I have just booked this cruise. It will be our first
Disney Cruise. We have cruised in the Med once before. There will be Myself my dw and my dd who will be 6 the week before. We are flying in from the UK and this will be our 6th time we have been to Florida.
Sorry if this is a duplicate post, I was in the middle of it and hit a key and "poof" it was gone
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So CONGRATULATIONS on booking your first cruise! You couldn't have picked a nicer group of people to cruise with (*ahem* lol). This is my first cruise too, but dh's second. Although his first was as a teen, so that was 35 years ago so I say it doesn't really count! (We're cruising kidfree, too.)
There are a bunch of us finding each other online and generating much excitement
, we're going to have one awesome cruise!
We also have a forum on Facebook. If you're not a member there, you can join at
www.facebook.com. If you're already a member, just go do a search there for us at
February 11 Disney Magic Cruise. It is a closed group, which means only group members can view the page and post comments and replies there. Just request to join and you'll be in! We chat with each other, ask questions, and just have fun while waiting for our real fun onboard. I also try to keep updated posts there with the demographics of our group. For example, I can tell you that we have another 6yo little girl amongst us
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Some of us are planning to meet up once onboard, if that's something you're interested in. Then there's a subset of us participating in the Fish Extender Exchange. If you don't already know what a Fish Extender is, this will tell you what you want to know
http://www.wdwinfo.com/disney-cruise-line/meets.htm. People decide for themselves how involved they want to be with the FE gifts; some personalize something for every person; some just give a general gift for each stateroom; some give the kids gifts and their parents something else; some people make all their gifts, other folks give store-bought things, it's all up to you. Here's a board with ideas
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1522535.
If you're interested in an onboard meet-up, we'll figure out where/when as our cruise date approaches.
I volunteered to organize the FE group, so if you're interested in participating in that, shoot me a private-message here or on Fb, with your family's demographics (names, stateroom number if/when you have it, and any particular likes, dislikes or hobbies of your family members - some FE participants like to personalize the swaps they give out).
We also have a forum on
www.cruisecritic.com, but so far it's a much slower board (not computer speed, but frequency of visitors and posts there, I've only seen two folks over there, I think I'll go give them a little nudge
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Maybe they can meet up and hang out!!
