March 26, 2011 - Eastern Caribbean Magic and FE Exchange!

[KristiMc]

Looking forward to making my excursion and Palo ressies on Monday, January 10th...at what time does the online system turn over? Is it midnight?

Yes, mignight. What excursion did you decide to book?

 

[jcarwash]

What excursion did you decide to book?

We will decide for certain this weekend, but probably a couple of beach excursions. One the Magens Bay Beach Break on St. Thomas, and the other one of the Orient Bay excursions on St. Maarten, either the Afternoon Beach Bash Tour or the French Riviera Beach Rendezvous.

 

[Ayeegit]

Hey everyone - my family is finally trying out a cruise, and we figured we'd better try out a Disney cruise for our first! Have been to all the US Disney parks many times and we're really excited about the Disney @ Sea experience!

Still trying to gather all of the information & details and decide which excursions to do - planning is half the fun I guess

We'll be traveling with our two daughters (10 & 7).

 

[KristiMc]

Hey everyone - my family is finally trying out a cruise, and we figured we'd better try out a Disney cruise for our first! Have been to all the US Disney parks many times and we're really excited about the Disney @ Sea experience!

Still trying to gather all of the information & details and decide which excursions to do - planning is half the fun I guess

We'll be traveling with our two daughters (10 & 7).

Welcome!!

 

[jac1976]

Hi everyone! I just discovered these boards. This cruise will be my first ever Disney Cruise. It will be my mom, myself, my DS who will be one month shy of 6 years old, and my 3 1/2 year old DD. We are so excited! I'm going to look at excursions this weekend and try to choose so I'm ready to book next week. Any tips for a newbie?

 

[karajeboo]

Hey everyone - my family is finally trying out a cruise, and we figured we'd better try out a Disney cruise for our first! Have been to all the US Disney parks many times and we're really excited about the Disney @ Sea experience!

Still trying to gather all of the information & details and decide which excursions to do - planning is half the fun I guess

We'll be traveling with our two daughters (10 & 7).

My daughter will turn 10 on the trip!!!! Will yours be in the kids clubs at all?

Please PM me your info for the FE Exchange if you want in. I need last name, everyone's first names and kids ages, email address and cabin# (if you know it already).

I'll email list out end of Feb or early March for everyone.

Yea! So excited our little group is finally growing!!!!!

 

[karajeboo]

Hi everyone! I just discovered these boards. This cruise will be my first ever Disney Cruise. It will be my mom, myself, my DS who will be one month shy of 6 years old, and my 3 1/2 year old DD. We are so excited! I'm going to look at excursions this weekend and try to choose so I'm ready to book next week. Any tips for a newbie?

Yea!!!! Welcome!!! If you want in on the FE exchange PM me all your info..... Family last name, everyone's first name and kids ages, email address and cabin# (if you know it).

We will decide for certain this weekend, but probably a couple of beach excursions. One the Magens Bay Beach Break on St. Thomas, and the other one of the Orient Bay excursions on St. Maarten, either the Afternoon Beach Bash Tour or the French Riviera Beach Rendezvous.

Jeff and I are thinking of renting a car in St Maarten for the day. May head out by ourselves in the morning and then go pick up Ally for the afternoon. Just thought it might be nice to be beach bums without her for a little while.....

Yes, mignight. What excursion did you decide to book?

Did I know you were from Ohio? I went to high school outside Columbus (Westerville) and my parents live in North Canton now! Small World!!!

Hi everyone! My family of five will be on the cruise March 26th. It will be me, DH, DD (9), DS (7) and DS (7).

This will be our 2nd Eastern Cruise. We have also done the Western, but I prefer the Eastern.

I would love to participate in the FE. We did it last time and had a lot of fun with it.

My husband just informed me we leave in 10 weeks!

What part of Ohio are you from?

 

[jac1976]

So this question is going to show my rookie status- What's an FE exchange?

 

[KristiMc]

Kara - Twinsburg is not very far from Canton. We are planning on renting a car in St. Maarten also.

 

[KristiMc]

So this question is going to show my rookie status- What's an FE exchange?

Welcome to our group! Here is a link that describes the Fish Extender exchange. It explains it better than I can.

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=33184281&postcount=2

 

[jac1976]

Thanks for the info! Now I just have to post, so I can send PMs!

 

[luvndizny]

Welcome everybody!!

We are trying to narrow down excursions for ourselves as well... Thinking about maybe the Tiki Hut Snorkel and/or maybe another snorkel. Trying to keep this whole trip a secret though so I can't ask the kids straight out if they'd like it or not. They like snorkelling in a pool though...LOL!

I keep looking back-and-forth between the different excursions and next thing you know, I'm on the computer at 1 am still.... I do believe half the fun is the lead up and planning, etc.

For all the other first-timers such as myself, there's great topics on the general cruise forum page and also the 'what did you wish you had packed' topic is a good one for making your packing list.

I can't believe it's only 10 weeks away! We have our appointment Monday for passports. (No, you don't need them, but we're getting them just in case.)

 

[karajeboo]

Just got my fish extender in the mail today!!!! I ordered it on ebay and it's AWESOME!!! I'll try to post a pic later.....

 

[KristiMc]

Just got my fish extender in the mail today!!!! I ordered it on ebay and it's AWESOME!!! I'll try to post a pic later.....

Cool! I just ordered mine from ebay this week.

 

[lflynn]

We have our appointment Monday for passports. (No, you don't need them, but we're getting them just in case.)

 

[jackcolemom]

Hi. This is our first disney cruise. We did our passports today. I'm gonna be on this disney board everyday getting tips before we go. So excited and cant wait for this trip!!

 

[luvndizny]

Lflynn...On the gov't website it reads that if you're on a closed-loop cruise, you don't need a passport, just a birth certificate. But we're getting ours re-newed anyways just in case.

So how many so far in the FE group? I went to Michael's today and found some great Disney items.

 

[karajeboo]

Lflynn...On the gov't website it reads that if you're on a closed-loop cruise, you don't need a passport, just a birth certificate. But we're getting ours re-newed anyways just in case.

So how many so far in the FE group? I went to Michael's today and found some great Disney items.

Only 5 families so far..... but I have a feeling that we will start seeing more as we get closer.... I HOPE!!!!

When do y'all want to cut off the FE exchange so we can get our gifts made/bought/ready? I was thinking March 1?

 

[karajeboo]

Today we are sitting down discussing lots of things for the cruise, itineraries, etc, so we can book Palo tomorrow. I really don't think we are booking any excursions this trip. Jeff and I are renting a car in St Maarten, but I think in St Thomas we will just wing it.....

Castaway Cay - do we need to reserve jet skis or parasailing before we go?

 

[KristiMc]

Only 5 families so far..... but I have a feeling that we will start seeing more as we get closer.... I HOPE!!!!

When do y'all want to cut off the FE exchange so we can get our gifts made/bought/ready? I was thinking March 1?

March 1st sounds good with me. Do we do 1 gift/stateroom or 1/person?