7/24/2011 5 Night Disney Dream cruise

[Hanover]

I haven't been on here in a while and just thought I'd pop in to say hi.

It's our paid in full date tomorrow as Platinum members and we can book excursions, Palo, etc. Right now we are thinking of staying on the ship in Nassau (been there a lot and really want to enjoy the ship in port). We will probably sign up to do jet skis and parasailing at CC one day and just leave the other day at CC to relax and snorkel, possibly doing the bike rentals and float rentals.

Winter does not seem to be ending right now here in PA and we are very excited about this cruise and being in the sun!!

 

[Hanover]

I think I forgot to add on this thread that we have friends sailing with us now too. They are Beth, her DH Adam, ds15 Jake, ds11 Lane and dd8 Leah.

 

[keishashadow]

I haven't been on here in a while and just thought I'd pop in to say hi.

It's our paid in full date tomorrow as Platinum members and we can book excursions, Palo, etc. Right now we are thinking of staying on the ship in Nassau (been there a lot and really want to enjoy the ship in port). We will probably sign up to do jet skis and parasailing at CC one day and just leave the other day at CC to relax and snorkel, possibly doing the bike rentals and float rentals.

Winter does not seem to be ending right now here in PA and we are very excited about this cruise and being in the sun!!

It's been brutal in western PA too, excited to head out w/DS for overnight visit @ college this afternoon, anything to get out of the house lol!

how cool! im soooo jealous! was trying to figure out the 90 day window (April 25?) It's been awhile since i booked anything on DCL. Do you know if i can book excursion or Palo online or do I have to call?

We always just book the choice suites but since there will only be two of us it's cheaper to book the DCL tour.Notice they offer a snorkle option which sounds pretty cool, but can't find much in the way of reviews for it.

Does anybody know if it's been determined what night the Pirate & formal night will be on our 5 day yet?Didn't want to book Palo for either of those nights if possible.

 

[Cheryl726]

I'm not the only one hitting this milestone this summer!

I turn 40 two weeks after we get back - so I'm celebrating while we're on the ship, dang it. Besides - WDW turns 40 this year too - so I figure I'm celebrating with Mickey on multiple levels.

July can't get here fast enough!

Kris

I agree July can't get here fast enough, even though I don't want to turn 40, but at least I'll be doing it in style!

I also can't wait for a Double Dip either, sounds much better than the cold weather we're having in New England!

 

[EskiLvr]

I haven't been on here in a while and just thought I'd pop in to say hi.
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Winter does not seem to be ending right now here in PA and we are very excited about this cruise and being in the sun!!

Okay, I have to ask...

Do you live in Hanover proper? My mom bought a house in the 300 block of Baltimore back in December of 2005 and lived there until she passed away in 2007. She even made the front page of the local paper when her moving van caught fire the night she moved in - shutting Baltimore down at rush hour three days before Christmas. She knew how to make an entrance... I live in Nebraska, and everyone there was so nice to me when I was taking care of everything after she'd passed away. My boys still go nuts for TastyKakes - you can't get them here!

Such a small world...

 

[LoriSue]

My husband, myself and my 17 year old DD are going on that one!

 

[VKtravel]

Woo hoo! We are going on this date as well! It will be me (45), my DH (53), my DD (9) and my other DD (7). This will be our first cruise and I'm so glad we decided (I decided) to go for Disney rather than any of the other cruise lines. But I keep hearing that I will not want to cruise with anyone else after this one! I am preparing to be spoiled!

 

[Hanover]

Okay, I have to ask...

Do you live in Hanover proper? My mom bought a house in the 300 block of Baltimore back in December of 2005 and lived there until she passed away in 2007. She even made the front page of the local paper when her moving van caught fire the night she moved in - shutting Baltimore down at rush hour three days before Christmas. She knew how to make an entrance... I live in Nebraska, and everyone there was so nice to me when I was taking care of everything after she'd passed away. My boys still go nuts for TastyKakes - you can't get them here!

