January 29, 2011 - 7 Day Eastern - WOOHOO!!

[Paddle_Nut]

Hello! We have a cabin change:

We were 6053 but are now 2616. How many people do we have so far?
Karla

Hi Everyone

Since it seems like there is at least some interest in a FE Exchange for our upcoming cruise, I would be willing to take on the task of being the FE organizer.

If you and your party wish to participate in the exchange, please PM me with the following:

• your DIS Board name
• Cabin Number (if yours hasn't been assigned yet, let me know and drop me a line when you get the cabin number)
• Size of your Party
• Gender/ages of party members so age/gender appropriate gifts can be made/purchased

Here are some great tips about what you need to know about FE Gift Exchanges as well for those first-timers on the cruise:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1219607

Here's the list so far for those of you keeping score at home:


Room: Board Name: # on board age/gender
UNK schimj & TiffanyD (2) 31m & 30f
8078 cblack (3) 28m, 28f, 2f
UNK binky1 (4) adult M & F, 9&4f's
UNK binky1 (3) 2 adult, f child
UNK binky1 (3) 1 adult, 2 f child
7560 newgeneb (4) 62m 63f 14m 17f
6053 Paddle_Nut (4) 35f 40m 7f 4f
7501 myolite (4) 43m 35f 4f m11mo
2120 cruisergirly (4) 35F, 38M, 6F, 4F

Keep an eye on this post, and I'll PM the person with the first post on the thread to see if they would put a link to this thread in the first post so it could be found easily. I was thinking of closing off entries to the FE List on December 15, 2010. After the list is finalized, I would make an Excel spreadsheet with the list available to the participants.

 

[myolite]

looks like we have lots of 4's!

 

[cruisergirly]

I hope we can get all these 4 year olds together in the kids club. My girls love to make new friends!

I am not sure I can wait until January.

Karla we are on the 2nd floor too. I am hoping we get bumped up (last cruise we paid for a 9B and ended up with cat 5 with a verandah talk about luck!)

Karla when is your 7 year olds bday? I have a 6 year old girl (but she turns 6 this sept). My 4year olds bday is in May so just a few months younger than yours.

Best, Kelly

 

[Paddle_Nut]

It would be great to get the kiddies all together! She loves to look at pictures of the Disney Ship, and is intrigued by the kids club. My oldest dd is 6 now, but turns 7 in December. She is pretty social and loves to play with others.

We were on deck 6 but had an inside room, then changed it to a room with a view. We almost upgraded up (again) to a 5B, but will remain where we are. I am a little nervous about our room location as it would appear that we are directly below the kitchen and the reviews of our room state it was loud at 4am , so I hope that things have been changed since the 3yrs that this post was put up. Our room number is 2616.

How did you get the room bump? That would be really sweet to have happen...

I hope we can get all these 4 year olds together in the kids club. My girls love to make new friends!

I am not sure I can wait until January.

Karla we are on the 2nd floor too. I am hoping we get bumped up (last cruise we paid for a 9B and ended up with cat 5 with a verandah talk about luck!)

Karla when is your 7 year olds bday? I have a 6 year old girl (but she turns 6 this sept). My 4year olds bday is in May so just a few months younger than yours.

Best, Kelly

 

[myolite]

Restaurant.com is offering 80% gift certificates! Snagged a $25 gift certificate for $2 to House of Blues. Hubby and I will eat there the Friday before the cruise--with the gc we can use the money difference towards Kids Nite Out so he and I can have a relaxing night together before the cruise! Woohoo!

 

[steinberg]

We are in too. I have a 5 yr old boy and my friend has a 4 yr old boy. First time cruiser.

 

[cblack]

We are in too. I have a 5 yr old boy and my friend has a 4 yr old boy. First time cruiser.

Welcome aboard!

 

[steinberg]

Hi Everyone

Since it seems like there is at least some interest in a FE Exchange for our upcoming cruise, I would be willing to take on the task of being the FE organizer.

