We live in California so we will be flying in that day. We wanted to take the Panama Canal Cruise that ended in San Diego so it would be a short trip home but the timing did not work out for us vacation wise.This goes to EVERYONE reading this thread ... where are you staying the night before the cruise?
We're staying at the Holiday Inn Express - Downtown
Also we just ordered our FE and we added our dog to ours his name is King or Mr King as we like to call him. Just didn't want to confuse anybody when they visited our door.Yes!! As you can see, I'm a rather large fan, mostly cause of Elsa ^_^ I heard that Olaf even signs autographs in the meet and greet!
I don't have the tabs up anymore but you can search around and find reviews about the party as well
Haha yes ^_^ I shall have to wear my Lime Green Mickey Head hair clip so you know who I am!
It's funny, we have pretty similar ideas of times, you're just a tad earlier it seems though lol
I'm really excited for the glass shop on the harbor tourWe'd very much like to purchase a small piece while there
On an unrelated note, would you mind putting my full name for the FE? (Kristal, instead of Kris). Since I'm making my new Fish Extender soon, I'm going to be putting my full name and don't want to confuse anyone.
This goes to EVERYONE reading this thread ... where are you staying the night before the cruise?
We're staying at the Holiday Inn Express - Downtown
This goes to EVERYONE reading this thread ... where are you staying the night before the cruise?
We're staying at the Holiday Inn Express - Downtown
I have a waitlist for the Grand Californian, but if that doesn't come through I'll probably just pick the cheapest in the area. We're flying into SNA so will drive down the morning of the cruise and drop off the car right before. In the back of my mind I've been thinking maybe staying at the Queen Mary because we're going to do a tour but I haven't looked at prices or availability.
It will be just my husband and myself on this trip; we usually travel with my brother & sis-in-law but they are unable to join us. I can't speak on arriving before your port arrival time cause I've never done it, BUT I can tell you that there are 2 formal nights and 1 semi-formal. The 2 formals are currently scheduled to be our first sea day (8/27) and the sea day before Cozumel (9/6). The semi formal is scheduled to be 9/1. Also Pirates is supposed to be 9/5 and Frozen on 8/30. Every other day is listed as "Cruise Casual."Spur of the moment decision to go on this cruise! Just booked! Have been on other Disney cruises (including Panama Canal in 2012 or 2013) but have never booked one so close to departure time
Only issue we had booking late (and it is not a problem at all) was gettin port arrival time of 12:00. Is it possible to arrive earlier without an issue?
Quick question about onboard events. Does anyone know how many formal/semi-formal nights we will have? And which days those may take place?
We will be arriving in San Diego the day before the cruise (staying at the Manchester Grand Hyatt booked on our own not through DCL). We have never been to SD before; we will probably just do the Hop On/Hop Off Trolley to tour the city. Although I did come across what looks like a great whale watching tour; we were surprised to learn there may be whales in SD in August!
Very excited!!
Yippee! We have a PAT! Worked pretty easily, 12 EST is 9pm here, we got to do the online check in around 15 minutes after. Our PAT is 12 - 12:30 and we also set up Palo Brunch for the 7th at 10:30am, the only time available. We figured we'd start with that and then if we wanted to reschedule, we could move it to the following week. We might do that Harbor cruise in Cabo that goes by the glassblowing shop. We've been to all the stops, except Cartagena, several times, so we might just stay on the ship the whole time, we love sea days. Even better are port days when everybody else is off!
We might get off at PV and Cabo for an hour or two for shopping, but no excursions booked except Cartagena.
Spur of the moment decision to go on this cruise! Just booked! Have been on other Disney cruises (including Panama Canal in 2012 or 2013) but have never booked one so close to departure time
Only issue we had booking late (and it is not a problem at all) was gettin port arrival time of 12:00. Is it possible to arrive earlier without an issue?
Quick question about onboard events. Does anyone know how many formal/semi-formal nights we will have? And which days those may take place?
We will be arriving in San Diego the day before the cruise (staying at the Manchester Grand Hyatt booked on our own not through DCL). We have never been to SD before; we will probably just do the Hop On/Hop Off Trolley to tour the city. Although I did come across what looks like a great whale watching tour; we were surprised to learn there may be whales in SD in August!
Very excited!!
I had one last week, but I don't see it listed anymore...
Haha yes ^_^ I shall have to wear my Lime Green Mickey Head hair clip so you know who I am!
It's funny, we have pretty similar ideas of times, you're just a tad earlier it seems though lol
This goes to EVERYONE reading this thread ... where are you staying the night before the cruise?
We're staying at the Holiday Inn Express - Downtown
I still haven't booked anything
That is where we wanted to stay when I started planning. The rates to stay at the QM are not what I would consider cheap, but it looked interesting. 
