8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC #8

[sk8ingmom]

ha! sk8..right stright to thee point, . , i guess..it de~pends"

..on how a wenche' looks @ it?....there's beee alot..more /available/variables


..selections..with that type..of upgrading....then meets the

's eye?

Yeah, but I'm a one swabbie kinda wench.

$0.00

Personally I wouldn't give them another dime!

Hassle free booking: zero dollars
Mickey swimming, Mickey swimming, Mickey swimming....: zero dollars
Various error messages: zero dollars
Cursing & banging the computer keys: zero dollars (unless you broke it)

Commiserating with lots & lots of Dis friends on the chat board & thread?

PRICELESS!

You are awesome Diane!

At least I remember to ask directions to the rest room, so together we should be good if we're ever lost in Paris together.

Yeah, but do you have any idea what they are saying when they tell you the directions?? Donde esta el bano ain't gonna help me since I'll have no idea what the other person is saying in response.

OK, another clever kid story...
We were in Yosemite this weekend for my uncle's wedding. On our way to our 6 mile pre-wedding forced march (to tire out the boys) we hear the following: DS11 is putting on his hiking boots, taking a long time, and talking about how compressed his feet are. DS6 pipes in with my feet are compressed too, and it didn't take me that long. DS11: You don't even know what "compressed" means. DS6: Squished.

Every adult in the car (DH, my brother, and myself) burst out laughing. DS11 starts to sputter and launches into a lecture on compressed air. To which my brother comments "Give it up. He's got you."

We really are in for a treat when we get our boys together.

We went to dinner at a little hole in the wall Italian place last week. It was a typical family-run place with pictures and junk all over every wall - really, not an inch of white space in the place. In the middle of dinner, DS7 seemingly randomly busts out with:

{nice voice} "Welcome friends."
{mean voice} "Employees only!"

We looked at him like, huh? Until we saw where he was looking. Above the door to the kitchen was one of those kitch catalog "Welcome Friends" signs, and on the door was a standard-issue red Employees Only sign.

Now that would completely go over the head of most adults I know!

He's fast, and little enough to get under the elbows. Oh, yeah, it does.

Oh M??!! Do you rent him out??

Sure! I'll even give you the travel agent discount.

Yeah. How many times to I get to see my dad marry his brother. (Uh, perform the marriage service that is.) It was on Sentinel Beach in Yosemite, the falls (in full spring melt) in the background, unseasonably warm, and every family member (expect one of the bride's nieces who was in the middle of finals) in attendance - through three generations. It was a lovely wedding.
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Interesting. My FIL married me.

The wedding just sounded wonderful!

 

[Diznyfan68]

Gone for a week and there and hundreds of pages posted - no way will I even ATTEMPT to play catchup! I'm sorry for everyone who didn't get the brunch/tea/dinner and excursions that they wanted - the DCL system really does stink! I had my problems but did manage to get most of what I wanted. Hopefully whoever didn't get their brunch or tea can get one once they get on board.

I've been seeing quite a few cabins open up and hearing that people have gotten room assignments. We're still GTY.

 

[cruisin'Mike]

Rut roh....I must have DCL Pirate Night Party withdrawl symptoms....I suddently broke into the Pirate Night warm up song........

.....and row, row, row.


Andy

When my DW needs to smile, she makes me do "shimmy down the rope and find your seat in the boat!"

I took French from the 9th grade all the way through college, and almost all I remember is how to call someone nasty names.

i took 2 years of it, but didn't really learn a thing. I can still recite the first page of the book because we spent about a month on it.

Oh yeah, I also know "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir, s'il vous plait?"

I sent you lots of pms!!

Note to self: Cheryl has PMS to spare.

Joel & Shella.....you two have a story to share on this thread:


http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1831627

Share it here too!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Cat 9 at a price far more than I paid for my Cat 4.

Price Category 09
Deluxe Oceanview Stateroom $ 11,655.16

 

[disfreaks]

Ok I have a question for all of you....we were in a Cat. 9 with a room assignment on deck 1. I was on the DCL website this morning and saw that there were Cat. 8 cabins available. After a quick phone call to my TA to see if we could move our Cat. 9 cabin (we weren't too thrilled to be on deck 1, but were thrilled to at least be on this cruise), or upgrade to a Cat. 8, we decided that the difference in price was reasonable and upgraded to the Cat. 8 GTY. He assured me that we wouldn't be any lower of a category than Cat. 8. I hope I made the right decision. What do you guys with the utmost wisdom regarding all things DCL think?

