June 6, 2009--Anybody going?

[ranidayz]

You guys are soooo lucky to have Lia (Lrensin) and her family on your cruise! We've been friends since college and she's the best! Have fun everyone -- I'll be so jealous....not going again until spring 2010!

 

[kat123]

Taffygirl-
You could copy post #36 and edit it to your post #1 and then it would be easier to see who has jumped on board the June Bug cruise

Let me know if you'd like to do this or if you need help

Remember it is NOT to late to join our merry group

Grandma Debby - TaffyGirl (Mom to me) is crusing the Baltic Sea right now, but once she returns I can help her to copy the post #36 to the 1st post

Her current cruise updates now are getting the kids (and me) anxious for June!!

 

[Taffygirl]

Grandma Debby - TaffyGirl (Mom to me) is crusing the Baltic Sea right now, but once she returns I can help her to copy the post #36 to the 1st post

Her current cruise updates now are getting the kids (and me) anxious for June!!

I'm back and yep, will need help in the copying post #36 to post#1. Just let me know exactly what I need to do.

The Baltic cruise was wonderful and I know the Disney Magic one with all the fellow June Bugs will be great too. Was happy to see more posting on here. Hooray!

 

[Taffygirl]

I'm back and yep, will need help in the copying post #36 to post#1. Just let me know exactly what I need to do.

The Baltic cruise was wonderful and I know the Disney Magic one with all the fellow June Bugs will be great too. Was happy to see more posting on here. Hooray!

Hey! I figured it out all by my lonesome!!! Woohoo Hopefully others will add their information as they join in. What fun!

 

[Grandma Debby]

Taffy Girl Welcome back to America Hope you enjoyed your Baltic cruise and thanks for adding the list to post #1 Only you can edit your posts but I know that you'll be glad to add cruisers to our list Only 5 more months till I start making reservations for Palo, Flounder's Reef for my 1 year old granddaughter and excursions so I need to start looking at schedules Does anybody think they will change the order of special nights - formal, pirates, etc.? It will be interesting to see what the January cruises do with the new cruises added to the schedule - I just can't wait! I just can't wait to meet you all in person

 

[Taffygirl]

OK, I will add information to post #1 as we get new folks on this thread. Anyone not listed in that post, please post your information and I will add it. I think folks are giving their names, names and ages of kids, and where they're from.

Grandma Debby, we want to make reservations for Palo also. When exactly can we do this and also, what is the current schedule on a 7-night Disney cruise (formal nights, pirate night, etc.)? I think pirate night on the 4-night cruise was on the same day as Castaway Cay, but I'm not sure. Also, how does one go about making the Palo reservation? Do we go through our TA or online on the Disney cruise web site or call someplace?

I think we also want to make reservations for the character buffet; how do we do that? Any help and advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[CRUIZEN MAMMA]

Sorry I haven't been around lately, but please add me to the list we are:

Cruizen mamma- Dottie
DH- Mike
DS- turning 9 in 2 wks - Jake

Ocala, Fl


We are driving to Port Canaveral -Thurs the 4th and staying at the Four Points Sheraton-
Hurricane Faye had me a little worried although we had no real damage in our area ,school was called for 4 days - luckily the make up days were not tacked on at the end of the year. So plans are right on track.

We are planning Palo dinner and brunch, the character breakfast depends on your dining rotation -and are on the at sea days- your servers are suppose to let you know when yor character breafast will be.

Is anyone planning to get really dressed up for formal night?


I promise to check back in more often


Cruizen mamma

 

[Grandma Debby]

Welcome Cruizen Mamma and family Glad you jumped on board.
We are not going to dress up as much on this cruise because we are flying so will be paying for every bag we haul down. We are going to WDW for a week before the cruise and with 3 girls we will have to bring tons of clothes and STUFF so we are thinking about black pants with different tops for the adults. I'm sure we won't dress up as much for pirate night either because costumes take up lots of room. So glad Hurricane Faye didn't hit you hard.

