August 28, 2004 "LOST AT SEA" Cruise

[Mary Anne]

Just checking in and reading up. Here's to 200!

 

[ElliotFan]

Terry,

If you ever decide to do the Alaskan cruise, you'll have to come out a couple of days early, so I can show you around Seattle!

Dori

 

[ElliotFan]

Cathy,

The offer of a "Seattle tour guide" applies to you as well!

Dori

 

[lynr]

Doreen:

Follow this link for instructions on how to add pictures to your signature.


http://disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=4886029#post4886029

Hope this helps.

Lyn

 

[MoranClan]

Im not MIA...

Just trying to get things back in order over here...

Will talk more Later..

Here is to 200 pages..

Bobby

 

[MoranClan]

Still waiting to get my phone call back...From Sande..

Wonder where she could be..

I booked the cruise in 2006 with DCL allready, but will change once all Seasons gets back to me..

Bobby

 

[lynr]

Bobby:

I just read something on this website that the people that categories 1, 2, and 3 have to wait to be booked until DCL gets through the faxed in requests for those categories. Maybe that is why you haven't heard anything because you wanted a 2 or 3 didn't you?

I was suprised to read that they let people fax in requests before the rates are released and then once they are released the other people have to wait.

Hopefully you will still get the 10% off and $200 shipboard credit. Terry said she was able to get it through All Seasons.

I chose to go with DU for this cruise and they got it for me. I personally wasn't as happy with All Seasons as I was with DU. They seem more organized at DU, every time I called All Seasons about this last cruise we took, there seemed to be some confusion on their end on how much I had paid.

Well hopefully you will hear something soon.

Lyn

 

[DARWIN91]

Cathy, my friend did the Radisson cruise line for Alaska and loved it. It think it is a bit $$$$ but I know they include alcohol in your room and wine I believe is included with dinner.

 

[invaderzim]

SeaSpray They didn't say negative things about RCCL as a whole. What I've read only concerned their Alaskan line. They apparently do not have the "inside" track like HAL and Princess and their glacier tours are not as good. Otherwise, I have read good things about them for the caribbean cruises.

Dori Thank you so much for your offer! How kind. We're not sure if we're leaving from Seattle or Vancouver, but I will keep your generous offer in mind. "Tour for Hire" LOL.

 

[O'BWV]

Bobby - How'ya doing Pal? Where have you been, I've been a little worried?

I used All Seas last time and was satisfied, but I decided to use Dreams this time and I am super pleased. Kelsie really went out of her way for us. Thanks Ginny & Lyn for telling me about her. I think she did the impossible for us getting disc. & shipboard credit on kids room when DCL only gave it on our room. Altogether with the DU rebates it saved us an additional $360 plus the original $340 on the original ressie. Add that to the $400 shipboard credit and I saved $1,100!!!

That's alot of booze , alot of booze! LOL!

I was so impressed with her I sent an email about her. So Bobby, if All Seas doesn't come thru, I highly recommend Kelsie @ DU.


-Mary Rose

 

[Mjasp]

Originally posted by O'BWV
Bobby - How'ya doing Pal? Where have you been, I've been a little worried?

I used All Seas last time and was satisfied, but I decided to use Dreams this time and I am super pleased. Kelsie really went out of her way for us. Thanks Ginny & Lyn for telling me about her. I think she did the impossible for us getting disc. & shipboard credit on kids room when DCL only gave it on our room. Altogether with the DU rebates it saved us an additional $360 plus the original $340 on the original ressie. Add that to the $400 shipboard credit and I saved $1,100!!!

That's alot of booze , alot of booze! LOL!

I was so impressed with her I sent an email about her. So Bobby, if All Seas doesn't come thru, I highly recommend Kelsie @ DU.

Mary Rose...Can you please give me her email address. I'd like toemail her for prices.

TIA
Joanna


-Mary Rose

 

[lynr]

Hi guys:

Is it me or are you getting negative vibes from the person on our new cruise thread for 2006? It seems to me like he is trying to start a fight. Or do you think I am reading too much into it?

Lyn

 

[O'BWV]

Hi Lyn,

I agree, and I'll join you back here! Geez!


I PM'd you.


-Mary Rose

 

[SeaSpray]

Hi guys!!

