October 31, 2009

[TomsRiverNJMickeyFan]

Hey Everyone:

Seven Days from now I will be taking the girls out of school and final pack of the car to head to Philadelphia Airport.

I tried to go to Disney Cruise Line website and it is undergoing a revamp to make better. Something else to look at over the next week to feed the beast of anticipation!!

 

[TomsRiverNJMickeyFan]

LOL!!! I didn't even realize it.

WOW:

I did'nt notice my 172 post either. Were are my thoughts?

 

[Jaime]

It's official, 10 days from now, for all us, we will be at the port. Doesn't matter who is in single digits for leaving, we all hit the water in 10 days
And it finally has hit weather.com

Sat Oct 31st, Cape Canveral Fl, 84 degrees, partly cloudy, chance of pixie dust.

It's snowy wet snow here today...reading this post is even making me more excited about next week!!!!!

 

[jnadelman]

So I spoke to my TA to see if there were any upgrade options. So she called Disney and here is what she came back with

1 - They never (or very rarely) give a free upgrade to anyone in a connecting room. Basically they won't split up a connection. There is not even a way to note your reservation to allow for it. So if you are in a connecting room, don't keep your hopes up

2 - They never (or very rarely) offer upgrade discounts pre cruise to people in connecting rooms. They won't do this unless they can offer both rooms the same upgrade and keep the rooms connected. Again, no way to note this on your res. I even asked about paying for both to be upgraded and no longer be in connecting room. No such luck

3 - They said that there are no pre-cruise upgrades even available for our cruise.

I'm not sure what will be available once we get to the port.

Future reference. If you are hoping for pixie dust, or a reduced pre-cruise upgrade and you are traveling with someone else, and you are willing to split to get upgrades, then when you book, DON'T get adjoining rooms. Get rooms next to or near each other.

 

[Jaime]

FYI ...


0 The captain for our cruise will be Capt. Tom.

0 Movies offered will be

Bolt (shown in Disney Digital 3D)
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Race to Witch Mountain
Hannah Montana The Movie
Earth (Disney Nature)
Disney-Pixar's Up 3D
The Proposal
G-Force 3D
Surrogates
Toy Story 3D 10/2 Movie PremEAR
A Christmas Carol 3D 11/6 Movie PremEAR

0 You canNOT remove sand from the island - per Concierge. ( I don't see how you can miss having some in your shoes and such, though....

0 The dinner rotations remain PLAAPLA, LAPPLAP, APLLAPL
P=Parrot Cay, L=Lumiere's, A=Animator's Palate



I'm still waiting for word on the World Series issue.

Hmmm...wonder when they will do the Christmas Carol 3D 11/6 Movie PremEAR? Usually they make a big deal of PremEAR's.

 

[jnadelman]

So it seems official. At the moment we are the only FE cabin on deck 1. And we are all the way down on the far end away from the elevators. Please don't forget about us when giving out your gifts.

We are cat 9, maybe there will be a cat 12, 11 or 10 family that gets upgraded and will join us.

 

[Jaime]

I do not want to advise you to get or not to get the H1N1 vaccine, but I want to give you some information. You and your medical provider should make the decision.

The H1N1 Flumist vaccine is an attenuated vaccine. This means that the virus is altered to prevent it from being virulent, but it still can replicate and lead to an immune response. Yes, there is always the chance for it to mutate, but this is not a very common thing.

The symptoms one receives when getting a vaccine are the body's normal response to a vaccination. It is very unlikely to get the disease from the vaccine. In most cases, the person ends up getting the disease from an outside source before the vaccine becomes effective.

I believe there is a lot of misinformation out there about the vaccines and I wanted to let you know what I know. Only people who have contact with transplant patients should not get the flumist (if they fall within the age range, are not pregnant and are not immunocompromised themselves).

Just an FYI - Two common child vaccines (chickenpox and MMR) are also attenuated vaccines.

I got the Flumist on Monday. I have not had any symptoms or issues. If you want more information, check out the CDC website.

http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/general_info.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/FLU/about/qa/nasalspray.htm - Information about Flumist (not specifically H1N1 though)

Hope this helps. Its just the pharmacist in me. And I have been planning the vaccinations in my facility.

Great info Ours is scheduled to be released when we are away; so we'll get them when we return.

 

[Jaime]

So it seems official. At the moment we are the only FE cabin on deck 1. And we are all the way down on the far end away from the elevators. Please don't forget about us when giving out your gifts.

We are cat 9, maybe there will be a cat 12, 11 or 10 family that gets upgraded and will join us.

