January 28, 2010 3 Night Wonder

[Hanover]

Congrats on the 2011 cruise bookings! We haven't booked any 2011 cruises (yet). We are waiting to get some quotes when we are on the Magic next month since we can get 10% off and a better OBC if we book onboard. We also have to take a good look at the boy's schedules in 2011 and figure out when we can go. It's getting harder and harder to cruise with them missing school because they are getting a lot more work to make up as they get older and they both play sports and will get benched the 1st half of the 1st game after missing practices for vacation. We did get a quote for an Alaska cruise but it was $8400 for 7 days with no insurance, flights or transfers and we thought it was too much. I'd rather be on the Dream and see all the new restaurants, etc. that will be offered. Our Med and Baltic cruises were/are longer and about that cost. I saw an advertisement in our local paper a couple weeks ago for 14 days in Alaska with 6 days on Celebrity cruise line and included excursions, food on the land portion and all kinds of shows, hotel stays on land, train rides, etc for $2400 per person. I think with the Dream coming out and when the novelty of DCL going to Alaska dies down, prices my go lower. I know they have for the DCL Med cruises for 2011 (compared to 2007).

 

[Hanover]

We had a Disney Cruise Line house party this weekend and I have several left over token codes for a free 4 day cruise. If anyone is intertested in having one please PM me. I know that 2 or 3 Disers won a free 4 day cruise last year after the House Party in January 2008. It would be nice if one of us won!!

 

[kindra657]

We had a Disney Cruise Line house party this weekend and I have several left over token codes for a free 4 day cruise. If anyone is intertested in having one please PM me. I know that 2 or 3 Disers won a free 4 day cruise last year after the House Party in January 2008. It would be nice if one of us won!!

I went to a party this weekend too and submitted my token already but thanks anyway!!

Btw, that Alaskan cruise is way too expensive!! I'd rather do a 4 nighter on the new Dream or even a 3 night and 4 night back-to-back

 

[tigger0215]

Hey all!

I thought id letcha all know that my mom and i have figured out what we are going to be making for FE! cant wait to start doing them! hahaha its only the week before thanksgiving and im already doing cruise things! hahaha

i just dont know how many we should make..

 

[kindra657]

i wasn't too sure either. I got stuff for the FE about a month ago and I assumed that 24 of each would be enough. Just completed my first crafty craft project for the FE this evening!!! yay!! I'm so excited!

 

[tigger0215]

i wasn't too sure either. I got stuff for the FE about a month ago and I assumed that 24 of each would be enough. Just completed my first crafty craft project for the FE this evening!!! yay!! I'm so excited!

YAY! Congrats on finishing your first crafty crafy

We are still looking around for the supplies..we know what we want, just have to find them cheaper! hey if its just your party and mine, more for us!

I think we should make a cut off date though.. hmmm what do you think??

 

[TJGorman]

We are in for fish extenders!

 

[kindra657]

I think Hanover (Danielle) and her group are in too! We should make the cutoff like Jan 1... what you guys think? I'm a newbie so I'm just going with the flow. If I make a bunch of FE gifts and we don't have a lot of people, I can give stuff to friends DD makes, people we make, and friendly neighbors. Maybe a nice CM or two could get one too!

 

[tigger0215]

I think Jan 1 is a good time- that way we get a few others... I have seen on this like 3-4 others who wanna join


So how bout this: if you want to join- pm me and I'll start making a list!! So if you would put your state room number if known and how many are in each room (If you want you can put boy or girl and their ages if they're kiddos). Around new years like idk the week between Christmas and new years we can make a final call!

Guys I am SO excited for this cruise!!!


