October 2, 2011 Disney Wonder Mexican Riviera-"Mickey's Mexican Mouseketeers!"

[dolphingirl47]

Does anyone know if I can change the names on our reservation for this cruise without being charged?

I think up to 75 days out, you can essentially change or cancel anything you would like without any penalty

Mindi--Are you changing them to Del and Michelle???

Ok no I am not sure! Sorry I couldn't help!

Anyone else plan on going to Disneyland while out there? I think we will go either Friday or Sat. Would like to do the special event...I like less lines and I am hoping they will offer it one of those days. I hate waiting till May to find out!! Sydney informed me she wants to hit hollywood as well...she's hoping to see someone and the hollywood sign. So I am looking at flying in Weds or thurs and maybe staying at a DL area hotel from then till sat...renting a car to drive everywhere and then heading to the port on Sat. , returning the car back to LAX and shuttling over DH to hotel. Any ideas...? I know I am the planner in this bunch...anyone even thinking out there?

We are planning to fly in on the Thursday and spend Friday and Saturday at Disneyland (unless Graham realizes that he needs to do some last minute shopping) and then hopefully get DCL transfers on Sunday morning. After the cruise we will stay in California for at least another week.

ok I am getting so excited that in 26 hrs we can say we are cruising this yr!!! I really don't know why I am so excited right now since we have 9 months and 2 days. I just can't help myself. I got this bright idea for a family gift...ok so I already made one family gift for my Dreamers and 10 others that appear and then I made the thing I made for the Dreamers last cruise for anyone over 20 staterooms but I got this other idea and can't wait till my tool arrives to try out my idea. If it works I will make 40 of them and then if I don't use them all I can save for the next cruise! I have an idea for the girls over 7...and goodie bags for the little girls. and boys. It's those dang boys over 7 that are hard....why can't they be easy like the girls...silly bands, nail polish, lip gloss, etc.

I guess I should go to bed and hope I can fall asleep. 3 out of 4 of us are sick and coughing all night. Oh the joys!!! Nighty night!

I here you about boys. This is what I am always struggling with. I have the cabin gifts and the gifts for the ladies and girls all planned, but have no idea for the men and boys.

I hope that you all feel better soon.

Well back up at 3am...didn't post then cause I wasn't sure how much I would be making sense. I am so tired of being sick Ok so I am thinking about booking my air in a week or so. Do you guys think I should wait or go for it. The prices are Weds/Fri(Sept 28th/30th) for $69 and Oct 9th for $99.
Now We definately need to fly home the 9th cause all the flights on Spirit are red eyes, so the girls may miss monday since it gets home at 6am and we have a 2 hrs drive home. If they sleep well on the airplane then I may send them. Who knows. So my decision day is weds/thurs /fri to fly out. thurs is $99 and the other 2 days are $69. We want to do DL one day and we wanna go to see the Hollywood sign since we don't plan on hitting LA again for years!!! So what do you guys think???? I don't think I will find better air , I mean that's like $820 r/t for all 4 of us. Plus luggage of course. I know in Aug this yr they ran air for October for $57 each way. that will only save me like under $100. Not sure that is good to wait for and risk it being a worse deal with gas going up and all! Ok I am done babbling....

Off to get my Talk to you all later!!

In my experience of working for an airline, if you see a price that you like, grab it. Yes, sometimes there are sales closer to the departure date, but prices are based on availability and normally the earlier you book, the more likely you are to get a good price.

yeah I think I am gonna bid on other hotels for where ever I wanna stay. can't decide what we are doing. DL, hollywood, etc. thinking of using priceline for car rental as well!

Corinna--went to craft store today. Can't wait to see your jewelry pieces for inspiration for the girls jewelry. Any suggestions...regualr pearls? umm silver? any ideas. Oh and I got another idea for FE's!!! Can't wait to see how easy it will hopefully be!!

I really don't know what to expect at the moment. I will post photos as soon as I am back from the cruise for the first pieces. That should still give you plenty of time to sort something out.

