October 11, 2014 7-Night Southern Caribbean Cruise on Disney Magic (San Juan)

[kendzee94]

This cruise is gonna be like old home days! It's funny to see how many people already know each other or who have cruised together before!

 

[kehonuamemano]

Were in! Cheapest stateroom possible but will join y'all.

Just upgraded to the 2nd cheapest room 11B. We're going on the Med cruise this summer and I don't think my husband will ever get over the sticker shock.

 

[Hollywood Glitter]

This cruise is gonna be like old home days! It's funny to see how many people already know each other or who have cruised together before!

Lol... I know I can't believe I already know 5 different rooms that are going!

 

[Silverfox97]

I can't believe we are on page 13 and are 599 days until we cruise!!!!

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[corbett744]

Gometros, It seems we circulate around the same areas. 2of my kids went to Bing and Cornell.

 

[kendzee94]

Gometros, It seems we circulate around the same areas. 2of my kids went to Bing and Cornell.

Lol, we are equal distance from both of those places/colleges!

 

[Jusacuz]

Wow, this thread is already huge! I'd love to join in. My husband & I will be on this cruise. It will be my 7th DCL cruise and his 2nd. I've been wanting to go to Grenada since I read the book, An Embarrassment of Mangoes, and I'm so excited that Disney is going there.
I guess I'd better go read the whole thread now.

 

[Morsel (Chris/Lynn)]

We are from Manlius. We really liked Princess, but it's not the same as Disney and Disney is always my first choice. We were not a fan of RCCL. I felt we had to work too hard to have fun. They relied heavily on casino for entertainment. We have a cruse booked on Holland American, so no experience yet.

We say one of the Disney ships when we were in Alaska, Broke my heart to not be on it.
The one comment I would have is that Princess does Alaska all the time for many years, so they have experience in what a re the good excursions and good places to cruise. But that said...If we go again, it will be with Disney. Disney knows how to entertain you, and how to make you feel good.

We felt the same way with our two RCCL sailings. Both ships were nice but the entertainment just had something missing. The restaraunts were nice and same for the servers and stateroom people. Anyway, we will give Princess a serious consideration if we do Alaska based on what you said about their experience there.
The DCL ship you saw was the Wonder. Dis only does a one week sailing, and that is a round trip sailing. That's one reason we are not considering DCL for Alaska. We want to be able to spend time there and see as much as possible, thus we will do Alaska for 12-14 days. I may pick your experience with Alaska as time goes on.

Chris

 

[Morsel (Chris/Lynn)]

We are from about thirty miles NW of NYC, but I can relate to what you're saying. My wife's cousin is from Rochester and gets that all the time. Growing up on LI, we used to think about where we lived now was "upstate"

My wife and I both went to school upstate, she to Oneonta and me to Binghamton. Two of our kids stayed in state too Cornell and Fredonia.

In the early 60's my father took an assignment with the FAA at JFK and we lived in Valley Stream for a year before moving upstate to Oneida. In Valley Stream I attended Andrew Jackson High School.
Gotta say we loved going to see the Yamkees play at Yamkee Stadium a number of times. Also use to ride our bikes to JFK just to watch the planes come and go. Ah, to be young again.
By the way, where in the Rochester area is your wife's cousin or is her cousin in Rochester proper?

Chris

 

[kaseyC]

This thread is moving very fast.

 

[stalbertsteve]

Hey everyone, it was posted earlier that over on Facebook we are taking nominations for a cruise name. If your on Facebook page make sure you add your idea, if your not add you idea here and I will make sure its included in the vote we will be having. At some point in time (not now) I will want to make a list of those who are not on Facebook so we can include you in the vote. So get your imagination going and come up with a keeper.

If you do have a Facebook account and haven't joined us there, the link to the site is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/168396449974835/ This is a closed group only available to members of this thread. I have read that some do not have any interest in Facebook and that is being respected. I as will others from time to time will write a synopsis of what's being chatted about. I will try to do that later today, heading to work now in the snow and -14 temps.

 

[Pocahantas]

Joining in. My husband and I booked this cruise last week while on the Magic. This will be my 6th DCL cruise and my husband's 5th and our first together without our daughter. She won't be able to miss school to come with us. I feel bad but I have always wanted to visit the Southern Caribbean. I am so excited about the itinerary and about what a fun cruise this will be! I will join in on the facebook group later today. Looking forward to chatting and planning with everyone in the months to come!

