Dec. 7, 2008 4 nite Mousefest Cruise - who's all going?

[the2princessesmom]

Just wanted to say "HI" I've been reading the boards now for weeks and thought, I should start posting myself. This is our 3rd DCL but the first with a toddler so it should make it interesting. We are also doing the Land and Sea (as much as we love the cruise, we have never been to WDW with it all decorated for Christmas). I was surprised to find out that we were on the MouseFest cruise so I didn't want to be left out.

We are going on this Disney Cruise! It will be myself, my husband, DS 10, DD 7, DS 5. DS 10 is nervous about going into the Oceaners Lab because he "won't know anybody", which I told him was crazy because no one will know each other! Any suggestions? Or, does anyone have a son in that age group with the same concern?

Hi All, I am so new to this! We are also on the Dec 7th cruise. this will be my 10th or so cruise on the Wonder. I am also a Walt Disney World Cast Member and was even an ambassador for the company and was on the Madden Voyage for both ships. All that said, I am new to much of this stuff like the fish extender and am not sure how to be part of that and what I need to do? Can someone please tell me. I am in cabin 6648 as of now. Sometimes they move cast members to other rooms but in the same catagory. Cant wait to be on the Wonder sailing again. Please let me know what to do with the whole FE thing and/or I can just do treats in others FE.

Thanks and Happy Sailing!!!

Hi and Welcome!!

We are flying in on Dec 6 and taking a town car to Cocoa Beach. We are spending the night at the Inn at Cocoa Beach. I didn't want to stay to close to the port in case the girls start asking questions. We are going to surprise them on Dec 4 and tell them we are going to Disney but leave out the part about doing our first DCL before we go to WDW. We thought we would tell them that my DH wants to go to Kennedy Space Center before we go to WDW to help explain why we are going to Cocoa Beach. We are doing MVMCP on Dec 14.

Lill

 

[pluto1979]

I must say i am so excited that I already have my gifts for the fish extenders! I will also have some extras just incase anyone like me joins very last minute. my only problem is that I do not have a fish extender! I am going to make one but it will be very simple. Does it matter if I do 1 gift for the trip or a few gifts over the course of the cruise? Can we do liquire? Lastly or atleast for today when will we receive the final list of rooms we are gifting to?
Thanks again and I am so happy I joined this group!!!
Working on both ships was truely a great pleasure and great but being a guest this time will be a blast! Dont get me wrong, I still love working for Disney and will be with them forever!

 

[mkmommy]

I must say i am so excited that I already have my gifts for the fish extenders! I will also have some extras just incase anyone like me joins very last minute. my only problem is that I do not have a fish extender! I am going to make one but it will be very simple. Does it matter if I do 1 gift for the trip or a few gifts over the course of the cruise? Can we do liquire? Lastly or atleast for today when will we receive the final list of rooms we are gifting to?
Thanks again and I am so happy I joined this group!!!
Working on both ships was truely a great pleasure and great but being a guest this time will be a blast! Dont get me wrong, I still love working for Disney and will be with them forever!

I sent you a pm yesterday with the list and that will be the final list. If you did not get it, respond here and I will have to leave you a list on the ship.

Lisa

 

[Jazmine8]

I would not worry too much about the DCL transfers from the Poly. It is great having your luggage picked up in the room and the bus ride is fun. When we stayed at the Poly pre cruise in March we were on the ship by 1:00. When we got to the port the terminal was empty so there was no waiting around and we pretty much walked straight onto the ship.

Lisa

Oh that's good to know. I was thinking it would still be crowded at 1pm. Hope I get there at that time since I'm taking the DCL motorcoach from Port Orleans. Can't wait to meet everyone and give out my FE gifts. I have to be sneaky so I don't get caught though

 

[kma5150]

what makes this a mousefest cruise, is it only for certain people or everyone on the cruise; my travel agent said it included certain thigs but she was not sure! thanks

 

[TiggerTails57]

what makes this a mousefest cruise, is it only for certain people or everyone on the cruise; my travel agent said it included certain thigs but she was not sure! thanks

mousefest.org is now closed for registration. But, you are still welcome to join in any events.........

