...and a happy New Year! 12/30/2010

[sdchickie]

Your name or what you go by.. Terri

State I reside in...Maryland

Traveling with... DD and DS

Land and sea or sea only....land and sea...

Have you cruised before... several times, but this will only be our second on Disney.

What will you celebrate... NYE!!! and my dd's 14th B-Day, and my son's 10th B-day.

Dressing up for pirate night. ..Definately, although we don't go all out.

Dressing up for semi and or formal night. . . We wear nice clothes, but not ball gowns.

Favorite character... Mine- Tink and Mickey, DD- Tink, DS- Chip and Dale and Pluto

Time of dinner seating...early

Just for laughs...

Coke, pepsi, or pina colada's... Diet Coke, but the DOTD is yummy too!

Sun or shade... Nothing better than laying around in the shade!

Morning or night person... a little bit of both

Last book read... Wicked, although I don't like it nearly as much as the play!

Taking a book on the cruise... No, there's way to many other things to keep me busy.
I have also started running so I hope to do the Castaway Cay 5K on this trip.

 

[niklynn1]

How about this for a graphic...

Does anyone know how to size it down for signatures once we get the one we like?

I can also post the full size one if someone is interested once we decide on the graphic.

Laura

Yikes... I just noticed the text was crooked so I will fix that if you like this graphic

Laura--These graphics are GREAT, and I really love the title of "Cruising into a Wonderful New Year"!

 

[lucky1]

Can we add this to the first post so we can keep a running tally of who's on board? Also, do we want to do a FE and if we do we might want to add who's participating to the list.

Unfortunately the OP of this Thread dropped off this cruise, so we can not edit it.

 

[Marcy Mouse]

Is your mom Niklynn1?

Sorry wrong post.

 

[Marcy Mouse]

Laura--These graphics are GREAT, and I really love the title of "Cruising into a Wonderful New Year"!

I second the title of "Cruising into a WONDERful New Year"

 

[Marcy Mouse]

Your name or what you go by... Marcy

State I reside in.. Prince Edward Island, Canada

Traveling with...my immediate and extended family

Land and sea or sea only....not 100% sure yet

Have you cruised before... yes - We will be Gold CC members for this cruise!

What will you celebrate...NYE and family and friends

Dressing up for pirate night. ... nope

Dressing up for semi and or formal night. . . NYE only

Favorite character... Donald/Goofy

Favorite Disney memory... 2002 First time walking into the Magic Kingdom.

3 must do's...Pelican Plunge (Did it in May and it was a blast), Palo (haven't done it yet), and relax and enjoy myself

Time of dinner seating...late.

Coke, pepsi, or pina colada's... Milk - Don't know why but I've always been a milk drinker/

Sun or shade... no preference

Morning or night person... night owl

Taking a book on the cruise... nope

 

[twokats]

Can we add this to the first post so we can keep a running tally of who's on board? Also, do we want to do a FE and if we do we might want to add who's participating to the list.

TwoKats - Kathy + DH, DD24, DM
TxsleepingBeauty - Kari + DM, Dcousin, DAunt
RoseQuartz - Connie + DH
Lucky1 - Laura + DH, DD8
Niklynn - + DD15, DS12
Marcy Mouse - Marcy + DH, DS16, Dsis, DF, DSM, DBrother15, DBrother13
Amygail24 - Amy + DD13, DS10
Sdchickie - Terri + DD14, DS9

As lucky1 said the OP dropped out of this cruise, but since lucky1 and I decided I would be keeper of the FE list (lucky1, my spreadsheet matches yours!!!) and I am also the second poster, which should be close enough to the top to easily find, I will edit my 1st post to include this list.

Just let me know if you want to be included on the FE and we will get all the pertinent info as we get closer to cruisetime.

 

[sdchickie]

As lucky1 said the OP dropped out of this cruise, but since lucky1 and I decided I would be keeper of the FE list (lucky1, my spreadsheet matches yours!!!) and I am also the second poster, which should be close enough to the top to easily find, I will edit my 1st post to include this list.

Just let me know if you want to be included on the FE and we will get all the pertinent info as we get closer to cruisetime.

Sounds good, and yep I'm in for the FE.

 

[lucky1]

Have you cruised before... yes - We will be Gold CC members for this cruise!

What will you celebrate...NYE and family and friends


3 must do's...Pelican Plunge (Did it in May and it was a blast), Palo (haven't done it yet), and relax and enjoy myself

Marcy - Congratulations on the gold status. This is our 3rd cruise, so we have a ways to go to get to Gold. We have MR booked in April!
With the gold status you will be able to book Palo's sooner. YOu will enjoy it. We have done Dinner and Brunch. I may be the only one but I did prefer dinner over Brunch. Most prefer the Brunch. Since we are not going to be on he magic I am going to miss the Palo server we had on our Oct cruise. He was great.

