December 7 2006 Wonder Sailing

[lumpysluck]

thnak you all sooo much for the info- i was really wondering about Pirate night because we have reservations at Palo that night, but my girls ( i screwed up earlier and typed DS when i meant DD ) would be so upset if we weren'y there with them. The girls already have there pirate costumes- halloween and they can wear them on the ship!

 

[Hanover]

From what I've read on old 3 day navigators, the first night is casual night, second night is Pirate night and 3rd night is semi-formal night. I also have read somewhere on one of these boards at one time that DCL couldn't do fireworks leaving CC. I know that when we were on our 7 day in May leaving St. Thomas, we pretty much came to a stop to have them go off. We love Pirate night. When Mickey comes during the Pirate Party and the fireworks start was our family's favorite part of the entire trip. Purely a magical moment (even gave me goosebumps!)

We also love dinner on pirate night with everyone wearing their bandanas and the waiters marching with the flags and music. You can always go to both dinner and Palo and just have an appetizer when the kids eat. Palo is really well worth the experience and I'm sure they would be pretty quick with just 2 or 3 people compared to when our group went. We also ate pretty slow and pigged out on half orders of just about everything offered and had to wait for it to be cooked. I did see couples come and eat and leave when we were still on our appetizers.

 

[lisa702]

Welcome! I have a DD7 Skye. She is counting down the days! We should be able to get some beautiful Christmas pictures with all the decorations on the ship. Make sure DDs have a Christmasy dressy dress for pics in front of the Christmas tree.
and should be dressed like for pics shouldn't they?

 

[Diznyfan68]

Welcome aboard! We have DS11 and it is ME who is counting down the days til we leave (7 weeks from today!)

We aren't doing Palo this trip but hopefully we will the next time we go.

We also aren't doing any excursions in Nassau, instead we plan on going the Pirate Museum. At Castaway Cay DS and I are doing the Stingray Encounter in the morning while DH takes pictures and I'm having the Cabana Massage in the afternoon .

 

[Hanover]

Welcome! I have a DD7 Skye. She is counting down the days! We should be able to get some beautiful Christmas pictures with all the decorations on the ship. Make sure DDs have a Christmasy dressy dress for pics in front of the Christmas tree.
and should be dressed like for pics shouldn't they?

I'm sure that the characters will be dressed for Christmas. I know that they always are in the WDW parks and I've seen cruise pictures posted with them in Christmas attire too. We are going to bring Santa hats or buy Mickey Santa ears and take pictures at CC of the boys in front of the Wonder to add in our Christmas cards. We may even splurge and have photo cards done at Shutters on board since they looked great in their display. From what I remember (I know I have it somewhere in my scrapbook stuff) they weren't all that much more than buying photocards at Walmart or Costco.

Has anyone seen any recent 3 day Wonder navigators? The most recent one that I've seen is from April and I was hoping to find more up to date ones.

I can't wait to see pictures posted starting tomorrow from Disboard members on the first post dry- dock cruise of all the changes made on the Wonder the last 2 weeks.

 

[lisa702]

Just getting excited!

 

[itgirl1002]

Hello again everyone,


Just an update on our plans. My DH and I are doing Palo on the semi-formal night. I also booked a seaweed body wrap and half massage on Thursday afternoon, and DH and I are going together Friday morning for the Exotic Rasul.

I am getting extremely excited about this. It seems like forever since our last cruise 2 years ago!

 

[Hanover]

Hello again everyone,


Just an update on our plans. My DH and I are doing Palo on the semi-formal night. I also booked a seaweed body wrap and half massage on Thursday afternoon, and DH and I are going together Friday morning for the Exotic Rasul.

I am getting extremely excited about this. It seems like forever since our last cruise 2 years ago!

The seaweed wrap and massage sounds heavenly! I did a stone massage/facial on a Carnival cruise in November 2004 and fell asleep it was so relaxing! The rasul sounds like a lot of fun too! You will absolutely love Palo. We had Gemma, and Marco as servers in Palo for our dinner/brunch and they were great.

 

[Diznyfan68]

The seaweed wrap and Palo's are on my list of must do's for our cruise in 2008. Have fun!

 

[Hanover]

I just read a Disboard member's quick trip report who just got off the Wonder this morning (first post dry dock cruise) Among the list of changes that she stated, she said that Scoops is now Goofy's Galley (Yes!! I will get my ham paninis afterall), the toddler splash area has a Fantasia theme and the shows are the same among as they were --still Hercules instead of Twice Charmed.

 

[itgirl1002]

Aaahhh!

Hanover, I have been lurking the TR thread, and have not seen it yet. Can you give me a link?

