November 26, 2011 Western Carribean

[CherylA]

We booked this cruise a couple of weeks ago. We will be spending the week before we set sail at WDW with my sister and her family. We will also enjoy Thanksgiving at Chef Mickey's.

My husbands birthday will be during this cruise so we are hoping to dine at Palo the night of his birthday.

This is a much needed vacation (our 3rd Disney Cruise). This year, my DH had a pulmonary embolism, I had major surgery and my Dad recently passed away after a battle with Alzheimer's, so we are ready for some Disney Magic.

We are:

Lisa (me) homemaker
Carl (DH) firefighter/medic
Alec (DS) 4 years old but will be (5 when we cruise)
Olivia (DD) 2 (hopefully she will be potty trained so she can enjoy the big kids club this trip)

This is our first solo cruise without family so we are hoping to meet some people ahead of time and are hoping we get table mates who have kids of a similar age)

We having Thanksgiving at Chef Mickey's too. We have dinner reservations for 6:50. What time are your reservations?

 

[Ksbrn65]

Does anyone know how to find out what excursions there are on this cruise, since they will not let me book them till Sept?

 

[TJGorman]

Does anyone know how to find out what excursions there are on this cruise, since they will not let me book them till Sept?

If you go to disneycruise.com/Port adventures, you will be able to check out all of the available excursions.

 

[Dmtaylor3]

Hello everybody!
I recently booked and we are all set to join you all. This will be our 11th Disney Cruise, our last was the WB Transatlantic last year. I'm glad to see that there's already a FE started. You can count us in for that. We're in cabin 5634. It's just DH Paul (47) and me Lisa Marie (soon to be 46). I'd encourage participating in the FE to everyone. It's soooo much fun. Don't be afraid of the whole process. People can participate as little or as much as you want. We had people doing one gift per cabin or sometimes one gift per person. Whatever you're comfortable with. The TA people got crazy with activities! Room tours, scrapbooking events, and wine & beer tastings were some of the things they planned. And you should've seen pirate night!!! I've put together a scavenger hunt and ornament exchange on previous Christmas-time cruises and I'd be glad to coordinate them again if there's any interest. Just let me know. In the meantime, I'm just very happy to get to know all of you!!!

Lisa Marie
BearFan

The Taylor family would love to participate in a scavenger hunt and or ornament exchange. Our cruise should be decked out for the holidays according to other threads.

 

[sboyd45]

Can't wait for our 2nd Disney Cruise. On our first cruise, Mar'10, Castaway Cay stop was cancelled due to weather, i vowed then that one day we will stop there, so this time i booked our family 2 stops - on our 5 day cruise in Jan 3 - 8, 2012. Our two little princess cruisers are 7 and 4 and hope to make as many friends as possible...

 

[DesertGal]

We having Thanksgiving at Chef Mickey's too. We have dinner reservations for 6:50. What time are your reservations?

Our reservations are at 4:30 and breakfast is at Crystal Palace that morning!

 

[CherylA]

Our reservations are at 4:30 and breakfast is at Crystal Palace that morning!

Nice. We are doing breakfast at the Crystal palace the next morning or lunch at Liberty Tree, I haven't decided yet. The MK will likely we very crowded on Friday so I want to get there at opening and do what we can, get some fastpasses and then eat when the crowds start to get out of control, I don't know if that will be at 10:30 am (Our CP reservations) or 12:30 (our Liberty tree reservations). I guess I'll decide as we get closer. I love CP for breakfast and have done Liberty Tree for dinner back when they had characters but have never gone there for lunch. I'm thinking it might be cool and relatively quiet.

 

[BearFan]

Welcome Lisa! I have added you to the FE list! I have never done a scavenge hunt on any of our cruises, that may be fun!

Tammy

Thanks, Tammy! Can't wait for the FE!!!!!

A scavenger hunt is a whole lot of fun! I've put together a photographic scavenger hunt in the past and participated in several an old-fashioned ones. The photographic one was a great way to get a variety of unusual pictures for your photo album or scrapbook. I'm thinking a hybrid for our cruise. I'll start a list of people who are interested.

For those who may be curious on how it works, typically a sheet is handed out on or around the first day of the cruise and you have several days to acquire as many items or pictures of items as possible from the list. Participants will get together and go over items on the last sea day. I'd be happy to donate a small prize to the winner. It's a terrific way to explore the ship and make new friends. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions or want to participate.

