October 1st, 2011 Western Caribbean on the Magic!

[angiengary]

We booked this cruise the other night onboard the Wonder. My daughter did not want to leave the ship this morning. I will be more than happy to keep track of the Fish Extender list. Just send me a PM or post to the thread and I will keep it updated up to the time we leave the morning of the cruise.

Here is the link for the Fish Extender list.

The page will be more printer friendly in the coming weeks. I just threw this together to get the ball rolling.

We would love to be included in the fish extender. Thanks for taking care of it all.

 

[dsnydaddy]

Another secret verandah room We were so worried that "our" room would be gone & already booked before we cruised.....we wanted to book on board, so we were thrilled when our room was still left. I'd take that room for every cruise.

I love to take advantage of one of those, but I understand that they only hold 3. We have 4. Enjoy!

 

[dsnydaddy]

Add the Joseph family to the FE list. Room 5524. Steve (dsnydaddy)and Laura (LauraJo), Stuart (10 at time of sailing) and Leah (7)

 

[Silverfox97]

Add the Joseph family to the FE list. Room 5524. Steve (dsnydaddy)and Laura (LauraJo), Stuart (10 at time of sailing) and Leah (7)

We made good friends with a family on our last cruise - they were in 5524! SPH room - not too shabby, either! I think we'd enjoy a porthole room, especially on the 5th deck. If we had a family of 4, I'd definitely try for those. I love that there are "secret" rooms - I don't think that is going to happen at all on the Dream or Fantasy!

My poor sweet DD thinks we are cruising THIS October.........oh my.

 

[dsnydaddy]

Most of my group got SPH rooms on this cruise. 5520 and 5522 are friends from work as well as 5020 which will be occupied by my brother. Another friend from work will be in the inside cabin down the same hall as my coworkers and I. You may be right about the Dream and Fantasy. But we won't know for sure until people actually get on the ship and examine the rooms. I know one thing for sure the number of deluxe inside rooms are VERY few! Most of the inside rooms have the single bath!

 

[dsnydaddy]

My poor sweet DD thinks we are cruising THIS October.........oh my.

I'd be having a similar problem (the kids would be bugging me about a cruise) but I bought a cabin on the two night cruise to nowhere in Jan. So that'll tide them over.

 

[Fire14]

Another secret verandah room We were so worried that "our" room would be gone & already booked before we cruised.....we wanted to book on board, so we were thrilled when our room was still left. I'd take that room for every cruise.

We had 7120 first 2 cruises but thgis last cruise we decided to move down the hall a bit and fell in love with secret Verandah but when I went to book this upcoming cruise 7120 was taken and we decided we wanted to check out view from other side so we chose 7620.

 

[dsnydaddy]

We had 7120 first 2 cruises but thgis last cruise we decided to move down the hall a bit and fell in love with secret Verandah but when I went to book this upcoming cruise 7120 was taken and we decided we wanted to check out view from other side so we chose 7620.

Oh you'll like that side, you'll get a view of CC when docked!

 

[dsnydaddy]

I don't know how many of you are planning a WDW add on to this cruise. But the DIS is rumoring that 2011 discounts will be released tomorrow! I'm sure we can count on free dining, but I'm thinking there may be other incentives as well.

 

[Silverfox97]

I'd be having a similar problem (the kids would be bugging me about a cruise) but I bought a cabin on the two night cruise to nowhere in Jan. So that'll tide them over.

I hear ya! I'd love to book a quick 3 or 4-night in Feb., since that is exactly half-way in between our last cruise and this one next Oct.....Only problem, those cruises will be on the Dream, which is filling up and is more expensive. We're not really into jumping right onto that ship right away while it's "hot," - we'd rather enjoy it once the pomp & circumstance fanfare has passed. We'll see....there's always a chance of something and I can be hopeful - I will just hope for pixie dust! I am still lucky that I have a child not in school yet - don't know what we'll do when that changes!!

Last night, I was pricing different options and I had to laugh Next summer's 5 night double dip cruises on the Dream cost more than the 7 night cruises. That is crazy, and also hilarious.

Maybe I should've booked 2 cruises when we were on board!

 

[Silverfox97]

We had 7120 first 2 cruises but thgis last cruise we decided to move down the hall a bit and fell in love with secret Verandah but when I went to book this upcoming cruise 7120 was taken and we decided we wanted to check out view from other side so we chose 7620.

That is why we originally chose 6634 (7620 was our 2nd choice ) - the view of CC/Flying Dutchman when the ship backs in is amazing! The water is so beautiful! And, on our double dip, we got to see it twice.

Oh, there is too much time between cruises!

 

[dsnydaddy]

Last night, I was pricing different options and I had to laugh Next summer's 5 night double dip cruises on the Dream cost more than the 7 night cruises. That is crazy, and also hilarious.

I've heard about the 5 night cruises being really expensive. Funny thing is that booking a 3 and 4 night back to back is cheaper than the 7 night and 5 night. I think that's the way we'll go if we don't do a 7 night on the Fantasy.

 

[dsnydaddy]

Well, I'm crazy excited! Just booked WDW for the week before this cruise with free Dining! Whoo Hoo! Saved me $840. (actually, not, because we were probably not going to do WDW unless we got some sort of significant savings because as is I'm spending a boat-load of money on this vacation.)

 

[Silverfox97]

I've heard about the 5 night cruises being really expensive. Funny thing is that booking a 3 and 4 night back to back is cheaper than the 7 night and 5 night. I think that's the way we'll go if we don't do a 7 night on the Fantasy.

My hubby cringed when he originally saw how much our 5 night cruise this year was...........But, lucky for me, I got out of the woods when they released Florida Resident rates and 60% of the cost of the cruise was refunded back onto our Disney Visa. We wanted the 2 days at CC, so I am SOOO glad we did it.

Excellent point about B2B - I always forget about that option............

 

[dsnydaddy]

Nice almost makes me want to live in Florida. But I've heard that nurses don't get paid too much there.

 

[Silverfox97]

Nice almost makes me want to live in Florida. But I've heard that nurses don't get paid too much there.

NOT TRUE! I can only speak for my institution in my area (Tampa). In fact, I am an inpatient RN and our patient to RN ratio is 4 patients to 1 nurse. Unheard of in most hospitals! But, cost of living is different, all of those things come into play. I can say it was a lot more than I made in Ohio, that's for sure!

We moved to Tampa in April '07. Chose Tampa for my job, but also where we are in Tampa the beach is 1 hr to the west (close, but far enough that we are out of hurricane harms way), and WDW is 1 hr to the east, Port Canaveral is 1 hr 40 min. Love the weather, love my job, love the location! No complaints on this end

Well, we decided to book another cruise so that we could take one while waiting for this one...........it's a 5 night DD on the Magic - post-holidays. Can't wait for both cruises!! Now we get to do 2 FE's!!

 

[ssanders79]

The FE list has been updated.

 

[Fire14]

Nice almost makes me want to live in Florida. But I've heard that nurses don't get paid too much there.

If nothing else everyone will feel safe with at least 3 nurses in our group as I'm a nurse also

 

[Silverfox97]

We are in for FE exchange Juli (fire14), Danny (fires_grumpy), And Jodi ( no dis board name) who has her own FE so you get 2 for price of 1 at cabin 7620. Yes cruise long ways off but excitement just keeps building

For the FE, am I correct to assume Jodi is an adult?

 

[Fire14]

For the FE, am I correct to assume Jodi is an adult?

yes she is a travel buddy of Dh and I.