Such a small world...

I live in Hanover, PA. It's right next to Gettysburg, PA and pretty much just over the MD/PA line. Hanover is home to Utz and Snyder's chips and pretzels and Hanover Shoe Farms (big horse racing breeders). We are about an hour north of Baltimore and an hour and a half from DC.

I've been religiously checking Southwest airlines for months and tonight they lowered our price down to Orlando to $103. It had been at $160 forever. We just got a nice credit for our flights in November! Coming back it's at $158 so I'm hoping they lower those too

 

[EskiLvr]

I live in Hanover, PA. It's right next to Gettysburg, PA and pretty much just over the MD/PA line. Hanover is home to Utz and Snyder's chips and pretzels and Hanover Shoe Farms (big horse racing breeders). We are about an hour north of Baltimore and an hour and a half from DC.

I've been religiously checking Southwest airlines for months and tonight they lowered our price down to Orlando to $103. It had been at $160 forever. We just got a nice credit for our flights in November! Coming back it's at $158 so I'm hoping they lower those too

Oh, wow... I'd kill for those airfares. I was excited to get us at 350/pp on Southwest - it's been as high as 550.

And yup - same town - Mom owned the Kirkland house, three blocks off the town square, and a straight mile or so from the Utz factory. . Utz was my last stop in Hanover before driving back to Nebraska - my friend and I had the car *loaded* with Utz goodness that you can't get here!

 

[5Days]

Just found this thread!

We are also booked on this cruise...along with in-laws and SIL and family.

Our family includes me, DH, DD#1 (15), DD#2 (11), and DS (5).

This is our first Disney Cruise and are so excited to experience the Dream. We have cruised before on other lines. I will admit that I'm a motion sickness person, so if you see a "green" lady on deck....that would be me! Hoping for calm waters and good drugs!

We have the early dining time.

Hope to meet some of you and hope our kids can also make some new friends!

 

[Lauri]

We're on this cruise too! It will be me, DH, DS (16) and DD (14). It's our fourth DCL cruise, our first on the Dream. Our last double dip was in 2006, and we're looking forward to two wonderful days at Cataway Cay again.

Lauri

 

[BeautyFan]

Greetings to all who joined our meets thread recently:
Lauri
5Days
VKtravel
LoriSue
DisneyMama

This is getting so exciting, we are almost at the 100 day mark!


Keishashadow - I did see a thread with the info on the days for Pirate Night and semi-formal night depending on which day the 5-days departed. I'll look for it again. I don't think DH & I will do Palo this time as we're travelling with family who we just don't get to see enough of these days.


Did you all see that they changed the showtimes again? We were initially early show and early dining so now we'll have to see the show after dinner. I hope they still offer the matinee time for Believe and Villians - I was looking forward to doing an early show to get out of the sun, and then hitting the pool/Aquaduck after dinner when maybe it will be less crowded.

We've been working with DD(4) on her table manners, telling her she has to teach her younger cousin when we are onboard. She is just as excited as we are for this too-long awaited cruise!

 

[BeautyFan]

It's been brutal in western PA too, excited to head out w/DS for overnight visit @ college this afternoon, anything to get out of the house lol!

how cool! im soooo jealous! was trying to figure out the 90 day window (April 25?) It's been awhile since i booked anything on DCL. Do you know if i can book excursion or Palo online or do I have to call?

We always just book the choice suites but since there will only be two of us it's cheaper to book the DCL tour.Notice they offer a snorkle option which sounds pretty cool, but can't find much in the way of reviews for it.

Does anybody know if it's been determined what night the Pirate & formal night will be on our 5 day yet?Didn't want to book Palo for either of those nights if possible.

Too funny, when I searched for the thread regarding Pirate Night & Semi-Formal night, part of what I was looking for was posted by DisneyMama:

On the 5 night Dream leaving on a Sunday -

#1 group - AP - EG -EG -RP -AP

#2 group - RP -AP - AP -EG -RP

#3 group - EG - RP -RP -AP - EG

Hope that helps!