Lisa Marie
BearFan

 

[BearFan]

The Taylor family would love to participate in a scavenger hunt and or ornament exchange. Our cruise should be decked out for the holidays according to other threads.

I'll add you to the scavenger hunt list. I'll keep you name handy, too if there's enough interest in an ornament exchange. We did a Christmas cruise several years ago and there were a ton of Disboarders on it. We had so much fun planning holiday activities. It really made it extra-special. We ended up with 26 people who did the ornament exchange that year. We ended up taking over the Promenade Lounge for an hour! We even had people who were walking by who wanted to get in to the action.

Lisa Marie
BearFan

 

[TJGorman]

Thanks, Tammy! Can't wait for the FE!!!!!

Feel free to PM me if you have any questions or want to participate.

Lisa Marie
BearFan

Your welcome!

I would love to participate in a photo scavenger hunt. It sounds like a lot of fun and would provide some interesting photo's.

Count me in! (Again, if I already said yes! )

 

[LoveMyDisneyCats]

Add us in to the cruise!! And we'll be in on whatever activities there are...FE, ornament, etc. All sounds fun and the kids love it! (and me too). It'll be me, DH, DD (10), DD (7), and DD (1... 21 mos at cruise time). Good chance my parents will book too. I'm going to have to read back and catch up on everything thus far. Looking forward to a great cruise!

 

[TJGorman]

Add us in to the cruise!! And we'll be in on whatever activities there are...FE, ornament, etc. All sounds fun and the kids love it! (and me too). It'll be me, DH, DD (10), DD (7), and DD (1... 21 mos at cruise time). Good chance my parents will book too. I'm going to have to read back and catch up on everything thus far. Looking forward to a great cruise!

Welcome!! I have added you to the FE list.

 

[tikibirds]

I have booked this cruise for my husband and I to celebrate our 31st wedding anniversary (on 11/29). This will be my 6th Disney cruise and his 4th, but neither of us have sailed for 7 nights or on the Magic - can't wait!

 

[TJGorman]

I have booked this cruise for my husband and I to celebrate our 31st wedding anniversary (on 11/29). This will be my 6th Disney cruise and his 4th, but neither of us have sailed for 7 nights or on the Magic - can't wait!

Welcome and Happy Anniversary!

Let me know if you are interested in the FE, and I will add you to our list.

Happy Planning

 

[BearFan]

Add us in to the cruise!! And we'll be in on whatever activities there are...FE, ornament, etc. All sounds fun and the kids love it! (and me too). It'll be me, DH, DD (10), DD (7), and DD (1... 21 mos at cruise time). Good chance my parents will book too. I'm going to have to read back and catch up on everything thus far. Looking forward to a great cruise!

Great! I'll put you on both lists, scavenger hunt and ornament exchange. It seems so far away but I know it'll be here before we know it!!

Lisa Marie
BearFan

 

[Ksbrn65]

Does anyone know when Disney will give us our room number?

 

[CherylA]

Does anyone know when Disney will give us our room number?

Unless you booked a GTY (guarantee) room, you should already have your stateroom number. I actually chose my stateroom so I've known my # from the beginning.

 

[BearFan]

Does anyone know when Disney will give us our room number?

I've book the crusie before through DVC and haven't been given my room assignment until later. We booked a definte category stateroom, too. I'd keep calling DCL and asking periodically. That's how we ended up finding out. They never notified us.

 

[kathi]

Just put down our deposit for this cruise (we are fairly last-minute travel planners). We are a family of 5. Myself/Kathi (45), husband Brian (39), daughter (7) and my parents 89 and 75. We all took the same cruise last year (and even ended up with the same 2 cabins again this year!).

Looking forward to reading this thread and hopefully meeting some of you on the cruise!

 

[BethC1952]

Welcome, fellow New Jerseyans!! Where are you located in New Jersey?

We've taken this same cruise also, but ours was not the best cruise we've ever taken. The weather was awful, and DH and I were each sick (I was sick the first three days and he was sick the second three days) so we really didn't do very much. The weather was bad enough that we missed Grand Cayman, so I can't wait to see it this time!

Beth