April 19, 2008 - Western - VERY Early Roll Call - Anyone??!!

[lilo62]

Just wanted to bump this to keep it active!

How is everyone?!

 

[cmaelltt1]

Hello everyone,

This sure is a quiet bunch so far. I've been reading the last 10 pages and figured I better speak up and say hello.

My name is Carrie. My family and I are booked on this cruise. We booked onboard the eastern cruise the week after Thanksgiving. That was our first cruise and we loved it so much. My husband, Kevin, and my 3 kids are very much looking forward to going on the western route. I am especially excited to see Key West. It has been on my list of places I want to visit for years. My kids are Lauryn, almost 15, Maysen, 8, and Jamie, 6. (ages in April 08).
The older 2 are girls and my son is the baby. We live in Virginia and will drive to FL. I'm also trying to talk my parents into joining us.

That's it for now.

 

[anty30]

Welcome Carrie and fam.

My DS will be 7 on the cruise so I guess Jamie and will be with him in the club.

You are going to love the western ports. They are beautiful. Any plans so far? Excursions? Which dining do you have?

Antoinette

 

[DisneyMomforLife]

Hi everyone!!

I am about 99% sure that I will "officially" end up on this meet thread but I could be jumping the gun!!

We are previous one-time Disney cruisers and when we got off of the Wonder back in October of 2006, I said to my husband, "so, if I don't bother you for any quick 3 or 4 night cruises in 2007, can we do a 7 night on the Magic in 2008?" And of course, since in 06 a cruise in 08 sounded so far away ... he said yes. Well, I just hit him up with the old, "you said so ... and you know that the sooner we book, the cheaper the prices will be" and he said FINE! We'll book in two months!!!

We will most likely be traveling with his brother and my sister in law and their 3 kids who have never cruised before but heard so many wonderful things about our first one, that they want to do it now. We are pretty much sure that the Western will win out due to the itinerary but the only problem I can see with it is that the Eastern on the 12th actually lines up with the vacation week for the kids. BUT, that might not matter since we usually take them out of school so as to NOT be on the same week as vacation so ... I think this is where I should be!!

At any rate, I am super excited beyond even any words at all. We are HUGE Disney fans and my husband has said that out of all of our trips, our 3 nights on the WONDER was probably one of our best vacations ever and we try to travel as much as we can so that meant a lot.

Has anyone here done the Western yet? I guess I'll be reading up a few Western trip reports over the next few months. I would be happy with 5 days on Castaway Cay but I think everyone would. My dd9 and I parasailed last time and I will be insisting that my husband and DS17 do it this time as well. It was so amazing.

Well, hope you all have a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all of the MOMS out there!!!


Kat

 

[anty30]

Hi everyone!!

I am about 99% sure that I will "officially" end up on this meet thread but I could be jumping the gun!!

We are previous one-time Disney cruisers and when we got off of the Wonder back in October of 2006, I said to my husband, "so, if I don't bother you for any quick 3 or 4 night cruises in 2007, can we do a 7 night on the Magic in 2008?" And of course, since in 06 a cruise in 08 sounded so far away ... he said yes. Well, I just hit him up with the old, "you said so ... and you know that the sooner we book, the cheaper the prices will be" and he said FINE! We'll book in two months!!!

We will most likely be traveling with his brother and my sister in law and their 3 kids who have never cruised before but heard so many wonderful things about our first one, that they want to do it now. We are pretty much sure that the Western will win out due to the itinerary but the only problem I can see with it is that the Eastern on the 12th actually lines up with the vacation week for the kids. BUT, that might not matter since we usually take them out of school so as to NOT be on the same week as vacation so ... I think this is where I should be!!

At any rate, I am super excited beyond even any words at all. We are HUGE Disney fans and my husband has said that out of all of our trips, our 3 nights on the WONDER was probably one of our best vacations ever and we try to travel as much as we can so that meant a lot.

Has anyone here done the Western yet? I guess I'll be reading up a few Western trip reports over the next few months. I would be happy with 5 days on Castaway Cay but I think everyone would. My dd9 and I parasailed last time and I will be insisting that my husband and DS17 do it this time as well. It was so amazing.

Well, hope you all have a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all of the MOMS out there!!!


Kat

Hi Kat.
I see you are from Norwalk. My DH works there! Also, Lilo and her DH live in CT. I hope you end up joining us.
FYI:You should call DCL soon because there was another post about how our ship was all booked. I would hate to see you and your family miss out on this cruise.
My family did the western in 2006. We loved it. So much so that we are going again!
You must do Stingray city in GC. It was the highlight of our trip. We plan on doing Dolphin Discovery in Coz next year. Also, the Pirate Encounter in GC looks good.
Keep us updated with your cruise plans. Have a great Mothers Day.
Antoinette

 

[Mass-cateer]

We will be joining you on the April 19 cruise on the Magic. (Jennifer, Jeff, Jordan - 12, Jillian - 10)

We sailed the Eastern last month and booked this one while on board. We have sailed on the Magic twice now, both times Eastern Itinerary. We are excited that this cruise will be the Western. Our friends here in Massachusetts got us hooked on the Disney cruise in April 2005, they will be on the crusie next year as well.

Looking forward to researching the excursions offered on the Western stops. We are big watersports and snorkel fans so I am sure we will find something fun. Last month we went on the snorkel trip in St. Thomas aboard the Dabloon pirate sail boat to turtle cove. Saw some turtles and had so much fun on the boat. The crew was awesome.

Anyway, looking forward to "waiting" until April with you on this board.

