August 28, 2004 "LOST AT SEA" Cruise

[sandygirl]

OK. Add us to the list for Aug 2006. Stan, Darlene and Sandra. We are already booked with intentions of moving the date once 2006 rates open up. Sandy would just love to cruise with all the kids. I have to say that this cruise was made so special by knowing so many of you beforehand. Would love to cruise again and get to meet even more of you!

Darlene

 

[Mjasp]

Originally posted by sandygirl
OK. Add us to the list for Aug 2006. Stan, Darlene and Sandra. We are already booked with intentions of moving the date once 2006 rates open up. Sandy would just love to cruise with all the kids. I have to say that this cruise was made so special by knowing so many of you beforehand. Would love to cruise again and get to meet even more of you!

Darlene

WOO HOO And the list grows

Mary Rose, I think you should start a "August 2006 Eastern cruise" Thread.

It should be interesting, I am hoping the dates for the Eastern will be around 8/20/06 That would be perfect as far as school is concerned and camp will be over. The prices should even be cheaper as alot of the country is back in school except for the East coast. Hence, the rambunctious kids running around LOL

Joanna

Joanna

 

[ElliotFan]

It's not just the east coast that doesn't start school until after Labor Day. It's that way in western Washington too. (I was rather upset that ours was the ONLY school district in the area that decided to start before Labor Day this year. I was totally shocked. I attended the same school district myself from 4th grade onward and can only remember one other time that they started school so early.)

I asked Devin (DS) last night what he thought of a 2006 Eastern cruise. He looked at me with a big grin and sang, "That's the way, u-huh u-huh, I like it!". (Oh my God, KC & the Sunshine Band. Shades of Junior High come back to haunt me. Although that's happening alot here lately, since Devin is now in Junoir High. One of his gym teachers is somebody that my brother and I both had in Junior High as well. Boy, I bet that he feels old! LOL)

Dori

 

[Mjasp]

Below is a generic thread I started, feel free to join in.

Mary Rose, after you post, you can make the list in your thread and then edit it accordingly.


http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=645882



Joanna

 

[Mjasp]

OK I'm posting this here and on the new thread for those who don't visit here anymore. They are talking about a DIS meet in Allentown PA. I haven't read all the details yet.

Check it out
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=603360&perpage=15&pagenumber=1


Joanna

 

[Reenieny18]

I just sent in my registration for 5.. Maybe this will hold us over till 2006.... PARTY WITH SMOOTHIES!!!!
Mary Rose sounds like you have to save some booze....
And GREAT.. we have to make more ice to keep away from GINNY....

DOREEN

 

[trinibjill]

Hi everyone
Looks like we will see each other soon & maybe meet some of the people we missed.
Colleen (tiggerwannabe), Alyssa & I went to the Jersey meet.
The food was great, Collen & Alyssa won some great prizes. A musical castle & a huge Disney pin. Verandah man was there & the Trivia guy was there with pins & his new book on Disney Trivia.
I should be done with my trip pictures by Sun & will post them then.
Jill

 

[Reenieny18]

We booked too Jill. Lookinf forward to seeing your pics..

LYNN where are you????

Doreen

 

[SeaSpray]

If we're not in Disney World next July, I'll be at the meet, too!

 

[trinibjill]

Hi [Terry
What dates are you going in July?
I am going from the 18th to the 22nd. I think my Grand daughter Brittany is going too. Skating nationals are in Pensacola the next week & I told her is she wants to go to WDW she would have to go to Nationals. She said she would like that.
Jill

 

[SeaSpray]

Originally posted by trinibjill
Hi [Terry
What dates are you going in July?
I am going from the 18th to the 22nd. I think my Grand daughter Brittany is going too. Skating nationals are in Pensacola the next week & I told her is she wants to go to WDW she would have to go to Nationals. She said she would like that.
Jill

We're aiming for earlier in July, but not sure yet. Our anniversary is July 8th which is a Friday next year, so I'd like to fly down to Florida on the 7th so that we could have our anniversary dinner somwhere in WDW on the 8th. Don't laugh, but we'd probably choose the 50's Prime Time Cafe in the Studios If not there, then maybe the Castle for dinner. We had dinner there in 2001 and I had one of the best meals ever there. The filet mignon literally melted in your mouth!

We'll be coming back from a 9-night cruise at the end of June, so we'll have to think about the idea of going away again, only a week later. If for some reason early July doesn't work out, then we'd consider going later in July. Maybe we'd see you there

 

[trinibjill]

You really have a busy time June & July. MMMM Filet Mignon. Well If you go later let me know & we can arrage to meet.
Jill

 

[sandygirl]

Originally posted by Mjasp
WOO HOO And the list grows

Mary Rose, I think you should start a "August 2006 Eastern cruise" Thread.

