On GC we are going to do the Rays, Reef, and Rum Point excursion through Native Way Water Sports. We've never been to GC before so of course we need to see the stingrays and I fell in love with Rum Point beach the first time I saw pictures in someone's trip report. Native Way gets good reviews over on Cruise Critic so I'm not worried about going off on our own. 
I booked our first excursion this week!
Private companies are usually much cheaper and you will generally have smaller groups. But there's always a slight risk in booking outside DCL. If you are on a DCL excursion and there are any problems getting back to the ship (traffic, weather, etc) then the ship will wait for you; if you are on an independent excursion there's no such guarantee. That said, we almost always book non-ship-sponsored excursions and have never had any problems. (knock on wood 
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Hello everyone!
I am late to post on this thread. When I booked the cruise there was no thread for a while and I didn't want to be the one to start one
Me, DH, DS (17 when we cruise), and DD(14 when we cruise) will be on this cruise. This will be our 7th DCL cruise all on the Magic. We've gone to the Panama Canal and the Med on the Magic in the past. We love this ship!
Can't wait to get to know everyone!
UMTerp
P.S., I'll go check out the website and FB page now.
WooHoo, just purchased one way flights from Detroit to Orlando for $113 pp on Delta. The flight home was too expensive so I'll have to watch for that to come down. But the flight there is the most important anyway. Who cares if we can't get home! Flying in the 29th at noon. Not sure where we will be staying one night yet, probably Radisson at Port.
Anyone know what happened to the facebook group?
I go on fb every few days and it was there this weekend, but now it is gone
I posted on the main board, but thought I'd ask here too:
Hi all! If/When we book, this will be the cruise we are on. We are trying to decide which room right now. I've read the thread and you all seem to have some good experience/advice
We are taking our first Disney cruise hopefully over Spring Break (march 30 - magic 7 day western carrib). Both DH and I have been on cruises before, but this will be our first DCL. We have 2 young children (DD 5 and DS 3). My DH wants a Deluxe Family Oceanview Stateroom with Verandah OR a Concierge 1-Bedroom Suite with Verandah. Both these rooms are expensive. For almost the same cost as the Del Family OV w/ Ver. and less than the Concierge 1-B Suite w/ Ver we could get 2 connecting rooms in the Category 5 (5C or 5B likely). So my question...do you think this is a better option...having 2 rooms. Can we guarantee Connecting ? Our kids are so young that we MUST have Connecting or it won't work.
Is there a way we can definitely lock them INSIDE their own room (where they couldn't open the door or the verrandah and only have the adjoining door to our room open? It might sound frivoulous, but we like our space, 2 bathrooms, they sleep in their own bedrooms fine all night at home (but could totally change if their surroundings change).
I'm also worried that it will totally backfire and we will all be in one room the whole time anyways. Thanks for any/all opinions and advice.
Can't wait to join in the FE exchange and meet ups with you guys!
Double check the checkin dates - I went with 75 days, 90 days, etc and used an online date calculator.... I know 90 is correct because I verified that one with DCL.......
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Somebody posted a thread about cruise names on the main board and it reminded me - we need a cruise name! Just something fun we can call the group/cruise and maybe use to come up with a cruise logo. You can check out the titles of some of the other cruise meet threads for ideas. I'm not creative at all so I will be of no help whatsoever.
Kara, wasn't the original title of your meet thread something about "our magic will beat your fantasy" ? I thought that was cute. Anyone else have any thoughts or ideas?
HI all! We just switched reservations to the this cruise today. We were supposed to be on the Fantasy in June but it conflicted with kids' things (silly kids and their schedules
This will be our second cruise (not so scary halloween was out first). That was fun but hard to make up lost school work.
Anyway, it will be me (Kate), Hubby Rex, DD Addie (13(almost 14 at that point) and DS Stephen (12). We are so excited to cruise over spring break. We are in fairfax county, VA also. The kids will be so excited to know there are others from VA. They cannot wait to get in touch with kids sailing and start planning time away from us. Cannot wait to meet folks. Off to look for airplane and hotel ressies.
oh one more thing - We would love to be involved in FE this time.
Kate
It's great to see the group growing! Yes that is what I named it! Because the Fantasy sails on her maiden voyage the very next day (hoping to see her in port in PC!) and she will be in Cozumel with us!!! But when the mods merged us, they took the older thread (I think they were started the same day!) and now there is no way to change it unless we completely start a new thread. The OP is no longer on this cruise so we can't make any changes to this thread. Should we start a new one so we can make changes to the first post as we add people to the FE?
I like the idea of starting a new thread; its much easier to keep track of and update the roll call and FE lists and any other information if someone always keeps the first post updated. This thread isn't that big yet and we still have over 7 months to go; we could just add a link to the new thread to the end of this one and then ask the mods to close it. Of course, if you do this Kara you will absolutely have to stay on this cruise since well all be depending on you to keep us organized!
And I'll PM the OP and ask her if she will edit the first post to redirect to our new one?
