May 5, 2012 Fantasy

[Bareacuda]

Howdy,

We're with you out of San Jose, CA. We are first time cruisers and are excited that our first trip will be on the Fantasy. I've been watching both the Dream build and now the Fantasy...can't wait to see her for real.

We are myself, DW, and DD and DS (twins - almost 5 years old at time of sailing).

Don

Welcome Don and family!
So glad you are joining our group of happy cruisers!
We all would love to get to know your family.. and we have several months to do that

Annie

 

[ladybugmom]

Hello everyone!! We just rebooked from the May 19th sailing to the May 5th sailing due to the date of my girl's dance recital next year! We booked a Category 5C and are in stateroom #7552. We chose the 2nd seating for dinner so the girls can eat and then head to the kid's clubs!

1. Name of all who are traveling with you? Me: Becky (will be 32 at time of sailing), DH: Brent (38), Ally (7), and Claire (4).

2. What's your occupation? I am a former Kindergarten teacher but now I'm a SAHM and a Disney Travel Agent!! Brent is the head of International Operations for his company.

3.What are you looking forward to about this cruise? Having a more relaxing Disney vacation, spending time with my hubby (don't get to do that much since we don't have family in town), exploring the new ship, etc.

4. I'm not sure what we are going to do directly before & after the cruise.

This is the 1st Disney cruise for our family!! Can't WAIT!! This is my 3rd cruise--I cruised NCL when I was in 8th grade with my family--we cruised out of Miami to St. John, St. Maarten, & St. Thomas. And then my hubby and I cruised RCCL for our honeymoon back in 1999--we sailed out of NYC to Bermuda! We prefer the 7-night cruises so that's why we chose the Fantasy (and the fact that it's a brand new ship)!! This will be both Ally & Claire's very 1st cruise and they could not be more excited!!

Here is a picture of our family taken on our last WDW vacation this past December:

And one more:

I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you!!!

 

[wdwpirates]

Hi everyone,

We will be joining you on this cruise! We were just on the dream in April and are really looking forward to the Fantasy! Looking forward to getting to know all of you in the next 10 months!

Howdy,

We're with you out of San Jose, CA. We are first time cruisers and are excited that our first trip will be on the Fantasy. I've been watching both the Dream build and now the Fantasy...can't wait to see her for real.

We are myself, DW, and DD and DS (twins - almost 5 years old at time of sailing).

Don

Hello everyone!! We just rebooked from the May 19th sailing to the May 5th sailing due to the date of my girl's dance recital next year! We booked a Category 5C and are in stateroom #7552. We chose the 2nd seating for dinner so the girls can eat and then head to the kid's clubs!

So nice to meet you all!!!

 

[wdwpirates]

Here's a question for you guys. Does anyone else have dining anxiety?? DH and I have been on 2 previous Disney cruises. Since we are a party of 2 without children we've always been seated with 3 other couples...most of whom are on their honeymoons. Now, DH and I were married very young...we've been married for 11 years and don't have too much in common with newlyweds. We really felt out of place because all these people were talking about at dinner for the entire cruise were their weddings, etc.

Don't get me wrong...I was very happy for them and wished them the best. It was just uncomfy for us both times. I am a shy person to begin with and I tend to stress about these types of social situations. Honestly I would have preferred to be at a table with little kids!! LOL!! We are going to try the early seating this time as opposed to the late seating we were on during the 2 prior cruises. Maybe we'll get seated with some nice family that would like to adopt us for the week!

Thanks for letting me vent!!

 

[my2princessgirls]

Here's a question for you guys. Does anyone else have dining anxiety?? DH and I have been on 2 previous Disney cruises. Since we are a party of 2 without children we've always been seated with 3 other couples...most of whom are on their honeymoons. Now, DH and I were married very young...we've been married for 11 years and don't have too much in common with newlyweds. We really felt out of place because all these people were talking about at dinner for the entire cruise were their weddings, etc.

Don't get me wrong...I was very happy for them and wished them the best. It was just uncomfy for us both times. I am a shy person to begin with and I tend to stress about these types of social situations. Honestly I would have preferred to be at a table with little kids!! LOL!! We are going to try the early seating this time as opposed to the late seating we were on during the 2 prior cruises. Maybe we'll get seated with some nice family that would like to adopt us for the week!

Thanks for letting me vent!!

For our first cruise we asked to be seated at a table just for our family of 4 and we were accomodated. For our second cruise we were sailing with friends and our ressies were linked and we were seated at a table for just the 8 of us. For our upcoming cruise we again asked to be seated alone (table of 4). Dinner time is our guaranteed time together as a family (at home as well!!) so it's special for us, which is why we prefer to dine alone. We want to talk to the girls about their day (favorite thing they did, what was fun, etc.) whether we spent it together or apart. Maybe you could request being seated at a table for 2?? On our first cruise the table to one side of us was a 2 top, so I know that they do it.

