Wonder 9/18 day1..awesome upgrade, but...

[ez]

Cast:2 families of 4 with 3 -19 year olds,one 9 year old
This was our first cruise, and I'm delighted to say we were upgraded....we booked 4 category 11 rooms and were upgraded to 4 category 7 navigator veranda rooms, all next to each other, 5134-5140. We had 2 people per room, and I absolutely fell in love with these rooms, I don't know how we got so lucky but they were incredible. We arrived at the cape by 11:30, check in was no lines, and we had to wait like 10 minutes to board. The ship is immaculate and beautiful, we went to the beach blanket buffet which was very good (big shrimp) and then hung out by the pools which were almost empty for a long time. Our friends got on the ship about an hour after us. Signed my 9 year old up for the kids club, but she only spent 20 min. there the whole trip. It did appear well run, though. We had early dinner at Tritons, and this is where the bad part of the day begins. Can you say, seasick????I think because of the hurricane. the boat was really, seriously, rocking and vibrating. I was wondering how I would survive 3 nights of this. So we didn't really get to enjoy our waitstaff or Tritons. Took DD to bingo and I could bearly keep it together. Luckily dd was fine. Anyway, the first night was kinda a bust, but I think around midnight everything finally got calm. Maybe there was hope for this trip yet!
(sorry, I can't fix my countdown clock
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[zalansky]

Posting this here in case you don't get my message....
can you tell me when you got the upgrade? Did DCL call you beforehand or dod you get the upgrade when you arrived at the port? We have a Cat. 11 booked for 09/28 but are praying for an upgrade too!

 

[ez]

thru expedia, by phone, on July 4th. That meant no rooms were available to choose from at that time, and it said you would get at least that category or be upgraded. About a month or so later, I called expedia, and asked them to call Disney to see if we had been assigned room numbers yet. They told me we had, and told me those #'s on the phone, but I had nothing in writing so I was trying not to get my hopes up too high, just in case. We received our docs 12 days before the cruise, and the category 7 room #'s were on them, and those did, indeed, turn out to be our rooms. Good luck, I hope you get an upgrade too!

 

[Mjasp]

EZ...To delete your countdown timer. click on "The DIS discussion forum" on the top of this page, then to User CP, then to edit profile. Scroll down to signature and then in the box on the right, highlight all the jibberish computer talk and then hit your delete button on your computer. Go to the bottom of the page and save. Then you can put in a new countdown timer.

Joanna