9/24/09 3 Day Wonder - Cruise Meets, and FEs, and Goombays oh my!

[jenny105]

Lainey - June 22nd is our ADR day! Maybe we should start a ticker for that!

 

[disney honeymooners]

i was wondering where you went i began to miss my buddy Good i will have to put that on my calendar i will be calling as soon as it gets here since most of ours are at locations that i know book very early but i am trying to figure out what night fantasmic will show when we are there so far it looks like they have it showing the last 2 sundays of every month if they keep doing that i will be ok. i know that when we stayed at POFQ the lines werent that long but that is b/c it is a smaller resort than POR.
i have read on the poly sites that we all just meet in the lobby at 11 or 11:30 and we leave at 12 and they get us to the port when you are first allowed to board and since we wont have to check in i thinkwe can just go ahead and board which will be nice last time we had to stand in line for a while to get the paperwork done.

 

[jenny105]

I'm here! I can't stay away from the DIS for long. I got on this first thing at work this morning. I'm so productive.

They aren't showing Fantasmic every night anymore? I'll have to take that in consideration when I plan out what parks we're going to on what days. My DBf is like your DFi; he lets me plan and goes along with whatever!

I want to get on the boat ASAP since we really aren't on it for very long. I want to spend time exploring the ship before we depart. I can't wait!

 

[jenny105]

Can I just say that I'm happy to see 7 months on my ticker? I remember when it was closer to a year!!

 

[disney honeymooners]

i looked at the calendars for fantasmic for the up coming months and it shows 2 nights a week and it also shows that they have it showing for the last 2 sundays of the month each month which if they keep to that it will be showing on the 20th which was the day i was planning on going there. I have already pretty much planned what days we are going to what parks it will be more concrete when we see what day they are gonna have MNSSHP. My DFi says just tell me where to go when we get there and i will follow. The earliest you can get on is either 12 or 12:30 and for us we don't have to wait to checkin since we will already have our stateroom keys lets just hope that my clumsy self doesn't loose the key between here and the ship

 

[jenny105]

I'll know what parks we're going to on what days once they release the schedules for September. We're planning on going to MNSSHP too! It's the only party I haven't been to yet and I hear it's the best. It'll be good to be all checked in and not have to wait in the lines at the port. I'm planning on getting there around 11:30. Don't they give out boarding passes and the earlier you get there, the better boarding pass you get? I want to be one of the first people on the ship!

Where'd Mary go?

 

[m_kasch]

LOL, here I am!! Have either of you ever been to Universal? I haven't, but my conference for work is there September 21-24 (i'll be leaving early on the 24th to get to the port) at Portifino Bay. My DH's family is shocked and disgusted (not really, they just say that) that I am going to Universal. I hear the hotel is nice, and very expensive, so i'm glad it's covered by work!!

Are you guys going to the MNSSHP? My younger DS is coming with me I think to partake in the free room at Portifino Bay, and I would like to take her to one if I have a free night. She's only been to the World once!! For Fantasmic, they are trying this new thing where they only show it on I think Sunday and Thursday (could be wrong on the days). I have heard that it is super busy (wasn't it usually anyways??) though, so maybe it won't last.

I have been thinking about upgrading our stateroom, but we have a pretty good deal, it was only around $680 for the GTY 12 total...so I have a hard time spending tons extra since I had to convince DH it was such a good deal too begin with!! I know I should just be patient and see if the upgrade faries grace us, and, if not, I can just upgrade later or at the port...I was looking at the "seceret" navigator verandahs on deck 7 (the ones with almost a full balcony and not the giant open porthole), but it is $750 more!! It is just so hard to be patient!!

 

[jenny105]

I've been to Universal! I just went there in November actually. I have lots of pictures if you wanna see. I love it! It's not as wonderful as Disney (what is??) but it's a lot of fun. IOA is one of my favorite parks. I'm addicted to the Spiderman ride! And Portofino Bay is GORGEOUS! It's the nicest of the 3 onsite hotels. Lucky you!!!

I cannot wait until they release the MNSSHP dates. I'm dying to go! So yes, we will definitely be there.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for an upgrade; for both of us!

 

[disney honeymooners]

I have been to Universal quite a few times and i have stayed at Portifino Bay it is nice you will like it i wanted to stay at hard rock when we went i liked their pool better and if you go to the parks all you have to do is show your room key and they let you go to the front of the line.
Which was great especially for spiderman and the dueling dragons they usually have the longest lines b/c they are the best well the hulk is good too but i have to agree with Jen IOA is a great park. But i am a disneyholic and will always be one.
Me and Greg will be there for MNSSHP I love being in MK at night it is nicer and riding the HM at night is just too cool (i sound dorky when i say that but oh well) Jen they do give out boarding passes but i think they may be for people that are not coming from the resorts but i am unsure i may have to ask one of the guys on here who did the land and sea around sept. last year

 

[jenny105]

I think the Hulk gave me a concussion when I was there. I do not like that ride. But if you've never been on it, it's worth going on once.

