January 19,2008 / Eastern Magic / "The January Thaw Cruise"

[bwcb4]

Who ended up with the Mickey used for the TAG?

That was fun to do. Thanks for arranging it.

Last tagger, be sure to post a pic!

Barb

bawcb4

 

[Tinkerbell1973]

We Got home, nice to meet you all, wish we could of spent more time with you all on the cruise, i never got the DIS Tag hope you all had a great trip we loved the castaway cay the best for sure

 

[lisalisaq]

I just wanted to say Thanks to everyone for the gifts. The kids loved coming back and finding trinkets. What a good idea. So thanks to everyone who participated.

 

[tidefan]

Well, we arrived home safely as well. The temps were in the mid 20's when we arrived in Cleveland. About 4 inches of snow on the ground and it's snowing right now. Had a great time meeting everyone!!!!! Brad and Jennifer post so I know what you alls name are again and I'll PM you and we can exchange email addrresses wished we had more time to just sit and talk. Hope everyone got home safe!!!!!!
Mindi

Hello Mike and Mindi,

We have returned. We pulled into the driveway in Birmingham about 8:00pm CST tonight after a 9 hour drive back from Orlando. We spent last night at Saratoga Springs and took Delaney to the Pirate and Princess Party (which, IMHO, is not as good as MNSSHP), however the fireworks were great and from about 10 to midnight there was hardly anyone in the MK. Our basket/DISbag made it here safe and sound. I still can't believe that we were able to get everything back into the car...

We had a great time and enjoyed meeting you (and Gixer and Bethipooh, etc...). Feel free to PM with your information.

I have a few thoughts on DCL overall in comparison to our trips with Princess, but I'll post those on the main page (synopsis: can't go wrong with either one... DCL shows are about the best I've seen, but the buffet and embarkation need help though...).

Enjoy the BBQ sauce...

Brad and Jennifer

 

[Bethipooh4]

Hi everyone,
we are home as well...tired though...I think I need a vacation to recover from the vacation!

We stayed at the Contemporary Saturday night...WOW....it was worth it. And the P and P party was fun, the rain was a bit of a bummer though. It was truly wierd to be walking through the MK and feel truly alone. It did seem empty after 10PM. It was nice to walk onto rides though.

It was fantastic to finally meet everyone, and I truly enjoyed the DIS meet. And of course at times it seemed I was stalking some of you!!! You guys could run, but you couldn't hide.

I plan on doing a trip report, the good and the bad...for the first time, I actually gave some poor ratings on the survey. Our room was horrible, something to do with the pipes...grrrrr..5 nights of no sleep for me...

 

[teenie]

We Got home, nice to meet you all, wish we could of spent more time with you all on the cruise, i never got the DIS Tag hope you all had a great trip we loved the castaway cay the best for sure

We never got the Dis Tag either. Was wondering where it ended up too. We had a great time also! It was nice meeting everyone.
Kristina

 

[chepic]

I got the distag upon my return from Cast-a-way Cay and passed it on. Only about half of the people had received it at that point.

we had a great time and enjoyed bumping into people as the week went on. The Vow Renewal was fantastic and I am planning on doing a trip report in the next few days. I just down-loaded all the pictures from the cruise and have to figure out what to do from here. I just have one thing to ask......When does the ship stop rocking!!!! I still feel like I am moving even now. The seas were definitely moving more than when we travelled on the RCL Explorer in the Western Carib. I think being on the open Atlantic really makes a big difference.

Hope everyone maed it home safe and sound!!!!!

Cheryl

 

[Bethipooh4]

I am truly sorry to everyone that the DIS Tag seemed to fall apart..I know we sent it out shortly after the meet, with 3 of us signing it. I never saw it on any doors when we made our deliveries to the fishes...(it was fun delivering at midnight, I felt like santa) so I chalked it up to possibly being taken by kids, like they do with the magnets.

 

[chepic]

When I passed out our treats I had all the cleaning people ask if they could have some of the candy so I did give a few of them some. I have to say think you to all that delivered some to our door....Max came back everyday and ran to the "mail box" to see his treats....and they were most generous!!!!!! Thank you very much.

cheryl

 

[love2crooz]

Glad to hear everyone is getting back home safe and sound. Brett, we got home at 6pm on Sat. and the ship is still rocking for me even now. Stacie, I saw your post on the other boards about your room, I whole heartedly agree, next time we will pick a mid cabin #. Beth, Michael told me about seeing you in line at guest services to complain about your room, how horrible!!!!!!!! Our deck 2 aft room doesn't sound much better, horrible rumbling noises and vibration Gentry had a really rough time of it, he kept screaming we're going to tip over and the engines are going to explode. For anyone on deck 7 on Sun night I apologize for Gentry's autistic meltdown in the hallway. It took him till Tues. afternoon to settle in to all the stimulation, Michael said people were opening their doors to see what all the comotion was, again I apologize.

