February 26, 2011 - 7 Night Caribbean Sailing

[Hendy Clan]

woohoo! we are booked on the Magic. Counting down the days to February. I would like to join in on the FE, but not sure what to do, can someone explain what you have to do. DH, myself, DS (16), DS (15) and DS (11) will be cruising. This will be our 2nd Disney Cruise, we went on the western a few years ago and loved it. The best vacation ever

 

[Alexis Green]

Hey Hendy Clan!

Welcome on board!! FEs are really fun and we hope to have a lot of people join in. If you take a look at this link you'll see what it's all about.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1219607

 

[Hendy Clan]

I was talking with my mom last night about parking and hotels etc and remembered people talking about being able to park your car at Country Inn and Suites and then taking the shuttle to the port. I was thinking this would be perfect and I could get a car service to the hotel Friday night, my folks could drive in Friday night and we could all take the shuttle over in the morning to the cruise terminal. So I go look and there are not rooms available for Feb 25th.

Anyone else have any suggstions for good hotels by the port that you could leave your car for a week?

ETA I have also checked radisson and residence and same result? What is up?

I also looked into booking a hotel at the port for the night before and the closest we could get was at the airport. Decided to book one night at the Contemporary so instead of driving from MD on Friday we are going down on Thursday and spending Friday at the MK, our vacation increased by a day.

 

[Hendy Clan]

Hey Hendy Clan!

Welcome on board!! FEs are really fun and we hope to have a lot of people join in. If you take a look at this link you'll see what it's all about.

Thank you for the link it was very helpful. We would like to join and will let you know the room #'s when I look up the reservations.

For those interested tomorrow morning at 7am on the Travel channel they are showing a program about Disney Cruise Line and following that a show about WDW Resorts.

 

[wld4mky]

I haven't started to find things for FEs yet. What date does everyone want for a deadline to sign up? We've only got a few so far so please let me know if you want to be added!

The last one I participated in had a 1 month precruise date. So what do you think about Dec. 31/10 Just a thought.

 

[wld4mky]

Hey Hendy Clan!

Welcome on board!! FEs are really fun and we hope to have a lot of people join in. If you take a look at this link you'll see what it's all about.

Thank you for the link it was very helpful. We would like to join and will let you know the room #'s when I look up the reservations.

For those interested tomorrow morning at 7am on the Travel channel they are showing a program about Disney Cruise Line and following that a show about WDW Resorts.

Thanks for the tip.

 

[Alexis Green]

Thank you for the tip Hendy. I put it all on my dvr! Can't wait to watch them.

I think December 31st would be a good deadline, what does everyone else think? Do people want more time?

 

[peachygreen]

Dec 31st is probably a good time. We might want to push it at least a week to give people a chance to get back into life after Christmas holiday's and start thinking about their cruise and not Christmas to decide.

I am mostly likely going to participate, but I will probably waffle until then. LOL By then I will have a good idea on how well my sewing for my DDs is going and if I'll have time/$$ to think about FE. But the sewing is going well right now. I have 3-1/2 outfits for each girl finished. Only 8 or so each to go.

Oh and I figured out why I was having such a hard time getting a hotel. The last shuttle is scheduled to launch on the 26th of February. I'll believe the launch date when I see it. I did manage to get 2 rooms at the port but if the launch date slips I will be looking to see if I can book a better rate.

Flights are all booked too now. I ended up deciding to drive an hour to Austin to save about $400 for our plane tickets over flying out of Houston. Ironically one of my options for that price would have put me on the same plane in and out of Houston. Crazy. Oh well its only an extra hour to the airport and the return flight schedule was better anyway. Plus I was still able to get direct flights.

We also have an appt to get the girls their passports on the 23rd. So everything is moving right along.

I really hope we get some new Navigator's now that the Magic is back in Florida. 1st Eastern of the season in 1 week and 2 days.

19 weeks until we leave for Florida!

