July 13, 2008 - Cruisin' the Mexican Riviera

[DMMarla07860]

Hey all, how is everyone doing?

 

[BeachyGirl]

Hello Everyone,
I have been offline for awhile. It is great to see so many new folks!!

As a reminder, I am Rene' (43), with DH (45), DD (14) and DD (11). We will be sailing with my in-laws on this cruise. This is our second West Coast Disney Cruise.

I have been between planning our spring break in Washington DC and planning this cruise. I need to pre-order the new Passporter tonight! I hear you get the .pdf to download of the book when you pre-order! I'm in! I love to read all about the cruise.

I am very glad to be back on the boards!!

 

[jencav5]

Hello Everyone,
I have been offline for awhile. It is great to see so many new folks!!

As a reminder, I am Rene' (43), with DH (45), DD (14) and DD (11). We will be sailing with my in-laws on this cruise. This is our second West Coast Disney Cruise.

I have been between planning our spring break in Washington DC and planning this cruise. I need to pre-order the new Passporter tonight! I hear you get the .pdf to download of the book when you pre-order! I'm in! I love to read all about the cruise.

I am very glad to be back on the boards!!

Hi! How was the first West Coast cruise you did? This will be our 3rd DCL cruise, but, we've never done the West Coast.

 

[carole88]

Carole88,
Just watched the video today...again. DD 16 helped me find the "thread" on the net...arent' you surprised!!!! Can't wait for the cruise. Guess who???

It took me a while, but I do know who you are! Had me baffled for sometime. I kept trying to think of someone I had met on a previous cruise!

 

[carole88]

Hello Everyone,
I have been offline for awhile. It is great to see so many new folks!!

As a reminder, I am Rene' (43), with DH (45), DD (14) and DD (11). We will be sailing with my in-laws on this cruise. This is our second West Coast Disney Cruise.

I have been between planning our spring break in Washington DC and planning this cruise. I need to pre-order the new Passporter tonight! I hear you get the .pdf to download of the book when you pre-order! I'm in! I love to read all about the cruise.

I am very glad to be back on the boards!!

My girls are also 14 and 11. This will be our 4th cruise but out first West Coast. Have any good tips to share?

 

[carole88]

Not sure if we can make it out to Vegas on this trip. Anthony has family in CA and he wants us to spend time visiting them. Also we are going to see Sea World, San Diego Zoo, Disneyland, California Adventure, and Universal Studios so I will have to see how our schedule is and if we have enough time to swing by Vegas . OK, so maybe I am already over scheduling us and we haven't even started to think about the cruise part of the trip .

I also read about the private villas and thought that was neat as well. Can families go in together and rent a villa or is it only big enough for one family? Wasn't sure, I need my Passporter to find out

Susan

Maybe next summer! You're always welcome.

I got the My Cruise Travel Kit from DCL the other day that had excursion information. The private villa on Cabo San Lucas is $2200. Not sure if families can share it or not. Pretty hefty hunk of change for a few hours! We'll have to pass on this one.

 

[DMMarla07860]

So is anyone else a basketball fan? I am and I love the Nets , althought they aren't good right now, but in the future they should be they got some young talent. I'm going to Disney World in 13 days and my birthday is in 12 days, I'll be 20. Disney World should hold me over till this trip

 

[BeachyGirl]

HI jencav and carole

Tips to share? Ummmmmmmmmm.....it is pretty humid down there! On the beaches there are a lot of locals trying to peddle thier wares. Gets a bit annoying.

There is a great jewelry store in Mazatlan, one of the Diamond International chain stores, where I purchased a beautiful diamond ring with a pave' setting. I found the same ring in Santa Barbara for about $300 more than what I paid. I also paid less than half the asking price at Diamond International by bargaining.

We only did one excursion and that was in Puarto Vallarta. We went to a resort that had a pool and was on the beach. I do not recommend that. I don't know if it was listed in the current excursions, I just recieved that info from Disney last week. I will try to share that info when I find it. We did not like it because several other cruise lines had the same excursion, so the pool was very crowded. The beach at the hotel was really rough and too dangerous to swim in.

