Weekly Recap
Thursday July 14 - 20
Part 4 Pages 243 - 250 and Part 5 Pages 1-33 (41 pages)
"For $700 I would set those studs in a pair of Ugg's for you ... with my teeth"
"better to be no shoes girl than commando woman!"
NEW CRUISERS
IansGran - "This is my first
Disney cruise, but not my first cruise. My grandson will not be coming along this time, but we're trying this out for future reference. Any tips? thanks IansGran"
chanti - "Recently we decided that we were going to be irresponsible and squander our money on a holiday, but we weren't sure what holiday that would be. So we talked of several options (Egypt, Curacao, Jamaica, Mexico....) but my husband, the former anti-Disney member of our family mumbled: I'd prefer going to Disney. Now seeing as I want to stay at least 2 weeks if we travel all the way from the Netherlands (or Holland which ever you prefer) and we tend to want to do EVERYTHING and we already had two disney holidays in a row, I thought that would be a bit much. Also, this was supposed to be a relaxing vacation (I am many things in disney, relaxing is not one of them) Until a little lightbulb went on in my head (or above it, much more visual) and I realised there was a Disney cruise heading back over the ocean on September. WHOOT!! And so I asked my husband and 4 year old daughter: Mexico or Disney cruise... I think seeing as I am posting in this topic you can guess what the answer was"
Lionessa - "I have just spent the last 2 days reading your past threads 2010 to catch up and acquaint myself. We booked this WBTA while on the EBTA in May 2011, but confirmed it a few days ago, making sure we could swing it with vacation dates.
I will be traveling with my DD (8), while DH is unavailable. For this reason we were uncertain until a few days ago if we should go or not. My name is
Nancy and my daughter is Nancy-Paris. We are from Toronto Canada. This will be our 3rd
DCL (#1: August 28/10--Med, #2: May 14-28/11 #3: Sept 10-24/11. ..."
SHarper02 - "We are booked and ready to go!!! This is our 1st Disney cruise (but def not first cruise)! This is a special trip for just me and my ds10... we have had such a hard year the first time it has been just us and I am just a little nevous about that...
We are so excited and can't wait!!!" - from Lexington, KY
sinnika - "the good news is that I have taken up Evelyn's offer (fly4free2) to be her roomie and will be joining ya'll!!! I'm super excited to be doing a transatlantic at last! This will be my 6th DCL cruise, all on the Magic! Our family did the Med last year, and again this year, and the kids and I stayed on for the repo cruise last year from Barcelona to Dover. All of the European cruises have been amazing! A little about me: My name is
Taina (rhymes with China). Its a Finnish name as is Sinnika, my mom's alias name she would call herself sometimes. She is from Finland. My father is from Peru, and my parents immigrated to Baltimore in the late 50's where I was born and raised (one of 8 kids). I now live in the BIG state of Texas in a very small town where everyone knows each other. We're near Houston (about 40 miles west of the city) so I just say I'm from Houston!
I have 2 high schoolers and a DH who will be holding down the fort and taking care of our 3 cats while I'm gone!
I'm ready to jump into all the fun! I need to read up on all the activities, plus plan a few excursions! I have not booked airfare yet as I may decide to visit another city before getting to Barcelona. London is at the top of my list. Is anyone going there pre-cruise? I love the theatre and would enjoy going to see a musical or two.
Well, looking forward to chatting, planning, oh and I guess I need to work some to make some spending money for the trip! "
time2cruise - "Once you experience DCL it will be tough to sail on any other line! This will be our 3rd DCL cruise in the last 9 months...we are addicted!" -
from Orlando, FL
HOPE THIS TRY GOES BETTER...
goofieslonglostsis - "And yep, I'm back in town. Sorta. Long story short; they couldn't get me down with the sedation. Warned them for it, but as usual it got brushed away with a "we've got enough, never seen that happen and you're just a smallish girl, don't worry". Sure. So back home with nothing done except me learning that some very basic health items are not being taken care of (will be bringing family/friends along to avoid this from now on), being horibly sick from the meds they used to try and get me down and losing a scare amount of weight. Fingers crossed I can get myself back together somewhat, in which case a new attempt will be done on Wednesday. You guys won't believe how peed off I am and made that very clear yesterday. Only 7 weeks to recover if that doesn't fail in the condition I'm in now........ somebody in that hospital isn't going to survive if I don't make this cruise if I have any say in it."
