February 27, 2010 Eastern Cruise on the Magic

[savin4WDW]

Hi all --

Wow, this is a busy thread! I'm going to have to stay up late tonight to read through it all. We'd like to join in, since we will be going on this cruise too -- hooray!

We are: me (Stacey), DH Evan, DD Jessica (7), and DD Samantha (4). We will be in cabin # 5520. We'll be staying offsite for a couple days at WDW before the trip.

And if it's not too late, we would love to join the FE too. We've been on one other Disney cruise (a 3-day on the Wonder), and my then 5-year old thought the FE was the best thing about the whole trip. She LOVED delivering the goodies, and then checking to see if we had gotten any. So, please -- sign us up!

We are so excited about this trip! It can't come soon enough.

 

[scrapycruiser]

Hi all --

Wow, this is a busy thread! I'm going to have to stay up late tonight to read through it all. We'd like to join in, since we will be going on this cruise too -- hooray!

We are: me (Stacey), DH Evan, DD Jessica (7), and DD Samantha (4). We will be in cabin # 5520. We'll be staying offsite for a couple days at WDW before the trip.

And if it's not too late, we would love to join the FE too. We've been on one other Disney cruise (a 3-day on the Wonder), and my then 5-year old thought the FE was the best thing about the whole trip. She LOVED delivering the goodies, and then checking to see if we had gotten any. So, please -- sign us up!

We are so excited about this trip! It can't come soon enough.

WELCOME, Savin4WDW !!

You are now officially MICKEY'S MAGICAL CASTAWAYS !!!


Yes, of course, you can join in on the FUN !!!

I will add you to our DISGroup and also to our FE List. I recently posted who all is doing the FE, how many cabins, how many adults and children & their ages.If we get more,I'll update that.
Our DisMeet is Sat, Feb 27, Embarkation Day at 3:00 in the Promenade Lounge. A map with it's location is posted. Maybe a few pages back.

I'm making name tags for everyone that has provided me names.

My name is Gina ( Scrapycruiser ) and I'll look forward to meeting your family !

I'll be adding you to our online list. You're already on my "home" list.

 

[scrapycruiser]

FISH EXTENDER EXCHANGE

Sam Kat Fam.........2 A ,2 C ( 2 girls, 6 & 8) / 2131
Big Turkey12..........1 A , 1 C (boy 14) / 2021
Feiste....................2 A 2 C (girls 12+9)
SeaShell 724........... 2 A / 2010
Pumpkin Princess..... 2 A , 2 C (boys 8+6) / 2129
ErieCruiser08...........2 A / 1050
Cowgirl0524.............4 A / 1052
Scrapycruiser...........2 A / 6140
Cindy......................1 A / 6142
lornak.....................1 A, 1 C (girl 11) / 6067
TalRay.....................2 A ,C (boy 8) / 8012
Savin4WDW..............2A , 2C ( girls 7 & 4 ) 5520

, 23 adults , 11 children ( 5 boys + 6 girls )


PLEASE let me know if this info is incorrect !

Also let me know if you'd like to be added to the FE Exchange list !

Deadline to sign up Feb 7.........this gives everyone time to purchase or make their gifts.
__________________

 

[scrapycruiser]

[/IMG]MASTER ROLL CALL

MICKEY'S MAGICAL CASTAWAYS
February 27, 2010

Hockey Mom KQ stateroom :
Party of 6 ,Mom,Dad,DS9,DS10,Mom's parents
Canada

Skats stateroom :
Party of 5
Canada


NoKidz stateroom :
Chris & Lori
Ontario,Canada
WDW precruise

Austin77 stateroom :
Andy& Ashley


Sam Kat Fam stateroom : 2131 FE
Andy & Becca & Samantha 8 & Katie 6
Northern California
WDW at AKL precruise
1st Cruise !
15th Anniversary


BigTurkey :stateroom 2021 : FE
Joanne & Josh 14
New Brunswick ,Canada
WDW at Pop Century precruise
1st Cruise !
2nd Seating


pjfreeman21 stateroom :
party of 6


Feiste stateroom : FE (Jennifer,Robert,Audrey,Grace)
party of 6
Jennifer,Robert,Audrey(12),Grace(9) , parents : Mary & Lee
Ypsilanti, Michigan
Orlando precruise


SeaShell 724 stateroom : 2010 FE
Reynold & Nikki
Manitoba,Canada
Hyatt MCO precruise
1st Cruise !


