October 17, 2009 Western

[nokidz]

Thank you nokidz. I am now a Disney Expert. Lol.

not a problem. and you will be an expert if you keep reading these boards...lol

we are sailing mid Oct this year. Our plan is to book when we are onboard. We havent decided if we want to do the Western again or do an Eastern. Depends.

 

[yazee1]

If the only advantage to living in Florida was access to Disney Cruises, I don't think I would do it. Dh and I don't care for the climate. I do wonder about this. My mom lives in Florida and would be able to take advantage of the Florida rates when they are available. If a special Florida rate became available, could she book a cruise for our whole party (her included of course) at the Florida rate or does every member of the party have to live in Florida? Furthermore, we would need two rooms. Would there have to be a Florida resident in both rooms? It's probably been asked on the main board, I should try to find the answer for future reference.

 

[Goofy4Ever]

If the only advantage to living in Florida was access to Disney Cruises, I don't think I would do it. Dh and I don't care for the climate. I do wonder about this. My mom lives in Florida and would be able to take advantage of the Florida rates when they are available. If a special Florida rate became available, could she book a cruise for our whole party (her included of course) at the Florida rate or does every member of the party have to live in Florida? Furthermore, we would need two rooms. Would there have to be a Florida resident in both rooms? It's probably been asked on the main board, I should try to find the answer for future reference.

Yazee - I am not sure of the answer, but I do know that my uncle is moving to Florida next month and when I asked a DCL Rep about the FL discount, she said that we have gotten the better deal because we rebooked onboard. If you would decide to takle the FL resident discount, you would have to cancel your ressie and by doing so you would lose the 10% discount and the OBC (if you rebooked while onboard, just like us). We decided it was not worth it.

 

[yazee1]

Hi, Goofy. I forgot I posted about this question. Has it been over a week? I agree that if the Oct. cruise turned up on the FL rate list (highly doubtful), I wouldn't get as good a deal compared to booking it online and transfering the reservation to AAA for the additional OBC. I was thinking more along the lines of in the future. Never the less, your still right that I could book a dummy date for the future and change it and make out better.

That being said, I'm canceling my Dreams Unlimited reservation I have now for this cruise and then rebooking onboard. Then I'll transfer the reservation to AAA. We did that last time and because we need two rooms, wound up with over 600 in OBC between DCL and AAA. We also earned both Castaway member gifts and AAA gifts (nice DCL photo album). I've been checking the rates for our cruise and they haven't changed since we booked last January.

 

[aan1701]

To all those looking at Midwest Airlines, good luck. I work for Southwest and from what some of our Pilots have told me, Midwest may be a thing of the past before the end of the year. Apperntly they barely were able to make payroll this last month. Well looking forward to seeing you all next Oct. We will be coming in two days before to WDW and then going home after 4 more nights at WDW.

 

[firefighter chris]

Is everyone still going on the cruise? Anything good and exciting going on with anyone? It has been over a month since anyone posted. It is 400 days until we leave one the big boat. See you all soon.

 

[bourgie]

Has anyone who has cruised before ever used "walkie talkies" on the ship to contact family members or friends on the different part of the ship? I know that your child has a pager.

 

[yazee1]

Yes, we took our Motorolas on two cruises. They worked fine on the ship but we used them the most on Castaway Cay.

Your child doesn't get a pager, but you get one. The cast members can page you at the child's request or if the club or lab needs to contact you.

 

[bourgie]

yazee1, thanks for responding. Oh yes, that is right we get the pager.

I have a friend who went on a cruise this summer and she said she had wished she brought walkie talkies with her.

Happy Friday!!

 

[yazee1]

yazee1, thanks for responding. Oh yes, that is right we get the pager.

I have a friend who went on a cruise this summer and she said she had wished she brought walkie talkies with her.

Did she elaborate on why she wishes they had walkie talkies. I figure we have over a year's wait to cruise, I have time for a story if you have time to tell it.

As for us, our two younger kids didn't have check out privileges the last time we cruised but they will this time around. I think the walkie talkies will be more useful than even before keeping track of our family's goings and comings.

