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I have been working my way through this thread since last weekend when we first decided we may quite love to go on this cruise, so have been getting very excited to read about all of the goings on..........
But we have managed to book today with Virgin!! and right now are so excited we dont know what to do with ourselves.
We are Hazel and Annie and have spent the past 10 years or so taking our holidays in WDW. We were due to take our holiday in California this year but that fell through, and after spending an entire week sulking and trawling the internet for different holidays i came across the WBTA!
We have never been on any kind of cruise before so this is all completely new to us, so we thought what better way to start than the Disney way!!
We are not going with kids but are just big versions of kids ourselves
We have lots of things we want to know about but after my excitement has subsided a little i will form a legible list!!
I take it to add ourselves on to the organised activities etc we just pm the person that arranges it?
Apologies for randomness but this is what we're doing on our chairs right now .....
looking forward ti getting to know some people before we leave, we think we are quite easy to get along with and always love meeting new people!!
xxxxx
Welcome aboard Hazel and Annie!! 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.
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.
The staterooms don't have any coffee making facilities, but you can order it from room service, or have it delivered with breakfast. In the adult area of the ship there is Cove cafe, where you can purchase "starbucks style" coffee. Hope that helps you.
Clearly something completely different !
