July 6th, 2010- 5 Night Wonder

[m&m's mom]

OK, are we the only ones going on this cruise?
This seems late for a Meet Thread but I thought I would start one.
We have not actually booked yet but plan to this week. We cancelled a 12 day RCCL Med cruise and were looking for something else to do and voila! DCL came to mind.

There will be me (44) DH, (55) and DD's 10 and turning 14 on the cruise.
My parents, My sister and her family and my SiL and niece.

Anyone else or we will have the ship to oursleves?

 

[IrishCowboy]

I have added your thread to the cruise meet list

 

[m&m's mom]

I have added your thread to the cruise meet list

Thanks! Now let's see if I will have the ship to myself.

 

[Tink rules]

I'm hoping to be on the cruise... but I have to talk my brother into letting me borrow my nephew... I'll let you know...


Thanks for starting the thread!!! (I was beginning to wonder too...)

 

[MN Dis Fans]

I booked these dates last night!

In our troop, there is me the DH , DW , and 2x DS's They will be 15x & 12x at cruise time. Mind you, the younger one will be 1x month shy of the BIG 13!

We're also currently booked on the 12 night Baltic departing the same date, but are having some serious 2nd thoughts about this one. I'm about 90% sure we'll be cancelling Europe for this year, but we'll be making the "final" decision within the next week or so. I just don't feel right about spending $20k+ on a vacation right now.

We'll keep you all posted.

 

[m&m's mom]

I booked these dates last night!

In our troop, there is me the DH , DW , and 2x DS's They will be 15x & 12x at cruise time. Mind you, the younger one will be 1x month shy of the BIG 13!

We're also currently booked on the 12 night Baltic departing the same date, but are having some serious 2nd thoughts about this one. I'm about 90% sure we'll be cancelling Europe for this year, but we'll be making the "final" decision within the next week or so. I just don't feel right about spending $20k+ on a vacation right now.

We'll keep you all posted.

This was our case almost exactly. We had a big family trip planned for a Med cruise on RCCL. The cruise was not the issue as it was the airfare and times of flights that were killing us. The only flight that worked perfectly for us was almost $2,000 each and in just my family of 4 that would be close to $8,000.
There was also the extra time to build in for the new security procedures in foreign airports, the cruddy Euro exchange rate, the heat and crowds of the summer etc. Just was not meshing and it was not worth the $20,000+ we were going to have to spend either.
So since we all had off work that time we looked for an option closer to home that would still be a lot of fun.

 

[Tink rules]

I think a lot of people are rethinking the cruises in Europe this year...

 

[m&m's mom]

I forgot to say we actually booked! We have 5 cabins deck 6 forward.
I am disappointed to only be spending 5 nights on board instead of 12 and the cruise is almost as expensive as the RCCL 12 night but.... looking forward to being on the Wonder again.
We are all going to going to WDW afterwards for a few days so that will be worth it!

 

[Tink rules]

5 cabins... WOW...

If I get to book (talk my brother into it...)

I will be me and my nephew Will who will be just shy of 14 so I'm hoping to put him in the teen club (he'll be 14 that Sept) and goes to camp and such with older kids so he'll handle it good.

I am from the Albany NY area and my nephew lives in Teaneck NJ...

 

[MN Dis Fans]

Our DS's hockey season and the Olympics will be over this weekend. Then I can REALLY start to post here. Where are all the other cruisers?

 

[Tink rules]

Not that we don't love company... but I do believe you need to go to this thread... Have fun on the Baltic!!!

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1975441

 

[MN Dis Fans]

This is the cruise we are going on instead of the European one. It is pretty sure now.

 

[Tink rules]

Silly me... I got confused by the picture in your signature!!!

 

[MN Dis Fans]

Yep, it's pretty much decided! We'll be on this one.

I'll be cancelling the 12-night Northern Baltic on Monday;

On the upside, we snagged the 3x SPH's on the starboard side of the ship, so we're going to bring Grandpa & Grandma along as well.

I managed to book all 6x tickets with frequent flier miles, use DVC for our 4x nights pre-cruise, and intend on using RCI for our 3x nights post cruise. So, despite the extortionate? prices for the 5x night cruise, I reckon this will still cost us about 1/2 the price all in of doing the Europe thing.

DW is all excited about FE exchanges, so hopefully a few more cruisers decide to join us!

 

[m&m's mom]

Hey! Welcome one and all!
We ended up with 4 cabins as most of my college ages nieces and nephews are in special camps and internships over the summer.
If we do a FE, this might be the smallest one ever.
On the last cruise I was on, there were almost 100 cabins on the FE exchange. Took us forever to distribute but on the up side, we did get the see the whole ship.

Coral

 

[MN Dis Fans]

100 FEs?!? Wow! I am impressed. I bet everyone had a great time with that. Awesome.

 

[m&m's mom]

It was just the funnest group of pirates ever! But getting all the FE's to the ship, distributing them and taking all we got back- was quite a chore.
This will be my 1st time cruising w/ teenagers. I am a little nervous since I am the travel planner of the group.
Sure hope they are not bored.

 

[Tink rules]

I did 135... HANDMADE... FE gifts... for the WBPC repo...

Now I can say... NEVER AGAIN!!!!

 

[Tink rules]

Hey! Welcome one and all!
We ended up with 4 cabins as most of my college ages nieces and nephews are in special camps and internships over the summer.
If we do a FE, this might be the smallest one ever.
On the last cruise I was on, there were almost 100 cabins on the FE exchange. Took us forever to distribute but on the up side, we did get the see the whole ship.

Coral

Well... all we need is a couple more people and we've got it...

 

[m&m's mom]

No one said anythig about making anything. There is no way I would have the patience to actually make something. I was an excellent purchaser.