Corinna

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

Happy New Year to all my MOUSEKETEERS!!!!

i will be away from my computer at midnight so I thought I would send this out now!! I can't wait , we are cruising in 9 months!!!!!!!!!!!! Have a safe a joyous New Yr Eve!!!

 

[Mindibellcm]

Happy New Year.

Looks like Disney may be doing some type of photo op today with the Magic, Wonder and Dream.

 

[dolphingirl47]

Happy New Year.

Looks like Disney may be doing some type of photo op today with the Magic, Wonder and Dream.

Yes, I am spitting nails. We had previously heard that this would happen on January 7th and I would be on the Wonder then. I was rather looking forward to getting photos of all three ships together. Looks like I might be out of luck.

Corinna

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

Can't wait to see that photo. Wish you were gonna be there Corinna, cause man I could go for you description....making me feel like I am there.

Ok Mouseketeers---we are leaving in 9 months!!! i can't wait!! So I have been reasearching and unfortunately there is only one rental car company in San Pedro---enterprise...I so hate that!!!!. I have been trying to plan out my days in my head to make it easy to get to the 2 places we wanna hit and return the goofy rental. Arrrgghhh. I wasn't excited about doing Disneyland , in fact not concerned if we did it or not..I mean it's no WDW! But the kids are really excited. We were gonna do Knott's Berry farm since the kids have season passes and I work at Cedar Point(with those we get in Knott's free) however the kids want DL. and who am I to deny them the Magic

Well I am off to search the web as I sit here with a head full, a fever, and just aches!!!

 

[australiankaren]

hi there

happy new year!!!i cant belive its only 9 months to go. I have been spending so much time researching flights/ accom/ shhuttles/ car hire i should be a travel agent
anyway, can you please add me to the FE, and my DH name is Tony. We have 2 boys Tim and josh, but they are not traveling with us. We have 3 grandkids edan, indy and Ava...I know this isnt relavent but I just love telling people this
I too am looking at staying at DL, possibly using our vacation club points at the grand californian...but trying to find flights etc at the moment.
Its a hot 103 here at the moment, so we're thinking of you guys in the cold.
have a great day
karen & tony

 

[Mindibellcm]

Can't wait to see that photo. Wish you were gonna be there Corinna, cause man I could go for you description....making me feel like I am there.

Ok Mouseketeers---we are leaving in 9 months!!! i can't wait!! So I have been reasearching and unfortunately there is only one rental car company in San Pedro---enterprise...I so hate that!!!!. I have been trying to plan out my days in my head to make it easy to get to the 2 places we wanna hit and return the goofy rental. Arrrgghhh. I wasn't excited about doing Disneyland , in fact not concerned if we did it or not..I mean it's no WDW! But the kids are really excited. We were gonna do Knott's Berry farm since the kids have season passes and I work at Cedar Point(with those we get in Knott's free) however the kids want DL. and who am I to deny them the Magic

Well I am off to search the web as I sit here with a head full, a fever, and just aches!!!

Michelle,
I know I have probably missed something but why do you need a rental car in San Pedro? Let me know what I am missing since you can tell I haven't started my planning.
Mindi

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

Mindi--I don't really need it in San Pedro but I need it the 2 other days we are there. We want to go to DL and Hollywood so I need one. It will probably be cheaper and more convientant to rent it and return it to the Enterprise at the port. Otherwise I have to rent at LAX, go to DL, Hollywood and return in back to LAX on that Sat--then pay for a shuttle back to the San Pedro hotel. That is still an option if it saves me lots. I know I can get a little car on priceline for $70 without bidding...maybe I can get get it for $40 and then a shuttle is $17 a piece or $84 for a private shuttle. So if I can get a 2 day rental from enterprise for less then $130 I will take it. They aren't on priceline and there is like a $40/50 returning to different location cost. Then I am looking at a Limo for the return to airport on Sunday. I have found a Limo bus. If anyone is interested and returning Sunday to the airport we could all chip in and rent the Limo-bus!!!

