July 18, 2007 07-18-07 Med Cruise

[seaulater]

Great info from you guys in the past two days . I will check with AAA about Euro pak next week. Also nice to know that I don't need a stack of ones anymore to tip room service, but I might bring a few dollars in quarters for the laundry since I bet a lot of us will be needing that service.

Cindy, I think that you get a 10% discount with AAA when you do reservation with them. I seem to remember gettting a voucher or discount card from them at the time of check-in on the cruise. I think that they may also have an onboard credit, but can't remember the details of that right now . This is only if they booked the cruise for you.

I think that we will start packing this weekend also. At least I can pack up the formal clothes and costumes that we will not need in the next few weeks.

Keep the tips coming...

Angie

Don't spend alot of time taking your clothes to the dry cleaners! A disney cruise buddy of mine filled us in on a great secret a year ago. He always sends out his shirts and stuff as soon as he gets on board for washing and ironing and they come back the next day all perfect.

Did this on the TransAtlantic cruise and I even sent some of my stuff out for just pressing (1/2 the laundry fee). It was well worth it. Didn't have to go stand in that hot laundry room using their irons and my stuff came back 110%

Cost is very comparable to that of your local dry cleaners (at least where we take our stuff to!) And, I didn't have to worry about getting DH's stuff all wrinkled hauling all across the world!

 

[nzdisneymom]

I was thinking about sending our stuff out, too, to pressing when we get on-board.

Thanks for the info about the AAA discount at Treasure Ketch - I had just seen something about it, but that does make sense about it being for booking through them. We booked this one on-board and then transferred it to our TA.

 

[smilis]

Once you have 6 posts here on the DIS, you will then be able to use the PM's.

Still tweaking some excursions here. We did cancel the City Tour in Marseilles and changed our Costa Smeralda to the morning since the afternoon folks said the shops were closed.

Tossing around a couple more ideas, too. Packing Central is progressing, I am afraid to see how much luggage we end up with YIKES.

Carol Ann,
We are supposed to take the afternoon tour in Costa Smeralda too, main reason being that I thought we might need a morning to sleep in after a few dayss of 9-10 hour tours. What time does the morning Costa Smeralda tour start? Can't see that information without cancelling out my current option for the afternoon.. I sure do wish they would put those details in the tour description. Also, I am wondering with it being a Sunday when we are in Olbia, if the shops might be closed all day anyway? Do you think that's a possibility?

Sandy

 

[misbel]

Thanks for all the great info!! I just recieved my last passport today!! I was starting to get worried. I applied on March 5th and recieved all 4 passports seperatly within the last two weeks. YIKES. I also starting prepacking.

 

[tinkerbell_29]

Thanks for the info about AAA and Euros. Went by there this afternoon while we were at Sams and pick up a few packs. One more thing I can mark off the list. I've got to call DCL and notify them of address change. We packed all our formal clothes in the hanging clothes bag before we moved and that is where they are staying until we get to the cruise ship. It's good to know they can press clothes for us 'cause those things are going to be wrinkled. Off to do soem more unpacking.
Lissa

 

[CarolAnnC]

Hi Sandy,

The morning Costa Smeralda tour is from 8 am to 1 pm. The cruise that was just on it (10 day) was where I saw that the shops were all closed in the afternoon. Assume that some may be closed on Sunday, but I would think many would be open. After all they know the cruise ships are bringing in people on tours and that is how they make their livelihood.

So hearing from the afternoon tour group that they were closed, was enough to make me book the morning. Might have a chance at least. Will try to hunt around and see what others report from the morning excursion.

I had an interesting call from DCL yesterday. They were going through my online paperwork and noticed the odd flight connections I had put down. When I filled out the online forms, there were no choices for European connection cities. So our flights said we were going from Chicago to Boston to Barcelona, lol. Well they caught it anyway, and corrected for me while we were on the phone.

