**Mickey's Merry Cruisers** 12/13/09 4 night Wonder

[Justthe8ofus]

Well who else is sailing on this pre Christmas cruise? Let's get this party started!

 

[Justthe8ofus]

Twas the cruise before Christmas

This will be our first Holiday cruise. We love WDW at Christmas time so we wanted to do a Dis cruise to see what that is like.

We are already thinking about door magnets and FEs. Who else is ready to start the countdown?

 

[Justthe8ofus]

Let's keep this thread going.

 

[Justthe8ofus]

We are already thinking about designs for door magnets!

 

[Justthe8ofus]

Just keeping this thread on the first page.

There have got to be other cruisers out there.

 

[Justthe8ofus]

whoo hoo we have a link!

 

[shadowryter]

Hi there Justthe8ofus, we're on this cruise too. This is our first cruise and I'm so excited to be going during the Christmas season. I hear the Wonder is all decorated and since I love Disney at Christmas time I'm really looking forward to this. There are only three of us. Me, DH and DD. DH and I will be celebrating our 20th Anniversary and DH will be celebrating his actual birthday on the 16th. We'll be staying at the Poly 3 days prior and DH added a day at the GF before that for our anniversary. I can't wait. So much planning to be done. So long to wait.

 

[bwkwpw]

Hi Everyone!

Just dropping in to say hi. We booked this cruise today. It will be me, DW and DS(7). We may possibly have 2 other families coming along due to the crazy low fares right now.

This will be our second cruise on DCL. I have been on RCL twice and DW has been on RCL twice and on a Commodore cruise back in the day. Disney is by far our favorite!

We had no intention of booking this cruise but we were looking for a June cruise and ran across this. We have always wanted to do a DCL cruise near Christmas. I hope the ship will be decorated for our cruise.

Anyway, we are looking foward to meeting you all.

Brian

 

[shadowryter]

Hi Everyone!

Just dropping in to say hi. We booked this cruise today. It will be me, DW and DS(7). We may possibly have 2 other families coming along due to the crazy low fares right now.

This will be our second cruise on DCL. I have been on RCL twice and DW has been on RCL twice and on a Commodore cruise back in the day. Disney is by far our favorite!

We had no intention of booking this cruise but we were looking for a June cruise and ran across this. We have always wanted to do a DCL cruise near Christmas. I hope the ship will be decorated for our cruise.

Anyway, we are looking foward to meeting you all.

Brian

Hi Brian. Nice to see someone else is on this cruise. This is our first cruise and since DH and I will be celebrating our 20th Anniversary we thought why not with Disney. We'll be staying at the Polynesian 3 days prior and one day at the Contemporary before that. The ship will be all decked out for the holidays as well as Castaway Cay. I love the parks at this time of year and am really looking forward to this cruise. Hope to see you there.

 

[bwkwpw]

Hi Linda,

Thanks for the welcome. I have been looking at pictures on the "Picture of the Day" thread for the last couple of hours. It has been about 3 years (I think...need to check the dates) since our Disney cruise. It was my first cruise and we loved it.

The "cast" is what made the cruise so great. They are so friendly. My son was 3 at the time and we had done 4 days land and 3 days sea and it was the last day of the cruise and my son was done! He had a meltdown and the cruise director grabbed him and played and turned the meltdown into a great night for him. They are awesome!

This is going to be the longest 10 months of our lives. We are so ready to be there. I have never done the whole meet and greet thing or decorating the doors and all that but I think we will this time.

Hopefully some more of our cruise mates will get in here soon.

Brian

 

[miztigg]

hi everyone just switched to this cruise i was sailing the week before however i would leave on my dsons bay this is a girls trip me my then 6yr twin girls possibly my d mom in law and my neice we have done several disney cruises a few 4 days the eastern and western (my son is disneyed out not from my side i NEVER and tired of disney) he wants to do a royal cruise. looking forward to meeting everyone and counting down

 

[bwkwpw]

Hi miztigg,

Glad to have you here!

I am sure that you and the "girls" will have another great time. My wife wants to do that with her mom and sisters. The ship would never be the same as they are a crazy group

You gotta do something with that ds of yours! Disney'd out.....no such thing!

