Disney Dream August 7, 2011

[Mackie Mouse]

Welcome! JLA - looking forward to meeting your "kiddos" aboard DH and I are in our late 20's/rapidly approaching 30, and the friends we are sailing with are also in their mid-20s. People in our age range aren't too common on the Disney ships...looking forward to catching you all at Palo!

I am wondering...does anyone know of a good place to organize a cruise meet on the first day of the trip? The promenade lounge was always popular on the Magic/Wonder, but I don't know if there's a similar spot on the Dream.

 

[jlawall]

Welcome! JLA - looking forward to meeting your "kiddos" aboard DH and I are in our late 20's/rapidly approaching 30, and the friends we are sailing with are also in their mid-20s. People in our age range aren't too common on the Disney ships...looking forward to catching you all at Palo!

I am wondering...does anyone know of a good place to organize a cruise meet on the first day of the trip? The promenade lounge was always popular on the Magic/Wonder, but I don't know if there's a similar spot on the Dream.

Let's meet ....on Deck 9..........

 

[Mackie Mouse]

Let's meet ....on Deck 9..........

Party in jla's room...???

 

[jlawall]

Hey All.....saw some great views of the Dream on the View recently!

 

[simbasmom2]

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!An opening just came open for my family of 4!!! I am so excited, i haven't been able to book until now! We just did the MR cruise less than 2 weeks ago and it was great, but missed CC. I would love to join your Fe group. We did this last cruise and it was awesome! We have a verandah.

Let the countdown begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[simbasmom2]

I just had a chance to read through all of the posts. Do we have a FE group/list started? I sure hope so! It just adds to the magic!

 

[BelleBway]

I just had a chance to read through all of the posts. Do we have a FE group/list started? I sure hope so! It just adds to the magic!

I haven't seen one... I've never done a FE before so I'm not really sure about the whole thing.

But yay, I just paid off my cruise!!! (bonus pts on disney visa for going over a certain $ amount in a month) And bought airline tix!!! Nieces are very excited.

ETA: wow your daughters are almost the exact same ages as my nieces!

 

[simbasmom2]

You are lucky it is paid off!!! Maybe all the girls can meet up in the clubs onboard. It is always nice talking to people on here that have children traveling with them the same ages/gender as mine.

Is anyone up for FEs? I will gladly organize it.

 

[Mackie Mouse]

SimbasMom - since the thread has been slow, I think people haven't been keen on the idea yet. If anyone wants to do FEs, though, I am happy to start a list/get on board! We had a blast doing an FE on our honeymoon. At the very least, I really would love to coordinate a place/time for a cruisemeet on our first day.

 

[simbasmom2]

SimbasMom - since the thread has been slow, I think people haven't been keen on the idea yet. If anyone wants to do FEs, though, I am happy to start a list! We had a blast doing an FE on our honeymoon. At the very least, I really would love to coordinate a place/time for a cruisemeet on our first day.

A meet sounds good. I would love to do the FEs again. If you would like to start it that would be great! Why do you think this thread is slow? HMMM
Maybe closer to the time it will pick up! I like to check the boards everyday (one could say I am a little obsessed).

 

[Mackie Mouse]

My guess would be that it's the length of the cruise, maybe? I have only taken one other DCL cruise and that had an extremely active FE exchange/meet thread. Friends with more experience say it seems to vary...hopefully things will pick up (they have over the past month or so a bit!).

I will see if I can play around with Google Sites tonight and get a little page with a spreadsheet going. My last cruise someone set up a similar webpage with all the info that people could print/bookmark and it was very helpful! We kept track of DIS name, ages of kids, # of people in the party, etc. Except for jla's room, I don't know of a good spot on the Dream for a meet yet, though! Any ideas, or ideas for a time? Our last meet might have been about an hour before the muster drill...

 

[BelleBway]

I will see if I can play around with Google Sites tonight and get a little page with a spreadsheet going. My last cruise someone set up a similar webpage with all the info that people could print/bookmark and it was very helpful! We kept track of DIS name, ages of kids, # of people in the party, etc. Except for jla's room, I don't know of a good spot on the Dream for a meet yet, though! Any ideas, or ideas for a time? Our last meet might have been about an hour before the muster drill...

