August 22, 2015 - Fantasy Western

[medic318]

I'm not sure if we are doing fish extender yet. The whole cruise is might be very tight financially so we are planning on saving our pennies...and nickels and dimes and quarters too.

We have an ocean view stateroom deck 2.

 

[hgambaro124]

We will be booking this cruise this week! It will be me, dh and ds age 5 at time of sailing this will be our 4th disney cruise our first was the wonder when we got married in 2008! We will be celebrating our 6th anniversay on this cruise!

 

[mommy2tati]

We are in a 5E on deck 8. This will be my 8th DCL cruise, 2nd on the Fantasy. We did the eastern last year around the same time. So excited about sailing on this cruise for a couple of reasons: it's a reunion for a bunch of fabulous people & it's our last big vacation until 2018.

 

[Ntrain]

We booked a 5E on Deck 9.

 

[Nilda2010]

Hello,

I am booked! I want to join the FE. Did it last year for the first time and loved it. It would be me, DH, DS 16 and DD 7. I am on deck 2 ocean view. Loved being close to the enchanted garden .

I can not believe the main dining is sold out! So early.

 

[Cj1977]

this will be our 3 disney cruise, first time on the fantasy. My name is jane (from toronto Canada) and I will traveling with my parents, husband and my 3 boys (11,8,4) I can't wait to do the FE again we had so much fun. So count us in.

 

[KSBelle77]

I just put our deposit down for this cruise. This will be my first cruise, let alone a Disney Cruise. I am excited for the FE. We booked for deck 10 and are at the back of the ship. I am so excited, the only things that are standing in the way of this cruise is graduation and the KS Bar exam. See you all soon.

 

[hgambaro124]

Booking today we will be on deck 5 or 6 we would do the fe as long as we try to keep groups small lol my last one was 80+ people and that was too much
2 more people will be joining us so now it will be my husband 33, me 35, my son 5, my niece 3 and her mom 32 we are super excited!

 

[o4me2playn]

Hi All!

Wes and I moved this Cruise a couple of times before finally saying "this is the one!" We were supposed to do the first Fantasy Jamaica cruise this year over Mother's Day but I fell and broke my wrist last Nov and had to use all of my vacation time before disability kicked in!

This will be our 5th cruise - we did a B2B on the Fantasy in October 2012 and NEVER wanted to get off the ship, in fact, I cried when we were walking off.

We'll be in Room 10024 - which we had on the last trip - and LOVED IT! Got to see the Captain walking to the bridge every day - so over 14 days we were on a First Name basis!

Really looking forward to this cruise and meeting everyone! You will most likely find me laying in the sun and reading a book - Wes will be in the smoking area or at Currents having a beer (or 2) HA!


Looking foreward to chatting with you all!

 

[esmom]

Hi All,

We booked this cruise, our 1st, a few days ago. Sooo excited!
my DH, DD 10 (at cruise time), DD 7(at c.t.) and I will be on deck 5.

I've been pouring through my Pass Porters Cruise book and many, many of the dis threads trying to get a sense of what to expect.

Looking forward to getting to know some of our cruise mates!

 

[dizneeat]

I am very sorry I have not had time to welcome everyone to our meet thread, but Tom has been granted a three week spa treatment in the Austrian Alps and I went to visit him every weekend (he's coming home on Thursday again).

Here are a few impressions .......





















They were three really beautiful weekends, but there was not much time left for anything else.​

 

[dizneeat]

I can't believe how fast this thread has grown!

Karin!!!

OMG I'm sailing with you again finally!!!!

Hi everyone!

I'm Ileana and I'll be sailing with my DD13 Tatiyana. This will be our 7th DCL cruise. No wait 8th. We're in for FE.

Ileana!!!!!!!!!
It's great to know we can cruise together again! I think you were on the cruise after we got off the Fantasy last summer, weren't you? Did you sail with Sil (silmarg)?

Just letting everyone know that our family will be sailing this August 22 Western Cruise with you. Our party consists of myself, DH, DD12 and DD9. So excited and can't wait!

Welcome!
Great to know you are on board!

We booked this cruise today and it will be our 3rd cruise on the Fantasy, 5th cruise overall. My husband, DD (13), DS (10) and I are SUPER excited!

