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

[jlawall]

Well, I'm a frequent flier with DCL in the summer.............
1999 Magic 3day
2002 Magic Eastern
2003 Magic Western
2004 Magic Western
2005 Magic West Coast
2007 Magic Med
2008 Wonder 4 day
2009 Magic Tortola
2010 Magic Baltic & 8day REPO

I can't remember all the dates but it's usually mid-August or late July......July 18th is a little early for us!!

Sorry to quote myself but we LOVED THE WONDER THIS SUMMER, for such a short cruise we had AN AMAZING, FUN TRIP!!!!!!!! I highly recommend it!

 

[jilljill]

Sorry to quote myself but we LOVED THE WONDER THIS SUMMER, for such a short cruise we had AN AMAZING, FUN TRIP!!!!!!!! I highly recommend it!

We are doing a Wonder 4 day that leaves on Father's Day. Not planned that way, just the way it worked out.
Our 1st cruise was a 4 day 10/99 and then a 3 day on the Wonder 2/00. The we ended up doing 2 7 days the following 2 years and another one in 2003 when I could get super cheap DCL cruises as a CM. I miss those days of dirt cheap cruising. Did a CA MR in 2005 and it killed me to pay full price for a cruise, but oh how I would love that pricing we had back then. Then a 3 day last year to get away from here after all I had/have going on. We don't like the 3 day cruise but DD only had to miss 1 day of school to do it, so we booked at cat. 12 gty. and off we went.

 

[jlawall]

We are doing a Wonder 4 day that leaves on Father's Day. Not planned that way, just the way it worked out.
Our 1st cruise was a 4 day 10/99 and then a 3 day on the Wonder 2/00. The we ended up doing 2 7 days the following 2 years and another one in 2003 when I could get super cheap DCL cruises as a CM. I miss those days of dirt cheap cruising. Did a CA MR in 2005 and it killed me to pay full price for a cruise, but oh how I would love that pricing we had back then. Then a 3 day last year to get away from here after all I had/have going on. We don't like the 3 day cruise but DD only had to miss 1 day of school to do it, so we booked at cat. 12 gty. and off we went.

Wow, CM pricing, I'm jealous!! Yes, the European trips are tough compared to the DCL Cape Canaveral ports.

BTW, 4-0..........

 

[cruisin'Mike]

Ok, here's our info, for those of you we have not met previously;
DIS name:Celestine
Names: Celestine, DH Paul, DD Lauren (10 when we cruise), DD Hermione (5 when we cruise)
Hobbies: arts/crafts, Disney!!
Lives: Reading, England
Cabin: 7535, cat11

My parents, who sailed with uson the PC repo are also cruising as are our table mates

Mike - love the Viking ship pic. Also, Lauren is thrilled to already know some-one on the cruise & is threatening to e-mail Hailey. Tell her not to hold her breath though as it can take her a while to motivate herself to act!

Celestine

Hailey will be thrilled to talk to Lauren over the next 2 years, and then to see her again, this time starting in your home country!

On the main Cruise board, there is a thread:

Tom's Custom Name Tag Graphics Thread (not sure how to do a link to it)

Anyway, do you think we could make up name tags for all of us Diser's on our cruise. Or maybe ask Tom on his thread for help.

What do you all think??

Tom was really nice and made up some name tags for our family for our repo cruise. His thread is located here.

 

[jlawall]

Hailey will be thrilled to talk to Lauren over the next 2 years, and then to see her again, this time starting in your home country!



Tom was really nice and made up some name tags for our family for our repo cruise. His thread is located here.

Wow, that is so cool........I love that tag idea!

Mike, can you repost your icon, so our newer members can see it? Everyone seems to really like it! Also, we need to make our final decision about the slogan.............thoughts everyone?

 

[jlawall]

5-0.........

 

[jilljill]

Wow, CM pricing, I'm jealous!!

Yes, one of our 7 day cruises was $1500. for the 3 of us, including gratuities. We ended up in a cat. 9. We weren't allowed to chose a stateroom cat. on those rates, but we didn't care.


Speaking of gratuities, I happened to think what the cost of them will be yikes. Oh well, just another thing to save for.
I'm just glad we will only have to put out cash for 1 plane ticket.

 

[jlawall]

Yes, one of our 7 day cruises was $1500. for the 3 of us, including gratuities. We ended up in a cat. 9. We weren't allowed to chose a stateroom cat. on those rates, but we didn't care.