Julie

 

[Hanover]

Hey everyone,

I'm interested in the FE too. I think a Jan 1 cut off is good too. For our 12/5 cruise we had a cut off for Nov 1 and ended up with 15 cabins with something like 31 adults and 21 kids. We had lots of other people want to join afterwards, but we really needed a cut off because a lot of people were making things and wouldn't have the time to keep adding more. I don't think I've ever had that many FE cabins on a cruise without breaking them down to smaller groups. I have an entire duffle bag packed with stuff to give out. I'm hoping to only have one bag between Keegan and I for our January cruise. We are flying down the night before and leaving the night we disembark so we won't need too many clothes. We aren't going to get too dressed up for dinners (we won't be wearing jeans or shorts but maybe capris & tops for me and khakis/polo for Keegan). The boys are off school now for an entire week for Thanksgiving and teacher/parent conferences for report cards. I'm hoping to have the boys try on their dress clothes I bought for dinners on the Magic to make sure everything fits. Keegan's grown 4 inches since July and I kept the tags on everything just in case I need to exchange stuff.

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!!

Danielle

 

[Hanover]

If it makes it easier I can add anyone intersted in FE's on the 1st post on this thread and make a roll call too. Please let me know and if you want to be added, please let me know your information (# of adults/kids, names, etc.) You can PM me stateroom #'s , kids names, etc. if you don't want them on the 1st page and I'll only send the list out via a PM--I'll only use your Dis name on the FE list and roll call.

 

[TJGorman]

As this will be my first cruise doing FE, I read another thread where the person in charge also assigned a day to each participant, so they could receive surprises each day. Is assigning a day typically done in FE? If not, I think this is a great idea. What does everyone else think?

As an update, so far, I have kept the cruise secret!! Yay! Although it is getting harder, DD is really lobbying for a cruise vacation! Yikes! It should be interesting shopping on Black Friday {Yes, I am one of those crazy Black Friday Shoppers!!!} as DD usually shops with us. I will need to make an excuse for why I am picking up so much crafting supplies, when I don't do crafts!!! LOL.

I have figured out how we are going to surprise them with the cruise. As I mentioned previously, they will find out at Christmas that they are going to Florida for five days. We will be telling them that after the first night we have to change hotels because Mom got a better deal at another hotel.

So, on the morning of the cruise, we will check out of the hotel, put our bags in the car. We will have told the kids we are going back to the car rental place because I don't like the car and we will need to switch. We will drive to the car rental place, where I will turn in the car. We are planning on telling them we have to get on the shuttle to pick up our replacement car, but it's going to take us an hour because the shuttle has other stops to make first. Then, when we get to the Wonder, we are going to tell them to hurry off the shuttle so we can go on our 3 day cruise!

Hopefully my plan will work! Thanks to the DIS for allowing me to vent so I don't ruin my surprise cruise!

 

[IrishCowboy]

Subscribing

 

[AbsyBabsy]

Hey everyone - I just booked 1/28/09 Wonder - I can't wait.

I will be celebrating my birthday with my daughter, Abigail 9 and my mum, NanyJac. Since they only had 3 to a room left at the great rates, we are leaving my hubby behind!

We would love to take part of the FE's - is there a meet set up yet?

We are:

Me Amanda turning 45!!!!
DD Abigil 9 looking for a friend to hang with
DM Jackie (nannyJac) looking to relax

 

[kindra657]

Hey everyone,

I'm interested in the FE too. I think a Jan 1 cut off is good too. For our 12/5 cruise we had a cut off for Nov 1 and ended up with 15 cabins with something like 31 adults and 21 kids. We had lots of other people want to join afterwards, but we really needed a cut off because a lot of people were making things and wouldn't have the time to keep adding more. I don't think I've ever had that many FE cabins on a cruise without breaking them down to smaller groups. I have an entire duffle bag packed with stuff to give out. I'm hoping to only have one bag between Keegan and I for our January cruise. We are flying down the night before and leaving the night we disembark so we won't need too many clothes. We aren't going to get too dressed up for dinners (we won't be wearing jeans or shorts but maybe capris & tops for me and khakis/polo for Keegan). The boys are off school now for an entire week for Thanksgiving and teacher/parent conferences for report cards. I'm hoping to have the boys try on their dress clothes I bought for dinners on the Magic to make sure everything fits. Keegan's grown 4 inches since July and I kept the tags on everything just in case I need to exchange stuff.

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!!

