FEB 18th anyone

[cbobalina]

So glad the weather is improving and can't wait for Thursday. We are in 5508 and I guess it's too late for us to do FE's, but I am down for the meet if we can put it together.

I've been on the ship before but not sure where we would meet... Maybe the Promenade Lounge? It's a central place that is easy to find.

 

[tracysaluki]

We've never cruised either so don't know where/when to meet. I'll check back tomorrow. Maybe right after sailaway party??

 

[DMRick]

I'll check in tomorrow if our hotel has free wifi. Hoefully someone will come up for aplace,otherwise, I hope you all have a great trip.
Dori

 

[cbobalina]

So are we meeting in the Promenade Lounge after the Sailaway Party?

 

[karendvc07]

hubby and me (Tracy) are so excited for our first cruise!! I am flying down to Fla tomorrow night to meet hubby who is already there for business. We will be in 5058 (not doing FE). Will check the board tomorrow night or Thurs am to see if meet is set. I would love to meet everyone and maybe we can get a quick group photo. Looks like we should get good weather! Happy Cruising and see you all soon!

Hey, Tracy! My hubby and I are from Illinois, and both went to SIUC....I assume by your DIS name that you're a Saluki, too? We aren't doing the FE but will probably join everyone at the meet. We'll have to get together!

 

[karendvc07]

So are we meeting in the Promenade Lounge after the Sailaway Party?

On my last cruise, we had our DIS meet in the Promenade Lounge and it was the perfect place!

 

[DMRick]

On my last cruise, we had our DIS meet in the Promenade Lounge and it was the perfect place!

Sounds good..pick a time!

 

[tracysaluki]

How about we meet in prominade lounge 20 mins after the sailaway party ends. I'm a red head. Will be on the look out. Hey Karen yes husband and I both went to siuc. Hope we get to meet

 

[DMRick]

We'll be wearing disney name pins..see you there.

I posted this on our Feb 21 cruise, but it applies here too!
All I can say is..brrrrr! The wind is unbelievable here at Cape Canaveral. It did get up to 57, but it was short lived. The temp is supposed to go way down the next day or two, and then go up some.

The hotel (County Inn and Suites) is wonderful. They greeted us so nicely, gave us a beautiful room (best I've gotten through priceline) and treated everyone to a meet and greet type thing tonight, where they fed us ribs, tortilla's properly filled, a couple different salads, free wine, beer and soda. Cookies are free at the front desk..life is good.
Our room is very clean...looks like it was recently redone. It has bunk beds and a single bed in a small room, with a tv, and a micro, coffee pot and fridge, table, tv and of course the bed in the main room. Warning to those that smoke. There is no smoking her at all. You sign a paper saying you agree to pay a $250 cleaning fee, if you smoke in the hotel.Shuttle is free to the port. The front desk people are very very nice. Breakfast is free in the morning. Too cold for the pool, which is too bad. It's beautiful. Has a hot tub and kiddle pool as well.

 

[tink_n_pooh]

It's cold and crowded here at WDW

See you all on the ship!

 

[tink_n_pooh]

We are married. so yes, we are together.

shhhhh.... now they've figured us out

 

[miss-jill]

So sad to be back. The beach was wonderful! Thank for thr FE gifts! Can't wait to go back!!!

 

[tink_n_pooh]

I'm curious as to what everyone thought of the cruise?

 

[oateoateo]

I hope everyone had fun...we sure did. Kagan loved giving and receiving the FE gifts. You all are WAY more creative than I was! Would have preferred better weather, but a chilly day on vacation is better than a warm day when I have to go to work.

Thank you all again for everything! Can't wait to go back!

 

[DMRick]

I'm curious as to what everyone thought of the cruise?

I'll be writing a review, once we get home. Just off the second half of the b2b (which was really nice, having the ship to ourselves for two full hours!

In short, I was very disppointed in Disney's response to my slipping on wet food/water on the deck (which seems to be a real problem..I wasn't the only one to go down..others did during the week. They really need more help keeping that area dry and clean. I thought I was being cautious when on deck). It took til the last night of. the first cruise to find an ace bandage, and they showed very little concern, (but they did send chocolate dipped strawberries, which were free in the late evening on Route 66 snack area). Finally on the second cruise, they did agree very reluctantly agree to pay the health center bill ($330 of which $143 was just the visit). I'll still have more medical bills when I return home, because their xray wasn't able to see the smaller bones, and the doc said I should get it re xrayed.

