*Sept 10th 2011 WB Transatlantic* From Spain to Space Mountain - Part 4

[birkner]

After all the build-up, I'm quite disappointed, but the possibility of a Madeira market excites me! Noel, we'd love to add it to our East tour. It would be nice if one was located close to the ship, so we could just be dropped off there at tour's end, but even a quick stop would be appreciated.

I have emailed to ask if we can add it to both tours if people want to stop on the way back to the ship and if this is the best place.

 

[MandyGirl]

Reservation sent many thanks - it really helps sooo much to have a helping hand

No problem at all! Just be prepared for my normally quiet husband to have questions for you about Ireland! He has been longing to go there for years... when we were in Scotland, he just looked in that direction and kept saying "sure we can't just hop over there?" His sister just returned in late April from a trip to Ireland, and we just loved ALL of her pictures!! Such beautiful country!

 

[fly4free2]

Hi there,
I am sailing with you on the WBTA, I have done several crusies, one EBTA last year but not on DCL. I am going solo, flying from Chicago to Barcelona on the 7th. Do you know of anyone who is looking for a room mate for a couple of days before the cruise. I am a retired Airline employee so have booked through my pass department. I have not been assigned a cabin yet, but its Cat. 5 balcony. My DD clued me in to the theard, it had not crossed my mind. I only booked a few days ago. I am getting soooo excited.

 

[birkner]

Hi there,
I am sailing with you on the WBTA, I have done several crusies, one EBTA last year but not on DCL. I am going solo, flying from Chicago to Barcelona on the 7th. Do you know of anyone who is looking for a room mate for a couple of days before the cruise. I am a retired Airline employee so have booked through my pass department. I have not been assigned a cabin yet, but its Cat. 5 balcony. My DD clued me in to the theard, it had not crossed my mind. I only booked a few days ago. I am getting soooo excited.

Welcome aboard!! We are Noel and John and this will be our 5th cruise on DCL. Our last cruise was the 2010 WBTA so if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask or PM me.

Please tell us your name and a little bit about yourself.

My DH John and I have created a website for you view other cruisers and sign in with your information. If you want to add your picture, you can send it to us at nbirkner@yahoo.com

WBTA Website

Please check this Fish Extender Exchange (FE), please PM Pat (PFlamingo) with the following details:
Send her your stateroom number, Disboard name, first name of each person in the stateroom, realtionship to you (DH, DW, DD, DS, etc) ages and gender of children. You can cut and paste the format below.
Stateroom #:
Disname:
First name:
Age:
Disname:
First name:
Age:

Cutoff date for joining the FE is August 1, 2011.

02. If people are interested in being in the same area as other DIS'ers to send Dan (Cliffy97) a PM with Lead Passenger name, your booking number and if you are Early or Late seating. Dan was told by Disney today that this is all they need to put folks together. .

03. If you are interested in the Candy Swap, please PM Jacqueline (goofieslonglostsis).

04. If you are interested in Secret Mickey Exchange, please PM Karen (karentan).

05. If you are interest in getting a WBTA lanyard pin, please PM Noel (birkner). See this Champagne Girls meet. The Champagne Girls event originated on the WBPC cruise in 2008. Women get together dressed in pink to drink champagne or non alcoholic bubbly and chat. Pictures of the first meet are in this [URL="http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=39025861&postcount=325%22]post[/URL] and pictures from the last WBTA are in this [URL="http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=39025709&postcount=316%22]post[/URL]. Please PM (Clare)Pinky166 to add you name to the list.

10. If you would like to join in the [URL="http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=38989092&postcount=3%22]Scrapbooking Exchange[/URL], please PM Clare (Pinky166) with your name and room number. The idea is to give your fellow exchangers some scrapbooking embellishments for use in your scrapbooks after you return home! For more info check this [URL="http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=38989092&postcount=3%22]post[/URL].

11 Join us for a [URL="http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=38989098&postcount=4%22]Pajama breakfast[/URL] on September 18 at 10:00 AM at Lumiere's. We will meet outside Lumiere's at 9:50 AM to take group pictures. If you are interested, please PM Mandy (MandyGirl) with the number in your party.
Here is the picture from the PJ breakfast on last years WBTA.