Danielle

My in-laws will probably bring dressier clothes than us. The only time I've ever dressed up while on vacation was for Victoria & Albert's...I dunno, vacation+dressing up= Not fun in my book. We'll probably be doing khakis, capris, and nice tops as well.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and hope you did too! Thank you!

If it makes it easier I can add anyone intersted in FE's on the 1st post on this thread and make a roll call too. Please let me know and if you want to be added, please let me know your information (# of adults/kids, names, etc.) You can PM me stateroom #'s , kids names, etc. if you don't want them on the 1st page and I'll only send the list out via a PM--I'll only use your Dis name on the FE list and roll call.

I think making a roll-call roster on the 1st post is a very good idea. I don't know my stateroom number...yet, but will let you know asap.

Our Cabin (8th deck)

Me, Kindra- age 28
DH, Donald (or "don")- age 30
DD, Ramiah- age 8.5
Mother-in-law, Brenda, age 50's
Father-in-law, Donald, age 50's​

As this will be my first cruise doing FE, I read another thread where the person in charge also assigned a day to each participant, so they could receive surprises each day. Is assigning a day typically done in FE? If not, I think this is a great idea. What does everyone else think?

I'm sort of confused by this post...we have a number of FE gifts, so would we distribute all of them on one day?
As an update, so far, I have kept the cruise secret!! Yay! Although it is getting harder, DD is really lobbying for a cruise vacation! Yikes! It should be interesting shopping on Black Friday {Yes, I am one of those crazy Black Friday Shoppers!!!} as DD usually shops with us. I will need to make an excuse for why I am picking up so much crafting supplies, when I don't do crafts!!! LOL.

Stay strong!!! hehehe!
we went out at 5am for black friday and got some great deals but I don't know if I'd ever do it again...what a crazy madhouse WalMart was!!


Hopefully my plan will work! Thanks to the DIS for allowing me to vent so I don't ruin my surprise cruise! No problem and great plans! Your dd will be so surprised!!!!

Hey everyone - I just booked 1/28/09 Wonder - I can't wait.

I will be celebrating my birthday with my daughter, Abigail 9 and my mum, NanyJac. Since they only had 3 to a room left at the great rates, we are leaving my hubby behind!

We would love to take part of the FE's - is there a meet set up yet?

We are:

Me Amanda turning 45!!!!
DD Abigil 9 looking for a friend to hang with
DM Jackie (nannyJac) looking to relax

Welcome aboard!! DD, Ramiah- 8, will be looking for friends to hang with as well! yay can't wait!

 

[Hanover]

Hey everyone - I just booked 1/28/09 Wonder - I can't wait.

I will be celebrating my birthday with my daughter, Abigail 9 and my mum, NanyJac. Since they only had 3 to a room left at the great rates, we are leaving my hubby behind!

We would love to take part of the FE's - is there a meet set up yet?

We are:

Me Amanda turning 45!!!!
DD Abigil 9 looking for a friend to hang with
DM Jackie (nannyJac) looking to relax

Welcome!

I added your name to the roll call on page 1. I don't think we've set up an official meet yet. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm Danielle and I'm sailing with my friend Beth and both of our oldest sons. My son is Keegan and he's 12 and her son is Jake and he's 13. We are leaving our DH's and younger kids at home this trip. Our entire family's went on a 4 day last December and we'll be all sailing together again in Dec 2010. We got a great deal on the 1/28 cruise with the Kids Sail Free promotionl and after seeing what it would be to split the cost it was too good of a deal to pass up. We are looking forward to relaxing and actually getting to use the adults only pool and maybe even make Serenity Bay. It will be my 11th DCL cruise and the last time I was at either was on my 1st cruise! Generally I'm at the family beach and Mickey pool with my now ds8 and DH. Jake and Keegan have told us that they want some time to themselves (no doubt to scout out girls they'll be too afraid to say hi to). They'll probably be living at the sports deck when we are out at sea.

 

[Hanover]

As this will be my first cruise doing FE, I read another thread where the person in charge also assigned a day to each participant, so they could receive surprises each day. Is assigning a day typically done in FE? If not, I think this is a great idea. What does everyone else think?

