Early-Early Roll call.... 4-28-07 Eastern

[Stripes]

We will be joining you all for our first cruise this Apr. 28th!
We are a family of four with DW (43) DH (42) DS (14) and DD (9). These boards have been amazing!
We are so excited about this trip of a lifetime.
I keep thinking about the warm weather as I sit in minus 23 C!!!
We are from Ontario, Canada and we are really going through a cold spell so these boards are keeping me warm.
Cheers,
Kathy

 

[MakinMemories4MyKids]

Wow w/ those temps you really do need some heat. We're all looking forward to the trip as well. Most of us that are on this particular board seem to be on deck 7...perhaps you'll be joining the floor as well Read up, this forum is great

Linda

 

[angilovesthemouse]

Welcome aboard Kathey!
My family will be cruising with you, I have to boys 10 and 7. We are down on deck 2. Can't wait to go...woot woot!

 

[Stripes]

I have noticed that a lot of people already know their room number. I called and they just told me that my room is GTY. We have booked a Cat. 4 but I do not know where that is on the boat.
When do you find out your room number? Do you receive notice in the mail?
Kathy

 

[DeloreanGirl]

I have noticed that a lot of people already know their room number. I called and they just told me that my room is GTY. We have booked a Cat. 4 but I do not know where that is on the boat.
When do you find out your room number? Do you receive notice in the mail?
Kathy

Hi Kathy,

A GTY (Guarantee) means that Disney guaranteed you a Category 4 room somewhere on the ship, but you many not know what exact room number it is until you get your documents, or maybe the day of boarding. However, a Category 4 is great!! You should have a great room regardless!

 

[Floridagram]

A GTY means that your cabin has not been assigned yet. You will have at least a cat 4 room and could get a higher cat. The ship is apparently almost sold out and they are not assigning any specific rooms now. We found this out when we tried to book an additional room for our trip. I am not sure when you will find out what room you have, but the important thing is your are coming!

 

[slg]

Hello fellow canuck!

I hail from Victoria B.C. and while our temperatures are chilly Ontario ones (we're around 10 during the day and down to 4 in the evenings), its damp and wet and we can't wait to be in sunnier climes!

Sandra (43), Charles (42, but will be 43 on Wednesday!), Nicholas (11) Aidan (8) and Jaren (5). We're on deck 6, but were on deck 7 last year and loved it! It was sold out when we booked, but now I'm hoping for an upgrade! HA. We loved our cruise last year, but would have loved to meet and pal up with more people so I'm hoping it'll work out this year!

Anyone already thinking about next year? I looked at the prices for the Mexican cruise and they are sooooo much higher than what we paid this year! Anyone know why? Anyone booked yet? If all goes well this year, I might.... be able to convince dh for another cruise if they offer us a good deal on board.

Right now the best price I could find for 2 cat.11 (5 people) is $8700 us. We paid less about $5000 this year plus had $400 on board credit. Its a huge difference! Almost double! However, it is on the west coast, easier to get to for us, and it'll be the last year my oldest will be able to be in the clubs.

I don't want to book now because I want to see how this cruise goes. Maybe 3 years in a row is too much or too boring. Certainly very expensive for us Canadians!

Any thoughts?

 

[Stripes]

Hey slg

We are really excited about the cruise. This is our first. Actually it was a Christmas present. There is just so much to take in. My DH thinks that I have lost my mind but I just like to know and plan. It will be interesting to see what he thinks about the cruise. He was not so sure at first but he is starting to ask some questions about what is coming up. My DS and DD cannot wait!

Hopefull this will be amazing for all of us. Looking forward to meeting everyone on the thread!
K

 

[angilovesthemouse]

I am such a huge WDW fan, but this is our first cruise(with Disney anyway). I am very excited, but I can't find as much to plan as I do for Disney trips. I am having to search for more stuff to research. I have been obsesively trolling the boards for seven months now. I'm just excited to see other people on our cruise chiming in. Let's plan a meet on day one!

 

[julia & nicks mom]

Have you gotten the Disney Passporter - it has great information

I also have been looking at the navigators - this seems to help me plan obsessively!!!

 

[Stripes]

Do you think that it is important to book all activities prior to launch? Do they fill up fast?

 

[my2princessgirls]

Anyone already thinking about next year? I looked at the prices for the Mexican cruise and they are sooooo much higher than what we paid this year! Anyone know why? Anyone booked yet? If all goes well this year, I might.... be able to convince dh for another cruise if they offer us a good deal on board.

Right now the best price I could find for 2 cat.11 (5 people) is $8700 us. We paid less about $5000 this year plus had $400 on board credit. Its a huge difference! Almost double! However, it is on the west coast, easier to get to for us, and it'll be the last year my oldest will be able to be in the clubs.

I don't want to book now because I want to see how this cruise goes. Maybe 3 years in a row is too much or too boring. Certainly very expensive for us Canadians!

Any thoughts?

My plan is to rebook onboard to get the discount and onboard credit. I am going to book as far out as possible and then change it to a 2009 when they come out. I agree that the Mexican cruises are pricey! Our DDs are still little so we want a veranda to be able to relax while they are napping, and when they go to bed before us. I'm hoping that I will be able to get in on the 2009 right when they become available to get the lowest price!


Today is officially 2 months until our vacation starts! We are driving to Kansas City on the 20th of April to spend the night in a hotel near the airport since our flight leaves early in the morning on the 21st. We are going to stay the first night at WDW at WL, then move to BWV! So I only have 2 months to get this winter weight off

Hope everyone is having a good day. Our weather has finally warmed up a bit! It was 60 yesterday!!! Only gonna be mid-40s today, but it's way better than the teens with high winds that we had last week!

