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From: Laura Gilbreath on 12 Aug 2010 17:04
In article <i3vdno$og3$1(a)rumours.uwaterloo.ca>,
MitchB <sugarandspicefortwo(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>OK, a friend of mine will be embarking on a cruise soon and it's got me
>thinking. I want to start reading about a Disney cruise! What's the best
>site to find out information? What size room we'll need for four people?
>Which is the best ship to go on? Which is the best route?

We went through all of these questions before our first Disney cruise,
too, though it was only two of us and not four.

We ended up doing a 7-night western Caribbean cruise, and I'm really
glad we went for the longer cruise and not a three- or four-night
cruise. As it was it went really fast! If you have to take a shorter
cruise I would say go for the four-night - even then I think you'll feel
like you barely had a chance to be on board before the cruise was over!

For the route - it really depends on what you're interested in and want
to see. I enjoyed the ports on our western cruise more than I
think I would have enjoyed the Bahamas ports that are on the eastern
Caribbean itinerary, but I'd still like to do an eastern Caribbean
cruise sometime in the future - maybe when the Fantasy comes on-line.
I think a lot of people who have cruised before don't bother to
get off at Nassau any more. And really, there is SO much to do on
board the ship that spending a "port day" on board would actually
be a lot of fun.

We were VERY happy with our Category 9 outside stateroom on deck 2.
Though ours would only sleep 3 and not four. I didn't mind not having a
veranda - we had a veranda for our Med cruise back in May (got a free
upgrade), and it was nice, but I was just as happy in the one without.
Now, we did have a little bit larger stateroom, too, which would have
slept four instead of three. For a family I think you would appreciate
the extra room, though. Storing clothes for four people would be a
challenge - we had sufficient room for just two of us, but not a whole
lot of room left, so with four it would have had to be a lot more
creative!

I've only been on the Disney Magic, but I think both of the ships are
nice (and starting next year the Dream will be an option!), so it's not
like you're going to find that one ship is a luxury liner and the other
is a rusty old tub. :-) The amenities and services are equivalent - I
think the main difference between the Magic and the Wonder is that the
third restaurant is called Triton's rather than Lumiere's.

We got a lot of great information from the Passporter Disney Cruise
book. I found it to be very readable, informative, and pretty accurate
and up-to-date.

I did a whole series of blogs on our first Disney cruise:
The entire thread, including what lead up to our going, is here:
http://land.allears.net/blogs/lauragilbreath/disney_cruise_line/

Part 1 of the cruise itself is here:
http://land.allears.net/blogs/lauragilbreath/2009/01/disney_cruisin_day_3_1.html
- we spent two days at WDW prior, so it says Day 3 because it's Day 3
of the trip but only day 1 of the cruise. A link to the next day's blog
is at the bottom of each blog entry and in the blue box on the right
side.

Hope that helps - we had a FABULOUS time on our cruise - so much so that
while on board (that was January 2009) we scheduled the Med cruise
that we took in May, and we are also going on the first Alaska cruise
next May! Would love to squeeze in a Mexican Riviera cruise, since
we don't have to travel far for that, but we have neither unlimited
money nor unlimited vacation time. Sigh. Actually my husband
really wanted to do a Disney Dream cruise next year - but same
problem. So we'll plan to do the Fantasy in 2012 instead.

Laura
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From: Keane on 13 Aug 2010 06:30
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:02:20 -0400, "MitchB"
<sugarandspicefortwo(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>"Keane" <keane(a)keanespics.com> wrote in message
>news:98i866l8k30b3ju8424vheu9oim634u0qr(a)4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:03:04 -0400, "MitchB"
>> <sugarandspicefortwo(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>OK, a friend of mine will be embarking on a cruise soon and it's got me
>>>thinking. I want to start reading about a Disney cruise! What's the best
>>>site to find out information? What size room we'll need for four people?
>>>Which is the best ship to go on? Which is the best route?
>>>
>>>Help!
>>>Michelle
>>
>> I don't know, but I understand it's a lot cheaper if you set yourself
>> adrift at sea and get rescued by DCL.
>>
>> Just trying to be helpful...
>>
>
>Helpful as a screen door in a submarine Keane - knew I could count on you!
>;)
>
>Michelle

My pleasure. I always try to be helpful.

