Sept. 30, 2006 -- Eastern Magic

[kb1esx]

Hi Kev,

When you book a GTY room your are basically booking the category and don't know where the room will be until your paperwork arrives before sailing.

Please somebody else jump in if I havn't explained this properly.

Gee, I can't believe we are almost a month away. I better get going on my preparations.

Does everybody have their over the door shoe holders for extra storage?

Gotta run...

David

 

[Beachball]

Do you book these thru Disney directly? Is there a savings in doing it that way? I see some folks get upgraded. How often does that happen? So many questions!
Kev

 

[jenschaef1]

OK I'll try to explain. A Cat 12 room is the cheapest room you can get on a Disney Cruise. They are basically the same room as Cat 11 (Cat 11 and 12 do not have split bathrooms) but they are on Deck 2 - and mostly under the nightclub (noisy). There are only 13 Cat 12 rooms on the whole ship (and all the rooms only sleep 3) Disney seriously overbooks these rooms - so if you book a Cat 12 you are most likely to get upgraded to at least an 11 (you are guaranteed an upgrade if you have 4 people.) As far as I know all Cat 12s are booked as GTY meaning you are guaranteed at least a Cat 12 but might get a higher Catagory. So what are you giving up by booking a Cat 12 GTY? Well, Disney has the right to put you in any room they have available (and they can change the room up until boarding- although this rarely happens). So basically it is a surprise where your room is going to be...I like surprises and since we have 6 (I booked 4 people in 1 room, 2 people in the other) in our party it saved us several hundred dollars. I received 2 cat 10s, (lowest catagory with a split bath), right next to each other, unfortunatley right under the nightclub, but since I don't have small children I think it will probably be OK.

A break down of savings at today's prices using expedia:
Cat 12 GTY for 4 people $2596
Cat 11 for 4 people 3316
Cat 10 for 4 people 3416

Remember if you book 4 people in a cat 12 you are automatically upgraded to at LEAST a Cat 11. A savings (in the above example) of $720. just to let Disney pick the room. That is a lot of fun money to spend on other things. You can book these rooms thru Disney or your Travel Agent.
I should mention that sometimes, other catagories also go to GTY status - basically this means that the room catagory is very close to selling out so you will, at least, get this catagory (maybe higher) although a specific room number is not available and no discount is given.

Hope this helps,
Jennifer

 

[Beachball]

Thanks! I appreciate you explaining that to me. Have a great night!
Kev

 

[martinezfamily1126]

Hey, how did we get to pg 2? bump bump bump

 

[stretch]

Uh Oh

Just looked at the port schedule for St Thomas on the day we're there and FOUR cruise ships (including us) are sceduled to be there that day! Looks like crowds and tendering may be coming our way.

 

[DisneyDmbNut]

i think we had 4 last year...wasn't bad at all...we were the 2nd one in that day

 

[DISNEYMOMTO1]

So what does that mean? We have to tender in? Is that so bad? Sorry, this is my FIRST cruise. HELP!

36 MORE DAYS UNTIL WE LEAVE FOR FLORIDA AND COCOA BEACH!!!!!!!

 

[DisneyDmbNut]

i don't think we will have to tender...Mariner of the Seas arrives after us...we will be at the dock..

i don't plan on much at St Thomas this year...maybe going to lift...but I think that is a good pool day!

 

[DISNEYMOMTO1]

We are doing the Coral World Mountain Top Excursion in the a.m. Then probably heading back on board for an afternoon of sun.

 

[DisneyDmbNut]

2 weeks from tonight...DH and I will be in Naples for a "mommy/daddy" only weekend!! WEE I am excited! More things to help pass the time! We are staying at the Ritz-Carlton on the beach...i am going to see if we can get a couples spa! Aggghhh!!

So...final shirt thing is no tanks for the kids...i will post my final count tomorrow and then give to the t-shirt girl..she is checking if she has a paypal account so you can pay her direct and she can ship right to you!

 

[kimmcbee]

Ok been working for the last 2 weeks to figure out how to do door magnets. Guess we will be the door with no magnet!! Cant figure it out for anything. Have gotten the disney chips from home depiot. guess I will try something with them.

Still have not see our docs yet, hope they will come any day.
Kim

 

[DisneyMom&Fan]

Ok been working for the last 2 weeks to figure out how to do door magnets. Guess we will be the door with no magnet!! Cant figure it out for anything. Have gotten the disney chips from home depiot. guess I will try something with them.

Still have not see our docs yet, hope they will come any day.
Kim

Hi Kim,

I sent you a pm about door magnets.

Hello to everyone else!! Super busy these days, but I'll check back in when things calm down a bit -- probably after Labor Day!

Off to the uniform store for DS school clothes. I hope I'm not too late to get his size...

Angela

 

[kimmcbee]

Ok we are at the bottom of page one and we need to move up.

5 weeks from today and we will be all together on the Magic

have a great weeekend, we have a baseball tournament this weekend!!!! Think this is the last for a few weeks.

Kim

 

[Beachball]

I've heard that you can request your wait staff. Although I doubt that the same wonderful people are still there that were serving our table two years ago, I wonder if anyone knows how to go about trying this. Any advice?

Kevin

 

[kb1esx]

Hi Kevin,

I don't know how to request wait staff. I'd be interested in knowing that too.

Also, kids are back in school on Monday & we've got a taste of Fall in the air here. I know it will be short lived but I'm enjoying it.

The tropics seem to be heating up a little too. I've been pretty calm about the weather but now I'm getting kind of addicted to the National Hurricane Centers web site: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Night all,

David

 

[ktpbell]

Hi! New to the Sep 30th cruising. We booked this weekend. VERY last mintue (for us). Went on the 4 day this time last year after booking that one almost a year out. Of course,the 4 day is not long enough and when we got some surprise time off for my husband we thought we would just look into going. Well, it seems to have worked out great and here we are getting it together again. Any hints for the 7 day would be great. Port of calls trips, etc. Anyway, just wanted to say hello.
Ktpbell
Me, DH, DS7, DS5

 

[TahoeMom]

Welcome Ktpbell! Less than 5 weeks now!

Kathie

 

[jenschaef1]

Just bumping before we move to page 2. Hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Jennifer

 

[martinezfamily1126]

bumping again before we go to pg 2