Taffygirl- suites and returning cruisers (CC members) can make reservations earlier so we can reserve at 105 days out. We have a concierge staff person who takes down all our info and then makes the reservations for us. In the past my travel agent has made reservations for us and did a great job
and I've also made my own reservations - just remember to link all the reservations for your group.

I think we are leaning toward brunch at Palo during Sea Day 2 (Monday) so we can relax on Sunday after a week at WDW. Nothing definite yet because I'm waiting to see if they change the order of Pirate Night to work with the other Eastern trips. Character breakfasts are assigned to you - always a sea day.

As I find out info I will share and I hope others will do the same. Have a great day

 

[disneydka]

hey all, we are firt time cruisers so we won't be able to book anything until 75 days out, March 23rd by my count. Not planning much for excursions, trying to pinch pennies, had a slower year this year at work than would have liked...probably plannig to get pretty dressed up for formal night so that DD16 can get extra use of her prom dress..we are driving down so luggage not much of an issue, would like to get dressed up for pirate night too, gonna catch some halloween sales. I've been reading a bit about fish extenders and exchanges. Looks like creating the extenders is a neat little crafting project. I am not much of a seamstress but my dd and I have talked about starting.

 

[Taffygirl]

Grandma Debby, thanks for the info on making Palo reservations. DH and I are CC Members, but DD and her family are not. Can we make reserves for her and her DH to dine with us at Palo? Is that what you meant by linking reservations?

Cruizen Mamma, I've added your info. Thanks.

 

[PattiO]

Hi! Everyone Add eleven of us to your list! This will be our third Disney Cruise and believe me we can't wait!! Cruising will be my DD who will be 20, my 2 DS's who will be 18 and soon to be 13 and myself. Also my parents and my 87 year old grandma who is a kid at heart! My brother and sister in law and niece 8 and nephew 7. We are from a small central Illinois town and after the Long Cold winter we will be ready for the Eastern Wonder! We have been on the Western in 2005 and were just teased last year when we took the 3 day to the Bahamas, it left us screaming for more, more , more!!!! Not sure what excursions yet just excited that we booked it! Patti

 

[GoofyYankeeGirl8]

Hello.
I'm the 16 yr old DD of disneydka.
i have a brother who at the time of the cruise will be 7 1/2 and i'm not sure if my mother had mentioned this or not, but I'm sure he'd be quite extatic to talk to someone around his age to play with. Let me know if you're interested.

 

[GoofyYankeeGirl8]

PattiO,
I was attempting to PM you, but seeing as I just joined today, I haven't quite gotten 10 posts, so I can't.
I'm the 16 yr old DD of disneydka [[as previously stated]] I'm actually JUST getting used to this, so pardon me EVERYONE for having mulitple posts.
I noticed that you have a DS attending that will be 18 by time of the cruise. I've been desperately searching for someone that will be around my age going on the cruise. i'll be 16, turning 17 within the same month. I was wondering if by any chance you knew of any other teenagers, around our age, that are going.

so yeah. if anyone knows of anyone around our age, or anyone who can give a first time cruiser any advice, i'm willing to listen!!
pm me if you can, idk if i can recieve pms or not yet...but i guess we shall find out.

 

[mousecraszy]

Could someone please expand on the "FE Etiquette". I understand making the pouch-thingy that hangs from the little fish outside your stateroom. But what about your gifting. Do you gift every night? Seems like I would forget to this at least one of the nights...LOL!!! Can't believe we are just over 8 months now. Looking forward to a great cruise. Thanks in advance for educating me.

 

[lrensin]

OK - so I am the WORST board poster in the world! I don't know how you all have time to do this, but I really am going to try to be better about it. My friend (as you saw) has nothing but wonderful things to say not only about the cruise, but about the people I will meet on this board. As a newbie cruiser, I am also clueless on any dress up days/nights, this FE thing, or anything else I need to know. I think the fact that it's Oct. is misleading me because it feels like forever until we go. But, I know that it'll take some preparation, so I need to get all of your sage advice.

