First Ever DISUnplugged Podcast Cruise 5/10/2009

[chirurgeon]

Rules are that the rum must pass through inspections before it can be brought into your stateroom. Drop it off in front of Stateroom 7007. After careful sampling (for purity and alcohol content), the remainder will be returned to your stateroom before the very end of the cruise. You will be responsible for disposal of the empty bottles yourself.

Inspectors prefer that you package your rum WITH a bag of fresh mint and several limes, to speed the inspection process.

These inspectors can be very overworked, so a second drop off will be located at stateroom 7567. This inspector prefers the rum to be accompanied by bottles of Pepsi.


Kim

 

[scarlett873]

Rules are that the rum must pass through inspections before it can be brought into your stateroom. Drop it off in front of Stateroom 7007. After careful sampling (for purity and alcohol content), the remainder will be returned to your stateroom before the very end of the cruise. You will be responsible for disposal of the empty bottles yourself.

Inspectors prefer that you package your rum WITH a bag of fresh mint and several limes, to speed the inspection process.

These inspectors can be very overworked, so a second drop off will be located at stateroom 7567. This inspector prefers the rum to be accompanied by bottles of Pepsi.


Kim

Wow...these poor inspectors sound so overworked!


Wow...we're all gonna be incredibly DRUNK on this cruise, aren't we?

 

[pershing]

Too funny! I just read these last four pages and am like what the heck is going on?!! Panty Raids? Stalkers outside the Roy and Walt Disney Suite (although, I really hope the Podcrew lets us peek inside at least once, myself.) and Rum Purification Inspectors? (my bottle of coconut rum will be very pure, I assure you! )

Oh, and welcome aboard scarlett873!

I, too, am looking forward to that podcast dedicated to only the Podcruise Cruise. I'm starting to get the I've got to plan itch for this trip!

I've really thought about leaving my kids home more than a couple of times as I really don't want them to miss school in May. And it's during the worst time really. When the Massachusetts state tests are given (MCAS). On the brighter side, the kids normally don't have any homework during that time so they won't have that much make up work. It's just that as a single mom, it would be much more work for me to find someone to care for the them than to deliver them into the DCL club/labs! Which they love!

I've never been to the adult only beach at Castaway Cay and I've never done Palo's brunch or exercised in the fitness room to see that view Kevin talks about. (or was it John?) Or gone to any of the night clubs on DCL.

I wanna get to some of those this time. Usually, being able to relax, swim, and read a book by the pool is the golden miracle Disney has wrought by taking my children away and handing me a pager that can so easily be accidentally dropped in the pool! ...Just kidding!...well sort of...anyway I have just one question...

what's a cistern????

ok, back to reading. You guys crack me up!

 

[kab407]

Rules are that the rum must pass through inspections before it can be brought into your stateroom. Drop it off in front of Stateroom 7007. After careful sampling (for purity and alcohol content), the remainder will be returned to your stateroom before the very end of the cruise. You will be responsible for disposal of the empty bottles yourself.

Inspectors prefer that you package your rum WITH a bag of fresh mint and several limes, to speed the inspection process.

These inspectors can be very overworked, so a second drop off will be located at stateroom 7567. This inspector prefers the rum to be accompanied by bottles of Pepsi.


Kim

You two crack me up!

 

[mommyceratops]

Hey! That's a GREAT idea! Kim ALWAYS gets her emails/voicemails answered! Maybe I should just get Kim to ask for us so we can actually get some planning done - we do only have 11 months to plan this thing after all!

Not always.....Do you know how many I send that don't get read? I am marked as spam. But I am Kevin's BFF sooooo...... Oh fine, I will call them in for you!

Actually, it is my boys that have gotten read. My voicemail of the Donald Breakfast got on when I reviewed it.

Why, I just used my feminine wiles, of course!


Well, and I whined a lot!

:

Hey, whining works for me too!

 

[calypso*a*go-go]

This inspector prefers the rum to be accompanied by bottles of Pepsi.

Oh yeah...well *this* inspector prefers the rum to be accompanied by bottles of RUM (just consider us "Special Forces" -- the baddest of the bad!).

 

[scarlett873]

Ok..so we can bring booze on board. I guess that'll help!

I'm going to be sooooo drunk that I won't remember the cruise! But is this such a bad thing?

Has anyone ever done or heard of a wine package? I was perusing the cruise board and saw something about this. Anyone got any information about it?

