June 7, 2011 Alaska

[pixie3]

Hello.

I see there isn't a thread for this date yet. I figured I should start one.

My name is Kimberly and I am traveling with my husband, my two sons (currently 6 and 4) and my father-in-law.

We are Disney fanatics. We get to WDW about every other month and we do Disney Cruises at least once a year. We are looking forward to Alaska, but we are really not sure what to expect. We've never been on a "cold" cruise.

Hoping to find some other Disers going on this cruise.


1. Pixie3: Kimberly 40, Mark 41 (DH), Shane 8 (DS), Riley 6 (DS), John 58 (DFIL) Stateroom: 8516 FISH
2. RebeccaLovesDisney: Julie, DH, DD(16), DS(13), DNiece (18), and DF Stateroom: 5522 & 5524
3. Tahitian Traveler: Michelle 41, Philip, Sr. 44 (DH), Philip Jr. 9 (DS), Preston 5 (DS) Stateroom: 2638(Philip Jr.'s 9th Birthday)FISH
4. Evette: Evette, Lance (DH), Kellie (DD) (30th Anniversary) Stateroom: 5138
5. Lenzs4: Shirley, Bobby (DH), Emily 10 (DD), Trenton 13 (DS), Stateroom:6060 FISH
6. Dayub: Deb, DH, DD(12) Stateroom: 2106FISH
7. Pjc4925: Paul 42, Lisa 41 (DW), Jessica 8 (DD), Jamie 2 (DD) Stateroom: 6058FISH
8. Eggnmel: Melanie, Darryl (DH), Kaley 12 (DD) Stateroom: 6520
9. Fliplover101: Kristin (21), Gretchen (DM), Alan (DD), Stephen 18 (DB) Stateroom: 6622 (Flip turning 21, Parents 25th Wed Anniv. and brother graduating from HS)FISH
10. Chernabogfamily: Kellie (DW), Jay (DH), Hunter 11 (DS), Piper 8 (DD) Stateroom: 2510(Kellie Turning 40)FISH
11. Disneypoor: Susan (DW), Brian (DH), Brianna 16 (DD), Brandon 13 (DS)Stateroom: 2512
12. Carolina64:
13. ldConley: Lorie (DW), Mike(DH), Breanna 15 (DD) Stateroom:7120 (Lorie's Birthday June 9th)FISH
14. Jarudinski: Julie (DW), Jim (DDad), Chris (DH), Samantha 12 (DD), Allison 7 (DD), Trish (DMIL), ADA (DMILS), Deya (DMILMIL) Stateroom: 2580, 2578, 2582 FISH
15. Jarudinski2: Kim, Bob, Robert 14 (DS), Dylan 13 (DS) Stateroom:7508 FISH
16. Tinkerbell: Lorena, Loraine (DGM) Stateroom: 7009 (Lorena celebrating being cancer free)FISH
17. Cdnluvdisney: 42, 40 (DH), 5 (DS), 3 (DS) Stateroom:
18. DisneyPaul4: Megan, Jeff (DH), Brenna 9 (DD), McGreevy "Mac" 5 (DS) Stateroom:2142(Breanna celebrating 9th Birthday)FISH
19. Khristy68: Khristy, Mike (DH), Ally Kay 12 (DD), Sharon (DM), Larry (DD), John (DB), Debbie (DBG) Stateroom: 6131(Ally Kay celebrating 12th Birthday)FISH
20. Prose: Pam, Larry (DH), Hannah 11 (DD) Stateroom: 6634
21. DenaLuvsDisney: Dena 40, Ashley 14 (DD), Emily 13 (DD) Stateroom: 2043(Dena celebrating 40)FISH
22. KSWare: Kendra, Jay, Velveth 11 Stateroom: 5134(Celebrating the adoption and B-day of Velveth)FISH
23. timswoman: Tammy, Tim (DH), Mercedes 15 (DD), Porsche 13 (DD) Stateroom: 6526FISH
24. Willful: Will, Shannon (DW), Samara 2 (DD) Stateroom:2079(Celebrating 11th anniversary)FISH
25. Ktmoffitt: Trish, Mike, Cody 16, Ryan 12 Stateroom:
26. Rewhitingjr: Stateroom:6154FISH
27. WvT3rd:Walt, DW, DSS, DSSF1(girl), DSSF2(girl)Stateroom: 5150(Celebrating HS Graduation)
28. buck4568: Stateroom:
29. wselmanWendy, David (DH), Max 9 (DS), Rowan 3 (DS) Stateroom:8028**SEE Below**
30. TEGISElice, Thai (DH), Griffin 5 (DS), Sophie 3 (DD), Isla 6m (DD)Stateroom:
31. PrincessKat625:Kat Super nanny for: a DW, DH, DD 9, DD 7 and DS 4 Stateroom:

