JULY 8TH 2006 - Eastern Magic - 070806 - 07082006 - 20060708

[StuartMI]

Anyone else on this one? DW and myself will be with 9 friends of ours taking up two cat 6's and two cat 8's on Deck 6 fore.

 

[StuartMI]

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[StuartMI]

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[ljql_5969]

Hello. This is my first time to this board. My DH and I and are 2 DS are traveling with my parents, my sister and her husband and son, my brother and his family, and my husband's sister and her family, and my niece. There are a total of 18 of us.

We are in 5 category 11 staterooms on deck #6.

Can't wait to go!

 

[StuartMI]

Welcome welcome!

Where are all the other 7/8/06 cruisers!

Our group is 11 in size ranging from 60+ years down to a 7 y/o. Always great cruising with a gang of folks! The time is counting down quickly!

 

[ljql_5969]

I have spoken with a few others on the cruise line forum so I know there are others out there!

Our ages (at the time of sailing) will be : 6, 6, 9, 10, 10, 12, 15, 26, 34, 35, 35, 41, 45, 45, 46, 46, 67, 75

The 9 year old and the 12 year old (my brother's kids) will actually be celebrating their brithdays onboard so they will officially be 8 and 11 the weekend we board!

I cannot wait! This will be our first DCL cruise although not the first cruise for my DH and I or my parents. The remainder of the group have never been on a cruise. It sure is expensive to go in July! But, we really wanted to go as a whole family and so that limits the time of year when we can go. I hope it is worth it! (I mean I know I will enjoy it, I am just hoping that the rest of my family does since I am the planner).

From your signature it looks like you have been a couple of times. I guess I will be trying to benefit from your expertise. Have you always gone during the summer?

 

[StuartMI]

I have spoken with a few others on the cruise line forum so I know there are others out there!

I wish they would stop lurking and show themselves!

The 9 year old and the 12 year old (my brother's kids) will actually be celebrating their brithdays onboard so they will officially be 8 and 11 the weekend we board!

Yes, we will have one birthday a week after the cruise so we are celebrating it on board, too. It's actually for the eldest member of the group so she should get a kick out of it.

It sure is expensive to go in July! But, we really wanted to go as a whole family and so that limits the time of year when we can go.

Same with us. My wife and I always cruise in October/November and the only reason we're going in July is because the rest of our group isn't "available" any other time. They all have kids and can only go when school is out. As for prices, I posted a message on this over on the main cruise boards--we booked in October of 2004 and since then the price on our 4 staterooms has gone up just under $7000!

From your signature it looks like you have been a couple of times. I guess I will be trying to benefit from your expertise.

Have only been on one cruise--A 4 day. This October is our 2nd one (also a 4 day) and next July is our first 7-day so we're newbies as well!

 

[ljql_5969]

I wish I realized that the schedules came out that early! I booked in February thinking we were early. For my DH, me and my 2 kids, we paid $5212 for a category 11 (without air)! Not sure if the prices has gone up much since then. I wonder what the prices were when they first came out in October? On second thought, maybe I don't want to know. Everyone in my family is okay with spending that because they all agreed to go but I still would have liked to save some money.

When we first started thinking of cruising (in early 2004), we went to AAA to get prices and none were out for 2005. Well, then in March or April of last year, the prices came out and it was for California. So, AAA told me that the prices for 2006 would come out around the same time this year so that is why I waited. Now I am kicking myself.

I have thought about suggesting to everyone to wait until 2007 but don't think I could do that to the kids for a second year in a row since they thought we were going this summer and now they are all set to go next summer!

 

[agirlinflorida]

Hello there! My family and I will be on this cruise too. So far we've managed to get together about 42 people spread out all over the ship in different catagories. I'm wondering what they will do with us at dinner! Try not to worry so much about the cost. We booked early (snagged 4 of the SPH's ) and we still paid a lot more than I would have liked to. But if you are cruising with kids and you don't want them to miss school , you really don't have much choice. Besides, you have over a year to pay for it! This will be our 4th Disney cruise and we can't wait. My youngest DD will be celebrating her 8th birthday on board.

ljql_5969: glad to see your posts! I've been meaning to send you a post to see how the planning is going. Wish we were there already!

