From WDW to DL With Love - January 06, 2011 part 5

[Cindy Girl]

Well it seems many of us got this cold. I am just starting to feel like myself, Austin is still coughing a great deal, poor baby.

Anyway I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU! to everyone for the FE gifts and the postcards and the cards and gifts for Austins birthday. I can't tell ou how moved I was that people we had never "met" wold get our sweet boy gifts. I tell you he had a great birthday. It seemed everytime we came to the room another gift was there. He was so thrilled as was I. As I go through my bags I hope to get Thank you messages PM'd to all of you!

Thank you also to all of you who set up all of our events! I have never been on a cruise like this and it was you all who made it so special!!

We are signed up for the Aug 29th Wonder to Alaska and the Dec 29 Disney Dream (Kevin want to celebrate his 40th onboard ) Hopefully we will see some of you onboard!

Cindy Girl aka Jenn

 

[trekygirl26]

I am looking for an e-mail address for one of the room stewards. We were coming out of our room one day and one of the steward stopped us and asked us where we got our Donald Duck magnet. I told him found it on the internet and printed it out. He said his favorite character is Donald and he would love to have a copy of that picture. I said I would e-mail it to him and got his e-mail address. Well, it turns out that the e-mail address doesn't work. So i either wrote it down wrong, or he did.

Anyway, his name was Dragon and he was on deck 2 on the port side. Even if i can't get his e-mail address, is there any other way to get the picture to him? Can i mail it to the ship without knowing his last name? I hate to not try to get him the picture because he was so excited when i said i would e-mail it to him. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

 

[aan1701]

I am looking for an e-mail address for one of the room stewards. We were coming out of our room one day and one of the steward stopped us and asked us where we got our Donald Duck magnet. I told him found it on the internet and printed it out. He said his favorite character is Donald and he would love to have a copy of that picture. I said I would e-mail it to him and got his e-mail address. Well, it turns out that the e-mail address doesn't work. So i either wrote it down wrong, or he did.

Anyway, his name was Dragon and he was on deck 2 on the port side. Even if i can't get his e-mail address, is there any other way to get the picture to him? Can i mail it to the ship without knowing his last name? I hate to not try to get him the picture because he was so excited when i said i would e-mail it to him. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

I would call DCL and ask. Looks like we will be at food and wine at the same time.

 

[A Litle Pixie Dust]

We escaped the sickness, but other in our group did get it.

We plan to make several trips to San Pedro to see the Wonder off on Sundays... maybe be can set up a Dis Meet for one of them.

I miss our cabin steward....

That would be fun! COme watch Tori and I sail away in March too!

 

[RRBB]

Yes, they would have charged you $217 total and taped them together. DD broke 2 toes on the 2nd to last night at the Homecoming Ball in The Edge.

Loved the phones also!! And I agree Alan - texting was a pain. Cousins lost one of theirs mid cruise but it showed back up again. Whew.

Sorry so many are sick!!

Pin question - onboard I saw several lanyards with pins of many characters inside of a porthole. Each pin was a different character. Can anyone tell me if these were awarded for activities onboard or ?? I really liked them but did not see them for sale anywhere or when I was thinking about trading none of the cast members seemed to have them either. Thanks.

DH did get his foot checked out, and $140 later they told him it was just badly bruised. They sure do use expensive tape on the ship.

The pins you got were the $1. mystery pins. You should have had a choice of the $1 or $2 ones. All the $2 ones were the porthole pins. There were 6 in the set. I traded around to get a full set and was trying to get my grand-daughter a set. We got all of them for her except Pluto. I ended up with a couple extra stitches and a goofy is anyone needs them to complete their set.

DH collected LOTS of those $2 mystery pins. We ended up with at least a sets worth of extra Minnies.

I am looking for an e-mail address for one of the room stewards. We were coming out of our room one day and one of the steward stopped us and asked us where we got our Donald Duck magnet. I told him found it on the internet and printed it out. He said his favorite character is Donald and he would love to have a copy of that picture. I said I would e-mail it to him and got his e-mail address. Well, it turns out that the e-mail address doesn't work. So i either wrote it down wrong, or he did.

