Aug 3 Western Disney Magic Roll Call

[tinkerbell4two]

If you're on the August 3rd sailing of the Disney Magic, please post here. It might be fun to hook up names & faces!

We have a group of 14
2 grandparents - 40th wedding anniversary and b'day, both 60
6 parents - Our 10th wed ann, both 32; + 35,35,36,38
6 kids - DS 5, DD 4 1/2, DD 3 2/3, DS 3 2/3, DS 3 1/2 and DD 1 1/2
No...the kids are not all mine. Just two sweet angel girls.

Anybody Else? I know you are out there...I've seen your posts!

I JUST CAN'T WAIT!!! Is anybody having pre-cruising parties? We are inviting over the travel agent to give us first hand acounts of her experience.
I think I'll brew up the Konk Kooler recipe to get us in the mood.

 

[mmouse37]

Hi Tinkerbell4two....

We are a group of 17!!! Here goes

Me 43
DH 45
DD18
DS17
DSF17 (son's friend)
DD14
This will be our 6th DCL cruise!!!!

Our friends:
DH 42
DW 40
DD 17
DD 15
DS 8
This will be their 3rd DCL cruise!!!

Our other friends:
DH ? (I feel so silly, I do not know their exact ages...mid-40's)
DW ?
DS16
DS11
DD6
This will be their 1st DCL cruise!!!!

We have a total of six cabins (Cat 9, Deck 2). We are late seating and we are flying down from New York & New Jersey on Friday, August 2nd and staying at the Radisson. Renting vans from Avis at airport.

Our three hubbies are all Port Authority Police Officers. They lost 37 of their fellow officers on 9/11 and this is their first vacation since then. All vacations were suspended due to the 9/11 events. We are soooooo looking forward to some downtime!!!! They have been working 6-7 days a week @ 12 plus hours a day!!!

Bring on the frozen drinks!!!

MJ

 

[Tinky]

We're there!!
Only my group looks sort of punie (sp) next to your groups.
It will be:
Me 35
DH 37 (BUT will be celebrating 38th on the cruise...hee hee)
DD 12
DS 4 1/2
DF 3

This will be our first Disney Cruise and we can't wait.
<perk> who said frozen drinks???

We're also at the Radisson at the Port the night before.
We're still in a holding pattern on our room for the cruise. We have a guarantee Cat 4 so we I guess we'll be on deck 8.
See ya there!

 

[mmouse37]

I think having a pre-cruise party is a very good idea!!! I am going to invite our friends over about a week or two before and have a cruise party. I'll make pina coladas and other asst'd frozen drinks and play steel band Disney music (still waiting for the Beauty and the Beat CD to come from Amazon.com. We will go over all our final travel arrangements.....great idea!!!

MJ

 

[tinkerbell4two]

What is on the Beauty and the Beat CD? We already have Disneys' greatest Hits Volume 1. My DD LOVES it.

How many nice outfits should I bring for the kids? I know I need a tropical outfit, but what about formal nights and regular nights? It turns out that I'll have to bring 15 dresses including for me. TOOO many!!!!

Nicole

 

[ExecuMom]

There's nine of us:

Me - 36
Mark - 37
Matthew 13
Sean 9 1/2
Karen - 28 (newlywed to Keith the week before)
Keith - 35
Chris - 35
Julie 7
Barbara - 60 (Grandmom's second DCL Cruise with us!)

See you all there!!

 

[BarbaraB]

We are also on the August 3 cruise.

Myself 40
DH 42
DD 13
DS 4 1/2
DD 4 1/2 (twins)

Can't wait!!

 

[Jamie]

Also on Aug 3rd!!

Myself and DH ( both 40- Do I really want to anounce that??)
DD 13
DS 10

Staying at the Radisson the night before.

 

[mmouse37]

Beauty and the Beat is steel drum and it has:

A Spoonful of Sugar
Heigh-Ho!
Some Day My Prince Will Come
Under the Sea
Kiss the Girl
Part of your World
Tour of the Kingdom/Wedding Announcement
I Just Can't Wait to be King
Hakuna Matata
Can You Feel the Love Tonight
No Matter What (not sure what this is from)
Beauty and the Beast
Home (not sure what this is from either)
Be Our Guest


MJ

 

[tinkerbell4two]

Thanks! After your recommendation I went out and ordered it thru yahoo. The kids love dancing to the music and DD is always asking me "Now which one is this song?" her favorites are Hakuna Matata and A Spoonful of Sugar.

