Dream February 26, 2012 4-day cruise

[chudson98]

"Dreaming" of our 4-day cruise on February 26, 2012

Anybody cruising with us?


DH, DW (me), & DS8

 

[IrishCowboy]

I have added your thread to the cruise meet list

 

[chudson98]

Yeah! Finally got this meet thread started.

Anybody else joining us?

DH , DW (me) , & DS-8

 

[barbeaujo]

Hello, we came back from a b2b on the dream last week.

We booked on board for next year, same date, again a back to back.

We will be 4, me, dh, dd10, ds7..

I am , again, counting the days untill this cruise ! We didnt want to leave after being on it for 7 nights



Thanks to , ( forgot his username.. sorry ), to have started this thread.

Josee

 

[chudson98]

So excited for this trip and it's still so far away.

Josee, what did you think of the Dream? Did your children like the club? Any "insider scoop"?

This will be our 2nd Disney cruise. We cruised in 2007 when our DS was almost 4. He doesn't know we are cruising again. Hoping to keep it a surprise until Christmas! He will be so excited!

Christine (me), DH, and DS (8)

 

[AprilTwins]

Hi Josee and Christine

We'll be joining you on this cruise - me, DH, DS and DD who are 9 but will be 10 when we sail. Our kids are pretty close in age.
DS and DD are looking foward to meeting new friends
This will be our 2nd cruise. Sailed on the Wonder sept. '09
Can't wait to sail on the Dream

Christine (me) DH DS DD

 

[chudson98]

Yeah! We got people.

It's great that that we all have kiddies around the same age! Our son will be 8 next month.

We are from North Carolina. Where do you live?

DH , DW (me) , & DS-8

 

[topiney]

I hope you will forgive me, I do not know that abbreviations and this is the first time I have replied. It is our first cruise and we are so excited.

Our group includes my daughter, granddaughter (age 5), grandson (age 3) and myself. I will try to figure out exactly how this works and we can't wait for the cruise.

 

[AprilTwins]

Yeah! We got people.

It's great that that we all have kiddies around the same age! Our son will be 8 next month.

We are from North Carolina. Where do you live?

DH , DW (me) , & DS-8

We are from Staten Island, New York. What part of North Carolina are you from? My sister lived in Raleigh and than Apex for about 9 years.

Welcome Topiney


Christine (me) DH DS DD

 

[chudson98]

We are in Greensboro so not too far from Raleigh (about an hour). We are so excited about the cruise.

 

[chudson98]

I hope you will forgive me, I do not know that abbreviations and this is the first time I have replied. It is our first cruise and we are so excited.

Our group includes my daughter, granddaughter (age 5), grandson (age 3) and myself. I will try to figure out exactly how this works and we can't wait for the cruise.

Welcome! Our last cruise was when our son was 4 and it was so wonderful. He loved everything about it. Your grandchildren are going to have such a great time.

 

[barbeaujo]

So excited for this trip and it's still so far away.

Josee, what did you think of the Dream? Did your children like the club? Any "insider scoop"?

This will be our 2nd Disney cruise. We cruised in 2007 when our DS was almost 4. He doesn't know we are cruising again. Hoping to keep it a surprise until Christmas! He will be so excited!

Christine (me), DH, and DS (8)

Hello Christine,

The Dream was AMAZING !! They pretty much taught of everything. Dinner experience was still a bit " under improvment" but other then that, we had a fantastic cruise. We realised that a lot of your "magical experience" when you cruise with Disney as to do with the level of friendliness the staff as toward your familly. If the servers interact with your kids, plays tricks, etc ... you wont mind , or will mind less, having to wait 20 minutes for a Sprite.

Same thing in your stateroom, if your attendant lower his head when you go by, you will notice that the staterrom isnt really clean when you are in it. If he says "hy" every morning and ask about your day ... you just wont mind, as long as you have clean towels

Those are my opinions, pesonnal, i just write as i would to a friend, no filter

On our first segment, our dinning team were not effective at all... on our 2nd segment, i ask for a rotation change, (because it would have been the 3rd night in a row in the same restaurant and wanted a change), and our dinner experience was amazing,,, same food, same restaurants, different serveurs/team made the whole trip a big difference.

Kids Club : WOW ... did i respond ? WOW !!! Unbelivable. Our son, 6 , asked us all the time to go. They choose to stay on board both time in Nassau rather then going to Atlantis, just to hang in the clubs and do activities that the ship had planned for family. We stayed o board the whole 7 days ! Oh yes, we did go 1 time to Castaway, where the kids left us after 2 hours asking to go to the club on the island ! ( 2nd segment, we could stop at castaway due to wind)

Insider scoop ? : not really... that is why we need to go back again . Certain stateroom on deck 5 are in the passage way to the kids club... verry loud. Cabanas on castaway cay look amazing and is the only solution to have a beach area not crowded. The room service steak sandwich is verry verry good. The thing i learned for that cruise are Fish extender. We participate, last minutes, so only a few family were able to add us to their list but the experience is really really fun. We will definitly do it again next year.
Last thing .. never leave your room without your wave phone !! WOW, what a change in cruising when you always know where everyone is. We just loved this new addition. Stateroom with porthole, verry cool. You dont feel "inside" anymore and you can turn it off when it is time to sleep.

