February 21, 2009 Magic Western Caribean

[Cinderella&Dopey]

Kind of what we figured... we've found that on our last cruises the bars were so smoky that they were no fun to hang out in... so there weren't that many late nights.


Does anyone know what they are doing in Cozumel?

If you are looking for a nice beach with swimming activites, food and drink in an all inclusive price we always go to Playa Mia. They have a pool, a decent changing area, unlimited drinks and use of all the non motorized watercraft, play and snorkel areas, etc. We've been there 4 or 5 times and always loved it. It is a short taxi ride away and you can stay as long as you want to (unlike a ship tour that will whisk you away just when the fun is getting started.) The web site is PlayaMia dot com

It costs around $50 per day with food and $35 or so without. The taxi ride costs less than $10 for the whole cab.

You do need a ressie for High Tea and Brunch. If you can't book them now you can try once you get on the boat. They will put you on a waiting list! We we on the waiting list last year and got to go to both!

We are going to the Mexican Cooking Classes in Cozumel(It's at Playa Mia beach) looks like fun! Can't wait! Gotta make it through the wedding first! ACK

 

[DMMarla07860]

Kind of what we figured... we've found that on our last cruises the bars were so smoky that they were no fun to hang out in... so there weren't that many late nights.


Does anyone know what they are doing in Cozumel?

If you are looking for a nice beach with swimming activites, food and drink in an all inclusive price we always go to Playa Mia. They have a pool, a decent changing area, unlimited drinks and use of all the non motorized watercraft, play and snorkel areas, etc. We've been there 4 or 5 times and always loved it. It is a short taxi ride away and you can stay as long as you want to (unlike a ship tour that will whisk you away just when the fun is getting started.) The web site is PlayaMia dot com

It costs around $50 per day with food and $35 or so without. The taxi ride costs less than $10 for the whole cab.

about the lates nights, there isn't a lot of people out late, but I know on my past three cruises there were people in the club till 2:00am, after that. I know people went off since that is when the club closed, but myself and the college age people 18-23 or so went to diversions or different areas around the ship and played cards and talked and walked around till 4:00am in the morning a lot, but it is pretty dead

as for cozumel, my dad and I are doing the Cozumel Beach Break excursion. We've been to Cozumel before and did stuff on our own, last two times, so this time doing a excursion

 

[Dave and Micha]

The Cooking class sounds fun! Michael already wrote them directly to compare the offer direct from Playa Mia compared to the cruise line's.

I can honestly say, this is definitely a place/attraction you can go to without paying the cruise line's an extra fee! It is pretty close, there are always plenty of taxis (that use the meter), and it is a well known Cozumel destination.

One month til your wedding... do you have any hair left?

 

[pouncingpluto]

You had a Disney wedding? How jealous am I!!! I can't think of many venues better than that! I'd like to hear about it over a cocktail!!!!

As for being from Orlando, yeah, I grew up there; born in Philly, lived in Orlando from 78 to 97. Loved it!!!! Although glad I don't live there anymore...way too much traffic and congestion and development.

Michael was born in Köln/Cologne and we live halfway between Köln and Frankfurt on the border of the Western forest and the Taunus mountains; this is the area where the Grimm brothers did their etymology research by gathering the various folklore and combining them into the cohesive fairy tales that we know and love today. (Kannst du Deutsch sprechen?) Since our castle (from 1275) was the inspiration for Neu Schwannstein we like to say it is the grandmother to Cinderella's castle in DW.

Berlin is awesome, eh?

We'd love to tell you about our wedding over a cocktail! I could even bring a small album on the cruise, I suppose.

In '93-94 I lived mostly in Marienheide, a tiny town near the small/medium town of Gummersbach, which you might have heard of (especially for their handball team, which is what Germans always say to me). And, yeah, I loved Berlin... I lived in Prenzlauer Berg and worked on Potsdamer Platz... Berlin is just so unique in so many respects!