Spooner 11 stateroom
Family of 4
Karen,Justin,Hailey3,Ryan1 yr
Happy Birthday, Karen !
Congrats on finishing Grad School !
1st Seating Dining
Tues Dinner PALO
Rhode Island
WDW at Pop Century precruise

Pumpkin Princess stateroom : 2129 FE
Trevor, Leyah, Andrew 8, Ryan 6
Northern California


rahrah stateroom :
Rand & Michele
Massachusetts
Day 3 Palo Brunch
St Maarten : 8:45am Under 2 Flags Tour
St Thomas : 8am Coral World & Scenic Drive
WDW at Pop Century post cruise
4th Disney Cruise !
Celebrating passing bar exam !


peanutgirl stateroom :
Mom,Dad, DD12
New Brunswick,Canada
Hyatt MCO precruise


ErieCruiser08 stateroom: 1050 FE
Chris & Amy
Erie, PA
WDW at Pop Century precruise
2nd Seating


Scrapycruiser stateroom : 6140 FE
Bruce & Gina
Newport News,VA
Hyatt MCO precruise
6 Disney Cruises !
2nd Seating


CINDY stateroom 6142 FE
Newport News,VA
Hyatt MCO precruise
3 Disney Cruises
2nd Seating


Cowgirl0524 /SuperNervous Erie stateroom: 1052 FE
4 adults
Larry,Debbie,Greg,Bethany
Erie,PA
WDW at Pop Century
2nd Seating


lornak stateroom: 6067 FE
Mom and DD Olivia 11
northern Minnesota
WDW at Pop Century precruise
Early seating


Silv01 stateroom:
Norma & Brian, Sabrina7 & Julia5
MCO Hyatt- pre cruise
WDW - post cruise
Early Dining




ele2girls


Duck Tape 2 : 6540
Mom,DS8, DS5
______________
mobopolo : Cat 10 GTY FE?
DH, DW, DS10, DS6
Alaska


TALRAY FE , Stateroom : 8012
Talena ,Kurt, Ethan 8
Bend, OR
PreCruise : 5 Days WDW



ELA KID
Richard & Laura
Guillermo "Memo" (19)
Sebastian "Sebi" (9)
From AZ by way of CA & Mexico


IndyDisneyFan : 8092, upgrade !
Laura& DH
*16th Anniversary*
PreCruise-POFQ at WDW
PostCruise-BCV at WDW


Nette : Cat 6 Guar
Mom-Dad-DD7


ccdunn :
Chris & Char
Colorado
1st Disney Cruise
10 th Anniversary !!


sitchu2 : 6019
Robert, Felicia, DD Caitlyn (14)
central NJ shore
10th Disney cruise
prior : WDW, BLT Villas
post : WDW, Pop Century & HHI


Savin4WDW : 5520 FE
Stacey, Evan, Jessica (7 ), Samantha (4 )


BACI
Erland, Anne, Isabella 7



Party of 3
DW, DH, Allie 9 ( Birthday!)



IRISH COWBOY

 

[savin4WDW]

WELCOME, Savin4WDW !!

You are now officially MICKEY'S MAGICAL CASTAWAYS !!!


Yes, of course, you can join in on the FUN !!!

I will add you to our DISGroup and also to our FE List. I recently posted who all is doing the FE, how many cabins, how many adults and children & their ages.If we get more,I'll update that.
Our DisMeet is Sat, Feb 27, Embarkation Day at 3:00 in the Promenade Lounge. A map with it's location is posted. Maybe a few pages back.

I'm making name tags for everyone that has provided me names.

My name is Gina ( Scrapycruiser ) and I'll look forward to meeting your family !

I'll be adding you to our online list. You're already on my "home" list.

Terrific! I'm going to get right to work on our FE items!

And I'm going to do my best to get us onboard in time for the DisMeet, but it will require me to hurry my DH through his lunch at Mama Melrose's, so we'll see how that goes. He's not one to give up on warm chocolate truffle cake easily!

Looking forward to seeing you -- soon!

 

[scrapycruiser]

Fun time ahead !!! Enjoy that cake !

Does anyone know how to paste an image on here? I copied and tried to paste our logo onto the Master List but no luck. If anyone knows how, could you go ahead and do it if you have the logo in your computer.

