*Dreamy Spring Double-Dip* March 13, 2012

Happy Easter weekend everyone!!! I am going to indulge in my sweets this weekend and then my plan is to get my butt on a bicycle so that I will not horrify everyone on Castaway Cay in March! lol.
Kristin
 
BrennaM - (QUOTE) Fish Extenders - Ok I've researched and I don't mind heading up a FE for this cruise. If you are interested in joining in the fun just give me a PM and I'll set things up. I think once we establish how many approx. will be in the list we can set up a dollar amount and discuss other specifics.


In my posting #89 I said I would organize the FE but thought 300+ days was to early to even start planning for this. We are still having people leave and join and I'm sure this will continue for the next 6 months. It was decided we would start the list in Nov and then the cut off would be Jan, this will give everyone plenty of time to plan and create. More details to come when the list is started in Nov. Thanks Kathy

PS and yet is it sad I know we have 300+ days till this amazing cruise. :scared1:

We would love to participate.( I would have PM'd you , but I don't have enough post yet). Told DD12 about it and she is already coming up with ideas.

Happy Easter to all.
 
We are booked on this cruise as well so add another Texas family to the list :)

This will be our 5th Disney cruise (the others were all on the Magic) and we are excited to try out the new ship. We love going to CC twice - we were lucky enough to do 2 double-dips on the Magic in the past!

Our group consists of me, dh, dd (11 almost 12 at time of sailing) and ds (8 almost 9). They are both looking forward to meeting other kids on board.

We'll be glad to participate in the FE exchange once the cruise is closer and the serious planning has begun :)

We booked this cruise onboard last fall right when the dates came out and were very lucky to get a great price and just the connecting rooms we wanted on deck 7. I have been following the sailing online and have been amazed to see how quickly the rooms have been booked (and thusly how quickly the prices have risen!). We visited IOA and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter before last fall's cruise and had a great time. So, we are planning a return trip before this next cruise for some more fun and butter beer lol.

Looking forward to meeting you all onboard in 11 months!
 
We would love to participate.( I would have PM'd you , but I don't have enough post yet). Told DD12 about it and she is already coming up with ideas.

Happy Easter to all.


I haven't started the list since it's way to early to get it going. I will post in November to start the list. I'm sure by then you will have plenty of posting it PM me. Hope you had a great Easter. Kathy
 

Happy Mothers Day to everyone!!!
Have a great day and I hope the sun is shining for you!
Kristin
:)
 
I will read the posts above later but I wanted to join. :) Cast is DH, DD5, DD2!! I can't wait!!
 
Sorry, I've been MIA ....I've been busy planning our Dreamworks cruise on Royal. I'ts not disney, but we've got KungFu Panda, Shrek, and Madagascar Penguins. HAven't told the kids yet but they will be sooooooo excited. We wont tell them about DREAM until Chrismas.

I know it was decided that we would wait until November to get a list going on FE gifts .... but I for one would like to get a head start .... even to get some tentative numbers. I have some things in mind now and if I wait too long, they'll be gone. I don't mind overbuying, but i don't want to underbuy.
 
Sorry, I've been MIA ....I've been busy planning our Dreamworks cruise on Royal. I'ts not disney, but we've got KungFu Panda, Shrek, and Madagascar Penguins. HAven't told the kids yet but they will be sooooooo excited. We wont tell them about DREAM until Chrismas.

I know it was decided that we would wait until November to get a list going on FE gifts .... but I for one would like to get a head start .... even to get some tentative numbers. I have some things in mind now and if I wait too long, they'll be gone. I don't mind overbuying, but i don't want to underbuy.

Hey there, the Dreamworks cruise sounds fantastic!! I have to take a look at it for sure.... I agree about a little earlier on the fish extenders, I feel that with Christmas and holidays in there it will be crazy busy. I would like to get an idea of how may people and start picking up odds and ends... and get a bit of a head start-- my last cruise we kept adding people at the end and I had to switch some of my gifts around.... what ever works for everyone I am in either way!:) K
 
Sorry, I've been MIA ....I've been busy planning our Dreamworks cruise on Royal. I'ts not disney, but we've got KungFu Panda, Shrek, and Madagascar Penguins. HAven't told the kids yet but they will be sooooooo excited. We wont tell them about DREAM until Chrismas.

I know it was decided that we would wait until November to get a list going on FE gifts .... but I for one would like to get a head start .... even to get some tentative numbers. I have some things in mind now and if I wait too long, they'll be gone. I don't mind overbuying, but i don't want to underbuy.

Yeah i agree to a bit earlier so I can get stuff around Thanksgiving when stuff might be cheaper for the holidays. Been seeing some cute stuff but it is hard when we have no idea how many are going to do this. i'm not really sure how all this works anyway but it sounds fun
 
I'm reading all the concerns on the FE list. Still saying it too early to start a prelim list, since we are still having alot of people dropping and adding to this cruise, I think if we have a list now it will be more work, sorry. I can tell you we took the Spring Break Wonder trip this year and I can tell you we had two group of 12 families. My hope for the list is that we can have 12 family in each group since it makes it managable. If I were you and see something that you would love to include into your gift I would suggest picking it up and putting it away, I've done that already keeping in mind that the goal is to have 12 no more then 15 in one group. I promise the weekend of Thanksgiving I will post that I'm taking names and we will close it the second week in Feb. The next 10 months will fly by and I can't wait. Have a great week everyone Kathy
 
I just noticed that too!!!! I cannot wait to see the cost of flights :sick:... but I am still excited!

