November 4, 2010 Wonder Cruise

[funcinderella]

Another fellow Jerseyan here who will be on this cruise! My kids have the whole week off, so we are leaving on Oct 31 for 4 nights at Disney (AKL, DVC) then the cruise. It's me (39) my Mom (62) and my 9 year old boy/girl twins. This is our first Disney cruise and we are so excited. We just did RC Oasis in July, which my kids loved. Figured we'd take a chance on this one and changed our ressie from one cat 11 room, to two Cat 12 guarantees. (AFter all 4 being in one room on Oasis, we thought the extra $100 for 2 rooms was worth it, even if we are on opposite sides of the ship!)

To the poster who asked about Atlantis, they are very strict with the heights. With a 3" shortfall, I doubt he will get on any of the slides. We booked the Comfort Suites for the day, it was worth it since there are 4 of us, came out to about $270 with all of the taxes/add-ons. My kids loved when we visited Atlantis, but it's so expensive I doubt we will ever go back to stay. The one day visit to the waterpark while on the cruise will hopefully satisfy their urge to go back!

 

[Tikihula]

Hi funcinderella and welcome to our group of cruisers!
It will be interesting to hear your comments about the Disney cruise versus the Oasis.

 

[luv2cruise2]

Hi all!

Welcome to the thread funcinderella. This is my 1st Disney cruise too & I'm booked to go on the Oasis in Nov 2011. I'll be at WDW Nov 1 - 4 & am looking forward to the whole trip.

Did you ever sail on Freedom of the Seas?

Take care & have a great weekend..
~Jo~

 

[Jamesfam]

61 days people ! Can't wait !!

 

[Jersey_Shore]

Hi Jo-

We still have yet to r'cieve our luggage tags..:{

Although; I do not follow "America Go Talent" I did here that we have a local who is doing quite well on the show...He's a sophmore at the local HS..

I spoke to some co-workers and they had mentioned the "height requirement," is at the sole discretion of the park manager. Basically mentioned it's hit-or-miss, they have seen where they had allowed "smaller" children on the water rides, and the very same day, the same kids who rode ealier in the day were denied due to not meeting the height requirement? Many of them mentioned there is still plenty of rides & activities aside from the restricted slides, so we'll prob spend the day at the Atlantis...

 

[funcinderella]

Hi funcinderella and welcome to our group of cruisers!
It will be interesting to hear your comments about the Disney cruise versus the Oasis.

Thanks, and me too! While my son is a die hard disney fanatic, he LOVED the Oasis, so curious to see what they will think...

 

[funcinderella]

Hi all!

Welcome to the thread funcinderella. This is my 1st Disney cruise too & I'm booked to go on the Oasis in Nov 2011. I'll be at WDW Nov 1 - 4 & am looking forward to the whole trip.

Did you ever sail on Freedom of the Seas?

Take care & have a great weekend..
~Jo~

Nice mix! You'll love Oasis (especially if you have teens! I wWANTED to be a teen on that ship!)

I have never sailed on Freedom, only Voyager out of NJ in 2004. Sorta skipped over that class, although I have heard great things about Freedom.

 

[goofylovers]

I was just wondering if anyone received their cabin assignments yet? I have not. I know it is typically 45 days out or so but I am really anxious to see what we get. Just wondering what guaranteed everyone else booked and if they got their assignment what category they received.

 

[Tikihula]

We requested room #5020, one of the "secret porthole rooms" and got it. We had 3 adults traveling last November and also had that room assigned but got a free upgrade to a veranda room, which was great! I'm hoping the same thing will happen this cruise because we'll have 3 adults and a 10-year-old in the room. They do have a privacy curtain that draws across between the queen bed and the sleeper sofa, and we really don't spend much time in the stateroom other than for sleeping, but it would sure be nice to have that veranda to stretch out on.

 

[cmadara]

Well, I'm back! Got off of the boards for a while, but now I am back and ready to go on our cruise!!!!
August was very busy. Didn't make it to Canada- went to Myrtle Beach and Williamsburg. Then right before school started, we flew into Orlando and went to Key West for a week. Don't EVER drive from Orlando to the Keys- much further than it looks! But, on our way back, we stayed at Buena Vista Palace (don't ever stay there- they nickle and dime you to death!) and spent an evening in Downtown Disney and spent a day at Typhoon Lagoon-FUN!

We should be getting our cruise docs soon? I have a room number from when I made the reservations- an inside stateroom on deck 6 (I think!) Hopefully we will get an upgrade.
For the Bahamas, we plan on venturing into port to have a look around, but don't plan on going anywhere and spending anymore $. I think I would like to spend more time on the ship.
My 13 year old DD is nervous about meeting people on the ship and going to the teen club. Since she is an only child, she is more comfortable around adults than kids her own age. I think once she sees what is going on and meets the castmembers at the club, she will be fine!

Well, I'm glad to be back and looking forward to reading all of your plans!
Getting really excited!
Have a great week all!

 

[kathymike]

Hi, just wanted to join the thread...