Also, anyone know how much the Fairy Tale Cuvee would cost per bottle?

 

[UrsulasShadow]

Ok..so we can bring booze on board. I guess that'll help!

I'm going to be sooooo drunk that I won't remember the cruise! But is this such a bad thing?

Has anyone ever done or heard of a wine package? I was perusing the cruise board and saw something about this. Anyone got any information about it?

Also, anyone know how much the Fairy Tale Cuvee would cost per bottle?

Fairy Tale Cuvee is $62 a bottle. Every wine they offer is about 4X what you would pay at a liquor store, or more in some cases.

And I hope everyone gets embarrassingly drunk, because I intend to bring a camera and blackmail everyone later. Just so you know...

My evil plan is to walk around with a soda water with a lime and some mint leaves, make everyone think I'm drunk, take your incriminating photos, steal all your rum, package up my future SIL and disembark, and make you all support me to keep me from posting, whilst sitting in front of my computer drinking YOUR rum! MWWAAAAAHAHAaaaaaaa!

 

[Launchpad11B]

Who knew? Ursala's Shadow is an evil genius. Complete with the evil laugh and code name!!

 

[kab407]

Fairy Tale Cuvee is $62 a bottle. Every wine they offer is about 4X what you would pay at a liquor store, or more in some cases.

And I hope everyone gets embarrassingly drunk, because I intend to bring a camera and blackmail everyone later. Just so you know...

My evil plan is to walk around with a soda water with a lime and some mint leaves, make everyone think I'm drunk, take your incriminating photos, steal all your rum, package up my future SIL and disembark, and make you all support me to keep me from posting, whilst sitting in front of my computer drinking YOUR rum! MWWAAAAAHAHAaaaaaaa!

So to what off-shore account do I start sending to????

 

[winotracy]

Ok..so we can bring booze on board. I guess that'll help!

I'm going to be sooooo drunk that I won't remember the cruise! But is this such a bad thing?

Has anyone ever done or heard of a wine package? I was perusing the cruise board and saw something about this. Anyone got any information about it?

Also, anyone know how much the Fairy Tale Cuvee would cost per bottle?

Fairy Tale Cuvee on the ship is $52 a bottle (plus tip) or $11 a glass (plus tip). I'm not sure if tax is charged on the wines at all or not.

The wine package for a four night cruise is $111 (plus tip) for the classic package or $174 for the premium package. This is for four bottles. The Iron Horse Brut is on the Premium package.

We don't do the package because the wines that we drink either aren't on the list or are a lower cost and cost more on the list because of that or just aren't discounted. The kind we were interested on our last cruise was a red that wasn't on the list and a white that was priced at $28 a bottle. With the classic package, basically each bottle costs $28. If you get something off the list you get a credit of $28 towards that purchase so the price of the wine wasn't a discount for us. It just depends what you are interested in.

With the Iron Horse Brut Fairy Tale Cuvee, you are much better off doing the package if you are drinking that one or something comparably priced (four bottles outside of the package would be $208 and hte package is $174).

 

[UrsulasShadow]

Oops...should have put my bifocals on when reading the wine list...$52 is right. Just ask Tracy.

 

[Disneybridein2k3]

Ok..so we can bring booze on board. I guess that'll help!

I'm going to be sooooo drunk that I won't remember the cruise! But is this such a bad thing?

Has anyone ever done or heard of a wine package? I was perusing the cruise board and saw something about this. Anyone got any information about it?

Also, anyone know how much the Fairy Tale Cuvee would cost per bottle?

I'm not a big fan of the Fairy Tale BUT we did try a wonderful wine recommended to us by one of our favorite servers (Sasha) in Palo - Gaierhof Moscato Giallo Trentino. The description says it is a sweet dessert wine but since I only like sweet wines anyway (no one has ever accused me of being a wine connoisseur!), it went down great with my dinner And if you buy it by the bottle like we did, you can have them send it to your next restaurant. I can't recall the price but it was cheaper than the Curvee.

 

[winotracy]

I'm not a big fan of the Fairy Tale BUT we did try a wonderful wine recommended to us by one of our favorite servers (Sasha) in Palo - Gaierhof Moscato Giallo Trentino. The description says it is a sweet dessert wine but since I only like sweet wines anyway (no one has ever accused me of being a wine connoisseur!), it went down great with my dinner And if you buy it by the bottle like we did, you can have them send it to your next restaurant. I can't recall the price but it was cheaper than the Curvee.

