May 26, 2007 (5/26/07) "First Magical Med Cruise!!" (The M&M's!)

[sweetsue]

Hey everyone!
We are now booked on the May 26, 2007 cruise on the Magic in the Mediterranean! We are so excited! We got a catagory 4 room for all 5 of us. We have been on a Disney 4 day cruise out of Florida and then last year we did the 7 day out of California. We have loved all of our Disney cruise and can't wait to visit these ports!
DH Mike
DD11 Kelly
DD16 Allison
DD16 Megan
DW Cathy

Glad to have you aboard our board! It's a pretty fun crew if a bit quiet at the moment. All that egg hunting must have made everyone tired. That or the crash after the chocolate sugar buzz!

I'm keeping a list of everyone cruising. We're keeping track of names, cabin numbers, seating and hometown/state. We'll be printing this out for everyone for the trip. You can post or PM the info if you'd like to be on the list.

Jump on in anytime!

Sweet Sue

 

[sweetsue]

Yes - it's time to think about those ports already! The travel channel has a series of episodes on the ports we will be visiting. Here's a quick rundown of some upcoming shows (times are Eastern):

4/25 Noon - Provence, France
4/26 3pm - Cannes and Nice, France
4/27 3pm - Cote D'Azur, France
4/28 Noon - Marseilles, France
4/28 3pm - Naples, Italy

I haven't seen any of these yet so I have no idea how helpful they will be. I've got to remember to set my Tivo!

Sweet Sue

 

[milestogo]

Yes - it's time to think about those ports already! The travel channel has a series of episodes on the ports we will be visiting. Here's a quick rundown of some upcoming shows (times are Eastern):

4/25 Noon - Provence, France
4/26 3pm - Cannes and Nice, France
4/27 3pm - Cote D'Azur, France
4/28 Noon - Marseilles, France
4/28 3pm - Naples, Italy

I haven't seen any of these yet so I have no idea how helpful they will be. I've got to remember to set my Tivo!

Sweet Sue

Thanks, Sweet Sue - setting tivo now!

 

[meb51]

There is a discussion on the cruise board about the hotels for the night before the cruise. One of the posts suggests that the five hotels recommended by Disney are all booked for the cruises next June. For those of you who are coming in the night before, have you already made your reservations? Have you made them through a travel agency or have you made them on your own? If on your own, did you just call a toll free number for the hotel chain? I'm going to try to post a link to the discussion for the hotels. Yikes? I hope I can still get hotel reservations.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1088156

Ok - I just looked at travel sites such as Expedia as well as some of the hotel web sites and they are not even taking reservations for May 2007 yet!

Marie

 

[littleowensmommy]

HI there!

We are fortunate enough to be sailing this summer 7-29-06 Western with kiddos and DD's BF. Then we are sailing Eastern as a couple in September!!! I know that we are getting to sail with a couple of other MedHeads!

Pixie Dust dreams!!!!

tomspixie

A bunch of DIS friends are cruising on 28 July 07 so I'm also following their thread. I think Med Heads would be a great name for our group as we're the first Med cruise. (I'm also an old Dead Head/Parrot Head so I can just picture the tye dye and tropical theming now)

 

[first timers]

A bunch of DIS friends are cruising on 28 July 07 so I'm also following their thread. I think Med Heads would be a great name for our group as we're the first Med cruise. (I'm also an old Dead Head/Parrot Head so I can just picture the tye dye and tropical theming now)

There is a disboard group with the name "June 16th MedHeads". What if we were the "Original Med Heads"?

Alex

 

[milestogo]

I think Medheads is funny!

 

[figment52]

[double post - deleted the shorter one

 

[figment52]

There is a disboard group with the name "June 16th MedHeads". What if we were the "Original Med Heads"?

Alex

Happy to see the discussion for our theme/name revived.

I LOVE the Med heads

or since its the Mouse should we be Med Ears - lol we could make them slant a bit to show homage to the Italian city of Pisa - lol

 

[littleowensmommy]

There is a disboard group with the name "June 16th MedHeads". What if we were the "Original Med Heads"?

Alex

I hadn't seen it on the 16 June thread. I saw it as a passing reference on the 28 July board. I still really like it though.

