November 10, 2007 - MAGIC - Eastern

[woody73]

. . . I think my nephew already has a complete wardrobe just for the cruise, including his Pirate outfit already.

Wow, that's impressive!

Woody

 

[Stimpy]

Wow, that's impressive!

Woody

LOL...yep, first cruise, first child and she's an compulsive shopper....not a great combination

 

[3lilpigsnprincess]

We also use a garment bag for the more formal stuff.

Excursion-wise, we're looking into 2 non-DCL ones. DCL doesn't seem to have too much that we are interested in that will also include our youngest child (DD-3 next week!) and my nephew (almost 2 at cruise time). If we do private excursion, they can come along too. Plus, we aren't really beach vacation types. We like to do things and see things rather than staying on the beach...not that there is anything at all wrong with that! Our beach day will be CC.
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Do let us know what excursions you decide on, if you don't mind! It would be fun to hear what people are thinking about. I haven't even gotten to that point yet!

 

[jjgarv]

Time to get back on the thread.....

We have now entere Phase 1 of Planning:
1. Looking for cheap flights
2. Letting college roomie who lives in Orlando know when we will be coming for an overnight visit (Friday night before the cruise)
3. Talking about excursions....We did Orient Bay in St Maarten and snorkeling in St Thomas last Eastern.....things are a little different with our DD4 now....we will probably do Orient Bay again..
4. The slow process of convincing/brain programming our daughter that she will want to be in kids club when we go to CC so we can go to Serenity Bay!
Cant wait!

 

[FrenchSnowWhite]

Oh! Boy! I'm exactly like you!!!!

I Cant Wait anymore!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish we would be in November

Yesterday I asked myself: "is it to soon to start packing?????"

Am doing lists of things I don't want to forget.....

I wish I could go to sleep until November 9th!!!!!

 

[Lauri]

You know it's getting closer when you start having cruise dreams. The first was two nights ago. We forgot all of our formalwear, and they would let us eat in the dining rooms. Also, instead of boarding into the deck 3 atrium and announcing our family's name, we had to enter through the basement (on a ship?). I also could not get to Rockin D Bar to change Palo reservations.

I guess it just means that it's time to start planning!

Lauri

 

[spoohs]

Is it November yet?! We are looking forward to a fabulous time on our first (and hopefully not last) DC. We are travelling with friends, but in our family of six:
Me - 39, DH - 38. DD - 8 DD - 3, DS - 3, DS - 3 (yes we have triplets!)

We decided not to stay for WDW this time as we have APs to Disneyland here and have visited WDW a few years ago. We haven't had a "real vacation" since before the triplets, so we're REALLY looking forward to this trip! I'm hoping there's more DD's around my daughter's age so she can meet some girl friends before we sail!

Looking forward to getting to know you all better! And hope we can keep this board hoppin!

Welcome,

My DD is also 8 and would love to get to know your daughter before the cruise. This will be our 2nd cruise and she is looking foward to having a friend to visit the lab with.

 

[3lilpigsnprincess]

Oh i hear ya about "talking up the kid clubs"!

The other thing I'm into these days is BRIBING my kids to be potty trained! I am NOT going to pay for the three of them to be in Flouders and they WILL be potty trained by their 3rd birthday in October so we can enjoy the cruise and they can swim in the pools!

M & Ms work for one of my guys who LOVES candy. My dd on the other hand is so stubborn...she will not even SIT on that potty seat. So now i'm telling her I'll take her all by herself to Disneyland to see the Princesses and the Princess castle. That actually worked tonight. So keep your fingers crossed for me that all goes well in that department.

My girlfriend whose family we are cruising with and I are going shopping tomorrow (much to our husband's dismay) for cruise things! Bathing suits and comfortable summer wear is on the list. And a trip to the Disneystore for some fun summer wear.

My 8 year old is thrilled to email your daughter "spoohs" so we will be in touch!

And thanks everyone for the info. on hotels! I think we will try the Country Side Inn and do the shuttle from there.

Let me know if anyone finds cheap flights! They are quite costly at the moment flying from Southern CA ($440 round trip x 6)! Didn't factor that in on the cost of the trip!

Oh fun...cruise dreams (or nightmares) --- something to look forward to other than work nightmares!

 

[flymv]

Let me know if anyone finds cheap flights! They are quite costly at the moment flying from Southern CA ($440 round trip x 6)! Didn't factor that in on the cost of the trip!

