January 3, 2011 - 5 night Bahamas Sailing

[Silverfox97]

sorry - as a newby. What does GTY stand for? /QUOTE]

GTY is gurantee status. So, you don't pick a stateroom when booking. For example, on our last cruise and the one for Oct 2011, we named a specific room #. For this cruise, we booked an 11C GTY. That means, DCL gurantees us a cat 11C room or higher cat, essentially a free upgrade. It seems that most often, people that book 11C get cat 9 or 10. On the med cruises in Europe, people were getting upgraded to cat 6's with verandahs! Also, if you have 4 people and book an 11C GTY, you will automatically be upgraded because true 11C rooms only hold 3 people.

 

[lakehead92]

sorry - as a newby. What does GTY stand for? /QUOTE]

GTY is gurantee status. So, you don't pick a stateroom when booking. For example, on our last cruise and the one for Oct 2011, we named a specific room #. For this cruise, we booked an 11C GTY. That means, DCL gurantees us a cat 11C room or higher cat, essentially a free upgrade. It seems that most often, people that book 11C get cat 9 or 10. On the med cruises in Europe, people were getting upgraded to cat 6's with verandahs! Also, if you have 4 people and book an 11C GTY, you will automatically be upgraded because true 11C rooms only hold 3 people.

HMM... Thanks for that info. I never knew anything about that. We already have our stateroom number. So I would say we are not GTY.

 

[Silverfox97]

Being in the Uk i do hope i can return the favour with something that you cannot get in the states but i'm not telling as i'd hate to spoil the suprise

Marie

CRUNCHIE BARS I had a friend that I worked with in Ohio from the UK - she always brought us candy, I remember Flake too, but CRUNCHIE was so good!

What kind of Super American candy would you like? I have heard some people from the UK love Reese cups..............

 

[mazz1]

CRUNCHIE BARS I had a friend that I worked with in Ohio from the UK - she always brought us candy, I remember Flake too, but CRUNCHIE was so good!

What kind of Super American candy would you like? I have heard some people from the UK love Reese cups..............

my son loves most american candy mostly because we relax the eating candy rule when we're on holiday, normally we're quite strict and sweets, desserts and candy are a limited food group so needless to say he loves his holidays

he does like butterfingers even though i don't really know what they are and he loves peanut butter cups too and hersheys cookies and cream bars as you cannot get those in the uk

i never knew you didn't have crunchies? don't think you have jelly babies smarties or curly wurlies either?, i have a feeling my fe bags will be mainly candy based

i know the group seems small at the moment but can i suggest that if the group gets huge that we split it into two groups (we did this on the dover to barcelona cruise when the fe group got a little too big to comfortably manage)

 

[lakehead92]

I HAVE 2 MORE FE PARTICIPANTS FOR US.

Spoke with my sisters who are both travelling with us with their familes on the magic...they love the FE idea as well. So put me down as three staterooms. All early seating.

1st room... ME , my husband, and my DD6 and DS 9 who will celebrate his 9th birthday on the cruise on January 7th.

Second room.. 2 Adults, 2 children...girl age 9, and boy age 7.

Third Room, Two adults, two children..girl aged 3 and a brand new baby...due this week.

My parents are also travelling with us and my dad will celebrate his 70th birthday on board.

 

[Silverfox97]

i know the group seems small at the moment but can i suggest that if the group gets huge that we split it into two groups (we did this on the dover to barcelona cruise when the fe group got a little too big to comfortably manage)

We had 13 staterooms on our last one (well, 12 to deliver to since one was ours). I think that is about the limit. We were able to pack it all into 1 duffel bag.

 

[ssanders79]

The FE list has been updated.

 

[lakehead92]

The FE list has been updated.

Thanks for the list!! and updating for us.

 

[PrincessMer]

Thanks for creating the list. It is really helpful! Here is some more information that you can use to update my information:
DH = Clark
We have the 2nd seating
We haven't gotten our room number yet


Thanks!
Meredith

 

[Silverfox97]

Welcome aboard, so to speak. I hope the decorations will still be up but I am not counting on it.

