Hey, Denise!
We've had to take a break from cruising since our youngest was born, as he was a sickly baby (had to cancel several cruises due to illness). After several surgeries, he is a healthy baby boy now, so we are back to cruising!
Will sail on the Fantasy next August to Western Caribbean, and kids talk about it daily! We have decided to only go to Disney 1x per year, instead of 2x, as we've been doing, and we have cut out all in-park dining, as we really enjoy cooking in our villa, and hubby was just diagnosed with Crohn's, so special diet for him.
With cutting down to 1x trip per year, and cutting out dining, as well as taking our trips 2 years in a row to maximize AP, we are saving thousands of dollars, and all of that goes towards our cruise (pay cash, as points is too risky and expensive). So, we want to go on another vacation every 3 years.
We will never add on more points, as we have 360 and that is plenty. We don't want anymore dues!
We thought we'd only want to travel to Disney for 50 years, and then realized this past year, that we want to go elsewhere, but had spent a mint on DVC over the past 7 years of ownership, so the best to fund our new vacations is to make the changes we did, and we are very excited about it!
We are looking forward to the new adventures that we have planned! We will sail DCL, as we find it's best for familes, especially with younger kids. Sis just returned from Carnival Dream, and found it a total party atmosphere, new RCCL ships are as much or more than Disney, and not sure about the other lines either? We don't drink or gamble either, so that's not important to us - hubby and I also sailed Norwegian before kids, but it was more adult oriented as well, so DCL will be the best fit for us at this time!
Best of luck in your decision, Denise, and have fun planning for that cruise! Tiger
We've had to take a break from cruising since our youngest was born, as he was a sickly baby (had to cancel several cruises due to illness). After several surgeries, he is a healthy baby boy now, so we are back to cruising!
Will sail on the Fantasy next August to Western Caribbean, and kids talk about it daily! We have decided to only go to Disney 1x per year, instead of 2x, as we've been doing, and we have cut out all in-park dining, as we really enjoy cooking in our villa, and hubby was just diagnosed with Crohn's, so special diet for him.
With cutting down to 1x trip per year, and cutting out dining, as well as taking our trips 2 years in a row to maximize AP, we are saving thousands of dollars, and all of that goes towards our cruise (pay cash, as points is too risky and expensive). So, we want to go on another vacation every 3 years.
We will never add on more points, as we have 360 and that is plenty. We don't want anymore dues!
We thought we'd only want to travel to Disney for 50 years, and then realized this past year, that we want to go elsewhere, but had spent a mint on DVC over the past 7 years of ownership, so the best to fund our new vacations is to make the changes we did, and we are very excited about it!
We are looking forward to the new adventures that we have planned! We will sail DCL, as we find it's best for familes, especially with younger kids. Sis just returned from Carnival Dream, and found it a total party atmosphere, new RCCL ships are as much or more than Disney, and not sure about the other lines either? We don't drink or gamble either, so that's not important to us - hubby and I also sailed Norwegian before kids, but it was more adult oriented as well, so DCL will be the best fit for us at this time!
Best of luck in your decision, Denise, and have fun planning for that cruise! Tiger