 

[bigturkey12]

josh and i are so excited for our first cruise ever and its with the mouse.
however watching the news its seems not quite right for us to have this wonderful vacation when so many lives have been lost, so many people have lost everything, and so many are homeless and starving. in situations like this does dcl ever start a fundraising campaign from all the people that set sail with them in the caribbean to help all those that need it in the caribbean.
im sure like us many of you folks have donated but i certainly would again on the ship. just think that many cabins by that many cruises times a small donation would add up to be so much help for these people. anyway just thinking out loud. anyone else is welcome to think outloud with me

 

[scrapycruiser]

I certainly agree that it's hard,sometimes, to see what's going on in Haiti without feeling a little guilty about planning for a cruise. I heard this weekend that RCI will continue stopping in Labadee ( Haiti). The Haitian gov said they need the money so RCI should continue to stop. I don't think I could relax on the beach knowing how many closeby were suffering !

I ,actually wondered myself if DCL would be having some kind of fundraising. I know one of the cruise lines has a walk-a-thon around the deck to raise money for breast cancer.

I am very proud of my oldest son. He is making plans to go to Haiti. He is an Orthopedic surgeon.

 

[bigturkey12]

I certainly agree that it's hard,sometimes, to see what's going on in Haiti without feeling a little guilty about planning for a cruise. I heard this weekend that RCI will continue stopping in Labadee ( Haiti). The Haitian gov said they need the money so RCI should continue to stop. I don't think I could relax on the beach knowing how many closeby were suffering !

I ,actually wondered myself if DCL would be having some kind of fundraising. I know one of the cruise lines has a walk-a-thon around the deck to raise money for breast cancer.

I am very proud of my oldest son. He is making plans to go to Haiti. He is an Orthopedic surgeon.

it is awesome when someone goes to help in an emergency. that is putting action to words. you should be very proud of him

we received our magical express tickets last night
we also have booked an 8:00am magical express from the pop to the airport on feb 27. it is becoming very real now

35 day till we leave for bangor. we are beside ourselves with excitement

 

[feiste]

ATTENTION !

MICKEY'S MAGICAL CASTAWAYS


I'm making name tags for everyone for our DisMeet, but I still need some names :


Feista- parents' names

We are going out-of-town Jan 21-25 to Houston to see Liam, our new Grandson !! He's 4 weeks old, born Dec 20 and I can't wait !!!

When I get back ,I'll print out the FE update . If anyone gets their cabin assignments and are planning to do the FE ,please let me know.

Reminder : Feb 7 is our FE deadline !!

Hi again! Mom's name is Mary, dad's name is Lee. The last name is the same as my user name - Feiste (E at the end not A)

Thanks!

 

[feiste]

My daughters (12 and 9) are looking for friends to email prior to the cruise. We have done this on many of our past cruises, and my daughters still keep in touch with their cruise buddies. If anyone has kids that would be interested in this PM me. I can give you their email, or you can give me yours, whatever you prefer.

5 weeks from today we leave!!!

 

[feiste]

For what it's worth, on three of our four cruises Disney movies were premiering in theaters while we were cruising. All of those movies also premiered on board, at midnight of opening day. I am very hopeful that this trend will continue for "Alice in Wonderland", and if it does we WILL be at the midnight viewing!

Has anyone besides me wondered what it would feel like if there was an earthquake in the vicinity of the ship while you were sailing? I can't get the thought out of my head

How long does it take to receive passes if you complete the service for the "get a day passes?" It might be worth trying, but I'm not sure if I'm too late.


What time will everyone be arriving at the port on Saturday? We will be there bright and early, hoping to get one of the first boarding passes...

 

[bigturkey12]

For what it's worth, on three of our four cruises Disney movies were premiering in theaters while we were cruising. All of those movies also premiered on board, at midnight of opening day. I am very hopeful that this trend will continue for "Alice in Wonderland", and if it does we WILL be at the midnight viewing!

Has anyone besides me wondered what it would feel like if there was an earthquake in the vicinity of the ship while you were sailing? I can't get the thought out of my head

How long does it take to receive passes if you complete the service for the "get a day passes?" It might be worth trying, but I'm not sure if I'm too late.