 

[slg]

We're going to WDW from April 20-28 too! Where is BVW? We are staying at POR! We stayed there last year and loved it!

I wrote some memos to myself after the cruise last year, and one of them was to book the excursions on board. The information on excursions they give on board is so much more comprehesive than the stuff they send you in advance that we changed our mind about our excursion once we had read it. The tickets are non-refundable so if you feel tired or change your mind once on board, too bad!

Since there is no excursion I'm dying to go on, I think we'll take our chances this year.

At the moment we are planning on doing the Under Two Flags Tour, and the Magens Beach Break. Anyone else?

We never went to Palo last time because we just never found the time. I didn't want to book ahead of time because I wasn't sure if my 4 year old would stay in the clubs. Well, he actually never wanted to leave except for meals. Our kids enjoyed our waiters so much (magic tricks, jokes, etc) they wanted to eat with us every night!

We might go this time, but I'm not fussing about it!

I just can't wait to go! And I look forward to WDW as well. Since we went last year, the pressure will be off to see EVERYTHING, so we will just pick our favorites and the new stuff and try and relax more.

Who else is going to WDW first? Anyone going to POR?

 

[my2princessgirls]

We're going to WDW from April 20-28 too! Where is BVW? We are staying at POR! We stayed there last year and loved it!

BWV is Boardwalk Villas, part of the Disney Vacation Club. We are taking my parents and we rented points from another Disser to get a 2-bedroom!

 

[Faith&Hope]

YEAH!! I have inputed what I could figure out from looking through all of the pages but am missing a lot of information!! It was so exciting to type this up and see who will be on our cruise!! Hopefully I was able to get most of it accurate! It's been a pain because I made a nice chart but it isn't chart form when I posted!

It is hard to read because I had to change the form but I put screen name, real name, party, room, dinner seating (early or late) and home state/country.

Please update us with all of the missing information!! Also, if there's multiple people in your party (Floridagram & justthe8ofus especially), please let me know what room you will be in!

Briaroselyn, nordicskidoodle, aaronem & kikisprntzzz....are you still cruising with us? I got your screen names from way back last year but haven't seen ya around! Hopefully you're still with us!

Faith&Hope (Kym)
DW(31) DH(36) DD (4.5) DD(20mo)
7098 early CA

DeloreanGirl
DW(25) DH(33)
7612 late CA

MakinMemories4MyKids (Linda)
DW(41) DH?(39) DD(7) DD(6)
7609 late NY

FloridaGram (Vicki)
DW, DH, DS,DIL, DD, SIL, DA, DM &DD?, GD(5.5) GD(2.11)
7604,7606, 7608, 7616 late

julia&nicksmom
DW(34) DH(40) DD(5.5) DS(3.5), Dinlaws
2138, 2140 late

Angillovesthemouse
DW(38) DH(39.11) DS(10) DS(7) DM,DD, DS, BIL
2080, 2082, 2136 late NC

My2princessgirls (Danielle)
DW DD(4.5) DD(almost3)
7576

Tigger137
Enlgand
Susanjc (Susan)
DW DH(40’s) DD(4)
late VA

Slg (Sandra)
DW DS(10) DS(7) DD(4)
Canada

Frankiesmom (Angel)
DW(35) DH(47) DD(14 DS(5) DS(2.5)
8536 NY

Justthe8ofus (Mary)
DW DH DD(12), DD(11),DD(9), DS(7), DS(5), DS(5)

CJDJ (Carol)
DW DH?(10), ?(8), ?(5), ?(2)

Megakat
DW DD(14), DD(10), FDD(9), FDD(7), CDS(13)

Stripes (Kathy)
DW(43) DH(42) DS(14) DD(9)

Can't wait to update the list or add newcomers to our list!!

 

[slg]

Sandra here!

My kids have all gotten older so here is the new info.

DH(Charles, turns 43 tomorrow!)
DW Sandra 43
DS Nicholas 11
DS Aidan 8
DS Jaren 5

Rooms 6639 and 6641.

Second Disney cruise! (last year May 6 Western).

In WDW April 20-28 in POR.

Live in Victoria B. C. Canada!

Seriously thinking about next year Mexican cruise if this cruise goes well and we get a good offer onboard.

Love to meet you all. Looks like there are quite a few 40somethings on board!

 

[MakinMemories4MyKids]

You go Kym!!!
You're doing a great job keeping up w/ us all. BTW...it's DBF (dear boyfriend)
my girls dad would never pay for a vacation, i found a good guy that thank God loves my kids and is wonderful to them His name is Erik. My girls are Gianna7 and Kayla 6 Keep up the good work and good looking out

Linda

 

[Stripes]

Thanks SLG for the notes about the excursions. I was just stressing about not being able to do something because everything was booked.
I am just a total newbie to all of this cruising. But I can't wait!

 

[Floridagram]

Kym, Thank you for doing this! I went so far to write down everyone's name the other day and never did anything else.

I expect to be in 7616 but at this point DCL has me booked in 7606. We added 7616 and it would have cost more money to change the names on the reservation so we are going to try to swap rooms at the port. My name will be on the door of the correct room!

We have a trip to Canada March 15 and after that I know my excitement level will be off the register!

 

[my2princessgirls]

Thanks Kym! The list is great!

I just wanted to add that we have early seating, we are from Kansas, and I am 33 (I will have my birthday just before vacation) and DH (Curtis) is 33! The girls are Olivia (4) and Lauren (2 - almost 3).

We will be in Disney at Contemporary 4/21-4/22 and Boardwalk Villas 4/22-4/28.

Thanks again for doing your research!!