 

[nzdisneymom]

Carol - glad you got the flight info corrected with DCL. I wonder if they'll change their online check-in forms now?

We also have the morning with the Costa Smeralda tour.

We saw my brother this weekend who will be taking us to the airport and figured out what time we need to leave from his house to arrive within my comfort zone. So that's one more thing to cross of my list.

I found out today that to do the online "hold" form for our mail, we cannot fill it out until two weeks before we go, so two weeks from Monday I'll have to do that. But I did get the newspaper stop order issued!

I started marking the kids' items for camp - that's my next big thing. This week is Vacation Bible School each evening and then the boys go to camp on Sunday for all of next week, so my packing efforts need to be toward camp. I did find some more long pants for them while we were visiting my family out of town this weekend, so they'll have them for church and for the cruise! I had to get "husky" so they'll have some room; otherwise they complain.

And I saw JC Penney has the shorts on sale that I just bought one pair of last week and love, so I think we'll go by after church tomorrow and see if they have my size in another color - I'd like one more pair, really, for the trip.

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads here!

 

[CarolAnnC]

Happy Fathers Day to the Dads, too!

We will be heading out to a nice restaurant for dinner soon. Still busy assembling cruise items in the guest room. Going to go through today and take inventory again lol.

Hope everyone has a nice day!

 

[scottishwee35]

Good Morning Everybody

Hope you had a lovely day yesterday for Father's Day.

Yesterday my mother in law had a trip with her RAF club and I went with her and it was lovely day as it was at Fife. What a beautiful day and lovely beach with boats. I forgot my camera.

My daughter Olivia got an appointment for hospital for check up for her cochlear implant and she is getting another new equipment on 3 July.
Perfect, as her old equipment, hanging on her vest and she is fed up with it as look awful, when she wear a dress and show the box which is bulky front of her dress.

So new equipment will be behind her ear, no more pocket vest!!

Prefect for holiday. I hope it will work out okay.

(Olivia was born profoundly deaf and she had no hearing at all then she had a cochlear implant when she was 2 and half years old. Turn out she love it and start talking, listen very well and some sign too.)

Scottishwee35

 

[nzdisneymom]

So new equipment will be behind her ear, no more pocket vest!!

Prefect for holiday. I hope it will work out okay.

That's awesome -- and enough before the trip to make sure everything is working properly! I know she's excited!

 

[tinkerbell_29]

Good Morning Everybody


My daughter Olivia got an appointment for hospital for check up for her cochlear implant and she is getting another new equipment on 3 July.
Perfect, as her old equipment, hanging on her vest and she is fed up with it as look awful, when she wear a dress and show the box which is bulky front of her dress.

So new equipment will be behind her ear, no more pocket vest!!

Prefect for holiday. I hope it will work out okay.

(Olivia was born profoundly deaf and she had no hearing at all then she had a cochlear implant when she was 2 and half years old. Turn out she love it and start talking, listen very well and some sign too.)

Scottishwee35

That's great!!! I know how it is to be selfconcious about medical equipment. It's great they have one that can go behind the ear. Hope everything works out ok.
Lissa

 

[todds34]

Good Morning Everybody

Hope you had a lovely day yesterday for Father's Day.

Yesterday my mother in law had a trip with her RAF club and I went with her and it was lovely day as it was at Fife. What a beautiful day and lovely beach with boats. I forgot my camera.

My daughter Olivia got an appointment for hospital for check up for her cochlear implant and she is getting another new equipment on 3 July.
Perfect, as her old equipment, hanging on her vest and she is fed up with it as look awful, when she wear a dress and show the box which is bulky front of her dress.

So new equipment will be behind her ear, no more pocket vest!!

Prefect for holiday. I hope it will work out okay.

(Olivia was born profoundly deaf and she had no hearing at all then she had a cochlear implant when she was 2 and half years old. Turn out she love it and start talking, listen very well and some sign too.)

