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

[TaniaU]

If you were to upgrade at port I don't know if they would be able to fill up your old room, so leaving a note on the door would probably work.

 

[disney 2010]

I have a Cat 5 Veranda room. I know people like purplejewel will arrive a port after me and try to snag a great deal on a veranda ( I tried and was unsuccessful on my last cruise)

So although it may stay empty there is also a good chance someone will move up into it.

 

[rainnorsnow]

Ahh Jeanne that is so disappointingThat would sour the start of my cruise for me

I was wondering if someone who knew they were staying put could have a confirmation list for the first day?
I also considered putting a note near my original rooms fish but what if someone takes that room and removes my note.
My third thought was taking a pic of my FE and begging you all to search for me if I score an upgrade I know I will be on the 8th floor. However I really don't know how to post pictures and have been too lazy to figure out the whole photo bucket thing.

Anyone have a suggestion?

I was thinking the same thing, if we get an upgrade it will be from cat 4 to a suite, so either way we would be found on deck 8. I don't know how to post pictures of my FE either. Some groups on the MR trip reports were meeting at the terminal at around 11 am on embarkation day, at which time they might know if they had an upgrade, but not sure everyone would be at the port by then. Guess I may just try the note by the original door and hope it is not removed. Better yet, maybe we can all get our upgrades and one of my fellow DISers can get our verandah room

 

[disney 2010]

I was thinking the same thing, if we get an upgrade it will be from cat 4 to a suite, so either way we would be found on deck 8. I don't know how to post pictures of my FE either. Some groups on the MR trip reports were meeting at the terminal at around 11 am on embarkation day, at which time they might know if they had an upgrade, but not sure everyone would be at the port by then. Guess I may just try the note by the original door and hope it is not removed. Better yet, maybe we can all get our upgrades and one of my fellow DISers can get our verandah room

If I don't get a suite I will happily take your Cat 4
They are still showing several cat 3 and 4 available it could be a good cruise for port upgrades

 

[Quimby]

So how much do the port upgrades usually cost compared to booking ahead?
Any ideas? porthole (9A) to a veranda?
I thought that Disney would sometimes call people to offer upgrades for a price...
I doubt Disney has time right now with all of the itineray changes.

I wish someone from the 1/21 MR would hurry up and post their Navigators. If someone here sees the navigators online, please let me know....I want to try to plan out the days for wine tastings, galley tours, etc.

Oh, TaniaU, you mentioned wings at the Pub...wow, that would be great...Wings and a salad for lunch would be yummy!

Are we sure that Formal night is, night #3, Cabo day?
I read on another MR, 1/31, that Formal is Night #2...I would prefer that so we don't have to rush back to the ship from Cabo.

 

[disney 2010]

So how much do the port upgrades usually cost compared to booking ahead?
Any ideas? porthole (9A) to a veranda?
I thought that Disney would sometimes call people to offer upgrades for a price...
I doubt Disney has time right now with all of the itinerary changes.

I wish someone from the 1/21 MR would hurry up and post their Navigators. If someone here sees the navigators online, please let me know....I want to try to plan out the days for wine tastings, galley tours, etc.

Oh, TaniaU, you mentioned wings at the Pub...wow, that would be great...Wings and a salad for lunch would be yummy!

Are we sure that Formal night is, night #3, Cabo day?
I read on another MR, 1/31, that Formal is Night #2...I would prefer that so we don't have to rush back to the ship from Cabo.

It's tough to get confirmation of exact port upgrade costs. Right now it would cost you $600 to upgrade so my guess would be around $200 give or take $50....just a guess From what I read that estimates 2/3-1/2 of the original cost.....Good Luck

It seems our formal night changed when the itinerary did. If you look back I do think it has been confirmed by more than one CM at this point

 

[flybone89]

Greetings All! This is my first post and our first cruise! We are "landlocked" Disney World veterans - hence the reason our 1st cruise was Disney - but new to the sea. I have lurked for some time on these boards and want to thank all of you for such great information helpful to a first time cruiser! We will be on board with 2 adults (my wife and I), my 2 sons (15 and 10) and my daughter (7). We are so excited but nervous too. We're praying the above average snowy weather here is calm for us to get out on time.

One question I had was about port adventures and the itinerary changes. I saw it talked earlier but wondering if anyone has any updates on if we can can book port adventures on Cabo Day 1 yet? I can't seem to do it online - the ones that show say sold out - but are they sold out or just not available for booking yet? Was anyone able to call and get something booked or are you only able to do this online?

Thanks for any help and looking forward to enjoying a great time at sea.

Kevin

 

[vblossom]

I'm still not seeing any excursions for Cabo Day #1 either online. Keep trying, I guess!

My sis-in-law just got back from a week in Cabo. It was warm, not overly hot. Warm enough by around 10am to go out with just a beach cover-up, although the locals would be wearing jackets. Good golfing weather, if that's your thing. She said the evenings were cool.

