How do you gift wrap a Disney Cruise?

[MCourtney]

Need your assistance fellow DISers! DH and I are giving his mother and her boyfriend a DCL cruise in August '08 for Christmas. Already have cabin assignment, etc.

Now... how do I wrap this present?? I would like for them to be able to unwrap it on Christmas. I would prefer to have 2 separate gifts for each, but could do it as one if needed.

I have 2 leftover Tinkerbell luggage tags I can use ...... but my creativity seems to be zapped out right now, and I just can't come up with anything else. All thoughts and ideas are very much appreciated!!!!

 

[Im_A_Princess]

You could give them each 1/2 of a picture of the boat. ?
Clues are always fun.
With our kids we did a treasure hunt with clues and the "Cruise Golden Ticket" was hidden in a small treasure chest.
It was a Christmas Gift. Everyones present had a clue (2 gifts each I think it was).

 

[nzdisneymom]

How 'bout printing out the letters to spell DISNEY CRUISE and then giving half of each word to each of them? You could do the letters on card-stock so they'd be sturdy. Then they have to put their letters together and unscramble them to spell out DISNEY CRUISE.

What an awesome gift!

We're surprising our children with a Disney Cruise next December - so far I haven't blabbed and we've had it booked several months already.

 

[SamRoc]

So glad you made this post MCourtney. We are surprising our dd with a Disney cruise in June. We met a terrific family in August 2006 on the Magic and my dd became very good friends with their daughter who spent a few weeks with us this past summer. They live in CA and we live in NY. The Mom and I have been emailing back and forth and made plans to go on the June
22nd Wonder. My dd has no idea and I'm trying to think of a creative way to tell her Christmas morning that she will be sailing with her friend again.

 

[karibritt01]

I gave DH a ski trip one year for Christmas. I found a little tin that hangs on the tree. It was shaped like a stacking, and said "A lump of coal for all naughty boys and girls" and has a chunk of coal inside. I wrote it on a note inside with the coal. We still hang it on the tree every year! Another option would be a cruise ship ornament.

 

[Honeibee]

I'm giving my DH a cruise for Chistmas. Not something I do every year, this is a once in a lifetime gift! He's been so wonderful thru so much this year... Anyway...my brilliant idea was to make a scrapbook so when I was at WDW in May I bought a nice leather-look WDW scrapbook (more manly looking then princesses ) and I have been working on it ever since! As he turns the page the story sort of unfolds. The first page is "Merry Christmas to the best husband ever!" Then "This gift requires you take a few days off from work because..." Then " On May 4th we are flying to Orlando..." etc etc.

It's going to be great to see him read thru it and then when he realizes.... Ohh I can hardly wait!

However...I have never done a scrapbook before and I have learned two things.

1) Its a LOT of work.

2) I am no good at it.

I realize the scrapbook itself is not the actual gift but I do want it to be nice. I should have hired someone to do it!

 

[scm]

I used the Bronner's ship ornament for my grandson's stocking which will make a nice souvenir ornament each year on his tree. You can have name and date painted on them if you like.

 

[MCourtney]

Great ideas!!!!

 

[patsal]

I'm giving DH a cruise for his 40th birthday. I am wrapping a great Tommy Bahama shirt with "fake" tickets made of card stock in the pocket.

 

[poohs4me]

I really like the unscramble the words idea. That way they both get in on it without being any the wiser beforehand. If you did separate gifts with say a ticket, it could spoil it for the other one, which would be my luck.

 

[Out to Sea Lee]

I have sorta the same delima. We are giving a cruise to our children this year for Christmas. We will be going on our spring break in March. I also want to give the children something to open together. I would like to put cards or something in the box with either fun facts about what we'll be doing, or the ports we will be going to, just something they can pull out of the box everyday. As they pull out more cards they will know that is one less day before we leave for our cruise. I just haven't quite came up with a way to do it. I just cannot wait to see how excited they will be. They have been on two prior criuises, but not on a Disney cruise. We also have not had a varanda room with the children either. I'm open to any and all suggestions also.

 

[ronirp]

We just gave our kids a cruise + WDW trip for Hannuka last night. Each child got a guide book, one for the cruise one for WDW. It took about 3 seconds to sink in and then the screaming and jumping started.

 

[DAggiesRWe]

Need your assistance fellow DISers! DH and I are giving his mother and her boyfriend a DCL cruise in August '08 for Christmas. Already have cabin assignment, etc.

Now... how do I wrap this present?? I would like for them to be able to unwrap it on Christmas. I would prefer to have 2 separate gifts for each, but could do it as one if needed.

I have 2 leftover Tinkerbell luggage tags I can use ...... but my creativity seems to be zapped out right now, and I just can't come up with anything else. All thoughts and ideas are very much appreciated!!!!

I love doing this kind of thing

These should be wrapped separately and opened in order or can be put in one big package and let them figure out what it means.

1. At the Dollar Store, get a couple of "sand castle tools", an inflatable raft (a Donald Duck ring if you can find one) and a plastic boat.

2. Flip-flops (in the brightest colors you can find).

3. The most outlandishly bright Hawaiian shirt you can find.

4. A skimpy bikini for her and a tiny speedo for him (even though they won't wear them, the laugh will be worth it)

5. A Jack Sparrow pirate hat and/or bandana.

6. A stuffed Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

7. A calendar with a countdown marked from January to departure day.

Then the two biggies to pop the real gift (if they haven't already guessed).

Get a T-shirt for her that says "My son sent me on a Disney Cruise and all I am getting him is a T-shirt".

Then wrap the DCL DVD with the specifics.

 

[Hygiene99]

Whenever a thread , about this comes up, I always post this link!!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-oMzvoDLHXU

 

[froggy5657]

You can give them a Cruise magnet or something small!

 

[CustardTart]

Whenever a thread , about this comes up, I always post this link!!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-oMzvoDLHXU

Love it!!! I'm about to surprise my DS with a trip to WDW maybe I should get him to do something like that....

Good luck with the surprise cruises, guys...

 

[mmouse37]

We surprised our three kids with T-shirts I had purchased previously. I wrapped a DCL t-shirt in a box for each along with a certificate telling them that they were going on a DCL cruise.....this was back in 1997 when WDW had a DCL preview center on Main Street promoting the new cruise line. The only size shirts they had were XL's but they eventually grew into them!!!

It was great!!! Then......

And now.....

 

[MCourtney]

4. A skimpy bikini for her and a tiny speedo for him (even though they won't wear them, the laugh will be worth it)





Yes!!! Yes!!!!! Yes!!!!!!

 

[Eggleboo]

Hi, I did a pinata that I found. It was a pirate ship and we slipped in a paper scroll that we made that gave fair warning mateys of what fun was to come! Our daughter an son-in-law were having a blast just getting the darn thing open! Buy the chocolate gold coins and put them in as treasure. I think young kids do it so much better then us adults cause they just break the thing! Another suggestion is to go to a craft store and buy letters that spell out what you want to say such as the words Disney Cruise and numbers that are the date of the cruise and let them pull them out of a stocking, box, whatever and work out the word puzzle!! We did this with a money figure one Christmas and can I just say it was so much more fun watching and giving it then I ever imagined!

 

[Laxmom]

We are giving our DS and DIL the 5 day August cruise. I also did the ornament thing. I found a blown glass ornament at Bronners.com that looks alot like the Disney ships. They will personalize the ornament - we had them put Carribean '08 on one side and their names on the other.

Good luck! Lots of good ideas.

Just checked availablity on the ornament - they are out of stock. They do have another one that isn't personalized though.