Sept 18 2010 WB TransAtlantic Pirates/Capt Jacks Re-Repoing Repossession Cruise Pt.9

[Feebs]

OMG, 2011 is my year of vacations - 5 DCL cruises!!!!

There must be a prize for so many cruises

 

[birkner]

My only concern would be that I have already booked directly with Bernard.

If we get a group tour, I would want to snorkel. Not interested in the added expense of parasailing.

If we get a tour going, couldn't you just email him that you are joining our tour instead? I am only interested in a private tour that includes snorkeling. Not interested in going to Orient Beach. Let me know via PM if you both want to join us.

 

[Feebs]

Our next planned trip is at Christmas. Our oldest daughter, who is doing a professional internship with Disney, just told us she's in the Candlelight Processional choir! So, we have to go see her sing!

We're hoping to book an Alaska cruise while we're onboard, maybe for June 7, since that's the first one after our youngest daughter gets out of school. But, I want to try to see Aulani next year, too! Too many vacations to take, not enough time!

--Lynn

So true - what a wonderful experience to see your daughter sing in the CP

 

[Feebs]

As of right now we have the Dream 3/3 with a couple of days at DW and Alaska 8/30 booked. Thinking about changing to Med cruise that stops in Cannes instead of Alaska. Also will book the new DVC Hawaii for 2010 with stops at DL when we have more points in Feb 2011. DVCer's talk about banking points but we always have to borrow!!

We are DVC`ers too - have borrowed up to 2012

 

[Feebs]

"Originally Posted by Feebs
So we all know about our next vacation However just out of interest has anyone got any future vacations planned???"

We are looking to swap our home in Celebration, FL (next door to WDW) for someplace in Europe for a few weeks next summer (Jul or AUG).

Rene

Wow what a great home to swap. We had a programme here in the UK following families who swapped homes - very interesting.

 

[Feebs]

Next year is cruise year

May 2011 - B2B Disney Dream (DH Birthday)
Oct 2011 - RCCL - Serenade of the Seas (Southern) - 20th Anniv.
Dec 2011 - 3 day - Disney Dream - Girls trip

Our rule of thumb is to plan the next vacation before we leave on the current vacation.

We usually do that - though I should say I usually do that However nothing else planned so far

 

[Feebs]

My tag says it all. I overcome my post Disney depression by planning another trip. If I don't have another trip in the hopper, I would have to be carried off the ship. It wouldn't be pretty.

Loving the replies - thanks all for cheering up my friday, which is most peoples monday. Sorry I haven`t mastered the multi quotes.

 

[OKW93]

Just tried to pretend book this cruise online and nothing is available. Is that even possible? wow!

 

[birkner]

Anyone needing to fly back from Orlando to San Francisco Oct 6-Nov 17, take note:

From the Travelzoo Newsdesk:

SAN FRANCISCO--AUGUST 20, 2010-- This morning, Virgin
America reduced fares on nonstop fall flights to Orlando
from San Francisco to $129 each way. This is an additional
$50 off already-discounted prices on this new route.

Travel Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday from Oct. 6, when
service begins, through Nov. 17. Flights on Fridays and
Sundays are $20 more.

The sale ends at 11:59 p.m. PT Aug. 30.

 

[goiu]

Is there a place in the navigator or anywhere were it lists what time all the tastings, ladies tea and pink girls are? I've signed up for things, but now can't remember when they all are.

Thanks!
Lisa

 

[Buckeye Goofy]

Just tried to pretend book this cruise online and nothing is available. Is that even possible? wow!

I tried as well, and was able to get a Cat 8 with two adults, but when I added kids, I got nothing. Hmm, maybe we should have waited until now to book.

 

[su_kraft]

A small thing overall and slightly off topic...

My DD Lilian lost her first tooth today. She is very excited.
My baby is growing up.

AWWWWW!!!!!

Becca hasn't lost one yet... She has one that is somewhat lose, but as she isn't wiggling it she may still have it on the ship! I guess she is finally listening to me when I say "Please don't grow up"...

 

[su_kraft]

Hello everyone
I cant beleive 4 weeks today we will be boarding the Magic.
I got my cruise Docs on monday (booked through Dreams).
Also on Monday my daughter gave birth to my second grandchild, a tiny boy with lots of black hair. Who is absolutley gorgeous of course.

I am going off to stay with my daughter, for couple of weeks from tomorrow, but will have my little notebook and will try to look in when I can. Hopefully I wont miss anything.
When I get back, it will be time to start my packing and get stressed, doing everything in a last minute mad rush !!.

Have a good week everyone

Congrats on your newest addition! Hope that your daughter is doing well!

