February 2, 2008 Eastern early check in

[TrolleyGirl]

MyLove4Disney, I'm so sorry about your misfortune. I would be sick to my stomach over having my tickets stolen. Those things are valuable. However, if by chance you still have the reciept with the pass numbers on it, you can contact Disney for replacements. Tell them the story and give them the pass numbers and i'm 99% sure they can be replaced.

Best Wishes!

 

[Chariandlee]

Gina,

I am starting to feel a little better thanks to all of your great info. I did go and get a Passporter and have been trying to read as much as I can.

Chari

 

[MyLove4Disney]

MyLove4Disney, I'm so sorry about your misfortune. I would be sick to my stomach over having my tickets stolen. Those things are valuable. However, if by chance you still have the reciept with the pass numbers on it, you can contact Disney for replacements. Tell them the story and give them the pass numbers and i'm 99% sure they can be replaced.

Best Wishes!

Thanks that is a great idea, I will need to check my receipts. I just might have them. I sure hope so.

 

[Gina]

this year is really ending sucky I know it could have been much worse, but still i'm sad.

Ok everyone come on and cheer me up, tell me all the fun things everyone is doing and preparing for our MAGICal cruise.

I am so sorry about losing your tickets... that would just make me sick!! TrolleyGirl's suggestion is great -- I hope you're able to find the receipts.

I sure hope you're able to get the tickets replaced!

I'm glad to know there is still someone out there excited about this cruise... I am just at a loss as to why this group is so dead. The thread for the cruise right after ours has over 700 posts! Thank goodness DS is old enough to plan with me and be excited, or I would really be sad! I'm just hoping I can make some new friends on the ship itself. Hanging out alone is no fun.

We are SO ready to go! We have a lot of the packing done, and I am steadily whittling down my need-to-do/need-to-buy/need-to-look-for lists. The new semester starts for me on January 14th, so I'm trying to have as much of the trip preparations done by then as I can before everything gets all crazy again.

Does everyone have all their excursions finalized? We finally decided on Dawn Beach in St. Maarten. It's supposed to be the best for snorkeling. For St. Thomas we're booked on the Doubloon, and we're way excited about that one!

I've been trying to work on my secret plans for WDW after the cruise (secret to DS) but still haven't made up my mind as far as timing goes. We'll be at Pop Century for two nights, and Epcot (our favorite place in the world) but I can't decide on the timing. We'll likely be at Pop by 10am-ish Saturday morning, and ideally I would love to dump our bags and race off, but I know we'll by exhausted by that point. I'm thinking that maybe I can request early check-in and we can crash for a few hours, and then head to Epcot in the afternoon. We'll get up and spend all of Sunday there, and then maybe part of Monday? Our plane leaves at 4pm Monday, so I'm guessing DME will pick us up at Pop at around 2.

I'd love to spend part of all three days at Epcot. If money were no object, this would all be an easy decision, but the difference between 2-day passes and 3-day passes for the both of us is another $150. Plus, we have never stayed at Pop, and I really want some time in there to explore and take lots of pictures. I have been going back and forth with all this for days now, and I just can't decide what to do!!

Oh well, it will all work out... I just can't believe we're only 37 days away!!!


-gina-

 

[PhotoLisa]

I can't focus on the cruise or the 4-day WDW trip we just planned before the cruise until after the BCS National Championship on 1/7. I'll be photographing the game and until that is over, my mind is mush!

Combine the holidays and the BCS National Championship with an impromptu trip the weekend before Christmas to Vienna, Austria and now you can understand why mush is the only word to describe my state of mind.

I'll be printing out the last navigators that have been uploaded to the various sites and updating the calendar for the 7-days we're on the water.

I read yesterday that there is no 70's and 80's nights at Rockin Bar D anymore. I'll have to do some digging to find out what'll be the nighttime activities and daytime gatherings available.

Hope everyone is recovering from the holidays and sticking to their diets! lol . . . I dropped one more pound (according to the scale) today and am hoping for no less than another five to come off before the trip.

Go Tigers!!

 

[MyLove4Disney]

I read yesterday that there is no 70's and 80's nights at Rockin Bar D anymore. I'll have to do some digging to find out what'll be the nighttime activities and daytime gatherings available.

My now 23 dd just bought a new t-shirt for 70's night, she will be really sad that the themed night has been retired. But you know I'm sure they will put something just as great in its place, we will look on the brighter side. Heck we will be on vacation.

 

[Chariandlee]

Ok, so I go to this tickerfactory.com, make my thing and then can't figure out how to get it onto my posts. I consider myself somewhat computer savy but I just can't figure out this whole disboard thing.

 

[MyLove4Disney]

Ok, so I go to this tickerfactory.com, make my thing and then can't figure out how to get it onto my posts. I consider myself somewhat computer savy but I just can't figure out this whole disboard thing.

Chariandless, once you are finish picking out your designs and setting in your dates. Make sure that you pick the html type. Then select all the code in section and copy that code and past into the bottom of your signature, make sure that you don't delete any preliminary codes or it most likely will not work. So try try again. Good luck.