 

[barbeaujo]

I hope you will forgive me, I do not know that abbreviations and this is the first time I have replied. It is our first cruise and we are so excited.

Our group includes my daughter, granddaughter (age 5), grandson (age 3) and myself. I will try to figure out exactly how this works and we can't wait for the cruise.

Welcome Topiney , dont worry , i had never wrote on a website before the last months.. it all started on disboard, and now i think it is pretty fun to participate rather the just read what the other have to say.

 

[barbeaujo]

Hi Josee and Christine

We'll be joining you on this cruise - me, DH, DS and DD who are 9 but will be 10 when we sail. Our kids are pretty close in age.
DS and DD are looking foward to meeting new friends
This will be our 2nd cruise. Sailed on the Wonder sept. '09
Can't wait to sail on the Dream

Christine (me) DH DS DD

Hi Christine, welcome to this board.

 

[barbeaujo]

Yeah! We got people.

It's great that that we all have kiddies around the same age! Our son will be 8 next month.

We are from North Carolina. Where do you live?

DH , DW (me) , & DS-8

We are from Canada. South shore of Montreal. DD will be 10 by then and DS will be 7.

Cant wait to go back ....

 

[AprilTwins]

Thanks for all the info Josee. It sounds like the kids are going to have so much fun in the clubs.
We did the fish extender during our last cruise. It was alot of fun, one of the highlights of our cruise. Would love to do it again !!!

How was the weather while you were there?


Christine (me) DH DS (9) DD (9)

 

[topiney]

Welcome Topiney , dont worry , i had never wrote on a website before the last months.. it all started on disboard, and now i think it is pretty fun to participate rather the just read what the other have to say.

Thanks for your vote of confidence. We are all so excited to go cruising and meet all of you. I was trying a few things yesterday so we will see how it turns out.

 

[chudson98]

Josee, Thanks for all the great information. I hope my DS likes the kid's club as much as your's did. We have an inside stateroom for this cruise so I am anxious/excited to see the new "portholes". I've read a lot about dining issues and I am hoping that by the time we cruise some of these problems will be worked out.

Josee or Christine, What is a fish extender?

Christine (Me, too), DH, and DS8

 

[AprilTwins]

Josee, Thanks for all the great information. I hope my DS likes the kid's club as much as your's did. We have an inside stateroom for this cruise so I am anxious/excited to see the new "portholes". I've read a lot about dining issues and I am hoping that by the time we cruise some of these problems will be worked out.

Josee or Christine, What is a fish extender?

Christine (Me, too), DH, and DS8

Hi Christine
I'll try to explain how the fish extender works. I don't know if you noticed on your last cruise but outside your stateroom door there is a metal fish on the wall. The fish extender is made out of fabric ,has pockets and hangs on the fish kind of like a banner. I made my own fish extender but there are also
people who sell them on ebay. It really wasn't very hard to make. I will post a picture if I can figure out how
There's alot of information and pictures on the disney cruise forum.
During my last cruise there were about 8 families from our cruise meet that participated in the FE exchange. You exchange little gifts with the people from your meet by placing the gifts in the pockets of the fish extender.
They can either be little gifts you made or bought. I made little gifts bags with a small notebook, pen, some candy and small crafts for the kids. It's up to you. There are alot of great ideas on the disney cruise forum

It was alot of fun!! The kids loves going to all the staterooms to pass out the gifts and loved going back to our stateroom each night to find gifts in our fish extender

Christine (me) DH DS (9) DD (9)

 

[chudson98]

Hi Christine
I'll try to explain how the fish extender works. I don't know if you noticed on your last cruise but outside your stateroom door there is a metal fish on the wall. The fish extender is made out of fabric ,has pockets and hangs on the fish kind of like a banner. I made my own fish extender but there are also
people who sell them on ebay. It really wasn't very hard to make. I will post a picture if I can figure out how
There's alot of information and pictures on the disney cruise forum.
During my last cruise there were about 8 families from our cruise meet that participated in the FE exchange. You exchange little gifts with the people from your meet by placing the gifts in the pockets of the fish extender.
They can either be little gifts you made or bought. I made little gifts bags with a small notebook, pen, some candy and small crafts for the kids. It's up to you. There are alot of great ideas on the disney cruise forum

It was alot of fun!! The kids loves going to all the staterooms to pass out the gifts and loved going back to our stateroom each night to find gifts in our fish extender

Christine (me) DH DS (9) DD (9)

Sounds like fun! My DS would love it. How did you know who was participating? Also, what types of items did you get?
Christine (Me, too), DH , and DS8