Welcome!
Great to have you on board! This will be our third cruise on the Fantasy as well - 15th cruise overall though.

We also just booked this cruise this morning...it will be our 4th Disney cruise. Our family is from Wisconsin --- myself, DH, and DS (10 at time of cruise). As for the FE, we would love to join in. We did the FE for the first time on our last cruise and loved it! Looking forward to getting to know everyone.

Welcome!
Great to have you on board! 4th Disney cruise for you - awesome! What ships have you been on? Great to have you join the FE as well.

 

[dizneeat]

We are booked on this cruise as well! Our sailing party consists of myself, DH, DD(11) and DD(9). This will be our 12th Disney cruise as a family. Looking forward to getting to know everyone over the next year or so.

Welcome!
Great to have such experienced cruisers on board with us!

We just changed our April 2015 5-night on the Wonder trip to this cruise. Can't wait to get to know everyone. This will be our first Disney cruise. DH and I have done 3 prior cruises (about 10 years ago).

We are:
Kim (me)
Ryan (DH)
Evan (DS1) who will be 9 at the time of sailing.
Joel (DS2) who will be 8 at the time of sailing.

So excited to be on the Fantasy for 7 nights.

Kim

Welcome!
Glad to have you on board! You picked a great ship for your DCL cruise! The Fantasy is a beautiful ship and there is so much to see and do!

Howdy Gang!

Just booked this cruise tonight, changed our dummy cruise to this 1. This will be our second disney cruise. Our 1st was the Fantasy eastern in June 2013. We can wait, but our trip to WDW in 15 days will have to hold us over.

So far its myself, DW, DD (9 currently), and DS (4 currently).

We are trying to sell a few other friends and relatives on going also. I was a little shocked as my TA said early dining was already closed out. Is that normal?

Welcome!
Great that you are going to spend your second Fantasy cruise with us!
Jealous of your WDW trip - we are not going to the US this summer - a Med cruise and 10 days at DLRP for us.
It's strange that early dining is all sold out. Have your TA put a request in for it - with the time we still have going, I am sure it will come through.

We are from Wisconsin too. In Racine, just south of Milwaukee. Yeah for Wisconsin!


And we are in for the FE if I needed to specifically say that. I think it will be great.

can't beleive there are so many of us already.

Kim

Kim, I put you on the FE list as well.

 

[dizneeat]

I am so excited about this cruise I can hardly stand myself.

We booked on Thursday.. Researched our room and then switched our room today. We booked a cat 8c and we thought all of them had the murphy beds. When we googled our room we realized ours didn't have it. So now we are in a room with a murphy bed. Still 8c.

My boys don't seem to like to sleep on a bunk. They like to play on them, just not sleep there. So we wanted the murphy. Feeling a little guilty that we may have taken that room away from a family of 5 who would need it.

I am so thrilled by that window with the seat. i can see my boys sitting there just staring out the window.

What rooms is everyone else in? I will admit, I secretly would like a verandah, but don't want to worry about my boys out on it.

Kim

Kim, don't worry about booking that room - there are lots more left on the ship.
Tom and I are in a 4a - which is a family stateroom as well. But since we are staying in it for 2 weeks that little extra space makes a lot of a difference for us.
You need to get what you feel comfortable with.

I'm not sure if we are doing fish extender yet. The whole cruise is might be very tight financially so we are planning on saving our pennies...and nickels and dimes and quarters too.

We have an ocean view stateroom deck 2.

You can still decide if you want to join the FE lateron - we have more than a year to go.

We will be booking this cruise this week! It will be me, dh and ds age 5 at time of sailing this will be our 4th disney cruise our first was the wonder when we got married in 2008! We will be celebrating our 6th anniversay on this cruise!

Hope you have already booked your cruise, or will do so soon. I'll add you when you are booked.

We are in a 5E on deck 8. This will be my 8th DCL cruise, 2nd on the Fantasy. We did the eastern last year around the same time. So excited about sailing on this cruise for a couple of reasons: it's a reunion for a bunch of fabulous people & it's our last big vacation until 2018.

Last big vacation? Please say it isn't so. And who is your reunion with? Will they sign up here too?

Hello,

I am booked! I want to join the FE. Did it last year for the first time and loved it. It would be me, DH, DS 16 and DD 7. I am on deck 2 ocean view. Loved being close to the enchanted garden .

