June 1, 2013 Let's Get This Party Started!

[eeyoremommy]

We just booked today. It will be DH, DS (9 at the time), and me. We just sailed on the 6/9 cruise on the Fantasy. This cruise will be our fourth on Disney. By the time we sail, it will be DS' and my 12th cruise overall and DH's 10th cruise. We've done the Eastern Caribbean on the Magic and have been to St. Thomas and St. Maarten on several other cruises. Both places are very nice. St. Thomas is great because for those attached to internet and cell service, most carriers allow you to use your phone, etc. just like at home (with it being a U.S. territory).

 

[tinkerbell 766]

Can we join in please!!!???
We booked yesterday and we are so excited!!! It is my and two friends 50th birthdays in 2013 and we plan to celebrate all together on the Fantasy. It will be our very first Disney cruise!!!
Cast
Me (Joanne)
DH (Paul)
DS (Alfie aged 13 at time of cruise)
DD (Emily)
DD's partner (Craig)
My friend Tracey
Her partner Steve
My friend Karen
We have a oceanview deluxe with veranda on deck 10 (10618). Is this a good stateroom to have?
We are really looking forward to it!!! After we disembark we are going to CBR for a week's fun at WDW!!!! Woohoo!!!

 

[MrPink]

We can't wait for the cruise as we have heard so much about the new ships. This will be our third DCL cruise and second time in the EC. Great to see so many people posting so early.

 

[munchkin322]

We were supposed to go on June 2 fantasy cruise this year but decided to postpone it until next year because we are going to Disneyland in September!! (running the half marathon to get my FIRST Coast2Coast!!!)

It will be just me (Emy) and my hubby (Jeff) and this will be our 3rd DCL cruise!! I'm so EXCITED!!!

 

[munchkin322]

Anyone plan on doing Fish extender?.

YES! I'm interested! We were like kids on Christmas day every time we saw goodie bags on the FE!! And was also fun to walk around the ship putting my gift on FE!!

 

[DVCisME]

HI! We are so excited!!!! This is our first cruise. It is me, DH, DSs (9 &6). We are celebrating our 10th anniversary (June 1).

Anything we should know? LOL

Has anyone ever been nervous leaving their kids in the kid clubs? We don't usually do that sort of thing, but thought that we might all like it .

Nice to meet everyone!

 

[MrPink]

HI! We are so excited!!!! This is our first cruise. It is me, DH, DSs (9 &6). We are celebrating our 10th anniversary (June 1).

Anything we should know? LOL

Has anyone ever been nervous leaving their kids in the kid clubs? We don't usually do that sort of thing, but thought that we might all like it .

Nice to meet everyone!

You should have no worries about leaving your kids in the kids club. Our daughter has loved the kids club on both our cruises. The counselors are very good and the kids make friends quickly. The hardest thing about putting the kids in the kid club is trying to get them to leave the club and go to dinner or the shows. Once they go in they have so much fun that they won't want to leave.

 

[llnolte]

Hi everyone! This will be our fourth Disney cruise and our second Eastern. We love the ports and the three sea days. It will be me, DH, DD (17), and DD (14). My parents are also joining us. They just love the Disney service like we do! Can't wait!

And for DVCisME-try to do Palo or Remy one night to celebrate your anniversary. You will love it!

 

[blueladybug]

Hi everyone. Just found yesterday that we are going on this cruise. My in-laws surprised us with a family cruise. I can't wait. This is our 2nd Disney Cruise. There will be 9 of us joining all of you.
Myself
DH
DS (15 at time of cruise)
DD (11)
DMIL
DFIL
DN(nephew) - will turn 17 on June 1st
DN(nephew)- 11
DN (nephew)- 10

And we want to join the FE. We had so much fun last time we participated.
Looking forward to meeting all of you.
Pam

 

[DVC Jen]

Hi everyone! We just booked for this cruise. I am so excited!

This will be my family's third DCL cruise. We have been on the Magic in 2006, then the Magic again this past May. So looking forward to being on the Fantasy.

My family - Me- Jennifer (46), DH- Ian (49), DD-Kylie (24) and DD-Emily (20).

We will be celebrating my husband finishing his Doctoral program and Emily getting here Associates of Arts in Dance (off to pursue her bachelors the next school year - leaving home too :cry: )

We would love to join the FE group if one is planned. We did this on our May cruise and had a BLAST! Soo much fun .

Is there a FB page for us yet? I am really looking forward to getting to know everyone.

 

[blueladybug]

Welcome Jen! I love the facebook group idea. We had that with my previous cruise and it was a great place to communicate and update our FE list. I really hope there is enough people who want to participate in the FE. We had a blast the last time.