12. Mandy (MandyGirl) is organizing a [URL="http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=38989111&postcount=5%22]Tortola Excursion[/URL] of a private day sail on a power catamaran to Jost VanDyke with Tortola Charters. Please PM Mandy with the number in your party if you are interested.

13. Claire (Pinky166) is organizing a Ladies High tea at Palo's. If you are interested, send her a PM for details. Ladies High Tea is planned for September 13 at 3:00 PM.

14. Squitty (Michelle) is oganizing private Mixology and Mojito tastings. If you are interested, send her a PM for details.

15. Karen (Pixie Dust For Me!)is organizing a stateroom tour, but we can't do it without you! PM me with your stateroom assignment and room number and we will tour as many staterooms as possible. It would be great to get one in every category!

When: Definitely on a sea day....stay tuned for which day!
Time: TBD
Where: You will be given a list of participating stateroom numbers and categories the day after we embark (to account for all those upgrades, don't you know )
Refreshments: Optional per discretion of stateroom participant.

16. If you want a designed DIS tee shirt for this cruise, follow the instruction in this post. DIS Tee shirt

17. Cliffy 97 (Dan and Bruce) are organizing a typical English pub crawl with a date TBD. Info so far is as follows:
On a sea day those who were interested would meet in one of the bars for ( Traditionally a half pint pounded, I would suggest a drink of your choice) and then visit (Crawl) every other bar on the ship at least once.

As we do not have to worry about anything closing or how we are getting home, I would I would imagine we can spend 20-30 min at each location versus the 5-10 min you have on the monopoly pub crawl in London.

Perhaps we can make tshirts up too.

Stay tuned for more details.

17. If anyone wants to organize a postcard exchange, please feel free to start one. What we did las year is bring a postcard from where we lived and left in each other's FE. It is best to limit the number of participants no more than 25 as cost and weight to bring become an issue.

18. If you are interested in joining us for a farewell lunch, contact Claire (Pinky166) to be added to the list.
Come & join us for a farewell DIS lunch on the last sea day. Thursday 22nd Sept at 12.15pm, we are not sure which of the three rotational restaurants will be open on that day, should there be more than one open I have put them in order of preference - 1st Lumiere's, 2nd Parrot Cay or 3rd Animator's Palate.

Please make sure you check your Navigator that morning to see which restaurant is open for lunch as I won't be able to tell you in advance.

Please PM me if you'd like to join us and I will add you to the list, then once onboard notify the restaurant so they can seat us together at some large tables.

 

[PFlamingo]

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING!!!!

I just spent HOURS yesterday afternoon and this evening getting the FE lists split into sub groups and now the file is GONE. I had already saved it on a USB drive (along with all my other cruise-related files), in fact, I saved it multiple times as I worked on it, just so I wouldn't lose my changes.

I finished it a few minutes ago, went to save it before closing, and my computer make that nasty little "error" noise and gave me some message about a corrupt table (WHAT??), the disk drive door being open (WHAT DOOR?? It's a laptop!) and reinserting the disk before trying again (IT'S A USB - THERE IS NO DISK!!). I've never seen anything like that before.

Then it told me to close and re-open the file using "open and repair," but when I went to open it again - IT WAS GONE!!! I tried a search of the whole computer for the file, but... nothing.

It was finished. Everyone assigned to groups. Extra spaces for new people. All the counts worked out - people per group, multiple list people, everything within everyone's requested limits... and it's gone.

I think I need some chocolate. Or scotch.

 

[Namsupak]

Our group (well 4 of us) will be at Newport Resort the same time. We were planning to go to Paris Wednesday or Thursday. We are all getting very excited about the trip!

We're at the Disneyland Hotel the same time. Maybe we can do a pre-cruise lunch one day.

I can highly recommend InterServicePrestige. We used them this March and they were excellent.

Cheers,
Rasmus.

Thanks so much Rasmus... I'll shoot them an email and see what we can get. I hadn't seen very many recommendations on the DLP forum

 

[MandyGirl]

Oh no....... I'm so sorry. Most definitely the scotch.

 

[Chirpee]

12-Metre Regatta

I was sad that I couldn't get this activity on St Maarten when Gold booking opened; I wondered if the Platinum and Concierge cruisers all wanted to do it.

So I emailed the company and found out that they do not sail August - October due to maintenance and hurricane season.