K

We ended up booking two days at Disney World after the cruise and have already lined up the return flight to Dallas for the three of us. Totaled in under $200.00 for all three of us. Now we just have to find a decent outbound flight.
 
We are staying at Animal Kingdom for 2 nights after the cruise as well. We plan on more relaxing for those 2 days. heheh we are doing our park visits before the cruise. Staying for 5 nights before the cruise as well.
 
We ended up booking two days at Disney World after the cruise and have already lined up the return flight to Dallas for the three of us. Totaled in under $200.00 for all three of us. Now we just have to find a decent outbound flight.

WOW!!!! that is a great price for a flight! We fly out of Buffalo and generally are looking at 600 ea way, I am concerned about the fuel costs....nothing you can do to change it though!
We did get a great rate on a rental from MCO to Cape so that makes me happy!!
Have a great weekend.
Ps
What airline do you use out of Dallas?
 
WOW!!!! that is a great price for a flight! We fly out of Buffalo and generally are looking at 600 ea way, I am concerned about the fuel costs....nothing you can do to change it though!
We did get a great rate on a rental from MCO to Cape so that makes me happy!!
Have a great weekend.
Ps
What airline do you use out of Dallas?

We are on American Airlines out of MC0 to Dallas. And we just booked our outbound flight to Orlando, price was a little higher. It was $97.00 per person. So for under $500 we got the round trip for all three of us.
 
I'm reading all the concerns on the FE list. Still saying it too early to start a prelim list, since we are still having alot of people dropping and adding to this cruise, I think if we have a list now it will be more work, sorry. I can tell you we took the Spring Break Wonder trip this year and I can tell you we had two group of 12 families. My hope for the list is that we can have 12 family in each group since it makes it managable. If I were you and see something that you would love to include into your gift I would suggest picking it up and putting it away, I've done that already keeping in mind that the goal is to have 12 no more then 15 in one group. I promise the weekend of Thanksgiving I will post that I'm taking names and we will close it the second week in Feb. The next 10 months will fly by and I can't wait. Have a great week everyone Kathy

So KAP, are you organizing?

I think you are saying above that we can count on having no more than 12 to 15 in a group?

Can you provide some rules for the FE exchange such as:
  • just gifts for kids or adults too? [so even if we have 12 families, we could have as many as 24 kids or more?]
  • age limit for kids?
  • is it one gift for the week, or gifts for each day?
  • suggested dollar value?


I've never done an FE before, so I'm unsure of all the rules. It would be nice, if someone wants to organize, to get a table going, with kids ages, just so we know which families have kids in our same age group. My kids will be 6 and 4 when we sail.
 
So KAP, are you organizing?

I think you are saying above that we can count on having no more than 12 to 15 in a group?

Can you provide some rules for the FE exchange such as:
  • just gifts for kids or adults too? [so even if we have 12 families, we could have as many as 24 kids or more?]
  • age limit for kids?
  • is it one gift for the week, or gifts for each day?
  • suggested dollar value?

Hi, Getting a working list together at the beginning of the thread is a great idea! Just how many are in the party, children boy/girl and ages. That way it is not as so much work when we start in November... and people can tell you that they cancel and it is on the page.
When i was a participant we did at least 30 in a group-- so 15 sounds much easier... we bought for each child and adults something small, but many people would just put together a keepsake or a group family gift... not sure what others will say about their experiences.
Happy Sunday Everyone!
Kristin...
ps
take a look at other meets and see how they are doing the exchange it might give you great ideas!
 
So KAP, are you organizing?

I think you are saying above that we can count on having no more than 12 to 15 in a group?

Can you provide some rules for the FE exchange such as:
  • just gifts for kids or adults too? [so even if we have 12 families, we could have as many as 24 kids or more?]
  • age limit for kids?
  • is it one gift for the week, or gifts for each day?
  • suggested dollar value?

Hi, Getting a working list together at the beginning of the thread is a great idea! Just how many are in the party, children boy/girl and ages. That way it is not as so much work when we start in November... and people can tell you that they cancel and it is on the page.
When i was a participant we did at least 30 in a group-- so 15 sounds much easier... we bought for each child and adults something small, but many people would just put together a keepsake or a group family gift... not sure what others will say about their experiences.
Happy Sunday Everyone!
Kristin...
ps
take a look at other meets and see how they are doing the exchange it might give you great ideas!

OK it seems their are a few on this board that really really want a list, so you've asked and asked. I request you PM me with the following information. DIS-Name, E-Mail, Your Name, Parent Occupation, Age of all traveling including Children’s names, Dinner Seating, State Room#, Hometown.

Our last cruise Spring Break 2011 on the Wonder, we left it up to each family if they did a family gift or just the kids. We as a group didn't feel we needed to dictate price/gift etc. Most of us did one gift for the week. You make this experience what you want it to be. A list can be started but you will not know who's in your group till we close it in Jan 2012 but I will try to keep it to 12 to 15 families. Thanks everyone, please understand I'm not on the board as much now so it might take me a few weeks to respond to you. I really do not get on the boards Religiously till after Thanksgiving. Kathy
 
We are staying at Animal Kingdom for 2 nights after the cruise as well. We plan on more relaxing for those 2 days. heheh we are doing our park visits before the cruise. Staying for 5 nights before the cruise as well.

We will be staying at Saratoga Springs for 4 days before the cruise and still making plans for the two days afterward. Maybe Bay Lake Tower
 

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