Northern Sights and Mickey's MAGICal Delights-1st Baltic Cruise-June 12,2010-Pt 2

[MJGirl]

Question for you Concierge cruisers. When can you start booking excursions? Thanks.

 

[rotary2808]

Question for you Concierge cruisers. When can you start booking excursions? Thanks.

One week from today.

 

[WVMD]

One week from today.

Oh, wait, gotta figure out what we are doing first...


Virgil

 

[MJGirl]

So you're going to post all the times for us lowly Silver cruisers!

 

[rotary2808]

So you're going to post all the times for us lowly Silver cruisers!

Well I know the London Eye tour and the Tower of London tour both start at 8 am, which is no help to us since we'll be probably be getting in either right before they start or right after.

Oh well, I found one of those hop on/hop off tours that will do just fine.

 

[Traveling Tinkerbell]

We are putting together our pre-days in London, and my DW got tickets to Love Never Dies (she's a big Phantom fan--and we're taking out DD9 and DS16; the web site didn't have any warnings about content, so...!). Still waiting for shore excursion times--it will be nice to get all of the pieces of this trip together!

WeLoveABD,

We sent you a pm about an excursion on the Baltic cruise.

 

[cquick]

Is anyone here getting vaccines before the cruise? I know the CDC has a whole list of recommended vaccines, but I was just wondering if anyone here was following their recommendations.

Not us!

 

[cquick]

I changed my avatar! Connie is Minnie, Chuck is Mickey and Patrick is Donald!

 

[carolmb]

The company is called Simply Airports. We used them 3 years ago for transfers and were very happy with them. I just wanted to see if these prices were fair.

Many thanks for contacting us again. I presume you need a minivan for the transfers.

1. From Heathrow to SE16 will cost you £57, and £60 if the flight is from T5
2. From the hotel to Dover will cost £120.

3. From Dover to the hotel will also be £120.

4. Return to Heathrow will cost £51 or £54 to T5.

I also posted this on the Baltic thread.

 

[TammyAlphabet]

I changed my avatar! Connie is Minnie, Chuck is Mickey and Patrick is Donald!

Very cute!

 

[WeLoveABD]

Which shore excursion times are you waiting for? Is it the ones in London?

We are waiting for the times of the port excursions (St. P especially, with multiple excursions possible). We are now looking at private tours--especially Berlin and St. P. This cruise gets us into great port cities--too bad the time in port is so limited! (As it would have to be, of course, for cruises--but many have two full days in St. P and an overnight in Copenhagen). I love the Magic--this will be our 5th trip on that ship, so we can't yet book 75 days out like most on this disboard (it seems!)--so we nervously await our time up 90 days out and hope there are excursion slots open. (This is way I'd jump at an Adventures By Disney option--like with the Med cruise--to eliminate the hassle of booking, etc--but the DCL reps I've talked to all suggest that is something for later years should DCL go back to the Baltic).

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Can I ask a favour please, could someone post the times of shore trips on the main BALTIC PLANNING thread, when you access the system next week.

PS, good luck, and sorry for hijacking your thread!!!

 

[Scott H]

The company is called Simply Airports. We used them 3 years ago for transfers and were very happy with them. I just wanted to see if these prices were fair.

Many thanks for contacting us again. I presume you need a minivan for the transfers.

1. From Heathrow to SE16 will cost you £57, and £60 if the flight is from T5
2. From the hotel to Dover will cost £120.

3. From Dover to the hotel will also be £120.

4. Return to Heathrow will cost £51 or £54 to T5.

I also posted this on the Baltic thread.

We booked DCL transfers at $85 USD, to LHR, so this service is about $5 less.

 

[Lynn G]

Good Evening Cruisers!

We have been planning our pre cruise stay in London, Normandy and Barcelona. I guess we will get to the cruise ports again - we did check out the hop on hop off buses at the various ports last weekend.

Lisa - sorry you have had to cancel the cruise.

Have a good week all!

 

[cquick]

I was looking at hotels and B&B's in Canterbury for our 2 night pre cruise stay. We haven't been there and it's only 16miles from Dover. We also talked about staying near the train station in Dover and taking the train into Canterbury instead. Not sure which way to go.

We'd better get something booked I think! or we'll be camping out.

 

[ktkspider]

I was looking at hotels and B&B's in Canterbury for our 2 night pre cruise stay. We haven't been there and it's only 16miles from Dover. We also talked about staying near the train station in Dover and taking the train into Canterbury instead. Not sure which way to go.

We'd better get something booked I think! or we'll be camping out.

We are staying in Canterbury for 2 days prior.. we are on the 24th sailing.. From what I read, Canterbury is a much more enjoyable town to absorb the atmosphere and wander around. Dover doesn't really have that. We are going to take the train into Dover to explore, but stay in Canterbury.

 

[Scott H]

New Special Disney Dream excursion is available:

9:00 - Join your private group for coffee, tea or a soft drink at the drink station on Deck 9, after introductions of your fellow excursion mates, you will be escorted to Topsiders for a catered breakfast buffet. After breakfast you will be escorted to DVC desk where you will receive stickers to put on the commemorative hard hat which you will receive later. At the promenade lounge where your will buy your tour guide drinks. Here you will receive your commemorative hard hat from Oriental Trading Post. You will be allowed to use a sharpie to write your very own name on the hard hat and decorate with the DVC stickers. Then you will be able to view pictures of the concept art of the Disney Dream, collected from various web suites, to include an old Google maps satellite view. Next you will be guided to a penny squishing machine where you have the opportunity to make a squished penny to commemorate this exclusive experience. We then scurry off to Scoops via a private elevator for a dish of your favorite frozen treat. Lunch is provided at your choice Disney Magic dinning locations, Palo Brunch is available for an additional fee and is dependant on availability.

Date and Price TBD.

Sorry just could not help myself.... Planning London stay and in a Python Mood...

 

[Arizona Rita]

Where do we email our shore excursion request ? This is one excursion we can definitely afford!!

 

[gydell]

New Special Disney Dream excursion is available:

9:00 - Join your private group for coffee, tea or a soft drink at the drink station on Deck 9, after introductions of your fellow excursion mates, you will be escorted to Topsiders for a catered breakfast buffet. After breakfast you will be escorted to DVC desk where you will receive stickers to put on the commemorative hard hat which you will receive later. At the promenade lounge where your will buy your tour guide drinks. Here you will receive your commemorative hard hat from Oriental Trading Post. You will be allowed to use a sharpie to write your very own name on the hard hat and decorate with the DVC stickers. Then you will be able to view pictures of the concept art of the Disney Dream, collected from various web suites, to include an old Google maps satellite view. Next you will be guided to a penny squishing machine where you have the opportunity to make a squished penny to commemorate this exclusive experience. We then scurry off to Scoops via a private elevator for a dish of your favorite frozen treat. Lunch is provided at your choice Disney Magic dinning locations, Palo Brunch is available for an additional fee and is dependant on availability.

Date and Price TBD.

Sorry just could not help myself.... Planning London stay and in a Python Mood...

That's as close as I will be getting to see the Dreams ship until it comes to Florida!



If anyone else is interested in having a group PALO brunch on the 23rd(1st choice) then let me know as soon as possible.

 

[Arizona Rita]

Doing the HAPPY dance!! Guess we are definitely going!!