 

[sweetsue]

There is a discussion on the cruise board about the hotels for the night before the cruise. One of the posts suggests that the five hotels recommended by Disney are all booked for the cruises next June. For those of you who are coming in the night before, have you already made your reservations? Have you made them through a travel agency or have you made them on your own? If on your own, did you just call a toll free number for the hotel chain? I'm going to try to post a link to the discussion for the hotels. Yikes? I hope I can still get hotel reservations.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1088156

Ok - I just looked at travel sites such as Expedia as well as some of the hotel web sites and they are not even taking reservations for May 2007 yet!

Marie

They are attached to your cruise reservation so you will need to book them the same way that you booked your cruise. If you used a TA for the cruise, then you will need to use that TA. If you booked them by yourself, you will need to call DCL directly.

HTH!

Sweet Sue

 

[meb51]

I'm curious as to how many of the people on this thread have already booked a hotel for the night before the cruise?

Marie

 

[jeanneg]

As of now, we don't intend to. The ship sails so late at night (10pm, I think) that we're taking our chances with a red eye that gets us in early that morning. Also, we've been to Barcelona before so seeing the city isn't much of an issue for us. DH has his own business and it's very difficult to take too many days off.

 

[Hygiene99]

I'm curious as to how many of the people on this thread have already booked a hotel for the night before the cruise?

Marie

We Have the room booked ...

Had Sueellen add it to our reservation Yesterday..

This resort..http://www.grandmarinahotel.com/

however DCL has Jacked up the price about $100.00
over what we can find, for going rate

DCl Just has a block of rooms at this resort , there regular reservations will open up in September or October.

This is according to the Hotel Via email..
No Worries

Found $285.00 -$310.00 DCL $410.00

and we will not be stayying there for that kind of money ..
Just waiting For JeanneG to give us the name of the New place we will be stayying For Alot less...

 

[figment52]

WOW!! I didn't feel the need to book a hotel this early but I guess I should start looking into it.

Some of my group were plannign on DLP and I was hoping to spend s day or two with business associates but I guess we better start making some plans.

 

[sweetsue]

We Have the room booked ...

Had Sueellen add it to our reservation Yesterday..

This resort..http://www.grandmarinahotel.com/

however DCL has Jacked up the price about $100.00
over what we can find, for going rate

DCl Just has a block of rooms at this resort , there regular reservations will open up in September or October.

This is according to the Hotel Via email..
No Worries

Found $285.00 -$310.00 DCL $410.00

and we will not be stayying there for that kind of money ..
Just waiting For JeanneG to give us the name of the New place we will be stayying For Alot less...

5-star hotel - SWEET!

Anyone have the name of the local Motel 6 budget hotel since I spent all of my $ on the cruise!

Sweet Sue

 

[jeanneg]

Peter,

I PM'ed some info to your partner in crime!

Hope it helps!

 

[Hygiene99]

Peter,

I PM'ed some info to your partner in crime!

Hope it helps!

Thanks
Will have to speak to IT..

 

[poconoboatniks]

Hi Everyone,

I spoke with DCL rep yesterday. They still have rooms available at all 5 hotels which they have blocks of rooms reserved. We're a family of 4 and will need 2 rooms because the room capacity is 3 people. The max capacity was the same for all 5 hotels. If we stay at the Marina, the 2 rooms will cost us $910 US. OUCH! The same DCL rep told me that if we book a room through DCL that they would transport us from the airport to the hotel, the hotel to the port and then back again after the cruise. I assume they will transport you to the port if you fly in the sameday. I forgot to ask about the cost associated with either option.

Pocono

 

[sweetsue]

Roundtrip airport transfers through DCL are $50 per person. I don't know if the hotel rates include transfers or not. I never looked into the hotel transfers since my TA knows of other more reasonable options. Here is the detailed info including rates that I got from my TA.

AC Barcelona www.ac-hotels.com/main.asp
$270/night (for 2), $395/night (for 3)

Grand Marina Hotel www.grandmarinahotel.com
$455/night (for 2), $535/night (for 3)

Hesperia Presidente www.hesperia-presidente.com
$335/night (for 2), $455/night (for 3)

Hilton Diagonal Mar www.diagonalmarbarcelona.hilton.com
$295/night (for 2), $335/night (for 3)

Hotel Atenea Mar www.bchoteles.com/atenea_in.htm
$230/night (for 2), $270/night (for 3)

Sweet Sue