 

[DVC Jen]

Thanks. I went ahead and created a group on FB for us.

Just do a search for "Disney Fantasy Cruise June 1. 2013 and request to join.

Here is a link - if that helps https://www.facebook.com/groups/143572539114041/

I really hope we have enough interested in doing the FE as well. If we only have a few families maybe instead of just doing one gift we can do 2 and deliver them on 2 different days. Guess we will just have to wait and see if the group takes off as we get closer to June 1st.

 

[DVC Jen]

I have started a Fish Extender list for all of those wanting to participate. This is a lot of fun and doesn't have to be overly time consuming or costly. We had a ball this past May on the Magic doing this. Nearly every time we went back to our stateroom we had a little something in our FE. Just added to the excitement of the cruise.

If anyone is not sure how it works - just ask. If anyone would like to take over being in charge of it - I am very willing to step aside.

Just thought I would get the ball rolling since we can now say less than ten months to go!!!

If you do want to participate just let me know your the names in your stateroom/s and or party. I will need ages for the children as well as your stateroom number.

If you don't want to publicly announce this - totally understandable. Just send me a PM and I will get you on the list.

Also - if you are celebrating anything special let me know so I can add that.

And remember we have a Facebook page set up if you would like to join. There is a link a few posts up - or if you need another just let me know.

You can do a search on June 1, 2013 Fantasy Cruise and it should pop up for you.

Is anyone else as excited as I am?

 

[disneymeister]

I sure am!! I have done fish extender twice and enjoyed it both times! My kids love it most of all!

I am super excited. Our kids start school on Wednesday and the best thing is.....when school is over this year CRUISE baby!!

Woooo hoooo!!

 

[amber25333]

I'm super excited about this cruise! This will be our first cruise ever. I've always dreaded crowds, but I've heard that with DCL I'll be having too great of a time to be bothered by it.

I'm also looking forward to the FE's. I'm not the craftiest, but I'm going to give it my best shot!

We are looking forward to a fabulous time in the Caribbean

Me: Amber
DH: Michael
DS: Noah (15)
DD: Olivia(5)

 

[DVC Jen]

Welcome to all the new fellow cruisers!

If you want to join the FE list please let me know. I will need the names of everyone in your party, as well as the ages of your kids. I will also need your stateroom number, and let me know if you are celebrating anything special so I can get that listed. I totally understand if you don't want to post this information here so just sent me a PM or join our FB group (link is up a few posts) and you can let me know there.

Only 296 more days!!!!!

 

[tinkerbell 766]

We would love to join the FE group please!!!!
Me (Joanne)
Hubby (Paul)
DS (Alfie aged 13)

Our state room number is 10618

Thank you so much!!!!

What happens now? Do we get a list nearer the sailing date of fellowbdisers for who we need to provide gifts, along with their stateroom numbers?

 

[DVC Jen]

We would love to join the FE group please!!!!
Me (Joanne)
Hubby (Paul)
DS (Alfie aged 13)

Our state room number is 10618

Thank you so much!!!!

What happens now? Do we get a list nearer the sailing date of fellowbdisers for who we need to provide gifts, along with their stateroom numbers?

yeah! I will add you right now.

In a few months as we get more people posting and joining in the FE group I will post a list - probably on our FB page - unless someone hasn't joined and wants it separately.. then I can email or message it to them.

I was also thinking of a cut off date of April 1st that would give us two months to make sure everything is completed and we haven't missed anyone. The last group I was a part of our cut off day was only about a month before we set sail. I personally thought that was kind of pushing it with May being such a busy month because of all the end of school activities.

However - this is OUR group - not mine. So if someone feels differently or wants me to post the list now with updates as they happen I can do that too.

Right now we have 8 staterooms (9 really but our DDs will do the FE with us so I am only counting us as 1 stateroom). That includes 15 adults (7 men and 8 women) 4 young adults (2 women ages 24 and 20 and two men ages 20 and 18), 15 children (3 girls ages 11, 10 and 5, - 12 boys ages 17, 16, 15, 15, 14, 14, 13, 11, 11, 10, 8 and 6)

 

[disnygirl55]

Please count us in for Fish Extender Fun!

DH - Shawn
DW - Leslie
DS - Michael (11)

We are in stateroom 12512.

Thanks for putting this together, Jen!

 

[DVC Jen]

Please count us in for Fish Extender Fun!

DH - Shawn
DW - Leslie
DS - Michael (11)

We are in stateroom 12512.

Thanks for putting this together, Jen!

I am adding you now!