It should be interesting, I am hoping the dates for the Eastern will be around 8/20/06 That would be perfect as far as school is concerned and camp will be over. The prices should even be cheaper as alot of the country is back in school except for the East coast. Hence, the rambunctious kids running around LOL

Joanna

Joanna

Aug 20th is Sandy's birthday. Looks like we will have another "Birthday Cruise"!
I'm going over to check out the new thread.
Darlene

 

[nuts4sn00py]

Boy, not able to get online for a few days & I have 15 pages to catch up on! I'm going to have to make sure I get over here more often! Just wanted to say "hi" to everyone & to say I miss all of you too! Melanie: I'm glad Ivan missed you & all is well. MaryRose: I would love to do a reunion cruise in 2006, but I think my next cruise will be on Royal Carribean. Unfortunately, my kids weren't all that thrilled with the kids clubs & definitely weren't happy with the pools. Just way too many kids in too small of a space. I am up for a cruise out of NY though. That is one thing my DH & I have been thinking about. Doreen: Miss your Amaretto Mudslides! Ginny: Happy belated birthday! I too am now officially 40 (boohoo)! Having a big shingdig tomorrow night...will have drinks for all of you: , wish you could all come help me celebrate! It was suppose to be a suprise party, but they had to tell me in case I had to work. I am sooo looking foward to it. Invaderzim: Just wanted to say that I too ran into alot of rowdy kids & also received a prank phone call. Mid-week I let my kids sign themselves in & out of the Clubs, but they were given specific orders: they could go to deck 9 to get soda & food, but they had to stay in the room when they weren't in the kids clubs. They preferred being in the room & watching TV, if they wanted to go to a Movie or Character greet, they had to find us & let us know. As much as the like WDW, they weren't as enthused about the Cruise as I thought they would be. That's part of the reason I've decided to try RCCL. Anyway, have a good night all, & hope to talk to you soon! Kathy

 

[Mjasp]

Kathy...My DD8 wasn'tthrilled with the clubs either, she mostly stayed with us or played in the arcade, only went to the club when we went to Palo or did Rockin Bar D at night. That was fine with me.

May try a NY cruise next year, but will wait until it gets closer as the prices go down with other cruise lines the closer to sail date.

Joanna

 

[Karel]

Originally posted by nuts4sn00py
MaryRose: I would love to do a reunion cruise in 2006, but I think my next cruise will be on Royal Carribean. Unfortunately, my kids weren't all that thrilled with the kids clubs & definitely weren't happy with the pools. Just way too many kids in too small of a space. I am up for a cruise out of NY though. . As much as the like WDW, they weren't as enthused about the Cruise as I thought they would be. That's part of the reason I've decided to try RCCL. Anyway, have a good night all, & hope to talk to you soon! Kathy

Have you been on other cruises? I've only been on one other one but as far as I know, most pools on cruise ships are tiny. And a lot are filled with salt water. If pools are a priority for your kids, you might check out an all inclusive resort instead.

 

[nuts4sn00py]

Hi Karel. The only other cruise line I've been on is Norwegian & that was over 10 years ago. I know the pools on the ships are small, but during the day, these pools were packed! Honestly, my kids will go anywhere there is a pool. They loved CC for the beach & GC for the same reason. As long as they can be in water, there happy . Joanna: While I was looking foward to spending time with the kids, I wasn't planning on spending as much time with them as we did. My kids also went to the clubs when we went to Rockin' bar D, but very grudgingly. Which made it hard to really enjoy ourselves when the kids weren't having fun. I did find once I gave my DD permission to sign in & out she seemed to be at the Clubs a little more often. Overall though, we loved the Cruise & hope to do it again sometime in the future. You're right about prices being better as the date gets closer, so I will just have to keep an eye out when we're ready to sail again! Kathy

 

[SeaSpray]

Hi Joanna and Kathy:

I might be wrong, but I don't think the prices on the summer cruises come down, the closer it gets to sailing time. I know that happens a lot in the off season because they don't fill the ships, so they reduce the rates to try and fill the ship. We sailed out of NYC last summer and will be sailing out of NYC again next summer, and from everything I've read over on cruisecritic.com the NYC sailings, especially in summer, really get filled up. So if you want to sail in the summer, give your TA a call and see what they recommend. Another thing you can ask is, if you book now and the rates do happen to come down closer to sailing, will they get a refund for you. I know that usually this is the case. I don't want to seem like I'm interfering with your plan to wait, but I just wanted to let you both know what I've read about and also experienced with our trips out of NYC. Just yesterday I checked, and the cruise we have booked for June 17, 2005 on Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas has gone up about $600 since we booked it a couple of months ago.

 

[Mary Anne]

SeaSpray is right about the cruises out of NYCity. If you're going late June, July or August book as early as you can, those cruises fill out very fast. If you can hold out to sailing in Sept/October then you'll probably have good luck with prices coming down.

Also if you are flexible with your dates then you may luck out with cheaper summer prices. I've seen sometimes a week or two in August have prices come down, but you generally don't know about them till 2 or 3 weeks before you sail.

 

[MoranClan]

Hello Everyone..

Sorry for the Delay on the Cruise Report..Work has been busy..Even had to work today..

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