Official May 17th Alaska Cruise Thread!

[RRB]

Just booked this morning and can hardly wait. Let's see who else is coming on this cruise.

Randy

 

[Inkmahm]

There is a whole separate forum for cruise meets.

 

[lbgraves]

I have moved your post to the cruise meets forum. Be sure to post the link in the sticky thread for the Wonder 2011 cruises so that everyone can find it.

 

[RRB]

Thanks.

 

[Figmificent]

We will also be on this cruise to Alaska! It's our first cruise and we are sooo excited! Disney vets but new to the DCL. Hope to see more people here soon!

 

[RRB]

Hi Fig, nice to see your post. Let's hope that a bunch of others join us on this thread and we get to know each other before the cruise.

Randy

 

[IrishCowboy]

I have added a link to your thread on the main index page. Have a great cruise!

 

[tmli]

DH and I will be joining you on this cruise as well. We just cruised Alaska in August of this year and can't wait to go back!! We have cruised Disney previously as well.

 

[RRB]

Hi Tracey - nice to see you join the thread. we have never done an Alaska cruise and are looking forward to it. does Disney follow the same route as other Alaska cruises? What do you think of their route?

Randy

 

[CinderALLIE]

Just booked this cruise. My plans are up in the air at the moment as final date depends on the ABD dates as doing both...hopefully it all works out.

 

[tigger137]

Hello. We booked this cruise a few weeks ago.

Where is everyone?

I wasn't on the boards much when the Alaska cruises were announced because I was too busy looking forward to the Christmas/New Year Celebrity cruise (big mistake, sorry Mickey ).

I've had a quick look back and gathered some people think the Alaska cruises are too expensive and/or are put off by the large deposit. But surely DCL haven't got it so wrong that they're not getting bookings?

 

[RRB]

We used DVC points so I'm not aware of the costs or deposit amounts. I too am wondering about the lack of posts. Maybe things will heat up as we get closer.

Tell me what happened with the Celebrity cruise.

Randy

 

[tigger137]

We used DVC points so I'm not aware of the costs or deposit amounts. I too am wondering about the lack of posts. Maybe things will heat up as we get closer.

Tell me what happened with the Celebrity cruise.

Randy

Long story short, we didn't like our fellow passengers!

Ship was spotless, staff were excellent.
Food was okay - buffet was much better than DCL, main dining room not as good as DCL mainly because it was very inflexible which came as a bit of a shock.

We were concerned we might find Celebrity too 'snooty' for our taste. But our fellow passengers were far from the clientele featured in Celebrity's marketing. Large family groups (but not young children), pushy, unfriendly and inconsiderate of anyone other than themselves. Didn't speak or make eye contact; wouldn't move to let you into the elevator or out of it, or to let you pass on the stairs, or in the corridors; shoved their way in front of you to get at whatever they wanted in the buffet; rarely said please or thank you to the staff; demanded things from the staff even when they were already serving someone else.

And as for Celebrity supposedly being strict on their dress code, what a joke! Couldn't really tell formal nights from any other and although t-shirts were supposedly not allowed in the main dining room at any time, it appeared that Harley Davidson singlets (showing off a middle aged man's many tattoos) and similar attire were perfectly acceptable!

We're not the most sociable of people but our overwhelming impression of the cruise was 'unfriendly'. (Except the crew who were universally friendly - one of the sommeliers chatted to us every evening even though he knew we wouldn't buy any wine - in fact he never mentioned wine after the first night!) Maybe a holiday cruise was the wrong time to try another cruise line, but then again I would've thought the holiday season might make people more friendly not less so.

We've analysed every aspect of the cruise to see where we went so wrong (we did a lot of research before deciding to try Celebrity) and all we can come up with is that Disney cruisers are just much nicer people!

The cruise did serve its purpose in that we wanted to see whether it was cruising we like or only Disney cruising, and we certainly know the answer now. It was just far more disappointing than we expected.

 

[RRB]

sorry to hear about that. Was that your first Celebrity cruise?

Randy

 

[tigger137]

sorry to hear about that. Was that your first Celebrity cruise?

Randy

Yes. We had only cruised Disney (3 times) and decided to try another cruise line. Did a lot of research and narrowed it down to 2 or 3 lines, then picked Celebrity for a particular itinerary (visiting Belize, where DH was once stationed).

From now on I think we'll just go wherever The Mouse decides to take us!

 

[kris3kid]

My mom and i are booked on the May 17,2011 cruise to Alaska. I am so excited. I have not cruised yet but am going on the Jan.21-23 2011 weekend getaway out of LA. Would love to get to know others on this cruise before we go. As for it not selling real fast we may be blessed as a small group.

 

[RRB]

Hello and welcome to the Dis Boards !!!! I see it is your first post. The forum can be allot of fun and I'm like you, I want to meet my fellow cruisers before we get on the boat.

We are traveling with a family of 5. We are coming from South Florida. We have been on a bunch of Disney Cruises already.

Hope to hear back from you soon.

Randy

 

[kris3kid]

Randy,
It was nice to hear from you. We are from Sacramento Ca. and am so excited about the cruise. I have started to look into different things to do because there is not much up on the website yet. My mom thinks I am a bit crazy to be planning so early but I just can't wait. Kris

 

[RRB]

before our last cruise, I met a bunch of people on the Dis forum and we formed a group, made group T shirts and all got together for during the cruise. I still email a couple of them.

Randy

 

[kris3kid]

I would love to get to know others that are going. I heard, am not sure about this but the cost of passports may be going up as much as $60.00 each. If you don't have one now would be a great time, I was told that it could be in a couple of weeks.

I have learned that Pirates of the Caribbean will be opening on May 20th 2011, I think that it will be very cool to be able to watch the new Pirates on opening night out at sea on a Disney ship.

Hope that we get more people soon. Have a great day.