December 11, 2004 Eastern cruise thread

[Disneyfan37]

Hi all!We hope everyone is having a good week.Welcome aboard to our new friends joining us on this cruise.DH and I can't wait to meet you all.We have our pins ready!DH has this box full of cruise stuff,and every time I see them I get even more excited!

Jennifer,you know who is going to win?Me<G>!!!It will be so funny if we get there at the same time!

We are getting away this weekend.We are heading to Cocoa Beach to see the boat sailaway as well as going to meet Shirley from the Perfect Gift for the first time.She is doing some baskets for my dckids as well as one for us in December.On the last two cruises,we have had Disney do the welcome aboard basket stuff this time we are doing something new.I have heard great things about the Perfect Gift.Shirley is so great to talk to via phone,so we are looking forward to meeting her.

Fran,I hope you have your power on by now.We have been lucky with both hurricanes as we only lost our time briefly.We still have tons of things to do in our yard,but we have to wait till water goes down.Prayers that your lights come back on soon!

You all have a great rest of the week!

Maria

 

[thejenjens]

Hi JWANN,

Thanks for the input on the staterooms. I'll also let my mom know. I was wondering where do I buy or get the DIS Lime Green buttons from? I would love for us to have them for our trip! We can't wait. The days keep just ticking by don't they? I hope to be at the port pretty early also. However, are flight is pretty late the night before. Is there a specific place on deck 10 that everyone meets and a certain time? How did I get all this information?

Thanks for everyones help. Even though we were on a four night cruise before...it seems like it was a blur. It went so very fast and being new I think that we missed some things. I would love some tips from you pro cruisers.

Thanks again,

Millie and Jen
Mother, Dtr Team

 

[thejenjens]

Fran,

AKA..SQUIGGLE

My mom and I have the late seating for dinner. How about you and your dtr? What do you have? So far we have asked for a two seater table. What do you guys have? How old is your dtr? I'm 26. We are originally from Mt. Holly..now we reside in Maple Shade. Both in Burlington County. My mom's family all lives here. Except my one Aunt who recently moved to Florida. Mom and I are planning on one night to have dinner at Palo's. We did not try Palo's last time. However, now that we have more time we think we'll give it a go. We are so very excited to go on this cruise together.

Hope to see you and your dtr on the ship.

Thanks,

Millie and Jen

 

[Pgood]

Just got off the phone with Debbie and made all our reservations for the REAS!!!! I am so excited. We are traveling during our anniversary and have PALO reservations for our dinner with turn down service that night!!!!

We are traveling with boys 6 & 9. I heard they might have changed the age designations of the clubs. Has anyone heard about this? I need to make sure they stay together, as they did on the last cruise.

Can't wait, I love signing on to my reservations on the Dreams Unlimited site and seeing the days left to the trip!!!

 

[thejenjens]

PGOOD,

Sorry to let you know, however the boys will be in different groups. The groups go 3-7 and then 8-12. I hope that they won
't mind. I have the Disney Cruise Passporter. This thing is great. However, just to double check the book I just hung up the phone with the cruise line and asked them the ages. I just wanted to answer your question for you. Hope to see you on the ship.

They should still have fun if they don;t mind being seperated.

Thanks,

Jen

 

[jwann]

HEY!! Pgood!!! My sons are 9 and 6 as well!! Would you like to exchange pictures/letters in the mail? My sons aren't much for writing letters but are good at drawing pictures and I can attach a polaroid of them so your boys might have a familiar face in the club and lab! My 6 year-old likes the club and spends alot of time there. My 9 year-old LOVES the lab and would stay there all day if we let him. He's also been saving his allowance for arcade cards.

Jen - you get the DIS buttons by going onto www.wdwinfo.com and clicking on "Stuff for DISers" on the left hand side. I'm not completely sure where we are meeting on deck 10 - port? starboard? BUt we are meeting above the goofy pool.

 

[Pgood]

jwann

I would love to exchange info!!! The boys would be thrilled.



Thanks for responding!!

 

[cruisenewbie2004]

My brochure says the ages are 3-4, 5-7, and so forth. A group of 3-7 year olds is crazy! I don't like that at all. Are you sure of this?

 

[jwann]

Originally posted by cruisenewbie2004
My brochure says the ages are 3-4, 5-7, and so forth. A group of 3-7 year olds is crazy! I don't like that at all. Are you sure of this?

Don't worry cruisenewbie. They keep the 3&4s together and the 5-7s together. They even have different navigators. We've had kids in our traveling group that were in those separate groups and they rarely saw eachother. IMHO, Disney does a super job keeping things age-appropriate.

pgood - I sent you an email! FUN!

 

[Ratt45]

Bump to the first page. Couldn't stand seeing us on page 2. Got my ressie for SNUBA on St. Thomas. Can't wait to try it for the first time!!!! Only 9 weeks to go

 

[SQUIGGLE]

Hi all. Just got on line to pay bills; but had to check the Board first.
Jen - We have early seating; usually get LAPLAPL rotation. We get a table for 8; and have been lucky with our table mates. have met some very nice people. DD is 39.

There was some talk of a meet before the Sailaway Party. Deck 10 Starboard (terminal) side. We'll have our DIS shirts and pins on. Hopefully we'll see you in the terminal before we board. We'll probably be getting there around 10;30.
did you say you are getting in the day before? If so where are you staying?

Maria - glad to hear you made out OK in the storms. Life is getting back to normal slowly down here.

Can't wait to see everyone; and hear the first blast of the Horn!

fran

 

[jwann]

Hi all!
Hope everyone is having a good fall weekend. It is Homecoming weekend here in Murray at Murray State University. SInce my dh teaches there, we always have fun this weekend.