 

[Hanover]

Itgirl1002- I found it on this one in the general Cruise Line Forum:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1254892&page=1&pp=15 (I should have said trip review and not report in the last post above..sorry to confuse you)

One Diser put a picture of the new spa products (they look great) on the above thread but I've yet to see any of any other pictures of changes except for when I googled "Wonder dry dock pictures 2006" and got some girl named Devra or something similar to that name's personal photos she uploaded. She must be a CM and had a half dozen pictures of them installing the Dumbotron and other little improvements. I'm really keen on seeing the toddler splash zone to see how it turned out. I don't have a non potty trained toddler, I just want to see what they did.

 

[Hanover]

Here ya go....finally some pictures of the Wonder's renovations!

http://www.castawayclub.com/

click where it says on the top left of the site " 10/20/06 Words from the Webmaster: Back from the first Wonder cruise after dry dock (10/15/2006), pictures click here"

 

[TYTY]

Just bumping up to the first page ~ has anybody other than me started packing yet

 

[Hanover]

We haven't started packing yet ourselves. We tend to wait to the last second to pack for some reason. I actually suggested putting our snorkel stuff, ds5's life vest and pirate costumes in a suitcase last weekend but never got around to it. We tend to be overpackers, but are trying hard this time to only use 2 rolling duffel bags and a hanging suitcase. We'll be gone a week, so we'll probably have a bag for the park days and a bag/hanging case for the cruise. When we went on the Magic for 7 days in May, I was glad to have packed 4 or 5 swimsuits since we were at the pool or beach every day and I hate getting in a wet suit (and so do our boys). I did cut back on pajamas to 2 pair over the week since on our 4 day in 2005 the boys always fell asleep at the shows and we'd just leave them in their t-shirts and boxer briefs isntead of their pajamas. For the cruise in December, I'm bringing them each 2 swimsuits (one to wear, one to dry) and 1 pair of pajamas. I'll pack them each a shorts/t-shirt outfit a day plus one extra, 2 pair of khaki's, 1 polo top, 1 pirate costume and 1 semi formal outfit. Not sure if the latter will be a polo or button down/tie/jacket. They still have nice navy blazers from the last cruise that fit and it would be nice to have their pictures taken dressed up. I'm bringing a pair of capris/blouse for casual night, skirt/top for pirate night and dress (not a gown or anything) for semi-formal. DH will wear khaki's and a polo the first night, his Disney Pirate's In the Caribbean shirt on Pirate night and either a Polo or button down shirt/tie/jacket for semi-formal. He wants to really pack light this trip so we may just go with the Polos for them on semi-formal. They were in tuxes in May on formal night and blazers on semi-formal and we got some great pictures then. Decisions, decisions...

Brennan (ds5) made his Disney trip countdown chain 2 days ago in Mickey colors. Usually we wait for the 30 day mark, but he was so excited he couldn't wait. He even wrote Mickey Mouse on the last one. When I asked him how he knew how to spell it, he pointed to his head and said "it's always in my head." We've created a Disney monster!

It's started to get chilly here, which makes a Caribbean cruise all that more appealing.


For those scrapbookers out there...Mousememories has the new EK success stickers in stock.

 

[plgrn]

Last year, we bought one of those over the door shoe holders to put on the bathroom door. It worked great to hold all our toiletries and kept us from getting claustrophobic in that little bathroom! Seems like that was a DIS tip from long ago.

Happy packing guys! Today I packed up our summer clothes and unpacked all the winter ones. It was nice to keep out certain summer things thinking "I'll need that for the cruise!"

 

[lumpysluck]

Does anyone know when we can expect to reieve all of the paperwork?

 

[TYTY]

The paperwork usually arrives 2-3 weeks before departure day.

Plgrn - The over the door shoe holder is a must for me. I've been doing the clothes switch also, it's getting cold here in CT. I have been putting some stuff away but keeping out some stuff also.

Hanover - We're gone for a week also, going to AKL for 5 days before the "Wonder" so I have more to pack.

 

[plgrn]

double post sorry!

 

[Hanover]

I'm guessing that we'll get our paperwork in the next 3 weeks. I keep hoping the UPS guy stops here with it every time I see him pass the house. I did do all the on line check in and contract, so hopefully we won't be too long in the DCL terminal before boarding. We are going to remember to complete the customs form though this time. We forgot that we had to do it before boarding in May so that was really the only thing we had to fill out at the terminal when we checked in. The kids club registration took about 5 minutes since we'd pre-registered on line. We are aiming to get up the morning of the 7th, eat breakfast and head straight to the port. We love getting there as early as possible (10AM) to make the most of the ship. There's nothing quite like spotting the Magic or Wonder as you near the port.

Tyty- I don't know if you've been to AKL, but it's GREAT! Boma is also wonderful for both breakfast and dinner.