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Ok I have a question for all of you....we were in a Cat. 9 with a room assignment on deck 1. I was on the DCL website this morning and saw that there were Cat. 8 cabins available. After a quick phone call to my TA to see if we could move our Cat. 9 cabin (we weren't too thrilled to be on deck 1, but were thrilled to at least be on this cruise), or upgrade to a Cat. 8, we decided that the difference in price was reasonable and upgraded to the Cat. 8 GTY. He assured me that we wouldn't be any lower of a category than Cat. 8. I hope I made the right decision. What do you guys with the utmost wisdom regarding all things DCL think?

I think a good move and you will not get anything lower that the Cat 8 GTY you have now booked, so enjoy and do not worry. They have a nice large porthole window and on decks 5-7, nice, good access to kids clubs, some over WD Theater but you will not be in the stateroom at this time-during shows.

 

[pdarrah]

Yeah, but do you have any idea what they are saying when they tell you the directions?? Donde esta el bano ain't gonna help me since I'll have no idea what the other person is saying in response.

I get totally mixed up with languages. I took 2 years of Spanish and 5 years of German. When I try to speak Spanish, I can only dredge German words out of my brain! Strangely, I still understand Spanish fairly well (the basic stuff), so M, if you can ask for el bano, I can probably understand the directions!

The town I live in is about 1/2 hispanic - I often can understand the clerks in the stores and such, but can't form a scentence to ask them something! Fortunately, MANY of those local hispanics are 3rd, 4th or 5th generation (some families came with the original railroad crews that started the town) and, of course, speak perfectly normal English. (This often throws people who just assume that since they look Mexican, they MUST speak Spanish - I had a friend that would get totally annoyed when people started "babbling" (her word) to her in Spanish which she barely spoke at all!)

Pamela

 

[disfreaks]

Thanks Andrew. That is what I was thinking, but I tend to second guess myself so I was wondering..... I appreciate your reassurance.

 

[goofyforlife]

What do you guys with the utmost wisdom regarding all things DCL think?

Sounds good to me... We sailed on Deck 1 in a 9 our first cruise... I hated it..

An 8 will get you deck at least deck 5 or 6 (7 perhaps?) and forward.

Maybe down the hall from me...

I like the forward location. I did know someone who had a cabin furthest forward on the starboard side and she did not like so much movement on the couple rough nights we had. In my cabin, (5520 on that trip) i wasn't bothered at all but my cabin wasn't so far forward.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Thanks Andrew. That is what I was thinking, but I tend to second guess myself so I was wondering..... I appreciate your reassurance.

Its a good move, I do not like being too close to the water and each day you can 'see' where you are, nice.

 

[danfromca]

Ok I have a question for all of you....we were in a Cat. 9 with a room assignment on deck 1. I was on the DCL website this morning and saw that there were Cat. 8 cabins available. After a quick phone call to my TA to see if we could move our Cat. 9 cabin (we weren't too thrilled to be on deck 1, but were thrilled to at least be on this cruise), or upgrade to a Cat. 8, we decided that the difference in price was reasonable and upgraded to the Cat. 8 GTY. He assured me that we wouldn't be any lower of a category than Cat. 8. I hope I made the right decision. What do you guys with the utmost wisdom regarding all things DCL think?

I don't claim the utmost wisdom regarding all things DCL. I'm not sure even the cast members have that (at least not the ones you reach when you call reservations).

That said, if you want a window and don't like deck 1, you made a good choice. For one thing, you get one large porthole instead of two small ones (on deck 9). You pretty much know where you'll be - forward on deck 5,6 or 7. And you have at least the possibility of being upgraded to a higher category (which is very unlikely once you have an assigned cabin).

Whether it's worth it depends on what "reasonable" was, and that's a subjective choice.

 

[Esteri]

We really are in for a treat when we get our boys together.

We went to dinner at a little hole in the wall Italian place last week. It was a typical family-run place with pictures and junk all over every wall - really, not an inch of white space in the place. In the middle of dinner, DS7 seemingly randomly busts out with:

{nice voice} "Welcome friends."
{mean voice} "Employees only!"

We looked at him like, huh? Until we saw where he was looking. Above the door to the kitchen was one of those kitch catalog "Welcome Friends" signs, and on the door was a standard-issue red Employees Only sign.

Now that would completely go over the head of most adults I know!

Yeup. It's gonna be fun. DS6 can't read yet, and it's frustrating him to no end. I'm going to be working with DS11 on spelling this summer (during the 5 week camping trip) and guess who will probably figure out reading??

I get totally mixed up with languages. I took 2 years of Spanish and 5 years of German. When I try to speak Spanish, I can only dredge German words out of my brain! Strangely, I still understand Spanish fairly well (the basic stuff), so M, if you can ask for el bano, I can probably understand the directions!

