November 12, 2011 - Magical Double Dip!

[smashan]

Hi guys!!! We just switched out our dates for this Magical Double Dip! Cannot wait!!! Only 398 days to go woohoo!!!!!! It will be me (Holley) & my DH (Chris) in one cabin and then my very best friend Ashley (otherwise known as smashan on the DIS) in another cabin. Really looking forward to 2 days at CC!!!

Hi everyone!! I'm Ashley I will be cruising with Holley and Chris!! I'm super excited to be going on this cruise!! I can't wait to go to Mexico!!! This will be my very first cruise!!!! So I'm stoked!!!!

 

[disneydreamer82]

Hi everyone!! I'm Ashley I will be cruising with Holley and Chris!! I'm super excited to be going on this cruise!! I can't wait to go to Mexico!!! This will be my very first cruise!!!! So I'm stoked!!!!

Hi Ash!!!! You are gonna LOVE Mexico and Grand Cayman, AND OF COURSE CASTAWAY CAY!!!! IT's the best and you'll get to see it TWICE!! Whoop Whoop!!!!!!! It took me 2 cruises before I got to see it twice

 

[smashan]

Hi Ash!!!! You are gonna LOVE Mexico and Grand Cayman, AND OF COURSE CASTAWAY CAY!!!! IT's the best and you'll get to see it TWICE!! Whoop Whoop!!!!!!! It took me 2 cruises before I got to see it twice

I know, I'm super excited!!! I do a happy dance every time I think about our vaction!!!!


I called mom last night and told her about Hurricane Puala and she started flipping out in a panic!! I started laughing and yelling "you're not listening to me, you're still going to get to go....just might be different ports". She seemed disappointed about not being able to go to Mexico but like you said, she will have a blast no matter what!! Still jealous, but I want my FIRST cruise to be with YOU!!!!

 

[disneydreamer82]

I know, I'm super excited!!! I do a happy dance every time I think about our vaction!!!!


I called mom last night and told her about Hurricane Puala and she started flipping out in a panic!! I started laughing and yelling "you're not listening to me, you're still going to get to go....just might be different ports". She seemed disappointed about not being able to go to Mexico but like you said, she will have a blast no matter what!! Still jealous, but I want my FIRST cruise to be with YOU!!!!

I'm jealous too about them leaving this weekend! But we'll be getting ready to leave before you know it! I can't wait, it's going to be positiviely magical And I do a happy dance too

Where the heck is everyone else at Can't wait to chat with the rest of the group!

 

[disneydreamer82]

Bump! Anxious to meet some of you guys!!

 

[scottjm]

We just booked for East-West Caribbean B2B cruises! We were on the East Bound Trans-Atlantic (2nd time), but decided to stay in this hemisphere. We could not think of going for "only" 1 week, so are doing both! The thing is, the kids (DS13 and DD10 at that time) do not know that we have the 2nd cruise. That will be our surprise for them when we get back to port on 11/12.

There are four of us: myself, DW, DS13 and DD10 at the time of the cruise.

 

[scottjm]

Hi everyone!! I'm Ashley I will be cruising with Holley and Chris!! I'm super excited to be going on this cruise!! I can't wait to go to Mexico!!! This will be my very first cruise!!!! So I'm stoked!!!!

You are going to LOVE DCL!

 

[kcb911]

I just paid the deposit for my family to be on this cruise! It's our first time on DCL, and only 2nd cruise ever. The 4 of us are:

Kristi (30 on Thursday!)
Jake (36)
Lauren *girl* (5 at time of sailing)
Lane *boy* (3 at time of sailing)

 

[disneydreamer82]

We just booked for East-West Caribbean B2B cruises! We were on the East Bound Trans-Atlantic (2nd time), but decided to stay in this hemisphere. We could not think of going for "only" 1 week, so are doing both! The thing is, the kids (DS13 and DD10 at that time) do not know that we have the 2nd cruise. That will be our surprise for them when we get back to port on 11/12.

There are four of us: myself, DW, DS13 and DD10 at the time of the cruise.

