I got my haircut this afternoon, so you know what that means? ONLY ONE MORE APPOINTMENT BEFORE THE CRUISE!!! I have my fresh cut and color scheduled the day before I leave!
We certainly do think alike. I have my color and cut scheduled on Friday as we leave on Monday. DH and I do our mani/pedi's on Monday before we leave at 3PM so we have fresh nails and feet!!
I agree with Eric as to which ones attract DISers.
Erik, Jason, Melodie, Dave, Amy, Steffi, and Sandi (I think I forgot someone, too) were on my last
DCL cruise in September 2008, which was also my first with DCL. That was an AMAZING group of people, and we were high in the numbers! I took a
look at our stats, and here are some of the key ones. As you see, we had nearly 500 people from DISboards!!!!! I was crazy-nuts keeping track of everyone and didn't just rely on who signed up on a website, so the numbers are extremely accurate.
158 Cabins accounted for (DISers, family, extended family, and friends)
473 Total People
174 Kids under age 18 (broken out of the total)
4 Sets of Twins (DD4, DD10, DD12, and DD14)
57 Cabins without children/101 Cabins with children
25 Adults with parents and/or grandparents traveling with them
5 Countries represented (Canada, Germany, New Zealand, United Kingdom, USA)
31 States in the US represented
Now factors as to what might have created those large numbers are as follows:
- time of year (after most schools started back)
- lower prices because of the hurricane season and back-to-school time
- special 7 night cruise (originally was to have gone to Costa Maya plus it was a double dip)
- first cruise after the Magic had been out of commission for 2 weeks for dry dock (they later added a 3 day cruise before ours thinking they would be finished with Dry Dock early)
PS: You can also see what an amazing job Jason and Erik did on our lanyards in the linked post above.