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

[Fontabel]

I have not cruised WBTA on Disney, but from my past experiences, you have to claim your luggage in the big room where you disembark the ship and then present passport and papers that you filled out on board as to what you are bringing back with you. So, any little things you need to stick in your suitcase you will have time to do that.

Appreciate the information, but I was more asking about the option DCL has for checking your luggage with Delta straight to airport. I know that normally you would pick it up on the pier after disembarking--go through customs etc--but I have never had the option to pre-check luggage on ship before getting to airport--which according to what I am reading on DCL you have that option. My question was more--has anyone done that? What is the process? Do you do it AFTER you claim the luggage in the port/customs etc, or does it go from the ship to the airport (meaning you leave it outside and do not see it until you land in your destination)?

In Barcelona, Delta offered check in in the port, so you had to claim your luggage first then you check it in to airport in terminal.

Make sense?

Sorry if the first post was confusing.

Amanda

 

[fly4free2]

I am so sorry, I am trying to catch up with all the post and mis-understood.

 

[binkytell]

Just wondering what company everyone is going with on the horseback tour on St. Maarten? DH and I just started talking about it and would be interested too since it's early in the morning everyone is going. Do you get to ride in the ocean with the horses? Thanks!!!

just in case you couldnt find them this is the link
pictures on site show the horses in water

http://www.stmaartencruiseexcursions.com/

Tortola to Jost VanDyke Excursion ---

Got the answer back on transferring cameras to shore --

"Yes - they both get close to shore and we care all of your items to
shore for you in water tight containers - during the winter season we do
this trip nearly everyday so we have a good routine that takes care of
everyone"

thanx for info mandy

FE UPDATE!!​

I've got the list divided up. I've got 20 spaces in each group, but I've left a couple blank on each, to add in people who are still signing up.

!

i would like names early please pat, an i dont mind my kids info giving out

 

[Goofy Adpi]

FE UPDATE!!​

I've got the list divided up. I've got 20 spaces in each group, but I've left a couple blank on each, to add in people who are still signing up.

I have two questions:

1) Would everyone like their group now, to see who you will be giving to? They include all the info about who's who, kids, ages (kids only), and genders. Please be aware, I will be adding people to each group as they sign up (up to 20 cabins per group, until the August 1 cut off), so you will likely get a couple of cabins added to your group yet.

I would like mine now please. That way I will know if I'm on the right track for gifts

2) What should we name the groups? I noticed that one cruise named theirs after tropical fruit. I've tentatively named them after our ports of call (we have 6 groups and 6 ports, not including Port Canaveral), but if someone has something more interesting, creative, or memorable, I'm open. Let's hear some ideas!

Considering our groups "interest" in Morrison's and FABs, maybe we could name the groups after various FABs? Or types of bottled liquids that may or may not be accompanying people back onto the ship in Gibraltar?

Thank you for all of your hard work on this!!

 

[nick262]

scuba diving in tortola - we'd love to do the one tank dive if poss - a few (dozen) pages back we did have a few more divers around, so hopefully they'll pop by soon

Hi Karen, I have you both down as interested in a one tank dive. Just putting it out there for anyone else.

ATTENTION SCUBA DIVERS​

If you are interested in DIVING in Tortola. Please PM me.

DCL no longer offers the diving excursion on Tortola. I have contacted a dive shop directly and they are willing to work with us. I need to know if any one else is interested. We have 4 people so far and need at least two more.

The quote I have is for a two tank two site boat dive, it is $115.00pp with 10.00pp gear rental. However, if you are only interested in a one tank dive let me know and I can go back and let them know our interest and get a quote for that. A one tank dive would most likely be a beach dive. We would have a local guide with either option. You must be a certified diver to do this excursion.

Please PM me and let me know if you are interested in a 1 or 2 tank dive, how many are in your party or with any questions.

Thank you all for your consideration.

