Roll call for 10/29/09 3 night Bahamian - General chit chat

[imanazd]

How-d! everyone!!

runskyhy...your designes are really great. I love all of them! I guess my favs are the spooky sailing (orange and black), Hallowonder (all the characters) and "An Enchanted Halloween". Whichever one we decide on as a group, I may still see if you can send me the others too...I love magnets for our door, so I may print several of these because they are awesome!!

 

[natalielongstaff]

those graphics are fab !!!!

 

[ChocoKat]

Oooh The graphics are so much fun!
I vote for the black and orange too!

I am sooo excited you guys. I am so happy I get to "meet" the Wonder. I am thinking about the FE exchange, I will give you a yes or no as I finalize our plans. 3 days seem so short!

Do they do anything special for Halloween for the adults?

 

[runskyhy]

Hey again. I finally caught up on all the previous posts, too. This is fun.

imanazd: Sure, I'll send you all the designs. Or I can post them to my webpage for everyone to grab. I can also change the orange & black name to 'Hallo-Wonder' instead of 'Spooky Sailing' if that is preferred. Anyone?

And I'm also booked at Radisson the night before. It had always worked out great for us there.

I'm looking forward to the FE exchange. There wasn't one on our last cruise.

The meet-n-greet on our last cruise was scheduled for Deck 10 during the Sail-Away and it was just too crowded to find most other Dis'ers. The Promenade Lounge sounds like a great idea. (Although frankly, I'll walk around with a disboard-green sticker on my forehead if asked... even before my 1st margarita.)

We took the ship tour at the beginning of our 2nd cruise just to see where it went. It started at 2:45PM at the Deck 10 Fwd elevators and lasted about 30-45 minutes. It re-introduced us to all the public areas, and our guide, CM Martin (USA), was informative and friendly. (I wish it had included the bridge, though!)

Food is my favorite part of any activity - here are some things we found that I didn't see advertised:

1. You can order a WHOLE pizza from Pinnochio's Pizzeria (Deck 9, Goofy Pool) made to order and to take-away (back to your room, etc.) Our group did this after dinner one night (like 4-courses were not enough!)
2. If you get two large choco-chip cookies from Goofy's Gallery (Deck 9, Mickey Pool), you can sandwich the soft-serve ice cream (from the machines there) and make yourself a gooey sandwich... make sure you have a napkin though (and no one around you has a camera.)
3. The Quiet Cove Cafe has free treats (in the glass container at one end of the bar) at different times of the day. Yum.
4. If you are celebrating an anniversary or other event, ask your head waiter at dinner if you can order a complimentary anniversary cake for the next night. (It has a white chocolate ship on top.) One couple in our group recieved one after our head waiter overhead us talking about it one night. I can post a picture if you can't find one already on-line.
5. I've read in other blogs that DIS'ers have successfully gotten dinner tables set up next to each other (or with each other), but it wasn't explained how this is done with all the different dining rotations.

What else did I leave out?

 

[cheflawrence]

Hi Gang

runskyhy, I love the graphics

aswift, the stingray adventure at Castaway is really neat. we did it on our last cruise and Elizabeth (DD) wants to do it again. Not sure they allow observers however.

We were looking at the excursions in Nassau, DD saw the Dolphin encounter at Atlantis....she said she wanted to do that but I just laughed at her...it is $300 a person...that is more than our bounce back price for the cruise for all of us.

For anyone looking to stay somewhere the night before the cruise...the Disney Swan or Dolphin are available for $110.00 on Disney Boardwalk... that is almost $100.00 cheaper than the hotel at the Orlando airport. I was offered that by the Disney Travel Agent

Lawrence
Mary (DW)
Elizabeth (DD) (9)

 

[denversees4me]

How is everyone doing? I still have to make my FE. I can't wait to be able to really plan excursions. The only one that is non disney is Stuart Cove-snorkeling and that is the only thing.
DD11 wants to feed stingrays again. We are waiting for SouthWest to announce the October fares as well.
And have to do door signs.