(Those screendoors'll keep the skeeters out. They're bad this
year. Can you imagine mosquitoes in a submarine?)

Keane
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One of them is this, They have the power to make a wish come true...
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From: MitchB on 13 Aug 2010 08:30
As always Laura, you're a wealth of information!! Thanks for those links!
I was thinking of picking up the DCL Passporter - sounds like I should.

Michelle


"Laura Gilbreath" <lgil(a)REMOVETHISlgil.net> wrote in message
news:i41nk1$rfl$1(a)reader1.panix.com...
> In article <i3vdno$og3$1(a)rumours.uwaterloo.ca>,
> MitchB <sugarandspicefortwo(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>OK, a friend of mine will be embarking on a cruise soon and it's got me
>>thinking. I want to start reading about a Disney cruise! What's the best
>>site to find out information? What size room we'll need for four people?
>>Which is the best ship to go on? Which is the best route?
>
> We went through all of these questions before our first Disney cruise,
> too, though it was only two of us and not four.
>
> We ended up doing a 7-night western Caribbean cruise, and I'm really
> glad we went for the longer cruise and not a three- or four-night
> cruise. As it was it went really fast! If you have to take a shorter
> cruise I would say go for the four-night - even then I think you'll feel
> like you barely had a chance to be on board before the cruise was over!
>
> For the route - it really depends on what you're interested in and want
> to see. I enjoyed the ports on our western cruise more than I
> think I would have enjoyed the Bahamas ports that are on the eastern
> Caribbean itinerary, but I'd still like to do an eastern Caribbean
> cruise sometime in the future - maybe when the Fantasy comes on-line.
> I think a lot of people who have cruised before don't bother to
> get off at Nassau any more. And really, there is SO much to do on
> board the ship that spending a "port day" on board would actually
> be a lot of fun.
>
> We were VERY happy with our Category 9 outside stateroom on deck 2.
> Though ours would only sleep 3 and not four. I didn't mind not having a
> veranda - we had a veranda for our Med cruise back in May (got a free
> upgrade), and it was nice, but I was just as happy in the one without.
> Now, we did have a little bit larger stateroom, too, which would have
> slept four instead of three. For a family I think you would appreciate
> the extra room, though. Storing clothes for four people would be a
> challenge - we had sufficient room for just two of us, but not a whole
> lot of room left, so with four it would have had to be a lot more
> creative!
>
> I've only been on the Disney Magic, but I think both of the ships are
> nice (and starting next year the Dream will be an option!), so it's not
> like you're going to find that one ship is a luxury liner and the other
> is a rusty old tub. :-) The amenities and services are equivalent - I
> think the main difference between the Magic and the Wonder is that the
> third restaurant is called Triton's rather than Lumiere's.
>
> We got a lot of great information from the Passporter Disney Cruise
> book. I found it to be very readable, informative, and pretty accurate
> and up-to-date.
>
> I did a whole series of blogs on our first Disney cruise:
> The entire thread, including what lead up to our going, is here:
> http://land.allears.net/blogs/lauragilbreath/disney_cruise_line/
>
> Part 1 of the cruise itself is here:
> http://land.allears.net/blogs/lauragilbreath/2009/01/disney_cruisin_day_3_1.html
> - we spent two days at WDW prior, so it says Day 3 because it's Day 3
> of the trip but only day 1 of the cruise. A link to the next day's blog
> is at the bottom of each blog entry and in the blue box on the right
> side.
>
> Hope that helps - we had a FABULOUS time on our cruise - so much so that
> while on board (that was January 2009) we scheduled the Med cruise
> that we took in May, and we are also going on the first Alaska cruise
> next May! Would love to squeeze in a Mexican Riviera cruise, since
> we don't have to travel far for that, but we have neither unlimited
> money nor unlimited vacation time. Sigh. Actually my husband
> really wanted to do a Disney Dream cruise next year - but same
> problem. So we'll plan to do the Fantasy in 2012 instead.
>
> Laura
> **************************************************************************
> Email: lgil at lgil dot net or remove "REMOVETHIS" from "Reply to"
> address.
>
> Visit Tigger's Vacation Page:
> http://www.travelswithtigger.com

From: Rudeney on 13 Aug 2010 10:41
On 8/12/2010 4:04 PM, Laura Gilbreath wrote:
>
> We went through all of these questions before our first Disney cruise,
> too, though it was only two of us and not four.
>
> We ended up doing a 7-night western Caribbean cruise, and I'm really
> glad we went for the longer cruise and not a three- or four-night
> cruise. As it was it went really fast! If you have to take a shorter
> cruise I would say go for the four-night - even then I think you'll feel
> like you barely had a chance to be on board before the cruise was over!