 

[auntlynne]

Weekly Recap - Thursday, June 9 - Wednesday June 15
pages 35 - page 80 (45 pages)

Shoes, The Weather, Silver Booking Window Opens, Shopping
DISers are in Castaway Cabins 5, 8, 9, 11, 12

How Many Karens Can You Find on the Disney Magic?
Karentan
kj_connections
pixie_dust_for_me!
poohluv2u
rikersmom
rubyblue

Welcome New Cruisers

fly4free2 "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."

ThePicketts - "I am taking my mother in law back to the States in style! She recently broke her hip and can not take a long flight." - Damian

So Long to Cruiser

AnkaG

Congratulations

GA-yaya - Peggy & Roger
We are about to wind down from all of the celebrating in our house. In the last 2 weeks - my husband turned 50 , my daughter graduated High School , we celebrated our 26th Wedding Anniversary yesterday , and Monday is our son's 23rd birthday

m_kasch - Mary - "So, my promotion here at work FINALLY got approved!!! It's been hanging out there since January, so i've been waiting a long time!! Now I will get an office, so that will be very nice!"

Beauty & the Best - Liz and Joe - celebrated their 6th wedding anniversary on Saturday

SECRET MICKEY
karentan has begun assigning SM; PM her for more info Cut-off date is August 27. "budget is between $20 and $25 per room, you can do one gift per person, one per room, or multiples. its really up to you"

Day of Cruise transport from airport to port
minibus arrangements being made
"for everyone who's arriving on the 10th and is interested in the minibus transfer. there's 10 of us so far, and it seems like the last person to arrive gets there about 11am. is everyone ok with waiting til then? i guess its no real difference between waiting at the airport and waiting at the port"
"cool, i'll give everyone a shout a bit closer to the time and book the minibus. i used the same company last year and they were great" - karentan

Money in Gibraltar
"One tip that I would give for Gibraltar is to take some pounds sterling. Everywhere will accept pounds sterling and euros but the exchange rate for euro's is 1.5 to the pound which is extortionate. If drawing money out of ATM's there are different machines that dispense pounds and euros. The ATM at morrisons gives pounds sterling" Tubbsteruk - Paul

Toddlers Together
"Great! I even thought of scheduling it twice the first sea day so that if there is a really cool activity someone wants to do, or kiddos are on their own time schedule as they usually are, we have a second one later so everyone with toddlers/babies/preschoolers has an opportunity to meet." MandyGirl
Deck 9 - port side- Mickey's Splash Zone

First sea day - 10:00-10:30 - then the kids recognize each other when around the ship or in a kids club / Flounders (and some could walk them down to the Kids Club afterwards for play time or introduce them to the Kids Club area)

First sea day backup time - 1:00-1:30 - so it is after lunch and before naps and warm enough to maybe enjoy the splash part"

Stateroom Tour
Volunteer Your Room - You Don't Even Need to Clean (The Stewards Take Care of That)
organized by Pixie Dust for Me! Karen(Keri)
So far, in our Stateroom Tour I have:

Category 3
Category 5A
Category 7A
Category 9D
Category 11A
Category 11B

T-Shirt Idea

http://www.comboutique.com/

EBTA Menus

Photos: http://s810.photobucket.com/albums/zz21/keviekev05/Transatlantic%20Menus/


Helpful Phrases in Catalan (language of Barcelona):

Hola (Oh-lah) = hello (informal)
Bon dia (bohn DEE-uh) = good morning
Bona tarda (BOH-nuh TAHR-thuh) = good afternoon
Bona nit (BOH-nuh neet) = good night
Si (see) = yes
No (noh) = no
Si us plau (see oos PLOW) = please
Gracies (GRAH-syuhs) = thank you
De res (duh rrehs) = you're welcome
Adeu (uh-THEH-oo) = goodbye

And the most important phrase of all:

On es el lavabo? (OHN ehhs uhl luh-BAH-boo) = Where is the bathroom?

Que parla angles? (kuh PAHR-luh uhn-GLEHS) = Do you speak English?

No parlo el catala. (noh PAHR-loo uhl kuh-tuh-LAH) = I can't speak Catalan.

