bcwife76
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Welcome to my PTR!
As my name suggests, I'm BCWife and we live just outside of Vancouver BC.
In September 2015 my family and I took our first Disney cruise, the repositioning cruise from Vancouver to San Diego on the Disney Wonder. Our kids loved it, I loved it, my dh not so much (but he's a grumpy bugger, as he fully admits too, and pleasing him when it comes to vacation is not always easy!)
I can tell you for sure that he thoroughly enjoyed brunch at Palo,the mixology class we did with our FE group and all the lovely adult-only time we enjoyed while our kids were in the clubs having a blast!
Before we even set foot on the ship I knew that I wanted our second cruise to be to Alaska; both DH and I turn 40 this year (actually I already did, 10 days ago ) so I thought this would be a wonderful way to celebrate.
On our third day on the ship we went down to the future sales desk and booked the last Alaska sailing for 2016, hurrah!
Disembarking in San Diego was an utter farce and a complete nightmare and as we waited for a cab in the 95F heat (and this was October 1st!!) my dh already wanted to cancel the Alaskan cruise. I managed to calm him down, stating that I'm sure San Diego and its disembarkation-****-show was not how it always is when you disembark in other ports and to just enjoy the rest of our vacation (we went up to Disneyland for 3 days post cruise).
Once home we remembered how wonderful the cruise was, how we wished it had been 7 nights and all the bad taste of disembarkation left. And the then the CDN$ began to REALLY plummet.
Our expensive cruise to Alaska (and remember we live near the port so we don't even need flights!!) was becoming more expensive by the day. With no end to the dollar downfall insight we made the difficult decision (it was WAY more painful for me than DH) to change our cruise itinerary.
So at the end of November, we changed our cruise to the January 13 2017 sailing to the Bahamas (also on the Wonder, ironically) out of Galveston TX.
Eventhough we had to then add flights to our trip, it's still costing us significantly less than Alaska. Plus excursions are less expensive. So this meant we actually had money 'left over' and so we booked a second, earlier trip and are going to Maui this coming May!
It's a hard life, I know
As my name suggests, I'm BCWife and we live just outside of Vancouver BC.
In September 2015 my family and I took our first Disney cruise, the repositioning cruise from Vancouver to San Diego on the Disney Wonder. Our kids loved it, I loved it, my dh not so much (but he's a grumpy bugger, as he fully admits too, and pleasing him when it comes to vacation is not always easy!)
I can tell you for sure that he thoroughly enjoyed brunch at Palo,the mixology class we did with our FE group and all the lovely adult-only time we enjoyed while our kids were in the clubs having a blast!
Before we even set foot on the ship I knew that I wanted our second cruise to be to Alaska; both DH and I turn 40 this year (actually I already did, 10 days ago ) so I thought this would be a wonderful way to celebrate.
On our third day on the ship we went down to the future sales desk and booked the last Alaska sailing for 2016, hurrah!
Disembarking in San Diego was an utter farce and a complete nightmare and as we waited for a cab in the 95F heat (and this was October 1st!!) my dh already wanted to cancel the Alaskan cruise. I managed to calm him down, stating that I'm sure San Diego and its disembarkation-****-show was not how it always is when you disembark in other ports and to just enjoy the rest of our vacation (we went up to Disneyland for 3 days post cruise).
Once home we remembered how wonderful the cruise was, how we wished it had been 7 nights and all the bad taste of disembarkation left. And the then the CDN$ began to REALLY plummet.
Our expensive cruise to Alaska (and remember we live near the port so we don't even need flights!!) was becoming more expensive by the day. With no end to the dollar downfall insight we made the difficult decision (it was WAY more painful for me than DH) to change our cruise itinerary.
So at the end of November, we changed our cruise to the January 13 2017 sailing to the Bahamas (also on the Wonder, ironically) out of Galveston TX.
Eventhough we had to then add flights to our trip, it's still costing us significantly less than Alaska. Plus excursions are less expensive. So this meant we actually had money 'left over' and so we booked a second, earlier trip and are going to Maui this coming May!
It's a hard life, I know