By the way, I just noticed the trip ticker went from number of months to go to number of months and weeks to go.

 

[bourgie]

Did she elaborate on why she wishes they had walkie talkies. I figure we have over a year's wait to cruise, I have time for a story if you have time to tell it.


Yes, she did. She was telling me that while they were at the pool, her husband went to the cabin and she stayed at the pool with her children and at that moment wishes she had a walkie talkie to tell him to bring the "whatever" she forgot.......She said I can't believe how much I rely on my cell when I am home to get in touch in an instant!! She said this sort of situation happened a couple of times while on the ship. She saw a lot of people using them.

Yes, i noticed the ticker too!!! WOO HOO!!!!!!!

 

[yazee1]

Yes, she did. She was telling me that while they were at the pool, her husband went to the cabin and she stayed at the pool with her children and at that moment wishes she had a walkie talkie to tell him to bring the "whatever" she forgot.......:

Ahh, exactly the scenerio I imagined. Been there, done that and glad I had the walkie talkies.

 

[bourgie]

So we will be bringing these with us for sure!!!

 

[yazee1]

Hey group, I'm going to borrow an idea from other meet threads of which I've been a member and keep the first post for the thread as a place to keep track of who are going and other information we'd want access to without combing through the entire thread.

If anyone wants their cruising info as part of the database, please post here or pm me.

 

[TheDawnPatrol]

Hello!

Count me and my family in for the cruise: my Wife, two boys (who will be 9 and 8 almost at cruise time) and my daughter who will be turning 3 on the cruise.

Hard too believe it is coming up on 12 months and counting.

Pete

 

[yazee1]

Hi, Pete! Welcome to our thread! Is this your first Disney Cruise, second, fifteenth... One year doesn't seem so long considering we booked last January! LOL

Monica

 

[TheDawnPatrol]

Thanks! This will be our third Disney cruise but first time with all the kids.

Pete

 

[yazee1]

I'm guessing this will be your youngest child's first cruise? Anyone stressing out about whether she'll be fully potty-trained by then?

Our youngest is going to be 8-1/2 when we sail next year-almost old enough for check-out privileges in the Lab. It's hard to picture her in the Lab at all since she had just turned four the first time we went (still young enough for taking naps and a little bit of separation anxiety) and only 5 1/2 the second time (no naps and no anxiety).

Our sons will have checkout privileges (oldest is Stack age so that's a given), but our daughter won't. I can't remember if an older sibling can be listed as a designated person to pick up a Lab kid. I think I remember oldest ds checking younger ds out with our permission. I hope so.

 

[mavdav]

We are cruising too! It will be me, DH, DS - 5 & 3 by then! I am one of those a bit stressed that my 3 yr old will be potty trained by then! He will have turned 3 in June, so I think it will happen! Especially since he sees big brother doing it!

Is anyone interested in organizing a fish extender trade while cruising? I'm really excited about doing this with my kids. this will be our 2nd DCL, the first was on a 3 day so not too many FE or door magnets.

There are 5 other families that will be travelling with us! We are super excited. Trying to get them on board with FE trade!

Can you believe its almost 1 year til we sail! Can't wait!

 

[yazee1]

We are cruising too! It will be me, DH, DS - 5 & 3 by then! I am one of those a bit stressed that my 3 yr old will be potty trained by then! He will have turned 3 in June, so I think it will happen! Especially since he sees big brother doing it!

Is anyone interested in organizing a fish extender trade while cruising? I'm really excited about doing this with my kids. this will be our 2nd DCL, the first was on a 3 day so not too many FE or door magnets.

There are 5 other families that will be travelling with us! We are super excited. Trying to get them on board with FE trade!

Can you believe its almost 1 year til we sail! Can't wait!

Hi, Mavdav! I'm sure your younger son will be a potty pro by October. No, we haven't made plans for an FE exchange yet. It's a bit early, but I'm sure there will be one. We didn't do one on our first two cruises, and I wasn't inclined to on this last one, but I changed my mind and I'm glad I did. It was really fun. I even made my own FE. I don't sew much, so that's significant.