Und ja, ich kann Deutsch! Besser sprechen und lesen als schreiben, aber es geht.

 

[pouncingpluto]

there is some nightlife, not much but some

I'm hoping for karaoke.

 

[pouncingpluto]

as for cozumel, my dad and I are doing the Cozumel Beach Break excursion. We've been to Cozumel before and did stuff on our own, last two times, so this time doing a excursion

The beach break through the cruiseline, or another one? What we're doing is called Cozumel Beach Break, but it's basically a reservation for Nachi Cocom.

 

[Cinderella&Dopey]

The Cooking class sounds fun! Michael already wrote them directly to compare the offer direct from Playa Mia compared to the cruise line's.

I can honestly say, this is definitely a place/attraction you can go to without paying the cruise line's an extra fee! It is pretty close, there are always plenty of taxis (that use the meter), and it is a well known Cozumel destination.

One month til your wedding... do you have any hair left?

I think I turned into Bridezilla yesterday when I went for a fitting! ACK...so much to do so little time..I just can't wait for the vacay afterwards.

 

[DMMarla07860]

The beach break through the cruiseline, or another one? What we're doing is called Cozumel Beach Break, but it's basically a reservation for Nachi Cocom.

through the cruiseline

 

[DMMarla07860]

I'm hoping for karaoke.

krazy karaoke was one of the best times on my cruise in july. I love it

 

[Dave and Micha]

We'd love to tell you about our wedding over a cocktail! I could even bring a small album on the cruise, I suppose.

In '93-94 I lived mostly in Marienheide, a tiny town near the small/medium town of Gummersbach, which you might have heard of (especially for their handball team, which is what Germans always say to me). And, yeah, I loved Berlin... I lived in Prenzlauer Berg and worked on Potsdamer Platz... Berlin is just so unique in so many respects!

Und ja, ich kann Deutsch! Besser sprechen und lesen als schreiben, aber es geht.

Ha ha.. we do know Gummersbach, but couldn't think why. Wetzlar, the next town over, are the Handball World Champions (as if that means anything to an American like me) and I hear the scores on the radio all the time; must be from that. That's a strange game that I just can't seem to care about - soccer/fußball is enough.

We've thought about buying an apartment in Berlin just to have there... it is changing so fast! Prenzlauerberg is now one of THE places to be... do you miss it?

 

[pouncingpluto]

I would love to go back but take my husband with me this time! He's never been to Germany at all, which is strange to me, since Germany means so much to me and my husband means so much to me. I really want to bring the two together. Airfare was just so high last summer, and our dog was very old and sick, so he stayed home.

 

[Dave and Micha]

I would love to go back but take my husband with me this time! He's never been to Germany at all, which is strange to me, since Germany means so much to me and my husband means so much to me. I really want to bring the two together. Airfare was just so high last summer, and our dog was very old and sick, so he stayed home.

Lufthansa has some SUPER rates at the moment!

 

[DMMarla07860]

So are we all going to plan a meet a greet for the first day before sailaway? because would love to meet everyone and get to know each other and put faces to names

 

[paganoni]

Hi everyone!

I've been "lurking" for a bit and reading up. I had booked this cruise for my husband and I last year, but then we also decided to host an exchange student for the semester, so...all three of us will be sailing with you now!

Listening to you all talk of Germany and such made me think of adding our names to the list. I was an exchange student to Spain in high school, and our student, Jasi, will be coming over from Austria to spend a semester in high school here in Florida. She arrives in another 2 weeks and we can't wait! We told her about the cruise for Christmas and she is super excited, although we aren't sure she really even understands what a Disney cruise is yet. LOL Last year we hosted a girl from Iceland, Eyrún, who LOVED the cruise. We did too. It is our 5th cruise on Disney, and even though we don't normally have kids with us, we still love it.

Can't wait to keep my eyes open and possibly meet some of you in less than 50 days!!!

-- Patty, Chris, and Jasi

 

[DMMarla07860]

Hi everyone!