 

[stalbertsteve]

Here are a few things that are taking place on the Facebook page.

" Chatter about how much fun it was to have a Roaming Gnome Door Magnet, having it passed from cabin to cabin over the cruise being autographed to returned full of signatures on the last day.
" There have been a few folks who are from Puerto Rico passing along accommodation suggestions, pictures and ideas of what you could do pre/post cruise
" FE documents are being maintained with everyones info.
" Rumors, what the Magic going to be like after it leaves dry-dock. Whats changing and what would some like to see done.
" A few people are counting down the days till we sail
" Taking nominations for a cruise name, to date we have the following sugestions.

o DisHoppers  Magics Southern Island Hopping Cruise 2014
o Island Hopping with The Mouse&Oct 11th  Oct 18th 2014
o No Shoes Tour
o 5 Magical Islands with the Mouse
o The Magic, The Mouse and Me
o DisPirates in the Southern Caribbean 2014
o Southern Caribbean Castaways
o Southern Scalliwags on the Magic
o Southern Comfort
o Mickeys Magical 5 Island Adventure
o Disneys Southern Fab 5
o Beasts of the Southern Wild​

" There have been discussions about FE
" Surprise, there are some who are discovering they are being reunited by fluke with previous sailing partners in the past.
" There have been suggestions on how to find the best deals with regards to accommodations
" We are seeing wedding pictures taken on Castaway Cay, very nice
" Discussions about onboard entertainment, who to expect, whos good and not so good
" Chatting about a Secret Surprise Sway (similar to a secret Santa)
" Some folks are sharing their handy work crafting, sewing..ect
" There appears to be only one Canadian family so far&thats us
" Some chatter about Champagne Girls dressing up in Pink
" Scheduling a meet-n-greet for Oct 11th.
" There is a DisBoard doc being maintained, allowing us to keep track of whos who on the Disboards
" Everyone that joins the FB page is telling their story, who they are, whos sailing with them, where they are from, their sailing history and other tidbits of info.
" The Facebook page has been in existence for 6 days and there are 59 members, correction 60, another person just joined as I was about to post this.

 

[jmb910]

Hello everyone! We are on this cruise as well! It will be myself, DH, DD (6 yrs), DD (4 yrs), and our baby (TBD as he/she is still cooking right now) .

This will be our 7th DCL cruise. We were originally booked for spring break on the Fantasy in 2014, but as soon as they announced these, we decided to switch over. The cost ended up being $300 cheaper and we went from a category 8 to a 4! Plus you can't beat these ports!

My oldest daughter will be on fall break during this week, so she will just miss a day or two for travel time. We will also be cruising with some friends and their two kids. This will be our 3rd cruise with them.

We will be going to San Juan on the Fantasy in April this year, so I am super excited to know that we get to go back again.

Since we are gold, we did book on opening day, and I just forgot to check the boards for a meet until now. I can't believe how many pages it already is! I am so excited at what a lively bunch we have and tons of repeat cruisers!

 

[belle07]

Lol... I know I can't believe I already know 5 different rooms that are going!

You organized our FE group on the Alaska cruise last year, didn't you?

 

[gometros]

Gometros, It seems we circulate around the same areas. 2of my kids went to Bing and Cornell.

We just both have very good taste.

I suspect this is going to be a very busy meet thread. Could we potentially see hitting the 250 page limit one day?

 

[Hollywood Glitter]

You organized our FE group on the Alaska cruise last year, didn't you?

I did. I saw your name on the FE list last night and I knew it looked familiar

 

[minigamo]

Hi,

We just booked this cruise, and it will be our 4th Disney unless we go on another one before 2014.

Our first Disney cruise experience was Christmas 2010 in southern caribbean, so we are very excited to be going back there again.

see you on Facebook!

 

[schimj]

Hi everyone!

I posted this over on the facebook page, but figured I'd post over here as well for the 7 people that don't have facebook accts

I was thinking of setting up a Beer Geek Meet while on board. You'd bring a couple bottles of a beer you like (homebrewers can bring their own if they like...I hope to bring some beer that I've brewed by that time), and we'd set up a time/place to share beer. If anyone is interested, feel free to PM me and I'll add your name to the list we're creating over in facebookland.

 

[wajones2]

I don't think I have seen a board this busy on DIS! I am hoping to book this cruise while we are on board the Magic in May. Looks like a lively group will be on board.