June 20, 2009 Magic

[SSRJen]

Hey again,

Thanks for the welcome. Hope everyone had a great start to the New Year.

Since this is our first Eastern, we have a couple of questions.

Which night do you think would be best for Palo? Am I correct in that the rotational dining is not three nights in a row and instead is Rotation Menu, Golden Mikey Menu, Rotation Menu, Rotation Menu? We don't want to miss the show in Animators while at Palo!

 

[kidsmom]

This is going to be an "All Girls" trip for us. Our party will include:

Myself
My Sister
My Daughter - 17
My Nieces - 18 & 16
My Mom aka Grandma
My Sister-n-law

This will be a celebration of sorts as my one niece will have just graduated from HS, my daughter will be starting her Senior year in the fall and my other niece will be a Junior. We are leaving husbands and sons at home and are going to enjoy some girly time!

This will be my 5th time on DCL and my daughter's 4th. My mom has cruised before, but on a couple of other cruise lines. I will be interested to get her impression of DCL as compared to the others she has been on. The rest of our group has never cruised before, so this will be really exciting for them.

I am looking forward to sharing the excitement with all of you as we count down to June 20th!!!

 

[anewmac]

Hey again,

Thanks for the welcome. Hope everyone had a great start to the New Year.

Since this is our first Eastern, we have a couple of questions.

Which night do you think would be best for Palo? Am I correct in that the rotational dining is not three nights in a row and instead is Rotation Menu, Golden Mikey Menu, Rotation Menu, Rotation Menu? We don't want to miss the show in Animators while at Palo!

Well with my OCVP (Obsessive Complulsive Vacation Planning) I have a spreadsheet.. Thanks to my last cruise I kept the appearance but entered our cruise info thanks to past navigators. Heres a link, if it doesnt work let me know and I can email it to you, as its a google document.

http://www.4shared.com/file/78675688/f9f874bc/Cruise_2009.html

ok in the notes section it is based on us getting the PLLAPLA or LAAPLAP rotation. Im thinking of emailing my travel agent and asking to be put on the Pllapla as last time we were on LAAPLAP (loved it but thought we would try something different LOL)

This is going to be an "All Girls" trip for us. Our party will include:

Myself
My Sister
My Daughter - 17
My Nieces - 18 & 16
My Mom aka Grandma
My Sister-n-law

This will be a celebration of sorts as my one niece will have just graduated from HS, my daughter will be starting her Senior year in the fall and my other niece will be a Junior. We are leaving husbands and sons at home and are going to enjoy some girly time!

This will be my 5th time on DCL and my daughter's 4th. My mom has cruised before, but on a couple of other cruise lines. I will be interested to get her impression of DCL as compared to the others she has been on. The rest of our group has never cruised before, so this will be really exciting for them.

I am looking forward to sharing the excitement with all of you as we count down to June 20th!!!

WELCOME, and how exciting and fun. Would love to plan a trip like this but its just boys Im surrounded by LOL

Hi Im Drea, wife to E (Elbert) P (Phoenix 11), J (Justice 6). They dont know we have this planned and will find out the day we fly out. I think Im more excited to tell them then the actually cruise.. HAHA ok not really!

 

[kidsmom]

anermac:

Thank you for the awesome spreadsheet. Yes, I believe that you are OCVP, but that's okay because you definitely help those of us who wish we were!

In planning your dinner rotation is it possible to visit the same restaurant 2 nights in a row? In my past experience, we have always rotated to a different location each night and then repeated. I would like PLAPLAP because I like to be at Lumiere's on the Formal night and Parrot Cay after a day at Castaway Cay for the last night. I also like to do Palo's on the Thursday since it is semi-formal and I can forgo doing Animator's a second time.

Has anyone heard if Pirate night will change from Tuesday?

 

[anewmac]

Yes we had the same rotations in a row.. the new rotations are PLLAPLA, LAAPLAP, APPLAPL. (or at least that is how our Sept cruise was, and so far I havent heard them change it)...

and yes nothing is set in stone. Previously on our past cruise Pirate night was Tuesday but normally was Weds. since we were going to be in Cozumel later they moved pirate night to Tuesday. So you can tell by my spreadsheet it really messed up my plans LOL but in the end all worked out LOL

 

[dmi188]

Thanks for the spread sheet, Drea! It will be very helpful, as I am always frantic about the details, but too disorganized to get things together!

