September 19, 2010 - anyone?

[Crystal_27]

Hey Guys,

Wish me luck on booking brunch at Palo's! I'm waiting till midnight tonight.

Well, Hon, how did you do?

 

[ld4483]

Well... I was also up at midnight trying to book a Palo brunch reservation, but had no luck. I will be checking everyday up until we sail, and HOPEFULLY something will pop up by then. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

 

[bellaprincess98]

Well, Hon, how did you do?

I didnt do so well either. Bummer. I will be checking everyday as well. There is dinner available but I had my heart set on the brunch.

Quick question since there is a possibility that I may end up doing dinner after all. I know that there are three main restaurants and there is a rotation every night. Should I assume that the last night will be a repeat restaurant? or can a restaurant be repeated at anytime in the rotation? The reason I ask is because I wanted to book Palo's on the same night as the repeat restaurant.

Thanks.

 

[FairyGrandmother]

On our 4 night last September the repeat night was on the 3rd night (TAAP, APPT, PTTA) If you look at the faq at the top of the fourm page this is the rotation that they have. This is propably why the 3rd night at Polo books up so fast. We are planning on the brunch on this cruise and doing dinner on the 2nd half of our B2B. It would be really great if we could have a Dis brunch at Polo. If not in the private room may be we can arrange to sit close together. I think Michelle made our reseveration for 10am.

 

[Jey12]

This is our first cruise and we are so excited! I never thought I would enjoy a cruise, I prefer to relax and do things at my own pace on vacations, but I am getting so excited for this cruise. We will probably book another cruise after this one, because it sounds like we are going to have a wonderful time!

Hubby and I have a DD age 4 and she makes friends so easily I hope there are other little kids her age to play with. We are also traveling with friends who have DS's age 3 and 8 months.

We will be flying in the day before and staying at the Raddison at the port and then continuing on to the Nick resort for 2 days. We wanted to visit Universal and check out the new Harry Potter attraction before heading home.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated. We are going to try and get to the port as early as possible the day we leave so we can enjoy the ship as long as possible. Did I read right that there's no formal dinner night on the 4 day cruises?

Can't wait to set sail!

 

[DiSnEyFrEaK22]

Hello again! First time cruisers here... I noticed that the Dolphin Swim is all booked up in Nassau What are the chances of booking on board? Is it really sold out?

 

[Crystal_27]

This is our first cruise and we are so excited! I never thought I would enjoy a cruise, I prefer to relax and do things at my own pace on vacations, but I am getting so excited for this cruise. We will probably book another cruise after this one, because it sounds like we are going to have a wonderful time!

Hubby and I have a DD age 4 and she makes friends so easily I hope there are other little kids her age to play with. We are also traveling with friends who have DS's age 3 and 8 months.

We will be flying in the day before and staying at the Raddison at the port and then continuing on to the Nick resort for 2 days. We wanted to visit Universal and check out the new Harry Potter attraction before heading home.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated. We are going to try and get to the port as early as possible the day we leave so we can enjoy the ship as long as possible. Did I read right that there's no formal dinner night on the 4 day cruises?

Can't wait to set sail!

Welcome to The DIS and the cruise thread. Your "plan of attack" sounds wonderful. We are traveling to Disney in December and will be carving out a couple days to visit Harry Potter and I'm beside myself with excitement!! My DD is 6, and I'm sure she will be bumping into your DD quite a bit at the Clubs! Hopefully, they can pal around a bit!

Hello again! First time cruisers here... I noticed that the Dolphin Swim is all booked up in Nassau What are the chances of booking on board? Is it really sold out?

I believe there are always spots left available for those who want to book onboard. Plus, even if there aren't, people cancel so a spot could open up even during the cruise.

 

[DiSnEyFrEaK22]

Welcome to The DIS and the cruise thread. Your "plan of attack" sounds wonderful. We are traveling to Disney in December and will be carving out a couple days to visit Harry Potter and I'm beside myself with excitement!! My DD is 6, and I'm sure she will be bumping into your DD quite a bit at the Clubs! Hopefully, they can pal around a bit!



I believe there are always spots left available for those who want to book onboard. Plus, even if there aren't, people cancel so a spot could open up even during the cruise.

Great thanks! We booked the encounter just to be safe, I read on the boards that sometimes they give you the option to upgrade and swim with the dolphins! We hope they do!

 

[willijen]

Hi Everybody!
I came back to make my second post because I finally have something to report. My TA made our final payments on Monday, and I successfully booked Palo for DH and I on Tuesday night. This is our first cruise with Disney, and we weren't necessarily going to do Palo, but you all seemed so excited about it and my parents insisted. I'm looking forward to it!

So, I have a question, and I feel really silly. When we booked with my TA, we were wait-listed for the main seating, which I was worried about. Our 4-yr-old goes to bed at 8pm, and I have been stressing over getting to the ship and asking to switch to the earlier seating. But now my TA says her confirmation says we're on the main seating! How does that happen? So I just now retrieved my reservation on the DCL website, and I can't find anywhere where it says which seating we have. Where do I find that?

BellaPrincess, did you ever find someone who wanted to sit with you at dinner?

