August 6, 2005 Mexican Riviera..Who's In?

[jilljill]

Courtney, a big welcome to you and your family to the thread.
We have only sailed out of Port Canaveral and are looking forward to this cruise.

REAS, is the Romantic Escape at Sea package. The current cost is $299., which gets you a couples massage or spa taster for 2, seating at Palo one night, a welcome basket, romantic turn down service one night and champagne breakfast in bed the next morning. DCL has not released any info if this package will be offered on these cruises or not.

Any other questions just ask and we will try and help you. I know that my fmaily has been on 4 DCL cruises and Stacey and her family have been on 1 or 2 cruises.

Barb

 

[jilljill]

Stacey, hope you had a good trip and won lots of $$$.
Did you happen to get a call from inventory control? I understand they have made most of their calls for the suites.

 

[jilljill]

Good morning everyone and welcome home Stacey .

 

[justmestace]

Good morning!!!

We're back, and had a lot of fun!

Welcome Courtney and family!!! Yippee, we have another family!!!


jilljill, no call from inventory control. That's okay, the kids decided they really like the idea of having their own room, even if we do keep the door propped open!

I can't believe it's still more than a year away.......I don't really want to get older any faster than I already am, but I am really wishing time would go faster!

Thanks for the port info, Courtney! Glad someone knows the scoop!!!!

Off to work,
Stacey

 

[Catnip0113]

Welcome Courtney! We are happy to have another family going our week. I cruised Disney once before (just this past April) and we loved it. I have only been to California once. It was a tough work assignment. I had to stay in an apartment with a nice pool in Marina Del Rey for a month. It was a block or two to Venice Beach and within walking to lots of shops. One weekend we went to Universal Studios (this was before they had one in Florida).

I am hoping to find a 13/14 year old girl for my daughter to get to know beforehand. She was too shy to try and meet people this last time, she was too young for teens and too old for the 10 to 12 group (or so she thought).

Cathy

 

[justmestace]

Cathy,
My daughter Jordan just turned 14 last week.....granted, she'll be 15 when we cruise, but so far, she's young for her age. She hasn't met anyone when we've cruised, either. Too shy to go to the clubs by herself, so she just hangs on me. I'd like to do some stuff with my grown-up friends. Hopefully we can hook the two girls up!
Stacey

 

[jilljill]

Stacey and anyone who would like to join us, we gotta ditch the kiddos to do a wine party . I know, that's what the DH's are there for.
Actually, my DD has no problem with being in the club/lab. In fact she is usually too busy with all the activities to do anything we want to do. In 4 cruises she has only gotten off the ship 3 times - other than CC.

 

[justmestace]

Well, of course we're having our wine (or drink of choice) party!!

Jared will go to the clubs, but not Jordan. Her nickname is "Stuck Like Glue" (not really, but it seems as though we're joined at the hip lately)
I do think she'd go if she knew some kids ahead of time, though.

Neither one of them would miss an excursion. They are true travelers...have to see every port, even if it's just to say they've been there!!

 

[jilljill]

I just went and reread the first few posts and realized I never said who was going with me. It's myself, DH and DD that will be 11 at cruise time.

 

[justmestace]

Anybody new????

 

[Catnip0113]

Stacey,

We should try and have our girls get to know each other before the cruise. If they don't like the club they can hang out and walk around together. My DD (Jessica) didn't like to eat with us at late dinner so she went to the show again and window shopped (couldn't let her card have charge ability - too tempting).

Jilljill, Your DD11 might get along with her too (her cousin is two years younger and they hang out). Does your DD like the clubs? Even if she does, they may be able to get together sometime.

Cathy

 

[justmestace]

Cathy,
That sounds like a good idea. We just have to wait until I tell them that we're going!
Since we're doing the Christmas cruise, I thought I'd better wait awhile before breaking the news to DH & the gang!

 

[Catnip0113]

We should wait until it gets closer. I am the only one in my house who gets excited this early. My DH is a little more on board this time now that he has experienced it once. I wish I was going on another vacation sooner, maybe we will do one within driving distance. We have nothing planned this summer though. We might go to the casinos in CT for a night or two. I have never to either of them (Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun) and they are only 20 minutes away. A lot of people on our April cruise from Massachusetts go once a month and love it!

Cathy

 

[justmestace]

That sounds like me with my Vegas trips. I think there was an every two week pattern going for a while there.

I'm taking my daughter in July to meet some of the other Christmas cruisers & their girls, but other than that (and our trip to DL in just a few days) we are done for the summer. I'm looking forward to being home right now, but ask me after I've been stuck in this house with two kids for a week or two!
I'll probably be online booking a flight to nowhere!!!

I haven't told DH about the CA cruise, mostly because he'll have a cow about the $$. And the time off. We're self-employed, so if we're gone, we're not making any money. We have a crew, but they usually make so many mistakes that it ends up costing us. Oh well, price you pay, I guess.

 

[jilljill]

Stacey, I can't believe you haven't told Jay about the cruise. That is so funny. Even DD knows about this cruise. But since it's so far away she hasn't said anything about it.

Cathy, my DD goes to the lab a lot, but if there is someone else for her to hang out with she probably will. Most of her friends at the beach are older, so she is used to hanging out with older kids.

 

[Catnip0113]

It will be nice for her to have someone. She had fun on the last cruise, but I felt bad she was by herself a lot. She could have been with us more, but she wanted independence.

You know I never really knew about forums and such until the DIS boards. My DD showed me all sorts of forums for TV shows, musicians, etc. They have one for everything!

 

[justmestace]

Jordan knows now....I had to tell someone!

No way will I tell Jay yet! He would positively kill me.
It will be his surprise Christmas present on the Dec cruise. Or maybe not. He could throw me overboard!

Maybe I'll wait till his June 2005 birthday.



Stacey

 

[justmestace]

Here's a question.......If we're the only three families on this cruise, then how come I couldn't book a suite???

 

[jilljill]

Originally posted by justmestace
Here's a question.......If we're the only three families on this cruise, then how come I couldn't book a suite???

If we are the only 3 families they should upgrade all of us for free for good PR measures .
We can dream, can't we?!?

 

[jilljill]

Stacey, have a great trip to D'land. Say hi to and for me please.

I just thought of how you could tell Jay about the cruise. Have a postcard sent to him announcing that and are waiting for him, just like people do for their kids. He is just a big kid anyways, right?!?!?