Welcome kidsmom! Sounds like a fun girls cruise! Would love to do that with my DD and DIL, but afraid DH would not be happy if I cruised without him!

 

[missyoh8]

Wow...what a change in dining rotation from what we have done on all of our other cruises? Was that a double dip or just the regular way now? I was under the impression that pirate night was on Tuesdays on the Eastern because St. Maarten would allow the fireworks. I wonder since we are not going there if it will change? I am not of the OCD planning group...quite the opposite these days. So I look forward to someone who is letting us know .

Still waiting on a good airfare too. One of my sisters booked a flight out for 119, we are waiting on something better as we have never paid that much one way.

 

[FairyGrandmother]

I Hope everyone had a Happy Holiday!

Hopefully after the start of the new year this group will pick up a lil.. Sorry not used to the quietness. My last group/1st cruise group was very chatty. We were on our 2nd thread by 6months out. In fact some of us still chat on it daily... we made great friendships, just by online chatting and then meeting on the ship.

Hope we can get f/e and/or secret mickey going with this group. It was a lot of fun and my boys loved going back to the room and seeing what was in our F/E.

Happy New Year all!!!!!

Hi Drea
Welcome to the group. We had a very active group on our cruise in September and I hope this one will get more into it. But even if the group stays small we can still get together at some time, either at the port or after we sail. The FEs on are last cruise were really great and planning for them helped bring the group together and helped generate intrest.

This cruise will inclued myself, Magie, daughter Michelle, and my grandaughters Bethanie 14 and Caitlin 9. The girls have never been on a cruise, or on any boat or ship. I think they are a little apprehensive about sea sickness but other then that are excited about the trip.

Our first trip to Disney was when Bethanie was only 4. We took 5 adults ( thought that was about the right ratio). It was a great trip. We have been back 5 times. Last year we went in December and stayed on property for the first time.This trip will also be all girls, My son David was not interested He is planning his own trip to Disney for next year (afraid Caiti will drag him on Its a Small World again). The girls lost their mother 18 months ago and their dad has other plans.

I am still hoping that someone will a 9 year old girl will join this group. Caitlin would love to meet someone online before we leave that she can get to know. Bethanie has already posted on this board.

Have to go now, back soon Magie

 

[Smileneyes]

Wow...what a change in dining rotation from what we have done on all of our other cruises? Was that a double dip or just the regular way now? I was under the impression that pirate night was on Tuesdays on the Eastern because St. Maarten would allow the fireworks. I wonder since we are not going there if it will change? I am not of the OCD planning group...quite the opposite these days. So I look forward to someone who is letting us know .

Still waiting on a good airfare too. One of my sisters booked a flight out for 119, we are waiting on something better as we have never paid that much one way.

Good luck on getting the fares. Sadly, we're pretty much locked into the highest fares in the country (thanks to a Delta monopoly in Cincinnati). We booked our flights 2 months ago, and (for roundtrip) they were $280 pp. So we decided to make it worthwhile and spend one more day in Orlando after we disembark (most likely going to do Disney Quest).

If someone would be so kind as to explain "fish extenders" or the Secret Mickey concept, that would be great!

P.S. Typically son doesn't start getting excited until about 90 days out. Today he couldn't resist and found Port Canaveral via "Google Maps", and saw the stock pic of one of the cruise ships in port.

 

[SSRJen]

Thanks for the spreadsheet! Wow, that is awesome. According to the spreadsheet and menus I have found, I think I might try to book Dinner during Golden Mickey's evening.

We booked our entire vacation finally! We are doing 4 nights at WDW prior to the cruise, the cruise and then 2 nights after the cruise at WDW. Airfare also came down quite a bit. We were able to book at $250 total per person. A good deal from CA!!! Whoohoo!

I am also an over planner and want to know exactly what we will be doing every day!! Glad to see I am not the only one.

 

[jencav5]

Thanks for the spreadsheet! Wow, that is awesome. According to the spreadsheet and menus I have found, I think I might try to book Dinner during Golden Mickey's evening.

We booked our entire vacation finally! We are doing 4 nights at WDW prior to the cruise, the cruise and then 2 nights after the cruise at WDW. Airfare also came down quite a bit. We were able to book at $250 total per person. A good deal from CA!!! Whoohoo!