I Gaierhof Moscato Giallo Trentino!!! I found it locally and have a bottle in my wine cellar (yes, I have a wine cellar). It really wasn't as expensive on the ship as I expected it to be. It was around $20 locally.

There is nothing wrong with liking sweet wines. I love sweet wines. In fact, a section of my wine cellar is all dessert wines. I have a lot of ports and a lot of late harvest wines, plus a few ice wines.

 

[robind]

There is nothing wrong with liking sweet wines. I love sweet wines. In fact, a section of my wine cellar is all dessert wines. I have a lot of ports and a lot of late harvest wines, plus a few ice wines.

Have you guys tried a white port, you don't see it very often and I had never heard of it. I was in Brussels with some friends and one of their friends bought a round and it was very good. I'm not a big wine drinker but it was nice. I found out later it was very expensive so I was glad someone else was buying.

 

[winotracy]

Have you guys tried a white port, you don't see it very often and I had never heard of it. I was in Brussels with some friends and one of their friends bought a round and it was very good. I'm not a big wine drinker but it was nice. I found out later it was very expensive so I was glad someone else was buying.

Never heard of it. I'll have to check it out!

 

[chirurgeon]

To be perfectly honest, I am not much of a drinker. I do like the occasional rum and cola or Long Island Ice Tea. And I am not a wine drinker. I can drink white Zinfandel. As far as wines go I think that is sweet and I have wanted to try ice wine. Maybe all of you can educate me on the cruise.

Kim

 

[scarlett873]

I used to not really care much for wine. Slowly, I discovered that the white zins were ok. over the last few years, i've come to realize that I like chardonnays and i've recently discovered pinot noir isn't too bad either! I'm slowly coming around...

If you were surprising someone with the cruise, how would you break the news at Christmas? I know someone who's wanting to surprise someone else with the cruise as a Christmas gift. I've got some ideas to help out...but wondered if you had any thoughts. Also, Tracy...is there anything that you would be able to suggest to show some kind of documents? I know we don't get the actual docs until right before the cruise, but is there something other than the print out confirmation that you could suggest? Or Kevin? Or anyone? lol

 

[robind]

If you were surprising someone with the cruise, how would you break the news at Christmas? I know someone who's wanting to surprise someone else with the cruise as a Christmas gift. I've got some ideas to help out...but wondered if you had any thoughts. Also, Tracy...is there anything that you would be able to suggest to show some kind of documents? I know we don't get the actual docs until right before the cruise, but is there something other than the print out confirmation that you could suggest? Or Kevin? Or anyone? lol

Several years ago, I did that for my mom. The TA I had at the time gave us one of those photo albums that the front is a picture frame. It said something about AAA on it. But I got an adhesive backed metal piece from Things Remembered and had them engrave the name of the ship and the dates and attached it over the AAA logo. I then clipped out the itinerary of the ship from the cruise brochure and put that in the frame and wrapped the photo album up. She didn't have long to wait, we went on Jan 8th.

The kind of sad thing was - this was the christmas that the east coast was pummled by an ice/snow storm and we had no power. The christmas tree was in front of our big picture window, so it was really dark in the house. So, she couldn't really read the little print on the itinerary, so I had to tell her what it was, so some of the 'surprise/shock' wasn't there.

That is a great gift - ours was a 3 night cruise and we were hooked. This was 1999 I think and we went on five more cruises after than. I wish she could go with me on this one, she always wanted to do a disney cruise. Oh well, she is going in my heart.

Oh, one other thing I did on one cruise, I like to vacation on/around my birthday, so we were on a cruise on my birthday one year. I had gotten my mom and I matching diamond and silver lockets and I had her's engraved with the name of the ship and the date (my birthday). I gave it to her at dinner the night of my birthday. So they could do something like that with a pendent or charm.

 

[scarlett873]

Just sent off for our quote! Hoping to snag the cabin that we want on the deck that we want!! I will be ready to put down our deposit tomorrow! I am sooooo excited!!

Our friends haven't made a final decision as of yet, but we can always move things around later if need be. It looks like we'll have another couple in our party, but they are non-DISers and I can't say much else here. I don't want to spoil the surprise just in case they happen to be DISers on the sly...lol! I'm pretty sure they aren't, but you never know...