June 9, 2012 Fantasy

[chinarider]

I read this on the budget board and signed my MC up today:

Mastercard is offering a free $20 gift card when you register your card and spend $200 online between now and Dec. 31, 2011. Details here:

https://holiday.mastercard.com/

It is legit however, since it just goes thru 12/31 and was limited to 80,000 not sure if they have capped out yet. I went ahead and paid for my airline ticket (SW so if prices go down, I can still get credit from them) and hopefully I will get an $20 gift card for purchase from MC.

Also, if you have a Disney Visa card and are not a DVC member, you can call 888-838-1406 and take a over the phone tour ( need to be by a computer ) and they will send you a $40 Disney gift card. You need to be have a Disney card and provide the first 6 digits of the card. I dont have one but, my sister does, so I had her do it. Takes maybe 10 minutes or so.

Love getting these prices down. I got a deal on my return airfare because I have had many numerous problems with Delta ( unfortunately, still did ) so I got return from Orlando to Tucson for $215 for 2 people!!!! Now of course, we will have to probably pay $120 for our luggage but we can use the cruise transfer and not have to worry about our baggage etc. The cost combined would probably be the minimum that SW would charge and they are not set up on the transfers etc thru DCL. This way, I'm not letting the vouchers ( there were 5 ) from Delta go to waste ( they expired in Aug anyway ). The only down side is that it is a two stop trip. Delta changes flight times so often, hopefully it will be changed in my favor as we get closer to departure. +

 

[wispy204]

We are booked for the cruise. This will be # 11!!!! Can't wait to get onboard!!!


Nicole
Wayne

Alexander (7)aw:


Can't wait to meet everyone!

 

[mcnoon]

Just wondering if anyone has had this happen. I had booked our room as a 9A originally using the dreams unlimited travel agency. Now I see on the DCL website that we have been assigned a category 9C room - one with an obstructed view. I thought we were guaranteed our room category and couldn't be assigned to a lower class of room? I emailed dreams unlimited, but was wondering if that has ever happened to anyone else? We booked the room in November 2010.

 

[joius24]

Hello, fellow cruisers!

Life has been busy, so it's been a while since I've been on here. So, I just wanted in and remind you that we do have a FE Exchange going on for this cruise.

If you'd like to join, feel free to send me a PM or email me. lstenfort@yahoo.com

Hi Sammatt,
Question.... is there a place where there is a list of ages and genders of all of the room occupants in the FE? I have not yet commited to participating but I woudl like to get a handle on an total # of people vs. rooms before I commit?

And...welcome all new thread posters/cruisers

 

[RogerG]

first Disney Cruise, and first time on the boards. Not sure we understand all of the tricks and abbreviations yet, but it will be me, DH Roger, DS Jordan (17) and DD Joanna (4)

 

[mmhhmm]

Hi All!

After seeing the pics of the new ship coming out of dry dock, I'm finally starting to get excited about this cruise! I am married to RAHRAH who posted quite a while ago. We will be celebrating our 30th anniv. on this cruise. We will be joined by DH's parents who are first time DCL cruisers. Should be a fun time!

We did a NCL cruise (Boston to Bermuda) last summer (won't do that again!!)
so am really looking forward to being back on DCL where they know how to make people happy :

I don't FB or any other social media so I'll be checking in here periodically to see what's going on.

Nice to meet all of you!

 

[bpate]

Hi Everyone!! My family will be on this cruise as well. We signed up during our last cruise (7 night Eastern on the Magic - Sept 2010). This will be our 3rd Disney Cruise!

ME - Brandy
DH - Brice
DD - Brynna (8)
DS - Bronson (4)

We would like to participate in the FE.

I also sent a request for the FB page.

We can't wait! We love cruising (my kids love room service - even worse is they expect it!!). Can you say rotten?

 

[MelissaE1]

Hi everyone,

We will also be joining you on this cruise, we are going for DS' high school graduation and 18th bday.

It will be me, DH, DS18 and DD13.

Really getting excited now that Fantasy has floated out!

 

[joius24]

Welcome and hello to all the new thread joinees!

Got the "you can book your excusions soon" -email makes it seem closer and closer.

Waiting (not very patiently) for Magic and Wonder 2013 stuff to come out, there is rumor of another Med. summer, but nothing yet. the suspence is killin me! Someone said something about announcements this Monday? hmmmm

 

[pixiedust323]

This is our first cruise, so excited!

 

[eeyoremommy]

We will be on this cruise. It will be our third Disney cruise. We were supposed to go last year to Alaska out of Vancouver and moved our booking to the Fantasy.

DH
me
DS - 8

We have done the FE in the past. We are waiting to see the number before we decide. Last time, we had a lot of last minute adds and ended up with an unusually large number of participants. It was a lot of fun but a lot of work. DH doesn't want to work

 

[poppop]

It will be myself (Matt), DW (Lora), DD (Sydney, 11). This will be our first cruise together and the first ever for my wife and daughter. Looking forward to a great time!

 

[MelissaE1]

Hi everyone, just checking back in.

