Northern Europe Magic 6/13/2015

[JsMom2]

We just booked today! I'll be cruising with my sister and my DD who will be 15 at the time of the cruise. We did the Med cruise last summer and are very excited for this one!

So glad to see more teens! My DD will be 16 at sailing!

 

[fieldssu]

We are also very excited about the trip. As soon as I have 10 messages I will join the FB group. That was great for our last trip.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what they are wanting to see/do before/after the cruise? We are planning to add a week in Europe to get the kids used to the time zone. Our boys will be 9, 12, and 15.

Susan

 

[seaulater]

On this cruise too, doing B2B2B2B. My roommate is Mickey&JoshNut (Elaine from Canada).

 

[pxlbarrel]

We just booked today! I'll be cruising with my sister and my DD who will be 15 at the time of the cruise. We did the Med cruise last summer and are very excited for this one!

Which Med cruise did you do? We were on the June 15 Turkey and Greece cruise.

My regret about this June 13 Northern Europe cruise is that we're the second trip into these ports. It's so much more fun if you're the first ... like we were last year.

 

[Alohagirl73]

Beyond excited about this trip. I think we will fly into London for a couple of days and then go to Copenhagen day before. Not too sure. Wondering when the best time to purchase airline tickets.

 

[fieldssu]

As soon as I told some friends where and when we would be, they reminded me that next summer is the 200th anniversary of Waterloo. We have two in our family that are insisting we stop there.

As far as transportation, we might see if we can do what we want on the train system instead of driving.

 

[genequeen19]

Hello,
We just booked this cruise. It will be my uncle mark and my brother Matt in one cabin. Myself (Mindy) and my mom Pauline in the other. We are from buffalo, Rochester ny and Fredericksburg (va). We are repeat Europe travelers but this new territory so we are really excited. Has anyone thought about fe's yet?

My mom and I are going on the 9 day Greece/turkey cruise in July 2014 so I am going to be a little quite before then

 

[Garyjames220]

I'm all booked on this cruise

 

[MattFromBuffalo]

Hello,
We just booked this cruise. It will be my uncle mark and my brother Matt in one cabin. Myself (Mindy) and my mom Pauline in the other. We are from buffalo, Rochester ny and Fredericksburg (va). We are repeat Europe travelers but this new territory so we are really excited. Has anyone thought about fe's yet?

Good evening everyone! I am the aforementioned brother Matt. As my sister mentioned, we just booked the cruise (last night). We are all VERY excited and researching like crazy. I am looking forward to getting to know everyone better before we set sail!

 

[Alohagirl73]

Welcome!!! Starting to plan and reading up on the different ports. Bought Rick Steve's book on the ports. Beyond excited for this cruise.

 

[Alexanders]

Hello All, we just finished booking and are super excitted. Looking forward to getting to know everyone over the next year... Sounds so far away. I will send my email so we can join the Facebook group. It is me (James) Heather, and Ashleigh (our daughter). Thanks!

 

[FloridaMom3461]

Hi all,
We just booked today. It will be me (Randi), DH (David), and DD (Leigha) who will be 10 at the time of the cruise.
Look forward to the fun of planning for the next year or so with you!
Randi

 

[Alohagirl73]

Welcome!!! Only 433 more days! BUT who is counting??!!!

 

[LKFan]

Booked today but have until Thursday to pay our deposit. If all goes well, it will be myself, my husband our 16 year old daughter and 13 year old son. We've cruised three times on the Wonder and intended to cruise on one of the larger ships but this itinerary caught our eye. Not to mention that it is $1K less for the same category room.

Has anyone done any research on flights? We would be flying out of LAX and are trying to calculate a budget for this trip.

Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.

 

[fieldssu]

Flights were running in excess of $1,500 for random dates when I checked two weeks ago (from St. Louis). We will also tack on some time to see part of Europe. That adds about $300 per person to have different flight segments, but we will have already spent a big chunk to get there. I was also limiting it to a single connection.

 

[LKFan]

Do most of you have second seating for dinner? For Estonia we're back on board at 5 pm. St Petersburg it is midnight and both Helsinki and Stockholm are 6 pm. I can't see rushing back to the ship for early seating.

It is kind of cool that sunset in St Petersburg on 6/16/15 is at 11:23 pm!

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=352&month=6&year=2015&obj=sun&afl=-11&day=1

 

[PhotoHappy]

Hi, I'm Julie living in Minneapolis, and along with my friend Elizabeth and our daughters currently 7 & 8 we are booked for this cruise as of today.

I've done a holiday cruise on the Dream (2011) and loved it and have been hoping to go again. Elizabeth and her daughter will be celebrating a big milestone birthday.

Looking forward to talking with you and the building excitement!

 

[PhotoHappy]

Did I mention that we are looking forward to interacting with you?

 

[PhotoHappy]

And how very excited we are to go on the cruise?

 

[PhotoHappy]

I have always wanted to see Copenhagen!