 

[conny264]

Hello and a big welcome to all of you,who joined us.
Just back from 2 wonderful weeks in Scotland,so the next vacation will be the cruise.
Can´t wait.
Greetings from Germany
Conny

 

[cmaelltt1]

Thanks for the hello. I am still not sure about excursions. We started planning for our first Cruise in 2004 for a 2005 sailing. We ended up postponing for a year because my dh had some job issues. So it was a long time to be thinking of a cruise. After we got off in December I decided to take some time and not think about it at all. I didn't even start any cruise scrapbooking. But now I'm ready to start thinking again and need to read up on some excursions.

I know that Kevin wants to see some of the ruins in Mexico and my daughter wants to swim with the dolphins. I'm not exactly sure how that will work out. We didn't do any excurions on the Eastern Cruise. My oldest did the teen excursion on Castaway but that is all. I really enjoyed not doing any. So I don't want to over schedule this one either. It's nice to be on the ships while everyone else is off. We did get off the ship to walk around at every port.

For those that have cruised this route before, what were your favorite excursions?

We have the late dinner. I enjoyed it last time and the kids did great with it. But since we had the clocks set back most of the time, it wasn't a huge change. I am a little worried about it on this sailing. Do we change the clocks at all? I would like to get the 8:00 seating which would be a bit better than the 8:30 that we had before. Is therer a way to lock into that before we sail?

I don't think I mentioned before but we will be having 2 (connected) outside staterooms. I don't remeber the number right now. But it's mid-ship. My parents have decided not to come. So it will just be our family again.

My son asks all the time when can we cruise again so he can go down the Mickey slide.

Can't wait to sail again.

Welcome Carrie and fam.

You are going to love the western ports. They are beautiful. Any plans so far? Excursions? Which dining do you have?

Antoinette

 

[conny264]

Hi Carrie.
We are planning on doing the Tullum Excursion with Disney in Cozumel.If your husband is interested why don´t you consider splitting up?You could go to the DOlphin swim with the kids and so everybody is happy.Although I´m not sure how you would fell about going seperate ways.It was just a thought.
For Grand Cayman we áre planning on doing a snorkel/Stingray excursion with Captain Marvin.
I think there is a time change on the Western,but don´t know exactly when and how.
Greetings from Germany

 

[yogibigdog]

We will be joining you on the April 19 cruise on the Magic. (Jennifer, Jeff, Jordan - 12, Jillian - 10)

We sailed the Eastern last month and booked this one while on board. We have sailed on the Magic twice now, both times Eastern Itinerary. We are excited that this cruise will be the Western. Our friends here in Massachusetts got us hooked on the Disney cruise in April 2005, they will be on the crusie next year as well.

Looking forward to researching the excursions offered on the Western stops. We are big watersports and snorkel fans so I am sure we will find something fun. Last month we went on the snorkel trip in St. Thomas aboard the Dabloon pirate sail boat to turtle cove. Saw some turtles and had so much fun on the boat. The crew was awesome.

Anyway, looking forward to "waiting" until April with you on this board.

Where you on the 04/14/07 Magic?
I remember seeing your name. We were on the 04/14/07 Magic and also rebooked onboard.
We had such great time!
to all the new Dis'er this is shaping up to be a great thread.

 

[Mass-cateer]

Yogibigdog,

We did cruise the 4/14 Eastern last month. I recognize your screen name from the 4/14 Thread. We had so much fun that we booked onboard for next year.

 

[pwgs]

(Bump)

It's been to quiet...

 

[anty30]

I agree. it has been quiet. How is everyone doing? I followed the Med repo cruise. It sounds like it was very cold and rocky.

 

[Tinkified]

Hi to everyone too from NY. Spring is finally in full swing with Summer around the corner....busy mowing and planting instead of reading and posting!


Welcome to any new families I may have missed.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Michelle

 

[Angiefromalberta]

Hi everyone,
I was thinking about the cruise constantly and then we decided to build a new home and I haven't been thinking about the trip much at all lately. I am not sure if that is good or not. It is kind of nice to focus on something else for a while at it was becoming an obsession.

I am going to order some pirate costumes soon. I think it will give us something else to get excited about in the interm.

I am just watching "The Lot" right now. I like it. I watched it last night and thought it was really funny.

Angie

 

[OSUBuckly]

Hello everybody,

Glad to see this board has been created. My fiance and will be be onboard this cruise as well. This will be a very special cruise for us because it is our official HONEYMOON. Very exciting indeed. We are getting married on April 18 in Orlando, just the day before, so will we truly be NEWlyweds! Very exciting indeed.

This will be our second Disney cruise. We did a four day stint on the Wonder back in September of 2006. That trip included a lot of family so it will be quite different with it being just the two of us. I know we'd like a night at Palo and a few evenings at Sessions (the Cadillac Lounge of the Magic, correct?) but other than that, no excursions planned. I'll do some more extensive research in the upcoming months to set up some activities. I know it will include some quality spa time and the ruins in Cozumel.

We are staying in a Category 5 on Deck 7. Late dinner seating. I figured that is best for us as we are a young couple with no children. I guess that is all the info I have right now for introductions. It will be very nice chatting with you all and I can't wait until the trip!

 

[conny264]

A big welcome from Germany and Congartulations on your upcoming wedding.
Conny

 

[OSUBuckly]

Thanks, Conny. Very exciting, but stressful times. April 19 will be quite the relief.

 

[rantnnravin]

Ahoy Mateys!!!
The Rant Family here, asking permission to come aboard.

This will be our first cruise EVER and will ahve mmmmaaaaaannnnyyyyy questions about onboard and in-port activities.

Our crew:
Me
DH - Ed
Jordan - age 8

Anchors Aweigh!!!

 

[conny264]

Permission granted,welcome onboard.
I´m sure,we all try our best to answer any questions,so go ahaed and ask.

Greetings from Germany
Conny