SENDING OUR PRAYERS AND PIXIE DUST TO
KrisannB - "hello everyone - I am still here and still going on the cruise but I cannot be on here or the board much right now = I was put into the hospital last week with my sugar 591 and while I am a diabetic now I was not when I went in (or I did not know it) my sugar continues to not be stable and I am cannot read the computer screen because it is effecting my eyes.
Also I need to drop out of the candy swap - could someone please cotact the person in charge of that and let them know as I am doing good to type this and cannot read )but can type (thank goodness I learned to in high school without looking at the keys!) My daughter is helping me read somethigs too. I am so sad that I have to drop out but the temptation is too much (and sugar free candy will not be an option for me as it still has carbs in it.) My children will be most disappointed but my life is to where I do not know exactly what is what right now = I hope I make it to the ship!
Thanks! we leave in 2 weeks for our trip so I am packing"
HOPE IT WAS A HAPPY BIRTHDAY
eeyorelvr10 -
Laura - celebrated on Monday
SO THAT'S WHERE YOU'VE BEEN
"I have been on holiday in Poland for the last 9 days so just playing catch up. Hope everyone is well and WELCOME to the new cruisers!"
cliffy97 Dan
SARAH'S BACK
"HI Everyone
I am back home from my holiday in Florida and my visit with Taryn my cast member DD. I was also lucky enough to meet up with Karen ( Rikersmom ) and Lauren, James and Lorelei ( Namsupak ) for a drink and a chat while we were out there.
I am now faced with a ton of washing and photo uploading and of course catching up on the meet thread .... you have started on Part 5 in my absence I see I am sure I have missed absolutely loads of stuff and am way behind so I will do my best to catch up. I will also post about the trip in a few days once the jetlag has diminished. Now how many days until the cruise ????" -
TotallyAngelic
JUANITA
PFlamingo - "... we have the show at the community theatre that night. ...
Speaking of which, we're doing "Treasure Island," so we've been surrounded by pirates for a month now. We opened last weekend, and both shows were sold out. Looks like they might be the same for this and next weekend. Dennis is the stage manager and I run the light board. And Juanita supervises us all.
"
BARCELONA WEATHER
"I'd love some guidelines for what you experienced WBTA cruisers are expecting"
"Well for us....last September it was beautiful the day we arrived like a nice spring/autumn day. We did Fat Tire Bike Tours the entire afternoon and had a blast. Then it rained in the evening and the next morning was cooler (needed a jacket by the beach) but by the time we sailed it was perfect again. We had lightweight jackets just in case...that's all you should need. By the time we get to the Carribbean it'll be like an over again!!!"
ATTENTION LANYARD LIST AND LANYARD TEAM MEMBERS
I have finally corrected the IMG image of the lanyard list on the original post. Please check the list on the following link:
Lanyard List
Now I am adding the Lanyard team members. Please check this list and if you are missing or incorrect on either list, please PM me.
Noel
MAGNET IDEAS
"Where do you find the "creative board" where they did your picture for your travelling magnet? Is it on Disboards?"
"If you go to the bottom of this page you'll see a dropdown box that'll say forum jump. The creative board is towards the bottom of the list."
Here are our magnets from last year. All drawn by my husband.
WISHES DESSERT PARTY AT WDW
"you can now book the Wishes Dessert Party right through to November now."
Mini Southern California DIS Meet
Sue l and I were chatting about having a mini dis meet in Southern California during the time she will be visiting which is August 9th -August 14th.
Anyone up for a meet? I am thinking of being in the southern California area during that time so would love to meet some of you guys.
Please either post here or PM me. - birkner Noel
LEGO DISNEY SHIP
TRANSPORTING MEDICATIONS TO OTHER COUNTRIES
"Jacqueline, did you ever hear back from the Spanish Customs or whatever about taking controlled drugs into the country?"
"Didn't have to contact Spanish Customs as this is a trip within the area that applies the so called Schengen declaration. Simply put; I have to have my doc fill out some Schengen forms, one per med on the 2 opium lists. Next step is sending them in to a special department of our Ministry of Health who will stamp it as official. They'll sent it back to me, then I need to send it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and have them sign it also and sent it back to me again. Should take no more than 4 weeks, but have been adviced to sent in before the 6 week mark to be on the safe side.