What a great time we had at the bag exchange, thank you to all who put this board together, the bag exchange and everything else, alot of hard work went into it all and it showed, thank you all so much for your hard work!!!!! We so enjoyed meeting everyone and making new friends.
Michael and Mindi

 

[owensjro]

Well, we have now booked for next January. Hope to see everyone on another cruise soon.

We missed everyone at the P&P party, but we only stayed through the fireworks and then took off. We were all just too exhausted to do much unfortunately. Next time we will know better but probably won't do anything about it

Jim

 

[Bethipooh4]

Thanks Mindi..
I tried so hard to behave when we were in line and not make a scene...We do have letters into DCL about the room problem. I hate to admit I did break down into tears once(blame it on lack of sleep) but I know at 2 am, Rick was less then pleasant at guest services..

I have pictures from the DIS meet, just have to get DH to download them to photobucket. Anyone have theirs ready yet?

Back to laundry for me....

 

[bwcb4]

"OWENSJRO
Well, we have now booked for next January. Hope to see everyone on another cruise soon."

Hi!
The Warner's have booked for Jan 2009 too! We'll be on the Jan 31 Eastern that stops at St Croix. Which cruise will you be on?

When people have time, be sure to post any DIS pics you have.

Barb
Back to work.....

 

[imlazar]

we're booked for 1/17/09, but we may delay until November. We just wanted to get the on-board discount.

 

[owensjro]

We booked the 1/17/09 cruise. We're also on the 6/1/08 Wonder 4 night which we had booked last year.

We're totally hooked on cruising now.

Jim

 

[missyoh8]

We are moving to the "high rent district" and have booked for 6/20/09....wow, what a price difference. I just couldn't justify taking off work as a teacher when I get so much vacation time already.

Hope everyone had the time of their lives, I know we had a blast!

Missyoh8

 

[KayR]

Welcome home everyone. It was nice to meet you all, albeit briefly.

We had a great time. Once our youngest settled into the club, Neil and I got some time to ourselves which was strange because we haven't really had time together for a l-o-n-g time! By the end of the cruise we kept looking at the pager to see if it was broken as we hadn't been paged! LOL!!

Thanks to everyone for the fish extender goodies. The kids faces lit up when they saw the presents they had received. It was also great to explore the other parts of the ship (and get some exercise at the same time!)

I am sorry to hear that some of you had problems with your rooms. I hope you get a suitable reply from DCL.

-Kay

 

[Bethipooh4]

Hey guys!!
There are some great trip reports going on over on the TR boards!!

I decided to not do one, given the fact them I am a bit ticked off at the moment with DCL.

That being said, we had a FANTASIC cruise despite the room issue(and transportation after). We enjoyed every aspect of it, and are hoping to cruise again, maybe when the new ships come out. Next summer we will be in Alaska visiting our DD who leaves in less then 2 weeks.

I had a great time at the DIS meet and loved our daily fish mail. Thank you to everyone who participated. I wish you could have seen the look on my son's face the first time he found something in it. Even DS(17) enjoyed checking it.

As soon as I get photobucket updated, I will post some pictures from the meet!

 

[Roodoll]

Well i have to say that this was the roughest cruise with disney that my hubby and I have taken. The open Atlantic seas were really rough! at one point i was even a little green. i felt really bad for my sister and brother who were just about sea sick every nite of the entire trip. But overall the cruise was alot of fun. i will post some pics in a day or two...ill even have some on my Myspace Page as well. But it feels so nice to be back in 80 degree weather. We arrove back here on the island of Guam thursday nite. I get to be lucky and go back to work on Sunday and then class on monday. but hope to hear from someone soon.

 

[love2crooz]

This was our 3rd cruise with Disney and our 10th all together and the past 2 with DCL has been the roughest we have ever experinced. I don't think they believe in using the stabalizers(sp?). We have sailed the Eastern Carribean at least 5 other times, it is my absolute favorite to sail because the seas are usually so calm. If you noticed on the ships info channel that the seas never went above moderate which isn't all that bad. We noticed that even when it said calm the ship was still rocking pretty hard. This is just one of many other reasons why we prefer RCL and NCL.
Mindi