You will see that all the flights will get much cheaper when the "low-cost" carriers open up those dates, so wait a little longer.

 

[woody73]

You will see that all the flights will get much cheaper when the "low-cost" carriers open up those dates, so wait a little longer.

Good advice.

Woody

 

[bamodeo]

This will be our first Disney cruise. We can't wait until November.

Barbi 43. DH(Charlie) 42, DD(Amanda) 9, DS(Will) 5

 

[woody73]

Welcome aboard.

Woody

 

[3lilpigsnprincess]

This will be our first Disney cruise. We can't wait until November.

Barbi 43. DH(Charlie) 42, DD(Amanda) 9, DS(Will) 5

Welcome to the group! if you are interested, my 8 year old daughter just started emailing another 8 yr. old who is going. If amanda wants to make a couple friends (via email) before going on the cruise let me know!

 

[3lilpigsnprincess]

You will see that all the flights will get much cheaper when the "low-cost" carriers open up those dates, so wait a little longer.

thanks for the tip! I was thinking that the price might go down. So around what month do you think I should be looking for prices to get cheaper? I know theres a fare sale that went on for summer fares in the last several weeks...but those are only good through August or so? Even with our frequent flier miles, we didn't have many good options of when to fly for the lowest fare, so those aren't helping us as much as we thought .

 

[Stimpy]

Don't forget, coming home is the weekend before Thanksgiving so prices on the return flights may not go down as much as other weeks. We forgot to factor that in when planning our "budget"....yep at one time we tried to "budget" We have to wait for Southwest to release their dates first before we can book airfare.

Trisha, my DD just turned 3 on Saturday and we have been trying for months to get her potty trained. Tried everything, bribes, reward charts, you name it. We waited to plan this cruise just so she would be able to go to the clubs. When we went 2 years ago, she just turned 1 and we really wish we could have arranged it so we could have some alone time....well we did but it was alone as in 1 parent had alone time & 1 parent had DD. Not quite what we had in mind Anyway, DS (now 7) was trained by his first cruise so we are keeping our fingers crossed that she will be for this cruise. Nothing like a cruise to put more pressure on potty-training LOL Good luck doing it with all 3!

We couldn't get our son out of the clubs! We had to bribe him to have dinner with us every night on his last 2 cruises.

So, has any one checked to see if they were upgraded yet? I check about once every 2-3 weeks but more for my DSis...she's in a Cat 11. I'm kind of hoping since it's her family's first cruise they'll get hit with a tiny bit of DCL magic. We picked our stateroom (Cat 6) & are attached to my parent's reservation/stateroom which is right next to us so I really doubt either of us will get an upgrade.

 

[FrenchSnowWhite]

Tell me, we are new to cruising, if we booked an Inside 12 Garanted, how can we know if we'll get an upgrade???

Only by checking on DCL website with our cruise infos???

Thanks!

Can't wait for November 10th to come!!!

 

[flymv]

thanks for the tip! I was thinking that the price might go down. So around what month do you think I should be looking for prices to get cheaper? I know theres a fare sale that went on for summer fares in the last several weeks...but those are only good through August or so? Even with our frequent flier miles, we didn't have many good options of when to fly for the lowest fare, so those aren't helping us as much as we thought .

Some of the low cost fares should comeout within 30 days or so and the others will follow shortly after that, because of the holidays this will lead to the major airlines to drop the fares for a short time, so keep an eye on it if you want to fly on one of the majors or book on the "low-cost" when they comeout. Frequent flier times are not the best times but they are the best price.

 

[spoohs]

This will be our first Disney cruise. We can't wait until November.

Barbi 43. DH(Charlie) 42, DD(Amanda) 9, DS(Will) 5

Welcome to the boards. This is our 2nd Disney Cruise. My DD (8) is also Amanda. She has been emailing 3lilpigsnprincess's daughter so they can get to know each other before the cruise. Would your daughter be interested emailing also?

 

[zack&alexmom]

I just wanted to say "Hi" to everyone. We just changed from 12/8/07 to this date. I got the new school calendar and found out the kids would actually miss less time and we could spend a week at my Mom's in Venice, FL after the cruise. It will be Me(39), DH(41), DS(10) and DD(8) at the time of the cruise. This will be our 3rd Disney Cruise and I can't wait! I am also waiting for Jet Blue to open up November so I can book flights. Nice to meet everyone.

Linda

 

[woody73]

Welcome, Linda.

Woody