Sounds fair enough to meI can vouch for Laura always bringing home an extra piece of luggage!!! That is why she brings Steve along....to carry it all off the ship!!!
You are such a naughty noodle Noel
I love that expression. May I borrow it?
Noisy kids I do, I just send the beagles out and they bark and howl to their heads content.
I think that might quiet the kids a bit and if parents complain, tell them if they quiet the kids, you quiet the dogs. After all, all is fair between kids and dogs...
Good Lucklet us know how it goes.
QUESTION...
For all you cruise vetrans.
It's clear lots of folks here have sailed together before...
With so many sailing per year, are there ones that particularly attract DISers ?
(clearly the PODCAST cruise so don't mention that
....I say a "big crowd" but is 300 Disers on a cruise unusual? How many would you say you'd generally find on the standard 4 day sailing?...
I expect that they probably would have notified me about two weeks out so I would not have time to cancel and book at a decent price somewhere else!
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.
I love that you are tracking all the statistics. We are all going to have to figure out a really great trip to do again with this group say in 2012. What do you guys think? By 2012, there should be more options and gives the rest of us plenty of time to obsess about the trip.
I love that you are tracking all the statistics. We are all going to have to figure out a really great trip to do again with this group say in 2012. What do you guys think? By 2012, there should be more options and gives the rest of us plenty of time to obsess about the trip.
Glad your all sorted
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me,me ,me, HOW lucky am I?So I had some fun with my return flights from Orlando to Phila today. Back in March when I booked, my DS and DIL wanted to book Airtran. I tried for Southwest but they wanted to be able to book a definite seat. So, I booked us for October 4th at 10AM arriving back in Phila around 12:30 (it's my DIL birthday that day - along with her Mom and twin sister not to mention that her Dad's birthday is the day before - so they traditionally go out to dinner to celebrate their birthdays and she wanted to be back in plenty of time to do this). We paid ($20/each) for exit row seats and I had row 18A, B and C.
Now I've had issues previously with Airtran so I've been watching it but haven't checked recently. I decided to check the flight to see how booked up is was and when looking at the seating plan for the flight I see that they have and 18A, C, D, E and F but no B and it's not an exit row. At that point I checked the flight number and then realized that it was now leaving at 8AM. This is way to early since we'll be at the MNSSHP the night before so I check their website and the only direct flights are now this one at 8AM or 4:30 in the afternoon not arriving home until close to 7PM.
The worst thing about this is that I've never received any notification!!!
On top of this when I pulled up my confirmation on line, it now showed me in seat 18A, my DIL in 18C and for my DS it simply said "---" so he didn't even have a seat. I called them and they have now canceled my reservation and will refund me my money (of course within 5-7 business days!).
The good news is that since I found this early enough, I was able to get seats on Southwest and I paid to have the early check-in so we should have no issues of getting seats close together. I saved money and we don't have to pay for luggage!!!
I told my DIL we can do more shopping and pick up a cheap suitcase since we can now bring 2 suitcases each for the way home.