Do you answer in German?? I have that problem when I go to other countries. Whether or not I can understand their language, I automatically slip into Finnish. Then I spend all my time translating from Finnish to English for the first couple of days. We went to Costa Rica a couple of years back, and I answered a server in Finnish when she asked me something in Spanish (which I understood). DH just about fell over laughing. I've noticed it lasts about 2 or 3 days, then I'm fine. Weird, huh?
.

 

[bellelinus]

Ok I have a question for all of you....we were in a Cat. 9 with a room assignment on deck 1. I was on the DCL website this morning and saw that there were Cat. 8 cabins available. After a quick phone call to my TA to see if we could move our Cat. 9 cabin (we weren't too thrilled to be on deck 1, but were thrilled to at least be on this cruise), or upgrade to a Cat. 8, we decided that the difference in price was reasonable and upgraded to the Cat. 8 GTY. He assured me that we wouldn't be any lower of a category than Cat. 8. I hope I made the right decision. What do you guys with the utmost wisdom regarding all things DCL think?

I was in a cat 8 (5518) on the Med repo last August for 14 nights, and I loved the room. The forward cabins up there get very little traffic, so it is quiet, and the porthole is huge and gives you a wonderful view. I saw the deck 1 cat 9s on a room tour on another cruise, and while the little portholes will give you some light, the view is not at all the same. Also, the location of the cat 8s on deck 5 (and I think some are on deck 6, but I'm not sure) gives you a nice central location -- not too far up or down to anything.

Obviously you were able to pay for the upgrade, so enjoy it! Cat 8s are great -- and you will get either that or an even better room.

 

[got2travel]

You are not alone!!!

Monica!!! Please post the link to the excusrsion posting on our site!!! I am not shouting....I only want your attention!!!

Yes ma'am

http://www.thepiratezone.us/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=179

 

[got2travel]

Just a thought.... recently I was going to mail Disneyland brochures and schedules to DIS neighbors who had accepted my offer - and I was going to mail them from the park to gain a Disneyland postmark. HOWEVER, on asking park employees about this they told me they no longer had a post office inside the park. And all mail deposited inside the park is now postmarked without a Disneyland postmark.

I wonder if maybe the folks who told me this were wrong?

They haven't used the DL postmark for a really long time. I've been sending postcards to DIS families for at least 3 years now and no DL postmark.

 

[DisneyVegas1]

What Date is the 75 day mark for Ressie's?? I want to see if I can get my Cabo Dolphins moved to an earlier time .....I would rather visit Cabo Wabo after the Dolphins as opposed to before ..LOL Could end roping a couple of Sea Turtles mate ....

 

[Diznyfan68]

Cat 9 at a price far more than I paid for my Cat 4.

Price Category 09
Deluxe Oceanview Stateroom $ 11,655.16

Did you notice that the REAS package is now available also?

 

[justmestace]

OK, another clever kid story...
We were in Yosemite this weekend for my uncle's wedding. On our way to our 6 mile pre-wedding forced march (to tire out the boys) we hear the following: DS11 is putting on his hiking boots, taking a long time, and talking about how compressed his feet are. DS6 pipes in with my feet are compressed too, and it didn't take me that long. DS11: You don't even know what "compressed" means. DS6: Squished.

Every adult in the car (DH, my brother, and myself) burst out laughing. DS11 starts to sputter and launches into a lecture on compressed air. To which my brother comments "Give it up. He's got you."

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Darn clever, I'd say!

 

[disfreaks]

Thanks everyone! We were very nervous for our kids (13 & 10) to ever go to the cabin by themselves, and now I don't think it will be an issue. I'm glad you shared your opinion of deck 1 goofyforlife. That is how we were feeling about it as well. Thanks also bellelinus, we were on deck 6 for our only other cruise, and loved it, but for the cost had to forego the balcony this time. I was also offered a cat 5, but couldn't come up with that much of a difference. Still a good deal, we would just have to sacrifice shore excursions. I think it was a good decision and you guys have reaffirmed that for me. Thanks so much! We did try to log in for shore excursions on Sunday night at 9 PST, but our ressie said not paid in full, but I knew it was. I got up at 5 am to call our ta, but checked the site first and we were PIF which I knew we were. We aren't too adventursome, but we did get everything we wanted.
Cabo-Swim with dolphins with a different company
PV-Yelapa & Majahuitas
Acapulco-Highlights, shopping and cliff divers
Cartagena-Best of Cartagena
Aruba-Seatrek and De Palm Island
Also Palo for dinner on Cartagena night.
It sounds like we were lucky and sorry for those of you who had so many problems. We can't wait for the trip!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

What Date is the 75 day mark for Ressie's?? I want to see if I can get my Cabo Dolphins moved to an earlier time .....I would rather visit Cabo Wabo after the Dolphins as opposed to before ..LOL Could end roping a couple of Sea Turtles mate ....

June 3rd -Tuesday