May 4, 2008 4 Day--- Official Cruise Meet--- Anyone out there???

[CSwan1]

I'm starting an official 5/4/2008 cruise meet. I started one earlier but didn't title it properly so I'm hoping more people will find this one. I've met one other fellow cruiser here and am looking forward to meeting more!!

 

[Honeibee]

Thanks so much Crystal for starting this thread! YAY! This makes us "official".

Now we'll have something to do to pass the time, because boy it sure seems like right now we have a looong wait.

 

[CSwan1]

BTW do you know what cabin you are in?

We are in a catagory 6 stateroom. The others I'm not sure about right now. It DOES seem like a long wait but I'm hoping the time goes really fast. I hope some more cruisers find us! I didn't know about his site before our last cruise so this is really exciting!

 

[Honeibee]

Crystal -

I saw on another thread that you guys are taking a shuttle to the port. We are staying at WDW the night before and I think we are going to rent a car and drive to the port. We want to arrive early too, and maybe make a stop on the way.

What are you plans for the Nassau? I don't think we will be getting off the ship, although DH may take the diving excursion. I will stay onboard if he does. We have been to Nassau on other cruises. I don't know that we will do anything on CC either, except head for Serenity Beach! We are just two adults, no kids this trip.

Geez, there really isn't anything we can do for a long, long time....

 

[CSwan1]

Hi Judy! We have a land and sea package so we will be at WDW for 3 days prior to our cruise but decided to take a private van for the flexability. Some of us are doing the dolphin excursion in Nassau. We went shopping in Nassau last year on the cruise and have no interest in doing it again. Castaway Cay is beautiful! Last year we went on the glass bottom boat and even though you really couldn't see thru the glass bottom (dirty) you could see over the edge and it was amazing. The guide was very informative and we were able to feed the fish oatmeal off the side of the boat, which my daughter loved! This year I think we are just going to enjoy our day on the beach! We fly out 9 months from today!!! So exciting yet soooooo very far away!!!

 

[CSwan1]

Are we the only ones on this cruise?? I've only heard fron one other person! Anyone??

 

[CSwan1]

Hello!!!

 

[ltremblay]

hi crystal,we are going to be on the same cruise as you.me,my lovely wife and our son jj.I see you have a brother going with you who will be older than me at the time of the cruise.I'll be 46 he'll be 47.your dsis-in-law will be 46 going on 25. you made me older lil sis i still love ya

 

[CSwan1]

hi crystal,we are going to be on the same cruise as you.me,my lovely wife and our son jj.I see you have a brother going with you who will be older than me at the time of the cruise.I'll be 46 he'll be 47.your dsis-in-law will be 46 going on 25. you made me older lil sis i still love ya

SORRY!! Guess I miscounted. Larry, allow me to introduce you to Judy, our fellow cruiser. Judy, this is my older but much younger looking, extremely handsome brother Larry. (Does this make up for the age thing?)From the looks of this thread, we will be the only 11 people on the ship?!?

 

[mindy327]

Hi its Mindy,
Yeah more people on the same cruise!!! Perhaps we could all get together for a few and say hi on the cruise! We are going to have so much fun. My family will be doing the land and sea again but adding additional days for the land. Its been too long, and I cant waite to go again. Its my home away from home. The time will fly by and before we know it, Castaway Cay!

 

[CSwan1]

I am so happy to find more fellow cruisers!! We will definately have to plan a meet! I am very new to the DIS Boards so any input from any fellow cruisers would be great!! I really hope the time starts to fly. I am ready for some Disney Magic

 

[ltremblay]

Hello Judy and Mindy,How yall doing? Mindy you said you are doing a land ans sea and adding days.We are too.How do you add the days? We want to add on at the begging.It would be nice to meet everyone and say hi.I know Crystal is looking forward to it as am I.Ya'll have a nice day see you in may.
Larry

 

[Honeibee]

Hello Larry and Mindy! Sorry, Crystal, doesn't look like we get the Wonder all to ourselves after all!

I've been working on the scrapbook I am going to give DH for Christmas. That's how I plan to tell him about the cruise. Boy, no one ever told me scrapbooking was so much work! I lay it out, think I like it, glue things on, I don't like it. GEEZ. Makes planning the cruise look so easy!

I have two WDW trips before May. In two months we are running the Tower of Terror 13K, then in January I'm doing the Half and DH is doing the Full. I'm trying to focus on the October trip because I can't STAND IT that the cruise is so far off, and I can't even TALK to him about it!

I know it will be we worth it on Christmas Day!

 

[CSwan1]

Well, just over 7 months to go!! I have been obsessively planning, shopping, packing (yes packing). I bought some beach toys that were marked way down and summer clother for my DD that were on sale. (No shopping for meuntil the extrapounds are gone) I did go to the Disney Store a few weeks ago and found really cute character shirts for $5.00 each! I got everyone in my party one- a different character for each person- to wear the day we get on the ship. We are shipping a box to the ship ahead of time with toys, pillowcases for autographs, photomats for autographs, beach stuff, gifts for servers, stateroom stewards, and kids club counselors (stuff we won't need at WDW). Have you guys checked the DCL website lately?? I'm glad I booked when I did..... the price went up over $500.00!! We also transferred our reservation to Dreams Unlimited and got an additional $100 onboard credit! I also preordered 4 copies of the 2008 WDW Passporter. I have a 2007 and LOVE IT!! I joined the parrporter club and got 35% off the books and future orders (the 2008 DCL passporter comes out in January!), 5 + ebooks on their website and so many spreadsheets I haven't been able to look at all of them. My husband says I have a Disney/Planning addiction/obsession. Oh well; I LOVE IT!! So now we know there are 15 people on our cruise.... Will more find us?? The suspense is killing me!

 

[Honeibee]

WOW! You are amazingly organized! I am very impressed!

I'm going to book a room on-site today, probably at CBR, since we are arriving two days before, running the Minnie Marathon, then heading over to Port. Don't worry, we'll shower first!

I need to buy some "cruise clothes" too, but I am also trying to loose a few (OK, 45!) pounds so I'm waiting just a bit. But I might take your advice and order something matching and Disney-ish for boarding.

Oh what fun this is!

 

[CSwan1]

Just bumping this up a little to see if others find us!!

 

[Samlaw97]

We are just back from the 10/13 Magic cruise and have now booked the 4 day for May 4, 2008.....we look forward to chatting with all of you over the coming months

 

[CSwan1]

Hay! More Cruisers! I'm so excited! We are almost at the 6 month mark and counting down every day! I think this makes 19 DISers now on this cruise! I can hardly wait!

 

[CSwan1]

185 DAYS TO GO!! I am so excited!! This Saturday, I plan on being up nice and early to make our advanced dinner reservations for the land portion of our trip at WDW. We added the dining plan to our package and are eating at Coral Reef in Epcot, Crystal Palace in MK and Boma at the AKL, hopefully. So really, we have 182 days before our vacation officially begins. Now that Halloween is here, I really hope the time flys by. Hope all are well and getting really excited about our trip!

 

[CSwan1]

!!UPDATE!! So after reading alot on this forum about the DDP for 2008, we decided to cancel it for our vacation. It just doesn't seem like that great a deal since it doesn't include an appetizer or the tip anymore. However, I was still up early Saturday morning to book 1 ADR for Coral Reef in Epcot and we got the seating we wanted. And, even better news, We bought our plane tickets today! I found a really good deal early this morning on line. And I booked the hotel for the night before we fly out (the airport is 2 hours away and the flight leaves at 6 AM) 177 days to go!