February 18, 2006 Magic - Who's Onboard? Roll Call post #156

[njDISNEYnut]

Hey everyone:
Just found the thread, have been booked since day 1 when reservations openeed. Requested reservation 2 years in advance. We are a family of six , DW & myself and our 2 DS ( 4 & 10 ) & 2 DD ( 7 & 11 ) we are also bringing my Darling Mother-in-Law ( How do you abbreviate that??) so we will be a toal party of seven. Not many cabins hold this so gues what, we have Stateroom # 8030, the WDW suite. Cannot wait for the trip. It will be our 7th DCL and 9th in all. Our kids have the entire week off every year so we try to travel. Hope to see some of you..

Jim

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Hey Nut No wonder you booked out so far!! What did you say - you're hosting the Dis meet in your stateroom? (just kidding) Sounds like you're in for a very special cruise. Welcome to the thread. Looking forward to hearing about your planning.

 

[mykel mouse]

Hey NJdisneynut. Heres what I am thinkink. If I show you my veranda will you show me your suite. I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask. Well I am traveling with Mother-in-law(MIL), FIL, wife, and 2ds. ages 7 and 3. Never thought about all going in one room. That might have been fun . Were on the 6th floor. First time cruisers so it should be fun.

 

[njDISNEYnut]

Pea-n-me/Mykel
Thsi will be our 7th DCL trip. We actually have another DCL booked 07/29/06. I am an accountant, but the kids have this week off every year, so it is hard to resist travelling even though I am swamped at work.
I am sure we can arrange a meet in my room, only have to clear it by the DW. We have been in suites before, but never the WED. Looking forward to it.

 

[burma]

Can we file from the ship ... just thinkin ahead

 

[njDISNEYnut]

Burma:
It may sound funny, but with an internet connection, I would be good to go. However, Being on DCL I will be trying to get away from all of that. A quick escape from reality, which Disney has always proven to be.

 

[burma]

Hey what dinner seating does everyone have
We requested early due to the fact the kids did not do so well with the late seating on our feb wonder cruise.

also anyone have an idea what night they might go to palo would be nice to see some people we almost know there

 

[njDISNEYnut]

Burma:
We have the main seating. Startign dinner at 8:30 and finishing 10-10:30 is not favorable to us. I know that we have to cut our day shorter to start getting all of us ready, but the one DCL DW & I took alone, we had the 2nd seating and found ourselves doing very little after dinner and then going to bed. We could never seem to get ready for the early show shown before dinner.
Our family, having 4 out of 7 kids ranging 4-11, think that we will get the dining rotation of APT. We have had this rotation for almost every one of our cruises. Irregardless, I think my DW & D M-I-L will do the Sunday Brunch and then we will do dinner at PALO on the last night. This will be the third time in the same restaurant and the " Best of series" can be skipped. So it is not definate, but right now this is the plan.
I have to admit that I will be spoiled by one of the Suite perks, that I can make all shore excursions, Palo & Spa resys 105 days in advance. So when the time comes, I will sent out a note as to what we did.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

LOL, the second seating didn't work out too well for us last time either. DS was sleeping in his pizza on CC day - a little tuckered out!

DH and I will probably do the Palo brunch and the dinner - not sure when yet (us commoners have to wait till we board so we'll see what's available). We've done both before and like each for different reasons: I love seeing the ocean during the daytime and the casual dress, and who can resist the chocolate souflee during the dinner?

What's everyone thinking about shore excursions? For those who've done the Eastern before, what did you do?

The other thing I was wondering is who's getting tuxes and who's not?

Anyone got their magnetic door signs done yet?

 

[Triggs2]

We did the Eastern last Feb. Checked out the Butterfly Farm with stops at the open marketplace at St. Maarten. Wasn't too sure about the european style beaches and went that way instead..... It was nice but wouldn't do it again! Checked out the beaches at St. Thomas. Very easy to get a cab to Magen Bay Beach and back. Rather scary taxi ride but beautiful beach.! Want to try out the St. John adventure this time.

 

[burma]

I will be having my Tux pressed before we cruise hopefully it will stay wrinkle free just trying to decide between bow tie or regular tie ....

as for excursions we have decided to go it on our own since our kids are 3 and 4.5 at the time of the cruise disney does not offer anything we cant do on our own .

If anyone is interested in sharing a cab(van) on excursions let me know

 

[Pea-n-Me]

How's everyone doing??

 

[burma]

Ok we broke down and finished payin the trip off we were going to wait till Dec but we just wanted to worry about plane tickets ... Off to Aruba in 24 days then we will worry about the rest ....

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Hey, have a great time in Aruba!!

 

[burma]

ok heres a question ... who is going down before the cruise and where are you all stayin ... we have the Raddison booked right now but are thinking of maybe trying to squeek in a few days before at the parks >

 

[mykel mouse]

My wife, 2 sons, and I will be going down early, probably thursday. Will be staying in disney but have not firmed up all the plans. Need to talk to my travel agent. . I know we are all looking forward to it, this being our first cruis and all.

 

[Dreamer04]

Hi everyone! We are flying down the day before. Still haven't firmed our plans on where to stay that night. I can't seem to get a good enought deal at the MCO Hyatt! $253 through hotwire-yikes!

The other consideration is the Radisson at the port. Any other suggestions?

 

[burma]

I booked a 2 king suite at the Raddison and it was $199 just to let you know I think a reg room was around 170 or so

 

[Dreamer04]

Burma, thanks! I booked a 2 double bed room for the 17th. We might change, but I wanted to make sure we had SOMETHING somewhere!

 

[Dreamer04]

Ok. After much discussion, DH and I decided that we will stick with our formula.
So our arrangements are:

Jetblue JFK to MCO 2/17
MCO Hyatt 2/17-2/18
Southern Elegance Limo Hyatt to Port 2/18
Same limo Port to MCO 2/25

We canceled our reservation at the Radisson and had our name removed from the shuttle for 2/18

FYI-You can reserve the shuttle as soon as you have your reservation. When we called they told us that we were the first ones on the list.