March 30, 2014 Disney Dream

[Mommy2ZN]

Oh! We are also interested in the FE as well. Just wanted to know details about it since we have never participated in it. My family is also interested. Any information would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Apsychmommy]

Oh! We are also interested in the FE as well. Just wanted to know details about it since we have never participated in it. My family is also interested. Any information would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Welcome! Right now, I think we are doing one delivery of either a gift for each stateroom or indiv if you prefer. I'm generating a sign up list and we are going to limit the number of cabins to 15. I don't have the list in front of me, but I believe we are up to 9 or 10 cabins.

I joined the FE Facebook group and saw some great ideas on Pinterest if you want to kind of get an idea of what people make/give.

I read around some other FE threads and some groups have assigned delivery day. I'd rather keep it flexible and just deliver at least by the afternoon of our last night so that we have time to pack (we have early dinner and I wanted to see the show after so I'm guessing I'm going to try and do most of my packing before dinner).

I'm open to suggestions as to what the group wants to do though as I'm a newbie and learning as I go too!

I hope that somewhat answers your questions. If not, please let me know if you have something more specific.

 

[meggielove]

sounds great to me! thanks for organizing! is it safe to use our names on here?

 

[meggielove]

welcome! my husband and daughters are traveling with my parents too. I have a 12 ( 13 yo on cruise) daughter like your sister!

 

[meggielove]

I may be interested in a mixology class but would definitely do a wine tasting!

 

[Apsychmommy]

sounds great to me! thanks for organizing! is it safe to use our names on here?

If you prefer, you can either PM me the info for the FE or message me on Facebook if you are in our group

I'm generating the list right now to send a preliminary list out hopefully this weekend.

Thanks!

 

[Apsychmommy]

I just sent in my last payment for our cruise and I am going to start making our FE gifts this weekend

Our vacation will be here before we know it!

 

[mougfamlovesdis]

I just sent in my last payment for our cruise and I am going to start making our FE gifts this weekend

Our vacation will be here before we know it!

yay! thanks!!!

 

[momyto2]

Hello....just found this thread. Wish I had looked months ago. We booked last February. So excited for our vacation. My hubby and I are traveling with my sister, my 14yo son and 7yo daughter. The kids have never cruised before. I can't wait for them to experience! I'd love to find out more info on FE' s. My friend just told me about this last week. I have seen lots of fun stuff on pinterest. Looking forward to getting more info!

Happy New Year! Only 84 days/18 hours til we leave. Yay!

 

[momyto2]

Just found the fb page for our cruise. Is that group an extension of this thread? Now that it's January I feel like I need to soak up all of the info I can find. Ha!
Fb is just a lot easier for me to follow on a regular basis. I've never cruised Disney. I love all of the ideas shared so far!

 

[momyto2]

Anyone have any great PINS they want to share on FE' s?

Ps. I obviously need help with the ticker. LOL

 

[dromio42]

I just sent in my last payment for our cruise and I am going to start making our FE gifts this weekend

Our vacation will be here before we know it!

Do you mind sending me a preliminary FE list? I think I'd like to get started too. I appologize if you have already done this on Facebook - but I am not on Facebook so I can't access that page. Thanks!

 

[Apsychmommy]

Hi all,

I just sent out a prelim FE list to everyone that I had emails and info for. Please let me know if you did not get it or if there are any corrections. I'll keep updating the list until we hit our max.

Thanks and have a great weekend!

 

[dromio42]

Hi all,

I just sent out a prelim FE list to everyone that I had emails and info for. Please let me know if you did not get it or if there are any corrections. I'll keep updating the list until we hit our max.

Thanks and have a great weekend!

I got it! Thanks for taking the time to send an email, I appreciate being able to join in even though I am not on Facebook. Can't wait to get on board!!

 

[Mommy2ZN]

ok sorry trying to get to 10 post so I can add my ticker! hope yall don't mind!

 

[Mommy2ZN]

Call us crazy but we will be cruising with my 3y/o son and at time of the cruise my 4mth old son. We have family coming too so we will have lots of help! But wondering how we travel over to the atlantis with the little ones in concerns of carseats. My husband and I have been there before on a carnival cruise but not with children. TIA.

 

[Mommy2ZN]

Also how many carry on bags are allowed? Is there a one per person rule?

 

[Mommy2ZN]

We are also do the FE. Just wondering how exactly it works. So I know we can either do a cabin gift or a gift for each person per cabin. So if there are 15 cabins participating we do gifts for all 15 cabins? And do we put what cabin it is from?

 

[dromio42]

We are also do the FE. Just wondering how exactly it works. So I know we can either do a cabin gift or a gift for each person per cabin. So if there are 15 cabins participating we do gifts for all 15 cabins? And do we put what cabin it is from?

Hello. You do a 'delivery' for each of the 15 cabins. Whether that is a gift for the whole cabin or 1 gift per person or a cabin gift and something for each kid, or whatever is up to you. Apsychmommy has been organizing the FE gift exchange, so we can check with her if there are any other suggestions for this cruise.

On our first cruise, there were only 7 cabins, so my hubby and I did a gift each of the 3 days (a cd of mixed Christmas music, pirate lanyards, mini bag of candy) just little fun things. We loved doing the FE exchnge and appreciated everything we were gifted in our Fish extender.

 

[Apsychmommy]

Call us crazy but we will be cruising with my 3y/o son and at time of the cruise my 4mth old son. We have family coming too so we will have lots of help! But wondering how we travel over to the atlantis with the little ones in concerns of carseats. My husband and I have been there before on a carnival cruise but not with children. TIA.

From what I remember with traveling with infants, 4 months is a relatively easy time to travel. We travel a lot, and at that age, we pretty much wore our kids in an Ergo everywhere and chased after our then 3 year old

We are pretty rigid in using car seats and we usually travel with them. We even took our car seat along with us on a cruise to Mexico when our son was 14 months old and used them while in port. We would check out a cab and ensure it had seat belts and then installed the car seat. If they didn't have seat belts, we just passed and went for a different cab (most taxis had seat belts, but a lot of times we had to dig under the seat for them). Some people probably thought it was crazy as we toted it onboard, but at least we felt some peace of mind as we drove around. It did take up a lot of space in our cabin though (and we just had one carseat at the time) so just keep that in mind.

Another option could be to look into hiring a car and requesting a car seat. I haven't done my research in Nassau about that, but maybe Atlantis would have a service for this? I couldn't even guess what the cost is for this.

I'm not sure if we are bringing our car seats with us this time as we are thinking of just walking around by the port.