Anyway, his name was Dragon and he was on deck 2 on the port side. Even if i can't get his e-mail address, is there any other way to get the picture to him? Can i mail it to the ship without knowing his last name? I hate to not try to get him the picture because he was so excited when i said i would e-mail it to him. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

When talking to Christiaan one day, we mentioned we'd like to keep in touch with our server, that DD wanted to send him some pictures from home. Christiaan made sure we got a mailing address. At least right now everything goes through the Celebration office, but I wonder if now that the Wonder is permanently out in CA it will start going there instead.

Disney Cruise Line
Guest Relations
P.O. Box 10210
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-0210

 

[tinkryansmom]

Well that explains the porthole pins. Thanks. I was not given a choice of the $1 or $2 pins.

I with Alan on the sailaway watching. Too depressing. Can't wait for the itinerary announcement at the end of March!!

Robin - It is Disney tape! Our $217 included a set of xrays along with the fabulous tape!

Need to call the insurance company about that...I wonder which souvie suitcase that is in as I have not seen it yet...

Corinna - thank you for the zipper pull with the DCL colors and ships wheel charm. Where do you order the charms from? DD accidently slammed the charm in the car door and it broke I was wondering if I might find one stateside?

 

[emum]

First post back home - we arrived home to find our computer had died. Had to wait for new motherboard and various other bits and pieces before Dh could fix it.

Pixie dust means we have been reunited with our camera - yay !

Took me 5 days to get back to Sydney time - been waking up between 1-3am all week, and not able to go back to sleep (not helped by the HOT conditions at night !)

DS and I have been sick most of the week, too - just a cold, but given I had a chest infection for most of the trip, it's not what I've needed.

Just wanted to reiterate that we had a fabulous time on the cruise - hope to make it on one of the Alaskan cruises. we've got a P&O cruise in 10 weeks, and we're dreading it - we know from past experience that none of it will be a bar on what we've experienced with Disney

I hope to post some photos in the next week or so - we didn't join SmugMug, so I'll post them here.

Hope you all recover soon.

Cheers,
Sally

 

[PBader]

We arrived in San Diego yesterday afternoon after a great 4 nights at DL. Our studio at VGC was lovely with a great park view including World of Color. Bad part was the construction work below our window, waking John at 5am! We met some friends there and ate at Club 33, so all in all a fun weekend. Great weather too.

Been to USS Midway this morning and for a walk round too. What a super 'attraction' the Midway is, we both loved it. Now we are shattered!

Flying back over to Orlando on Friday for a few weeks. Really having a fantastic vacation.

The construction noise sure was a little inconvenient. But our view for WOC was awesome!

First post back home - we arrived home to find our computer had died. Had to wait for new motherboard and various other bits and pieces before Dh could fix it.

Pixie dust means we have been reunited with our camera - yay !

Took me 5 days to get back to Sydney time - been waking up between 1-3am all week, and not able to go back to sleep (not helped by the HOT conditions at night !)

DS and I have been sick most of the week, too - just a cold, but given I had a chest infection for most of the trip, it's not what I've needed.

Just wanted to reiterate that we had a fabulous time on the cruise - hope to make it on one of the Alaskan cruises. we've got a P&O cruise in 10 weeks, and we're dreading it - we know from past experience that none of it will be a bar on what we've experienced with Disney

I hope to post some photos in the next week or so - we didn't join SmugMug, so I'll post them here.

Hope you all recover soon.

Cheers,
Sally

Glad you got your camera back!


Thanks again Val for the Costa Rica day, it was a really nice day

Des, I didn't know you had the Walt for the 2 day!! How cool. I also just realized that we are on the 8/30 Alaska cruise with you all.

I hated to read that so many of you all have been ill. Luckily no problems with any of us.

 

[glindamood]

Happy Saturday all! I am looking forward to 2 days of downtime to fight off this cold - it is still a tie for Gail to cold but David has lost the battle and is pretty much a mess. Even with the creeping crud - it was an awesome trip. Thanks again to all that made it so special!