hey i herd southwest is announcing thru oct 31st on April 14th ... wont help me though bec i need to book a return on the 2nd of nov but thought id pass it on hey tell me about the stingrays did you book it thru disney ? I can help anyone who wants to book sea lion or dolphin encounter on their own like with transport and times Etc. I did it last year we LOVED it we did sea lion and were the only ones so we got a private show /experience it was COOL

 

[denversees4me]

Looking at previous 3 night cruises, it looks like Pirate Night Party is Nassau day, so if that is the case it will fall on Friday 10/30. I don't know if they will do it on the 31st since this is a Halloween cruise, but I sort of doubt it because the Pirate festivities can go on pretty late, and everyone has to have their luggage out by your door by 11:00pm on the last night. It would be cool if they did though. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

Hey we were on the cruise last halloween If it fell on the same day as nassau then we did pirate night then if not I know pirate night is always on nassau night ( now im thinking when was it LOL )

 

[denversees4me]

Hi All
ok SOOOOO many posts I need to start checking in EVERY DAY !!! did we decide on a name lets take a vote i knoe everyone likes the black and orange and also hallowonder with all characters my vots is hallowonder for the cruise group name and black and orange for decrotive door stuff and YES I want the link to the webpage so I can get em , I didnt do door magnents last year and i was SO BUMMED when I saw everyone elses !!!! I need to learn how so someone teach me !!!!
I think since we have so may in for the FE it might be wise to decide when we get a total count in mid sept to split it perhaps all left side of the ship and all right side of the ship just a thought what does everyone think ? Denver and Mary and I are getting very excited !!!!! It is getting closer and closer YIPPEE !!!!!!

oh how do i post pics here and how do i get that cool countdown thing ?

 

[floridacruiser14]

Haven't been here recently as trying to get ready to leave on Magic tomorrow. All the graphics are great and I too may have you send me all of them even after the group decides which one they like. We will go with whatever the group decides. Very excited about this cruise, usually go to WDW for Halloween festivities but this will be first Halloween cruise.

 

[runskyhy]

Here it is... much larger for better print resolution. I will upload the rest of the graphics after work tonight. Have a good day.

 

[ChocoKat]

Awesome!!!
Thanks for the graphic, I love it.

Work has been insane since I got back from the Magic in March. I have been working non-stop and I really need a Disney fix.

I have weekend getaway to Disney World next weekend, I can't believe I found good deals on a value resort so close to the date, so I am a happy camper.

I have been looking at the crowds but I am still very excited. I soooo need a refill on pixy dust, I am nearly out! I don't know how my reserves got so low after such a magical long vacay.

 

[DrD]

Welcome aboard DrD and runskyhy

DrD, do you want me to add you to the meet list and FE exchange?

runskyhy, those graphics are awesome - good work! Personally, I love the Spooky Sailing and the Hallowonder one with all the characters

Thanks, I'll check with my wife as she would wind up doing most of the work!

So we'll hold off for now on the FE but please add us to the meet list: Phil (41) Shelly (40) Zachary (7), Jacob (5)

We had a great time on the 4-day. In Nassau we did the Blackbeard's Cay stingray and beach adventure and it was great. nice beach, alot of time with the rays, great professional pictures, good value. The included lunch was a bit light (made up for it back on board!) and the snorkeling was lame, but if you just want to hang out on a nice beach and/or play with the rays it was a good excursion and pretty cheap.

no real stand-out food items, I'm sorry to say that although we enjoyed the cruise the food was overall just OK compared to the other 7 cruises we've done. Note that still means it was very, very good , maybe just not as amazing as some other trips. We did love the escargots on french night, my 4 yo and I went through 3 servings. He loves them, I guess he's young enough not to think they're gross! I also had a lobster and cheese dish that had amazing potential but was cold. Melted cheese is not very good cold!

The seaffod buffet for lunch on the last day was also great, but I don't think they have that on the 3-day.

The kids loved the chocolate mickey waffles with chocolate sauce and mini-marshmellows (yes they had all that on the breakfast buffet.)