You know, I can understand Jeff's feelings. I know we've been mixing in talk about the new cruise with talk of the old cruise, but in time, I know that most of our posts would include EVERYONE and would have to do with the new cruise. When I replied to him in the thread, I was trying to explain our excitement, hoping he'd understand, and be tolerant. I honestly don't think anyone is saying anything to make any of the "newcomers" to feel out of the "club", as he put it. It's like anything else, or anyplace else on the internet; when you enter a situation where many of the people already know each other, at first you feel like an outsider, but the more you participate, the more you get to know them, the more they get to know you, and the fact that you weren't there from the start fades away. Believe me, I have been online for well over 10 years, I know how it is to join a chat room, a channel (anyone remember IRC?? LOL), or a message board's thread. I didn't get that vibe from any of the other new people. In fact, Dori and someone from California are planning to meet at Disneyland next summer! I think that is awesome Also, at this point, with the cruise being SO far away, if we weren't talking about our old cruise and plans for the new cruise, what else would we be talking about? I am sure that Jeff is a decent person, and before long we'll forget who was on the Aug 28th cruise and who wasn't, but in the meantime, I just want to step back from the new thread. Sometimes I have a quick reaction and I just didn't want to say something on the thread that I might regret later, or that might cause someone to feel badly. I'd rather step back then say something that could be mean, to someone else. I just didn't like his comment about us "taking over the thread". We're ALL allowed to post anything and everything that we want to.

Ok, this is long enough. Sorry. LOL
*HUGS TO ALL OF MY OLD FRIENDS!!!*

 

[O'BWV]

Well said Terry, well said!

Let's talk friend talk over here okay?


-Mary Rose

 

[lynr]

Terry and Mary Rose:

I agree completely.

Lyn

 

[SeaSpray]

Hey, we're at 200 pages now.

I emailed Karen and told her to "meet" us over here on this thread, where we can TALK! I really hope Doreen will be OK

I have to say, I am a bit disheartened to see a few of the 2006 cruisers who are so bothered by our conversations and reference to our 2004 cruise. I don't see why. I mean, I can see WHY, but not to the point of making a big deal out of it. Oh well, whatever. I don't want to act childish, but I am dying to ask Joanna to re-title this thread to something like "August 28, 2004 LOST AT SEA cruisers - Next cruise together: August 19, 2006". I dont know, something like that. lol I mean, its really taking away a lot of the fun of us going together again, if we can't even talk about that fact over on the new cruise thread. I almost regret saying that I was taking a break last night, because after I thought about it for a while, I wish I had said "I'm sorry some of you are feeling left out, but a lot of us met for the first time on that cruise and became such good friends that we all want to cruise together again, which we are doing! Feel free to join into the conversation at any time". Why should we not talk about whatever we want to talk about? We were including the new people! I mean, did we get upset because Bobby & Cindy and Joanna all knew each other in real life and talked about that on occasion? Do we get upset when Doreen and Karen talk about family stuff? Of course not.

Oh well.. sorry, had to vent.

And by the way...I am NOT changing the wording in my signature or my countdown. If I had been replied to differently, then I probably would've, but forget it now. <--- I'm not really mad...Just annoyed. lol

 

[ElliotFan]

If I had known that bringing up the idea of t-shirts was going to get their knickers in a knot, then I wouldn't have offered.

What he doesn't realize is that my initial idea was to use an actual satelite photo of Hurricane Frances as a template for the t-shirt design. However, I decided that it would be excluding all the new folks (before I ever posted), which is why I stated in my original post that I was looking for a design that would work for everyone.

As far as the "Lost @ Sea Club" goes, I thought that it would be a good name for a group of folks that spend their vacations cruising (i.e. - trying to get lost at sea). I just figured that the name would have a special irony for some of us.


Dori

 

[SeaSpray]

Dori:

The more I thought it about, since last night, the more I know that none of us did anything "wrong", or anything to make the other people feel excluded. There is nothing wrong with us 8/28/04 cruisers being excited about so many of us cruising together again. They are free to join into the conversation at any time, and to bring up whatever subjects they choose to. I know this all seems so childish, but I am a bit annoyed with myself for not standing up for myself (and all of us, actually), last night. Oh well. And by the way, I thought the idea of the t-shirts was an excellent idea. I know we had talked about it for this past cruise, but I think since none of us really knew each other at the time, the idea never went anywhere. But for our next cruise, I think a lot of us would be into it!

I'm finished with worrying about how other people react to what I say. Heck with them. For now, I am staying here on this thread. Like I said in my post just above, maybe we can ask Joanna to re-title this one.

 

[ElliotFan]

Okay...

So now the question is...

Do we still want t-shirts?

If so, do we want them to be strickly "reunion" t-shirts or do we want them to be genereic enough to include the new folks on the other thread as well?

Dori