 

[sak0526]

Both of us got sick enough to go on antibiotics. Not sure how DD is doing but i think she is better or getting there. DH is getting over his chest/cough stuff and i just went on as it went to my ear. can't hear out of the infected one!!

we are on either carnival or royal caribean to bermuda after summer. dont know which as the company i work for is giving this to us. i'm excited to go to bermuda again, but 4 days at sea and 2 there, so i'm a bit nervous. going out of baltimore, so it's not even their better or bigger ships. cant imagine it'll be half of what disney is. but still looking forward to it. but i did make a tenatative for the dream in 2012.

 

[A Litle Pixie Dust]

Des, I didn't know you had the Walt for the 2 day!! How cool. I also just realized that we are on the 8/30 Alaska cruise with you all.

It was so much fun! It was a birthday gift We pretty much stayed in there all weekend except dinner. Just relaxed, napped and watched movies. People came to visit and see the suite. I will never be able to afford it for more then 2 nights!

So glad you will be with us in August! I was hoping to repo back to LA but drydock put that out of the question.

 

[RRBB]

My first layout from the cruise. Thanks SmugMug group for the small pics of the Dream. (I still haven't turned on the laptop with all my pics yet.)

 

[TxMermaid1]

http://photopost.wdwinfo.com/txmermaid1-panama-canal-cruise-2011/p62193-ducky1.html

 

[WDW Princess 71]

Hey Everyone! What an exhausting week it has been getting back to reality. I was so happy to finally be able to catch up on sleeping in today- I love sleeping in on weekends, but for the entire 3 week trip, I think we averaged rising at 8:00 AM, sometimes much earlier, and maybe once 9:00 AM, so it was lonnnnggg overdue for me to sleep in til noon today ; )

Mike and I had a great time. I still cant believe that we had amazing sunny, warm weather every day for 21 days, unbelievable. We LOVED our dinner table, sat with Corinna and Graham, and two other non-DIS couples- we were all so different but talked and laughed hysterically every night, and loved our server, Daniel- I agree with Corinna, he was by far the best we've ever had on our 4 cruises. Asst server you could tell was very new, and a bit slow in having my soda refilled especially for the first week, but he did get a little better and I'm sure with time will get the hang of it. The head server was also good, she came over almost every night to ask how things were going, if anything could be improved, etc, I liked how she really made her presence- on past cruises I havent even known who the HS was, so I really appreciated this and thought she earned her tip.

The pin thing was absolutely ridiculous, I dont need to reiterate everything that was already said other than that I will be writing a lengthy letter to DCL essentially summarzing that it was absurd that we had to waste hours of vacation time camping in lines on several days to get a pin after spending thousands of dollars on this trip. Each cabin should have been guaranteed at least one set, and then they could have let the obsessed people scramble for seconds if they wanted to. I am in what I would think is the majority of people who just wanted one for his/her own personal collection to look back on where we went, not for hoarding them to later sell, trade, or gasp, worry about them being 'devalued' if they actually made enough for everyone to be guaranteed one.

By far our best excursion was the Outdoor Adventure in PV, what an amazing experience. I never thought I would do anything like that, especially the rappelling down waterfalls! The guides were terrific, loved how it was a small group of 15 of us, loved that they took tons of pics, everything. It was a real winner. Worst excursion was Manzanillo's all inclusive Las Hadas resort- the resort was really nice, and we enjoyed it- but the absurd hour and a half drive that was supposed to be 30 mins nearly ruined the day. The worst part was that we were the 3rd of 3 buses, and we actually arrived by 1:30, but they refused to let us off the bus and walk the mere 50 yards to the lobby of the resort from the driveway. We had to wait on the bus for 45 mins while the 1st two buses unloaded and backed out in the tight driveway. Then, there was a total lack of communication between the tour guide in the hotel, as they had no idea we had to be back at the ship by 6:00, and yet we were supposed to have 4 hours there. Even the Port Adventures CM on our bus was confused. We ended up having a nice day but very short, we got back to the ship around 6:30, so we only had 3 hours there. Luckily, Anthony the manager at Port Adventures was very receptive to our feedback that we filled out on our form and spoke to him personally about, and we got a 50% refund which I was more than satisfied with. Hopefully they get more organized about that excursion because the resort was really great, just a shame it was so disorganized with the travel and arrival parts.

