Dec 5, 2009 -- now traveling to Tortola

[amyy]

I just booked. It is my first cruise and I am so excited to be going Disney and in December. It will be myself and DB (darling boyfriend?) Marty. We leave this Wed for 7 nights at POR so I am on quite a Disney high today. Did I miss the post about a separate web page? Maybe I misunderstood. Thanks

[NHdisneylover]

Hi Amy and welcome! Now I am no longer the newest poster on this thread

How exciting for you that you are leaving for WDW. We are staying at Port Orleans (French Quarter) when we go next month--we love it there--it is where we spent our honeymoon 12 1/2 years ago (and came home with a "souvinere"--DDMArika is now 11 )

I see you are in Maine. That means we have to be kinda sorta close to one another (we are in central NH). Maybe sometime in the next 16 months we can manage to get together and have a precruise meet

I don't think there is any other website for this thread yet (unless I also missed something). Honestly, in my opinion, it is early for that anyway. As is, THIS thread only sees activity once or twice a week (but I am sure we will all be more chatty as time goes on and the cruise gets closer).

[amyy]

NHdisneylover-Enjoy your time at POFQ. I am hoping we will hit the jazz club there Wed night. Either there or at POR there is live music-I think. This is my 4th time at POR and I can't bring myself to try another resort.

I see you have cruised before. Maybe I will PM you with questions as the months go on. And maybe meet for a shopping trip somewhere too

I will look for info on a website in the future. It is far out. I was surprised to find this board. Surprised but happy.

[farscape]

Hi All,

There will be the four of us joining your merry cruise. I'll be bringing along my mother and her two friends. Me (53), mom Terry (83), Ed & Barb (70ish).

I'll be going on a DCL 3 day cruise this year in October and then a trip to WDW after the cruise. So I probably won't be posting much until I return from that trip.

Looking forward to meeting everyone.

farscape aka Roy

[Tower]

Welcome Roy!

Going to be a great time!

[NHdisneylover]

Welcome Roy. My family leaves in 3 weeks for a 2 week trip to the World and on the Double DIp cruise on the Magic. Soooo, I am not really posting anything until at least after taht trip myself. This thread moves at about the speed of Molasses.

[mommyoftwinfants]

Hi ROY,
welcome aboard!!!!!

[mrstbalt]

Hello and welcome aborad! Enjoy your trip.

[love2pugs]

Hello! This will be our first 7 night cruise. We have only been on a 4 night Disney cruise (2004).

[Inkmahm]

Welcome to all the new people since the last time I posted here, ages ago!

My DH and I just got back from our Alaska cruistour with Princess. We LOVE Alaska almost as much as we love Disney! While there, we heard that Disney has applied for some of the permits to allow their ship(s) into Glacier Bay. Only a few ship are allowed in each day so they are arranged well in advance. I believe this is for 2010 but it could be for 2011. If Disney ever sends one of their 4 ships (2 new ones will be done by then) to Alaska I'd have to seriously consider switching from Princess.

In the meantime, this cruise in Dec 09 is our next scheduled cruise as we do one each calendar year.

I'd also vote for meeting before the sailaway party as the lime green shirts didn't work well last December at all. Way too many people in the crowd and we didn't really have a clue who was who.

[Tower]

Hello Inkmahm!

Welcome back!

I did not know of a 3rd and 4th Disney ship in the works! That would be a great trip during the summer holidays!

I'm sure we'll hear more about that in future Disney emails.

Now that things have gotten back to 'routine', the kids back at school, the Canadian Thanksgiving in one month, and smooth 'sailing' on the horizon as we head toward Christmas (Uh oh, I said the word - yes it's coming fast!) I got to thinking this morning of our upcoming Disney family travels. It's really exciting! I can't wait until the family can get together on the cruise.

Yes, I'm a guy, we get excited too ya know!

[love2pugs]

I hope Disney gets the permits for Alaska. I know I could get my husband to do an Alaska cruise.

[msladyg32]

Hello everyone

I was raised on the island of St.Crois USVI and still have plenty of family members still on the island. I will be going on this trip....I was suppose to go on the Double Dip cruise that would have taken place on September 27, 2008 to October 4, 2008, but thanks to Hurricane Ike, I had to change my plans. Anyway, I planned on going on this particular cruise, so Noo Prablam Maan!!!!

[Inkmahm]

Originally Posted by msladyg32

Hello everyone

I was raised on the island of St.Crois USVI and still have plenty of family members still on the island. I will be going on this trip....I was suppose to go on the Double Dip cruise that would have taken place on September 27, 2008 to October 4, 2008, but thanks to Hurricane Ike, I had to change my plans. Anyway, I planned on going on this particular cruise, so Noo Prablam Maan!!!!

Perfect! We have a local to help us with hints of things to do on the island! Welcome to the group. We're all dying to know more about St.Crois.

[Tower]

Originally Posted by Inkmahm

Perfect! We have a local to help us with hints of things to do on the island! Welcome to the group. We're all dying to know more about St.Crois.

Provided the kids have fun, it's all I need to know.

I've been to St. Croix and did not find it particularly interesting. My real desire was to go to St. Maarten, but those cruises were much more expensive. It won't matter to the kids anyway, so the fun will be all theirs.

Just looking for some nice quiet time with my bride while the 3 kids play on their own.