We are on the cruise....Kathy/Mike Kaitlyn-16 Sarah-12. Haven't booked all the details yet of trip....need to do flights...but it is all coming together!!

See you next month!

 

[Tikihula]

Hi KathyMike - Welcome to our little group of cruisers, which is actually growing every few days as other guests find us and join in. Is this your first cruise?

Cmadara - Glad to have you back.

Isn't Key West an all-day drive from Miami? I can't imagine driving there all the way from Orlando.

Maybe you'll get upgraded to our outside stateroom if we get upgraded to a veranda room. Or maybe there will be enough vacancies for you to get upgraded to a veranda, too. Wouldn't that be great!

 

[goofylovers]

Well, I'm back! Got off of the boards for a while, but now I am back and ready to go on our cruise!!!!
August was very busy. Didn't make it to Canada- went to Myrtle Beach and Williamsburg. Then right before school started, we flew into Orlando and went to Key West for a week. Don't EVER drive from Orlando to the Keys- much further than it looks! But, on our way back, we stayed at Buena Vista Palace (don't ever stay there- they nickle and dime you to death!) and spent an evening in Downtown Disney and spent a day at Typhoon Lagoon-FUN!

We should be getting our cruise docs soon? I have a room number from when I made the reservations- an inside stateroom on deck 6 (I think!) Hopefully we will get an upgrade.
For the Bahamas, we plan on venturing into port to have a look around, but don't plan on going anywhere and spending anymore $. I think I would like to spend more time on the ship.
My 13 year old DD is nervous about meeting people on the ship and going to the teen club. Since she is an only child, she is more comfortable around adults than kids her own age. I think once she sees what is going on and meets the castmembers at the club, she will be fine!

Well, I'm glad to be back and looking forward to reading all of your plans!
Getting really excited!
Have a great week all!

Wow. Sounds like you had a very busy summer. We love Myrtle Beach and try to go every August but missed it this year due to me having a new job and no vacation time until the cruise. Boy do I need this vacation.

We also plan to do nothing but walk around in Nassau. Hit the straw market maybe and Senor Frogs for a couple of drinks and look at the view. Nothing else planned there. We were going to do the Sea Lions excursion but thought we would do Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party at MK before the cruise. Personally I can't wait. We booked a guaranteed Cat 7 room so hopefully we get an upgrade and cabin assignment soon. I have a DD8 also an only child and she is really looking forward to making new friends at the clubs. She is not so shy but I still worry about her. Our last cruise she did not want to leave the clubs so I will have to put my foot down and try to get her to join us a little bit. lol.

Booked Palo for the first night so we are pretty excited about that also. Anyway have a great week and maybe we will meet on board.

 

[funcinderella]

I've been looking every day for our cat 12 gty room assignments but nothing yet...sigh

 

[luv2cruise2]

HI all!
Welcome to the new people & welcome back Cindy. Too bad you didn't make it into Canada but there's always next year!

It looks like the cruise is not sold out so there's probably a chance of getting an upgrade.

Nice to see we're on page 7 with 50 days to go. Sure hope we can meet up on the cruise.

I was looking at someone's pictures on another website & they sure got me excited for our cruise. Can adults have their pictures taken with characters too?

You're not going to believe this but I can't find the replacement cruise DVD that I put in a location I'd be sure to remember! I also lost my car key between the driveway & the house & can't find it either!! I need a cruise desperately!!

Take care.
~Jo~

 

[goofylovers]

Tonight I was making tea and was wondering why my tea kettle was not boiling. After looking at the stove and seeing my tea kettle was not even there I began to look for it. Low and behold there it was in the refrigerator. Now how did that happen? I really need my vacation to start now.

 

[cmadara]

From Miami, Key West is about 3 hours. From Orlando it is about 7! Oh well, it gave us time to go to WDW!!! So it was worth it to me- but of course I wasn't driving!
So, the cruise is not sold out so maybe we can get upgrades- the only problem with that is once you are upgraded, would you ever be happy with a lesser cabin in the future? That happened to us on our first visit to WDW with our DD. We booked the Caribbean and got upgraded for $100 to the Poly! They had shut the Caribbean down for rehab and we stayed at the Poly- now I can't stay anywhere else!!
Oh well, I am just about finished with the 2nd week of school and I am SO ready for this. Here's to wishing our lives away!!!!!!
Have a great day fellow cruiser!!!

 

[funcinderella]

Tonight I was making tea and was wondering why my tea kettle was not boiling. After looking at the stove and seeing my tea kettle was not even there I began to look for it. Low and behold there it was in the refrigerator. Now how did that happen? I really need my vacation to start now.

I do stuff like this all the time... last night I was driving home in the dark with no headlights...then realized I had absokutely no idea how to turn the headlights on...it just escaped me for like 5 minutes; granted I've only had the car 2 months...but still...scary....

 

[Jamesfam]

So excited! I just checked our reservations and were upgraded from Cat. 12 gty to a Cat. 9. Woo Hoo. 49 days !!

 

[goofylovers]

Well I got my assignement also. Room 6136. Cat 7 but no upgrade.