I hope to book my air in a week or so then I can really take care of booking everything else. I know some say to wait till closer to the date for priceline but I would rather know I have the room. I will probably book DL area hotel for fri nt for sure. Maybe book airport hotel for thurs nt since we will get in late....but all that is up in the air till we know what dates we are flying in. DL is a definate either Fri or Sat, depending when the Halloween special event is. I am not liking waiting till May for those release dates!



Karen--it's ok to announce your kids and grandkids....that is just being proud of them. I so understnad. I am proud of my babes and will be of my grandbabies(umm but not for years) I will add you to our FE list. Hope you checked out the web page!

TTFN

 

[Mindibellcm]

Now I get it. The Port is actually in San Pedro!!! I am so onboard now.

Mindi

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

Ok I called enterprise this morning because you can't go online and book a one way to the port. So I asked for the 29th to the 2nd...3 days...for economy $235 Wowza!! So I am gonna do priceline for a LAX-LAX for cheap and then shuttle us over sat night to the crown. Cheaper is better at least when it's $100 cheaper!!

 

[dolphingirl47]

Can't wait to see that photo. Wish you were gonna be there Corinna, cause man I could go for you description....making me feel like I am there.

Ok Mouseketeers---we are leaving in 9 months!!! i can't wait!! So I have been reasearching and unfortunately there is only one rental car company in San Pedro---enterprise...I so hate that!!!!. I have been trying to plan out my days in my head to make it easy to get to the 2 places we wanna hit and return the goofy rental. Arrrgghhh. I wasn't excited about doing Disneyland , in fact not concerned if we did it or not..I mean it's no WDW! But the kids are really excited. We were gonna do Knott's Berry farm since the kids have season passes and I work at Cedar Point(with those we get in Knott's free) however the kids want DL. and who am I to deny them the Magic

Well I am off to search the web as I sit here with a head full, a fever, and just aches!!!

Well, in the end it was just the Magic and the Dream meeting up. So maybe they will all three meet up on January 7th to see the Wonder off.

hi there

happy new year!!!i cant belive its only 9 months to go. I have been spending so much time researching flights/ accom/ shhuttles/ car hire i should be a travel agent
anyway, can you please add me to the FE, and my DH name is Tony. We have 2 boys Tim and josh, but they are not traveling with us. We have 3 grandkids edan, indy and Ava...I know this isnt relavent but I just love telling people this
I too am looking at staying at DL, possibly using our vacation club points at the grand californian...but trying to find flights etc at the moment.
Its a hot 103 here at the moment, so we're thinking of you guys in the cold.
have a great day
karen & tony

Hi Karen and Tony, we are hoping to stay at Grand Californian Villas, too. Unfortunately we have to wait until March to make reservations.

Ok I called enterprise this morning because you can't go online and book a one way to the port. So I asked for the 29th to the 2nd...3 days...for economy $235 Wowza!! So I am gonna do priceline for a LAX-LAX for cheap and then shuttle us over sat night to the crown. Cheaper is better at least when it's $100 cheaper!!

That seems incredibly high for 3 days.

Corinna

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

Hey Corinna--- Sydney was wondering if you could sneak into the Edge(new tween area) and catch a few picks for her. She wants to see what it will look like. She's kinda excited that she has her own tween area!! No kiddies!! and I am sure you will get any new things they have done to the Wonder!!! Thanks

 

[dolphingirl47]

Hey Corinna--- Sydney was wondering if you could sneak into the Edge(new tween area) and catch a few picks for her. She wants to see what it will look like. She's kinda excited that she has her own tween area!! No kiddies!! and I am sure you will get any new things they have done to the Wonder!!! Thanks

If it existed, yet, I could. On the Magic they always had open hours at Ocean Quest in the morning before the tween programming started. I assume the same will be the case on the Wonder. However, from what I heard there are still conference and meeting rooms in that space at the moment and they use this to train the new cast members. I have read on the main cruise forum that the conversion to Edge will probably now not happen until the dry dock in September. So Sydney should be one of the first to try this out (I think there is one more cruise between dry dock and our cruise).