 

[TotallyAngelic]

Having a hard time with dd just now ........send some sunshine our way please.....
Roll on the cruise!

Sending {{{{{{{hugs}}}}}} Hope things start to improve soon.

So we all know about our next vacation However just out of interest has anyone got any future vacations planned???

We are trying to be good and so have nothing planned, I`ve been eyeing up a Caribbean cruise for next feb, possibly a couple of months in France in 2012.
DH would like to stay at home and save the money

Anyone else?

No plans as yet, although it will all depend on whether DD gets onto the WDW college progamme as obviously we will need to visit if she does. Would love to do a DCL Med cruise next summer too.

well i am a contractor my contract ends in july 2011 by that time i should have about 1 years wages saved

i am planning on spending about 2 months travelling around the USA .. then flying to japan for a month then off to australia for a month sort of a mini world trip i am 40 next year

from what the UK government is doing it seems a good time to leave for a while

This sounds absolutely amazing Jason

OMG, 2011 is my year of vacations - 5 DCL cruises!!!!

How on earth did you manage that !!!!

Mum and I are doing the Adventures by Disney Backstage Magic trip in July with the Dis Podcast team and 28 other Dis'ers. We will probably go to San Fran first and work our way back to LA.

Hope to do this for my 50th birthday so you will have to let me know what you think.

We are looking to swap our home in Celebration, FL (next door to WDW) for someplace in Europe for a few weeks next summer (Jul or AUG).

Rene

You can swop homes with me anythime if you fancy a trip to Wales ..... may have to tidy up a bit first though

Hello all....well after a couple of tough days....well weeks actually....I am happy to report my DD is feeling better....know how I know....she is getting fiesty and argumentative.....she had another cath scan today and we do not have the results yet....but she now wants to eat and they are allowing her soft pureed food.....sounds wonderful....but she is making positive strides and I thank all for the pixie dust and prayers.....my wife and I were starting to talk about maybe having to cancel the cruise the other day.....but tonight we had a nice talk about 4 weeks from tomorrow we will be flying out....and we already have put a backup plan in place....my MIL lives in Georgia and in an emergency would fly in to stay with DD.....again....THANKS!
Tom & Marilou

Wonderful news Tom .... so pleased she is making a good recovery

 

[Candy Apple]

20th I think. See, I'm not even excited enough to memorize the date. Now ask when we go on TA and I will give you blow by blow of the trip details!! Yes, our friends are sick of hearing about it!

If you're going on the 20th, you'll be missing the boat. We are on the July 12-19th Alaskan, so I'm pretty sure the next one leaves on the 19th!

There must be a prize for so many cruises

It is called an empty bank account.

AWWWWW!!!!!

Becca hasn't lost one yet... She has one that is somewhat lose, but as she isn't wiggling it she may still have it on the ship! I guess she is finally listening to me when I say "Please don't grow up"...

Or, she is hoping for a little extra magic on the ship.

 

[MagicMe]

I tried as well, and was able to get a Cat 8 with two adults, but when I added kids, I got nothing. Hmm, maybe we should have waited until now to book.

Interestingly - I just tried to book for 2 adults and I get a message in red at the top that states:
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here are no vacation dates available. Please choose another itinerary or another month. If you have entered a special offer code, it could be invalid.

But about 1/2 hour ago I went to log in and it came up with a really screwy screen. Still, I tried booking my Alaska trip and it went through to the cabins.

So we're sold out????

 

[Buckeye Gal]

We're in the same boat, and I just canceled the DCL excursion that I'd reserved since none of their options really worked for us. I think we're going to try to grab a taxi to the top of the rock, and look into options for getting back down. I don't know enough about how large the taxis are, but if there is one that holds 7 (or not one that holds 6) then you're welcome to come with us. Even if you decide to ditch us at the top, at least you'd be at the top....

John and I are going to do the Skywalk Combo....John and I decided e are going to take a taxi to collect the tickets. You are welcome to take the taxi with us to the border pick up the tour tickets if you are interested. Check it out and let us know.

....Kimberly,

last time we just found someone outside the terminal or a bit outside of it. It was a van that sat at least 6-8 people....Everything is rather close and if you can get a group together, you'll be fine....

Thanks so very much the offers and insights!!! I'm determined to come to a conclusion before the weekend's over as to how I plan to manage this, so I'll let you know!

A small thing overall and slightly off topic...

My DD Lilian lost her first tooth today. She is very excited.
My baby is growing up.

That's VERY exciting for her!!!

.....on Monday my daughter gave birth to my second grandchild, a tiny boy with lots of black hair. Who is absolutley gorgeous of course. ...