Speaking of gratuities, I happened to think what the cost of them will be yikes. Oh well, just another thing to save for.
I'm just glad we will only have to put out cash for 1 plane ticket.

Ouch, gratuities..........ouch, ouch, airfare..........so many bills, TG, we have 21 months.

 

[jilljill]

Ouch, gratuities..........ouch, ouch, airfare..........so many bills, TG, we have 21 months.

Let's just not think about it for now and worry about it at 11 months out when we can start looking for airfare.

 

[cruisin'Mike]

Wow, that is so cool........I love that tag idea!

Mike, can you repost your icon, so our newer members can see it? Everyone seems to really like it! Also, we need to make our final decision about the slogan.............thoughts everyone?

Like I said, this was a really quick goofing around idea. We can use it for door magnets or whatever. My thought was to put some landmarks from the cities or countries that we'll be visiting around it. And I'll clean it up, make sure the fonts match, etc. Maybe add our slogan and dates. Just let me know what y'all have in mind.

 

[jlawall]

Like I said, this was a really quick goofing around idea. We can use it for door magnets or whatever. My thought was to put some landmarks from the cities or countries that we'll be visiting around it. And I'll clean it up, make sure the fonts match, etc. Maybe add our slogan and dates. Just let me know what y'all have in mind.

Well, I love the viking hats, the "It's a Small World" theme with the Baltic tie in.......anyone else want to chime in??

 

[eeyorelvr10]

You could go in 1 month early and have plenty to see and do. Going in 3 days early is a big tease, but it's a start....


Oh yeah....we'll have to pop into a pub or 2 to sample the libations

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We're booked!!


Disname: flower91882
First name ( of main poster): Danielle. Hobbies: dance, video games, crafts
DH: James. Hobbies: video games, martial arts, cooking
Location: Outside Washington, DC
Cat number if assigned: Cat 11. #7121


My two cents: I LOVE the it's a small world poster theme idea. It would make really nice looking magnets and t-shirts. Maybe a simple name with that logo.

another near DC person! Some of the coolest people I met are from there.

Since I've been speaking of popping into pubs and what is the legal drinking age in the UK?

18. Far less than USA, but kids can go in with meals

18

NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE MENTION THAT TO MY YOUNGEST!

I'm assuming that you know what a FE is. So the way we did it on the Med cruise was that 1 person collected the name of each family who wanted to join in and then allocated each one of those families a day that they would deliver their prezzies. As there were quite a lot us us playing there were more than 1 familiy a day making deliveries which was nice. The gifts had to be small so that they could go into the FE and should also be representative (ish) of where you live or the cruise.
It was that simple really BUT IT WAS SUCH FUN

Hey Izzie, we have seen it done another way. On the August Repo, we tried to assign days but may people preferred not to be go that route. We left it up to the individuals to decide. I agree that it sounds better in paper to assign days but many people complained that there were just too many people (there was over 140+ cabins) to deliver too in one night. Even I who likes to walk the decks at night found it hard to do it all in one night.

I believe by the time this cruise comes around, we will probably be up around those numbers too.

Plus, then you have some great individuals who might decide to give something to each individual so that makes it hard too. I suggest that we put it out there and then let everyone decide as we get closer. We will probably need someone to spearhead the list. Plus, one advantage to not having an assigned day is that no one needs to assign the days. They just need to make sure we have all who will be participating on a general list to pass out.

I would suggest that we could just put something in every FE we see but the problem that I encountered on the last Aug Cruise was that we had another group and some other individuals who "knew" about the FE tradition but weren't necessarily signed up for. So if you do put one in every FE you see, you might end up being short for those "on the list."


PS - I also am curious as to whether there is any interest in a Secret Mickey (sort of like a Secret Santa) gift exchange? I know that a lot of us would be worried about weight restrictions but there are ways to get around this too. I suggested on a past cruise that you can always pick up small token gifts in ports to avoid the weight problem.

This can be geared to kids, family and couples. As time goes along - I will bring this up too. This is a fantastic way for people to get to know others that they normally wouldn't do.

Thank you both, I knew it was lower than the US and on DCL.
I'm sure other may/may not appreciate knowing the lower drinking age.

most definitely.

I do know what the FE is, just didn't understand the process and how it's determined who passes out the gifts and when.
Oh my, I'm having visions of hauling a suitcase with FE gifts only.

