August 28, 2004 "LOST AT SEA" Cruise

[Mary Anne]

We have not booked any excursions either. To be honest, we don't enjoy water stuff and walking around in the heat doesn't thrill me either. We are looking foward to relaxing on the ship, sleeping, eating, seeing the shows, the movies, the special stuff they have going on all through the day.


Three weeks from now I will be in the OKWest. 4 weeks we'll just be finishing our early dinner getting ready to see the show.

 

[sandygirl]

BOBBY: The magnets look great! You are such a sweetie to make them for us. Did you put the DIS name on all of them? Did your printer really break down? Oh my gosh! Not to mention all the printer ink you went through. I owe you big time. You and Cindy name your poison. We'll be at the Radisson, maybe I can start your pre-cruise celebration off to a good start.

Darlene

 

[sandygirl]

I'm having serious second thoughts about early seating for dinner. We have always had late and I was very excited to get early this time. But now I am wondering if we will be just too rushed to get to dinner. Anyone have ever sorry they had early seating?

Darlene

 

[Mjasp]

Samsara...Are you cruising with us? If so give me the details and I'll put you on page 1.

Early dining is kind of rush, rush to get there, But I can't over eat (like I plan on doing LOL) between 8:30-10:00 at night.

I haven't booked any excursions yet either. The 2 we plan on doing I feel we can do on our own if we get shut out.

Did everyone get their docs yet?

No DISers received any upgrades YET. I'm still waiting to hear.

Joanna

 

[Mary Anne]

Originally posted by sandygirl
I'm having serious second thoughts about early seating for dinner. We have always had late and I was very excited to get early this time. But now I am wondering if we will be just too rushed to get to dinner. Anyone have ever sorry they had early seating?

Darlene

We enjoy early seating. Granted we don't do an excursions, so I guess we don't worry about rushing, but we're early eaters at home. Dinner is usually @4:30 if I'm home from work. We like relaxing after dinner and seeing the shows. To be honest, if we had to see the shows first, I doubt we'd see them.

 

[SeaSpray]

Still no docs here, Joanna According to All Seasons, they haven't received them from DCL yet (as of last week). They said they should be arriving soon and they'll mail them right out to us.

 

[Karel]

I called All Seasons this morning - nothing yet.

I told them we were leaving several days early to Fl and she said call back on the 13th.

I am not happy.

But they have to let us on, right?? I hope they send them two day priority or something.

And I now understand why Nativeway water sports has such a great Stingray deal - we have to meet them at 7:45am. I'm not sure that's going to happen. I don't think I'll get everyone up by then.

 

[SeaSpray]

Originally posted by Karel
I called All Seasons this morning - nothing yet.

I told them we were leaving several days early to Fl and she said call back on the 13th.

I am not happy.

But they have to let us on, right?? I hope they send them two day priority or something.

And I now understand why Nativeway water sports has such a great Stingray deal - we have to meet them at 7:45am. I'm not sure that's going to happen. I don't think I'll get everyone up by then.

CALL BACK on the 13th??? What for?? I really was hoping to have them sooner than that!! As for the method of delivery, the person I spoke to said they'd come US Postal Service, but in one of those large flat mailing envelopes, he didn't mention second day air or anything.

 

[Karel]

Call back on the 13th if I haven't received them. I didn't like the sound of that.

I certainly hope I have them by the 13th.

 

[Reenieny18]

I just checked out our air flight and the price has come down $169 for all of our tkts. Of course we are not entitledd to a reimbursment. Boy that sticks. that could have bought some more jewles for me.,....

Doreen

 

[SeaSpray]

Originally posted by Reenieny18
I just checked out our air flight and the price has come down $169 for all of our tkts. Of course we are not entitledd to a reimbursment. Boy that sticks. that could have bought some more jewles for me.,....

Doreen

Reenie, thanks so much for mentioning this! When I saw this post I called Delta, and sure enough our airfare has come down another $20., so now we each have $75 in vouchers that we can use for future airfare. I wish they just gave cash refunds but I guess a voucher is better than nothing. Now we'll have to plan a trip to somewhere that we'd have to fly to... Hmm...maybe Disney World next year?