Happy Birth Day to the little guy and congrats to the family!!!​

Congratulations Jan. So exciting. Perhaps you will get a photo up sometime?

Yes! I would love to see him!

...The idea is that we could create a list of all the events (room tour, champagne girls, drink tastings, etc.) and DCL excursions, then people could enroll in the events in which they are participating, and that way we could all see what each others are doing...

Brilliant! I would love to see this! As a PP mentioned, we just need to be very clear that this does enroll you into anything, rather just announces what events you're participating in.

What a very nice thing to say about the tour I planned in Madeira. I am very flattered!!

IT'S WELL DESERVED ACCOLADES, NOEL!!

 

[BoosGram]

On a really early post I had copies of the menus attached from the last TA. The themes mainly relate to food. The Villians night however is a themed night as well so there may be other Villian stuff going on. The others are just menu nights.

Here's the menus

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=28718645&postcount=3004

Farewell to the Caribbean (similar to the Welcome to Caribbean)

Transatlantic Menu

Prince & Princess Menu

There are more if you want them but these were the ones I think that differ from those shown!

Sarah, that's great; thanks again for doing those.

Hello everyone
I cant beleive 4 weeks today we will be boarding the Magic.
I got my cruise Docs on monday (booked through Dreams).
Also on Monday my daughter gave birth to my second grandchild, a tiny boy with lots of black hair. Who is absolutley gorgeous of course.

I am going off to stay with my daughter, for couple of weeks from tomorrow, but will have my little notebook and will try to look in when I can. Hopefully I wont miss anything.
When I get back, it will be time to start my packing and get stressed, doing everything in a last minute mad rush !!.

Have a good week everyone

Congrats on the new addition to your family! What are they naming him? How big was he?

Hi all,

With all the talk of excursions of late, last night I was playing around with something I started a month ago, but never got around to completing. In part I wasn't sure if everyone would want to do this, so I'd like to get feedback before I complete it.

The idea is that we could create a list of all the events (room tour, champagne girls, drink tastings, etc.) and DCL excursions, then people could enroll in the events in which they are participating, and that way we could all see what each others are doing, as well as getting head counts and such. I thought it would be nice if you are going on an excursion to know what friendly faces to look for.

Like anything else, the key is participation, if most people would not want to participate, it wouldn't be worth the effort.

The way I have the registration working is that you would login just like for updating the rollcall, but now have an option to edit events.

Once you click on the 'Event' link, you would see a list of events. The list is sorted first by events you are attending, then chronological. By clicking on a single event, you would see details below.

You would then click on the 'Edit' button, and from there can enroll in the event, as well as select the members and number of your party attending. By default these will initially appear with all stateroom members attending.

I'd like to get feedback to see if people would be interested in doing this. Right now only the sign-up part is complete, but I could have the list of events and event detail pages completed pretty quickly.

Please feel free to play around, but the data is just test data, and will be deleted if/when we set up all the events/excursions.

Glenn

What a cool idea, Glenn .

As for the vacations coming up, we're thinking about trying to book next year's DVC member cruise, which I think will be aboard the Dream. Anyone remember when the booking for that cruise usually occurs? October?

 

[tinker1bell]

Hi all,

With all the talk of excursions of late, last night I was playing around with something I started a month ago, but never got around to completing. In part I wasn't sure if everyone would want to do this, so I'd like to get feedback before I complete it.

The idea is that we could create a list of all the events (room tour, champagne girls, drink tastings, etc.) and DCL excursions, then people could enroll in the events in which they are participating, and that way we could all see what each others are doing, as well as getting head counts and such. I thought it would be nice if you are going on an excursion to know what friendly faces to look for.

Like anything else, the key is participation, if most people would not want to participate, it wouldn't be worth the effort.

The way I have the registration working is that you would login just like for updating the rollcall, but now have an option to edit events.

Once you click on the 'Event' link, you would see a list of events. The list is sorted first by events you are attending, then chronological. By clicking on a single event, you would see details below.

You would then click on the 'Edit' button, and from there can enroll in the event, as well as select the members and number of your party attending. By default these will initially appear with all stateroom members attending.

I'd like to get feedback to see if people would be interested in doing this. Right now only the sign-up part is complete, but I could have the list of events and event detail pages completed pretty quickly.

Please feel free to play around, but the data is just test data, and will be deleted if/when we set up all the events/excursions.

Glenn




*All web and database design proudly done on a PC

That sounds and looks great!!!

 

[granmaz]

As for the vacations coming up, we're thinking about trying to book next year's DVC member cruise, which I think will be aboard the Dream. Anyone remember when the booking for that cruise usually occurs? October?

I think I would like to do that. Do you get much notification of the dates? I'm guessing it books up very quickly.