Great Cake
We celebrated our daughter's 9th birthday on May 30 and had 12 kids here for a makeover party. We hired someone to do hair styling and someone else to do nails and temporary tatoos and it was a huge hit. The national kids (Ukrainian and Tatar) here kept asking if we were going to do it again next year for her birthday. Thankfully some of the moms stayed and helped us with the games and getting the pizzas ready.

Here is a picture of the cake I made. Morgan requested a pink sunglasses cake and I obliged.

Leanne 3canadianslovedisney

New Cruisers & Reservations
"It is a pain for first time Disney cruisers, but please don't stress, you WILL get a dinner reservation. I bet there will be reservations still to be got online when your time comes as this cruise is not full. But, even if by some chance they are full, once you get onboard, go straight to Rockin Bar D and you will find they open up a whole load more for those who don't have internet access. They also have a wait list, but I don't think that will be necessary at all. But, I bet you could waitlist for a second reservation!!!!"

Solo Cruisers
Dining alone at Palo? don't miss this experience (if you're interested) just because you are sailing alone or with someone unable/unwilling to go - let us know here on the boards on once onboard to find a new friend with whom to dine

Bad Manicures Onboard? - Help is at Hand
"I'll bring some odds and ends, so if anyone has a nail emergency I'd be happy to help them out! I travel with OPI polishes, nail glue and repair silk, files, base and top coats. If I felt comfortable traveling with my Shellac lamp I'd bring that too, but I don't think the bulbs would survive the journey. But I'm serious, if anyone needs a hand with a repair or a quick polish job, I'm in cabin 6071." - Seraphine Dawn


Pre-/Mid-Cruise Stock-Up Shopping

Pingo Doce in Funchal, Madeira
Morrison's in Gibraltar - mixed messages about open/closed on day of our visit - latest is OPEN
El Corte Ingles in Barcelona
Noel's Madeira Tours will be stopping at a store


Questions

• Apart from the trips organised by the good DIS ppl does anyone have any suggestions for alternatives to the DCL ones?? , especially the more expensive ones like the Dolphin swim on Tortola, or the sea trek helmet dive on St maarten ?????
  
• Has anyone renewed their wedding vows on the cruise ship.
  
• Is anyone interesting in getting the silicone bracelets. If so I don't mind taking on the task of putting an order together. Info I need suggestions of color and what you want them to say
• My thoughts
• red- Spain to Space Mountain,, Sept 10.2011 WBTA - Disneynut64
  
• Question for UK Disers----where to have tea?
  
• is there a way to have the stateroom folio separated so that it can be tracked what each of us purchased with our KTTW card? "you can attach different credit cards to different KTTW cards. thats what me and gary did last year and it worked out perfect for us. just need to ask the person who's checking you in"

EXCURSIONS

Barcelona

"Since we get in late afternoon on Friday, I am considering doing a 4 hour taxi tour of Barcelona on Saturday. I hate to go all the way to Barcelona and not see any of it. I was thinking from about 9:30am-1:30pm, arriving at the port about 1:30pm to board. I am considering using Barcelona Day Tours. It is costly, about 280 Euros for the 4 of us, but again, I would like to see some of Barcelona since we have gone all that distance."

Originally Posted by Namsupak
"Squitty and GatorMomInNC or anyone else staying at the renaissance airport- We are looking at the Barcelona Day Tours too. I was going to see if anyone wanted to share that tour. I know it seems costly but it's because its a private tour. If we get more people to do it maybe the price would be more reasonable. Sounds to me like it would leave at 9 AM from the hotel and get us to port around 1:30 Any takers? I'd be willing to organize... I know there's a bunch of us getting in on the 9th. We definitely want to see some of barcelona before boarding the ship."

"We did a tour of Monseratt last year which was in the same time frame. I thought it worked perfectly and we didn't have to wait in line to board the ship." - Noel

Madeira
Attention Madeira Tour Potential Participants
Daniel Tax Madeira tours list

Page 48 - Post 708
This is the list of DISers so far expressing interest in either a East or West tour of Madeira.