What time will everyone be arriving at the port on Saturday? We will be there bright and early, hoping to get one of the first boarding passes...

we are doing our volunteering on saturday coming. we are officially signed up with the program. the spca where we are volunteering will be verifying our time on sunday.from what ive read we will be getting our email from disney approx 2 weeks from verification. we should be fine to use it this trip.
we are hoping to get the first bus from mco. we have an 8am transfer booked from the pop century. want lots of pictures out and in the terminal
of the ship with the characters. need i say more. im 44 going on 6 and loving every minute of it. looking forward to meeting everyone

 

[Duck Tape 2]

Fellow Magical Castaways:
I have been reading quite a few posts on these boards and have heard a lot of stories about not-so-successful pairings in the dining rooms. One poster mentioned that he had the most luck by arranging table companions through these boards prior to departure. So I thought I would give it a try.

Common issues seem to be whether one drinks or not, current stage in life (i.e. no kids, retired, small kids, etc.), and of course, willingness to participate in conversation with table mates. My story is that I do enjoy wine with dinner and will also probably partake of a frozen adult beverage or two by the pool during the day time. I have two small boys traveling with me, ages 8 and 5. DH will be joining us for further adventures after the cruise. And since I'm writing all this, you've probably already figured out that I'm a willing participant in table conversation.

I am currently in the early seating but would be willing to switch to the late seating - and am considering it anyway.

Would any of our fellow Castaways be willing to be table mates with us?

Looking forward to it - it's getting really close!

 

[nokidz]

Ok, are you ready. No, really ready??????

Mickey's MAGIC'al Castaways have.......1,2,3,4,5 Fridays til our cruise!!!

Can you beleive it??!!??

 

[ErieCruiser08]

We are getting so excited!!! Our Magical Express info and luggage tags came a couple days ago for the 2 nights prior we are staying at WDW. Soon our cruise docs should be arriving too!!!

I read on a thread on the cruiseline boards that all DCL Feb. cruises are sold out! Wow! I guess we are all lucky we booked early enough!

 

[mobopolo]

I also read on here somewhere, that they are allowing the kids to move around too different clubs? Due to siblings, cousins, and maturity/activity levels. I could be wrong? I think it's a great idea.

 

[baci]

Hello, I just tried to price the cruise for our friends and they said our cruise is completly sold out !!! Someone is making money in this economy ! Go Disney Cruise Line !


Yes I heard they are allowing the kids to move around to the different areas if they wish I think its great !

Countdown !!!!!!

 

[Silv01]

Hi,
Not sure if there is a place I am suposed to put in this info so I am going to place it here for the list of Disboard members on the cruise:
We are 2 Adults (Wife and Husband) Norma & Brian and 2 daughters: Sabrina - 7 and Julia - 5. We are at the Hyatt Orlando Airport the night before and staying a couple of days at WDW after the cruise. We have early dinner seating.

We have some questions that I am hoping people can help out on:

We have a reservation at Palo's on the St. Maarten night. What happens with the kids for dinner (we have an early reservation)?

We have not booked any excursion for St.Maarten. what have others booked or suggest?

What is meant by Formal and semi-Formal dress - I take it one night is formal dinner and one is semi formal but all others are casual?

Thanks

 

[Nette]

Hi,
Not sure if there is a place I am suposed to put in this info so I am going to place it here for the list of Disboard members on the cruise:
We are 2 Adults (Wife and Husband) Norma & Brian and 2 daughters: Sabrina - 7 and Julia - 5. We are at the Hyatt Orlando Airport the night before and staying a couple of days at WDW after the cruise. We have early dinner seating.

We have some questions that I am hoping people can help out on:

We have a reservation at Palo's on the St. Maarten night. What happens with the kids for dinner (we have an early reservation)?

We have not booked any excursion for St.Maarten. what have others booked or suggest?

What is meant by Formal and semi-Formal dress - I take it one night is formal dinner and one is semi formal but all others are casual?

Thanks

Welcome!

On your PALO night, you can either feed the girls early and then leave them at the club, or (easier) you can take them to the club in time for the club counselors to take them to dinner at Topsiders (someone correct me if I have the wrong buffet name)...

We've booked the French Riviera Beach Break for St. Maarten, but I'm not convinced we'll keep it. Might change it to the Afternoon Beach Break or the Catamaran snorkeling thing... I wanted to do the Downhill Rainforest Trek, but it appears it is booked up. I guess I'm concerned that the water will be tooooooo cold for me.

Formal is Black Tie... but not mandatory. You'll see people in all kinds of clothes every night. Cruise casual is basically no shorts or tank tops in the dining rooms... Capri's are fine for ladies, and nice shorts are ok for kids. There is a lot of debate about whether jeans are permissible in the dining rooms... we've never done jeans at dinner. PALO requires at least a shirt and tie for men, I believe.