May 18, 2013 Fantasy 7 Night Eastern!

[doubletheprincess]

hola!!! just booked this cruise today! I moved over from the June 15th date!

SOOOOOO EXCITED!!!

 

[MTmomma]

hola!!! just booked this cruise today! I moved over from the June 15th date!

SOOOOOO EXCITED!!!

Welcome to our sailing! Time is not going nearly fast enough!

 

[maggs1035]

hola!!! just booked this cruise today! I moved over from the June 15th date!

SOOOOOO EXCITED!!!

Welcome to our group! Just over 7 months away, its so very exciting! If you like to be active and social on Facebook we have an awesome and very active fb page. We talk about the cruise, activities, preparation, etc! We have a great guy named John who posts awesome pics of the fantasy and everything related, its been a lot of fun. If you would like to join the page just search Fantasy ship 5/18/2013 and the admin will add you It sure does help the time pass a little faster!

Again Welcome!

 

[Babe259]

Hello,

I saw that a fish extender group has been made and was wondering when another one will be made. I would love to join one!

 

[MTmomma]

Hello,

I saw that a fish extender group has been made and was wondering when another one will be made. I would love to join one!

How about you organize it? Once you get 10 posts, send me an email address in PM, and ill send you the spreadsheet template that I have! Welcome!

 

[maggs1035]

Hello,

I saw that a fish extender group has been made and was wondering when another one will be made. I would love to join one!

Hi,

Welcome to our sailing! We have a very active Facebook page called Fantasy ship 5/18/2013 if you would like to join just go there and request We talk about all sorts of things from travel, ship plans, excursions, anything cruise related. We share a lot of info about the FE, so come on over and join in the fun!

 

[maggs1035]

Ok, so if everyone stays the same on the FE participation, and the three unconfirmed staterooms confirm, then the FE list is at 20 as of today!

Are the 3 unconfirmed staterooms still unconfirmed? If not, can you update the list with the numbers? If they are still unconfirmed does that mean that new people coming in can be added to the FE list?

 

[MTmomma]

Are the 3 unconfirmed staterooms still unconfirmed? If not, can you update the list with the numbers? If they are still unconfirmed does that mean that new people coming in can be added to the FE list?

I was under the impression from the origional FB group that the general consensus was that those who joined from the get go, were in the "first" group. One of those three has been there from the beginning, yet I have not heard from them in months. I am not going to remove them from the list, as i suspect I know the reason why they arent active on the DIS or even FB.
Once I figure out if these three staterooms are confirmed, or no longer sailing, then I will either add newcomers to this group, or they can be added to the second group, which nobody has stepped forward (to my knowledge) to create so far.

 

[maggs1035]

I was under the impression from the origional FB group that the general consensus was that those who joined from the get go, were in the "first" group. One of those three has been there from the beginning, yet I have not heard from them in months. I am not going to remove them from the list, as i suspect I know the reason why they arent active on the DIS or even FB.
Once I figure out if these three staterooms are confirmed, or no longer sailing, then I will either add newcomers to this group, or they can be added to the second group, which nobody has stepped forward (to my knowledge) to create so far.

Ok, so if I go ahead and prepare the cabin gifts, then no matter what, 20 cabin gifts is a safe bet? (doesn't really matter who's in the cabin) then the other list you put together with ages and categories is up to date? If needed I can organize a second FE?

 

[MTmomma]

Ok, so if I go ahead and prepare the cabin gifts, then no matter what, 20 cabin gifts is a safe bet? (doesn't really matter who's in the cabin) then the other list you put together with ages and categories is up to date? If needed I can organize a second FE?

There will never be a guarenteed number. The only thing we can do is set a "no more than" number, and whoever shows up or doesnt on the sailing will affect the actual "given out" numbers. Thats the thing about FE, its never 100% certain. We had 4 cabins no-show on our last cruise, so it does happen. This is why you never want to over think the FE thing, because things change for people all the time. People get new jobs, lose jobs, lose family, etc. all things that could affect their ability to cruise. One of ours had a serious health issue happen three or four days prior to our sailing, and obviously didnt make the sailing..... Relax, dont sweat it, and let it all roll

 

[MTmomma]

Worst case scenario, due to survey rewards points, converting to carlson club points, our hotel in Tampa the night before we fly home will be a whopping $14.00.

 

[mammacaryn]

 

[mammacaryn]

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[mammacaryn]

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[MTmomma]

Awesome news! I just wish they were closer than 200 miles for us.

 

[maggs1035]

Our travel agent had mentioned some kind of merger with AirTran/Southwest that would be happening (causing release dates for some flights to be pushed back). WELL, they officially announced it, Rochester airport is officially going to be a Southwest carrier in April. One more option to cut costs with luggage fees!

They announced it on channel 10 news last night that they are releasing the flights on Monday for Rochester! Have you checked Jetblue yet? They are pretty good out of Buffalo, $255 RT coming home on the 26th, more on the 27th and about the same on the 25th as the 26th

1 free bag also!

 

[maggs1035]

Im really curious to see what prices Southwest comes out with? Their prices thru April haven't been that great!

 

[MTmomma]

Southwest from GEG>MCO and GEG>TPA (comparing early april prices, just to see) seem to be running about what other airlines are running from our hometown airport. Playing the wait and see game, Kayak hasnt showed much movement in our fares, just a fluctuation of $20 here and there

 

[mammacaryn]

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[maggs1035]

We had planned on using Jet Blue, but out of Rochester. I priced at $284 per person for our dates. (the 17th and 25th)

We still have everything booked with Disney for the time being, I will eventually be removing things as we book them on our own.

When Jetblue released we bought the return trip home (26th) because coupled with the $110 flight down it was within our price range, and we thought that it might go up due to being a holiday? Im buying the airfare for the 8th next friday from Jetblue unless Southwest is cheaper. So we are getting Jetblue for $265 RT/person. That's not too bad! Just excited to get this big expense out of the way, and now we can focus on weekly payments to the rest of the vacation!

The only problem with Jetblue out of Rochester is they have NO nonstop flights. I would drive to Buffalo just to get the nonstop flights. We have had too many problems with connecting flights, so now we shoot for nonstop only!