"Once Upon a Dream" 4 Night Dream Cruise 10/16/2011

[buick86]

We just booked this cruise and cannot wait to see the new ship! Has anyone started a FE list?

 

[Tngrl78]

Welcome!

We just booked this cruise and cannot wait to see the new ship! Has anyone started a FE list?

Not yet... nothing official anyway.

I guess we can start anytime now... and put in a cut off date of sometime in early Sept so that can give us about a month or so to make sure we have enough FE gifts.

 

[buick86]

Sounds great!

 

[tinkmom2]

We just booked this cruise and cannot wait to see the new ship! Has anyone started a FE list?

We are probably going to wait to take names for the FE until 2 months before because many people either join the cruise or drop out. I have done the FE for both my cruises but if anyone else wants to do it that would be awesome too!

 

[Kewz1]

We just booked this cruise and cannot wait to see the new ship! Has anyone started a FE list?

Nice to meet you!

I guess we can start anytime now... and put in a cut off date of sometime in early Sept so that can give us about a month or so to make sure we have enough FE gifts.

Sounds good to me. This is the first time we have done the FE so just let me know what I have to do!


Kristen

 

[buick86]

Reading some of the posts prompted us to book the 3 day immediately after the 4 day... wooo hoo! Can't wait!

 

[tinkmom2]

Were saving up to book a 5 day or longer on the ship. I really want that $200 OBC they were offering for rebooking. I will probably choose a dummy date for 2012. After all I don't know if the world is going to end

 

[katzs13]

We are probably going to wait to take names for the FE until 2 months before because many people either join the cruise or drop out. I have done the FE for both my cruises but if anyone else wants to do it that would be awesome too!

Sounds like you would be the perfect person to do the FE.

 

[katzs13]

Another week down, another coutdown. I hope all is well with everybody.

We have only

more FRIDAY'S until we cruise

 

[loveysbydesign]

Just wanted to pop in and say I am getting sooooooooooooooo excited!
Can't wait to get our tax return so we can pay off the rest of our balance!
All the pix recent cruisers are posting is driving me insane!!!

Praying no more financial emergencies arise...in the past 2 months we've had to put top braces on our older 2 kids teeth(medically necessary and will be making payments on them for the next 16 months---YIKES!!!) and just paid over $1600 to fix my hubby's truck(which we thankfully were able to pay for with the reimbursement check from our dental insurance for the kids braces)! Along with a bunch of smaller issues here and there.

 

[tinkmom2]

Just wanted to pop in and say I am getting sooooooooooooooo excited!
Can't wait to get our tax return so we can pay off the rest of our balance!
All the pix recent cruisers are posting is driving me insane!!!

Omg! I am doing the same thing with my tax return lol! I am paying off my shipboard balance, paying off Disney, and the DD needs braces lol! The new pics of the Dream are what is keeping me going lol!

 

[buick86]

Just wanted to pop in and say I am getting sooooooooooooooo excited!
Can't wait to get our tax return so we can pay off the rest of our balance!
All the pix recent cruisers are posting is driving me insane!!!

Praying no more financial emergencies arise...in the past 2 months we've had to put top braces on our older 2 kids teeth(medically necessary and will be making payments on them for the next 16 months---YIKES!!!) and just paid over $1600 to fix my hubby's truck(which we thankfully were able to pay for with the reimbursement check from our dental insurance for the kids braces)! Along with a bunch of smaller issues here and there.

We too are doing the same with our tax return paying off the balance and our annual dues for Disney Vacation Club. Along with tires for both cars thank goodness for the tax return!! We hope you don't or nobody has any financial emergencies for a while!!!

 

[Kewz1]

Another week down, another coutdown. I hope all is well with everybody.

We have only

more FRIDAY'S until we cruise

We're in the 30's now -- how exciting!

Kristen

 

[Karen Mouse]

Another week down, another coutdown. I hope all is well with everybody.

We have only

more FRIDAY'S until we cruise

We're in the 30's!

Just wanted to pop in and say I am getting sooooooooooooooo excited!
Can't wait to get our tax return so we can pay off the rest of our balance!
All the pix recent cruisers are posting is driving me insane!!!.

I wish I knew where our balance was coming from!.. or for that matter our flight balance, villa balance, car hire balance etc etc

 

[loveysbydesign]

We're in the 30's!



I wish I knew where our balance was coming from!.. or for that matter our flight balance, villa balance, car hire balance etc etc

We purposely have extra income tax withheld that we then use for our vacations It's the only way we can save $$$. Thankfully we can drive this time too so that'll save us over $600!

 

[tinkmom2]

I am still wating for free dining to come out for the Disney part of our trip and cheap airfare to come out but with the increase in gas prices I am not very hopefull for the fall prices.
We changed our withholding this last year so we are getting back about $2000.00 less on this return This is where my budgeting really comes in handy

 

[buick86]

We purposely have extra income tax withheld that we then use for our vacations It's the only way we can save $$$. Thankfully we can drive this time too so that'll save us over $600!

Along with the tax refund help and getting Disney gift cards when we can it really helps us plan and have a good time. Has anyone ever tried the dolphin encounters before?

 

[loveysbydesign]

Along with the tax refund help and getting Disney gift cards when we can it really helps us plan and have a good time. Has anyone ever tried the dolphin encounters before?

I just ordered a $25 disney gc the other day! Planning to order them as often as I can to use towards the tips we pay for the cruise!
Anyone staying at one of the hotels in cocoa beach before the cruise and using free shuttles from the hotel to the port? We'd like to spend 1-2 days at the beach before the cruise and since we're driving I need to find a place that allows us to park fro free and shuttle us over. I was looking into the International Palms resort.

 

[tinkmom2]

On the budget board a bit back they were saying if you buy the Disney gift cards at Sam's they were offering an extra $10 per $100.00 in gift cards you buy. I am not sure if that is still going on or not? I am going to prepay my shipboard account like I have the last two times. I know I spent over $700 with pictures, tips, and no excursions. This time we plan on the extra expense of Remy and the dolphin encounter. So it looks like my check will be going directly to Disney as it's the smaller one.

 

[loveysbydesign]

Is there an ongoing list of who is signed up for our cruise yet? my kids would like to find out if there's any other kids their age that we can meet from here on the disboards!