If your name is not on the list, please PM me on the DIS. Also, if you are interested and have not PM'd me yet, please let me know.

We have a much smaller group this time so I want to be sure everyone who is interested can come along.

Madeira Canyoning

"Just emailed the company about reservations for canyoning in Madeira...website shows a minimum of 4 are required for the 60 euro each price.

Anyone else looking to book? Here is the link: http://www.madeira-adventure-kingdom.com/en/reservations.html

They responded that they will pick up customers at the cruise port, so no issues with transportation to and from the event." csgraves Connie

St Maarten

"We're doing this: http://www.captainalan.com/challenge/index.htm We went with Captain Alan last year and had a BLAST! It was so fun and definately a good option if you want a good time.

They can arrange pick up from the port and it was a totally stressfree day. They've got rave reviews on TripAdvisor too." Dawn Seraphine


http://www.bernardstours.com
For any others --- fill out the form on Bernard's website, and you can input comments where it says Information / Special Requests: (be sure to put Disney Magic, 9:00 tour, Sept 20). Also, if you have little ones, be sure to specify adults versus infants as there is no charge for age 2 and under I believe. I also let him know others may be contacting, and that we are from the same message board and may want to be grouped together in same vans if possible. If you ARE wanting the same van... just mention same van as Mandy's family of 4. - MandyGirl


Horseback Riding on St Maarten
http://www.stmaartencruiseexcursions.com/StMaartenHorsebackRiding.htm

 

[birkner]

If I've counted correctly, you should have no more than 48, so 49 should cover it.



No problem. I didn't put their names on the list, so you can PM those to your group w/ your cabin number.

Do me a favor, please, and send me a PM to remind me to take your cabin number off the list I'll be posting.

Noel - I'll send you the file this evening or tomorrow. When I went back to count cabins to answer Karen's question, I noticed an error in her count. I want to double check everyone else's before I send it to you, but I have to go to work right now.

I will look for the file either this evening or on Saturday.

 

[birkner]

I am one of those unfortunate ones who has to schlep a laptop along on vacation for work purposes (work for a small company and am the only one who does financial stuff, etc.).

I've been on the Wonder, so I'm painfully aware of the speed of the internet access onboard, but am wondering about availability (Europe, Atlantic crossing, Caribbean) variability. I know storms and such can impact, but what about just geographical location? Does anyone who has done the EBTA or WBTA know what kind of consistancy there is to just having it available throughout the cruise? Our security officer would frown upon my taking the computer ashore and trying to find an internet cafe with wifi.

We found on the last WBTA that in the morning it seemed to work better than later in the day or evening. Sometimes we found we could not log on for hours. I am not sure what kind of luck with weather we will have this cruise so of course as you said it could impact the connection as well. DH and I both used all of our minutes more on waiting for sites to load than actual sending emails. We prepared everything before hand so we could just wait and send.

 

[m_kasch]

I'm not so concerned about the internet, but my sister may be getting some very big news while we are on this cruise -- news that I really need to know!! How hard is it to get a phone call in the middle of the Altantic, and how much will a very quick call cost?

 

[JessicasMom]

Cheeseburger
Fins
Pop-Top
Salt
FlipFlop
Flamingo

Mandy, I like the way you think! Throw in a "Volcano" for good measure .

As for security, most of us are not that careful onboard; just think of all the door magnets with our names on them . I definitely think twice about giving out our last name or address beforehand, for home security purposes, but once on the ship have never had reason for concern. Of course, when Jess was younger but old enough to wander a ship on her own, I gave her the same safety lectures I would have if we were at any vacation destination. Just because it's a Disney ship doesn't mean there aren't potential dangers. I love the idea of the new phones in each cabin for families to stay in touch.

However the FE lists are handled, it's ok with me. Just point me in the right direction to find my FE buddies.....

 

[poohluv2u]

Anybody who has just returned from cruising .. did you see these onboard ship?

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Disney-Shag...616?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53e7d95550

 

[Pinky166]

Anybody who has just returned from cruising .. did you see these onboard ship?

