with all those families holiday hopes and wishes resting on your shoulders and speed dial button ????

Nope not until now! The only way I could be a TA was if I had 6 computers with 6 phone lines going and I could clone myself 7 times to go around. THis control freak would literally freak if I had a crying child call me and ask - Why didn't you book me?

BTW, my legs, fingers and eyes are getting tired of being crossed. I wonder if I uncross them if the luck will fly away?

Ooops, there goes my brain. Excuse me while I run off to catch it.

Gotta go on a potty break but my dime is on Andrew that he gets confirmation first. Any ideas who will post first?

All Right - suddenly I got tired. So good night Izzie, good luck. Keep track of who posts first. (Lord please don't let it be Andrew, Please don't let it be Andrew) No offense Andrew! You know we wouldn't pick on you if we didn't like you!

Later Gators, won't be on until Tuesday night - April's got a volleyball game at home so it will be a late nighter for us.

Night Night!

Night Night, sweet dreams don't let the booking monsters keep you awake

When you say book the Dover repo do you mean as a B2B with this cruise ??

You guys crack me up, I couldn't sleep either last night and then I waited all day to hear from my TA!

 

[jlawall]

Them's fightin' words. (But the Dodgers only need to come back and win 3 since they actually won a game on Sunday ) I see a Phils' win tomorrow night and then onto the World Series .

me2!

 

[jlawall]

I'm not even thinking about the cost of this trip at the moment....I'm being a ostrich and just burying my head in the sand and then I'll deal with it in 18 months.......hopfully by then financially things will be better

I hear ya, Iz!

 

[jlawall]

JoAnn,

Did you hear yet? What about you, Sallie?

I'm in, more info to follow......just catching up on all the posts!!

 

[jlawall]

Thanks! The quote was on a handmade bookmark that one of our friends on our last cruise gave to us. I just love the saying.



We did cat 10's too, instead of a cat 6 and 11 like the last cruise. It was that or not go, so i think we chose wisely.

I was just goofing around, trying to "viking-ize" the small world picture. What do you think so far? I'll clean it up, add some landmarks, maybe some oars, make sure the fonts are the same, and there you have it---door magnets!

Ok, so darn cute....loving it!!

 

[jlawall]

Ok, since last night.......I had to read 150 + posts!!!


jlawall JoAnn - teacher (mostly me) & Ken - self-employed real estate
DD25 Tara Ad school graduate living in NYC
DD23 Tracy Grad school student
DD20 Jessica Junior in college

We are booked Cat. 6 6598 & Cat. 11 6599 (Also currently booked on July 30th REPO Cat. 6 6080.......we'll see ) We'll be celebrating our 30th anniversary on this trip!

So glad to see so many familiar DISers and so many wonderful new friends!!! I had to call too to find out the scoop!! It was on my email when I got home!

 

[Hanover]

Looks like I've got some major catching up to do with all these posts! I haven't been receiving updates and had no idea it got so busy!

Please let me know the official title everyone agreed upon and I can change it in the 1st post.

The Small World viking picture is adorable!

I'm "Hanover" /Danielle: Human Resources Director
and will be sailing with DH Derek: police officer in Maryland
Keegan (DSthen 13--now 11: sports fanatic--especially football and baseball, loves to draw, listen to music, skateboard, video games ), Brennan (DS then 9--now 7: loves to draw, loves all sports-- especially wrestling and baseball, video games, Star Wars and Pokemon) and my MIL Joyce

We are from Hanover, (surprise!) Pennsylvania--famous for Utz and Snyder's snack foods, Hanover Shoe Farms (race horse breeders) and located about 15 minutes from Gettysburg. This will be our 10th DCL cruise

We are currently in a category 6 and category 11 a bit aft on deck 6 and are trying to get moved midship once the deposits are due and more rooms open up.

 

[bellelinus]

Serious planning question:

What seating is everyone choosing for dining?

We've always done early with the kids, and it worked out well for us. But knowing that this is a port intensive itinerary, I don't want to worry about rushing back onto the ship and rushing to get ready for dinner. So we're thinking about maybe switching to late dining for a change. Any advice?

Well, we love later seating for exactly that reason -- not having to rush back for dinner. However, if you generally like earlier dinner and there is a late day at port, you can always just run up to Topsiders for dinner. We hadn't tried early dinner since our first cruise years ago, so when we stayed on for the 5 night after the PC cruise, we tried early -- and we didn't like it as well, even without the "rushing for dinner" issue. If you have a strong feeling either way, just go with that one and be flexible. We knew on the Med that a few nights we would not make it back for dinner and just didn't worry about it.

 

[bellelinus]

OK...we need advice. Joe and I will celebrate our 25th anniversary on the cruise. We have never taken a cruise before...Ok, Joe was in the Navy, but that doesn't count. To all you veteran cruisers, how would you celebrate this event?

Just going on this cruise will be the most special anniversary I could imagine! However, you might want to think about booking the spa villa for both of you to relax and have a massage . . . would be lovely on one of the sea days.

If we use MAGICal Nights in the Northern Lights.....let's highlight the MAGIC in the slogan! I like this idea too!

MAGICal Nights in the Northern Lights - July 18-30, 2010

I like that idea . . . and then we use Mike's logo . . .

 

[jlawall]

Just going on this cruise will be the most special anniversary I could imagine! However, you might want to think about booking the spa villa for both of you to relax and have a massage . . . would be lovely on one of the sea days.



MAGICal Nights in the Northern Lights - July 18-30, 2010

I like that idea . . . and then we use Mike's logo . . .

Agreed!!





LATE SEATING.......

 

[bellelinus]

Just one thought -- will we really be going far enough north to see the northern lights? I had done some research and it seemed that to be sure of seeing them you had to be far north in Norway, or in Iceland . . . of course, that doesn't mean we can't have creative license with the thread title

 

[Disney Fool]

DIS name: Disney Fool
first name: Vera
booked: Cat 9, #2568
family: myself, and Arielle, my friend's 19-year-old daughter (will be 21 when we cruise) who is very excited to go
We're from New England, (Massachusetts--home of the bean and the cod)

interests: world travel, crocheting, piano, books AND FOOD!!!
I've been to Oslo, and Copenhagen before. Never been to St. Petersburg --and I'm dying to see the Hermitage Museum. Hello, All