Laura is completely on target here. Our first cruise was a 4-night on
DCL, and we had originally planned a 3-night. We did this because we
were not sure how Jan would handle it. She gets seasick looking at a
glass of water. We had to switch dates and that meant a 4-night
schedule. As it turned out, there was no seasickness and everyone
wanted it to last longer. Our next cruise was a 7-night on RCCL and
that was just perfect.

> For the route - it really depends on what you're interested in and want
> to see. I enjoyed the ports on our western cruise more than I
> think I would have enjoyed the Bahamas ports that are on the eastern
> Caribbean itinerary, but I'd still like to do an eastern Caribbean
> cruise sometime in the future - maybe when the Fantasy comes on-line.

We did eastern on DCL and western on RCCL. By far, the western route
ports are much better. I don;t care anything for Nassau or Jamaica.
Cozumel, the VI's and Caymans are all nice.

> I think a lot of people who have cruised before don't bother to
> get off at Nassau any more. And really, there is SO much to do on
> board the ship that spending a "port day" on board would actually
> be a lot of fun.

Yes, we did this on RCCL at their "private beach" in Haiti. The ship
was quiet and it was very relaxing. Now, on DCL, don't skip Castaway
Cay! It's worth the cruise just to go there.

> We were VERY happy with our Category 9 outside stateroom on deck 2.
> Though ours would only sleep 3 and not four. I didn't mind not having a
> veranda - we had a veranda for our Med cruise back in May (got a free
> upgrade), and it was nice, but I was just as happy in the one without.
> Now, we did have a little bit larger stateroom, too, which would have
> slept four instead of three. For a family I think you would appreciate
> the extra room, though. Storing clothes for four people would be a
> challenge - we had sufficient room for just two of us, but not a whole
> lot of room left, so with four it would have had to be a lot more
> creative!

Unfortunately, when we switch from a 3-night cruise over spring break to
a 4-night cruise over Labor Day, the price went down drastically. It
was unfortunate because we were able to upgrade to a category 3
one-bedroom suite for the same price as our category 4/5 and it totally
spoiled us! Having a 30-foot wide veranda and a real bathroom and
bedroom was unbelievable. The people who recommend not wasting money on
the stateroom are the ones who stay in a broom closet int he bowels of
the ship. We spent time in our room every day enjoying the view and
still did everythign on board that we wanted to.

> We got a lot of great information from the Passporter Disney Cruise
> book. I found it to be very readable, informative, and pretty accurate
> and up-to-date.

Yes, Passporter for DCL is highly recommended.

I have photos and video here:

http://mickeypics.com/dcl06

And TR's here:


Planning:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.disney.parks/msg/55503de3cc6d7422

Day 1:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.disney.parks/msg/b06fd2f2a352bc64

Day 2:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.disney.parks/msg/6ec7ae9df58f3412

Day 3:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.disney.parks/msg/6a71702834962381

Day 4:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.disney.parks/msg/cc20558572c48bb0

Day 5:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.disney.parks/msg/545387ff6579abe4

Day 6:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.disney.parks/msg/868b45e09f260bd7











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From: Paul on 13 Aug 2010 11:18
Rudeney <rudeney(a)mickeypics.com> wrote in
news:i43lo0$d1l$1(a)rudeney.motzarella.org:

> Unfortunately, when we switch from a 3-night cruise over spring
> break to a 4-night cruise over Labor Day, the price went down
> drastically. It was unfortunate because we were able to upgrade
> to a category 3 one-bedroom suite for the same price as our
> category 4/5 and it totally spoiled us! Having a 30-foot wide
> veranda and a real bathroom and bedroom was unbelievable. The
> people who recommend not wasting money on the stateroom are the
> ones who stay in a broom closet int he bowels of the ship. We
> spent time in our room every day enjoying the view and still did
> everythign on board that we wanted to.

We heard about that view from the veranda....

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