 

[goofy4tink]

what makes this a mousefest cruise, is it only for certain people or everyone on the cruise; my travel agent said it included certain thigs but she was not sure! thanks

Depends on who your TA is. There are some that have booked this cruise, with addtl stuff, for their clients. I know I booked with a TA, that is taking part in MF. But, not every TA does that.
Also....the actual registration has closed now. It closed a week or so ago. But, there are lots of things going on, both on land and on sea, that will be open to anyone, even if they didn't register first. It's just that there were some meets and events that you had to sign up for, rather than just show up.
Registration for MF got you a booklet giving you all the meets and events, a special lanyard with name tag, pins...that sort of thing.

 

[WeLuvDCL]

my only problem is that I do not have a fish extender! I am going to make one but it will be very simple. Does it matter if I do 1 gift for the trip or a few gifts over the course of the cruise? Can we do liquire?

We are just using a Christmas stocking this cruise, if you decide to do that just bring some string to tie it around the fish.
You can give one gift on any day or small gifts every day. We are giving 3 small gifts, one each day Mon, Tues and Wed.

 

[mkmommy]

Read on another thread about last minute cabin changes.

If anyone on the Fish Extender Exchange has cabin change please leave me a message either by phone or note by 2:30 on the Sunday and I will pass the information on.

My head is swimming with all the things left to do and now I need to have a root canal tomorrow. I should have pushed it off till I return but I have been having terrible headaches from a cracked tooth and I do not want to risk it getting worse while I am away.

On the bright side my return flight changed and now I get a couple of extra hours at the resort on the Friday.

Happy Thanksgiving to all you US people, no holiday for us here in Canada.

Lisa

 

[Hanover]

Read on another thread about last minute cabin changes.

If anyone on the Fish Extender Exchange has cabin change please leave me a message either by phone or note by 2:30 on the Sunday and I will pass the information on.

My head is swimming with all the things left to do and now I need to have a root canal tomorrow. I should have pushed it off till I return but I have been having terrible headaches from a cracked tooth and I do not want to risk it getting worse while I am away.

On the bright side my return flight changed and now I get a couple of extra hours at the resort on the Friday.

Happy Thanksgiving to all you US people, no holiday for us here in Canada.

Lisa

I hope your tooth feels better soon. Better to have it fixed now than deal with excruciating pain on the cruise. I read someone's trip report once about her newlywed DH having a horrible toothache the entire cruise and he was in agony.

Air Tran changed our flight going down and we had to reschedule to an earlier flight. I don't want to miss our Chef Mickey ADR! We are on the DDP and wouldn't be able to use a TS anywhere else at this point.

I'm hoping to get some packing started over the weekend. I've got the FE items packed, but that's it so far.

Thanks for the Thanksgiving wishes.

I wish everyone else a wonderful Thanksgiving!

 

[bmazsmith]

Happy Thanksgiving all!! My DH had to go to the dentist yesterday his front tooth broke so I am just greatful they were able to get him in. We cant wait to meet you all and just relax.

 

[Hanover]

Bmazsmith- glad to hear your DH's tooth got fixed. Let's hope there's no more tooth issues with anyone on our thread!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

 

[mvlimmex]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Lisa, I am sorry about your tooth. I agree that it's better to get it done now then to have it bother you during your vacation. That would be no fun! I

bmazsmith - sorry about your husband's tooth too--I am glad that he was able to get in so fast with the holidays and all.

I can't wait to meet everyone and get on the ship!!!!! I was up late last night packing and hope to get most of it done with the extended weekend. 1 week from today we head down in our camper Can't wait!!

Have a great day everyone!

Vicki

 

[tinker1bell]

Read on another thread about last minute cabin changes.

If anyone on the Fish Extender Exchange has cabin change please leave me a message either by phone or note by 2:30 on the Sunday and I will pass the information on.

My head is swimming with all the things left to do and now I need to have a root canal tomorrow. I should have pushed it off till I return but I have been having terrible headaches from a cracked tooth and I do not want to risk it getting worse while I am away.

On the bright side my return flight changed and now I get a couple of extra hours at the resort on the Friday.

Happy Thanksgiving to all you US people, no holiday for us here in Canada.