Canadians ... Our currency was readily exchanged so no need to bring extra US$ to Cabo.

 

[disney 2010]

Greetings All! This is my first post and our first cruise! We are "landlocked" Disney World veterans - hence the reason our 1st cruise was Disney - but new to the sea. I have lurked for some time on these boards and want to thank all of you for such great information helpful to a first time cruiser! We will be on board with 2 adults (my wife and I), my 2 sons (15 and 10) and my daughter (7). We are so excited but nervous too. We're praying the above average snowy weather here is calm for us to get out on time.

One question I had was about port adventures and the itinerary changes. I saw it talked earlier but wondering if anyone has any updates on if we can can book port adventures on Cabo Day 1 yet? I can't seem to do it online - the ones that show say sold out - but are they sold out or just not available for booking yet? Was anyone able to call and get something booked or are you only able to do this online?

Thanks for any help and looking forward to enjoying a great time at sea.

Kevin

I resisted the urge to complain yesterday but if you find me on-board : I will blame my pent up frustration about this.

When I tried yesterday it seemed some of the excursions were available for day one but not all. The only way to know which was which was to go through the whole booking process with each. It seemed I could do a Mexican outback adventure. The dolphin swim was now full for day one and available day two.
We have whale watching and fishing booked for day 2 and would like to switch to day one but neither is showing available day one. It may be that dcl is still working on confirming available excursions

It's driving me

Oh well spent the weekend gathering stuff so other than this we are

 

[TaniaU]

It's tough to get confirmation of exact port upgrade costs. Right now it would cost you $600 to upgrade so my guess would be around $200 give or take $50....just a guess From what I read that estimates 2/3-1/2 of the original cost.....Good Luck

It seems our formal night changed when the itinerary did. If you look back I do think it has been confirmed by more than one CM at this point

I'd pay that to upgrade

On letting people know where you are if you upgrade at port...I highly doubt my mom and dad are going to switch rooms; I can give them a dry erase board and then if someone does upgrade you could write it there and I'll do an update note the first night. Just have to see if they know their room number yet

I'm almost done making our Fish Extender. Knowing how to use a ruler and cut a straight line would have been advantageous. Also, a person could make a fortune selling plain buttons in Calgary.

 

[TaniaU]

Greetings All! This is my first post and our first cruise! We are "landlocked" Disney World veterans - hence the reason our 1st cruise was Disney - but new to the sea. I have lurked for some time on these boards and want to thank all of you for such great information helpful to a first time cruiser! We will be on board with 2 adults (my wife and I), my 2 sons (15 and 10) and my daughter (7). We are so excited but nervous too. We're praying the above average snowy weather here is calm for us to get out on time.

One question I had was about port adventures and the itinerary changes. I saw it talked earlier but wondering if anyone has any updates on if we can can book port adventures on Cabo Day 1 yet? I can't seem to do it online - the ones that show say sold out - but are they sold out or just not available for booking yet? Was anyone able to call and get something booked or are you only able to do this online?

Thanks for any help and looking forward to enjoying a great time at sea.

Kevin

Welcome aboard!

 

[disney 2010]

I'd pay that to upgrade

On letting people know where you are if you upgrade at port...I highly doubt my mom and dad are going to switch rooms; I can give them a dry erase board and then if someone does upgrade you could write it there and I'll do an update note the first night. Just have to see if they know their room number yet

I'm almost done making our Fish Extender. Knowing how to use a ruler and cut a straight line would have been advantageous. Also, a person could make a fortune selling plain buttons in Calgary.

That would be great!! Thanks again for taking care of this

I was worried about throwing together an FE as I am the least crafty person in the world...I hear you on the straight line with a ruler challenge!
Found some felt Valentine themes bags and attached them and it looks pretty cute...added some rinestone letters and we are set
I truly thought it might end up being a little sad

Now to pack everything

 

[Quimby]

Good evening...
I finished shopping for out FE exchange. I am doing a Valentines Day theme and will try to deliver on the 14th

More questions from the DCL newbies:

1) At the port, do we check in out luggage with the porter or at the DCL counter?
at the airport we never check luggage with a porter, so this would be new for us.

2) On disembarkation, do we have to leave the ship at 7am or whatever time we're assigned? Can we sleep in a bit, grab some buffet and walk off the ship ? I am not an early morning person, at all!

I think that is all for tonight, I'm sure I'll have more questions in the morning...I go to bed thinking about DCL..