 

[Bareacuda]

Hello everyone!! We just rebooked from the May 19th sailing to the May 5th sailing due to the date of my girl's dance recital next year! We booked a Category 5C and are in stateroom #7552. We chose the 2nd seating for dinner so the girls can eat and then head to the kid's clubs!

1. Name of all who are traveling with you? Me: Becky (will be 32 at time of sailing), DH: Brent (38), Ally (7), and Claire (4).

2. What's your occupation? I am a former Kindergarten teacher but now I'm a SAHM and a Disney Travel Agent!! Brent is the head of International Operations for his company.

3.What are you looking forward to about this cruise? Having a more relaxing Disney vacation, spending time with my hubby (don't get to do that much since we don't have family in town), exploring the new ship, etc.

4. I'm not sure what we are going to do directly before & after the cruise.

This is the 1st Disney cruise for our family!! Can't WAIT!! This is my 3rd cruise--I cruised NCL when I was in 8th grade with my family--we cruised out of Miami to St. John, St. Maarten, & St. Thomas. And then my hubby and I cruised RCCL for our honeymoon back in 1999--we sailed out of NYC to Bermuda! We prefer the 7-night cruises so that's why we chose the Fantasy (and the fact that it's a brand new ship)!! This will be both Ally & Claire's very 1st cruise and they could not be more excited!!

Here is a picture of our family taken on our last WDW vacation this past December:

And one more:

I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you!!!

Well...... Welcome to the cruise!
Im really excited to be on a new ship again... it's been a long time.

And so glad to meet you and your family.

Annie

 

[scootch]

Hi everyone,

We will be joining you on this cruise! We were just on the dream in April and are really looking forward to the Fantasy! Looking forward to getting to know all of you in the next 10 months!

We cruised the Dream in April too... the 10th and the 14th.. were you on one of those???

Welcome all the newbies....


As far as dining, they really do accomodate you if you go and ask about it once onboard. Also, if you meet a couple on our meet here, they can link just your tables for dinner also ahead of time.

 

[Keira1387]

We cruised the Dream in April too... the 10th and the 14th.. were you on one of those???

Welcome all the newbies....


As far as dining, they really do accomodate you if you go and ask about it once onboard. Also, if you meet a couple on our meet here, they can link just your tables for dinner also ahead of time.

Yes! We cruised on the 14th.

 

[wdwpirates]

Thanks guys. I've put in requests for a 2-top on our last two cruises but never thought to make the request upon boarding. I might try that this time.

Happy 4th everyone!!!

 

[ladybugmom]

Well...... Welcome to the cruise!
Im really excited to be on a new ship again... it's been a long time.

And so glad to meet you and your family.

Annie

Thank you for the warm welcome, Annie!!

 

[ladybugmom]

So nice to meet you all!!!

Nice to "meet" you, Kerri!!

 

[scootch]

Thanks guys. I've put in requests for a 2-top on our last two cruises but never thought to make the request upon boarding. I might try that this time.

Happy 4th everyone!!!

I requested a table rotation on our three night cruise as we were going to Atlantis and I knew we would not want to have a full sit down meal that night. I didn't want the kids to miss Animators. Low and behold, got onboard and Animators is Nassau day. I went to wavebands(on wonder) and they were changing a ton of people's tables... I was able to pick whatever rotation I wanted and we also ended up with our own table(although I didn't specify that).

 

[scootch]

Yes! We cruised on the 14th.

Wasn't it GRAND We are still totally obsessed with it.

 

[Keira1387]

Wasn't it GRAND We are still totally obsessed with it.

Yes it was! Only problem was that it was too short, which is why we are booked onnthe fantasy!

 

[scootch]

Yes it was! Only problem was that it was too short, which is why we are booked onnthe fantasy!

We did a 3 night in 09 and yes, it is way too fast. We did the B2B on the Dream, which was great! I am sure the Fantasy just as great!

 

[Bareacuda]

We did a 3 night in 09 and yes, it is way too fast. We did the B2B on the Dream, which was great! I am sure the Fantasy just as great!

The first 2 cruises we did on the Magic were 4 days... way too short.
Then we did a B2B on Magic... loved it... and once we did a B2B2B on Magic... talk about a cruise... I LOVE the long cruises no matter how we have to do it! The transatlantic we did last Sept.. was lovely.

Annie

 

[ladybugmom]

Happy 4th of July!!!

 

[kristieseem1]

10 months to go...

 

[my2princessgirls]

10 months to go...

I was just thinking about this! The time has actually been going by somewhat quickly! We were just at WDW 2 months ago, and it doesn't feel like it's been that long. I'm sure that it will continue to go fast through Christmas, but I know that time always seems to slow down in Jan. Hopefully those last few months don't just drag by!!

 

[Bareacuda]

I was just thinking about this! The time has actually been going by somewhat quickly! We were just at WDW 2 months ago, and it doesn't feel like it's been that long. I'm sure that it will continue to go fast through Christmas, but I know that time always seems to slow down in Jan. Hopefully those last few months don't just drag by!!

Dont drag by!!! not to quickly either....
one day at a time please


Annie