We had to walk by there a few times on our first cruise to go ashore so you may not be so far out of the way as you think

 

[Jaime]

After 20 very long months...with many changes we only have 5 days before we head to OrlandoI am so exicted!

 

[jnadelman]

We had to walk by there a few times on our first cruise to go ashore so you may not be so far out of the way as you think

Yes getting off the ship is sometimes down on deck 1. But that is on once side far end. We are in the middle so you have to walk half the ship to get to us.
But we are worth it right?
We do have an awesome FE if I can say so myself (I made it)

 

[Jaime]

Yes getting off the ship is sometimes down on deck 1. But that is on once side far end. We are in the middle so you have to walk half the ship to get to us.
But we are worth it right?
We do have an awesome FE if I can say so myself (I made it)

Yes your worth it but no our friends were in 1079 and we got our tender ashore to St. Thomas across from their stateroom. It's not listed in the deck plans but we left the ship twice through there just never enter back on there though.

 

[Jaime]

Palos' dinner Thursday (sea day) just opened up again if anyone is looking for a reservation

 

[hampson8]

It has been rainy and gloomy for two days here. Having a very hard time getting motivated to do all the things needed before we leave in 4 days. It better be sunny and warm wherever I go!!!

 

[jnadelman]

My body is at work, but my mind is already on vacation

 

[Renysmom]

Hey Everyone:

Seven Days from now I will be taking the girls out of school and final pack of the car to head to Philadelphia Airport.

I tried to go to Disney Cruise Line website and it is undergoing a revamp to make better. Something else to look at over the next week to feed the beast of anticipation!!

Just a thought... DCL is making the big Disney Dreams Announcement on Thursday at 4:00. The DCL site will probably be a bear to get into from about 3:00 pm through the night so don't wait till Thursday to print your paperwork, you may not be able to get on

So it seems official. At the moment we are the only FE cabin on deck 1. And we are all the way down on the far end away from the elevators. Please don't forget about us when giving out your gifts.

We are cat 9, maybe there will be a cat 12, 11 or 10 family that gets upgraded and will join us.

We won't forget Really, it's not a big deal where your cabin is, you end up spending little to no time on there anyway.

 

[Dreamsoftravel]

Sneaking on at work. This time next week we are picking up kids from school and heading to the airport. I can not believe it!

For those of you making cards for kids to hand out to friends to keep in touch, are you including home address, kids email, phone numbers????

What about adults that are doing the same?

 

[ntheory]

Hmmm...wonder when they will do the Christmas Carol 3D 11/6 Movie PremEAR? Usually they make a big deal of PremEAR's.

Last time, I was on when one came out, and they had a showing at midnight, I believe.

 

[citysalsagirl]

So I spoke to my TA to see if there were any upgrade options. So she called Disney and here is what she came back with

1 - They never (or very rarely) give a free upgrade to anyone in a connecting room. Basically they won't split up a connection. There is not even a way to note your reservation to allow for it. So if you are in a connecting room, don't keep your hopes up

2 - They never (or very rarely) offer upgrade discounts pre cruise to people in connecting rooms. They won't do this unless they can offer both rooms the same upgrade and keep the rooms connected. Again, no way to note this on your res. I even asked about paying for both to be upgraded and no longer be in connecting room. No such luck

3 - They said that there are no pre-cruise upgrades even available for our cruise.

I'm not sure what will be available once we get to the port.

Future reference. If you are hoping for pixie dust, or a reduced pre-cruise upgrade and you are traveling with someone else, and you are willing to split to get upgrades, then when you book, DON'T get adjoining rooms. Get rooms next to or near each other.

So what you are saying is if you are in a connecting room, you will not receive a upgrade. LOL That is too bad because we are in a connecting room but not with another party, just ourselves.

 

[ntheory]

So it seems official. At the moment we are the only FE cabin on deck 1. And we are all the way down on the far end away from the elevators. Please don't forget about us when giving out your gifts.

We are cat 9, maybe there will be a cat 12, 11 or 10 family that gets upgraded and will join us.

Of course we won't forget. You're on the list, so you will get just like anyone else on there.

 

[citysalsagirl]

Sneaking on at work. This time next week we are picking up kids from school and heading to the airport. I can not believe it!

For those of you making cards for kids to hand out to friends to keep in touch, are you including home address, kids email, phone numbers????

What about adults that are doing the same?

I include home address, phone number and e-mail. I did not think about doing that for me, the adult. Hmmmm...something else to work on.