 

[winnyis]

My airfare came down also. I have $300 in vouchers for Spirit to use for another trip. Does anyone know how long vouchers are good for.. maybe I can use these toward part of my airfare for my repo cruise next year.

Ginny

 

[winnyis]

Terry.. I cant believe that All Seasons is telling you to wait til the 13th.. I would be majorly stressing by then. I wonder why they havent gotten the docs yet.. it seems as almost everyone else has




Ginny

 

[SeaSpray]

I called All Seasons this morning to ask if I needed any documentation for traveling with my sons outside of the U.S., since their last name is different than mine. (I don't).

While I had Sandy on the phone I asked her about the documents. As soon as I told her the sail date she said that they already have a call into Disney regarding the documents. I hope they get them soon! She said that often times Disney takes longer to send out the "group" documents than for individual reservations. Oh well. I'm sure we'll have them before we cruise, but it'd be nice (and fun!) to have them now!!

 

[Karel]

Terry - I saw on the main cruise board that you asked about leaving early in the am for an excusion. I have the same dilemma. My son 'says' he'll be up early -

This is the first time we've looked at an organized excursion. We can get a later time that ends at 2:15. Of course, I'll be worried that we won't make it back in time for sailing.

Can anyone explain tendering into Grand Caymen for me? Native way wants us to check in between 7:45 and 8:45.

Thanks.

 

[winnyis]

Karel... in Grand Cayman all ships tender since there are no deep water docks for the ships to dock at. Basically.. they dock probably 1/2 mile or so off shore and then have little shuttle type boats take passengers to and from the shore. If you are on a disney sponsored excursion they will tell you where to meet and will give you a priority time to board a tender... after a certain time they open it up to all passengers.

You catch the tender boats from deck 1... its a pretty fast process and they usually have several boats going to and from so the wait isnt that long.

Ginny

 

[SeaSpray]

Karel:

It sounds like a great idea NOW, but I'm wondering if ALL of us won't feel like getting up so early, especially knowing that we'll probably be up late the night before. I don't think that snorkeling while half asleep will be any fun. LOL

My DSs will be back home next week, then I'm going to call a Family Cruise Meeting, to go over our plans one more time, and to see if I should schedule the later excursion even though it doesn't include the snorkeling time Maybe I'll look through the Grand Cayman excursions all over again and see what starts later. lol

 

[invaderzim]

We booked our Grand Cayman shore excursions through Disney. We're doing the 7:20 Island Tour and Stingray City, and the 1:15 Atlantis Submarine. The DCL rep I booked with said the 7:20 time is when we were supposed to meet at the designated place on the ship. Shore excursion ticket holders are given first tender. If you didn't book through Disney, then I'm not sure how they handle it.

 

[MoranClan]

Originally posted by sandygirl
BOBBY: The magnets look great! You are such a sweetie to make them for us. Did you put the DIS name on all of them? Did your printer really break down?

Darlene

hello Darlene..

I put on the magnets whatever everyone wanted for their own personal ones..

I am making extra magnets with the DIS on them also...

Let me know who else wants magnets..

Bobby

 

[MoranClan]

Magnents
More magnents Added

Moranclan
The Kurtz Family
The Marshall Family
ThreeCircles
The Brown Family
Tina & Bill
Adam & Melanie
The Redles Family
Stan, Darlene, Sandra
MJASP
Doreen, Marty, Daniel
Karen & Jaclyn
"Maryanne" ( Last Name With held For Privacy") Do you want Room Number?
Terry & John
Robby
Craig
The DeLuca's
The Benton's
The Driscoll Family
The O'Briens " 20th anniversary"
The Mc Donalds
The Ward family 2 rooms
The Szabo Family

Please, if you requested magntes..Make sure
your name is on here..All those that sent me room numbers
They are on..if anyone else wants room numbers,
Birthdays..etc..put on there let me know




Any one Else want Magnents?..

Bobby