I have an idea. Feel free to let me know what you think....

I'm a big "game-playing" gal and thought of a game that might be fun to play on the boat.
1. Everyone from our DIS group (anyone who will wear a shirt or pin so that includes dh's or dkids with DIS buttons or shirts) PMs me with a personal question and answer that only someone could get if they ASKED you. Example - NOT THIS - What color are fran (squiggle)'s eyes BUT THIS What was Joelle (jhorner)'s nickname in highschool. Get it? Be sure you supply me with a question and answer from each one in your group who will play.
2. A couple weeks, or so, before we sail, I will post a list of the questions on our thread. You print the questions out.
3. The first one to give me their paper with all the questions correctly answered wins a Disney pin (how about a Disney Cruise Christmas Pin!?)

This game might be fun! It will encourage us to look for DIS buttons and interact with one another. I can just see me in the Walt Disney Theater -- "Hey, Maria, what's your favorite color?"
LOL

I ran this by my dsis and she thinks it sounds good but she's a game playing sort as well. What do y'all think?

 

[momto2dkids]

Sounds FUN to me! I'll ask my DH if he'll be willing to participate, but I know my children would like to play for sure.

Great idea jwann!!!

 

[SQUIGGLE]

This sounds like it could be fun; but what are the rules? Can we ask questions of each other BEFORE the cruise? Or do we have to wait until the cruise?
We would definitely have to wear some DIS indentifying item. Might get a lot of strange looks if we just went up to someone who happened to be in a lime green shirt (do you know how many of those there are out there!)

fran

 

[Disneyfan37]

Hi!I am gain for some game playing.My dh will have to answer for himself.

We just got back from Orlando.We went to the Perfect Gift out at Cocoa Beach and met Shirley and Norm for the first time.I am sure you all know who I am talking about as Shirley is also on here.I am so glad we got to meet them.They are great people.We ordered a basket for our cruise from them. We went to eat at Rusty's,and we watched the Magic sail out as we ate.Downtown Disney was really busy last night.I can see why I couldn't get a room on Disney property.The Riu in downtown Disney was fine though.We had breakfast this morning at the Polynesisan at Kona Cafe.I love their stuffed french toast.Then,we took the monorails around the hotels to walk off breakfast as we looked in the shops.The hotels were packed,so I am sure the parks were too.There was tons of debris down as we traveled through Orlando and Cocoa Beach.It is so sad.

9 more weeks!I can't wait!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Maria

 

[Disneyfan37]

Fran,I am glad things are getting back to normal there also.I hope and pray we are done for the rest of the year.I am with you I can't wait to hear the horn blow,and I surely can't wait to go to the rainforest onboard the ship.

We have late seating!We were lucky on both cruises on the Disney Wonder,so hopefully we will be lucky with our tablemates on the Magic.That is the only eerie thing I have about cruising as one never knows what that is going to be like.I wish some of you all had late seating,but it looks like we are the only late seaters<G>.

Jen,I beat you to the port already I was there yesterday<G>!We are going again a week from Thursday to see the Wonder sail out as two of my dckids will be on it.They still have no clue.DH and I already discussed it this weekend we are going to be sleeping here in town,but we will be leaving early enough on Saturday to get to port before 10 AM.We will have our Dis Pins on.COme on 9 weeks get out of the way!!!!I am so ready for the rainforest!I am going to lounge away<G>.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Maria

 

[momto2dkids]

Disneyfan37-
My family and I have late seating as well, so you won't be the only DISer at that time. We were waitlisted for early because we will have our 3 Dkids(10,5, and 1), but I think we have pretty much decided that late seating might work out well for us since we are from the west coast. Eating at 6-6:30 would be like 3:00 on our body clocks. 8-8:30pm equates to 5-5:30 on our body clocks which is more like when we eat here at home. My only worry is being in a room full of adults only that might not like sharing their dining time with small children and getting strange looks all during dinner. Kind of like that, "Oh I hope that baby isn't sitting by me on the plane" look that moms sometimes get when they travel with young ones on planes.

 

[Disneyfan37]

Hey!We won't look at you all like that.It would be great if they sat us together.DH and I love children,but we know exactly where you are coming from as there are people like that.We get the usual question when we book a cruise with AAA-"Don't you want to go on another cruise line that doesn't have as many children?" If I wanted to do that,I would of asked.This will probably be our last cruise booking with them as there are really no incentives now with booking with AAA.We will have to wave at each other!

Maria

 

[thejenjens]

Disneyfan37 and Momto2dkids and SQUIGGLE,

MY mom and I also have the late seating. We both love kids. I think there will be other families at the late seating with kids. It will be fine. We expect to see kids everywhere I think that if they minded they would take a different cruise.

We love playing games. I can't wait to see you all on the ship! Do we wear a specific Disney Pin or can it be any Disney Pin that we have? And do we have to get lime green shirts or can we just wear any Disney shirt with the pin? Then do we just wear a Disney Pin everyday to identify ourselves as playing the game? Or how will that work?

I can't wait til December. SQUIGGLE we are arriving the night before. We are getting in sooo late that we are just staying at a hotel right near the airport. So far I have the Fairfield in mind. They have shuttle service to and from the airport.

I am thinking of getting up and trying to get on one of the first buses to the port. We get more and more excited everyday.

When you guys have late seating how many people do you usually sit with?

Hope to see you all there.

Thanks,

Jen and Millie

 

[thejenjens]

Hi,

How is everyone doing? I was wondering what excursions everyone was planning on taking. We booked ours yesterday. I can't wait for December to get here.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Jen