In Cabo we went, on our own, to a resort that was beautiful. The DCL cruise director was there with his girlfriend, so I figured if he was there, it must be a nice place. I will also share the resort info on a later post. We have to be tendered into Cabo, it is the only port where that is necessary.

That is all I can think of at the moment. It was a great experience overall.

Have any of the teenage girls emailed each other yet? I know my older one would love to "meet" some girls prior to sailing.


That is all I can think of for now.

 

[carole88]

HI jencav and carole

Have any of the teenage girls emailed each other yet? I know my older one would love to "meet" some girls prior to sailing.

If you would like, PM me your girls' email addresses and my girls will email them.

 

[DMMarla07860]

hey all, so I'm so happy right now I couldn't be any happier, NJ Nets won last night and it got me so pumped

 

[BeachyGirl]

OK-I did some digging and found the name of the Cabo resort we found on our own. The DCL cruise director was there, so we felt like we found a gem.

Melia San Lucas is the name. The pool was beautiful with a swim up bar, white umbrellas and cabanas. It was right on the beach. In fact, that is how we found it. After we were tendered to the docks, we got a little water taxi to take us to the beach. We started off a little bar on the beach called Mango's. The chairs are in the sand about 10 feet from the waves. We ordered Corona's and chips and quacamole. Yum. The kids swam. We could see the ship in the bay from where we sat-beautiful. The peddlers got so annoying that we walked up the beach and found this resort. We took a regular taxi back to town to stroll a bit before getting back on the boat. Nice town, BTW.

I am still looking for the name of the excurion in PV that I do not recommend.

How is everyone's planning going?

 

[DMMarla07860]

hey all, I'm in disney world right now

 

[carole88]

I am still looking for the name of the excurion in PV that I do not recommend.

Was the name of the excursion "Paradise Beach Adventure"?

 

[DMMarla07860]

hey. so the cruise seems so close and yet so far away, I'm starting to get more excited about this trip

 

[Barbossa]

I can't wait. We're driving up to Long Beach on July 12 (from San Diego), staying at the Doubletree which lets you park your car in their lot for the entire week (and provides a shuttle to the Cruise Center). Much cheaper than using the Cruise Center's parking.

 

[Deb T.]

We're arriving a couple of days early, renting a car, and staying at DL! I've got our flight and hotel all set up, and now need to start working on a good rental car rate.

We still haven't even started researching excursions. However, DH has mentioned zip lines through trees, though!

 

[DMMarla07860]

We will be flying from NJ on July 11th and staying at a hotel close to Disneyland and will go to Disneyland the day before the cruise, never been I am excited

 

[Barbossa]

We're arriving a couple of days early, renting a car, and staying at DL!

We will be flying from NJ on July 11th and staying at a hotel close to Disneyland and will go to Disneyland the day before the cruise

Nice!

 

[SuJo]

Hey BeachyGirl,
I have a DD that will be 14 on the cruise and another DD that is almost 11. We actually meet Carole and her family on our last cruise (one of the reasons we picked this cruise ) and their DDs and our DDs got along great. They emailed each other before the cruise. If you want to send me your DDs email addresses I can give them to my DDs and they can email each other. It is a lot of fun to get the girls to make friends before the cruise is even here.

Susan

Hello Everyone,
I have been offline for awhile. It is great to see so many new folks!!

As a reminder, I am Rene' (43), with DH (45), DD (14) and DD (11). We will be sailing with my in-laws on this cruise. This is our second West Coast Disney Cruise.

I have been between planning our spring break in Washington DC and planning this cruise. I need to pre-order the new Passporter tonight! I hear you get the .pdf to download of the book when you pre-order! I'm in! I love to read all about the cruise.

I am very glad to be back on the boards!!

 

[mickeyfreak13]

Hi there,

Maybe we could set up a distribution list for our young teen daughters? Mine is 13, and this is our second cruise. I know she would love to "meet" other girls (or boys) before she gets there.

I don't mind putting our email out here. : ) Its jdrichta at hotmail dot com. My daughter would love some friends before she gets there, so please feel free to ask you kids to email her.

Looking forward to a great time!
Jane