**Came to fish extender game past the cut off point with the understanding that the other participants are not obligated to give a fish gift. However, if you have any extra stuff they would greatly appreciated it. Thank You.

FISH EXTENDER GAME. THE CUT OFF FOR JOINING THE FISH EXTENDER GAME IS MAY 15TH. ANYONE WHO JOINS AFTER THAT DATE SHOULD KNOW THAT YOU MAY NOT GET A FISH GIFT FROM ALL PARTICIPANTS.

Here is a link for Fish Extender info:
http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=33184281&postcount=2



Printable organized sheet/list of Dis Board Members on this cruise courtesy of Jarudinski (Thank You)
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc...5YjVkU2djNVRsZUE&hl=en&authkey=COPL2_YG#gid=0

Port
http://www.portmetrovancouver.com/en/about.aspx

Suggested by Tinkerbell:
http://bigbus.ca/home/
http://www.verasburgershack.com/about.html

Hotels:
http://www.panpacific.com/Vancouver/Overview.html
http://www.fairmont.com/Waterfront/
http://www.fairmont.com/HotelVancouver/
http://www.sheratonvancouver.com/
http://www.westingrandvancouver.com/
http://www.westinbayshore.com/


Link to Trip Advisor (Vancouver Page):
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g154943-Vancouver_British_Columbia-Vacations.html

Transportation:
http://tripplanning.translink.ca/hiwire?.a=iScheduleLookupSearch&LineName=999&LineAbbr=999
http://aeroshuttleyvr.ca/

Most of the Shore Excursion Times (Thank you to GoneMousin' for the info)
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2666085

In an around Vancouver:
http://www.capbridge.com/
http://grousemountain.com/Winter/
http://www.stanleypark.org/
http://www.gastown.org/
http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/todo/summer/index.htm
http://www.butchartgardens.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Itinerary
June 7 Tuesday Embark Vancouver 3PM
June 8 Wednesday SEA
June 9 Thursday Tracy Arm (No docking) 11-6pm
June 10 Friday Skagway 7:15 - 7:30PM
June 11 Saturday Juneau 7:45 - 4:30
June 12 Sunday Ketchikan 1:40 - 7:30PM
June 13 Monday SEA
June 14 Debark Vancouver 8:00AM

 

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

Hi Kimberly,

We are also booked on this cruise!!

Cruisers are:
Julie (me)
DH
DD 16 (at time of cruise)
DS 13 (at time of cruise)

We also LOVE all things Disney but don't get to WDW as much as we would like. Now that the kids are older, it's much harder to find times to travel. Missing school is no longer an option, especially in high school.

Our last cruise was the PC cruise August of 2008. It was such as perfect cruise that we've been somewhat reluctant to book another, worrying that nothing could live up to that trip.

I look forward to getting to know other DISers on this Alaska sailing!

 

[pixie3]

YAY! Finally another person! I don't know why there hasn't been a lot of people on this date?

We did the PC westbound and it WAS great! I'm sure this will be great, but very different!

I like your ticker by the way!

 

[RebeccaLovesDisney]

I see you are going on the Baltic cruise next summer. How cool...two new itineraries two years on a row!

We really thought about doing either a Med or Baltic cruse as well, but ultimately decided against it. We're taking the kids to Europe next summer, but there were just too many things we wanted to see that weren't included on either cruise, so we're just doing Europe via train/rental car instead. I look forward to reading trip reports from the European cruises this summer though!

Which other cruises have you been on? We've only been on the Magic until now. I know the Wonder's virtually identical to the Magic but maybe there will be little differences we'll notice.

I hope some other DISers find us. I know there have to be some others out there..