Any other meds for said area not on the 2 lists are allowed as long as they're legal in the country visited and in original container with original label on them."
...BUT NOT FOR KIDS
Ok just for a laugh you have to see this link for Patrick Warburton. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Co3c2Ydqo
It is entitled roller coaster safety with Patrick Warburton."
VACCINATIONS
"Okay, I have another question! I know, I know- what can I say? This is the first time in a while going to Europe or the islands (unlike DH) and I wanted to find out if any particular vaccinations are advised for either Spain or any of our port visits."
Tetanus boosters for adults is every TEN (10) years or "after an exposure to tetanus under some circumstances" - source: CDC
"Shots: Not needed for any of the places we go, in fact, not usually needed for any vacation spots unless you plan to stay for a longer duration--several months (usually more than 90 days) or if there is some possibility of obtaining a disease in that place that is not common in the United States (this is mostly for African countries or some parts of South America). Even if you have a tetnis booster (which is good for 10 years), if something happens to you on a trip they will likely give you another shot even if you have one. Because we are on a cruise ship, no one is likely to even ask for your passport let alone a vaccination list at any of these places (this includes Barcelona airport--for vaccination list, you will need your passport ). I would not worry about shots. We have traveled to most of Western Europe, been to almost all islands in the Caribbean, and have never needed any special shots." - Fontabel
GIBRALTAR
"We took the number 4 bus and walked everywhere last year.
We prepurchased our tickets which included a FREE Gibraltar one day bus pass from the Gibraltarinfo kiosk, located on the Spanish side of the frontier by walking to the end of the street where we caught the bus to the frontier. What we bought was the SkyWalk Combo which included Dolphin World for 17.5 GPH each.
Tour info:
If you have more time and you want to enjoy a stroll around the Nature reserve then try our 'Skywalk' ticket which combines the exhilaration of the Cable Car ride with access to the Nature Reserve including the other attractions. Take that 6 minute ride up to 412m above sea level and enjoy the multimedia tour, the views all in the company of our friendly but wild apes. After a hot or cold drink and a light snack return the Multimedia unit and head off 800m downhill towards St Michael's Cave. After marvelling at it's splendour you can continue your walk a further 900m where you can visit with some more apes at Apes Den. The choice then is to catch the Cable Car back down to town or continue northwards another 2km in the direction of the Great Siege Tunnels. If you feel up to the walk you will be rewarded by a fantastic piece of tunnelling that is more than 200 years old and marvel at the work of the soldiers who lived, worked and slept in them.
Alternatively if you are not interested in St Michael's Cave you can head north 1.6km straight to the Great Siege Tunnels from the Cable Car Top Station and then walk down into town. The no 4 bus also makes it's way up to Moorish Castle.
See maps page for details.
SkyWalk includes:
Cable Car ticket (options single or return and child or adult)
Multimedia Tour (hand held guide included in adult ticket only and for use exclusively within the Cable Car Top Station)
Apes (The apes are wild animals and roam freely throughout the Upper Rock area. However they are usually seen at both the Cable Car Top and Middle Station otherwise known as Apes Den.)
Nature Reserve entrance ticket - Entrance to: St Michael's Cave, Great Siege Tunnels, City Under Siege Exhibition, Moorish Castle and 100 Ton Gun. (this ticket must be redeemed at the Cable Cart ticket office BEFORE entering any of the sights.) The Nature Reserve ticket must be used on the same day as the Cable Car ticket, see below.)
FREE Gibraltar Bus Pass (adult or child one day bus pass). This must be collected from the Gibraltarinfo kiosk on the Spanish side of the Gibraltar/Spanish land frontier.
The SkyWalk ticket can be used on any given day within 12 months from the date of purchase. E-ticket must be exchanged at the Cable Car ticket office and is valid for the day of exchange only. The Nature Reserve ticket must be used on the same day as the Cable Car ticket." - birkner
TORTOLA - JVD UPDATE
"there is a possibility they may add an additional motorboat, and told me they would take care of our DIS standby list first if so. If you want to be added to the standvy list, please pm me or a visitor message since I need to clean out my DIS box and am almost full. They will not know about this possibility for sure until about Aug 20." - MandyGirl
Candyswap participants; newsbulletin
We've just hit the 20 stateroom mark. Which means I'll be splitting up into multiple groups. I've already got Jessicasmom and Magic123 noted down as having a preference to stay around the 20 staterooms, so I'll take that into account. Any other preferences; please make them known by PM. Only info by PM please, it's impossible to never miss a post on this thread esp. with me being gone soon again. Otherwise I will surprise you when making assignments. 
