Sept 18 2010 WB TransAtlantic Pirates/Capt Jacks Re-Repositioning Repossession Cruise

[Diznyfan68]

Were gonna have to get this repo thing figured out in a hurry !!! Decisions, Decisions

Ports, number of days at sea, airfare as well as what the Wonder will be doing are all things that have to be taken into consideration. At least we'll have a couple of weeks from when the announcement is made to booking starts!

 

[disneypilots]

Ports, number of days at sea, airfare as well as what the Wonder will be doing are all things that have to be taken into consideration. At least we'll have a couple of weeks from when the announcement is made to booking starts!

U got it !! Well said !!

 

[captaincrash]

Looks like we are a keen group of repeat pirates, and this time, I think Robert's Mum will also be joining us.

I floated the idea of this morning of Robert and his Mum going to the UK first to visit with Robert's sister, then all 4 of us do the last Baltic cruise, Robert and his Mum return home and my Mum and I continue for the repo. Response was pretty positive... I guess for now, we are a "definite maybe"!

Gee... do we get any credit as REPEAT (CRUISING) PIRATES if we rebook to hit MEXICO again next month? It's obviously not Disney - rather it's Princess - and now I'll possibly get to do a couple things I missed doing when we were last there.

So we've got a little time between soccer games this morning... and we've just finalized the arrangements to "cover" our obligations at home. Work and soccer are now covered properly - so we can proceed to book the Princess cruise next month. Our kids agreed to forego Halloween at home for the cruise - and this was a consideration as Juliannas' best friend is celebrating her birthday on October 31st. Now I have to get my TA to switch things AFTER I break it to my Dad and confirm it'll work out for him to sail sooner while saving him $500 over a January sailing next month instead of January. It should go quickly now... this will be our 1st sailing on Princess.

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[Pluto 2]

Gee... do we get any credit as REPEAT (CRUISING) PIRATES if we rebook to hit MEXICO again next month? It's obviously not Disney - rather it's Princess - and now I'll possibly get to do a couple things I missed doing when we were last there.

So we've got a little time between soccer games this morning... and we've just finalized the arrangements to "cover" our obligations at home. Work and soccer are now covered properly - so we can proceed to book the Princess cruise next month. Our kids agreed to forego Halloween at home for the cruise - and this was a consideration as Juliannas' best friend is celebrating her birthday on October 31st. Now I have to get my TA to switch things AFTER I break it to my Dad and confirm it'll work out for him to sail sooner while saving him $500 over a January sailing next month instead of January. It should go quickly now... this will be our 1st sailing on Princess.

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have fun its a really great price.

 

[captaincrash]

have fun its a really great price.

Thank You for the encouragement......

... at $386 on the first 2, taxes of $53.90 plus fuel of $63 = $502.90 per person. Then on the 3rd and 4th it's only 199 + 53.90 + 28 = $280.90. Shoot... that brings it to $1,567.60 with my TA ... which is cheaper than the Princess home page price of $1,793.60. Curious how that differs... as I guess my TA has booked group space and is kicking back something to make thiar price sweeter. I would have booked it right now except that when I called I found my TA has gone home already. SO I'll book this tomorrow it seems.

OK... we're off for a birthday party. The morning soccer game was great with a 6-3 win... and a spectacular goalie stop by Julianna... plus a few more moderately impressive stops by her. Kaleas' soccer game was lopside against us as they had a large player who scored and defended heavily against us. The opposing coach was not interested in balanced play - oh well. Earlier when Julianna player - her team scored all 6 goals in the 2nd Qtr... so we pulled our best players out - and the opposing team was sort of allowed to score their 3 goals in the closing minutes. We encouraged Julianna to quietly allow 2 of the goals to pass in (she handled it fairly graciously) ... one got in however that was fully contested.

SO there... our girls are split between 2 regions - in the TO region blaanced play is NOT really encouraged it seems at the U6 level of play. I know this is so because I asked a couple of board members who were at the field today. However, in the Westlake league balanced play is encouraged. We understand how it is to be on both sides of the equation - and what we want
is a good experience for our girls ... on BOTH sides of the game.

OK... time to go...

Good Cheer for all!

 

[justmestace]

Crash...we sailed with Princess at Halloween. They had the kids dress in costumes and parade around the ship. The ship was fully and awesomely decorated for Halloween, and even the adults had a costume contest. So make sure your girls have costumes!!

 

[got2travel]

It's being posted all over, but thought I'd put it here too.

Rumors of the repos being April and Sept, with both Med and Baltic cruises in between.
http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/cruise-new/news.htm

The dates of the repos don't work for me, so now I'm trying to figure out what will. Might just book the Sept repo just in case I can swing it.

 

[disneyjunkie]

It's being posted all over, but thought I'd put it here too.

Rumors of the repos being April and Sept, with both Med and Baltic cruises in between.
http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/cruise-new/news.htm

The dates of the repos don't work for me, so now I'm trying to figure out what will. Might just book the Sept repo just in case I can swing it.

I wanted the repo but those dates won't work for us. Maybe we'll go with the August 7 Med???

I hope the rumors are wrong.