-Jenny

 

[FairyGrandmother]

Welcome to the new additions to our group. There is only a simiformal night on the 4 night. They will be taking pictures so dress so you can get some good pictures of the family. The castmenbers are also good at taking shots with your cameras. We will be all adults in our cabin this time. DGkids are in school. The thing I like best about crusing is that I am free to choose just how much I do and do not want to do (oh and that we are waited on hand and foot) no cooking or cleaning up. Glad to have you and your families with us I am sure that you will have a great time.

 

[bellaprincess98]

BellaPrincess, did you ever find someone who wanted to sit with you at dinner?

-Jenny

Hi Jenny,

No I actually did not find anyone so I requested to have our own table. It works out better for us this way since I dont like to bother anyone with our kids if they are cracky or tired. I wish you lots of luck and I hope you guys have a great time.

P.S- I was thinking, is there anything we could do to recognize each other if we pass each other on the ship? I think it would be really cool to stop and say hello.

 

[Jey12]

Welcome to The DIS and the cruise thread. Your "plan of attack" sounds wonderful. We are traveling to Disney in December and will be carving out a couple days to visit Harry Potter and I'm beside myself with excitement!! My DD is 6, and I'm sure she will be bumping into your DD quite a bit at the Clubs! Hopefully, they can pal around a bit!

I imagine our girls will probably find each other. I never worry about my DD making friends since she's never met a stranger. My main worry is I might need to start an email account for her when we get back to let her continue on some new friendships.

I am so glad I found this site it has been so helpful to answer many of my questions. DH and I went to Cancun for our honeymoon but a cruise is something totally new and exciting. Getting to tour the new Harry Potter area is about as exciting as going on the cruise, not quite but close!

If anyone is looking for me I will surely be napping on what I hear is a rather quiet deck area. I believe it's the 4 deck aft??? On our last day at sea.

 

[pierresgirl]

We will be flying in the day before and staying at the Raddison at the port and then continuing on to the Nick resort for 2 days. We wanted to visit Universal and check out the new Harry Potter attraction before heading home.

Can't wait to set sail!

We stayed at the Nick Hotel after our last cruise and loved it! The rooms are nice and the resort is fabulous, waterpark outstanding! We checked out the Nick At Nite stage show, Spongebob 3 (or4) D.....fun stuff! I attached 2 links of the trip report I did at the time so you can see what I wrote about Nick Hotel, there are a bunch of pics too. I will say, however, the service is NOT Disnified so keep that in mind!

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=28925785&postcount=512

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29008466&postcount=531

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29132569&postcount=540

 

[willijen]

P.S- I was thinking, is there anything we could do to recognize each other if we pass each other on the ship? I think it would be really cool to stop and say hello.

Well, our 4 year old son will be in and out of the club. I'll be the mom that looks like a hot air balloon. I will be just 23 weeks preg. The max they would let me on the ship was 24 weeks and I made it by just days! I hope they believe my doctor's note, because I already look huge.

 

[bellaprincess98]

Well, our 4 year old son will be in and out of the club. I'll be the mom that looks like a hot air balloon. I will be just 23 weeks preg. The max they would let me on the ship was 24 weeks and I made it by just days! I hope they believe my doctor's note, because I already look huge.

Well I hope that we'll run into each other. Good Luck with your pregnancy. I think you are a brave soul to take on a trip like this while pregnant. I know cruises are relaxing but what I'm talking about is the running around before and after a trip.

I hope it all works out. I'm so excited and so are my kids. We're counting 69 days left!

 

[Crystal_27]

Well, our 4 year old son will be in and out of the club. I'll be the mom that looks like a hot air balloon. I will be just 23 weeks preg. The max they would let me on the ship was 24 weeks and I made it by just days! I hope they believe my doctor's note, because I already look huge.

That's awesome that you were able to sneak a cruise in there on your 23rd week! Its going to be awesome!

I hope it all works out. I'm so excited and so are my kids. We're counting 69 days left!

WOO-HOO - it's going by so quick!

 

[willijen]

Thanks, guys. I hope so. My mom and TA are both like, are you sure you want to do this? If I think about it too much, I start getting freaked out. But we planned this trip before I got preggo, and if we don't do it now, I don't know when we'll get to go again. And I really want my little guy to have another fantastic big family vacation before the new baby comes and turns everything upside-down for him. He deserves it. I figure, the cruise should be relaxing enough. My parents are coming too, so they will help take pressure off of me. It's the 3 nights in WDW afterward that has me worried! Seriously, maybe I am crazy...

 

[Crystal_27]

And I really want my little guy to have another fantastic big family vacation before the new baby comes and turns everything upside-down for him. He deserves it.

That is so freakin' cool of you! Way to go, Mom!

 

[JRose48]

Hi All!

We will be on this cruise as well. It will be myself (30), DH (32), and DS (4). We went on a three night last September as well. The cruise last year went so fast I'm looking forward to a 4 night. Wish I could have booked for one of the longer ones, but maybe next time. Last time we stayed on the boat at Nassau, but loved Castaway Cay. I had never been on a cruise before last year. I didn't know what I was missing! Love it!

See you all there!!!

 

[UGAFan0829]

I think this has been mentioned before, but I don't know if it was ever decided upon...Is anyone doing a FE exchange? Initally, I thought it would be too much to worry about--but, I've never done one before, and with this small of a group I think it would be fun!