Dec.29th 2013 4 nights on the DREAM

[tokyodisneydad]

almost at the 6 months mark....Does anybody else feel as disoganized as I do?

 

[chasshan]

Hi Shanna! Sorry for the delay in replying - busy Spring!

You're right about the bathrooms. We usually get 2 cabins (one balcony and one inside across the hall) and having 2 bathrooms - especially with 2 teenagers - is definitely convenient.

How is your airfare search going?

Hi,
Sorry for my delay too. Funny, I just booked our airfare 2-days ago.
I ended up booking 1-way for now because Southwest is only open till January 5th. I also ended up booking us out of SF because the fare was $104. cheaper than Sacramento, saving me over $1000. total on the 10 tickets I was buying.
I just checked and that same ticket has already increased by $50, in just 2 days!
I am hoping that when they open up the rest of January it will be the same price to fly to Sacramento.

I can't believe we r nearly 6 months away from our cruise! Just out of curiosity, I checked availability for our cruise date yesterday. When searching for 5 people, there is no availability, and for 2, 3, or 4 people, many categories are GTY booking status only(no choice of stateroom number). Wow, this will be one full ship!

Shanna

 

[tokyodisneydad]

Has anyone started FE stuff yet?

 

[chasshan]

Has anyone started FE stuff yet?

I just started thinking about them this weekend. Do you think our group will get much bigger? It seams small for being 6 months out.

 

[tokyodisneydad]

I just started thinking about them this weekend. Do you think our group will get much bigger? It seams small for being 6 months out.

I felt the same way and was in a panic that I had missed some information somehow.

 

[chasshan]

I felt the same way and was in a panic that I had missed some information somehow.

Yes, sometimes I wonder if there is another 12/29 cruise meet somewhere that we are missing, because compared to my last cruise(which was also my first) this group is tiny.
I'm fine with that; it just means making FE gifts will be very easy.
However, I wouldn't be surprised if we have many more families join our group, especially after the final payment is due in October.

I went way overboard last time with FE gifts. I loved doing it but it really took a lot of my vacation time passing out the different gifts on different days. I plan to try really hard to limit my gift to 1 thing, or at least, 1 bag of things. Also, my kids have promised to help me distribute this time.........if there are many to distribute.

Well, should we start a countdown yet?
Maybe we should wait until we reach our 6 month mark.
Shanna

 

[pittsburghmarc]

Hi Everyone,

Just dropping by to say hello. Our cruise is getting close enough that I don't mind daydreaming about it. It's tough to do when you're a year or so away.

What is everyone doing today? I have DD7's softball game, then have to work later tonight? But I'll be thinking about our group and how much fun we'll have.

Just a shame this isn't a 5 night double dipper.

 

[chasshan]

I really wish it was a 5 night too with the double dip; it was what I thought I'd be booking when we decided to book the NYE on the Dream.

O.k. I know we are still a little over 6 monts out, but I want to start a count down. So.........let me figure this out.......
29 weeks from today.

That's 203 days!!

I have a feeling the time will fly, especially once school starts in the fall.
Shanna

 

[pittsburghmarc]

We're under 200 days everyone!!!

 

[Love to Cruise DCL]

I really wish it was a 5 night too with the double dip; it was what I thought I'd be booking when we decided to book the NYE on the Dream.

O.k. I know we are still a little over 6 monts out, but I want to start a count down. So.........let me figure this out.......
29 weeks from today.

That's 203 days!!

I have a feeling the time will fly, especially once school starts in the fall.
Shanna

We wish is was too...to combat not having that option we added a 3 day on to the 4 day...kind of like a double dipper on a 7 day. The 1/2/14 cruise was really reasonably priced to add on!!
Steph

 

[Love to Cruise DCL]

Has anyone started FE stuff yet?

We are actually going on 2 more cruises before this one..so I have not started thinking about this one yet.........oh wait I have
I think I am going to stick to my favorite magnets and commemorative luggage tags!!
They are my favorite!
Steph

 

[wigdoutdismom]

We just sailed on the Fantasy/Eastern June 1-8th and it was so much fun! With resort availability zero to nothing over the holidays this year, we decided (today) to cruise on those days that we couldn't book using points!
Hey, it works for me!

If you still have room in the group, we would love to join in on the FE as well.
It's me, Anita
DH, Marc
DGD, Harper, 5

This will be our 5th Disney cruise...

 

[Love to Cruise DCL]

We just sailed on the Fantasy/Eastern June 1-8th and it was so much fun! With resort availability zero to nothing over the holidays this year, we decided (today) to cruise on those days that we couldn't book using points!
Hey, it works for me!

