Thank you! I just finished reading through all 50 pages that I had missed lol. It doesn't seem like I missed too much. I checked our Amex accounts and they look fine.
I LOVED the cruise!!! Dh isn't sure he's completely sold on doing cruises, but I do think he enjoyed himself. I'm planning on writing a trip report with as much as I can remember, but I'll give a quick overview of our trip:
-Weather was amazing the entire time. The only slight bad weather was last night coming back to the port. It was pretty rough and I was awake from 4-5:30 am because it bothered me.
-We were worried about the Disney cost compared to other companies, but felt the entertainment and atmosphere more than made up for that extra cost. We do think we will try another cruise line in the future, though.
-We aren't beach people so the Caribbean probably wasn't the best itinerary for us. We had an okay time at the ports (St. Thomas and Tortola), but I personally had more fun on the ship than at those ports.
-The adult only pool was pretty packed every day so we weren't able to get a chair to sit in until our
Castaway Cay day because we came back to the ship early.
-We got put with 2 other couples around our age for dinner and they were so much fun! I loved having people to see every night. We even went to The Tube almost every night with one of the couples and the other couple we went to a movie with and hung with them at Castaway Cay.
-The ship was spotless and the service was amazing. That's what you expect from Disney. I loved getting towel animals every night in our stateroom with the chocolates.
-I'm a picky eater, but they were always very willing to work with me at dinner. Sometimes I just ordered a plain salad or had things on the side of my entree. Dh said the food was his favorite part. He was in heaven and ordered more than one appetizer, entree, or dessert a lot.
-Now this is where the extra $$$ makes sense: the entertainment! The Aladdin and Frozen musicals were FANTASTIC! We also loved the other acts they had and sometimes even watched them twice: once in the theater and another time in the adult only venue.
The only issue we had was both our bathrooms flooded. We had gotten a note the day before saying they would come in our room to do routine maintenance (this was before the bathrooms flooded so I'm thinking they messed something up). The next morning Dh took a shower and water had filled both bathroom floors from the drains and our sinks wouldn't drain. We went to guest services and they had it fixed by the time we got back from the port that day. We didn't ask for any compensation or anything because they fixed it so quickly, but I wasn't able to use the toilet or take a shower that morning so it was an inconvenience for sure.
We are already talking about going to Norway/Scotland when our baby is 1 or shortly after. I'm leaning more towards a cruise and Dh thinks he'd rather fly and stay. We really won't know what's best until the baby is born. I've also started talking to my parents about possibly going with and my dad seems really interested and said he could be our nanny lol.
Now to credit cards.......I'm almost done with my CIP. I think I have like $500 to go. We got Dh's CIC in the mail and plan to use that. I think we'll be doing some MS with the Staples VGC deal. Our monthly limit on his CIC is $3,000 so can't do too much in one month. On average, how often are some of you going and getting VGCs? I'm wondering if it's an every day type of thing and also wondering how much I should do with Serve each time I go to Walmart.