 

[IrishCowboy]

subscribing

 

[mvlimmex]

Hi,

We will be joining you too. It will be myself Vicki, my husband Marty, and our 5 children--DD Adriane 13, DS Zach 8, DD Stephanie 7, DS Isaac 3, and our baby who will be born this early April will be 1. This will be our 9th cruise as we are also going on a western cruise on the Magic during Halloween in 2010. We have only been on the Wonder so far.

We are really excited to be going to Alaska and can't wait!

I am looking forward to getting to know everyone!

Vicki

 

[Pumba's Dad]

We'll be joining you all on the cruise. It will be myself (Ramon), my wife MK (short for Mary Kate), DS - 16 (Juan) and DD - 14 (Sara).

This will be our 4th Wonder Cruise and our 3 time to Alaska. Most of our cruises on the Wonder have been at Christmas, so we figured we'd go for the snow this time.

Looking forward to getting to know you all.

 

[Evette]

Hi Everyone!

We will be joining you on this cruise to Alaska. Cruising will be myself (Evette), my husband Lance and our daughter Kellie who is now 23. Kellie has Down Syndrome and just loves Disneyland and Disney World. We have cruised just once before and that was on the Magic in Sept. 2009. Looking forward to this cruise and seeing some of Alaska!

 

[lenzs4]

Hello, My family is also scheduled to be on this cruise. We signed up on the day the date released! I thought i had found the thread back then but just realized I have not signed up and met you yet!
WE are from Chandler AZ
me
DH
DD - 10 Emily
DS - 13 Trenton

 

[eeyoremommy]

Hi everyone! This will be our third cruise with Disney, our first on the Wonder. We signed up for this one at Thanksgiving while we were on the Magic. DH will be 39 when we cruise, I will be 38, and DS will be 7. We're flying into Vancouver a couple of days earlier. We're used to being able to drive to Port Canaveral, so this cruise will be rather different for us. I don't even want to think about how to limit luggage, both weight and size wise

 

[lenzs4]

WOW - still a very quiet thread. I hope more join soon!

 

[eeyoremommy]

We were afraid we were going to have to switch to a later cruise because we are getting ready to move. The new schools get out later than DS's current school. As of right now, it works out with a few days to spare, so the sound you hear is me breathing a huge sigh of relief. I am surprised it is so quiet on the board too.

 

[lenzs4]

Oh congrats on the move but to bad for us - at least you still get to cruise!!!!

 

[eeyoremommy]

We still get to cruise with you. Double-checked school schedule...we're good.

 

[Evette]

We still get to cruise with you. Double-checked school schedule...we're good.

Glad your still on the cruise. Hopefully this is the cruise we'll be on, we won't know for sure until my DH bids for his vacation in early December 2010 for the weeks he wants as vacation weeks in 2011. We chose this cruise to celebrate our 30th Anniversary which is on June 6th. Keeping my fingers crossed.....

 

[mvlimmex]

Glad your still on the cruise. Hopefully this is the cruise we'll be on, we won't know for sure until my DH bids for his vacation in early December 2010 for the weeks he wants as vacation weeks in 2011. We chose this cruise to celebrate our 30th Anniversary which is on June 6th. Keeping my fingers crossed.....

We chose this cruise date too because we will be celebrating our 18th anniversary on June 12th

Is anyone interested in playing the Fish Extender game on this cruise?

It is less than a year away!!!!!!We can't wait to see Alaska!

Vicki

 

[lenzs4]

I love the Fish Extender idea. Hopefully our ship has more people signed up so it can be more fun!!

 

[Dayub]

We are also booked on this cruise!!

Cruisers are:
Deb (me)
DH
DD 12 (at time of cruise)

We also love the fish extender game. This will be our 4th Disney Cruise.

 

[mvlimmex]

Hey everyone!

We had to switch our cruise from this date to Aug 30th due to a conflict. Sorry that we won't be sailing with all of you. We hope you all have an enjoyable cruise!!!!

Vicki

 

[Evette]

Hey everyone!

We had to switch our cruise from this date to Aug 30th due to a conflict. Sorry that we won't be sailing with all of you. We hope you all have an enjoyable cruise!!!!

Vicki

Sorry you won't be joining us but I know you'll have a great time in August.