I hope you don't take my inability to post regularly against me. I will definitely try to be more a part of the community in the future.

Take care everyone!
~Lia

 

[Grandma Debby]

Happy Halloween

Decided to take a few minutes before we take off for trick or treating to check in - my 4 year old granddaughter is SNow White this year and we are afraid her costume won't fit next June so don't know if we'll bring princess dresses or not - the little girls are so sweet dressed up in costumes and the characters are SUPER about taking pictures with them so IF you're driving and IF you have princess dresses you might think about bringing them

So glad to see our group growing - thanks to Taffy Girl for keeping us updated.

My granddaughter Sierra is writing to Emily (one of the girls on the cruise) and they can't wait to meet each other and I can't wait to meet all of you - let's think about a short and sweet meet and greet on Saturday after the life boat drill or on Sunday (sea day) - it is so much fun to see people on the ship and on the shore that you know and can swap stories with

Let's keep it simple on the fish extender game also - I'd be willing to start it and put gifts in each fish extender along with a list of who's playing the game and their cabin numbers and then you could put your gifts in each FE when it was convenient for you - think about it and we will decide everything in the spring

Enjoy your trick or trating and don't let the goblins get you

 

[disneydka]

I don't know if it's coincidence of not...but I've been seeing a LOT of pirate costumes tonight. They are inspiring me to get creative for our Pirate Night costumes. I'll be on the lookout for some reduced costumes real soon!

 

[Taffygirl]

Hi Everyone,

I haven't been on lately, no particular reason, just busy. I've got almost ALL my Christmas shopping finished , but nothing wrapped yet. I freak out if I'm not pretty much done shopping by Thanksgiving. Of course, then I see good deals on stuff and am tempted to buy more. Not this year however. The economy is so bad and we want to keep cruising!

Anyway, please let me know if I've missed posting information on anyone on Post #1 of this thread and I will add your information.

Hope everyone is having a lovely fall. Our leaves have all turned but not all have fallen yet.

BTW, DD and her family (who are also on this cruise) posted a long time ago that her children were interested in corresponding with other kids on this cruise, but hadn't heard from anyone about doing this. Her son will be 11 and her daughter will be 8 by the time of the cruise, so if anyone has kids or grandkids wanting to correspond with them, please advise and on how to go about doing it.

Thanks,
Marilyn

 

[disneydka]

Hey all,

I have been doing some Christmas/cruise shopping myself. I have been hitting the clearance racks for cruise wear for all of us and will certainly wrap them up as Christmas presents, doing double duty. I just got a package from Koh's, if anyone is interested they have some Hawaiin type shirts for men marked down to $10.20. I bought my husband two. They are the silky type that should keep him cool on excursions but mean them more for dinner while at Parrot Cay. DS already has two. Also really good deals on polo's especially for the boys, Tony Hawk striped polos for $6. Right after HAlloween I got us all eye patches and swords and hats for pirate night. The DCL box is getting full. I looked at Michaels for DIsney scrapbook with a 40% off coupon but the one's they have are more WDW themed. Does anyone know if we can only buy a DCL scrapbook onboard? Oh, and I got a Magic Bullet to bring along to make smoothies and such. I can't believe it's only 6 months away!!

 

[Grandma Debby]

Dawn-
Three years ago on the Magic there were scrapbooks (book with paper, stickers, etc.) and kits that just had paper and stickers

We were at Disneyland before the Mexican Riveria cruise so I used a Disney album from Creative Memories for both Disneyland and the cruise but the album looked nice with the Magic on it

We are going to be at WDW before the cruise so I'm planning to use the red scrapbooks from Creative Memories that have Mickey on them for both vacations but plan to buy paper and stickers on the cruise.

Hope that helps
Grandma Debby