August 16 2009 4 night Wonder, Cruise-O-Maniac

[mandymouse]

Hi everyone. I drifted over here from the DIS Unplugged boards. I will be going on the Aug 16 Wonder. This is my first cruise (and I won it from the DIS!) so we're pretty excited. When I get more time, I'll have to go back and catch up on this thread.

Welcome aboard. How cool to win a Cruise, you're so lucky

 

[SSR Lover]

Karen - I love the shirts too! I don't think I could get my husband to wear matching shirts, though, so I've never attempted to make them myself.

Hello WLFan! I actually won my cruise too (from a radio contest). We still can't believe our luck!

 

[WLfan]

Thanks for the welcome! Now I have to catch up!

 

[DisneyWhirled]

Thanks for the welcome! Now I have to catch up!

Welcome!!! How cool that you won!!

 

[VA Girl]

Hi everyone!!! Just wanted to stop by and say hello to everyone!!! We are a group of 16 going on the cruise with you. There are 8 adults and 8 children (ages 6,6,6,7,8,9,9,12). We are all so excited and can't wait!! We would love to join the cruise meet and greet and get to know everybody and have our children meet your children !! We can't wait to be on the cruise and meet everyone!

Gretchen

 

[3smithboys]

Welcome to our new members!

WLfan - it is very cool that you won a cruise! I can't believe we have two winners here!!!


VA Girl - that's quite a group you've got there! It's great that your kids are the same age as many of our kids! We are planning to get the kids together at some point on the first day so they can meet each other. Then we are going to let them go to the kids club together for the first meeting that evening as a group so they feel more comfortable... (do I have that right everyone?) Please feel free to join us!!!

Lani

 

[VA Girl]

Thanks so much for the quick reply. We are sitting here having cocktails, planning our adventures and trying to make sure our children are going to have a good time. We would love to have our children check in with all the other children. Let us know what the details are. Talk with everyone soon!!!

 

[DisneyWhirled]

Welcome to our new members!

WLfan - it is very cool that you won a cruise! I can't believe we have two winners here!!!


VA Girl - that's quite a group you've got there! It's great that your kids are the same age as many of our kids! We are planning to get the kids together at some point on the first day so they can meet each other. Then we are going to let them go to the kids club together for the first meeting that evening as a group so they feel more comfortable... (do I have that right everyone?) Please feel free to join us!!!

Lani

You are spot on, Lani!!

 

[mandymouse]

Hi everyone!!! Just wanted to stop by and say hello to everyone!!! We are a group of 16 going on the cruise with you. There are 8 adults and 8 children (ages 6,6,6,7,8,9,9,12). We are all so excited and can't wait!! We would love to join the cruise meet and greet and get to know everybody and have our children meet your children !! We can't wait to be on the cruise and meet everyone!

Gretchen

Welcome aboard Gretchen, what fun to be cruising in such a big group

Not long till we'll be enjoying Bahama Mama's on deck 9

 

[mandymouse]

Has anyone received their luggage tags yet ? I noticed on the 13th/16th Cruise, they have started to receive theirs

 

[mvlimmex]

We have not received our cruise booklets and luggage tags yet either. I was just thinking about that yesterday too.

welcome Va Girl,

WOW 16 people cruising together. That should be lots of fun!

Have we decided yet on times for our family and kid's meet? Just think--4 weeks from today we will be at Cataway Cay What a relaxing thought

 

[mvlimmex]

We have not received our cruise booklets or luggage tags yet either. I was just thinking about that yesterday too.

VA Girl --Welcome

WOW --16 people in your group. That sounds like it will be a lot of fun!

Did we ever decide what time to have the family/children's meet on the first day, as well as where to meet up at?

Just think---4 weeks from today, we will be at Castaway Cay What a relaxing thought!

Vicki

 

[mvlimmex]

Whoops!!!Sorry for the double post here. I thought I had lost the first one!

Vicki

 

[Keever]

Welcome to the newest families!

Our family can hardly wait. The excitement for our cruise is building; it seems the topic of all our family conversations are about the countdown to our cruise. Is it too early to start packing?

I've started the nametags.

Can I pencil in the family meeting at 3 pm? Promenade Lounge or at the Goofy Pool? This seems the best place for the kids to meet as well.

What time do the kids clubs open?

 

[VA Girl]

Hey everyone!! Thank you for all the warm welcomes.

As far as the meet goes...on all of my previous Disney cruises we have met in the Promenade Lounge at 3pm and it has worked really well. I think the Goofy Pool may be too chaotic and we wouldn't know who was for the meet and who wasn't. In the Promenade Lounge at that time there really isn't anyone in there except for the meet and greet families. Just my thoughts....

We have early dining and are hoping we don't have a problem with all sitting together. I've seen large groups of people sitting together in the past but have never really payed attention to how many there were. I requested for us to all sit together and figure I'll go and see the dining manager to make sure everything is all set. We also want to have Palo Brunch and 6 of us booked it at 10am but the other 2 we added later and I could only get them an 11:30am reservation. I'm hoping they can fix that for us too. I figure I'll let everyone else explore the ship and I'll take care of all these details since I've been on a Disney cruise before and all the other families haven't.

I'm looking forward to meeting everyone and I can't wait to get this vacation started.

Gretchen

 

[DisneyWhirled]

3pm at the Prom. Lounge will be perfect. I didn't realize that the lounge wouldn't be busy.

This way, those with kids and those without can still fee comfortable to meet up and relax without the hullabaloo of people sun bathing and swimming.

Sound good to everyone??

BTW-we haven't gotten anything from DCL yet, either.

 

[3smithboys]

Meeting at 3pm works for us as well. (I am assuming that we are getting all of the kids together then and just grouping them up according to their kids club ages...and introducing them!!! ) Also, We are getting transported from the Dolphin at 12pm using Disney transportation....I have no idea how long it takes to get to the ship and through everything.... will we be able to make it by then?

We haven't received anything from DCL yet either! (But we just found out what cabin we were in last week!!! )

We are getting so excited!!!

(The cruise had better get here soon so I can stop shopping - I keep "picking up stuff" I find here and there that I NEED for this blasted cruise.....ugh )

Lani

 

[mvlimmex]

3 PM at the Prom Lounge sounds great to me too!!!!! We all are really looking forward to this cruise!!!!!!!!!I can't wait!!!!

Vicki

 

[DisneyWhirled]

(The cruise had better get here soon so I can stop shopping - I keep "picking up stuff" I find here and there that I NEED for this blasted cruise.....ugh )

Lani

Me too!!! I still have more stuff to pick up!

We are coming from WDW, too...AKL by way of Happy Limo!

 

[mandymouse]

3pm at the Promenade Lounge is good for me too, I'm looking forward to meeting you all