September 18 3-Day on Wonder

[tinkerbelle77]

30 days till we cruise. We got our land potion luggage tags, booked Palo and excursions, just waiting for the rest of the cruise docs. Can't wait!

You are also close to us!!! This will be a Chicago area Dis Meet!

 

[tinkerbelle77]

Oh Yeah, I guess I never really introduced myself to this thread!

Its myself and DBF, Tim on this cruise, and then our 3 DD's, Tims Dad and Gram on the 4 night after this one! We are so excited, we did a 3 and 4 night back to back in Feb. 08, one with the kids, and the other without! It was a great time! This will be our 5th cruise with Disney!

 

[rubbergypsy]

gingerfeathers-congrats on your upgrade, I saw it on another thread

 

[gerberdaisy1234]

Congrats on the room upgrade! That is awesome! We got upgraded from an 8 to a 5 our first cruise and you know what I "had to have" this time- a 5! Congratulations on the upgrade and the wedding.

 

[gingerfeathers]

Hehe, thanks everyone! I'm super excited!

By the way, since apparently there are a bunch of Chicagoans on this cruise.. I no longer live there, but I grew up in Naperville and spent a few years up by the Long Grove area.

So all of you have some good Chicago pizza and hot dogs for me. I miss the food!!! I feel like some days I would kill for a good Lou Malnati's pizza or some Portillo's.

 

[dcl2086]

Wow, all of us Chicago people on one cruise. Maybe we can get them to bring up the Cubs or Sox on the big screen I know my husband would be thrilled.

 

[tinkerbelle77]

Wow, all of us Chicago people on one cruise. Maybe we can get them to bring up the Cubs or Sox on the big screen I know my husband would be thrilled.

I would love it!!! Go Cubbies!!!

 

[Nostalgia]

I received our tickets and luggage tags yesterday. We're all set to go! Well, except for the packing part...

 

[rubbergypsy]

we also received our cruise docs today. seems like it will be here in a flash!

 

[cnew]

Does anyone know if WDW has had any trouble with flooding due to he hurricane. I looked around on the website and didnt see anything.

 

[fahernand]

We will be the party will be with sixteen family members!

For some of us this will be our third Disney cruise, others their second Disney Cruise, and the rest, this will be their first Disney Cruise

We are all so excited, we even bought official “Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - Captain Jack Sparrow Headband With Hair Adult” for all the guys in our party.

The girls still havn't figured out what to wear for "Pirate Night".

That's alot of pirate puffy shirts!!!!!

We are so excited (I think I said that already) that we have started planning a ’09 Disney Cruise.



No body does it like Disney….

 

[gerberdaisy1234]

2 hours before we leave for airport! Yeah!! See you guys on the boat!

 

[nocruisecontrol]

I was hoping some of our fellow cruisers would come back to comment on the cruise here. I know there are trip reports - but not sure how that works.

We had a great time...although I would have liked to have met some of you all on the cruise. We did have another Chicago area couple with us at dinner the first night.

Anyone coming back here to comment?

 

[rubbergypsy]

Hi everyone-we had a great cruise, thought the weather was outstanding!!! went by so quick!!! our dining got messed up so we ended up sitting alone, which i do not like but tables nearby were chatty. i thought the cruise directors peter and clayton were great!!! loved the toy story show, had seen others a couple of times before as this was not our first disney cruise. went to the shows everynight anyways. food was great, a lot of new items since feb. we cruise seven nights this pres week. i cannot wait.

 

[nocruisecontrol]

Hi everyone-we had a great cruise, thought the weather was outstanding!!! went by so quick!!! our dining got messed up so we ended up sitting alone, which i do not like but tables nearby were chatty. i thought the cruise directors peter and clayton were great!!! loved the toy story show, had seen others a couple of times before as this was not our first disney cruise. went to the shows everynight anyways. food was great, a lot of new items since feb. we cruise seven nights this pres week. i cannot wait.

Yep - the weather was great. I stayed on board on Nassau day but the others went out and got rained on in the afternoon. Other than that - it was perfect.

Sorry you ended up sitting alone! We're not morning people - so we had second seating which I'm guessing, if you were seeing the shows, you didn't have. There just wasn't time to do everything...but I want to go back (soon!).

We took my granddaughter to a lot of the character pictures - which we probably wouldn't do so much next time so that would free up a bunch of time. And 3 nights just wasn't enough - so next time, definitely 4 at least, maybe 7.

Wish we could still get the 10% discount but I knew it was on board only - we just weren't ready to commit then.

 

[gerberdaisy1234]

Hi, We had a great time even though my DD got sick. I think 3 long days at Disney in the heat and not eating normal did her in.

We actually spent more time than plan in our stateroom. Thankfully it had a balcony. We got what we needed- REST!
The view was beautiful and I actually got to read a book. Haven't had the time to do that in a long time.

Thankfully she was feeling better by Saturday and we went to Castaway- beautiful day. I snorkeled! You would have to know that 6 years ago I couldn't even put my head under water. I took my first swim lesson after my DS was born. I can swim until I need about my third breathe and I start to feel panic. I purchase a snorkel set to practice with at pool before we left. I loved it! It was awesome!

We missed 2 nights of dinner and shows but we still had a great time. My daughter felt bad that we missed so much since she was sick but I told her it was okay. We all needed rest and we probably would not have rested otherwise.

We headed back to Disney. Next time I think I would like to do just a cruise and skip the Disney. Not that we didn't have a great time, I was just exhausting. I think we will keep them in seperate trips.

 

[gingerfeathers]

We did four days at Disney before hitting the Wonder, and honestly, after the fun we had at Disney the Wonder just could not compare.

It was my fourth cruise (second DCL), and DH's first. He quickly realized that cruising is not his "thing"--where the rocking always puts me to sleep, it actually kept him up! So he didn't get a whole lot of sleep and spent the trip pretty much exhausted.

We made it to dinner on the first night, but our tablemates weren't the talkative bunch (plus we were supposed to be at a four-top and ended up at an eight-top!). In fact, one couple left extremely quickly because the husband was looking rather, uhh, green. Since he was sitting across from me, I didn't mind they left! Nassau night we went to Palo, which was wonderful! Except we shared a bottle of wine, and near the bottom of that bottle I was feeling fairly relaxed to the point that I tipped over my glass. Whoops! And then the final night DH was in no mood for dinner, so we went to deck nine, grabbed some cheeseburgers and chicken fingers, and watched part of the football game they had playing on the giant screen before turning in for the night.

All in all, it was an okay trip. We went to Atlantis for a short while in Nassau, but ended up back at the ship quickly. During the rain, DH slept and I read out on the balcony, which was very relaxing until I realized I had sunburned myself pretty well. There was a line on my legs where you could see the balcony's shadow had been.. oops! Castaway was a blast, minus the sunburns again, and also minus the fact that DH's shoes got left on the family beach. What concerns me though is that I do NOT remember seeing his shoes on the beach when I packed our stuff up, so I really think someone saw a pair of new sneakers and (no pun intended) walked off with them. Thank God they didn't walk off with worse, like our camera or camcorder!

We'll probably skip cruising for a few years and go again when Disney's new ships are completed. But meanwhile, we're already making plans for more WDW trips!