ALASKA - August 30th, 2011 - Mickeys Mooseketeers & the last Alaskan Cruisade! New Th

[TDC Nala]

I love the moose. I like him better than the other logo they had.

 

[Lollipop's Mom]

The PIF date for this cruise is May 2, 2011. I'm a Gold Castaway Club member and my booking date for excursions, Palo, etc., is May 17, 2011.

Therefore, cancellation fees begin May 3, 2011.

Hope that helps.

Thanks - easy to remember, that is my daughter's birthday!

 

[Lollipop's Mom]

Well I do believe we are joining you on this adventure! You can toss Liz & Megan (15) GTY room on the fish extender list!

 

[PBader]

Welcome Liz and Megan

 

[Lollipop's Mom]

We are locals, so if anyone needs anything, feel free to contact me - even if it is the day before the cruise and it is something you forgot to bring, etc... Happy to help!

 

[tracyvansmith]

I put a hold on this cruise- we 'may' be coming - just not 100%. We live 30 mins from Vancouver, so its hard to resist the ship being in our own backyard! We are not interested in alaska much, and the ship wil be our 'destination'. My daughter will be 15 and I am a single mom.
Just looking at finances and whether we want to do it or not (we live in Vancouver- do we really want to cruise to Alaska? Then again, no expense for flights is NICE!) -
What I need to know is dates on this - final payment and cancellation without losing a deposit? Anyone have t hese dates handy so I don't have to do the math? lol Thaks.

This is off the confermation Disney sent me.

Due Date/Time: 02-May-2011 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Cruise Cancellation Fees Begin: 02-Jun-2011

 

[tracyvansmith]

I put a hold on this cruise- we 'may' be coming - just not 100%. We live 30 mins from Vancouver, so its hard to resist the ship being in our own backyard! We are not interested in alaska much, and the ship wil be our 'destination'. My daughter will be 15 and I am a single mom.
Just looking at finances and whether we want to do it or not (we live in Vancouver- do we really want to cruise to Alaska? Then again, no expense for flights is NICE!) -
What I need to know is dates on this - final payment and cancellation without losing a deposit? Anyone have t hese dates handy so I don't have to do the math? lol Thaks.

Well I do believe we are joining you on this adventure! You can toss Liz & Megan (15) GTY room on the fish extender list!

Welcome Liz & Megan.

We are in Alberta and love Alaska. Here are my pic of our two Alaska cruises
2009 http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q140/tracyvansmith/Alaska 2009/

2006 http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q140/tracyvansmith/Alaska 2006/

They were both round trip from Vancouver.

 

[tracyvansmith]

I love the moose. I like him better than the other logo they had.

I love the moose too. Can't wait to order my T-shirts with him on them.

 

[sunshine1259]

Well I do believe we are joining you on this adventure! You can toss Liz & Megan (15) GTY room on the fish extender list!

Hi, Liz, great to have you. Look forward to meeting you both.

 

[PBader]

I received a hoodie and a long sleeve tee yesterday that I ordered from zazzle.com They turned out great! The day I ordered they were having a half price on shirt day~~~next time I get that code I will pass it along here.

I still need to get several more, but I wasn't for sure how they would turn out with the graphic we have. I ordered the L/S Tee in Natural and the hoodie in white. The XL hoodie I got is really on the big size.

Tee Shirt

Hoodie

Alan doesn't really care for designs on the fronts, so I did it small for him like many shirts you buy. It did take awhile for them to come in, I ordered it on Feb 18th and they came on 3/8. So for now I am waiting on another half off code so I can order for myself.

 

[Chirple]

Hi! We are also going to be on the 8/30 cruise. This will be our third cruise with DCL and our first time to Alaska.

Love the logo for the shirts!

Since we're still "silver", we can't book excursions until early June if we do them through DCL. My fear is that the ones we want will be all booked so I am hoping to have a backup plan and am diligently reading all of your helpful information.

We have our plane tickets purchased. We used miles from Continental; with some creative transferring of miles and insurance, our tickets came to $242 total for 2 of us nonstop from NJ to Vancouver. We will be arriving on 8/29 and spending the night before the cruise at the Pan Pacific. Our flight back is scheduled for 2 pm on 9/6.

I will PM our travel party info.

 

[staffieri]

We were all the way on page 5!!!!!


Des, hope you are recovering from your fall! And that the cookie sales are going well


Adam leaves this afternoon for his 1st trip to WDW without us. After some last minute scrambling over the last few weeks his cousin Jeremy is going with him. They both are really excited. Bo (his dog) is coming to stay at our house. Maya (my cat) is in for a big uproar in her daily routine. It is going to be an interesting 6 days at our house

I finally bit the bullet yesterday and purchased our airline tickets to WDW for our "Big Family Bader/Thomas Vacation" in June. There are 31 family members going and I have 8 rooms booked for us all at OKW. So far one of the families has taken advantage of the YES program (thanks again to whoever brought that to my attention) Anyone going to be at WDW June 18th-25th? We are going to try to meet up with Laurie & Darren.