See you in 36 days, enjoy all the pre cruise fun of packing and checking on the todo list.

Happy New Year

 

[Chariandlee]

MyLove4Disney,

Yay !!! I got it to work. Thanks for the info.

 

[mfabre]

Is there anyone else who is not so patiently waiting for their room assignment? It is just about to kill me I think! I have been seeing people who are sailing a couple weeks before us posting their upgrades! I am crossing my fingers that by next week I will know where we will be!

 

[SoftBallChickuhh]

yes. we are paciently awaiting our room assignment too

 

[LisaSp]

...when we rebooked we asked for the same cabin #, hopefully we will get it again!

I can't believe we are just over a month away from this cruise!

Does anyone know the cutoff for when you can make your tuxedo rental reservation? We want to rent a tux for DS but haven't had time to do his measurements. There is nothing cuter than a little man (he will be almost 7) in a tux. My favorite pix from our last cruise in 3/06 are from formal night!!

 

[Chariandlee]

Lisa,

I see you are from Baltimore. We are from Howard County.

I didn't know that you could rent tuxedos for kids. Do you just call up to do this or do you do it online? Do you happen to know how much it is to do this?

Chari

 

[Billinaz]

Is there anyone else who is not so patiently waiting for their room assignment? It is just about to kill me I think! I have been seeing people who are sailing a couple weeks before us posting their upgrades! I am crossing my fingers that by next week I will know where we will be!

I couldn't wait. I had to know exactly where we were when I booked!!

 

[LisaSp]

In the brown packet of info from the cruise you should see a page about formal wear rentals...you can do all of the ordering online at http://www.cruiselineformal.com

It costs around $100 for everything but it was worth it. I considered buying DS a tux from ebay and I am sure I would save some $$$ but having the tux delivered to and picked up from the room is a huge plus. I tend to be an overpacker, so the less stuff I have to bring the better!!

 

[Smooch]

Count me in!! Do you go to the singles/single parents get-togethers? I have met so many neat people that way, and it's such a great way to get to know the cruise staff. I always end up having so much fun because of them.

Can't wait to meet you guys!

Hey, did you sign up for our Yahoo group? I can't keep all the screen names straight... but we're doing a lot of the planning over there. Please join us, if you haven't already!

-gina-

Hey, it's great to hear there will be other single parents onboard! It's been a while since I checked in....DH is now DXH so now I'm cruising with my two kids DD9 and DS3 and my niece who is 14.

If there are any single parents who are interested in linking dinner reservations (early seating) or getting a group together for a Palo dinner, let me know. I'm not getting off the ship without having a chocolate souflee from Palo!

 

[MyLove4Disney]

30 day dance everybody! woo hoo!!! can't wait! irate:

hope everyone is as excited as my DD and I are! can't wait to see ya!!

 

[Perdie]

My husband and I leave in 25 1/2 days for WDW for two days before we get on the cruise and we are SOOOOO excited!!

We are counting down the days.....SLOWLY!!!

Everyday I daydream about the very first thing I will do when we get there...since we arrive on a Wednesday night after an overseas flight, we plan on going straight to Downtown disney for dinner and goofy's candy shop and then go to sleep so we can head to MK first thing the next morning!

Last week we got an email from British Airways telling us our flight had been canceled! So after panicking we ended actually getting an extra day of vacation out of it! We were forced to come on Wed instead of Thursday-one more day in the parks! yeah!

Anyway I am just so excited I felt like writing everyone a note and spreading my joy about the magic around the boards!!

 

[PhotoLisa]

Ok everyone . . . its time to begin getting a little more "chatty" so that our dismeets and greets will be even more fun!

Mfabre and I have been working on 5 fish extenders for the group of rooms we have booked within the family. We still have designs to do for 4 more pockets . . . of course, 2 of the pockets that are undone are for me! Since my sister is cruising in my room with me, the top pocket on ours won't be the same but at this time, I have no idea what it'll be either.

Mfabre, my sister, my granddaughter and I are all leaving on the 29th for 4 days at the parks before going to the ship on the 2nd. My sister has blessed us with an upgrade to the Polynesian in the parks! We're so excited about it. My son that isn't able to cruise with us (because he's a Marine and busy guarding the US Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal) gave Mfabre and my granddaughter a mother-daughter trip to Disney as their Christmas gift and now my sister and I are making it a girls trip. We'll meet up with everyone on Saturday after our girls only trip to the world.

Is anyone having problems accessing the disneycruise.com website? We've been trying for 2 days to go in and edit information and the site keeps kicking us out before we're able to get anything accomplished (after we've logged in to our reservation).

Go LSU Tigers!!! Look for me on the sidelines at the game when touchdowns are scored . . . I should be in or near the endzones with a big white lens on my camera. There aren't that many women on the sidelines -- look for a female with blonde hair with a big camera.

Here's a pic of two of our fish extenders.

 

[Chariandlee]

PhotoLisa

Yesterday afternoon and evening I was having problems with the Disney cruise website also. I kept clicking on "retrieve reservation" and then I would enter my reservation # etc and hit enter and then it would kick me back to the retrieve rservation page. Hope you get through soon.