Laura

 

[sdchickie]

I have heard that they have more stuff on the longer cruises aboard the Magic. Like pirate bandanas, streamers for the send off party ect. Do you guys thing they will have those little "extras" since it's the Wonder? Has anyone been on a longer Wonder cruise? I was looking at our itenerary and saw that CC is the last stop, I hope they don't take the decorations down before we get there. I'm really excited to see the island all done up. When I asked my TA about the decorations she said that Disney hasn't decided when they are taking all the stuff down yet. I wonder where they store the decorations for CC? Do they take it off the island or store it there?

 

[twokats]

We have done Dinner and Brunch. I may be the only one but I did prefer dinner over Brunch. Most prefer the Brunch.
Laura

Laura, Everything I have read says they prefer Brunch. We did not do Palo on our last cruise and since we don't want to give up one of the restaurants, we are thinking about doing brunch.

 

[twokats]

I was looking at our itenerary and saw that CC is the last stop, I hope they don't take the decorations down before we get there. I'm really excited to see the island all done up. When I asked my TA about the decorations she said that Disney hasn't decided when they are taking all the stuff down yet. I wonder where they store the decorations for CC? Do they take it off the island or store it there?

If they do it like at WDW, then they have a specific area and building that everything is stored in. Since there is a whole side that we can't see that is a possibility. We know there are some buildings there for the skeleton crew that lives there (at least there should be!!!).

 

[lucky1]

I have heard that they have more stuff on the longer cruises aboard the Magic. Like pirate bandanas, streamers for the send off party ect. Do you guys thing they will have those little "extras" since it's the Wonder? Has anyone been on a longer Wonder cruise? I was looking at our itenerary and saw that CC is the last stop, I hope they don't take the decorations down before we get there. I'm really excited to see the island all done up. When I asked my TA about the decorations she said that Disney hasn't decided when they are taking all the stuff down yet. I wonder where they store the decorations for CC? Do they take it off the island or store it there?

Terri - I would think they would have these for the longer cruises, at least I hope, plus all the "at Sea" things they do each day.

On our October 2009 Western Cruise, they didn't give out streamers for the sail away party only the cast Members had them.(we brought our own) . The pirate bandanna were cut in half. But I heard they will do some extra stuff on NYE, such as a big party and balloon drop.

I am wondering if they will have the Toy Story show or a different one? Since we have only been on the Magic, not sure how different things will be since this ship comes off from doing shorter cruises to longer cruises.

One thing they did tell me is that they get everything they need for that cruise at PC or will barter for something (if it food related from other cruise ships in the same port), but they never get anything from their ports of call.

 

[sdchickie]

One thing they did tell me is that they get everything they need for that cruise at PC or will barter for something (if it food related from other cruise ships in the same port), but they never get anything from their ports of call.

That's interesting, I wonder if it has anything to do with customs and the ban on outside produce/plants.
I was also thinking last night that I hope they don't do less of a party if the ship has the small amount of people that it seems like it might have. As long as they don't cancel this one I'll be happy! I wouldn't mind a less than full ship! My Dream cruise in Aug 2011 has been almost full since the begining of this year. Can't wait to see the line for the aquaduck!

 

[lucky1]

That's interesting, I wonder if it has anything to do with customs and the ban on outside produce/plants.
I was also thinking last night that I hope they don't do less of a party if the ship has the small amount of people that it seems like it might have. As long as they don't cancel this one I'll be happy! I wouldn't mind a less than full ship! My Dream cruise in Aug 2011 has been almost full since the begining of this year. Can't wait to see the line for the aquaduck!

From what I am reading the ship will sail close to full, they will offer TA incentives or other offers as time passes.. Full is kind of a relative term since you can have every room occupied with 2 persons, but on a full ship, there could be 3 to 4 people per room. But they will never go over capacity

 

[lucky1]

Darn... Why is airfare so high! I have been checking almost daily for airfare from Arizona to MCO and it is so expensive. Hopefully when SW comes out with their rates next week, prices will drop for a while.

FYI.. we don't have our airfare yet for this cruise.

 

[revrob]

we'll be joining in on this cruise!
We are a family of 4
Shannon, Robert, Ethan (14) & AbbyGrace (7)

We just cruised in March 2010, and when we came upon the great deal, decided that we HAD to take this cruise!

My DH and I will be celebrating our 16th anniverssary on 12/30 - so that is exciting!

 

[lucky1]

Shannon! Glad to see you join us. What a great anniversary present!

We are going to have lots of celebrations on the ship from this group.

 

[castaway3]

Hi..we just booked this cruise and are so excited about having a holiday on the Disney Cruise..There are 3 of us myself Christine..DH Mike..DS Bryce who will be 10 by then..we just got off a short cruise on May 16th and didn't see any great deals until this one came up. Doing the happy dance

 

[lucky1]

christine! Has been a pretty amazing deal since the one on the Magic is only 5 days and is $700 more.