Scottishwee35

Thats good news Deborah , I hope the new equipement works well for Olivia and its great timing for the cruise.

I did the cancer research race for life with my DD yesterday in memory of my Mum, my DD beat me by 5 minutes as she ran the last 1k but I didn't even attempt that and stayed at the quick walking pace. We managed to raise £264 so we both feel really pleased with ourselves .

Only 29 days to go .

Andrea

 

[scottishwee35]

Andrea

WELL DONE to you both for cancer research race for life. That was excellent that you had managed to raise £264

29 DAYS

Yes, Olivia is exciting to get new equipment



Scottishwee35

 

[tinkerbell_29]

Ok I have gone door sign crazy. I started by just making a couple and now we have a ton of them. I think I need serious intervention here to solve the sign problem. Quick question what are ya'll wearing on the plane? I'm doing a packing list and I'm trying to decide what to wear. I can't decide between capris or pants.
Lissa

 

[RJMOMSusan]

Hi Lissa,

What kind of door signs are you making? Sounds interesting..

Susan

 

[DisTeach]

Since I'm afraid of over packing, I was just going to wear something on the plane that could double as exercise clothes or pajamas for the trip. So, I was thinking like jogger shorts and t-shirt. I'm not really worried about looking absolutely fabulous for the long plane ride from Chicago!

 

[shortkathleen]

I am wearing a jogging suit (capri length and it has a short sleeve jacket). It is made from that terry cloth material that will be supper comfy for sleeping on the plane. They seem to be all over the place this season. Good luck finding something.
Kathleen

 

[nzdisneymom]

I'm wearing pants and a short-sleeve polo-type shirt. The pants are extremely comfortable and also wear well - I figure I'll just continue to wear them on Tuesday after we arrive and perhaps just change and put a clean shirt on after we get to the hotel. I was thinking about having the kids wear a pair of sweatpants in case it's cool on the plane - they will be comfortable for them, but then I may just have them wear some jersey-knit shorts that are just as comfy (and knee length) - especially since I think their sweat pants are too short now.

So my question is this -- our flight leaves at 8 p.m Eastern which is like 2 a.m. Barcelona time. I'm thinking we should try to sleep on the first part of the flight so that as we get nearer to Barcelona, we can be waking up a couple of hours before our flight lands which would be about 5 a.m. our time / 11 am. their time. Is that right? Or should we just sleep whenever and sort it out when we get there?

Has anyone read reports about getting euros at the BCN airport? Just wondering what their rate has been / ease of exchange. Are you all getting travelers checks or just going with the old ATM card?

 

[smilis]

Hi all,
Out of curiosity why are some of you cancelling out on th Marseilles City tour? Feedback from cruiser's reviews on the excursions or what?

Lissa, you sound very ambitious with all your door sign making. I hadn't even thought of those. When we were on one of the membe cruises they gave us this nice magnetic life buoy door sign where we could put our picture. What sort of signs have you been making? Share some of your creativity

As for what I'm wearing on the plane, haven't got a clue yet, even though the rest of my clothes list is complete. I picked up a new purse that I'm thinking of bringing, but I will have to make sure it goes with enough of my outfits.

The countdown is going too fast for me

Sandy

 

[colleenlg]

I've got a few questions that I wonder if some of you more experienced cruisers can help me out with...

First, I've read on some of the boards about DISers bringing little gifts for their fellow DISers. Is this something that everyone does? Like what types of things would I bring?

I've also read about people decorating their doors. Does everyone do this, or can I skip it? What would I bring - or can I buy something onboard?

I've cancelled a few of my Disney shore excursions in favor of doing the day ourselves or getting a private guide. I'm concerned about over-scheduling our 2-y-old DD, but then I figure with a private tour we can take it at our own pace, right? If we schedule an 8-hour private tour, we could come back early or ask them to just drive around if DD falls asleep, right? I guess I'm just looking for some reassurance...??? I can't imagine staying on the boat when we could be out exploring Europe!