If you and your party wish to participate in the exchange, please PM me with the following:

• your DIS Board name
• Cabin Number (if yours hasn't been assigned yet, let me know and drop me a line when you get the cabin number)
• Size of your Party
• Gender/ages of party members so age/gender appropriate gifts can be made/purchased

Here are some great tips about what you need to know about FE Gift

Here's the list so far for those of you keeping score at home:


Room: Board Name: # on board age/gender
UNK schimj & TiffanyD (2) 31m & 30f
8078 cblack (3) 28m, 28f, 2f
UNK binky1 (4) adult M & F, 9&4f's
UNK binky1 (3) 2 adult, f child
UNK binky1 (3) 1 adult, 2 f child
7560 newgeneb (4) 62m 63f 14m 17f
6053 Paddle_Nut (4) 35f 40m 7f 4f
7501 myolite (4) 43m 35f 4f m11mo
2120 cruisergirly (4) 35F, 38M, 6F, 4F

Keep an eye on this post, and I'll PM the person with the first post on the thread to see if they would put a link to this thread in the first post so it could be found easily. I was thinking of closing off entries to the FE List on December 15, 2010. After the list is finalized, I would make an Excel spreadsheet with the list available to the participants.

I am very interesting in the FE idea. First time cruiser. Seeking for more suggestions on gift idea.
your DIS Board name: Steinberg
Cabin Number: 6019
Size of your Party: three - two of us plus one five year old boy.

Thanks organizing. We are looking forward o meet everyone in five months.

Jennifer

 

[newgeneb]

We are in too. I have a 5 yr old boy and my friend has a 4 yr old boy. First time cruiser.

Welcome Aboad this is our 9th Dis Cruise you will LOVE it

 

[schimj]

Hello! We have a cabin change:

We were 6053 but are now 2616. How many people do we have so far?
Karla

It's been update! Looks like we're at 10 cabins with a total of 34 DISers (adults & kids) particpating counting our most recent addition, Steinberg & family

I am very interesting in the FE idea. First time cruiser. Seeking for more suggestions on gift idea.
your DIS Board name: Steinberg
Cabin Number: 6019
Size of your Party: three - two of us plus one five year old boy.

Thanks organizing. We are looking forward o meet everyone in five months.

Jennifer

You've been added. If you need more FE tips & tricks, there are SEVERAL threads on the cruise boards main page, and some on the Podcast page under the Podcast Cruise subthread.

Anyone else interested in joining the FE? Feel free to PM me (most reliable...sometimes I don't check my subscribed threads too frequantly) or in the thread itself. As I stated in the original post, the cutoff date for joining the FE will be December 15, 2010. That way we can all get everything together and not worry about missing last-minute add-ons to the list if we go out of town for the holidays.

 

[cblack]

Just 5 months away!!!

 

[Paddle_Nut]

Really just 5 months??!! Yay!!!!

 

[myolite]

Hooray!

 

[cblack]

Hi all, just saw another post on disboards that they have offered a kids sail free promotion for categories 4A-7A. I jumped on disney's website and if you use code KFO, children are indeed free. Doesn't help me, but thought I'd share...

 

[myolite]

Hi all, just saw another post on disboards that they have offered a kids sail free promotion for categories 4A-7A. I jumped on disney's website and if you use code KFO, children are indeed free. Doesn't help me, but thought I'd share...

Doesn't help if you book on points. Boo.

 

[newgeneb]

Only 149 days

 

[adventure_woman]

I would like to join you all! We were going to be sailing on 2/12, but with the KSF promotion I changed our dates to 1/29! I am so SUPER excited now, as we were in category 11 now in category 5!! (and it only cost us about $120 more!! )

There is:
me - Stephanie (34 - celebrating an early 35th b-day on the cruise)
hubby - Sam (31)
DD#1 - Elizabeth, who will be a little over 4
DD#2 - Natalie, who will be 9 months

I haven't read all the threads yet, but we would love to join in on the FE!

1. Where are you from? - Kalamazoo, MI

2. First time cruising - Yes!

3. What you like to do when you are not planning a cruise, on a cruise, or dreaming about a cruise: when is that? I'm always planning/dreaming of our next Disney vacation! I love to scrapbook though!

 

[mjhd]

After several weeks of procrastinating on booking this cruise, I just booked today with the kids sail free promotion. We missed our spring break cruise this year so this is highly anticipated by the entire family. My kids are dd 13 and ds 10. If any of you have children similar in age, they would love to have a "friend" before sailing.

Stephanie, we are near Grand Rapids Nice to see another "local" family will be on the sailing. Where are you flying out of? Allegiant had a great rate flying out that Thursday but it just tripled last week I didn't book because they haven't released dates for the returned flight yet. I'm hoping we can find a reasonable flight out of GRR.

Sending my info for the FE now

 

[adventure_woman]

I think that we are going to drive down. Unless I find a REALLY good deal. SO...if you see something cheap let me know!!

 

[myolite]

I think that we are going to drive down. Unless I find a REALLY good deal. SO...if you see something cheap let me know!!

Caravan! We keep going back and forth on flying or driving. We're in Iowa.