The food and regular service was wonderful. We loved Castaway. Cabin was a nice size both cruises, although we got very little sleep the second cruise, because of all the moving of furniture all night over our cabin. I called guest services, it would stop for 15 minutes, and then start again. Not enough for us to do during the days, and not a whole lot at night, other than Route 66 area. We like games during the day and seminars.The galley was over us.

Prob our first and last cruises on Disney, (although that is more about not wanting to see the same Disney shows again, and not enough to keep us busy, and liking to eat 'whenever', and not about the service on the cruise) although we still had a good time.

 

[DisneyJenn23]

I'm curious as to what everyone thought of the cruise?

I have been on 3 3-day cruises and I had a great time as usual. Minus the lovely sickness that arrived on Castaway Day. I spent our final night in the bathroom. Not sure if it was food poisoning or the Noro Virus, but whatever it was, it was not fun!

Thank you to the person/people who left the little surprises in our stateroom (5018) That was very sweet!

I thought the food was great, better than my 7 day.

Loved Sway!! We had another duo on the 7 day that was horrible, so I was loving Sway and could not get enough of them.

Was not impressed with the adult host or the DJ. I could have played better music with my IPOD.

Had great room hostess and servers!

I just love the Disney Cruise! But after 5. I think its time for so new Pirate Party and Sail Away music!!!

 

[DisneyJenn23]

DMRick:

I had to go to the health center the last night. I called and explain what was wrong and the guy told me "Hurry up, We are closing." When I got there they did not even check my temperature. Just threw some drugs at me and told me to wash my hands. Glad I did not have to pay for that!

I always say those decks are so slippery. I finally found flip flops that have good enough traction, but they are so dangerous!!

 

[DMRick]

Hi Jenn. We tried to catch you in your room. I finally asked our room steward to put some play dough in your room. I hope it made it there! I know you didn't have youngsters, but thought you could have some fun with it. We were just down the hall from you, with the Mickey Sorcerer hat on the door.
My sandals were not slippery..they have lots of traction. But the food with the water did me in...the combo was slippery. Another person fell shortly after I did, after I asked them to put the slippery sign up, and they didn't She said she was sore all over, but was ok a couple days later.

My husband has been sick since last night, and we missed our segway riding today, as he rests up. Did you have to pay when you went down to the health area? I did tell them he was sick when I asked for the moving above us to be stopped. They noted it.

 

[DisneyJenn23]

Hi Jenn. We tried to catch you in your room. I finally asked our room steward to put some play dough in your room. I hope it made it there! I know you didn't have youngsters, but thought you could have some fun with it. We were just down the hall from you, with the Mickey Sorcerer hat on the door.
My sandals were not slippery..they have lots of traction. But the food with the water did me in...the combo was slippery. Another person fell shortly after I did, after I asked them to put the slippery sign up, and they didn't She said she was sore all over, but was ok a couple days later.

My husband has been sick since last night, and we missed our segway riding today, as he rests up. Did you have to pay when you went down to the health area? I did tell them he was sick when I asked for the moving above us to be stopped. They noted it.

We did get the play dough!!! Thank you! We are actually both teachers so it was great! We walked down the hall to see where your room was! How funny that we were so close!

I have seen so many people fall on those decks. You would think they would find something that would help with that!

I did not pay anything in the health area. But all they did was handed me meds and send me on my way. I just talked to another teacher at my school, who was also on our cruise, and her daughter had the same sickness I did. But hers was the first night of the cruise. They made her stay in the room the whole time. They were not allowed to go to dinner and sent them menus from each restaurant to the room. They also brought them a DVD player with a list of movies. Looks like Disney keeps the sickness pretty hidden.

Hope everyone feels better soon!

 

[tink_n_pooh]

Wow I'm glad we didn't end up with the sickness! And that really stinks about you falling and getting hurt! Disney is normally very on top of that stuff


I wasn't terribly thrilled with the service on the cruise, maybe it was just our servers but they definently were not up to the disney standards that we are used to I was expecting a lot more as far as food quality and variety as well. The chocolate cake we had a Pinochio's Village Haus in MK the other day was better than any of the deserts we had on the entire cruise