If you still have room in the group, we would love to join in on the FE as well.
It's me, Anita
DH, Marc
DGD, Harper, 5

This will be our 5th Disney cruise...

Hi Anita!!
We have not been on the Fantasy yet so I am dying to hear first hand more about it!!
Bummer that you had to cruise to use up points
We are DVC too since 2005..I see you own at Beach Club....would love to own there too!! It is my son's favorite pool in the world!!
Welcome!!

Steph

 

[kelly3kids]

We are so excited. This will be our 2nd cruise with DCL. We are DVC members and love Disney. I didn't get to do the FE on our last cruise but I would love to be involved this time if it isn't too late. Do I just add our kids info in a reply?

This is a surprise for our kids. They won't know until Christmas Eve. We are going to WDW before the cruise. I know that is a busy time of year so if anyone has any tips that would be great. We have done Disneyland at peak times and it went great because I am a planner and we just keep moving and never stop to look at a map. We rarely stopped to think about what was next we just kept moving. That helped. I don't like standing there thinking and talking about where to go and arguing about what we should do next because it waste time. My husband thinks I am Disney crazy. That's ok with me.

 

[Love to Cruise DCL]

We are so excited. This will be our 2nd cruise with DCL. We are DVC members and love Disney. I didn't get to do the FE on our last cruise but I would love to be involved this time if it isn't too late. Do I just add our kids info in a reply?

This is a surprise for our kids. They won't know until Christmas Eve. We are going to WDW before the cruise. I know that is a busy time of year so if anyone has any tips that would be great. We have done Disneyland at peak times and it went great because I am a planner and we just keep moving and never stop to look at a map. We rarely stopped to think about what was next we just kept moving. That helped. I don't like standing there thinking and talking about where to go and arguing about what we should do next because it waste time. My husband thinks I am Disney crazy. That's ok with me.

HI!
We are going to WDW before the cruise too! Honestly we don't plan on going in the parks much because of the crowds..we are going ot enjoy Animal Kingdom Villas and maybe try other things like Kennedy Space Center etc.
We are DVC too!
We are Disney crazy too! So much so that I just became a travel agent so I can get my fix of Disney planning everyday!!
I love your just kept moving!!
With the cruise being 6 months out I am sure the FE is still open...I am not running it I believe TokyoDad is...
Usually cabin number adult names and kids names and ages and if there are any allergies or special occasions.
Steph

 

[Pengwend]

This is going to be a sort of family reunion cruise for us. My husband and I have sailed DCL before, but the rest of our family has not. As of now, we will have 3 staterooms:

Room 1: My parents, 17yo sister and 22yo brother
Room 2: My sister and her husband
Room 3: Husband and me!

I'd like to sign up all three cabins for the FE!

 

[wigdoutdismom]

If I might....
Make a suggestion?

We had a really large and quite active group for our Fantasy cruise a few weeks ago. Our FE had to be divided into 3 groups of over 20 each.

We had a face book group. I'm not sure if it was linked on here or not, but if most of you are on FB, it's much easier to chat and set up meets and such on there.

We had a bon voyage meet and greet just before the muster drill, that my DH and I hosted, in D lounge. I'm guessing with everyone we had at least 150 people there.
Then on formal night, we got together and had a Princess Pub Crawl. Yes, we invited our Princes too.
Since we normally don't have a formal night on a 4 night cruise, perhaps the princess, could wear Tiaras for NYE? I would hope that would be our formal or semi-formal dress evening, and if we don't want to go to the pub, we could always do something else!

Anyway, I'll be happy to set up a group for us on FB and if you would like to be a part of it, just PM me.
I'll try to keep up on here on the DIS, we left home on Memorial Day to start our Disney vacation and won't be back home until next week.

 

[wigdoutdismom]

The FB page is set up.
If you would like to join in, please search for:
Dreamin' in the New Year 2014
request to join,
and you will be added!
It's as simple as that!

It will be fun getting to know each other!

 

[tokyodisneydad]

Just to let the new people joining know...there is a link a page or two back to sign up for the FE exchange, make sure to go on there and put your information. I'm not running the FE exchange as I have to take care of my large group that is going...I'm not sure who is running it. VOLUNTEERS??

We finally got our airplane tickets bought yesterday...wife had a hard time getting them and in the end the tickets per person were more than all of the cruise and park vacation combined.

 

[tokyodisneydad]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgUxI_Iqdw7NdGVmNklYR04tSmJVcG9VWUxaMGZjTXc#gid=0

Here is a link for the FE list

PLEASE make sure to add your name to make it easier for whoever is doing the FE list.

I will try to go through all the pages and put a group list and Fe list together so we can double check it all, but once onboard soeone else will need to be our leader for any meets or the FE group.