Who booked their excursions? I'm still trying to decide. I must sit DH down and figure it out. I think we might rent a two person conch car at Key west, snorkel with the stingrays but not sure which company to go thru at GC and at Cozumel, DH wants to see the Tulum Ruins, but I can go without. I'll probably sit on a beach with kids and other family members while DH and brother go to Tulum. Does anyone know how to get a water taxi from Conzumel to the main land? Is it easy? With 4 adults and 4 kids it needs to be easy!

Nicole

 

[mmouse37]

tinkerbell.....I read on one of the recent Western posts about the 11:00 am ferry is only for DCL excursion people. I don't know the times of the ferry if you want to go to the mainland on your own. I think it is about a 40 minute ferry ride, I could be wrong. Once at the mainland I do not know how far the ruins are. I am just a wealth of info today aren't I!!!

Jamie...we are also staying at the Rad the night before. We have DD18, DD14, DS17 and DSF17 (son's friend). Plus about 11 others in our group of varying ages!

MJ

 

[tinkerbell4two]

MJ- What kind of information did you receive in the mail about the excursions? We haven't received any info yet on them via mail, but I think I've found plenty of stuff via the internet.

All payments made....Now we are commited! YEA!!! Is if there was any question.

Nicole

 

[mmouse37]

Hi Nicole. A regular sized envelope came with a Magical Treasures Guide (for ordering some gifts, etc.), a shore excursion pamphlet explaining each of the shore excursions offered at each Port and two front and back pages that were order forms for the excursions. It listed the name of the excursions, age requirements, price, duration and meeting times.

MJ

 

[mmouse37]

bump

 

[MCazer]

Looks like we should be receiving our stuff as well! Can't wait - we are also staying at the Radisson the night before.

 

[tinkerbell4two]

Finally, we received excursion information from our TA. We had a nice pre-cruise dinner with the family and our TA and her DH were able to tell us more about the cruise. We decided to do an adult family excursion on Grand Cayman and everyone will be on their own at Key West and Cozumel. BTW, SIL found lanyards with waterproof card holder for 98¢ at Walmart.

Nicole

 

[mmouse37]

bump

 

[Jhondy(210)]

wow this thread took me forever to find!!!! anyway i'll be on the cruise then i'm 16(F) my twin bro will be there along with my younger sis 10(f) (<-- lol i forgot her age) my older bro 22 his fiance also 22 and my parents.

 

[mmouse37]

Welcome! Glad you found the 8/3 thread. Is this your first Disney cruise? Are you guys coming in to Orlando the morning of the cruise, or the day before? We are staying at the Radisson in Cocoa Beach the night before. The teens (DD18, DS17, DD14, *DDF17, *DDF15, *DSF17, *DSF16 in our large group of 17 plan on hanging out by the pool at the Radisson on Friday 8/2.

*DSF = Disney Son's Friend
*DDF = Disney Daughter's Friend

If this is your first cruise make sure you attend the Teen 411 on the first night so you can meet all the teens onboard. There will be an invitation put in your stateroom sometime during the first day. This will be our 6th Disney cruise.

Also, check out the Teen Daily Navigators at the following website. It list most of the activites for teens so you can get an idea what goes on during the cruise. Just remember the schedule will be a bit different because we will be on the WEstern Itinerary and not the EAstern.

www.castawayclub.com

Look for the Navigators section and click on 7 day teen navigator.

Hope this helps!!

MJ

 

[Jhondy(210)]

Thanks for the info. this cruise isn't my first but i don't remember my first all that well cause i was only 5 at the time so its kinda like my first all over again. we are actually flying in on the 28th and spending time at disney world and then going on the cruise and i have no idea about the hotel alls i remember is it had the name french in it lol.

i probably will attend the teen 411 because i'd like to meet the other teens and i'm only doing the teen party on the yacht thing(also forgot its name) and not doing the other teen excursion.(i can't swim and the other one seemed to have alot to do with water i.e. snorkeling)

well hope to see you all there.