I am pretty excited because I just made our final payment. It's especially nice because my husband's company dropped the vacation sell back program unexpectedly that we planned to use to pay for the rest of this cruise, and I thought we were going to have to cancel my son's graduation/18th bday cruise we promised him. We had to cut waaaaay back on some stuff and between that and some financial finagling we figured it out. So I guess I'm doubly excited!

I feel a little like a newbie with the Fantasy. We had the Magic/Wonder thing figured out, but it's like a whole new ball game now. No idea about the new boarding process, or Remy, or any of that. It's fun to have some unknowns to look forward to.

Anyone planned any excursions, etc. yet? We've been on the Western before, but never to Costa Maya, so that's where I'm looking right now. I think we are going to do a Mayan ruins tour, my kids are old enough to appreciate it now. And if they don't, they should appreciate that they can be quiet or next time I'll leave them home.

Time is getting shorter, it will be here before we know it!

 

[mama-cindy]

Just checking in again & wanting to know how large the FE group has become?
We participated on the maiden voyage of the Dream & it was quite a large group. I am already working on gifts, so I guess I plan to be in,anyway!?
i thought I saw a small list earlier but now i could not find it?
thanks

 

[MelissaE1]

Just checking in again & wanting to know how large the FE group has become?
We participated on the maiden voyage of the Dream & it was quite a large group. I am already working on gifts, so I guess I plan to be in,anyway!?
i thought I saw a small list earlier but now i could not find it?
thanks

I think it is post #200. I would also like to know. My DD really wants to do it, and I loved our last one, but I also made laminated DIS lanyard tags for everyone on our cruise meet thread and it got to be a pretty big project! I saw another group who had decided to divide their FE if it got past 20 cabins, I thought that was a nice solution for one that got too large.

 

[MelissaE1]

Our thread is so quiet... where is everyone? Are you all hanging out on the FB page instead? I haven't connected to that yet.

Or maybe everyone is just tired of waiting 5 minutes for each page on the DIS to load?

Nearly down to 4 months now!

 

[joius24]

oooooh noooooo! DIS posted the message twice for no reason ???? original is below .... it sure is acting weird tonight?

 

[joius24]

Our thread is so quiet... where is everyone? Are you all hanging out on the FB page instead? I haven't connected to that yet.

Or maybe everyone is just tired of waiting 5 minutes for each page on the DIS to load?

Nearly down to 4 months now!

Hi Melissa! Are they watchin football?
It's been pretty quiet there too, today anyway. oh and I am glad someone else noticed DIS is SLOW this weekend!

Still checkin out the FE count myself

Recently booked the Med. in 2013 will need to work hard to pay that one off. Are there any discruise interventionists in the audience....I am addicted!

 

[MelissaE1]

Are there any discruise interventionists in the audience....I am addicted!

Well, if you find one ask if they have group discounts. I am totally jealous of your "back to back" cruise! I would like to do one someday. Still, I thought our first would be our one and only and somehow we are coming up on my 6th (kids 5th) Disney Cruise, so I guess I'm pretty lucky.

I had a dummy booking I needed to move so I moved it to the EBTA for May 2013. I doubt we'll actually be able to go as I realized my DD would miss 2-1/2 of her last 3 weeks of 8th grade. That's finals and "graduation" so probably not. (Not to mention we usually don't have to fly, but this time would have to add about $4k for that. ) My DS will be a college freshman next year and out in early May, so I'm wondering if I can get away with just me and him. Also probably not if DH has anything to say about it, lol. Still, I can hope, right?

No clue what's up with the boards, lately is the worst I've seen it in all the years I've posted here. A few times I've seen it time stamp stuff all wrong... people's questions were getting answered before they were even asking them!

 

[joius24]

Well, if you find one ask if they have group discounts. I am totally jealous of your "back to back" cruise! I would like to do one someday. Still, I thought our first would be our one and only and somehow we are coming up on my 6th (kids 5th) Disney Cruise, so I guess I'm pretty lucky.

I had a dummy booking I needed to move so I moved it to the EBTA for May 2013. I doubt we'll actually be able to go as I realized my DD would miss 2-1/2 of her last 3 weeks of 8th grade. That's finals and "graduation" so probably not. (Not to mention we usually don't have to fly, but this time would have to add about $4k for that. ) My DS will be a college freshman next year and out in early May, so I'm wondering if I can get away with just me and him. Also probably not if DH has anything to say about it, lol. Still, I can hope, right?

No clue what's up with the boards, lately is the worst I've seen it in all the years I've posted here. A few times I've seen it time stamp stuff all wrong... people's questions were getting answered before they were even asking them!

My DS was in 8th when we did the EBTA, glad we did it then vs. High school. Seems like HS is harder. He had to do a "report". Plus what a great graduation present! Plus you are only flying one way (do I have ya convinced yet ??LOL)

I have this "if you deposit ...it will come" philosophy LOL We will get to the Med even if we are riding on a wing!

Da Board is a little better this AM... Hope it stays this way.