Lisa

Lisa, I hope your root canal goes good for you

I know each person reacts different to having a root canal done. I had a sore jaw for two days and since my job is answering the phone, I stayed home one day. But I am such a wuss

 

[Jazmine8]

Bmazsmith- glad to hear your DH's tooth got fixed. Let's hope there's no more tooth issues with anyone on our thread!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

I second that! Lisa I hope all goes well with your root canal. Bmazsmith glad your hubby got his tooth fixed,...........what a way to meet new ppl if he hadn't gotten in to the dentist. I'd be horrifed to smile at anyone. Seems some of us have been having a time before our cruise sets sail....like me and my bone spur issue. I decided Dec 30th is surgery day and i'm scared as heck Happy Turkey Day everyone!

 

[mkmommy]

Well things did not go as planned at the dentist and I still have to go back to finish the root canal , so I now have an appointment for next Thursday, talk about last minute. I was planning on leaving Friday after work, but the girls are now off school on Friday for a PD day so I think I will try and take Friday off and leave about 3:00 so I can avoid the drive to Buffalo in the dark.

Vicki- how long is your drive?

Kim- I am sure that your surgery will be fine so don't worry about it.

Lisa

 

[mvlimmex]

Well things did not go as planned at the dentist and I still have to go back to finish the root canal , so I now have an appointment for next Thursday, talk about last minute. I was planning on leaving Friday after work, but the girls are now off school on Friday for a PD day so I think I will try and take Friday off and leave about 3:00 so I can avoid the drive to Buffalo in the dark.

Vicki- how long is your drive?

Kim- I am sure that your surgery will be fine so don't worry about it.

Lisa

Hi Lisa,

I am sorry that things didn't go as planned for you for your root canal. I hope it goes better for you next week, so that it won't bother you on the trip. It is about a 21 - 22 hour drive for us. We plan to drive around 11 hours each day --I know that's a lot with 4 kids, but we we did that in Aug and it worked pretty well for us. We plan to leave really early in the morning and then make little stops along the way. We hope to be in the Orlando area Fri nite and to go to Ak on Sat. If the weather seems icy/snowy next week--we plan to leave a day early to give ourselves an extra day.




I hope everyone who celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday had a great one


Vicki

 

[J_LO]

We are going to be driving ourselves from the CBR to the port, how early can we arrive to get on the boat? We are excited to get there as soon as we can to start the fun!!

Hope everyone had a great holiday and survived the Black Friday Madness (for anyone brave enough to venture out!).

Jen

 

[Hanover]

We are going to be driving ourselves from the CBR to the port, how early can we arrive to get on the boat? We are excited to get there as soon as we can to start the fun!!

Hope everyone had a great holiday and survived the Black Friday Madness (for anyone brave enough to venture out!).

Jen

Jen, the port opens at 10:30 so you can get there at that time. It really only takes about 10-15 minutes to go through the ID/secruity check at the front entrance area, drop off your luggage, park and walk to the terminal. Usually my DH drops me and the boys off at the luggage area and by the time we walk to the front for a couple of pictures, he's right there. We just hang out and soak up the magic in the terminal, the boys will watch cartoons on the tv, take a picture or two with characters, get their wrist bands for the club/lab and look at the ship. We usually end up with boarding cards #3-#5 and try to get on as soon as possible, any time between 12:30 and 1:30. Last time we skipped the embarkation photo and went straight to deck 9. We had taken a family picture with Minnie in the terminal and knew we weren't going to buy the embarkation photo since we had a few from other cruises and the back drop is still the same. They asked us to go to Parrot Cay, but we wanted to eat at the BBB and Goofy's Galley. The boys saw an empty Mickey pool so we just grabbed a nearby table while they swam and got them burgers and chickens strips at Pluto's dog house. We had the pool area to ourselves for a good 20 minutes. We were thinking of doing the same thing this time, but we have friends coming along and I'm sure they'll want the photo and to look around as well.

 

[J_LO]

Wonderful!!! Thanks so much!

Also, does anyone know what night the pirate party is?? I booked Palo reservations on the night we go to Castaway Cay and I am afraid that this will be the same night... My husband is excited to go to Palo but I dont want the kids to miss the pirate party. Our reservations are 7pm that night so i think we would miss out on the festivities if both are on the same night. If anyone has any info on that i would really appreciate it. Thanks so much, I dont know what i would do with out this board!!

Jen