Has anyone thought about asking Disney for a designated place for all of us to meet? Perhaps our first day at sea in one of the lounges around 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m.? I've done this MANY times before on Carnival cruises for my groups, but haven't ever been in a group this large for a Disney cruise before. As my family will be arriving early at the port, that would work for us, but as I recall...as soon as you get checked in, the line forms to get on the ship....has this changed? Also, we are good to meet inside on the ship, too, but agree we need a specific place and time. I have found in the past that immediately AFTER the life vest drill works pretty well, as the only thing after that is early dinner, which also gives everyone time to explore the ship after lunch.
We haven't decided yet what our t-shirts will look like, or what color, as lime green didn't work too well on our last cruise, so once we decide, I will be sure to let everyone know.
We're driving this time so we'll be at the port early for the first time- so we'll DEFINITELY be there for the meet before boarding- we'll make the onboard meeting depending on when/where it is.
Thanks, I'd love it! All the stuff Ive found online is either way too "busy", "ugly" or too expensive-lol!My wife used heat tape to iron it on. It took her about 20 minutes to do the entire FE.
See the picture of ours. I think my wife might have some fabric left over if you like this style.
So happy to be able to get in on the FE exchange list! Thanks!
My plans are set now and my oldest dd (19) will be done college for semester so she is coming.
We are now total 9
Us and seven kiddos dd 19, 17, 14, 13, 7, 6 and lonely prince ds6.
We are in two connecting cat 4 rooms.
For those frequent cruisers, on our April 4th cruise, there were only two dining times, 5:45 and 8:15. There were no staggered 5:30, 5:45 and 6:00 slots like we had before.
They also had dine and play for late diners where club counselors came to dining rooms at 9pm to check in kiddos and take to the club and lab for parents with late dining.
I had not noticed this on my November cruise and don't know if it is permanent or one time thing but thought I would share the info.
Also Christian (cruise director) baby was on our sailing and absolutely adorable
I am sure my kids will want to make some friends for the cruise.
wow yesterday was the 16th and today they are already assigning the 23rd? Wow... I thought we'd have 2wks to wait after I saw yesterday all the may 16th were getting assigned but maybe it will be sooner than I thought! They are getting a move on maybe because there are so MANY cat 12's booked that they need to work on this a bit ahead of time instead of like they normally do it last minute? I mean I've heard that normally it's around 35 days out- and I'm sure that's so they can send out the cruise docs with the info on it so there won't be a ton of confusion about what rooms we're in/etc. And that normally works fine apparently- but that's with less cat 12 cabins sold and therefore less needing room assignments. KWIM? Stands to reason, I guess, if they have a TON of cat 12's sold that they'll need to start a bit earlier to make sure they get them all assigned rooms before they send out the docs.
Yanno? But with our kids ages I'd rather they not be TOO far away. It would be nice if they were next door but I know I can't be picky with cat 12 gty.
But seriously how do they do it? Walk around asking if kids want to go to the club? I also wonder if they'll continue to do this (probably based on response/comments about it like a trial run?) or if it may have been because that cruise didn't have many children and the counselors were bored?
Funny, some love late, some love main. Thank goodness not everyone wants the same thing. 