It's a rainy rainy day here, which makes it hard to get started this morning. But I need to get in gear and head into the stores so I can get my work finished so I can get Adam to the airport on time. Hope everyone has a great week

Have A wonderful time. Last time I was there we stayed at OKW. Sounds like you are doing lots of the planing. I hope they all know how lucky they are to have YOU!!!!!!

 

[staffieri]

We haven't gotten our airfare yet...I really need to do that!

I hope everyone is doing well....life here is crazy... cookie season is goin g well..my DD is almost to her goal of 1500 boex and the cupboard is going well with the leaders getting more cookies. Today was supposed to be my "day off" from the cupboard but I just got a call that I am needed so off I will go in about an hour.

I am doing better after my fall..I put my back out and my knee is doing better.

I leave in less then 2 weeks for a MR cruise and need to pick up my in laws on the 19th for the cruise. They have never been on a cruise so this should be fun!

Have a great day! I hope to be more with it soon....I get this way every year...

We haven't either since the deals that have been coming out do not go far enough into the future. Hope we don't regret it!

How you have a wonderful time on your MR Cruise. Can't wait to hear about it.

For those of you who haven't gotten air. I did some research and it was saying that they felt the air prices would only be going up due to oil. For us, I bought and I still thought they were high. Who know is the experts are right. Heres hoping you find GREAT deals.

 

[tracyvansmith]

Hi! We are also going to be on the 8/30 cruise. This will be our third cruise with DCL and our first time to Alaska.

Love the logo for the shirts!

Since we're still "silver", we can't book excursions until early June if we do them through DCL. My fear is that the ones we want will be all booked so I am hoping to have a backup plan and am diligently reading all of your helpful information.

We have our plane tickets purchased. We used miles from Continental; with some creative transferring of miles and insurance, our tickets came to $242 total for 2 of us nonstop from NJ to Vancouver. We will be arriving on 8/29 and spending the night before the cruise at the Pan Pacific. Our flight back is scheduled for 2 pm on 9/6.

I will PM our travel party info.

Well come.

You will love Alaska. It is our number 1 choice for places to cruise. Number 2 would be Panama Canal.

 

[Lollipop's Mom]

Well I just paid the deposit!!!!! Yippee!!!
A week of NO phone or internet after what will be a VERY BUSY work season for me with phone and internet going non-stop!

 

[tracyvansmith]

Well I just paid the deposit!!!!! Yippee!!!
A week of NO phone or internet after what will be a VERY BUSY work season for me with phone and internet going non-stop!

Way to go! What kind of room did you get?

 

[Lollipop's Mom]

I had a gty 11B and hated the thought of a a gty - I like to be at the aft. We had room 5131 before and loved the location - quick up and down to food and drinks, and I tend to get sea sick in the front of the ship.
I have been watching it all day - and all of a sudden an 11A room 7121 came up!! Exact location we love, only $20 more, so I snatched it!

 

[tracyvansmith]

I had a gty 11B and hated the thought of a a gty - I like to be at the aft. We had room 5131 before and loved the location - quick up and down to food and drinks, and I tend to get sea sick in the front of the ship.
I have been watching it all day - and all of a sudden an 11A room 7121 came up!! Exact location we love, only $20 more, so I snatched it!

Nice catch.

 

[staffieri]

I received a hoodie and a long sleeve tee yesterday that I ordered from zazzle.com They turned out great! The day I ordered they were having a half price on shirt day~~~next time I get that code I will pass it along here.

I still need to get several more, but I wasn't for sure how they would turn out with the graphic we have. I ordered the L/S Tee in Natural and the hoodie in white. The XL hoodie I got is really on the big size.

Tee Shirt

Hoodie

Alan doesn't really care for designs on the fronts, so I did it small for him like many shirts you buy. It did take awhile for them to come in, I ordered it on Feb 18th and they came on 3/8. So for now I am waiting on another half off code so I can order for myself.

Love , Love the shirts. How do we get them?
Kimberly

 

[MPS516]

I love that you did this. How do i get on these mailings? I have began most of my search through the web. I will be booking mostly outside of Disney. I fear most tours will be gone by the time we get to book. I have had great success booking outside of the cruise. We too are looking into a Bear watching tour. I think we are going to do a float plane.

Look forward to hearing you thoughts on seeing the "BEST" of each place. I do have a very adventurous 13 yrs old son and a 4 1/2 year old girl that will be coming.

Kimberly,

You can get the book from travelalaska.com inside you will find a section for the Inside Passage that tells you about some of the points of interest. Further back is another section for Inside Passage containing guidebook information, what to do, sightseeing, as well as tour and excursion companies.