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Disney-Shag...616?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53e7d95550

Hey Karen, they were on the Dream in January but i'm not sure if they were just for the new ship as they had lots of exclusive SHAG merchandise. Mary will be back any day now so hopefully she will be able to report if they are on the Magic.

lmao: Sorry I had to add a laughing smilie as the word "shag" in the UK has a rude meaning.)

 

[Fontabel]

I am so sorry, I am trying to catch up with all the post and mis-understood.

No need for apologies! Appreciate all information that people are willing to share on the site...thanks!

Amanda

 

[squitty]

Tortola to Jost VanDyke Excursion ---

Got the answer back on transferring cameras to shore --

"Yes - they both get close to shore and we care all of your items to
shore for you in water tight containers - during the winter season we do
this trip nearly everyday so we have a good routine that takes care of
everyone"

Thanks for getting the info Mandy

Weekly Recap - Thursday, June 9 - Wednesday June 15
pages 35 - page 80 (45 pages)

Shoes, The Weather, Silver Booking Window Opens, Shopping
DISers are in Castaway Cabins 5, 8, 9, 11, 12

How Many Karens Can You Find on the Disney Magic?
Karentan
kj_connections
pixie_dust_for_me!
poohluv2u
rikersmom
rubyblue

Welcome New Cruisers

fly4free2 "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."

ThePicketts - "I am taking my mother in law back to the States in style! She recently broke her hip and can not take a long flight." - Damian

So Long to Cruiser

AnkaG

Congratulations

GA-yaya - Peggy & Roger
We are about to wind down from all of the celebrating in our house. In the last 2 weeks - my husband turned 50 , my daughter graduated High School , we celebrated our 26th Wedding Anniversary yesterday , and Monday is our son's 23rd birthday

m_kasch - Mary - "So, my promotion here at work FINALLY got approved!!! It's been hanging out there since January, so i've been waiting a long time!! Now I will get an office, so that will be very nice!"

Beauty & the Best - Liz and Joe - celebrated their 6th wedding anniversary on Saturday

SECRET MICKEY
karentan has begun assigning SM; PM her for more info Cut-off date is August 27. "budget is between $20 and $25 per room, you can do one gift per person, one per room, or multiples. its really up to you"

Day of Cruise transport from airport to port
minibus arrangements being made
"for everyone who's arriving on the 10th and is interested in the minibus transfer. there's 10 of us so far, and it seems like the last person to arrive gets there about 11am. is everyone ok with waiting til then? i guess its no real difference between waiting at the airport and waiting at the port"
"cool, i'll give everyone a shout a bit closer to the time and book the minibus. i used the same company last year and they were great" - karentan

Money in Gibraltar
"One tip that I would give for Gibraltar is to take some pounds sterling. Everywhere will accept pounds sterling and euros but the exchange rate for euro's is 1.5 to the pound which is extortionate. If drawing money out of ATM's there are different machines that dispense pounds and euros. The ATM at morrisons gives pounds sterling" Tubbsteruk - Paul

Toddlers Together
"Great! I even thought of scheduling it twice the first sea day so that if there is a really cool activity someone wants to do, or kiddos are on their own time schedule as they usually are, we have a second one later so everyone with toddlers/babies/preschoolers has an opportunity to meet." MandyGirl
Deck 9 - port side- Mickey's Splash Zone

First sea day - 10:00-10:30 - then the kids recognize each other when around the ship or in a kids club / Flounders (and some could walk them down to the Kids Club afterwards for play time or introduce them to the Kids Club area)

First sea day backup time - 1:00-1:30 - so it is after lunch and before naps and warm enough to maybe enjoy the splash part"

Stateroom Tour
Volunteer Your Room - You Don't Even Need to Clean (The Stewards Take Care of That)
organized by Pixie Dust for Me! Karen(Keri)
So far, in our Stateroom Tour I have:

Category 3
Category 5A
Category 7A
Category 9D
Category 11A
Category 11B

T-Shirt Idea

http://www.comboutique.com/

EBTA Menus

Photos: http://s810.photobucket.com/albums/zz21/keviekev05/Transatlantic%20Menus/