I've seen 543085 pictures of the boarding passes but I think you're right, they aren't for the land & sea. We should get first dibs!!

 

[disney honeymooners]

we should get the ones that have a #1 on them since we will prob. board first b/c everyone else has to wait and check in. The hulk is ok if you sit in the 7th row but i rode it in the 2nd row also and i think i had whiplash it nearly killed me i felt sorry for the grandmothers in the front row. Dueling dragons is more my fav after spiderman. the dragons are very smooth i have ridden in the first row, the middle rows and the last row and haven't had a bad ride.
I think you were right about making a ticker for the adrs

 

[m_kasch]

Good morning ladies!! I will make sure to ride the Hulk, any ride that give me potential concussions and whiplash is a must do on my list!!

I will have a rental car for the week of my conference, so i'm just planning on driving to the port, returning it, and taking the shuttle. Do you know if Saratoga Springs will hold my luggage for me while i'm on the cruise? I don't know if I want to take all of my stuff with me since I will be there so long. I thought maybe I would drop it off at SS if they will keep it.

I am excited about trying universal, I do like roller coasters (unlike DH and his family), so it will be cool to have more of those to go on. But, I am a Disney Girl at heart!!

 

[jenny105]

Rip, Ride, and Rock It! will be open by the time you get to Universal. That's the new coaster they're building at US. It looks ridiculous! I can't wait to go on it. And I'm waiting (very impatiently) for Harry Potter to open.

Dueling Dragons is definitely a great ride!! They moved the line though and it seems like you have to walk 2 miles to get to it!! Other great rides are: Spiderman, Jurassic Park, Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls, MIB: Alien Attack, and the Simpsons Ride. And if you like Christopher Walken, make sure you go on Disaster! It's freakin hilarious!

I would think SS would have no problem holding your luggage sicne you're a guest there. We're driving to the port too so maybe we'll see ya on the road!

 

[disney honeymooners]

Well anyone going to the parks will be able to spot me and my DFi b/c we will be wearing the honeymooner buttons and bride and groom shirts. The one for the ship isn't as noticeable since they are the polo ones from the disney website. My mom and I are going back through the HP books i have read them but forgotten some of the things in them so we are listening to them on audiobook I had forgotten how much the movies left out.
ONLY A FEW DAYS TIL THE SUPERBOWL!!!

 

[jenny105]

I have to re-read Half Blood Prince before the movie comes out. I'm still annoyed they pushed it back.

I'll be sure to look for you around the parks! I'm getting us shirts that say 'Donald's Annual Road Trip to Florida' to wear while we're down there since we almost always drive.

Oh and if you see a guy with a tan Wall-E shirt on that says JO-E...that's my DBf!

 

[disney honeymooners]

yeah i can't remember half of the stuff that happens in it and i think i keep getting some of the details of Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows mixed up. My family was upset when they changed the release date for the latest one we had gotten use to seeing a HP movie once a year and now my 4 year old DB thinks that Hogwarts is real he is so cute.
I will be looking for yall i am sure if we are both going to MNSSHP we will see each other before the sun goes down. We are trying somthing dif when we go to MK I always have started in tomorrowland which always seems to be the way that the crowds go so we are gonna start in adventureland and ride POC before the line gets too long.

 

[jenny105]

I usually go right to the back of MK first and work my way around from there. I don't have any set plan...just whatever rides I want to go on at that moment! If it's a long line, I'll fastpass or comeback later. I love going to the parties because there are usually no lines for anything!!

 

[disney honeymooners]

Thats how it was for erider before they started EMH you could by a wrist band and stay in the park til 1am and they only had about 1,000 bands or less so we rode SM 3 times in a row and HM twice and SplM 4 times in a row that was great and it was also great that we were staying on site so we didn't have to wait that long to get into warm dry clothes. The longest i have waited in line was about 45 min and that was for the Dueling Dragons at IOA.

 

[jenny105]

I always had Express pass when I went to Universal because I was lucky enough to stay on site both times. It's WONDERFUL. I don't think I've ever had to wait in a really long line at WDW. We usually go during the off season so it's never too bad. We have a Six Flags nearby however and their lines are RIDICULOUS!!!

 

[disney honeymooners]

The only time i had to wait in line at IOA was when we didn't stay onsite when we did stay onsite we rode dueling dragons 4 times in a row the front rom on each and the last row on each. The only long line at disney as i have said is peter pan and that would have to be the longest i have ever waited in line at the world.
We almost never go to six flags over Ga the lines are crazy, the food sucks, and it is really trashy. After the service you get at disney and the quiality of the food and how clean the park is no other park other than universal can even compare.