December 20 2009 3 night Wonder

[Charleyann]

Do you buy for everyone? Or just one person?

 

[Ware Bears]

I am game for this!

Woo hoo!!!

So we get things that represent our country/province / city?

Yes, that does seem to be a popular idea, also Disney and pirate themed things ~ here's a thread with photos of what some people exchanged here and another here.

Should there be a cap played on how much we spend for the gifts? It makes it easier......

Do you buy for everyone? Or just one person?

I've been reading other threads and it definitely seems to be a case of anything goes and it's left to each individual to decide. Some people like to give to each person every day, others give one gift per participating cabin per cruise. For example, we're a family of 5 so people might prefer to give something for us to share instead of a gift each.

I don't mind whether we set a cap or we could just say we spend whatever we are comfortable with. I see some people make their gifts, others buy very cheaply from a dollar shop ~ well, we don't have dollar shops in the UK but we have pound shops!

IMO we should have just two rules ~ (1) Keep it inexpensive and (2) Keep it fun!!

 

[Charleyann]

Ok, I think I get you. So you give little gifts to each participating cabin? You can give to individual members of that cabin or one gift per family?

Is this for each day we sail? So 3 days of gifts?

You will give us a list of participating cabins and family members and whether they are child or adult?

I was only joing about the Ketchup chips. They'd be crushed by the time I got to Disney cruise after a cruise before this and 7 days at Disney...al ittle stale too!

Charleyann
Just 4 months and 15 days for me!!!!!!

 

[Ware Bears]

Ok, I think I get you. So you give little gifts to each participating cabin? Yes You can give to individual members of that cabin or one gift per family? Yes

Is this for each day we sail? So 3 days of gifts? Entirely up to you ~ although IMO it's probably best to not do it every day, maybe do it just one day or two days, otherwise there'll be no time left to enjoy the cruise!



You will give us a list of participating cabins and family members and whether they are child or adult? Yes, you PM me your cabin #, names and ages.

I was only joing about the Ketchup chips. They'd be crushed by the time I got to Disney cruise after a cruise before this and 7 days at Disney...al ittle stale too!
Oh rats and to think I was so looking forward to these!!

Charleyann
Just 4 months and 15 days for me!!!!!!

 

[Ware Bears]

Ahoy Me Hearties!!!



Only 5 months till we set sail!!!​

 

[gusdmh]

Hey Disney peeps,
My wife and I are going to surprise our familly with this mini-Christmas gift. We are:
DH - Gus/me
DW - Elsa
DS - Adrian/21-disabled
DS - Nick/14
See you there!

 

[ShastaDog]

Welcome, Gus and family! DD - Lauren/13 and I look forward to seeing you on the cruise!

 

[Ware Bears]

Hi Gus and family welcome to this thread!

I'm Elaine and will be cruising with my DH Bryan and our DDs, Samantha 17, Danielle 15 and Francesca 13. We are so looking forward to it!

 

[Charleyann]

Lots of Teenagers onboard. Should keep them busy and happy!

Charleyann

 

[Ware Bears]

Hey fellow cruisers, just popped in to say hi!

 

[Snoopygirl]

Just booked our first cruise!!!!

We're in Cat. 10, Deck 2 in two rooms.
Me
DH
2 DD's(9 & 5)
My Mom

Soooooo excited!

I need all the tips I can get.

 

[Ware Bears]

Hi Snoopygirl, welcome to this thread!

This is our first Disney cruise too so we knew nothing when we first considered booking but this board is fantastic for tips ~ I don't know if you've seen it yet but there is a FAQ sticky on the top of the main cruise board page.

If you read through the other posts on this thread you'll see we're planning a fish extender exchange so please join in if you so wish.

 

[Charleyann]

Just under the 4 month mark until my vacation starts!!!!!

Just got a fantastic upgrade on the 7 night exotic Western Carribean cruise I am taking with Carnival. I got Balcony rooms for $539. Carnival called yesterday and upgraded me to Aft extended Balcony rooms!!! The balconies are double the size. Our room is back left-hand cornor of the ship!!!!

Wish I could a fantastic upgrade like that on Disney

Charleyann

 

[Ware Bears]

Wow, Charleyann, that is fantastic news!!

Here's some that you may also get lucky with DCL!

 

[gusdmh]

Great to hear from you guys. Can hardly wait to have my 14-year old spend all his time away from us at that teen Aloft
http://cruise-lines-routes.suite101.com/article.cfm/best_cruise_lines_for_teenagers

 

[Ware Bears]

Thanks for the link Gus, I know my DDs are looking forward to going to Aloft.

 

[Snoopygirl]

I am like so giddy w/ excitement that I can't stand it!! Was anyone else like this on their first cruise???!

I have been reading everything I can and I keep talking about it to my kids. They are beginning to think I'm nuts .

So....what do u do in the meantime??? We have like 5 months to go....ugh!

Is everyone going to have those magnetic signs on their doors??
Anyone else on Deck 2??

 

[Ware Bears]

Snoopygirl, I am so excited I am driving everyone mad so anytime you want to talk cruise without driving your kids nuts come on here and post, I'll talk cruise with you!

We are going to decorate our door and we have got our fish extender I am not at all crafty so cheated and bought one off Ebay!

I am wishing our summer away which is terrible but we're not exactly having a good summer weather wise this year and I keep wishing I was at Castaway Cay now!

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

Howdy!
We’d like to join in on this little reindeer game. We just booked onto this cruise as well and are looking forward to getting back on the Wonder once more before she moves on to other duties. This will be our third DCL cruise and we already can’t wait. Actually we were just on the Magic this past July (and a fabulous time was had by all), but we no sooner got back home then we realized several things. First, we wanted to go back out with DCL ASAP; second, we probably weren’t going to be able to go to Florida at all in the summer of 2010 (for the first time in many years); third, with the new Disney Dream arriving at Canaveral in 2011, this might be the lat time we could get aboard the Wonder before she moves to the west coast and fourth, we really didn’t have any idea what we wanted to do for each other this Christmas. So… We decided to skip presents and extra spending entirely this holiday season and get back on the ship.

We’d also like to join in on the F/E Exchange if you’re doing one. We were actually in charge of tracking and publishing the members lists and printing ships maps for the July-11 Western and really enjoyed getting to know everyone on the thread and at a DIS-Meet on sailing day. Just let us know who’s looking after the F/E list and we’ll PM them what ever info your collecting. We kept it pretty simple last time and just published a periodic post to the thread that listed everyone in the F/E like this: “Cabin-Nbr – DIS-Name – Crew Names & kids ages” so for us it would look like this:

“2035 - GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes - Rob & Tamara, DS14:Max”

Obviously, we’ve already got our (now infamous no-sew) Fish-Extender and I’m sure we can easily recycle a number of our favorite door magnets. We’ll just have to make a few new ones with a proper seasonal theme and that should keep us occupied while waiting for December to roll around.

We’ll that’s probably way too much rambling on, but we’re so excited! Looking forward to hearing from everyone and getting back on a Disney ship. See you soon!

 

[MOMO2DK]

Hi,
I booked our first cruise last week!!! I can't wait! I really wasn't planning on doing this at all, but somehow everything fell into place.

Just our family
Me
DH -aka 'The Capt'
DD 10
DS 8

I hope I learn all I can here to make sure we have as much fun as possible!

Martha