Brian

 

[miztigg]

we did a all adults cruise with all the girls at work the boys got jelous and called it the whr## off shore cruise (in case of any young diser checkin this thread ) we took a train to nyc and took NCL out on a 2 nite cruise we had a blast but NCL was horrible the food the service i dont know if they skimped but that has been my only non disney cruise since the big red boat which my 1st cruise before DCL even came out. anyway i know we are a small group but are we gonna do a FE?

 

[shadowryter]

Hello miztigg,

So happy to finally find some cruisers here. I've been on this thread for a while and haven't heard a peep until now. Tried to introduce myself to the original poster of this thread but no answer. Anyway, this wil be our first cruise and I'm so excited. We will be celebrating our 20th anniversary and I have so many plans. Hope to see you and Brian and many others there.

 

[miztigg]

i know we have a little while yet is anyone making any other plans yet i think im gonna came a day early to watch the magic leave on sat. thurs when i get off the ship i would like to stay at the cabins in fort wildreness just rent a golf cart for the day do MVMCP and stay 2 nites at the nick hotel my niece and my mother in law are now gonna come and my niece has never stayed at the nick hotel so i guess ill do 2 nights there. i normally dont do any excurisions i may just rent the tubes at CC anyone thinking about any plans

 

[shadowryter]

Hi miztigg,
Oh I am so planning. Have been since I booked April 08. We're staying at the Poly 3 days prior and I already have my ADR's picked. We plan on attending MVMCP and I just love being at the parks at night. I'm cruising these boards so I can order the most perfect cake for my 20th Anniversary to be celebrated at the parks and on the cruise. I've collected some cruise door magnet designs and have created a few of my own. The list goes on and on and I'm still working on things. How many more months to go?

 

[pmama]

How confusing there are three threads for this date. This one seems most active so I'll post here. We originally booked for May then decided to change the cruise to December and go to Disneyland in May. I debated posting as we are still open to pushing the cruise back a little further if good promotions come out for WDW during December and we opt to spend all our time in WDW. However, I am SO excited to cruise. My youngest DD4 especially asks me everyday, "when are we going on the Disney boat?" So, I really doubt we will change this sailing date to any later.

I'm especially excited we received "My Cruise Travel Kit" today!!

It will be my husband and I and our two princesses! At the time we sail they will be 9 and 5.

 

[miztigg]

pmama
i had sailed last sept with a group of people from work and i rebooked a dummy date then booked for dec 6 we decided t leave the boys home my son is getting to the age where he cant miss school and my DH races so my son misses in oct and feb when he goes away to race his bday is dec 5 so i wouldnt miss it i changed to this week i love the ship decorated for christmas and seeing the parks all decorated. i will rebook a dummy date again on board and save it for when the new ships. i make my DH crazy with all the planning ill really get nuts when the MVMCP dates come out cause then i can book hotel rooms and everything. the last time i sailed at christmas time a few years ago we took on day and just saw all the hotels decorated the giger bread house in the GF is amazing i was so suprised when there was a small on on the ship take care everyone

 

[pmama]

pmama
i had sailed last sept with a group of people from work and i rebooked a dummy date then booked for dec 6 we decided t leave the boys home my son is getting to the age where he cant miss school and my DH races so my son misses in oct and feb when he goes away to race his bday is dec 5 so i wouldnt miss it i changed to this week i love the ship decorated for christmas and seeing the parks all decorated. i will rebook a dummy date again on board and save it for when the new ships. i make my DH crazy with all the planning ill really get nuts when the MVMCP dates come out cause then i can book hotel rooms and everything. the last time i sailed at christmas time a few years ago we took on day and just saw all the hotels decorated the giger bread house in the GF is amazing i was so suprised when there was a small on on the ship take care everyone

That's a good idea to rebook dummy dates and save for new ships. DH really wants to cruise the new ships. In fact, I think he'd be okay just waiting for them but not me. This will be our first cruise. I am a little worried about the weather though. I saw a thread yesterday where others said they were too cold during December and the water was way top cold to get into.

 

[shadowryter]

Hello there pmama and welcome to Mickey's Merry Cruisers. The threads can be confusing but they try to organize the cruises for easier meets. You can post your cruise on your own thread and then have Irishcowboy put your thread on the list...or you can just join us here. This is our first cruise and I was beginning to think I was all alone. So glad to hear from you and our growing list of Christmas time cruisers. I still don't know where the orignal poster went but I guess we can all take it from here.