Disney Wonder Sept 3-7, 2006

[LCTsMom]

Good Morning Cruisers!!!!!!!

Welcome Lisa!!!!! I think most of us are coming in the day before our cruise. What are you guys doing?
DD wants to stay at POR so we are actually coming in Friday after school spending Sat at POR and leaving Sun for our cruise!

I just read that the Sting-ray encounter will be up and running this Sept!!

We are not really sure what we're doing at this point. Tammy and her gang are flying in and doing the "land" part of their trip before the cruise . I believe they are staying at AKL (unless that changed when our cruise dates changed.) I would LOVE to drive up that weekend and stay with her for a couple of Disney days but I am not sure if my mom will be up to it . If she isn't, I'd like to try to get to the port the night before. It's about 4 hours from here, I don't want to have to drive at the crack of dawn that day . Time will tell I guess. We stay at POR frequently, it's one of the few places on property that has reasonably priced accomodations for our gang of 5.

We are hoping to do the Stingray Encounter. Stingrays are my fave!

 

[LCTsMom]

Great job on the list, Taeja71! Thanks!

 

[Ker-Bear]

Add another cruiser Taeja. I directed her to this thread so she should get here sometime soon. Her name is Wendy and her DD is 6 and will be 7 at cruise time. they booked the 12gty. the prices have gone way up. A cat. 10 was $300 more than when my parents and I booked. Supply and demand

Told her to save her $$$ we wouldn't be in the room except to sleep and get dressed anyway. We are doing the dolphin swim!

Lisa, where in SW Florida are you coming from? I moved to SC from Fort Misery FL oops I mean Ft Myers.

We all are coming in on Friday night. Now that the group has expanded (I hope to keep expanding it) we will probably decide a little closer as to what we will do on Saturday.

 

[taeja71]

Add another cruiser Taeja. I directed her to this thread so she should get here sometime soon. Her name is Wendy and her DD is 6 and will be 7 at cruise time.

Whoohoo!

 

[taeja71]

I just had to type in white... hee hee hee

 

[taeja71]

can you see my previous post?

 

[LCTsMom]

can you see my previous post?

I see your 'hidden' white typing. Cool idea for those "secretive" threads LOL

 

[Ker-Bear]

Hope all is well! Now that I have someone locally to obsess with, this may be bad. I think we are going to have to monitor each other's excitement to avoid over planning!

 

[purplern]

One can NEVER over plan

My brother will be on our cruise too but when I ask him questions he doesnt answer so I am not waiting for him to decide what he wants to do!

 

[26555]

IT'S TIME CRUISERS'
9/3/06- 9/7/06

Lisa aka LCT'sMom
DH- Chris
Staterooms 5522, 5524

You were able to get (keep) the SPH rooms? I wonder if they bumped somebody up in Cat to put you there. They were booked earlier or I would have gotten one! I thought they'd bump you up to Cat 9 for having to reschedule.

 

[taeja71]

just for fun I got a quote from DCL for 1 adult for the Aug 20th repo and it was over $4,000 for a cat 11 room. Blech!

 

[purplern]

just for fun I got a quote from DCL for 1 adult for the Aug 20th repo and it was over $4,000 for a cat 11 room. Blech!

WOW! That's alot!

 

[Ker-Bear]

Lisa- Did you have these rooms on the other cruise? I hope so. Because when I booked back in May, all those rooms were alledgely booked. I will have a fit with my TA if I found out you got randomly assigned those rooms! Poster 26555 hopefully is correct that they just bumped those people up a category. Let us know if you originally booked the SPH rooms????

 

[LCTsMom]

Lisa- Did you have these rooms on the other cruise? I hope so. Because when I booked back in May, all those rooms were alledgely booked. I will have a fit with my TA if I found out you got randomly assigned those rooms! Poster 26555 hopefully is correct that they just bumped those people up a category. Let us know if you originally booked the SPH rooms????

Kerry,

Yes, we did originally book connecting SPH rooms for our 9/17 sailing. My TA told me that these rooms were already assigned but that DCL would "let us have them." That leads me to believe the folks that booked the SPH rooms got an upgrade! Too bad I didn't think to push for the upgrade for US since we were inconvenienced. I originally booked the SPH rooms in February of this year. When I booked, my TA didn't even sure what SPH rooms were.

 

[Ker-Bear]

That makes me feel so much better!!! I have grow to adore my TA Tom from All Seasons and I would be really disappointed if he had fibbed and not really checked into it.

Looking forward to tomorrow. Going to Hilton Head after work. I have the nicest friends who invite me to such cool places.

 

[26555]

Kerry,

Yes, we did originally book connecting SPH rooms for our 9/17 sailing. My TA told me that these rooms were already assigned but that DCL would "let us have them." That leads me to believe the folks that booked the SPH rooms got an upgrade! Too bad I didn't think to push for the upgrade for US since we were inconvenienced. I originally booked the SPH rooms in February of this year. When I booked, my TA didn't even sure what SPH rooms were.

I'm not sure why they'd involve bumping up others when they could have just said to choose from the open Cat 9's. By choosing, you could make sure not to get one that has been labeled "noisy". Seems like there is potential for the bumped parties to be upset if they do get a noisy room on deck 2 when they had, similarly, booked way in advance to get a SPH room. Who knows, maybe they bumped them up to a Cat 6 and everyone is happy!

 

[purplern]

GOOD MORNING CRUISERS!!!!!
Another terrible night at work! I need a vaction! I have to go again tonight! Let the fireworks begin!

 

[Ker-Bear]

26555: I would think since LTC'smom was having to change her trip they would have upgraded her at no charge to the cat 6 or at least pick the category 9 she wanted! How is it coming keeping this a secret? I am not sure I would have the ability to keep something like that for an extended period of time.

Vicki-sorry work has been rough. Hopefully all the drunks and crazies from Friday nights will come when your shift ends. Unless you are working the grave yard shift. yuck

 

[LCTsMom]

I'm not sure why they'd involve bumping up others when they could have just said to choose from the open Cat 9's. By choosing, you could make sure not to get one that has been labeled "noisy". Seems like there is potential for the bumped parties to be upset if they do get a noisy room on deck 2 when they had, similarly, booked way in advance to get a SPH room. Who knows, maybe they bumped them up to a Cat 6 and everyone is happy!

I don't know why I didn't get the upgrade offer. We had booked two connecting SPH rooms so maybe that had something to do with it? I don't know. Maybe if I would have been persistent and carried on I would have gotten the upgrades. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that until AFTER my TA called and offered me the SPH rooms on the 9/3 sailing. I doubt I will be offered any upgrades now for anything else, I probably missed the boat, so to speak.

 

[Ker-Bear]

have a great weekend! I am off to Hilton Head