Other than that, you can be sure that I will take plenty of photos. We have backed a total of 4 cameras (my new Lumix, my compact camera for those just in case scenarios, Graham's waterproof camera and his video camera) so there should be no reason why we should be caught without a camera this time round. I can't wait to see the Outlook Cafe, which the Magic of course does not have.

Corinna

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

Oh I didn't realize that Wonder had a dry dock before our cruise. Well that is cool. Maybe our beds will get a good vacuum of the mattresses....I won't say why I am wondering that..you guys can figure that out yourselves!!

 

[dolphingirl47]

Oh I didn't realize that Wonder had a dry dock before our cruise. Well that is cool. Maybe our beds will get a good vacuum of the mattresses....I won't say why I am wondering that..you guys can figure that out yourselves!!

Actually, I was slightly wrong. There are two cruises between dry dock and our cruise, the Vancouver to Los Angeles Repo and a Mexican Riviera Cruise.

Corinna

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

Corinna---have fun on the PC and we will be looking for tons of pics from you!!

Everyone---yeah the DREAM is home in FL where it belongs!!!
Here is a link to watch it's arrival
http://www.usatoday.com/video/index.htm?bctid=737445909001

Hope everyone is having a good day!!!

 

[Mindibellcm]

So nice to see the Dream come into port!

Do any of you have girls that are into the American Girls? Taylor has just been taken with them. It's all she can talk about and she must dress like her doll for church. Today she got the new catalog in the mail and it has a 25th Birthday Cruise for American Girl Dolls! She is so excited and will not stop asking if we can go. It is on Celebrity over Thanksgiving week. I looked up the price it was over $4500 for our family of 5 in the least expensive cabin. I think it was an oceanview. I told her I didn't think we could swing California/Mickey cruise and also an American Girl cruise. She is so upset. For 2 of us it was $3200 for an inside cabin.

I went onto Celebrity and priced the same cruise without the American Girl stuff and it was around $1800 I think for 2 adult adults. It wouldn't let me price children.


People say Disney is expensive.

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

MINDI---Wow-very neat cruise!! Sydney and Nelia are into the American girls!! We have 3 bitty babies , Chrissa, Nellie, and Kit in our house! Along with the crib, AG cases, clothes, well let's just say --dang I could cruise on what I have invested We plan on going to the AG store in LA when we are there. You should join us or at least go! It's in a shopping area called "The Grove"-- supposedly a "hot spot" for stars as well! Anyway the cruise sounds neat but PRICEY!!! I would rather book another Disney cruise then AG.. Maybe you can convince her to do something at the AG store while your there or a new doll---sounds cheaper to me

Well back to bed for me....just got up to pee and couldn't resist the computer!! TTFN

 

[Mindibellcm]

I totally agree about another Disney cruise. I am trying to get our travel plans now to leave on Thursday. I am off on Friday. If we could leave Thursday, then we could do AG on Friday and Disneyland on Saturday and ship on Sunday!

It actually sounds like I may have started planning.

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

I totally agree about another Disney cruise. I am trying to get our travel plans now to leave on Thursday. I am off on Friday. If we could leave Thursday, then we could do AG on Friday and Disneyland on Saturday and ship on Sunday!

It actually sounds like I may have started planning.

Stop Mindi--contain yourself. You might actually be planning!
I have found airfare leaving Weds night, so the kids can still go to school weds and I can leave here and head to the airport about 3pm. Or I can leave thurs nt. Leaving Weds nt will give us another day in LA. I think leaving weds would be nice. I would like to do DL special event Friday nt, thurs---Hollywood, AG, etc and then relax on Sat. Ok I guess I convinced myself!! The girls both wanted to get ANOTHER American girl doll so I told them they could have them for their bday, but told them it would be more fun to wait to get them while we are in LA and they can pick her out themselves and she can go on her first cruise. So they have said they will wait. They will have so much fun picking her out!!!

I can't wait till the Jan 23rd MR Dis'er return with all the info. I have seen that the Edge(tween club) is up and running on the Wonder. Syd will like that!! It looks like Sat nt...me, Kim and Carol are at the Crown in San Pedro before the cruise...who else wants to join us for a party nt Sat???