Thanks Lynne for this info'. The 12 metre regatta was the only DCL excursion that we wanted, so I did go straight to that portion of the site on Sunday when the booking window opened for Silver members in the hope of a few spots opening up. We were really disappointed to find it was already full, but your research makes perfect sense why Disney is saying it's not available. Before your post, we had thought that the ship was full of Platinum, Gold & Concierge cruisers, who were all sailing enthusiasts!

I seem to remember reading, though, in Sarah's (TotallyAngelic) trip report that her DH and herself did this excursion on last year's WBTA. So perhaps it is just this year that the company decided not to operate at that time of the year?

 

[Chirpee]

Hi there,
I am sailing with you on the WBTA, I have done several crusies, one EBTA last year but not on DCL. I am going solo, flying from Chicago to Barcelona on the 7th. Do you know of anyone who is looking for a room mate for a couple of days before the cruise. I am a retired Airline employee so have booked through my pass department. I have not been assigned a cabin yet, but its Cat. 5 balcony. My DD clued me in to the theard, it had not crossed my mind. I only booked a few days ago. I am getting soooo excited.

glad you found this thread!

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING!!!

I just spent HOURS yesterday afternoon and this evening getting the FE lists split into sub groups and now the file is GONE. I had already saved it on a USB drive (along with all my other cruise-related files), in fact, I saved it multiple times as I worked on it, just so I wouldn't lose my changes.

I finished it a few minutes ago, went to save it before closing, and my computer make that nasty little "error" noise and gave me some message about a corrupt table (WHAT??), the disk drive door being open (WHAT DOOR?? It's a laptop!) and reinserting the disk before trying again (IT'S A USB - THERE IS NO DISK!!). I've never seen anything like that before.

Then it told me to close and re-open the file using "open and repair," but when I went to open it again - IT WAS GONE!!! I tried a search of the whole computer for the file, but... nothing.

It was finished. Everyone assigned to groups. Extra spaces for new people. All the counts worked out - people per group, multiple list people, everything within everyone's requested limits... and it's gone.

I think I need some chocolate. Or scotch.

Or both

Sorry to hear this has happened after all of your hard work Why is it that computers and/or their software always seem to malfunction after having worked for a long time on a document??

 

[Rasmus Faber]

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING!!!!

Ouch . Hate that.

A few things you could try before you give completely up on the file:

If you have been using Word, try looking in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Word (open Explorer and type %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Word in the address bar). If you have been using Excel, try looking in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Excel.

If the file is not there you can try this tool: http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?language=1 . Be warned: it will be slow.

Good luck
Rasmus.

 

[Pinky166]

Hi there,
I am sailing with you on the WBTA, I have done several crusies, one EBTA last year but not on DCL. I am going solo, flying from Chicago to Barcelona on the 7th. Do you know of anyone who is looking for a room mate for a couple of days before the cruise. I am a retired Airline employee so have booked through my pass department. I have not been assigned a cabin yet, but its Cat. 5 balcony. My DD clued me in to the theard, it had not crossed my mind. I only booked a few days ago. I am getting soooo excited.

aboard!!!!! We are Claire & Lee & this is our 3rd cruise (1st TransAtlantic).

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING!!!!

I just spent HOURS yesterday afternoon and this evening getting the FE lists split into sub groups and now the file is GONE. I had already saved it on a USB drive (along with all my other cruise-related files), in fact, I saved it multiple times as I worked on it, just so I wouldn't lose my changes.

I finished it a few minutes ago, went to save it before closing, and my computer make that nasty little "error" noise and gave me some message about a corrupt table (WHAT??), the disk drive door being open (WHAT DOOR?? It's a laptop!) and reinserting the disk before trying again (IT'S A USB - THERE IS NO DISK!!). I've never seen anything like that before.

Then it told me to close and re-open the file using "open and repair," but when I went to open it again - IT WAS GONE!!! I tried a search of the whole computer for the file, but... nothing.

It was finished. Everyone assigned to groups. Extra spaces for new people. All the counts worked out - people per group, multiple list people, everything within everyone's requested limits... and it's gone.

I think I need some chocolate. Or scotch.

Oh No, that is such a pain.

I hope you had several Scotches.

