Sept 10 2009 "Wonder-ful" Cruise

[acourtwdw]

I thought I would start a thread for our 3 night cruise on Sept 10. Come along, join the fun!!

I am Annette. Traveling with my Dsis (Amanda). This will be our 7th DCL trip.

Anyone else?

Here is the list so far:
Annette F/E gty
Dsis Amanda
Dmom Lorraine
Ddad Clare

Crystal F/E gty
Dh Aaron
Ds Jacob
Dmom
Db

Kimberly
Ds Evan

Alicea
Dh Nathan
Dd Kaitlyn

Jewel
Dh


Lisa FE
Dh
Dd #1
Dd #2

Dixie
DH - Chris
DD,10 - Savannah
DS, 7 - Rhett
and also
Dmom - Dean
DStep dad - Robert

Dawn
DH Terry

Caryn
Dd Aslan(3)
Dmom Gail
Daunt Cam

Dot
Dh
Dd ( 19)
If you want me to add the names of your family members, let me know.

 

[CrystalS]

We have 2 cat 12 gty rooms on hold until the 13th for this cruise!
Just waiting for the final OK from hubby to go ahead and put the deposit on them!
He's hesitant because there is a chance he might loose his job this summer, but I've already got 1200 saved up for the trip, so I think it might just be a go!

Our group will be:

Me - 24 at the time of sailing
DH - 26
DS - 31mos

My Mom - 48
My Brother - 20

So put us on the "probably" list

 

[bullsmom7]

My DH and I are booked for this one. We did a 7-day the end of April with the family. We loved it! We decided to do a quick one, just the two of us. Shhhh...don't tell the kids! My 4-year old would be devastated!

Not sure what we will do in Nassau. Guess we have some time to figure that out.

 

[CrystalS]

we are confirmed!
Deposit paid!

 

[acourtwdw]

Yippeeee!!!!!

 

[CrystalS]

We need to get some more people on this cruise with us!

 

[acourtwdw]

I know. I was surprised that there wasn't a thread already. But we have a GTY stateroom. so hopefully if the ship isn't full we can get an upgrade. The smilies are doing the upgrade dance. It is similar to the rain dance

 

[Evan&Kimberly]

Here Thee Here Thee,

Queen Kimberly & Prince Evan will be sailing on this Wonderful Cruise September 10th,2009! This will be Prince Evan's first cruise so hope everything will go beautiful I have cruised before but never with a child, maybe I will need to bring some of my Royal Court with me LOL! I know we are going to have a great time, after our cruise we will be in WDW till the
17th and then I will be taking my mom to the Cayman Islands on the 19th that cruise will be on RCCL, boy am I Going to be busy!

 

[Evan&Kimberly]

We have 2 cat 12 gty rooms on hold until the 13th for this cruise!
Just waiting for the final OK from hubby to go ahead and put the deposit on them!
He's hesitant because there is a chance he might loose his job this summer, but I've already got 1200 saved up for the trip, so I think it might just be a go!

Our group will be:

Me - 24 at the time of sailing
DH - 26
DS - 31mos

My Mom - 48
My Brother - 20

So put us on the "probably" list

I am glad that you and your family are going on this cruise, I pray that your husband does not loose his job see you on the ship!

 

[CrystalS]

I am glad that you and your family are going on this cruise, I pray that your husband does not loose his job see you on the ship!

Thanks, we're excited to be going!
I have a good feeling that he won't lose his job, but we'll see

 

[acourtwdw]

Around midnight, Cat 12 opened up so of course I had to book that for my parents!! So that will be 2 more joining us. They did a 7day with us in 2001, so it has been awhile for them.

If you look at the DCL site this is the least expensive cruise for Sept. Any idea why? I know that it is hurricane season but the week before and the week after are higher than this one. I'm not complaining. Trust me, when you can cruise for $299 pp you do it

 

[Evan&Kimberly]

Around midnight, Cat 12 opened up so of course I had to book that for my parents!! So that will be 2 more joining us. They did a 7day with us in 2001, so it has been awhile for them.

