January 8, 2005 Magic Cruise - Let's Get Ready to Cruise!

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I don't think anything has changed about the stops. We should be going to St Maarten. Have you heard anything?

 

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My DW and I are going to the mountains of NC for about 10 days so I will not be able to read this board until August 23rd. (I am not taking my laptop on this vacation. I am not even taking my Palm!)

I hope everyone is doing well and will be safe. Talk to you when I get back.

 

[Lisa]

Hi, Luckylasvegas and Wingawh, welcome aboard.

Wingawh, the AAA shipboard voucher will be for $150. I am not sure if the promotion is still being offered. We transferred our ressies the end of June. It can't hurt to call to inquire.

 

[marylee15]

Thanks LuckyLasVegas for switching me over to this cruise meet board. I too am on the 1/8/05 cruise it is our first cruise ever, first time to the islands, and first big vacation with our DS age 5 as a family. We have been on little weekend jaunts but nothing like this. This is a Christmas present for Santa, as a family we all voted whether we wanted to ask for this or not and after viewing the DVD who could say no!!!!! Well it just seems like everyone who is going is soooo nice so now the wait is even longer.

I was so happy to find this board today I have been on other boards but none so in-depth about the cruise. Now I am really excited.

We are doing 4 days in WDW first staying at the Caribbean Beach and I was glad to have learned about getting a town car instead of ground transportation. Can't wait to read more.

 

[Lisa]

Welcome aboard, Marylee! I'll be driving through your lovely state tomorrow on the way up to the Cape.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Will you and your family be flying out of TF Greene or Logan?

 

[marylee15]

Thanks Lisa, we will be flying out of Logan on the 4th of January. My husband really wanted to try JetBlue because a friend of his told him it was an awesome airline. We are taking the bus up from Providence at 7 am and it goes right to the airport and drops you off right at your terminal. I think it will be a real adventure for my little guy. My husband has not asked for anything on this cruise he has let me make all of the plans the only thing he suggested was the airline and he said he wanted to parasail at CC. I know that you had it somewhere earlier what part of CT are you from???

We are so excited about this trip and my DH is really getting into it now so it will be a lot of fun. I'm just getting my little guy settled back into school in about three weeks and then I will be putting the summer clothes into suitcases instead of pack away boxes, isn't that exciting. My DB always tells me I better go to K-Mart find the "LIFE" aisle and buy one now I know why!!!!! He's telling me to get a life. LOL.

Talk to you soon. Thanks for the welcome.

 

[staylor]

Hey Luckeylasvegas and Marylee15,
I'm thrilled to see more people going on the cruise w/ us. It looks like we have a great group going. Marylee my youngest son will be 5 when we cruise as well. Also, a friend and her DS 5 are coming along too. This will be their first disney cruise. I hope our sons have lots of fun in the club/lab. Lucky, I'm also traveling with an eight year old, son though. He is beside himself to be going. This will be his second disney cruise.
I'm sure looking forward to meeting everyone.
Staci

 

[marylee15]

Staci,
Thanks for the post, we just came back from a birthday party for one of my sons school friends at "Build a Bear" such fun, but he just loves being with other kids so I know when he gets into the club/lab he is just going to have a blast with the other kids. Now you have been before did you feel nervous leaving your kids at first. My husband is really nervous that I am going to wig out because I very rarely leave my son anywhere without me. For instance, going to a birthday party, a lot of parents drop off the kids and take off but not me I stay. I do have to say and I don't know if I said it earlier but my son is allergic to nuts and peanuts so it is a little nervewracking (sic?) at first but we told them when we made our ressies and they were very reassuring. Oh well, talk to you soon.

 

[marylee15]

Hey where are all of our shipmates, come on no one has posted in a week? Hope all is well with everyone!!!!! Talk to you soon. I hope.

 

[BLBCB]

Good news and bad news from up north here. The good news is, we are moving to a wonderful town down in southern Manitoba. The bad news is, we may have to cancel our vacation now, since buying the house has taken all our money! At least we'll be 13 hours closer to WDW. I guess it's all in how you look at things! I still have a few months to decide, before I lose any money.

 

[marylee15]

Hope you enjoy your new home, moving can be nice but it is always a lot of work, it sounds like it is worth it though. I know it is very hard to balance the needs of a household and fun but you will make the right decision. I just found out that after taking the summer off to be with my DS (age 5) I'm not going back because of a downsizing in my office. Even though things will be tight my DH said don't worry we'll work it out and we just got our homeowners tax bill yesterday which we knew would be going up but it was not as bad as we thought it was going to be - it wasn't great - but not bad so we'll just deal with it. Take care and good luck no matter what you decide.

 

[Lisa]

Congratulations on the new house, BLBCB. That is an exciting event. Hopefully you will still be able to do the cruise, however if you can't, it is certainly understandable.