As an update, so far, I have kept the cruise secret!! Yay! Although it is getting harder, DD is really lobbying for a cruise vacation! Yikes! It should be interesting shopping on Black Friday {Yes, I am one of those crazy Black Friday Shoppers!!!} as DD usually shops with us. I will need to make an excuse for why I am picking up so much crafting supplies, when I don't do crafts!!! LOL.

I have figured out how we are going to surprise them with the cruise. As I mentioned previously, they will find out at Christmas that they are going to Florida for five days. We will be telling them that after the first night we have to change hotels because Mom got a better deal at another hotel.

So, on the morning of the cruise, we will check out of the hotel, put our bags in the car. We will have told the kids we are going back to the car rental place because I don't like the car and we will need to switch. We will drive to the car rental place, where I will turn in the car. We are planning on telling them we have to get on the shuttle to pick up our replacement car, but it's going to take us an hour because the shuttle has other stops to make first. Then, when we get to the Wonder, we are going to tell them to hurry off the shuttle so we can go on our 3 day cruise!

Hopefully my plan will work! Thanks to the DIS for allowing me to vent so I don't ruin my surprise cruise!

On the longer cruises I've been on usually they try to schedule people participating in the FE's for all 7 days that way you don't get everything on one day and none the rest of the trip. Some people give multiple items and do them on different days. I find it easier to do it all at once. The ship is huge when you are walking from one end to the other on several decks delivering them. We can schedule 3 people--one each for Thursday, Friday and Saturday and anyone else participating can deliver them when they want.... Or we can schedule morning/evening time slots scheduled if we have 6 people participating or morning/afternoon/evening by day if we get 9 or more people. Let's see how many people are going to be involved in mid-late December so we have a better picture of scheduling it.

 

[AbsyBabsy]

Welcome!

Hanover - thank you! It was so exciting to see my name on the front page - I love the Dis folks I meet!

We decided to add another room to our cruise! My husband and his sister and her grandchild will be coming also!

Now we have two rooms
1.
Me
DH Ed
DD9 Abigail
2.
DM Nanny Jack,
DSiL Alley
DGD (is that correct?) Anna

I am not sure if they will be doing the FE but I will find out and let you know.


I know what you mean by spending time in the adult area. This will be my 6th cruise and I have only been to the adult beach once for hour last July and I have Never sat in a deck chair in the adult pool, although I have gone into the hot tub once. Also, I did not hit any of the adult activities in the evening until my June 9 cruise - they are really fun!

I will be looking for you on the adult loungers, serenity beach and the spa!

Amanda

 

[AbsyBabsy]

Minnie 116
Jennifer
DH
DD10
DS6
MIL

Jendon1997
Jen
DH
DD9
DD5
DS2
SIL
BIL

**Kindra657
Kindra 28
DH Don 30
DD8 Ramiah
MIL Brenda
FIL Donald

Hi Jennifer, Jen and Kindra - looks like we have girls around the same age. On our last cruise we had the girls start emailing each other in the months before to get to know each other before they arrived. We also had a separate "meet" just for the girls and they decorated foam hats and cup coolers. My daughter thinks it will be a good idea for us to put together a quiz for them to take that covers their favorite web sites or TV shows. That way they can get to know each other better.

Do we want to arrange something like that? The four girls that met in June are still friends and email each other!

Amanda

 

[kindra657]

On the longer cruises I've been on usually they try to schedule people participating in the FE's for all 7 days that way you don't get everything on one day and none the rest of the trip. Some people give multiple items and do them on different days. I find it easier to do it all at once. The ship is huge when you are walking from one end to the other on several decks delivering them. We can schedule 3 people--one each for Thursday, Friday and Saturday and anyone else participating can deliver them when they want.... Or we can schedule morning/evening time slots scheduled if we have 6 people participating or morning/afternoon/evening by day if we get 9 or more people. Let's see how many people are going to be involved in mid-late December so we have a better picture of scheduling it.

Ok I'm completely confused by the scheduling now...hmm??? how bout you guys go ahead and schedule me however we are supposed to be schedule...?? ...haha!!!