To give all time enough to sort things out, I've decided on a cut off date of August 7th, for anybody signing up after that; I'll add you to the list but will leave it up to each participant if they can and want to add on "last" minute. I'll supply participants with the info needed on August 8th, which would give most of us a month before hopping on our flights. - goofieslonglostsis
OKAY CRUISERS, NOW YOU'VE COMPLETED THE WBTA, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NEXT? .... WE'RE GOING TO WALT DISNEY WORLD!
karentan - "just booked our 3 night stay after the cruise at WDW" "went for all star sports in the end"
Dgentrysim - "We are staying at the Boardwalk for 2 days after the cruise."
fly4free2 - "I am also staying 3 nights after the cruise
. I am staying at Pop Century"
LINKED DINING
Dining Time Dis Name
Late Cliffy97
Late Chris&Jeremy
Late Sue L
Late Pflamingo
Late Magic123
Late jinxleprechaun
Late Pixie Dust For Me!
Late purplelv93
Late Seraphine
Late Fontabel
Late Binkeytell
Late HazelandAnnie
Late Ebony
Late Julie2009
Early goofieslonglostsis
Early Lindababe
Early fly4free2
Early Rikersmom
Early RubyBlue
Early susie2
Early Neil(Can't find your dis name)
Early pKicinski@yahoo.com
Early giraffe104
Pubcrawl:
Chris&Jeremy
Cliffy97
GA-YAYA
Tod&Copper
Pinky166
Grumpy1234/Magic 123
Disneyfan_SD
Dgentrysim2
Goofy Adpi
Seraphine
col1
Please let me know if I have missed you off or if you want to join us. 
cliffy97 Dan
- Hi Cliffy, Please add me and DH Dom (dom262) for the Pub crawl. nick262
want a share in a cabana??
send me a pm if your interested in joining myself,dh and beth and ellie ( i promise my children are very well behaved
) in cabana no. 6 - binkytell
INSULATED CUP
Beauty & the Best - Liz "About movies, today at WDW I bought the neatest cup to take to the movies onboard. Its heavy plastic & has a removable straw and top so I can fill it with ice and whatever cold beverage I feel like. ..."
TRAVEL LITE COMPANY - ANY EXPERIENCE?
"Has anyone had any experience with the Travel Lite company with regarding to ording items for delivery to your cabin? With our to be 10th old on 9/9/11, we were going to use them for diapers, wipes, food, etc. over having stuff delivered to the ship. But, feeling a little uneasy if something were go go wrong.
Thanks for any comments and experiences."
TAXI, ANYONE?
pkicinski@yahoo.com - "We are staying at Tryp Apolo on Avda, Paralelo, paid$123 on Hotwire. Sounded nice. If you happen to stay there, PM me and we'll share a taxi."
IF YOU ARE EVER IN ORLANDO...
"I work part-time at the WOD, so please look for Karen if you stop in. Like the cruise, there are about six Karens in the place. My name tag says that I'm from Malvern, PA--I consider that my home town since that's where my sons grew up.
I'll look tonight to see what characters and colors are available." - Rikersmom
AND THEN THE SHOE TALK BEGAN...
One of my favorite Jimmy Choos:
and my other favorite Christian Louboutin shoe:
I tend to wear Stuart Weitzman now as they fit my feet better.
Wow they are gorgeous, here's my favourites that I would love to get a hold of
Christian Louboutin
2 different Jimmy Choos
Speaking of Jimmy Choo's, if I had a spare $700.00, which I obviously do not, I would buy the Jimmy Choo black Ugg's with all the studs on them. I absolutely love, love, love them. I saw a woman wearing them and it crossed my mind to pull them off her feet. Of course, I would never,Ever, EVER do that. Maybe someday. Of course if I ever did have a spare $700.00 they probably will be out of style.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PUT IN YOUR 2 PENCE?
