Was "Live" now great memories from the 2006 DVC Member Cruise

[lunsusie]

Bon voyage! Wishing you fair winds and calm seas. Have a WONDERful cruise!

 

[LOVETHATMOUSE]

I have a bunch of friends on the cruise. We weren't DVC owners until this June, so we couldn't go. Hoping that we will be able to make next years and join in the fun. Bon Voyage and have a GREAT time!!!!

 

[scrappy910]

I was talking to my sister (who is on the ship) as it was sailing past the camera. She said they are already having a great time and had goodies on their bed upon arrival. CM told them there was a bunch more stuff to come. My sister said she had taken an extra suitcase, but that it is already full from just the items they got upon arrival.

On a sad note, they were told that Ducky would not be on the ship due to a family emergency. Needless to say the cruisers are disappointed but also concerned about Ducky.

Didn't get to talk much since they were off to dinner. Sure wish we could have gone, but since we were on the 11 day it was just too much time to be away from work (they might find out they could actually do without me)

Carol

 

[tksbaskets]

Hi all!
Hope you have a wonderful cruise. What goodies were waiting for you??? Walt and I are taking the DVC plunge in January so we hope his school schedule cooperates for a member cruise soon.

Mary, any fun Bear pictures yet? I'd love to see what is in the circle journals. What a great idea.

Living vicariously through my fellow DISers....42 degrees and raining here in Michigan.

Teresa

 

[mikayla73]

Oh that looks like so much fun! I really hope we get to go on the Members Cruise next year! Have fun everyone!

signed - cold and windy in STL

 

[nezy]

Thanks for posting those of pix os the Wonder as she set sail.

Can't wait to hear about the cruise. I still have things from last years' member cruise I don't know where to put! 5 lithos, 5 alarm clocks, etc.

Anyway, thanks for the link Mikayla!

 

[bunnymkc]

Just wanted to say hi and wish you all a great cruise, wish I was with you all please let us all know everything that happens on this cruise as I really wanted to go with you all but couldn't make it this year. heres hoping we meet again next year. have fun and please try to keep us posted on all the goodies and happenings. marianne

 

[rkdahl]

Hi All!

Just thought I'd share a few moments from our 1st day on the DVC Member Cruise! We set sail on a beautiful sunny and warm Florida day. We're heading to Castaway Cay and dock there tomorrow mid-morning. The check-in and boarding went smooth. there were DVC Member signs everywhere and the ever present "Welcme Home" from cruise staff.

After boarding about 11:00am my wife and I made our way to the food which was wonderful as usual. The cabins were opened up at 1:30pom and we found a bed full of various DVC and Castaway Club gifts. I can't think of them all just now but there were special pins, colorful Mickey boxes with several suprises in them, a Mickey pin holder, several beach and carry bags, special DVC lanyards with 15th anniversary pins on them and other things that we can get more detail on later.

We have several special guests on board including Roy Disney! My wife and I had dinner at Palo's tonight and we saw Jim Lewis and several other Disney staff members come in to eat. As we left we walked by their table and Roy Disney was sitting at the head of the table with about 12 Disney employees!

We're enroute right now to Castaway Key and are due to arrive there mid morning Monday. We received a DVC cruise guide that details special meetings, entertainment, and other DVC events that are going on the next several days. More on these later.

When we got back to our room tonight we had 2 small circular boxes that each had a special 15th anniversary DVC pin. A very nice pin. I think this is the 3rd pin we have received so far. Each of them nice and unique!

So...that's all from this reporter for now. More later as things progress!

 

[2angelsinheaven]

Very cool about the pins, I love to see photos when you guys get back as we are big into pins. Thanks for sharing your cruise with us.

 

[Snoopygirl]

Wow!!! Sounds great already!! Please share pics of all the goodies you get.....so jealous!!! We just became DVC members and this sounds like so much fun! Hopefully one day we'll be able to go too.

Have FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[chip&dale&fun]

Looks like you are off to a great start -- enjoy the cruise.....

 

[WDWLVR]

Good morning everyone!

Thanks for Curt for allowing me to use his laptop to change the thread title in the terminal yesterday.

Thanks to Andy for the great shots!

Our day yesterday started at 8:30 over at Beach Club. That's where those of us on the party bus met up. The bus showed up right on time at 9 am and after loading it up we were on our way. A great big thank you to our bus driver Thomas who really helped make it great. Tina and Tim brought 10 dozen Krispy Kreme donuts and a number of cases of bottled water! John and Gary did a great job of making sure everyone had everything they needed for the ride and acted as our flight attendants. Jeff had brought along the video he made of last years Member Cruise and we watched that on the way over to the port!