BTW, just to clear things up - FE gifts are usually voluntary and NOT required to participate in. However, it is customary if you sign up you should give. Nothing of major expense - many get creative and give a customized candy bar wrapped with our logo or maybe small bags of chocolate kisses or stuff like that. As time goes on, you will be amazed at the ideas people come up with.

On the last cruise - we got an AWESOME POC stopwatch which floored EVERYONE - huh MIKE? BTW, THANK YOU!

On the May PC crossing, we all got a small pair of plastic binoculars to watch the locks with. It was printed with our cruise name, date and logo. I tell you, people get very ingenious and crafty. I got all kinds of things from a book, to one of those scarves that you dunk in water to soak it up and keep you cool to a mouse pad to maracas. I tell you - awesome. Great idea whomever brought it up.

 

[cruisin'Mike]

Since Andrew posted the screen cap of the prices, it got me to do some digging. It looks like the price of the 5 of us in a cat 4 would be about the same (maybe even a few hundred less!) than the price of the 2 cat 10's. this surprised me, because it's always been cheaper for us to book 2 lower category cabins. So now I have an email into our TA to check it out for us. Maybe we'll have a verandah after all! Wish us luck!

 

[jilljill]

Since Andrew posted the screen cap of the prices, it got me to do some digging. It looks like the price of the 5 of us in a cat 4 would be about the same (maybe even a few hundred less!) than the price of the 2 cat 10's. this surprised me, because it's always been cheaper for us to book 2 lower category cabins. So now I have an email into our TA to check it out for us. Maybe we'll have a verandah after all! Wish us luck!

Hopefully it will work out for you.

 

[jlawall]

Since Andrew posted the screen cap of the prices, it got me to do some digging. It looks like the price of the 5 of us in a cat 4 would be about the same (maybe even a few hundred less!) than the price of the 2 cat 10's. this surprised me, because it's always been cheaper for us to book 2 lower category cabins. So now I have an email into our TA to check it out for us. Maybe we'll have a verandah after all! Wish us luck!

Wow! GL!

 

[bellelinus]

Since Andrew posted the screen cap of the prices, it got me to do some digging. It looks like the price of the 5 of us in a cat 4 would be about the same (maybe even a few hundred less!) than the price of the 2 cat 10's. this surprised me, because it's always been cheaper for us to book 2 lower category cabins. So now I have an email into our TA to check it out for us. Maybe we'll have a verandah after all! Wish us luck!

Good luck indeed! I hope you get the veranda . . . just remember that you will have less space (and fewer bathrooms) but I know I would give that up for the veranda . . .

 

[jilljill]

NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE MENTION THAT TO MY YOUNGEST!

No more drinking age talk - got it.

 

[cruisin'Mike]

Good luck indeed! I hope you get the veranda . . . just remember that you will have less space (and fewer bathrooms) but I know I would give that up for the veranda . . .

I thought of the less space issue, but the verandah won out. Besides, i don't think we'll have the 10 suitcases like we had on the last cruise! At least not with international flights. We'll have to get creative with our packing.

 

[danfromca]

We met Dan on the PC Repo. We even hung out with him in Rockin Bar D one night. (Dan, I'm not sure if you were still there when I did karaoke...if you were, I'm sorry you had to listen to that. )

Actually, that was a fun evening. I'll listen to you any time.

It is true -- I have been looking into this, too. Good reputable companies are Red October and Denrus . . .

I don't know if I'd really want to be on a tour run by Red October...
"Welcome to the tour, we don't want to alarm you but we're taking a slight detour, the green glow is not a radiation leak, and we're not be chased by hundreds of other tour busses...."

Hey Dan's here.....our computer guy, right?? Didn't you design our logo last time??? Welcome!!

Just cleaned up the low resolution image.

Ditto!!!! TG for you folks.

And welcome Dan from CA. Glad you decided to join us!!!!!!!

Thanks - I think it's incredibly cool to see so many familiar names/faces.

 

[jilljill]

I thought of the less space issue, but the verandah won out. Besides, i don't think we'll have the 10 suitcases like we had on the last cruise! At least not with international flights. We'll have to get creative with our packing.

We use the travel space bags and love them. Plus we will do laundry on the ship several times to keep our suitcases down to taking 3 over and coming back with 4 for the 3 of us.
Besides, if you fly in early you don't want to have to worry about figuring out how to get 10 suitcases to the port.