 

[disney 2010]

Good evening...
I finished shopping for out FE exchange. I am doing a Valentines Day theme and will try to deliver on the 14th

More questions from the DCL newbies:

1) At the port, do we check in out luggage with the porter or at the DCL counter? We will have to see exactly how the LA port is set up but I'm sure it will be close to Florida where the porters meet you at the curb and grab your luggage. They grabbed and tossed ours so quickly that I didn't even realize they were porters and we should tip them. It just seemed that this was the process to check our bags. We took a car service so between gathering the kids and paying our driver the bags were gone in an instant. Make sure they know which bags you are taking carrying on
at the airport we never check luggage with a porter, so this would be new for us.

2) On disembarkation, do we have to leave the ship at 7am or whatever time we're assigned? Can we sleep in a bit, grab some buffet and walk off the ship ? I am not an early morning person, at all! Generally you have to be off by 9. Out of your room by 8. We were scheduled for a 6:45 breakfast that none of us wanted to get up for so we left our room at 8 and went to the buffet and then disembarked....So sleep in? I guess a little.

I think that is all for tonight, I'm sure I'll have more questions in the morning...I go to bed thinking about DCL..

Also on the last morning if your stateroom host(ess) thinks you have overslept they will bang on the door.

 

[TaniaU]

Good to know about disembarkation; I know lots of people like to say goodbye to their servers one last time, but being up and ready for a 7:00 sit down breakfast is a little too much for me on the last day. Especially when we're just going to be sitting in the dumpy LAX terminal 2 until noon.

Speaking of flying out of LAX; WestJet will be flying into John Wayne airport starting late spring. That'll be nice for trips to Disneyland

30 degrees below zero this morning...that was fun.

 

[allison k]

30 degrees below zero this morning...that was fun.

We're in a bit of a cold spell right in Orange County right now - upper 60's for the next week - but I expect that seems downright summery to you!

I'm hoping it warms up a bit more. It was beautiful last week!

 

[Purplejewel]

Our names
Me Jeanne
DH-Ramon
DS 15- Demitri
DS 12-Gabriel
Does anyone have any idea on how to let the others in the FE group know if we get an upgrade and change our room # at the port?
I think a group meet would be nice however I am not going to commit to one. On our last cruise (4/10) I was desiginated to bring a variety of items to our meet and only one other person showed up. I was let with lanyards and beads, and a little disappointed at sail away (when we to meet).

Sorry your last DIS Meet went so badly. Sometimes people have good intentions and then they get excited once they are on-board, they realize that there is another function they just can't miss or, if you are traveling with kids, the kids don't want to be dragged to a "boring, adult meeting" when pools are beckening I would like to see some Navigators from the 1st MR Cruise that just returned yesterday and see what activities are scheduled the first afternoon before deciding if I can attend a DIS Meet. I have been on other cruises where they have the Disney Vacation Club (DVC) Meeting on the 1st afternoon and my DH and I never miss that meeting - not only do we learn about new DVC incentives, but they give away alot of neat DVC stuff. If everything lines up though, I would love to meet some fellow DISers.

 

[TaniaU]

We're in a bit of a cold spell right in Orange County right now - upper 60's for the next week - but I expect that seems downright summery to you!

I'm hoping it warms up a bit more. It was beautiful last week!

Yep, that's shorts weather

 

[Purplejewel]

Greetings All! This is my first post and our first cruise! We are "landlocked" Disney World veterans - hence the reason our 1st cruise was Disney - but new to the sea. I have lurked for some time on these boards and want to thank all of you for such great information helpful to a first time cruiser! We will be on board with 2 adults (my wife and I), my 2 sons (15 and 10) and my daughter (7). We are so excited but nervous too. We're praying the above average snowy weather here is calm for us to get out on time.

One question I had was about port adventures and the itinerary changes. I saw it talked earlier but wondering if anyone has any updates on if we can can book port adventures on Cabo Day 1 yet? I can't seem to do it online - the ones that show say sold out - but are they sold out or just not available for booking yet? Was anyone able to call and get something booked or are you only able to do this online?

Thanks for any help and looking forward to enjoying a great time at sea.

Kevin

Welcome Aboard! I added your family to the Roll Call List on the front page of this Thread - hope you don't mind. I'm just so excited about this cruise and I like to keep everything updated, plus I'm a bit ...Retentive so once I started the Roll Call List there was no stopping me. I'm with you on the praying that snow doesn't keep us from missing the cruise. My DH and I are flying from VA. Really wishing now that we had decided to fly in a day early.

 

[Purplejewel]

Hey! For those of you who had Palo Brunch reserved for Day #3 and were wondering how Disney was going to handle it now that Day #3 is a Port Day, I just went on-line and checked "My Cruise Activities" and they have changed my Palo Brunch Reservation from Day #3 to Day #5. I am sure they are doing that to everyone's Palo Brunch Reservations for that day. I'm so relieved I was really worried that they would cancel my reservation. I have never done the Palo Brunch before and was so looking forward to it. Now I can still look forward to it. Maybe since they have finally gotten this issue resolved they will update the on-line website to allow people to make Cabo Excursion Reservations for Day #3.