A three day cruise is a perfect start before heading to Disney World. I have read about a really cool tradition on the Disney ships that are arranged among forum participates... It is called a fish extender. Hopefully, someone with experience can take the lead in informing us on how it is done 
I'm just waiting for it to be added to the list Can't wait to cruise with Mickey 
We'll be joining you! I started a thread for our cruise in case anyone else wants to do a fish extender
We are new to Disboards and this will be our second Disney cruise. We do not know what "fish extender" is, but hope to be enlightened soon. July will be here before we know it! Look forward to meeting you all.We'll be joining you! I started a thread for our cruise in case anyone else wants to do a fish extender
It is like a secret Santa gift exchange. One of us will be the keeper of the list and send updates to everyone involved. Whoever wants to participate sends that person the names and ages of everyone in their party and your stateroom number. The keeper of the list will e-mail that information to all participants and while on the cruise, we visit all the staterooms and leave little gifts in the fish extender (can be anything that hangs from the fish outside your stateroom door). Each day when you come back to your room, there will be different goodies in your FE 
. There are a ton of threads that discuss it in more detail Can't wait to meet everybody!
Hopefully it will be posted soon....maybe they can make this thread the primary one since more people have found it... Only 108 days to go
I am new too to the DIS forum. I have experience from another popular cruise forum and had great experiences. I love the fish extender idea... If you can't create one, I have found some being sold on eBay. The gifts do not have to be expensive, it is all in the fun in discovering something in your pocket.
I'm not able to post a link until I have 10 posts
O.k., Magical Dreams... respond to his post and you will have 10 posts!
Woo Hoo!! Ten posts I'm still thinking we should use this thread, though since so many have found it Thanks, Whirlybird!!
)I think we just need to list out how many are participating, how many kids, etc. We can use email to communicate as well if need be. My understanding is that we do a different gift for each family each day?? I may be wrong. But it sounds like fun and I want to go full out disney on this cruise
I like that people were given a little flexibility so they could choose based upon their budget and suitcase space how much to bring
We just came off another cruise Sunday where we had a rather unique gift exchange. Guests exchanged items representative of their home State or City. It also promoted getting to know one another a little better and was a lot of fun. See y'all in no time !!!Me too! I think we can set up whatever rules we want. Some groups do one gift per stateroom, some do one per person, and I've heard of groups that do one gift per day too... I saw one set of guidelines that was pretty cool. They said that the minimum was one gift per stateroom. However, if you wanted to do more (gifts for each person or a different gift each day), that was welcomes too