 

[nokidz]

HI all!!!!
My wife and I are booked on this cruise as well. Guess what??? We are CANADIAN!!!! This will be our 6th cruise. As it stands now, it is just the two of us. ut with the Canadian discount, we may be adding all our kids, theres a lot dispite my screen name, and the mother-in-law and a few extras. In total, there could be upwards of 12 of us......
We did this exact cruise last Feb. Talk to you all soon......

 

[wld4mky]

Welcome aboard!!! The more the merrier! We are from the Fonthill/Pelham area. Can't wait to be escaping the winter for this cruise!

 

[Time4disneynow]

Hello everyone.

My name is Monika and my husband Michael and I will be cruising with you. Looking forward to chatting with you and meeting you.

This will be our 6th Disney cruise. We were on the DVC members cruise just last month. Will be at WDW in early December. Just can't get enough of Disney.

We would love to participate in the FE gift exchange...they are so much fun!!!!

Take care.

 

[Alexis Green]

Welcome nokidz, Monika and Michael! We are getting so many people together!! I have updated the front page for those of you who want to do FEs. January 8th is the cut off date for signing up. We want to give everyone time to make/find things.

We have 4 months and 5 days until we sail!! How exciting is this?!!

It also looks like this will be a big birthday cruise, maybe we can put something together one night for all those celebrating a birthday? Let me know.

Cassie

 

[Hendy Clan]

We were excited to find out that the Space Shuttle Endeavor was due to launch on February 26th for it's final mission. Well we just discovered that NASA has moved it back a day to February 27th Too bad we will miss a little bit of history being made. My boys were looking forward to seeing this. I remember when the first one was launched. I lived in England at that time and it seemed the whole country stopped to watch history being made. Hopefully we will get a chance to see it on the launch pad at least.

Now I know why we couldn't find a hotel at the Port for the Friday night. We are now traveling down from Maryland on Thursday night and staying at the BLT with a day at the MK so all is good

 

[peachygreen]

I keep hoping with the shuttle day slipping a day that room rates might 1) open up and 2)drop in price. We have 2 rooms at the Sharaton but it is very pricey.

I would have loved to see the shuttle launch. I saw several launches from a distance when I used to live in Florida but it would have been awesome to see it that close.

 

[Time4disneynow]

Good Morning...

That's really too bad that NASA moved the launch to the 27th, I was looking forward to seeing the shuttle launch as well. Oh well...

Have a great day and take care.

 

[Time4disneynow]

Hi all....hope you're having a good day. Take care and enjoy your week.

 

[zaz]

Hi everyone,

Another Cnd family to board the Magic on the 26th of February.

It's our first cruise ever; and of course the first one on DCL. I'm busy ready this forum as I know nothing at all and won't want to miss out on anything.

I am zaz (34), sailing with my DH (36), DD (12) and DD (3). We'll be in cabin 1047.. at the very bottom of the ship.

This is all new to me, so I'll try and figure it all out in the next few days!!

Thanks!

 

[Time4disneynow]

zaz and

This will be our 6th Disney cruise. Just can't get enough. Looking forward to chatting with you and meeting you.

 

[Hendy Clan]

Welcome Zaz and family

This will be our 2nd cruise with DCL, we did the western cruise a few years ago and I cannot believe it has taken us this long to book another one. It was the best vacation we had ever taken. I know they say you shouldn't wish your life away, but I'm counting down the days. We live in Maryland, but my DH and myself are originally from the UK, north of London.

On our last cruise we had the late dining and our two youngest who were 5 and 9 had a hard time staying awake for this so I would keep checking for openings on the main dining if you all want to eat together. We are booked for the main dining time, but have been thinking about switching to the later one as our boys are so much older now. If we do decide to do this I will post on here first in case you want to contact DCL to possibly get the change. What is everyone else doing?

 

[Hendy Clan]

Our room #'s are 7008 and 7009, but the Fish Extender will be on 7008. We will be celebrating two birthdays on the cruise.

DS turns 15 on February 9th and DS turns 12 on March 26th so we picked a cruise between the two dates to celebrate.