April 5, 2012 5 Night Bahamian Cruise (Dreamfinders)

Good morning! Just 3 short weeks and we'll all be sailing away :fish:

These were our servers from our first Dream cruise, Javier and Sutas. Sutas is our favorite, we had him on one of our first cruises and have asked for him again and again, such a great guy!!!!!!!!!!
This is in the Royal Palace restaurant. My favorite, love the murals!

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Hi all!

I have been seriously MIA on this thread, but life has gotten in the way. Kids busy, work busy (just launched a new Disney cruise blog!)...probably the same for everyone.

I am getting really excited about our cruise. I cruised with a girlfriend a few weeks ago on the Dream and we had a great time. LOVED IT ALL! I have part I of my review on my old blog (link below).

As we were leaving port, I got a call from my friend (who owns the TA that I work for) with news that we finally got a spot on the Fantasy preview cruise on March 23. I am getting seriously spoiled with all of the cruising I have done, and my family is getting seriously annoyed because I keep leaving them! But we will be sailing as a family on this cruise and it will finally be more vacation than work...yes, I am completely aware of how ridiculous that sounds.

I was wondering if eveyone has fancy fish extenders or if anyone was going with a more simple plan. I saw a family on my last cruise who just hung a decorated gift bag from their hook and it seemed to work great for them. I just ordered some pillowcases from etsy for autographs, but I am thinking dh just might kill me if I spent another $40 on a fancy fish extender! He is on a bit of a tirade about eliminating "unnecessary expenses" and he, of course has a good point. What are you guys doing? Any other quick/easy/cheap FE ideas?

Also, if anyone has any questions about any recent changes, etc on the Dream, let me know. Hopefully, I can help!
 
one other question...are we doing the gifts anonomyously or are we signing our names?
 
Good morning! Just 3 short weeks and we'll all be sailing away :fish:

These were our servers from our first Dream cruise, Javier and Sutas. Sutas is our favorite, we had him on one of our first cruises and have asked for him again and again, such a great guy!!!!!!!!!!
This is in the Royal Palace restaurant. My favorite, love the murals!

How fun, I wasn't sure if we could request our same servers as we had on previous cruises.

Ginnymack- bookmarked your site.

I was also just wondering on FE if we sign, too. I was inclined not too, because I love anonymous fun!
And i may be in the decorative gift bag option, myself, if my fancy FE that I ordered doesn't arrive.

Justin in the sun by d2stobb, on Flickr
 

Hi,
In regards to FE, you can leave them anonymous or sign them. It really is up to you. We always sign ours, but either way is fine.

I am hoping to send out room numbers soon, but am still waiting for 2 people to get back to me on room numbers. If I don't get them soon, I may just send out the list without them and then hope they send me their room number for me to send to you.

By the way I may have missed this, but are we having a Dis meet on the first day. What time and where are we meeting?

Thanks,
Vicki
 
We ordered 200 so they'd be cheap and we'd have them for jmultiple cruises so yes I have plenty. We're up to about 45 so far! It'll be cool being able to spot our fellow DIS'ers at the port and on the ship!
Laura

Hi Laura,
We got our wristbands today. Thanks for sending them out. :goodvibesWe are excited about wearing them on the cruise.:thumbsup2

Vicki
 
I vote to do the 5K on the first day on Castaway Cay. With all that food and drink I'm not sure I'll be able to walk it let alone run the second day. popcorn::

P90X :worship: I'm already intimidated.
 
Hi,
In regards to FE, you can leave them anonymous or sign them. It really is up to you. We always sign ours, but either way is fine.

I am hoping to send out room numbers soon, but am still waiting for 2 people to get back to me on room numbers. If I don't get them soon, I may just send out the list without them and then hope they send me their room number for me to send to you.

By the way I may have missed this, but are we having a Dis meet on the first day. What time and where are we meeting?

Thanks,
Vicki

Hey Vicki,
We'll be at the family pool, starboard side (terminal side) in the middle of the ship at 3pm for the Dis meet!! Look for green wristbands! lol :cool1:
Mike
 
Hey Vicki,
We'll be at the family pool, starboard side (terminal side) in the middle of the ship at 3pm for the Dis meet!! Look for green wristbands! lol :cool1:
Mike

Sounds great. We will be there with our green wristbands.:)

Vicki
 
Laura -- got the wristbands, thanks!