"I mailed DCL about on my conformation suddenly 0,02 euro cent balance due appears. I get a mail today that is was suspended."
DISBOARDS PM - PRIVATE MESSAGE - CLEANUP
If you are saving information in old PMs: "Just a FYI, have you all seen the post right at the top about PM's. They are going to clear out all our old PM's 6 months or older."
SLEEPING WITH FANS AND WHITE NOISE
"I need to find a good small fan that will travel, too. Neither of us can sleep in silence - it really is deafening. We have to have background noise!"
"We have friends who take a sound machine everywhere. We were going to buy one but my iPad has an application now on there for the same. "
"It is called WhiteNoise." "That app is £1.49 (Approx $2.50)"
VILLAINS' NIGHT MASK
"I wish i had time to make my own but ellie keeping me too busy, so i had to just buy ours, i have added my own embellishment though if you can spot it
"
DISNEY TRANSFER PORT CANAVERAL TO WDW RESORTS
"You can take Disney transfers direct from the cruise ship to your resort."
"We booked by DCL the transfer from Port to our hotel/resort in WDW for $ 35,- pp. To the airport it was more expensive. You can phone them for price and book it.
The free Magical Disney Express is only from airport to hotel/resort and back."
TIPS - CASH OR CREDIT
"This question was actually asked on the DCL forum a few weeks ago. Someone asked whether the CMs prefer cash or credit card (which goes to their paycheck). Several current and former CMs as well as several people who were good friends with CMs and asked them all reported that in general, they prefer the tips to go to their paycheck. Two main reasons given were 1) many CMs send the money home to their families and it was much easier if it was in their check rather than having to transfer the cash. 2) They didn't have to find a way to secure large amounts of cash onboard. However, all that being said, I'm sure they prefer a cash tip to no tip!"
LONDON/KENT PRE-CRUISE MEET
"...we live in London. Maybe we can have a meet on Thurs/Fri if ppl will be around like the BCN guys. cliffy97 Dan
"Possibly Bluewater on a weekend? ... Ok so shall we pencil in Sat 13th august for around 3-3.30pm at Bluewater?"
WATCHING PLANES LAND OVER MAHO BEACH, ST MAARTEN
Flights are arriving on September 20, 2011. There could be a JetBlue flight, but I couldn't find a ticket and didn't bother going to OAG to see the schedule for that month. They are listed as coming in from JFK at 2:12 pm today (Tuesday, July 19).
1100 ... KLM ... Amsterdam ... 747 **
1330 ... Air France ... Paris ... A340 **
1333 ... USAir ... Charlotte ... 757
1340 ... AA ... Miami ... 757
1545 ... Insel Air ... San Juan ... MD83
** these are the two big-boy jets; the 757 and MD83 are narrow-body jets. There are various island hopper prop planes, too.
Looks like optimal viewing would be between 1:30 and 1:40 pm. Our ship leaves at 5:30pm and the bridge between Maho Beach and the ship is open (lifted up - blocking traffic) at 3:30.
Calling all Pin Traders!!!!
Some of you may have seen on the Facebook page that there are quite a few pin collectors/traders onboard. It has been mentioned that due to luggage restrictions people don't want to bring all their traders with them so i've created a separate thread just for us to post photos of our pins and agree trades now, so that we only need to bring the pins we've traded onboard with us. Plus it means we won't take over this thread or the facebook page with lots of pin photo's.
Hope to see all you traders there.....http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2762877
PUB CRAWL T-SHIRTS
If you have not ordered yours and still wish to do so, please go to the following site:
Pub Crawl T-Shirt Order Form
Next week I'll be contacting each of you that ordered a shirt(s) to secure payment via Paypal and confirm your shipping address. I'll then place the order with CustomInk.
MISC
- Gasoline fillups - places to avoid near Orlando International Airport
- Schedule of dinner/attire/nightly show for WBTA 2010
- Portable fans for glistening ladies
- Full moon on Day 3
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites We've Visited
- the ship is currently approx 75% full
- The Lion King is going to be on limited re-release in theaters in 3D on September 16th!!!
TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY
It has brightened my day.
curt has to bid vacation and work schedule in june the previous year, so we did not know church mission trip dates way back then, otherwise he would be with us. think I have cell coverage 2 days at this location before joining our church group. no tent for that part though! and we actually have showers!!!