Helpful Phrases in Catalan (language of Barcelona):

Hola (Oh-lah) = hello (informal)
Bon dia (bohn DEE-uh) = good morning
Bona tarda (BOH-nuh TAHR-thuh) = good afternoon
Bona nit (BOH-nuh neet) = good night
Si (see) = yes
No (noh) = no
Si us plau (see oos PLOW) = please
Gracies (GRAH-syuhs) = thank you
De res (duh rrehs) = you're welcome
Adeu (uh-THEH-oo) = goodbye

And the most important phrase of all:

On es el lavabo? (OHN ehhs uhl luh-BAH-boo) = Where is the bathroom?

Que parla angles? (kuh PAHR-luh uhn-GLEHS) = Do you speak English?

No parlo el catala. (noh PAHR-loo uhl kuh-tuh-LAH) = I can't speak Catalan.

Great Cake
We celebrated our daughter's 9th birthday on May 30 and had 12 kids here for a makeover party. We hired someone to do hair styling and someone else to do nails and temporary tatoos and it was a huge hit. The national kids (Ukrainian and Tatar) here kept asking if we were going to do it again next year for her birthday. Thankfully some of the moms stayed and helped us with the games and getting the pizzas ready.

Here is a picture of the cake I made. Morgan requested a pink sunglasses cake and I obliged.

Leanne 3canadianslovedisney

New Cruisers & Reservations
"It is a pain for first time Disney cruisers, but please don't stress, you WILL get a dinner reservation. I bet there will be reservations still to be got online when your time comes as this cruise is not full. But, even if by some chance they are full, once you get onboard, go straight to Rockin Bar D and you will find they open up a whole load more for those who don't have internet access. They also have a wait list, but I don't think that will be necessary at all. But, I bet you could waitlist for a second reservation!!!!"

Solo Cruisers
Dining alone at Palo? don't miss this experience (if you're interested) just because you are sailing alone or with someone unable/unwilling to go - let us know here on the boards on once onboard to find a new friend with whom to dine

Bad Manicures Onboard? - Help is at Hand
"I'll bring some odds and ends, so if anyone has a nail emergency I'd be happy to help them out! I travel with OPI polishes, nail glue and repair silk, files, base and top coats. If I felt comfortable traveling with my Shellac lamp I'd bring that too, but I don't think the bulbs would survive the journey. But I'm serious, if anyone needs a hand with a repair or a quick polish job, I'm in cabin 6071." - Seraphine Dawn


Pre-/Mid-Cruise Stock-Up Shopping

Pingo Doce in Funchal, Madeira
Morrison's in Gibraltar - mixed messages about open/closed on day of our visit - latest is OPEN
El Corte Ingles in Barcelona
Noel's Madeira Tours will be stopping at a store


Questions

• Apart from the trips organised by the good DIS ppl does anyone have any suggestions for alternatives to the DCL ones?? , especially the more expensive ones like the Dolphin swim on Tortola, or the sea trek helmet dive on St maarten ?????
  
• Has anyone renewed their wedding vows on the cruise ship.
  
• Is anyone interesting in getting the silicone bracelets. If so I don't mind taking on the task of putting an order together. Info I need suggestions of color and what you want them to say
• My thoughts
• red- Spain to Space Mountain,, Sept 10.2011 WBTA - Disneynut64
  
• Question for UK Disers----where to have tea?
  
• is there a way to have the stateroom folio separated so that it can be tracked what each of us purchased with our KTTW card? "you can attach different credit cards to different KTTW cards. thats what me and gary did last year and it worked out perfect for us. just need to ask the person who's checking you in"

EXCURSIONS

Barcelona

"Since we get in late afternoon on Friday, I am considering doing a 4 hour taxi tour of Barcelona on Saturday. I hate to go all the way to Barcelona and not see any of it. I was thinking from about 9:30am-1:30pm, arriving at the port about 1:30pm to board. I am considering using Barcelona Day Tours. It is costly, about 280 Euros for the 4 of us, but again, I would like to see some of Barcelona since we have gone all that distance."