I would be happy to set up a password protected webpage if anyone wants; I'm a software developer so it would be easy for me to set something up just the way we wanted. (I'm a little concerned about privacy in terms of having too much of my info on a publicly accessible page)

I haven't done a DCL cruise since the inaugural year of the Magic and obviously have never done a FE; I've seen it talked about a lot and get the general idea but I haven't had time to do much research on it and am not sure I totally get what all is involved.

I'm always checking the Dis and I'm happy that this thread is starting to have some activity!

 

[Mackie Mouse]

BelleBWay - go for it

FYI - Here's what I came up with before reading your post in about 15 minutes on Google Sites, if you want to use it for inspiration

https://sites.google.com/site/disneydream8711/

 

[simbasmom2]

The FE exchange is a lot of fun. I ordered my Fe on EBAY (3 pocket -30.00 shipped) from "GRADYSMOM". It is adorable. I have seen homemade FEs and even just a cute pirate bag as a FE. I received all kinds of gifts: magnets, bookmarks, designer(our cruise info) mugs, journals, scrapbook items, silly bands, candy, ornaments, stickers, pirate tattoos, tiara (my husband wore this for awhile and drove my teen daughter nuts) and many more items. It is like a secret santa exchange. It is fun finding gifts. I like checking other peoples doors, too. We made a ton of magnets last time for our door. Some people give one gift per family, others gave 1 gift per person (everyone got something) and others stuffed the FEs almost everyday. I like the no rules plan. We brought for several days, but then combined them to give on three different occasions(7 nighter). There was a lot of walking, will be even more on a bigger ship. I told the girls in the future we will probably do 1 or 2 days worth...I guess it will depend how many join in. Our last woman who organized just kept a tally of their web name, room number, #of people in the room and if they have children- their age and gender. She just would update it here as people would join. If you can do it privately that would be fine, too. Hopefully more will join in on the fun. We know the ship is full!!

 

[BelleBway]

Our last woman who organized just kept a tally of their web name, room number, #of people in the room and if they have children- their age and gender. She just would update it here as people would join. If you can do it privately that would be fine, too. Hopefully more will join in on the fun. We know the ship is full!!

My thought is that some info can be kept public- screen name, # of people, kids ages. But some info should be protected and only available by password to people who have also submitted their info- things like cabin #, real names, home town. I admit to being super cautious about privacy but that's because I was sort of stalked in the past... nothing really dangerous, but definitely very freaky! I can periodically post the public info in this thread, too.

I'll get something together this wknd.

 

[Mackie Mouse]

FYI Belle - if you want to keep the Google site I have going, I can secure it. Only people granted permission would be able to view the site - you would just need a Google account (free, broader in scope than a GMail account). I would able to give people permission to both view and/or edit the site so a few of us could keep track of info. Just in case this saves you effort. If you're like my husband, though (also a software developer)....effort is not effort if you're programming something for fun.

We have our FE ready to go and (sshhh, it's kid of a surprise) bought one for the friends we are cruising with just in case. It will be their first cruise, and they will be celebrating their recent engagement while we celebrate our anniversary.

EDIT: Just saw in anther thread that Bon Voyage on Deck 3 might be a nice meet-up spot on the first day of the cruise...
http://disneycruise.disney.go.com/ships-activities/ships/dream/nightclubs-lounges/bon-voyage/

 

[simbasmom2]

That sounds like a good meeting place to me.

 

[Mackie Mouse]

Belle, or anyone else - any progress on a website? I also realized this weekend that I can make a password-protected site using my Mobile Me account - anyone given the username and password over a private message would be able to access it (no special account creation needed).

 

[BelleBway]

Belle, or anyone else - any progress on a website? I also realized this weekend that I can make a password-protected site using my Mobile Me account - anyone given the username and password over a private message would be able to access it (no special account creation needed).

Sorry, I really wanted to do this but I had a horrible weekend... Maybe it's better if I don't since you already started setting something up.

 

[Mackie Mouse]

Oh no, Belle - hope everything is now OK! As it's almost my bedtime I'll get something secure officially up and running tomorrow.