 

[StuartMI]

42 people? Direct them over to this thread! Welcome!

 

[ljql_5969]

Yeah for your daughter. I think a birthday onboard will be fun. We have 2 kids in our party celebrating that week also.

Planning is going pretty well. I am still sending my monthly Disney emails to my family to keep them up-to-date. I have been a little concerned as of late with the passport talk, but we'll see. I am just hoping nobody in my family drops out if they have to incur this extra cost. So far my travel agent has said no dates are definite yet. She said they are just suggested dates.

My parents already have theirs because they went to Italy. Mine is expired and the rest of the people going do not have one at all.

I have been keeping them up-to-date about that and the possible cost. I just wish the government would make up their minds and say something definite. Everyone on the boards makes it sound definite which I think it will be eventually, but the website that everyone is referring to just says that they are suggested implementation dates. Who knows?

Glad to see you joined the thread!

And I wish our countdown was closer too! especially now with all of the updates on disneycruise.com. I am ready to make my Palo reservations!

 

[MBFergie]

Thank god I found you all...me and family are have DCL withdraws this summer with the cruise heading west. Until a few minutes ago I forgot what our cruise date was, I just called DCL and was thrilled to find out my fellow cruisers have started to chat. This will be cruise #4 for us, we booked it last summer onboard.

I will be crusing with DH, DD (15 at cruise time) and DS (10 at cruise time). I know my DD would love to start a link for all the kids who will be in "the stack" to chat. She has made alot of friends in the past on board and thru the disboard.

So since we have a year to wait .. sob, sob ;-( I look forward to getting to know ya'll.

Where is everybody from, we live in South Florida.

Marie

 

[ljql_5969]

The majority of my group is from Louisville, Ky. We have one family that is from Southern Indiana. We have 1 boy that will be 15 at the time of the sailing also. I will see if I can convince him to jump on board and check out some messages.

We also have some 10 year olds going! I cannot wait. This is our first DCL cruise!

 

[StuartMI]

DW and I live in Ann Arbor, MI. The rest of our gang (9 of them) are from Virgil, Ontario, Canada right near Niagara Falls.

They will be bringing two boys that will be 11 and 9 and one girl who will be 7 at TOS.

 

[agirlinflorida]

We have 3 families coming from North Florida and the rest are coming from Virginia and West Virginia. We have a lot of children going, ranging in age from 4 to 16.

I'm bummed about the Disney cruise heading west too. We've been on a Disney Cruise every summer for the past 3 years. I wanted to do a 3 day this month, but Florida Resident rates never came out. (We're headed to Disney in a couple of weeks for a soccer tournament, so at least we'll get to see Mickey this summer! ) I've been hesitating on the passports too, especially for the children since they don't last as long.

I need to start a news letter for our bunch too. I'm certain most of them don't know about this website.

 

[ljql_5969]

I talked to our 15 year old sailor and I am trying to convince him to hop online and chat. Does yur daughter have her own screen name or will she use yours?

 

[MBFergie]

***** TEENS CLICK BELOW FOR YOUR OWN THREAD****

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=817692

 

[MBFergie]

oops...

 

[StuartMI]

I'll pass this link along to my friends kids - they aren't teens yet but maybe they will want to chat too.

While I'm thinking about it -- what room/category is everyone in? Maybe we can start keeping a tally?

How about you reply back with your names and ages of each person as well as cabin number. Perhaps we can get a good game is DIS Tag going!

I'll start for our group:

Cat 8 - 6524 - Stuart (30) & Melissa (32)
Cat 8 - 6526 - Patricia (67) & Adam (11) & Andrew (9)
Cat 6 - 6528 - Jim (38) & Melanie (32) & Hunter (2)
Cat 6 - 6530 - John (42) & Michele (42) & Janyn (7)

 

[suRfergiRl91]

Cat 9 Room 2??? Me-Marie (42) Tim (42) Nick (10) Elizabeth (15)

I wanted to add the best things from past cruises:
deck 4 chairs
watching kids have unstructured FUN and spending time with them
palos on the last night (our tradition)
playing..OK, losing at bingo