Originally Posted by Namsupak
"Squitty and GatorMomInNC or anyone else staying at the renaissance airport- We are looking at the Barcelona Day Tours too. I was going to see if anyone wanted to share that tour. I know it seems costly but it's because its a private tour. If we get more people to do it maybe the price would be more reasonable. Sounds to me like it would leave at 9 AM from the hotel and get us to port around 1:30 Any takers? I'd be willing to organize... I know there's a bunch of us getting in on the 9th. We definitely want to see some of barcelona before boarding the ship."

"We did a tour of Monseratt last year which was in the same time frame. I thought it worked perfectly and we didn't have to wait in line to board the ship." - Noel

Madeira
Attention Madeira Tour Potential Participants
Daniel Tax Madeira tours list

Page 48 - Post 708
This is the list of DISers so far expressing interest in either a East or West tour of Madeira.

If your name is not on the list, please PM me on the DIS. Also, if you are interested and have not PM'd me yet, please let me know.

We have a much smaller group this time so I want to be sure everyone who is interested can come along.

Madeira Canyoning

"Just emailed the company about reservations for canyoning in Madeira...website shows a minimum of 4 are required for the 60 euro each price.

Anyone else looking to book? Here is the link: http://www.madeira-adventure-kingdom.com/en/reservations.html

They responded that they will pick up customers at the cruise port, so no issues with transportation to and from the event." csgraves Connie

St Maarten

"We're doing this: http://www.captainalan.com/challenge/index.htm We went with Captain Alan last year and had a BLAST! It was so fun and definately a good option if you want a good time.

They can arrange pick up from the port and it was a totally stressfree day. They've got rave reviews on TripAdvisor too." Dawn Seraphine


http://www.bernardstours.com
For any others --- fill out the form on Bernard's website, and you can input comments where it says Information / Special Requests: (be sure to put Disney Magic, 9:00 tour, Sept 20). Also, if you have little ones, be sure to specify adults versus infants as there is no charge for age 2 and under I believe. I also let him know others may be contacting, and that we are from the same message board and may want to be grouped together in same vans if possible. If you ARE wanting the same van... just mention same van as Mandy's family of 4. - MandyGirl


Horseback Riding on St Maarten
http://www.stmaartencruiseexcursions.com/StMaartenHorsebackRiding.htm

Excellent as always Lynne

 

[karentan]

Great work lynne

Claire - glad I'm not the only one who read that eBay description and giggled

 

[Pinky166]

Great work lynne

Claire - glad I'm not the only one who read that eBay description and giggled

I'm glad I wasn't the only one too....I am such a child!

 

[granmaz]

Thanks for the round up Lynne. You are very talented.

 

[carolsherman]

Thanks for the update I am getting so overwhelmed trying to catch up on all the posts from the getgo

 

[melonz]

Hey Karen, they were on the Dream in January but i'm not sure if they were just for the new ship as they had lots of exclusive SHAG merchandise. Mary will be back any day now so hopefully she will be able to report if they are on the Magic.

lmao: Sorry I had to add a laughing smilie as the word "shag" in the UK has a rude meaning.)

Mel s******s...

My son Ethan 10 , has made a post in kids thread He'd really like to "meet" some kids before we go. So if your kids like hotdogs and burgers, Ethan is the one to talk to.

Happy Saturday everyone

Oh my word was censored Not a swear word I promise but it rhymes with a word that some peeps may find offensive, anyway it's an old English word which means to laugh in a secretive way! Serves me right for being immature

BTW Ethan is posting under my name as it's a pain in the neck to register him as he's under 13 I WILL check his posts though

 

[smootenloopers]

We found on the last WBTA that in the morning it seemed to work better than later in the day or evening. Sometimes we found we could not log on for hours. I am not sure what kind of luck with weather we will have this cruise so of course as you said it could impact the connection as well. DH and I both used all of our minutes more on waiting for sites to load than actual sending emails. We prepared everything before hand so we could just wait and send.

Thanks for the info!