Conorama
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 18, 2012
Greetings!
Having just finished (or so it seems) my belated last TR, I have committed to getting this one done before school starts here in the North, on September 1st. Here we go!
First - who are we?
We are a family of 3: Me, DH, and Conor, now 7, who hail from medium-sized-city Ontario, Canada. We love to travel, but we do not love Disney.
(Here we pause for dramatic effect.)
We (still) have not been to any Disney worlds or lands or related parks or resorts. We (still) have not seen Frozen - in fact, we are firmly anti-Frozen (ducking!). Conor (still) does not watch Disney movies willingly (his choice) with a few rare exceptions. There is a pretty hard & fast loathing for all Disney princesses firmly entrenched in the boy.
However, we were talked into DCL 2.5 years ago by a good friend, who knows us well, and thought that we could avoid the Disney that we don't like, but still have a great trip - so we embarked on the Fantasy back in 2013.
We enjoyed it (http://www.disboards.com/threads/dc...b-fantasy-jan-26-feb-3-2013-all-done.3063246/), but we didn't book again on board. We thought we were done.
(Can't seem to make clever names for my links tonight - apologies!)
Through fate, or evil machinations, we ended up on a 4-night Dream cruise in May 2015, with the friend who is now known as the Disney Dealer. Then, we were sucked into a Canadian residents discount when we were unable to find another vacation to suit us for our "escape Canadian winter for one week, PLEASE" 2015 vacation, so we hit up the Magic in January 2015. You can read about those here in a 2-for-1 TR:
http://disboards.com/threads/eating-our-words--the-undisney-family-back-on-dcl--4-night-dream--may-2014-with-bonus-tr.3363851/
And, back in May 2014, we were on-board when the Alaskan trips were released, so DH booked us in on the Wonder. We weren't sure if we were going to go, but figured we could cope with the (totally refundable) deposit, and then we would see how things went.
When we booked the Magic, I realized that if we did hit up Alaska on the Wonder, we would have, completely unintentionally, completed a Grand Slam ... in 4 cruises. I had a few moments of wondering where my sanity had gone... but well, here we are, sanity, I believe, intact.
And thus, I shall report on our trip - which was SPECTACULAR, mostly due to Alaska, and (I will give credit where due) somewhat to Disney.
Here we go - with Conor, in front of the Alaska sign.
It will remain to be seen whether we booked again on board....
Having just finished (or so it seems) my belated last TR, I have committed to getting this one done before school starts here in the North, on September 1st. Here we go!
First - who are we?
We are a family of 3: Me, DH, and Conor, now 7, who hail from medium-sized-city Ontario, Canada. We love to travel, but we do not love Disney.
(Here we pause for dramatic effect.)
We (still) have not been to any Disney worlds or lands or related parks or resorts. We (still) have not seen Frozen - in fact, we are firmly anti-Frozen (ducking!). Conor (still) does not watch Disney movies willingly (his choice) with a few rare exceptions. There is a pretty hard & fast loathing for all Disney princesses firmly entrenched in the boy.
However, we were talked into DCL 2.5 years ago by a good friend, who knows us well, and thought that we could avoid the Disney that we don't like, but still have a great trip - so we embarked on the Fantasy back in 2013.
We enjoyed it (http://www.disboards.com/threads/dc...b-fantasy-jan-26-feb-3-2013-all-done.3063246/), but we didn't book again on board. We thought we were done.
(Can't seem to make clever names for my links tonight - apologies!)
Through fate, or evil machinations, we ended up on a 4-night Dream cruise in May 2015, with the friend who is now known as the Disney Dealer. Then, we were sucked into a Canadian residents discount when we were unable to find another vacation to suit us for our "escape Canadian winter for one week, PLEASE" 2015 vacation, so we hit up the Magic in January 2015. You can read about those here in a 2-for-1 TR:
http://disboards.com/threads/eating-our-words--the-undisney-family-back-on-dcl--4-night-dream--may-2014-with-bonus-tr.3363851/
And, back in May 2014, we were on-board when the Alaskan trips were released, so DH booked us in on the Wonder. We weren't sure if we were going to go, but figured we could cope with the (totally refundable) deposit, and then we would see how things went.
When we booked the Magic, I realized that if we did hit up Alaska on the Wonder, we would have, completely unintentionally, completed a Grand Slam ... in 4 cruises. I had a few moments of wondering where my sanity had gone... but well, here we are, sanity, I believe, intact.
And thus, I shall report on our trip - which was SPECTACULAR, mostly due to Alaska, and (I will give credit where due) somewhat to Disney.
Here we go - with Conor, in front of the Alaska sign.
It will remain to be seen whether we booked again on board....
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