I am also an over planner and want to know exactly what we will be doing every day!! Glad to see I am not the only one.

we r also from ca....i haven't gotten airfare yet...what part of ca r u coming from and what airline did u go with?

 

[SSRJen]

We are in Southern CA and flying with DELTA.

 

[Smileneyes]

Congratulations, fellow cruisers...exactly five months from today we'll be departing!!!

 

[Disneylovers]

Hi All!

I realized I haven't been checking in on this meet in a while! Today, we were at Woodfield Mall, and stopped in Doorway to Dreams to look at the models for BLT, and I realized that in 5 months, we'll be on the ship!!!! I figured I better check in here and see what I've been missing!

Being from the Chicago area, I've had enough of the cold, and snow, time to think about warm weather! I did manage to find a dress for formal night (gotta love year end clearance sales). DH asked me if I knew which night Pirate Night would be? When we did our Wonder Cruise last year, Pirate Night was the night before Nassau, where he was going scuba diving, so he didn't want to drink. He's hoping to dive again on this cruise, so he wants to see if he'll be able to drink this time! Does anyone know??

 

[bb528]

we just went on a western 1/10 - 1/17, today we booked this eastern to celebrate our anniversary, 13 yrs......requested our servers from the western, right now we have the late seating but that worked well (except eating then going to bed!!)

look forward to meeting some folks this trip...

 

[jencav5]

Hi All!

I realized I haven't been checking in on this meet in a while! Today, we were at Woodfield Mall, and stopped in Doorway to Dreams to look at the models for BLT, and I realized that in 5 months, we'll be on the ship!!!! I figured I better check in here and see what I've been missing!

Being from the Chicago area, I've had enough of the cold, and snow, time to think about warm weather! I did manage to find a dress for formal night (gotta love year end clearance sales). DH asked me if I knew which night Pirate Night would be? When we did our Wonder Cruise last year, Pirate Night was the night before Nassau, where he was going scuba diving, so he didn't want to drink. He's hoping to dive again on this cruise, so he wants to see if he'll be able to drink this time! Does anyone know??

not sure when pirate night will be, but my dh & i also scuba dive and will be diving on this cruise. does your dh go with the disney excursions or on his own? we have done both in the past....haven't decided yet on this trip.

 

[Disneylovers]

He goes with the Disney excursions. If for any reason something happens and there is a delay, he doesn't have to worry about missing the boat. It's worth any extra cost a Disney excursion would cost rather than booking it ourselves.

 

[Smileneyes]

Hi All!

I realized I haven't been checking in on this meet in a while! Today, we were at Woodfield Mall, and stopped in Doorway to Dreams to look at the models for BLT, and I realized that in 5 months, we'll be on the ship!!!! I figured I better check in here and see what I've been missing!

Being from the Chicago area, I've had enough of the cold, and snow, time to think about warm weather! I did manage to find a dress for formal night (gotta love year end clearance sales). DH asked me if I knew which night Pirate Night would be? When we did our Wonder Cruise last year, Pirate Night was the night before Nassau, where he was going scuba diving, so he didn't want to drink. He's hoping to dive again on this cruise, so he wants to see if he'll be able to drink this time! Does anyone know??

Everything I've read to this point indicates that Pirate Night will likely be Tuesday or Wednesday night, but more probably Tuesday night (which would be after leaving Tortola, I think).

 

[Leia's Mom]

I didn't see on this thread a cheat sheet of the first names/ ages of the people sailing. I'm willing to create if it hasn't already been done.

Just PM me the first names and ages of your group. If you are interested in doing the fish extender, let me know that as well, and I'll keep up a FE list as well.

As for us, we have a big group with 6 adults and 4 kids. Should be fun!

 

[Leia's Mom]

I will update this list as I get more information.

The attendees of our cruise are, as of now, below:

Amy (Leia’s Mom) (me), Shane (DH), Leia (DD) (11), Talia (DD) (5) – FE participant
Jean , Eric, Logan (DS) (7), Mallory (DD) (5) -- FE participant
Georgia (grandma) and Amy (friend)
Pat (Disneylovers), John (DH) Jenny (21), Mary (16)
Liz (CBEB) (DW), Charlie (DH), Lizzie (12) – FE participant
Drew (Smileneyes), Matthew (DS) (16)
Mary (DVC Mary), Scott (DH), Liam (12), Patrick turns 9 on the cruise!