SO, we are less than six months out. Does anyone have any excursion plans or before/after cruise plans? For excursions we are thinking about a glass bottom tour either on CC or in Nassau. That's probably it. This is our first cruise and we want to relax and take in the ship. As for before and after we are flying in 2 day before and most likely staying with DH's dad and after we are spending 2 nights at WDW. We are leaning towards staying at AKL. What is everyone else planning on?

Let me offer my advice/opinion - save your money on the glass bottom boat at Nassau. We have done that one -- not worth it at all. In fact, we stay on the boat on Nassau day, treating it like a day at sea. The pools are empty, and it's awesome. I haven't done the glass bottom boat on CC, but I'd vote for that one over the Nassau one if you want to do one. Just my opinion

 

[mazz1]

Welcome aboard, so to speak. I hope the decorations will still be up but I am not counting on it.

SO, we are less than six months out. Does anyone have any excursion plans or before/after cruise plans? For excursions we are thinking about a glass bottom tour either on CC or in Nassau. That's probably it. This is our first cruise and we want to relax and take in the ship. As for before and after we are flying in 2 day before and most likely staying with DH's dad and after we are spending 2 nights at WDW. We are leaning towards staying at AKL. What is everyone else planning on?

we fly in the day before and are staying at bay lake towers and we have plans to go to the dig? i think this i what it is called? at atlantis on the nassau day, on our first disney cruise we did venture off the ship at nassau but we found the shopping and the locals a little intimidating, this time we hope to avoid that altogether

after the cruise we're staying in a villa nr champions gate

 

[ebony]

To everone who has signed on to this thread, since I last posted at the end of July .

My name is Jan and I am travelling with my DH Carl. We come from Oxford in the UK. This will be our 5th cruise ,4 with Disney and 1 with RCI and we are, well and truly hooked on cruising ! .

We are unsure about the FE's at the moment. We are travelling alone as our kids have grown up now. Trying it for the 1st time on our Transatlantic cruise next month .
Will look back soon, have a good week everybody.
Jan

 

[mazz1]

To everone who has signed on to this thread, since I last posted at the end of July .

My name is Jan and I am travelling with my DH Carl. We come from Oxford in the UK. This will be our 5th cruise ,4 with Disney and 1 with RCI and we are, well and truly hooked on cruising ! .

We are unsure about the FE's at the moment. We are travelling alone as our kids have grown up now. Trying it for the 1st time on our Transatlantic cruise next month .
Will look back soon, have a good week everybody.
Jan

hello Jan

we're hooked too, this will be our 4th cruise (we did one with rc too) but much prefer disney the rc ships are ok but just too big for our liking, i kept getting lost

 

[lakehead92]

Just ordered my FE from someone on etsy. I was able to custom design it as well.

 

[Silverfox97]

It's getting closer

 

[lisare]

So please include us on the fish extender. IDK who I need to give my info to please PM me & i'll give it to you. Thanks. I CAN'T WAIT TO LEAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[lakehead92]

I can't wait to leave eaither...just finalized hotel and car reservation yesterday for the rest of the trip. We are very excited.

Lisare- I notice that you have cruised in January before. Can you give me the heads up on how the weather was and whether its more a shorts thing or a pants type of packing list. I realize that weather changes and fluctuates from year to year... but since this is our first time a little help would be very appreciated.

Any other thoughts would be great too.

 

[lisare]

Nights were cold on deck. I would bring pants & sweatshirts. What I remember castaway cay was windy & the water was a bit chilly but I did enjoyed wearing a bathing suit in January. With two stops this time maybe we'll get atleast one good day or even better two.

 

[mommyofthreeboys]

I have a fish extender that I bought off ebay for our last cruise but it includes all 3 of my kids. So now I can't decide if I should get one with just DH and I.
hmmmm......

 

[mazz1]

So please include us on the fish extender. IDK who I need to give my info to please PM me & i'll give it to you. Thanks. I CAN'T WAIT TO LEAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

if you pm sanders 79 they will add you to the list

we seem to have 8 rooms now (not inc our own) can i kindly suggest that if we get two more to this list then we split it into two groups of 5? it would make it easier as there would be less to buy for and to pack, i really struggled last time packing i think i ended up with 26 individual bags to deliver as i did the childrens gifts seperate from the adults