Sooooo jealous! I wish we could do a B2B!! You're kids are gonna be so excited!!! Glad to have some more people!! Can't wait til it gets closer!!!

I just paid the deposit for my family to be on this cruise! It's our first time on DCL, and only 2nd cruise ever. The 4 of us are:

Kristi (30 on Thursday!)
Jake (36)
Lauren *girl* (5 at time of sailing)
Lane *boy* (3 at time of sailing)

You guys are gonna LOVE DCL!!! My best friend is also a first time disney cruiser, well this is her first cruise all together but same thing Your kids are going to be so excited and I imagine you guys will be too!

to the Magical Double Dip Cruise you guys, it's gonna be so........Magical!

 

[japeer1980]

Hi Everyone!!! I'm not yet booked on this cruise, but it is my goal!!! We are cruising for the first time in December and I want to book this cruise onboard so I can get the 10% discount and hopefully a reduced deposit!!! I hope that there will still be rooms available!!!

 

[disneydreamer82]

Hi Everyone!!! I'm not yet booked on this cruise, but it is my goal!!! We are cruising for the first time in December and I want to book this cruise onboard so I can get the 10% discount and hopefully a reduced deposit!!! I hope that there will still be rooms available!!!

Hey!! Really hope you get to join us! It's going to be awesome! You are going to LOVE your cruise in December!! We are going on our third in December, but it will be our first with Carnival, and I am super excited! There's just something about cruising that is addictive, I can't wait to hear how your first cruise was!

 

[Homemom]

One year to go!!!

 

[disneydreamer82]

One year to go!!!

Whoop Whoop!!!!!

 

[disneydreamer82]

We just booked for East-West Caribbean B2B cruises! We were on the East Bound Trans-Atlantic (2nd time), but decided to stay in this hemisphere. We could not think of going for "only" 1 week, so are doing both! The thing is, the kids (DS13 and DD10 at that time) do not know that we have the 2nd cruise. That will be our surprise for them when we get back to port on 11/12.

There are four of us: myself, DW, DS13 and DD10 at the time of the cruise.

Just noticed you are from Raleigh, my DSis lives near by there, and we usually fly out of RDU It's much cheaper than flying from any of the local (very small ) airports. Next year we are gonna head out of Richmond though, got a nice credit with Jetblue that I wanna utilize and we can fly direct to MCO from there whereas from RDU on Jetblue its a connecting flight and I don't prefer connections on such short flights

 

[smashan]

Hello Holley!! In one week!! You will be on a boat getting ready to sail!! I'm so jealous but so excited for you! I can't wait until we get to go on our cruise!!!

 

[disneydreamer82]

Hello Holley!! In one week!! You will be on a boat getting ready to sail!! I'm so jealous but so excited for you! I can't wait until we get to go on our cruise!!!

You're the best Ash! I can't wait to go on your very first cruise with you it's going to be AWESOME!!!!

 

[japeer1980]

Okay so I didn't book on board and I am kicking myself!! Oh well I need to get over it. We are going on this cruise though. And I am very excited about it. I was torn between this one and a b2b on the dream. My kids are still pretty young, they will be 2.5 and 4.5 at the time of the cruise, so they won't care about being on a new ship. I think my husband is pretty bummed that we won't be going on the new ship, but with 2 stops at Castaway Cay and Grand Cayman and Cozumuel he can deal with it.

So we haven't booked yet, waiting on my TA to get back to me and I'm not going to put the deposit down until January anyways so it will be a couple weeks before it's official.

I noticed on the itinerary that the 1st day we are at castaway cay we need to be back on the boat by 2:30pm. Did anyone else notice this??? I wish we had a few extra hours there.

On the cruise will be me Jill (30) oh Gee I guess I will be 31 when we cruise!!!
DH Chris (33) Not a big Disney fan but a huge fan of his wife and kids having a good time!!!!
DD Emily (4.5)
DD Allison (2.5)

Obviously we do not have a room assignment yet as we are not booked!! We are very interested in doing the FE. I plan on upgrading our room at the port if rooms are available or doing it for the actual full price if the rooms start to disappear. I'm hoping I can do it at the port to save some money as that time of year it is not as crowded. Here's hoping

Looking forward to hearing from others on this cruise!!!