I've been "lurking" for a bit and reading up. I had booked this cruise for my husband and I last year, but then we also decided to host an exchange student for the semester, so...all three of us will be sailing with you now!

Listening to you all talk of Germany and such made me think of adding our names to the list. I was an exchange student to Spain in high school, and our student, Jasi, will be coming over from Austria to spend a semester in high school here in Florida. She arrives in another 2 weeks and we can't wait! We told her about the cruise for Christmas and she is super excited, although we aren't sure she really even understands what a Disney cruise is yet. LOL Last year we hosted a girl from Iceland, Eyrún, who LOVED the cruise. We did too. It is our 5th cruise on Disney, and even though we don't normally have kids with us, we still love it.

Can't wait to keep my eyes open and possibly meet some of you in less than 50 days!!!

-- Patty, Chris, and Jasi

welcome, more people the better, and exchange student, that's super cool. Must be a great experience

 

[pouncingpluto]

Hi everyone!

I've been "lurking" for a bit and reading up. I had booked this cruise for my husband and I last year, but then we also decided to host an exchange student for the semester, so...all three of us will be sailing with you now!

Listening to you all talk of Germany and such made me think of adding our names to the list. I was an exchange student to Spain in high school, and our student, Jasi, will be coming over from Austria to spend a semester in high school here in Florida. She arrives in another 2 weeks and we can't wait! We told her about the cruise for Christmas and she is super excited, although we aren't sure she really even understands what a Disney cruise is yet. LOL Last year we hosted a girl from Iceland, Eyrún, who LOVED the cruise. We did too. It is our 5th cruise on Disney, and even though we don't normally have kids with us, we still love it.

Can't wait to keep my eyes open and possibly meet some of you in less than 50 days!!!

-- Patty, Chris, and Jasi

Welcome! Exciting... lots of people to speak German with on this cruise.

Marla, we should definitely plan a group meet.

 

[mc2]

Can't wait to keep my eyes open and possibly meet some of you in less than 50 days!!!

46 days (?) ....not that I'm counting....

We would love to meet everyone as well - any ideas?

I'll be at the pier with my suitcases waiting to get on as soon as it docks again from the cruise before us - gotta get every possible second out of the cruise! Ok, so maybe not THAT early, but for sure aiming to be on the boat as soon as we possibly can

For those of you who are familiar with the PC area, is there a Disney store nearby? Also (and more importantly!) are there any stores nearby where you can buy a) summer clothes for kids, or b) summer clothes for women? Does the Walmart nearby stock summer clothes (and summer items like water shoes) all year long? Believe it or not, January is not the easiest time to try to find said clothes in rural (60 cm of snow last week) Nova Scotia!

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[DMMarla07860]

Welcome! Exciting... lots of people to speak German with on this cruise.

Marla, we should definitely plan a group meet.

well I know on the cruise after this one the group I'm with is having a meet at 3:00pm and that is usually when others I have went to have been so if that is good with people then that can be the time. at the promenade lounge if that is good. Or if someone else wants to suggest a different place and or time I'm ok with that it could even be depending on when everyone has dinner before or after the dinners or stuff

 

[stacieps]

For those of you who are familiar with the PC area, is there a Disney store nearby? Also (and more importantly!) are there any stores nearby where you can buy a) summer clothes for kids, or b) summer clothes for women? Does the Walmart nearby stock summer clothes (and summer items like water shoes) all year long? Believe it or not, January is not the easiest time to try to find said clothes in rural (60 cm of snow last week) Nova Scotia!

I don't think there is a Disney store in the PC area, but there is one in MCO if you are flying in there. In the Cocoa Beach/PC area there will be lots of shops with water shoes and such (beach kinds of stores, swim suits, bargain t-shirts, etc.). I haven't been to a Walmart over there, but if there is one, it should have summer type wear.

 

[DMMarla07860]

everytime I see a picture pop up on my computer I get more and more excited about this trip