Hi all, just joining the thread DH and I are booked and starting to get really excited - our last cruise was a year ago and we are missing it big time!!! I haven't had a chance to go back through the thread yet but look forward to chatting with all of you!
They certainly do! I can't tell you how many times the Irish and British lottery have made us a winner on the DoubleDip09-2008 mailbox!
Oops...did I say that outloud? No. We haven't won anything. I haven't seen a dime! I Promise!!
We wear ties to dinner every night....Disney ties every night! 
We have quite a collection of disney character ties!!
Hi all, just joining the thread DH and I are booked and starting to get really excited - our last cruise was a year ago and we are missing it big time!!! I haven't had a chance to go back through the thread yet but look forward to chatting with all of you!
I've seen you around the boards, so you already feel familar!
) emailed DCL tech (instead of calling) to get them to fix it so we could book our stuff come 90 days, and it took three emails to get through to them that the account truly wasn't accessible. The first two were form emails only slightly personalized via cut-n-paste like Lois' letters, but the third one was specifically typed up and addressed most of the problem. But not all so he sent another email...again two form letters and the third one fixed things, so we have come to believe the third time is the charm for DCL...they do eventually respond when they are tired of dealing with it and want to get rid of you! Wow. Ridiculous. Three brunch slots??? THREE. And I am supposed to believe they truly release 50% of available ressies for online booking???? Crazy stuff. Either that or the percentage of REAS'ers is thru the roof. Guess I can plan on doing the on-board scramble. Can any of you tell what hours for Flounder's Reef are available?????? Esp. on port days????You will only be able to book for Grand Cayman, Cozumel, and 2 days (with the appropriate specials) in Castaway Cay. No confusion at all when you go to book.They'll even give descriptions of the excursions when you choose from the list.
Only one excursion is booked up, as of yesterday. It was the cavern exploration excursion.
High tea for day 3 is full, but 3 pm on Day 6 is still open. Brunch has 3 time slots for Day 3, and only 10:30 am for Day 6. All of the time slots for Palo dinner are open.
Hope that helps!
Stressed is more like it. I am actually not looking forward to it, cause I know I will just spend a couple of hours looking at the elusive swimming Mickey to find everything is already gone.
Normally I am not such a pessimist but I guess I see the writing on the wall with this one, and I don't like what it says. 
Oh well. I am trying to get "into" it but 
I can't. Maybe I'm just tired. Feedings every 3, plus this is recital week for Savannah..plus she auditioned for company the other day. She is in two shows so there is blocking and dress rehersals the rest of the week. And I am in costumes up to my eyeballs. And I can't sew. 
Help!!!!!
Hi all, just joining the thread DH and I are booked and starting to get really excited - our last cruise was a year ago and we are missing it big time!!! I haven't had a chance to go back through the thread yet but look forward to chatting with all of you!
) If you or the men in your life do not want to wear tuxes they do not have to; great thing about DCL, we can alll find htings we love to do onboard 
Welcome to alleluia5
About Tuxes, everyone should (and does I think) wear what they want which makes the trip special for them. For our family, that means we dress to the nines. Rio and Dave both own tuxes (and are dashing in then if i say so myself) and would rather leave behind any number of other things before forgoing their chance to dress like they mean it (I don't know who Rio is dressing to impress Brandie but like your Jeremy my Dave is out to impress me--and he does a nice job of it
Erik and Jason are absolutely some of the best dressed guys on the ship. The ties are so much fun--and checking out the evenings' choice is one of the highlights of dinner for me
Paid in FULL
Insurance bought
You guys are stuck with me.
I did not mean to use the phase "IMPRESS" the way some have take it... It is that some people think that because its FORMAL NIGHT everyone must wear or rent a tux.
In my profession I wear a tux every weekend!!!!!!
So by all means I'm comfortable wearing them....but choose not to
Didn't mean to insult anyone
I can't wait to see Jason & Erik collection of ties
charlie
Jason and I are actually buying tuxes this summer before the trip. We have typically rented them onboard in the past...because we actually HATE wearing nice clothes...so we had no reason to own a tux and renting it saved room in the bags. HOWEVER, after a few cruises we realized that if we just broke down and bought them...then after about 2 cruises they'd be paid for (because it's almost $100 to rent a tux when is all said and done). So we decided that we'd just go ahead and buy them....and who knows now that we own them maybe it'll shift the karma in our state in the right direction and NY will decide to legally recognize our relationship and then we'll already have our outfits for a wedding (FINALLY!!!)!!
Actually...everyone will think it's ironic that Jason and I hate dressing up in nice clothes since the ONLY time we ever dress nicely is on the cruise!
Paid in FULL
Insurance bought
You guys are stuck with me.
GOOD!!!!!!!!!!
I thought you were backing out of PATRON night!!!!!!!!!!1
charlie
Yes...our ties are quite the spectacle somtimes.....those who have cruised with us before (Hadley and her bunch, Chris and Rob, Sandi and her bunch) will also all be very pleased to know that we are not wearing any repeat ties on this cruise!! It's all new!!
Last year on the TransAtlantic we had 26 unique ties to wear (one for each of us for every night of the cruise except for formal night) that were a big hit. Since that trip I have bought or made us all new ties so with one small exception we will have no repeat ties on this trip! (Last year we had a Disney Villain's tie that Jason wore...but I have since found its sister tie...another villains tie in the same basic pattern but with different villains...so we'll be wearing those two on this trip!)
I am still trying to come up with what we are wearing for our family theme picture. Last year we did the dress clothes and Steelers, the Steelers one looked 10x better.
Maybe Penguins hockey?
I am always trying to figure out what everyone else packs. We do a week at WDW and a week on the ship and bring all our formal duds and never really have an issue fitting everything in (except Dave's shoes becuase his size 13s take up a ton of room). It must be all the sports attire That is something totally not on my radar (note in case my light hearter tone is not comming through in type--I am not criticizing you at all; it just struck me as funny because I do always wonder what everyone else is packing to take up all that room and sports shirts would not have ever crossed my oblivious mind
)