 

[Diznyfan68]

These dates don't work for us either and I really don't like the 5/5/4 Wonder schedule. We may not be sailing DCL in 2010 but holding out for the new ship in 2011. We'll just have to wait and see what is announced on the 7th.

 

[got2travel]

I'm thinking maybe the last Baltic. I'd rather do the Baltic than the Med. But like Lorri said, will have to see the real announcement in Oct to truly make up my mind.

However with so many families not being able to do the repo in Sept, DCL will probably have to reduce the fares like they did in 2007. They reduced the fares before the 90 day final payment last time. So I could keep it booked just in case and then if the fares drop I'll see if I can find someone to go with me. Maybe GrandmaChris??

 

[wheelerkidz3]

It's being posted all over, but thought I'd put it here too.

Rumors of the repos being April and Sept, with both Med and Baltic cruises in between.
http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/cruise-new/news.htm

The dates of the repos don't work for me, so now I'm trying to figure out what will. Might just book the Sept repo just in case I can swing it.

why?? why?? why???
i was hesitant to even post on this thread, cuz i didn't want to jinx any chance we may have at doing another repo...but i REALLY wanted to do a repo, and it's not looking feasible with these dates!

 

[Pluto 2]

well the rumors of the baltic and med is not good news for me. i was wanting to do the 12 night baltic and than the repo after that, now this rumor changes everything. i wanted a new repo its looks like the repo will be the same repo as in 2007. what will also be nice is doing the baltic than the 7 night to barcelona but that will up the air prices a lot because you will have two one way prices. one good thing it looks like there will be a lot of good cruises in 2010 maybe it will keep the prices down a little bit.

 

[mousemom11]

Unfortunately, a September Repo won't work for us either with the girls in school. Don't quite know what we're going to do now. Baltic or Med, depending on itinerary. That's too bad, we were really looking forward to the Repo.

 

[captaincrash]

The autumnal equinox was this morning at 11:44 AM + 16 seconds - so for folks on the east coast ... FALL has arrrived about 30 minutes ago!

As for the new cruises and rumored schedule (leak) ... We are definately unable to take huge time once school starts - for us that's the mid week before labor day... so September sailings are OUT. Next year we begin getting letter grades in 3rd grade so we'll want to keep Julianna in school untl we determine how shes' adjusting to the new environment.

Aside from that - I wonder whether any of these sailings will work out for us. I would really like a MED cruise versus any of the other ones - so it seems these are going to be our 1st area of interest - that is assuming there are no convenient or preferable alternatives.

We would probably not have interest in any Wonder sailings as 5 and 4 days is simply not enough given the distance we have to travel from Los Angeles.

Oh well...

 

[Pluto 2]

i have been doing a lot of thinking since the new rumors come out and i still dont know what i want to do. northern europe is my first choice. but i want longer than a 12 night cruise. so i can go to the med which will be my second choice and do the repo after that for a very good cruise them 2 together.

 

[DisneyVegas1]

i have been doing a lot of thinking since the new rumors come out and i still dont know what i want to do. northern europe is my first choice. but i want longer than a 12 night cruise. so i can go to the med which will be my second choice and do the repo after that for a very good cruise them 2 together.

Im with you , but I am still looking at doing the last cruise before the Repo and doing the Repo as well ... Somehow someway we will get it worked out , but we all have to wait till the announcement to see what really is what and decide from there ...

 

[Grandma x3]

Hi Gang,
If the repo is mid Sept - I doubt it would work for us. We were thinking about the entire family going to England & France and then Paul & I (or maybe just me again) returning home on the repo. However, the older kids start school in mid/late Aug and Matt starts just after labor day. Unless I won the lotto I don't have enough money to hang around in Europe until mid Sept. waiting for the repo!!!!
Just have to wait & see when the dates, etc. are announced!

Maybe I'll bump the "dummy" cruise to 2011 & take a chance w/the new ship.

We really do want to sail w/our pirate crew again!!

 

[captaincrash]

You know,...

Disney marketing is smart... they're doing 4 REPOs from the UK (probably) and offerring foks in Europe and especially the UK a chance to sail on a 1st rate ship with their STRONG currency. Med to UK = 1... UK to Baltic = 2, Baltic to UK = 3, and UK to USA = 4. Disney will charge stiff rates and get them because over there they will look upon the costs as a bit of a bargain! While DCL rakes in good revenue ... is what I figure.

Now - as for us regular folks from the good ol' US of A... well... we got our options and these dates. They're valid considerations and suitably exotic. I wonder what the Med sailings will look like - and I wonder if we'll get the others in my family GROUP to agree on anything this time? If we go it will probably be some time in AUGUST.... where-ever the ship will be. Otherwise... we just might do some other option with DCL? Maybe a vanilla Christmas sailing or ??? OR... maybe a land and sea split with 5 nites on the Wonder?

 

[disneypilots]

I'll reserve any final judgement till I see the Itin's and dates. We have several dummy ressie's.........So here I sit and wait.

 

[Diznyfan68]

I'll reserve any final judgement till I see the Itin's and dates. We have several dummy ressie's.........So here I sit and wait.

I HATE waiting!