We signed our FE gifts -- part of it is personal to us, so it seemed natural to sign it. As for the extender, I bought $1 felt tote bags and followed instructions for make-my-own FE but sewed on the felt bags instead of trying to make gusseted pockets. So not fancy, but not too shabby...I think!

So excited!!
 
anyone been able to find the menu for the last night of the cruise? I think it is called "See you real soon", but I haven't been able to find it anywhere!

also, anyone know the rough itinerary of shows for our cruise? I know we will see Believe the last night and I think Golden Mickey's and Villians are the other shows. 1 night for a movie and 1 night for an "act". But looking for the order--everything I seem to find doesn't fit our sailing (Thursday embarkation) and/or Nassau on Sunday. I guess I could call DCL, but everyone here is so informative!

TIA!
 
My guess is that Villains will be Night 2 and Golden Mickeys Night 3. That's only because it doesn't seem from other itineraries like there is a show on Pirate Night, which is Night 4 for us and it looks like Golden Mickeys is semi-formal night. But as I said - just a guess.

I can't believe how soon the trip is! My kids (especially the 13 year old) have grown leaps and bounds since last summer. I'd better figure out if any of their summer clothes still fit!

Laurie
 
We leave 2 weeks from today :woohoo: which is so hard to believe. We are camping at Ft. Wildreness first and then going on this cruise.:thumbsup2 We can't wait! I can't believe how close it is getting.

Vicki
 
Love the posts folks, keep um coming!:yay:

I'm struggling with magnets for this cruise. The design forums don't seem as active as they used to be and I have a limited imagination.

Thinking about something with Dream and Spring Fling but haven't settled on a design. Well if that's my biggest concern I guess I'm in pretty good shape :rotfl:

The adult pool on Dream. We like to hang out on the floor above where there are lots of loungers.
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I've just done some real simple magnets. I took disney cardstock (from the scrapbooking store) cutout the images I wanted, glue them to fun foam, and glued the magnet tape on back. They're cute and if someone takes them no big deal.

Vicki - will you please send out the stateroom numbers for the FEs. We can add the participants you don't have later. :thumbsup2 I just need to get mine done. Thanks
 
I called DCL today, here's what they said for 4/5 Disney Dream sailing......

Movies: Cars 2, Muppets, The Help, War Horse, Reel Steel, John Carter in 2d and 3d


Thurs nt is casual
Fr nt is semi formal
Sat nt is pirate night
Sun nt is casual
Mon nt is casual

Unfortunately, the agent I spoke with did not know what the line-up was for the entertainment......she said they do not access to that info.
 
I called DCL today, here's what they said for 4/5 Disney Dream sailing......

Movies: Cars 2, Muppets, The Help, War Horse, Reel Steel, John Carter in 2d and 3d


Thurs nt is casual
Fr nt is semi formal
Sat nt is pirate night
Sun nt is casual
Mon nt is casual

Unfortunately, the agent I spoke with did not know what the line-up was for the entertainment......she said they do not access to that info.

Thanks for Sharing!! Great Movies, we were hoping John carter would be int the line up.
I am going to start packing this week- my. Countdown is 13 days till in WDW :tinker:
My Fancy FE, ordered on eBay... May not make it in time. I am bummed about that, and need to start planning a back up.

Untitled by d2stobb, on Flickr
 
I'm struggling with magnets for this cruise. The design forums don't seem as active as they used to be and I have a limited imagination.

Thinking about something with Dream and Spring Fling but haven't settled on a design. Well if that's my biggest concern I guess I'm in pretty good shape :rotfl:

Here's one of my magnet designs that I'm using. It belongs to another designer who is no longer active on here. Feel free to use it if you'd like.

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Thanks for the info on the movies!
 
Thanks Tammi67, that's cute! I'm glad John Carter will be there too. We've never actually gone to a movie in the Buena Vista theater, might have to try it!
 

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