I just got back from a business trip in Washington, DC. My DH and DD went too. They enjoyed seeing the pandas at the National Zoo and the Duck Tour through the city.

I enjoyed going to the Disney Outlet at the Potomac Mills Mall one night. Got great bargains on mule sneakers and a skort for DD.ºOº She will be wearing those on the cruise.

 

[staylor]

Marylee, sorry I haven't been here in a while. School started and all of that fun stuff, no time for the computer. Before my first Disney cruise I too was nervous about leaving Jack. He was 4.5 at the time. Once we got there though, all of my fears were put to ease. I realized he's not going to fall overboard and the counselors in the club were just awesome. Jack thouroughly enjoyed his time in the club. If he called me to get him out, I would go get him. But after a few minutes of realizing that what his mom was doing (laying by pool) was just plain boring, he wanted to go back to the club. There are TV monitors of the club, on the wall outside of the club. So you can stand there and watch your child if you want to. I also stay at birthday parties So don't worry, once you get there I bet you feel much better.
Staci

 

[musicdude]

Hi everybody
Im wondering if anybody booked the REAS package and if it is still $299? and is it worth it? Thanks, Chris

 

[marylee15]

Thanks Staci, it has just been such a busy weekend my DS 5th birthday and he thinks he is twenty!!!! We have a large group of friends and only ourselves and one other couple have kids so our friends all love to come to the kids birthday parties and are very generous. My DS got so many Disney Dollars even though it is supposed to be a surprise trip for Christmas. It really helps a lot so now it is really getting exciting. Can't wait to meet everyone. Talk to you soon.

 

[staylor]

Marylee, glad to hear about the Disney Dollars, that is great. You may or may not know this, you can't buy anything on the ship with them. But you can put as many as you want towards your shipboard account.

Chris, I have not booked REAS yet. The last I heard they weren't booking for 2005 yet. Is it worth it? That depends on you. You'll have all of your reservations done, get a great breakfast in your room one morning, and a gift. But most of all, I think you get peace of mind that you don't have to go crazy in different directions once you get on the ship. Just my thoughts!
Staci

 

[musicdude]

Staci,
Thanks for the reply. My wife and I are each getting the spa taster and with the price increase, we thought the Reas package might be a better deal. If the reas package goes up in price we probably would'nt do it. This is our first disney cruise and don't mind getting there early and runnung around. One other thing, I was wondering if someone will do like a master list of all the people going from the dis board? Thanks alot, Chris

 

[Lisa]

Chris, I was thinking the same thing. It would be nice to have a list of all those who are going and how many in their party.

 

[Lisa]

I just ran through all the posts to write down everyone who is going on the 1/8 cruise. All I can say is wow!

Those who indicted that might not be going, I put a question mark next to their names. If I have any of the particulars incorrect, please let me know and I will correct the listing or add to it as more join us.

So far we have:

Brack & Annette, DS 31, DIL, MIL, SIL
Abitjaded, DH, DS, DS?
Clori, DH, DD4, baby, DF
Libby, Kevin, Amy 5, Christy 3
Lisa, DH, DD 11, DM, DSF, DF, DF, DFD9, DFS8
Musicdude (Chris) 33, DW 35, DS 7, DD3
Tarquin, DH, DD13, DS8, DS15
Sopandbass (Sharon), Steve, Isabel 4
Staylor (Staci) 36, DH 37, DS9, DS5, DF Lisa, DFS5
Skywalker (Allison) , DH, DS6, DS4
BLBCB, DH, DD13, DD11, DS9?
Wingawh
Marylee15, DH, DS5
cmesq61, DSis, DS12, DD10
Gabbypick and friends
Christie and crew - 18 mth old girl, 5 yr old girl, 3 teens, plus!
Penny, DH Don, DD Peyton (10), DD Presley (8), DS Parker (6), plus 4 others
Family Manager (Stacey), DH, DS (10), DD (6)
Fawn and family
Yunchman, (19), DBF Shelby (22), Shelby's DD, Shelby's DM, Shelby's DS(17)
Slabeaume (48), DD (73)
JackieJackson, DH, DD(19), DF(19)

 

[marylee15]

Staylor, thanks for the post, I did know about no Disney Dollars on the ship we are doing 4 days at WDW starting on the 4th. I cannot wait. My DH is really getting into it now, when we were starting to plan the cruise we actually went to a AAA travel show and he was so non-commital up to that point I would talk about it but he would not reply just "oh really" it was so frustrating and then at the travel show we sat down and I was like so what do you think and he says "oh yeah book it I definately want to go, didn't you know that?" We were initally going to do only 2 days at WDW but little by little the trip grew so now our air fair is booked ooooh I was so miffed, we could have done something more fun on a Sunday afternoon in March!!!!! But the travel show was at Gillette Stadium the new home of the NE Patriots so I was excited to see that and it was in the club house up at the top of the stadium so it was really fun.