 

[aseyrick]

Hi All!

We just got off from our 1st DCL cruise on 11/27 (7-night W. Caribb on Magic) & have already booked this cruise for next year. I've not had the chance to read all the posts but will soon. Just want to pop in and say a quick hello.

Our crew:
Todd (DH)
Annabel (me)
Baron (DS - will be 4)

Can't wait! Talk to you all real soon!

 

[disneydreamer82]

Okay so I didn't book on board and I am kicking myself!! Oh well I need to get over it. We are going on this cruise though. And I am very excited about it. I was torn between this one and a b2b on the dream. My kids are still pretty young, they will be 2.5 and 4.5 at the time of the cruise, so they won't care about being on a new ship. I think my husband is pretty bummed that we won't be going on the new ship, but with 2 stops at Castaway Cay and Grand Cayman and Cozumuel he can deal with it.

So we haven't booked yet, waiting on my TA to get back to me and I'm not going to put the deposit down until January anyways so it will be a couple weeks before it's official.

I noticed on the itinerary that the 1st day we are at castaway cay we need to be back on the boat by 2:30pm. Did anyone else notice this??? I wish we had a few extra hours there.

On the cruise will be me Jill (30) oh Gee I guess I will be 31 when we cruise!!!
DH Chris (33) Not a big Disney fan but a huge fan of his wife and kids having a good time!!!!
DD Emily (4.5)
DD Allison (2.5)

Obviously we do not have a room assignment yet as we are not booked!! We are very interested in doing the FE. I plan on upgrading our room at the port if rooms are available or doing it for the actual full price if the rooms start to disappear. I'm hoping I can do it at the port to save some money as that time of year it is not as crowded. Here's hoping

Looking forward to hearing from others on this cruise!!!

Hi Jill and !!!! I also noticed that about our first stop at CC, but figured it was probably to just keep us on schedule for the rest of the week In any event, 2 stops there is one more than I have ever had so I'll take it! My DH's name is Chris too and he will also be 33 when we sail, that's kinda cool! Anyways welcome to the group!!!!! This cruise is gonna be AWESOME!!!!!

Hi All!

We just got off from our 1st DCL cruise on 11/27 (7-night W. Caribb on Magic) & have already booked this cruise for next year. I've not had the chance to read all the posts but will soon. Just want to pop in and say a quick hello.

Our crew:
Todd (DH)
Annabel (me)
Baron (DS - will be 4)

Can't wait! Talk to you all real soon!

Welcome. welcome, welcome!!!!!! It's great to have you join us too!!! Don't worry about reading the posts, I think most of them are mine I'm so happy to have more people joining the group! We just got back from our first Carnival cruise, and although we had a really great time I missed the buildup of excitement from my fellow DIS'ers!!!! Can't wait to get to chat with you guys in the upcoming months! It's gonna be so magical!

 

[aseyrick]

Thanks, Disneydreamer! DH & I took a Carnival cruise pre-kid (seems forever ago) and had a ball too.

Re: the excitement - We booked our recent Magic cruise 3 1/2 months prior to sailing and had a hard time with all the anticipation/anxiety that came with waiting so long. Now that it's almost a year away, I don't know if I can stand it!!

Not sure if anyone noticed, but the price of our sailing doubled since we booked less than a week ago! They're charging $2059/pp for a std inside stateroom! Is this normal or will that price come down? It's more than double the price of the Thanksgiving holiday sailing! I'm sooo glad we booked when we did!! I guess it must be due to the double dip?? That's the reason why we booked. Since we've already been to Key West, Cozumel and Grand Cayman on previous vacations, we never got off on any port except for Castaway Cay and had such a blast that we were planning on booking a 5-nt Bahamas double dip until we discovered this 7-nt! Woo-hoo! Am sooooo excited!

I do apologize if this was brought up previously, but I would like to add our family to the FE list. We still are going through all the goodies we received and are amazed at the creativity of our cruisemates, so please count us in.

Thanks again ... talk to you all real soon!