 

[jinxleprechaun]

I think I need some chocolate. Or scotch.[/QUOTE]


So Sorry to hear that - Computers always seem to wait until you are finished to crash , never as you are just starting

Chocolate scotch perhaps Hope you recover asap

 

[jinxleprechaun]

No problem at all! Just be prepared for my normally quiet husband to have questions for you about Ireland! He has been longing to go there for years... when we were in Scotland, he just looked in that direction and kept saying "sure we can't just hop over there?" His sister just returned in late April from a trip to Ireland, and we just loved ALL of her pictures!! Such beautiful country!

Thanks for the comments, it is beautiful and green, but thats because of all the rain we get LOL

I will answer any questions gladly , as long as there are none about "The Leprechauns" . Have to keep the little folk a secret you undersatand

 

[squitty]

Hi there,
I am sailing with you on the WBTA, I have done several crusies, one EBTA last year but not on DCL. I am going solo, flying from Chicago to Barcelona on the 7th. Do you know of anyone who is looking for a room mate for a couple of days before the cruise. I am a retired Airline employee so have booked through my pass department. I have not been assigned a cabin yet, but its Cat. 5 balcony. My DD clued me in to the theard, it had not crossed my mind. I only booked a few days ago. I am getting soooo excited.

Welcome onbaord - glad you found us.

We are Michelle & Neil and this will be our 4th Cruise, first TA

 

[granmaz]

Hi there,
I am sailing with you on the WBTA, I have done several crusies, one EBTA last year but not on DCL. I am going solo, flying from Chicago to Barcelona on the 7th. Do you know of anyone who is looking for a room mate for a couple of days before the cruise. I am a retired Airline employee so have booked through my pass department. I have not been assigned a cabin yet, but its Cat. 5 balcony. My DD clued me in to the theard, it had not crossed my mind. I only booked a few days ago. I am getting soooo excited.

Hi and welcome. We are Marilyn and John, on our 8th DCL cruise and 2nd WBTA!!!!

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING!!!!

I just spent HOURS yesterday afternoon and this evening getting the FE lists split into sub groups and now the file is GONE. I had already saved it on a USB drive (along with all my other cruise-related files), in fact, I saved it multiple times as I worked on it, just so I wouldn't lose my changes.

I finished it a few minutes ago, went to save it before closing, and my computer make that nasty little "error" noise and gave me some message about a corrupt table (WHAT??), the disk drive door being open (WHAT DOOR?? It's a laptop!) and reinserting the disk before trying again (IT'S A USB - THERE IS NO DISK!!). I've never seen anything like that before.

Then it told me to close and re-open the file using "open and repair," but when I went to open it again - IT WAS GONE!!! I tried a search of the whole computer for the file, but... nothing.

It was finished. Everyone assigned to groups. Extra spaces for new people. All the counts worked out - people per group, multiple list people, everything within everyone's requested limits... and it's gone.

I think I need some chocolate. Or scotch.

Oh no. That sucks big time. I hate computers much of the time.

 

[Pinky166]

How can you tell that it's stopped raining in the UK & the sun is shining??????

Just check the WBTA thread.....no one's posted for 3 hours.

 

[Pinky166]

I just called Morrisons and was also told it will be closed.....

 

[squitty]

This is really taking the P' now.
Have just got this email back from them:

Good afternoon,

Thank you for contacting us and apologies for my delayed response.

I have checked with the store and they are closed on September 10th but are open on the bank holiday September 12th

I hope you have a lovely cruise and if you ever have any further queries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Kind regards,
--
Jon
Customer Services Department
Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC

I think they're having a laugh at us!!!

How can you tell that it's stopped raining in the UK & the sun is shining??????

Just check the WBTA thread.....no one's posted for 3 hours.

I wish I was sitting in the sun Claire...

I just called Morrisons and was also told it will be closed.....

I was looking last night and according to google there are a couple of Carrefour supermarket places in Las Ramblas area.

 

[squitty]

Forgot to say I am on to Head Office again!!!!

 

[Pinky166]

That's ridiculous!!! How can they keep giving different answers???

Have you emailed back Michelle? I would say you've called the shop and they are saying it's closed!

One thing's for sure I am not going to rely on Morrisons either way now, I will get as much as I can in Barcelona & then anything else in Madeira (or Morrisons if it is open).