Got to the port a little after 10. Drop off was smooth and since we had so many left over donuts and water we gave those to the porters who were quite happy!

Got boarding #3 and met up with the rest of the DIS gang over on the couches. Thanks to Amy for taking the sign over to the port for us. A great time to mix and mingle.

I got a chance to meet Darlene in the terminal. Hi Darlene - and thanks!

Next up boarding! We were soon walking into the Atrium of the beautiful Disney Wonder. We bypassed the instructions to go to Parrot Cay and instead headed up to eat at Beach Blanket. Hey I'm from the North and anytime I can eat outside in late October I'm going for it. Outside at Beach Blanket seemed to be the choice for many DISers and were soon joined by a lot of the group.

After that it was a quick walk around to see the improvements made in drydock. Love the Dumbotron, the waterfalls at the adult pool look cool. Haven't seen the spa but heard it was great. One disappointment is they took out the computer terminals at Cove Cafe. So unless they are hiding them somewhere else there is no adult only internet area. Since it is early morning I'm the only one at the internet cafe right now but I used to love to post from Cove Cafe.

We head to our rooms and find that DVC has put up wipe-off boards on the doors. Cool (and yet another idea I think stolen from the DIS groups as one of the gifts from Gail and Cindy were small wipe-off boards with our group logo on it).

Inside was our Castaway Club gifts and two big Mickey head boxes. Very cute. Inside that was a blue 15th anniversary hat, blue 15th anniversary bag, a cute Mickey statue holding a cork board (to display pins) and a Giant 15th anniversary pin. Very cool!

Special Member Cruise merchandise was available for purchase in Mickey's Mates including polo shirts, t-shirts, luggage, and a special pin. Mark went before dinner and got the polo shirts and t-shirts. When I went back after dinner to see about the pin (he said the line for that was huge) it was choas in there. I really liked the way they handled it last year better with being able to pre-order.

Went to dinner and found we take up one whole side of Parrot Cay. Our group starts right when you walk in the door and ended by the back wall. We have a great group at our table. Chris & Mike from MI, Mary from MI, Karen from VA, and Annmarie and Tom from MA.

Julie and Matt our soon to be wed couple got invited up to the Walt Suite for drinks and got to meet Roy Disney!

After dinner I joined a fun group of DISers up on deck 9 to watch the World Series on the Dumbotron. Tigers were winning when I left a little after 10.

That's it for day 1. We are headed to Castaway Cay!

More later!

 

[Frankiesmom]

Thanks for taking the time during your vacation to keep us all informed! Hope you all have a great day at CC! We are truly hoping we can make it to nextyears cruise! Angel

 

[goofyforwdw]

Told my self I was not going to check out this thread Why torture myself RIGHT Well here I am So happy that you guys are having a great time but BOY OH BOY I wish I was there Thanks so much for taking the time to keep us landlubbers up to date Have a great time
Brenda

 

[cherylp3]

Back from On the nose - Congrats to Mark and Mary on their win! They won a 2bdr interval vacation for a week!! Also those of us in the Sleepy section won a special character meet and greet!!

 

[ohiominnie]

Back from On the nose - Congrats to Mark and Mary on their win! They won a 2bdr interval vacation for a week!! Also those of us in the Sleepy section won a special character meet and greet!!

WOWIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a cruise for Mark and Mary!!!! And here I didn't think the double scoop cruise could be beat (with Mark's boss paying the expenses!!)

But a free interval vacation AND a free smoothie? I dunno, this ranks right up there with the other one!!! (and it's only MONDAY!)

Btw, in case you need help filling that other bedroom, Smoothie son will volunteer to go with you!

 

[U2FanHfx]

Wow! It looks like you are all having such a great time!

We hope to go next year and are just waiting for the date announcement! We became members too late to know anything about this type of event. Currently we are booked on the Magic for the 13th of October, by we may just cancel that to join the DVC cruise. That or maybe we will do both depending on the tax return

Have a great time!

CJM

 

[RachelTori]

Back from On the nose - Congrats to Mark and Mary on their win! They won a 2bdr interval vacation for a week!! Also those of us in the Sleepy section won a special character meet and greet!!

AWESOME!!! Congrats Mark & Mary!!!

 

[cobbler]

Oh my gosh it sounds like you all are having a great time.

I sooo have to go on a member cruise next year.

Have a great rest of trip!!!!

 

[JennL]

For those on the DVC Cruise and who see DuckyLucky say hi to him from JennL!

Got a call on the way out and heard the "horn" sounded wonderful.