Runskyhy, thanks for the graphics!

 

[disneycr8zy]

Hi All
ok SOOOOO many posts I need to start checking in EVERY DAY !!! did we decide on a name lets take a vote i knoe everyone likes the black and orange and also hallowonder with all characters my vots is hallowonder for the cruise group name and black and orange for decrotive door stuff and YES I want the link to the webpage so I can get em , I didnt do door magnents last year and i was SO BUMMED when I saw everyone elses !!!! I need to learn how so someone teach me !!!!
I think since we have so may in for the FE it might be wise to decide when we get a total count in mid sept to split it perhaps all left side of the ship and all right side of the ship just a thought what does everyone think ? Denver and Mary and I are getting very excited !!!!! It is getting closer and closer YIPPEE !!!!!!

oh how do i post pics here and how do i get that cool countdown thing ?

After taking a household vote - the four of us like the HalloWonder name and the either of the original HalloWonder graphics - the one with all the characters best. The orange and black one looks very halloween, but a little harsher than the character ones (although I would still use it as a door magnet on Pirate night) .

I like the idea of a meet in the Promenade Lounge before the boat drill - because deck 10 afterwards is very crowded and noisy - not great for introducing ourselves. But we'll go wherever the group decides

Our countdown calendar says 200 days until we leave (201 to the cruise) so we're getting excited.

 

[runskyhy]

The thread's clip art files can be found in this folder:

http://home.earthlink.net/~runskyhy/hallowonder/

There are 27 clip art GIF files in this folder - there are a few added that came from my previous cruise.

There is 1 BMP file in the folder labeled 'summ.bmp'. This is a quick screendump of all the clipart with their file names (in red). You can use it to locate specific clip art instead of looking through all of them to find one.

Enjoy. Happy Easter.

 

[denversees4me]

WOO HOO clip art that ROCKS !!! IM so doing door magnets this year !!!!! Has anyone else here been on the cruise during Halloween?

 

[disneycr8zy]

I've posted a poll (open for 90 days) to choose a group name. The poll can be found at: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2147162

I was able to put 12 choices on the list. If we get more suggestions, I can post a second poll of choices and we can narrow it down from there.

VOTE VOTE VOTE!!

 

[natalielongstaff]

I've posted a poll (open for 90 days) to choose a group name. The poll can be found at: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2147162

I was able to put 12 choices on the list. If we get more suggestions, I can post a second poll of choices and we can narrow it down from there.

VOTE VOTE VOTE!!

im off to vote right now

 

[imanazd]

I've posted a poll (open for 90 days) to choose a group name. The poll can be found at: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2147162

I was able to put 12 choices on the list. If we get more suggestions, I can post a second poll of choices and we can narrow it down from there.

VOTE VOTE VOTE!!

I voted!! Thanks for setting that up...it's great!!

Hope everyone had a great Easter!!

 

[cspalto07]

Hello everyone, I just booked this cruise a month ago. I'm so excited this is my families first Disney Cruise since 2001. Where trying to surprise my 12 year old sister, we've been wanting to take her on the Disney Cruise for the longest. I have a question though whats the deal with the Bounceback cruise offer, do you get a discount on booking a cruise while on the ship??? Is there a certain time frame while on the cruise that you can do it??? If anyone can help I would surely appreciate it, thanks.

 

[imanazd]

Hello everyone, I just booked this cruise a month ago. I'm so excited this is my families first Disney Cruise since 2001. Where trying to surprise my 12 year old sister, we've been wanting to take her on the Disney Cruise for the longest. I have a question though whats the deal with the Bounceback cruise offer, do you get a discount on booking a cruise while on the ship??? Is there a certain time frame while on the cruise that you can do it??? If anyone can help I would surely appreciate it, thanks.

The Bouneback was a promo for booking last fall and sailing Jan-March of this year, and if you did, you got a code to book at cruise for this coming late summer/fall for $99 pp + tax and fees. They may run it again, but I haven't heard anything.