If you look at the DCL site this is the least expensive cruise for Sept. Any idea why? I know that it is hurricane season but the week before and the week after are higher than this one. I'm not complaining. Trust me, when you can cruise for $299 pp you do it

I was wanting to know the same thing, why so cheap?? Hurricane season I understand but the rest of the month is very expensive,the Sept 27th 4 day cruise was real reasonable to, at least the cat 12's when they were avail, I have a room on hold for that date I think I may double dip! Well what was the dates last year of the hurricane Gustavo or whatever!

 

[bullsmom7]

The only thing I can think of it is that most schools start right after labor day, which is the MOnday before the cruise. So most families have already taken their vacation and are getting back to the regular routine.

When we were on the Magic the end of April we asked about what happens if there is a hurricane. They all said the same thing....the Captain will find a new path away from the hurricane and the cruise will go on. That made me more comfortable with a September Sailing.

 

[acourtwdw]

We were on the Wonder in 05 when Wilma came to land and we had to disembark in Ft Lauderdale. That was the only issue that we had during that horrible storm. My parents were at Vero Beach at that time and it wasn't pretty. They picked us up at the new port but I know that Disney was busing people back to Cape to get their cars or on to WDW/MCO.

 

[WestCoastNovaks]

I am so excited, so's my daughter and hubby (tho he won't admit it)
We are on deck 7, here's our vital stats...

Me, Alicea: 30
Hubby, Nathan: 31 (his bday is on Sept. 9 so on the cruise he will just be 32)
Daughter, Kaitlyn: 4

Hubby's folks will be on the cruise too - we were able to get them the stateroom directly across from ours (score!)

-Alicea

 

[acourtwdw]

Welcome Alicea

 

[Jewels912]

Hi all!

My husband and I will be on this cruise, too! It's my 3rd and his 2nd. We just went on the 7 day to St. Croix in February and this is our bounce-back deal!

I'll be turning 30 on September 12th...what's better than spending your birthday on Castaway? Woot!

 

[CrystalS]

Yay! We have more cruisers!

We booked 2 Cat 12 GTY rooms also and are hoping for an upgrade!
I'd love to have a porthole room

I'm guessing the cheap price is because, like pp said, school starts just before we sail, and also hurricane season, but I'm not too worried, I'm sure we'd either go around a storm or port somewhere for awhile.
Some friends of ours know a couple that was on a 7 night cruise (not disney) and there was a big storm and they ended up circling around at sea for awhile waiting for it to pass and they had to start rationing out food, I think they ended up turning the nighter into a 12 nighter or something like that!

Either way, I'm ok with going at that time, I know Disney will take care of us!



A cute little tid bit:
I told our 2 yr old that we will be going to Mickey's house and on mickeys boat and now whenever he sees a ship or mickey he talks about how we are going on mickeys boat! Gotta love little kids, I think he may be just about as excited about the trip as I am, haha.


Oh, is anyone else going to WDW after our cruise? We will be staying at a value resort (all stars movies probably) for 4 nights for our first WDW visit.




**Just an idea: Maybe the original poster could make a rollcall (list) of all the people that will be on our cruise, then we can easily see when someone new joins us

 

[CrystalS]

Forgot to mention, we will be celebrating our 5th Anniversary on the cruise as well (Our anniversary isn't until Oct 9th, but this is our anniversary gift to each other, so we are celebrating early)

 

[bullsmom7]

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. We are very excited about the trip, but the guilt of not taking my four year old is starting to kick in. I know mom and dad deserve a weekend away, but she desperately wants to go back on the cruise.

Still not sure what to do in Naussau. Not sure it is worth hitting the water park at Atlantis. We may just go check it out since we have never been there before. Anyone have any suggestions?