I didn't find when is Semi-Formal, but one Dis'er did indicate that Pirate Night would be on Nassau night. I wouldn't hold that as true until a few of the 5-nighters have been completed (starting in May) since so many processes seem to be changing on the Dream.

 

[Hanover]

We just paid off our cruise in gift cards from Sam's club. We got them for $98 something each for $100 worth of Disney gift cards and a $10 bonus for the Disney Store. We ended up with over $300 to the Disney store! It was really easy to pay online and we could do $1,000 worth at a time.

We aren't sure when we are doing Palo dinner. We get it "free" from being Platinum members or we probably would skip and just do the dining rooms since it's our 1st cruise on the Dream. I'm thinking either night 2 or night 4. We want to go to Pirate night at the regular restaurant. We have main dining and will probably go to Palo at 7:30 so we can take the kids to the regular dining rooms and then to the clubs before we go to Palo. Our show time is supposed to be 9PM. We are going to book the brunch too since we love it at Palo.

We just ended up adding 2 days on to our trip so now we are flying back August 2nd instead of the 31st of July. We saved a ton on airfare and got Southwest credits for changing dates. We have to change resorts (to Wilderness Lodge villas from the Jambo house club level) but it will be no problem and we get 2 more days!

 

[psharrock]

Congrats on paying off the cruise - you are nearly all set now.

We paid ours off last week, but need to wait another week or so before we can book anything as we are only silver members.

Paul

 

[Disney Mama]

Hey BeautyFan --- found this info on the same thread I found the dining rotations --- just can't remember exactly where that was!

For a 5 day double dip cruise leaving Sunday:

Sun. - cruise casual
Mon. - dress up night
Tues. - Pirate NIght (special menu)
Weds. - cruise casual
Thurs. - cruise casual (special menu)

Hope it is correct!

 

[Hanover]

Just finished signing up ds10 for kid's club and getting Palo brunch and dinner. Only 11 was coming up for brunch. I'm sure they are holding some spots in the other 3 times that were listed but unavailable. We chose Palo dinner on the 2nd night so that we would not miss that restaurant since it doubles on the 3rd night and we didn't want to miss Pirate night dinner. I looked at some of the spa treatments but will wait for the in port specials. I like to do the $125 spa special in Nassau for a facial/massage and hour in the Rainforest room. I've done that one several times on the Wonder and hope they offer it on the Dream. Right now we aren't signed up for any excursion. We are staying on the ship in Nassau unless we walk to Del Sol and the straw market. We've been to the Blue Lagoon, pirate museum and Atlantis several times and want to see as much as the Dream as we can. On Castaway Cay we are bringing our own snorkel gear and will get floats and maybe bike rentals. We thought about the jet skis but they were unavailable to book. I love parasailing there so we may sign up for that later. I just want to be able to relax though and not run back to Marges Barges once we are settled in at the family beach. We may end up signing up for an early session later. We are so excited and can't wait!! I thought the new on line sign up (new to us since our last cruise in December) was soooo much easier.

 

[Hanover]

I forgot to add that I saw something new on the on line check in-- it was "port arrival time" and would have given us a check in time but said since we were "platinum or concierge" passengers we would not get a time since we get first boarding. We are not concierge, but we are platinum.

 

[mmtska]

I didn't see this anywhere, but I thought I'd ask. Is there an interest in Fish Extenders? I've read about this, and I'm totally interested.....but not sure how to go about it all....

 

[Mazz519]

Originally Posted by Hanover
Anyone else onboard for the July 24, 2011 Disney Dream cruise with 2 stops at Castaway Cay?

I'm Danielle and will be sailing with my DH Derek, and my then DS14 Keegan and then DS10 Brennan. It will be our 14th DCL cruise and 1st on the Dream (unless we can squeeze another one in if any great deals come out!)


Please add me to the thread. we will be on the 7/24 cruise DW myself and 3DSons, 14, 10, and 7.....can't wait