I can not believe the main dining is sold out! So early.

Welcome!
Great to have you on board! Nilda, haven't we been on the same cruise last year?

 

[dizneeat]

this will be our 3 disney cruise, first time on the fantasy. My name is jane (from toronto Canada) and I will traveling with my parents, husband and my 3 boys (11,8,4) I can't wait to do the FE again we had so much fun. So count us in.

Welcome!
Great to have you on board! You are going to love the Fantasy. She is such a beautiful ship.
I added you to the FE as well.

I just put our deposit down for this cruise. This will be my first cruise, let alone a Disney Cruise. I am excited for the FE. We booked for deck 10 and are at the back of the ship. I am so excited, the only things that are standing in the way of this cruise is graduation and the KS Bar exam. See you all soon.

Welcome!
Glad to have you on board! You could not have picked a better cruise line. DCL does it best. And the Fantasy is a beautiful ship!
Just for your information - deck 10 aft is under Cabanas and there can be a fair bit of noise heard in the staterooms.
We are on deck 10 as well, a bit forward from the aft elevator and it is nice there, but at the very back, moving chairs and desks around above you can get a bit on the noisy side.
I'll take it, you are in for the FE?
Good luck with the graduation and Bar exam.

Booking today we will be on deck 5 or 6 we would do the fe as long as we try to keep groups small lol my last one was 80+ people and that was too much
2 more people will be joining us so now it will be my husband 33, me 35, my son 5, my niece 3 and her mom 32 we are super excited!

Welcome!
I added you to the cruisers.
As for the FE, we have not made any decisions yet, but usually 25 staterooms has been around the split up number for the FE - now, that could easily push you over that 80 person limit.
Maybe you would like to join the last or latecomer group if 80 people sounds scary to you.

Hi All!

Wes and I moved this Cruise a couple of times before finally saying "this is the one!" We were supposed to do the first Fantasy Jamaica cruise this year over Mother's Day but I fell and broke my wrist last Nov and had to use all of my vacation time before disability kicked in!

This will be our 5th cruise - we did a B2B on the Fantasy in October 2012 and NEVER wanted to get off the ship, in fact, I cried when we were walking off.

You sound a lot like me. We did a back to back on the Fantasy last summer and I was not happy about having to get off.

We'll be in Room 10024 - which we had on the last trip - and LOVED IT! Got to see the Captain walking to the bridge every day - so over 14 days we were on a First Name basis!

Yeah, we are on deck 10 as well. We are in 10626 - can you see that we like Stitch (experiment 626) - we love to stay in "his" room.

Really looking forward to this cruise and meeting everyone! You will most likely find me laying in the sun and reading a book - Wes will be in the smoking area or at Currents having a beer (or 2) HA!

Looking foreward to chatting with you all!

Welcome!

Hi All,

We booked this cruise, our 1st, a few days ago. Sooo excited!
my DH, DD 10 (at cruise time), DD 7(at c.t.) and I will be on deck 5.

I've been pouring through my Pass Porters Cruise book and many, many of the dis threads trying to get a sense of what to expect.

Looking forward to getting to know some of our cruise mates!

Welcome!
Glad to have you on board! You picked a great cruise line for your first cruise. DCL does a perfect job of making your cruise fun and exciting.
If you have any questions, just let us know - some very experienced cruisers are on here.

 

[hgambaro124]

We will do the fe obviously there is lots of time to figure it out! We are in cabin 5022 its me (heather) 35
John: 33
Marc 5 at time of cruise

 

[wergoin2camouse]

My family will be sailing! Woo hoo! Sign us up for FE!

DW - BJ
DH - STEVEN
DS - CODY 14 at cruise time
DS - BRYCE 12 at cruise time

 

[esmom]

Karin, those pictures are beautiful!
Thanks for sharing-

 

[Mish214]

Hi all! I just booked us for this cruise yesterday! This will be my 5th DCL and my fiancés 2nd. This will actually be our honeymoon. My name is Machenta and his is Andrew. We would also like to participate in the FE

 

[KSBelle77]

I had to change dates for my cruise. My husband is in Law School as well and forgot to check when he starts. I am sorry I will not be able to meet you all, but have fun.

Happy Sailing!