February 13, 2011 - 7 Night Mexican Riviera Sailing on the Wonder

[Purplejewel]

Hi Purple Jewel -

We are so excited for the 2/13 cruise. We've been on NCL and Princess, but this is our first Disney Cruise. We just ordered a FE - a friend of ours gave us the heads up!! Please count us in as well.
Me - 37 - DH 38 - DS 7 - DD - 5.

Also - just heard that Mazatlan has been dropped from the itinerary and a second stop in Cabo was added.

I just added you the Roll Call List and it shows you as participating in the FE Exchange. Once you know your room number, please let me know so I can add that. After you experience a Disney Cruise, I would love to know how you compare it to your past experiences on NCL and Princess. I have never done any other cruise but Disney. I know you will have a great time on the cruise. I also heard that the Mazatlan port stop has been canceled and I was quite bummed. However, since then I have spoken to people who have traveled to Mexico several times before and they told me that Cabo is, by far, a better port to stop in than Mazatlan. I feel bad for anybody who booked an excursion in Mazatlan. I hope Disney will be able to arrange more, and maybe different, excursions in Cabo to make up for it. I still havn't heard if those people (myself included) who booked the Palo Brunch for Tuesday will have their reservations honored and automatically moved to Thursday. I hope so because my DH and I were really looking forward to it.

 

[allison k]

We are on this cruise too! Don't know why I didn't come over here earlier. We are 2 adults and 2 kids (DD - 9 and DS - 4). We are actually going with a couple other families, but they're not disers. This is cruise #3 for us! So glad DCL's on the west coast!

Is it too late to participate in the Fish Extender thing?

 

[disney 2010]

Got this update from dcl today:

Feb 13 Leave LA

Feb 14 at sea

Feb 15 Cabo San Lucas 1030-1930 (Formal night)

Feb 16 Pureto Vallarta 0730-1900 (Pirate Night)

Feb 17 at sea

Feb 18 Cabo San Lucas 0630- 1400 (Semi Formal)

Feb 19 at sea

Feb 20 LA home

 

[jeanneg4of4]

Disney 2010 thanks for the update, this will help in planning. We are going to do the whale watching. not sure if we will do anything else in Cabo or stay on the ship for our 2nd day. mazatlan was our beach day so if I can not find a good beachy thing to do I am sure the ships pool will do nicely. I am afraid that cabo will be to cold for the beach so I may change our PV day to a beach day. Who knows.
Jeanne

 

[skylynx]

We're doing the whale watch on the second Cabo day, too...will need to figure out what to do now on the first visit! We were some of the lucky ones who were not messed up by the itinerary change...in fact we like it better! We're at Palo for Valentine's day and would have had both Palo brunch and High Tea the following day (talk about overindulgence!) Sounds like DCL will just bump all the reservations to the other at sea day. Plus I kind of like the sea day breaking up the port days. I understand that is not the case for everyone and there is some disappointment. Hopefully there will be time and some added excursions to help make up for that.

I really feel for the people of Mazatlan whose economy stands to take a devastating hit...Mexico can't afford to let one destination after another get dropped from cruise ship itineraries due to uncontrollable violence. They need a superhero, and fast!

 

[DaisyMay2010]

I just noticed that someone posted that Pirate Night is on the 16th, which is the same night my DH and I had booked to go to Palo. And now it appears that Palo is completely booked for everything.

Does Palo open up any reservations later? Why wouldn't they tell us when Pirate night is earlier? (or did I miss something?)

Thx,
Carly

 

[disney 2010]

I suspect with the change to the itinerary that many people will be moving reservations around...but even if they don't a percentage of tables are held for booking on board. You will get instruction in your day one navigator about where to go and when to book Palo reservation or try to change your dinning time or rotation. Its in one of the night clubs close to boarding time.

Good luck.

 

[Purplejewel]

I just noticed that someone posted that Pirate Night is on the 16th, which is the same night my DH and I had booked to go to Palo. And now it appears that Palo is completely booked for everything.

Does Palo open up any reservations later? Why wouldn't they tell us when Pirate night is earlier? (or did I miss something?)

Thx,
Carly

My DH and I have a Palo Dinner booked on the 16th too and we already suspected that it would be Pirate Night and booked that evening anyway because we enjoy going to each of the 3 Dinner Venues on the first 3 nights, then having a break by eating at Palo on the 4th night and then back to 3 more nights at the 3 Dinner Venues before the cruise is over. I don't really mind missing the Pirate Night theme in the restuarants much. The only thing I forgot about when I make our reservation at 8:30 p.m. was how long a dinner at Palo takes. I hope we can be finished in time to see the fireworks. Does anyone know what time the fireworks normally happen?

 

[Purplejewel]

Got this update from dcl today:

Feb 13 Leave LA

Feb 14 at sea

Feb 15 Cabo San Lucas 1030-1930 (Formal night)

Feb 16 Pureto Vallarta 0730-1900 (Pirate Night)

Feb 17 at sea

Feb 18 Cabo San Lucas 0630- 1400 (Semi Formal)

Feb 19 at sea

Feb 20 LA home

Are you sure about 2/15 (Tuesday) being Formal Night? There is another Thread about the change to the Itenerary and I swear I saw a posting for our 2/13th cruise from somebody stating that he/she spoke with DisneyCruise Line and was told that the Formal Night was on 2/14 (Monday). I hope you are right because I really didn't want Formal Night to be on Valentines Day since I have a RED Cocktail dress I want to wear expecially for Valentines Day and if it turns out that Valentines Day is Formal Night I won't be able to wear it because I have a full-length gown to wear on Formal Night.