What did everyone think of the night in Aruba? Did anyone do anything really fun or just lay low?

 

[dolphingirl47]

Our very first cruise we never even met our head server and didn't know what he/she was even there for. Ever since though, we've made a point to get to know him/her. This cruise our head (Carina) went out of her way to do/get some special things for us so we tipped her nicely (and gave her a pin too, the one someone is selling on ebay .)

I think she was probably my least favourite of all the head servers we had. I don't know, there was something about her that gave me the creeps.

I think you are referring to the secret (might not have the correct word) pin you could purchase for $2 for every $30 of purchases. There were 6 different pins and you picked them out of a box, they were in black bags so you weren't suppose to tell what you were getting. At the beginning of the cruise the crew would let you take rubbings of the pins so you could tell which one was which, but then they were told not to allow that.

I wish I had known about those. Were they only available at Mickey's Mates? I seemed to have spent most of my money at Treasure Ketch this time round.

Corinna - thank you for the zipper pull with the DCL colors and ships wheel charm. Where do you order the charms from? DD accidently slammed the charm in the car door and it broke I was wondering if I might find one stateside?

I got them from a supplier in the UK. I actually need to reorder them as I will use them for the Fish Extender gifts for the boys for my next cruise. I need to send the name bracelet for Ryan anyway so I will add one of the wheel charms then.

My first layout from the cruise. Thanks SmugMug group for the small pics of the Dream. (I still haven't turned on the laptop with all my pics yet.)

I really like this.

Hey Everyone! What an exhausting week it has been getting back to reality. I was so happy to finally be able to catch up on sleeping in today- I love sleeping in on weekends, but for the entire 3 week trip, I think we averaged rising at 8:00 AM, sometimes much earlier, and maybe once 9:00 AM, so it was lonnnnggg overdue for me to sleep in til noon today ; )

Mike and I had a great time. I still cant believe that we had amazing sunny, warm weather every day for 21 days, unbelievable. We LOVED our dinner table, sat with Corinna and Graham, and two other non-DIS couples- we were all so different but talked and laughed hysterically every night, and loved our server, Daniel- I agree with Corinna, he was by far the best we've ever had on our 4 cruises. Asst server you could tell was very new, and a bit slow in having my soda refilled especially for the first week, but he did get a little better and I'm sure with time will get the hang of it. The head server was also good, she came over almost every night to ask how things were going, if anything could be improved, etc, I liked how she really made her presence- on past cruises I havent even known who the HS was, so I really appreciated this and thought she earned her tip.

The pin thing was absolutely ridiculous, I dont need to reiterate everything that was already said other than that I will be writing a lengthy letter to DCL essentially summarzing that it was absurd that we had to waste hours of vacation time camping in lines on several days to get a pin after spending thousands of dollars on this trip. Each cabin should have been guaranteed at least one set, and then they could have let the obsessed people scramble for seconds if they wanted to. I am in what I would think is the majority of people who just wanted one for his/her own personal collection to look back on where we went, not for hoarding them to later sell, trade, or gasp, worry about them being 'devalued' if they actually made enough for everyone to be guaranteed one.

By far our best excursion was the Outdoor Adventure in PV, what an amazing experience. I never thought I would do anything like that, especially the rappelling down waterfalls! The guides were terrific, loved how it was a small group of 15 of us, loved that they took tons of pics, everything. It was a real winner. Worst excursion was Manzanillo's all inclusive Las Hadas resort- the resort was really nice, and we enjoyed it- but the absurd hour and a half drive that was supposed to be 30 mins nearly ruined the day. The worst part was that we were the 3rd of 3 buses, and we actually arrived by 1:30, but they refused to let us off the bus and walk the mere 50 yards to the lobby of the resort from the driveway. We had to wait on the bus for 45 mins while the 1st two buses unloaded and backed out in the tight driveway. Then, there was a total lack of communication between the tour guide in the hotel, as they had no idea we had to be back at the ship by 6:00, and yet we were supposed to have 4 hours there. Even the Port Adventures CM on our bus was confused. We ended up having a nice day but very short, we got back to the ship around 6:30, so we only had 3 hours there. Luckily, Anthony the manager at Port Adventures was very receptive to our feedback that we filled out on our form and spoke to him personally about, and we got a 50% refund which I was more than satisfied with. Hopefully they get more organized about that excursion because the resort was really great, just a shame it was so disorganized with the travel and arrival parts.