 

[Purplejewel]

We are on this cruise too! Don't know why I didn't come over here earlier. We are 2 adults and 2 kids (DD - 9 and DS - 4). We are actually going with a couple other families, but they're not disers. This is cruise #3 for us! So glad DCL's on the west coast!

Is it too late to participate in the Fish Extender thing?

I have added your family to Roll Call List and indicated that you want to participate in the FE. I'm sure it is not too late to participate but I am not coordinating the FE Exchange; I am just keeping a current running list of everyone that is participating. Perhaps those of you who are participating can let Allison know if she is not too late to participate.

 

[TaniaU]

I can co-ordinate the FE if nobody else has said they would.

In the process of making a spreadsheet for myself (mostly for the kids ages and genders) and will be happy to share if others are interested.

 

[Purplejewel]

Got this update from dcl today:

Feb 13 Leave LA

Feb 14 at sea

Feb 15 Cabo San Lucas 1030-1930 (Formal night)

Feb 16 Pureto Vallarta 0730-1900 (Pirate Night)

Feb 17 at sea

Feb 18 Cabo San Lucas 0630- 1400 (Semi Formal)

Feb 19 at sea

Feb 20 LA home

You were right - I just got off the phone with a CM for DisneyCruise Line and she advised me that Formal Night will be on Day #3 (2/15 - Tuesday) Also, for those of you who have a reservation booked for the PALO Brunch on Day #3 (2/15 - Tuesday), the CM told me her supervisors were all in a meeting right then making a final decision on how to handle that situation. Hopefully, they will decide to honor everyone's reservations and just move them to Day #5 (2/17 - Thursday). She told me to call back tomorrow and she was sure she would be able to tell me what the final decision is. I will be sure to post the decision once I find out what it is.

 

[Quimby]

I can co-ordinate the FE if nobody else has said they would.

In the process of making a spreadsheet for myself (mostly for the kids ages and genders) and will be happy to share if others are interested.

I would love it if you could email the FE spreadsheet.

We finally got our room number, #7000

Just to update the roll cal post


Quimby #7000
Flores # 6012

We are both first dining.

P.S. For those of you in cold weather, it is in the mid 70's here in S. Cal., may reach 80 degrees mid week I am trying to keep the beautiful weather for all of you....

 

[Purplejewel]

I would love it if you could email the FE spreadsheet.

We finally got our room number, #7000

Just to update the roll cal post


Quimby #7000
Flores # 6012

We are both first dining.

P.S. For those of you in cold weather, it is in the mid 70's here in S. Cal., may reach 80 degrees mid week I am trying to keep the beautiful weather for all of you....

Just added both of your Room #s to the Roll Call List

 

[Smbertram]

I would love it if you could email the FE spreadsheet.

We finally got our room number, #7000

Just to update the roll cal post


Quimby #7000
Flores # 6012

We are both first dining.

P.S. For those of you in cold weather, it is in the mid 70's here in S. Cal., may reach 80 degrees mid week I am trying to keep the beautiful weather for all of you....

We owe you big time!!! Here in CT is was -9 this morning.

 

[Smbertram]

I can co-ordinate the FE if nobody else has said they would.

In the process of making a spreadsheet for myself (mostly for the kids ages and genders) and will be happy to share if others are interested.

TaniaU, have you taken part in FE before? We tried to get a handle on who was participating this weekend, so a spreadsheet would be great! As far as a cut off, do we want to say for planning purposes we should close it this weekend?

Thoughts?

 

[TaniaU]

TaniaU, have you taken part in FE before? We tried to get a handle on who was participating this weekend, so a spreadsheet would be great! As far as a cut off, do we want to say for planning purposes we should close it this weekend?

Thoughts?

Nope, never done a FE before I think a cut off of this weekend would be for the best, then it would give everyone enough time to assemble their gifts.

I've put the spreadsheet up on google docs here. It's public right now, but if anyone would like actual names I'll collect those and add them in and then lock it to invite only. Also let me know if there's any errors

 

[jeffdrex]

First time cruisers here: On board will be Grandma & Grandpa, Mom & Dad, big brother (7) and twin tornadoes... err toddler boys (3 & 3). Be ye forewarned! =)

 

[disney 2010]

You were right - I just got off the phone with a CM for DisneyCruise Line and she advised me that Formal Night will be on Day #3 (2/15 - Tuesday) Also, for those of you who have a reservation booked for the PALO Brunch on Day #3 (2/15 - Tuesday), the CM told me her supervisors were all in a meeting right then making a final decision on how to handle that situation. Hopefully, they will decide to honor everyone's reservations and just move them to Day #5 (2/17 - Thursday). She told me to call back tomorrow and she was sure she would be able to tell me what the final decision is. I will be sure to post the decision once I find out what it is.

I too was hoping this info was correct. We have Palo booked for Valentines day and now we will not miss formal night

I realize you are not the "organizer" just the OP of the meet thread but I am curious if a dis meet has been planned. I have read other groups do this.


For those of you organizing FE's
I am on the fence about the FE's and now see the cut off
I'm worried about how much work it will be. Do FE gifts get delivered daily by everyone or one time per family? Does a schedule get created? I know my kids would get a kick out of the whole thing but finding time to make an FE and buying gifts may not be in the cards at this point.

 

[DaisyMay2010]

Hey everyone,

Thanks Tania for doing up the spreadsheet! That's fantastic! I'm cool either way with names or not.

I agree with the cut off on the fish extenders. Need a final count soon to get the goodies ready


Carly