What did everyone think of the night in Aruba? Did anyone do anything really fun or just lay low?

I am glad that you managed to get some resolution regarding your excursion in Manzanillo.

Corinna

 

[valbob89]

What did everyone think of the night in Aruba? Did anyone do anything really fun or just lay low?

We got of the ship that evening in Aruba and walked along the water edge to the Portside Casino. Most of the shops were closed. We wanted to see if we could find where we would get the sailboat the next day, which we did. The casino was filled with locals and we only stayed a short time. Everyone was very friendly. The captain of the sail boat we charterred told us that most of the action is on the other side of the island so there wasn't much to see or do near where the ship was docked.

Are any of you booked on the Wonder doing the Mexican Riveria? We've booked the October 30, Halloween cruise but the Disboard is not at all active yet. Due to the gang violence DCL and a few other cruise lines have removed Matzalan from their schedule so as of now they have the ship spending the night in Cabo instead. That is fine with me, although I am not crazy about tenderring I thought that was a beautiful place and won't mind exploring a bit more. It also looked like it has good night life.
Val

 

[valbob89]

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I wish I had known about those. Were they only available at Mickey's Mates? I seemed to have spent most of my money at Treasure Ketch this time round.

Corinna

Both stores had the por thole with charaters GWP pins but they didn't seem to advertise them, you had to ask. We have a few extras if you want them, a Mickey and Pluto for sure. We traded with a few people to get the six. Val

 

[dolphingirl47]

Are any of you booked on the Wonder doing the Mexican Riveria? We've booked the October 30, Halloween cruise but the Disboard is not at all active yet. Due to the gang violence DCL and a few other cruise lines have removed Matzalan from their schedule so as of now they have the ship spending the night in Cabo instead. That is fine with me, although I am not crazy about tenderring I thought that was a beautiful place and won't mind exploring a bit more. It also looked like it has good night life.
Val

We are booked on the October 2nd Mexican Riviera Cruise and don't mind spending two days in Cabo. We really liked this port. As to the nightlife, this won't do you much good. From what I heard they can't actually stay anchored over night. For those cruises that have two consecutive days in Cabo, all aboard on the first day is about 7 PM and then the Wonder is taken out to sea to return the next morning.

Corinna

 

[valbob89]

We are booked on the October 2nd Mexican Riviera Cruise and don't mind spending two days in Cabo. We really liked this port. As to the nightlife, this won't do you much good. From what I heard they can't actually stay anchored over night. For those cruises that have two consecutive days in Cabo, all aboard on the first day is about 7 PM and then the Wonder is taken out to sea to return the next morning.

Corinna

That is fine with me - I would stay onboard the entire time but for feeling I should take advantage of seeing a new place. Sorry you won't be on the Halloween cruise with us but look forward to hearing all about your cruise and taking advantage of your experience. By the time October comes around things might have changed again - for the better or worse in Mexico. I feel bad for the locals that make their living from the tourists.

 

[dolphingirl47]

Both stores had the por thole with charaters GWP pins but they didn't seem to advertise them, you had to ask. We have a few extras if you want them, a Mickey for sure. We traded with a few people to get the six. Val

That annoys me. Apart from some smaller purchases, I bought a Dooney and Bourke tassel purse. So if they allowed you to purchase one for every $30 spent, I could have bought 5 there and then and would have done had I known about this.

I would love to have one of any spares that you have. What characters did the set consist of? Is there anything from the UK that you might like so that we can set up a trade? Otherwise I am quite happy to Paypal you the money.

Corinna