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FREE Disney Cruise 12/23-28
- Thread starter JeffH
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The attachment to the email I sent listed the itinerary, I resent another as well as another with other excursions to consider...looks like it's too late to book excursions, so if you want to do one you'll have to wait until we are on the ship.
Have you been getting my emails sent to saltydawg@m*********r.com (I censored it)
Have you been getting my emails sent to saltydawg@m*********r.com (I censored it)
My itinerary will most likely be...
Saturday 12/22, sleep in until 11pm (this all could be set back an hour or 2 if I'm still tired)
Leave between 12-1, arriving at the Magic Castle between 3-4
(might bypass and go straight to Magic Kingdom, unless you choose to meet me there)
Head to WDW, park at Polynesian, monorail (if it's working) to Grand Floridian
'Visit' the tree and gingerbread house
Go to Magic Kingdom
Get another set of Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom game cards and play a few more rounds empowering more cards with more power (evil laugh)
As it gets dark, take in the Xmas decorations and tree on main street.
Head back to the room before the parades start.
Go to sleep earlyish
Wake at 7:30ish
Leave for Port Canaveral at 8:30ish to arrive at 9:30ish to get one of the 1st boarding passes.
If you don't have a Disney ticket, but would like to join me Saturday, you could accompany me to the Polynesian, then relax at the Grand Floridian while I putter around the Magic Kingdom then we'd agree to meet back at the Poly at 7pm or so...
Saturday 12/22, sleep in until 11pm (this all could be set back an hour or 2 if I'm still tired)
Leave between 12-1, arriving at the Magic Castle between 3-4
(might bypass and go straight to Magic Kingdom, unless you choose to meet me there)
Head to WDW, park at Polynesian, monorail (if it's working) to Grand Floridian
'Visit' the tree and gingerbread house
Go to Magic Kingdom
Get another set of Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom game cards and play a few more rounds empowering more cards with more power (evil laugh)
As it gets dark, take in the Xmas decorations and tree on main street.
Head back to the room before the parades start.
Go to sleep earlyish
Wake at 7:30ish
Leave for Port Canaveral at 8:30ish to arrive at 9:30ish to get one of the 1st boarding passes.
If you don't have a Disney ticket, but would like to join me Saturday, you could accompany me to the Polynesian, then relax at the Grand Floridian while I putter around the Magic Kingdom then we'd agree to meet back at the Poly at 7pm or so...
I don't accept texting, sorry.
Works good, I get a good night alone away from the cats...
You're only 90minutes away in Tampa, so it's not such a trip and I'll handle the last 60 minutes of the trip.
I cancelled the excursions (although I'm having trouble with the one at Castaway Cay)
I recommend 2 suitcases (at most), I have tags for 4 for when we drop them off.
When we 1st get there we park in the covered parking garage, might need to wait for clearance, enter through security, escalate upstairs to the Disney terminal get our boarding pass, check in, wait for boarding to begin (around 11am). Then they announce us onboard, then we head to the breakfast/lunch buffet, after getting the credit cards arranged at customer services (right there where you get on.). Then after a couple of hours (or less) they announce that we can go to our rooms, and our luggage will arrive shortly thereafter.
There's usually a DVC welcome just before the lifeboat drill where you could win $200-500 onboard credit (there's usually a DVC sales drive every day)...this meeting is usually the least attended (less than a dozen). Ironically, the one that I won on our 4th trip ($300?) was a later and well attended, compared to the 1st one that I was one of about 8...we played some bingo on THAT trip with the winnings (we lost the bingo)
If you decide to try to win, would it be unfair of me to ask for half if you win...since I 'bought the ticket'?
Works good, I get a good night alone away from the cats...
You're only 90minutes away in Tampa, so it's not such a trip and I'll handle the last 60 minutes of the trip.
I cancelled the excursions (although I'm having trouble with the one at Castaway Cay)
I recommend 2 suitcases (at most), I have tags for 4 for when we drop them off.
When we 1st get there we park in the covered parking garage, might need to wait for clearance, enter through security, escalate upstairs to the Disney terminal get our boarding pass, check in, wait for boarding to begin (around 11am). Then they announce us onboard, then we head to the breakfast/lunch buffet, after getting the credit cards arranged at customer services (right there where you get on.). Then after a couple of hours (or less) they announce that we can go to our rooms, and our luggage will arrive shortly thereafter.
There's usually a DVC welcome just before the lifeboat drill where you could win $200-500 onboard credit (there's usually a DVC sales drive every day)...this meeting is usually the least attended (less than a dozen). Ironically, the one that I won on our 4th trip ($300?) was a later and well attended, compared to the 1st one that I was one of about 8...we played some bingo on THAT trip with the winnings (we lost the bingo)
If you decide to try to win, would it be unfair of me to ask for half if you win...since I 'bought the ticket'?
Yup, that's the one, lavender (purple)
Not very fancy, but ac works, hot water works, beds are nice
microwave refrigerator, breakfast (raisin bran, frosted flakes, coffee, toast, donuts)
It's a nice enough place to stay for less than $40/night, with a SuperWalmart and Publix and SuperTarget real close. And back roads right into Disney
Not very fancy, but ac works, hot water works, beds are nice
microwave refrigerator, breakfast (raisin bran, frosted flakes, coffee, toast, donuts)
It's a nice enough place to stay for less than $40/night, with a SuperWalmart and Publix and SuperTarget real close. And back roads right into Disney
http://magicorlando.com/
on 192, just past Poinciana Blvd.
you can turn down Poinciana Blvd. make the 1st right, then sneak in the back of the motel.
or
drive through the light at Poinciana Blvd. and make the next left turn onto the parallel sidestreet and back track back to the Magic Castle...I generally stay in room 112, or there abouts on the 1st floor.
I drive a blue Hyundai Elantra and should be parked right in front of my room.
My cel number is on my emails
I should be getting out of the shower by 8am, to get dressed, packed back up to leave by 8:30am
I peek out once I'm dressed.
on 192, just past Poinciana Blvd.
you can turn down Poinciana Blvd. make the 1st right, then sneak in the back of the motel.
or
drive through the light at Poinciana Blvd. and make the next left turn onto the parallel sidestreet and back track back to the Magic Castle...I generally stay in room 112, or there abouts on the 1st floor.
I drive a blue Hyundai Elantra and should be parked right in front of my room.
My cel number is on my emails
I should be getting out of the shower by 8am, to get dressed, packed back up to leave by 8:30am
I peek out once I'm dressed.
Today, I fixed a filling at the Dentist that fell out on the way to work, then got my eyes checked for the first time this century, and am now sporting a new pair of transition polarized glasses with a brand new prescription, so Ariel should pop right out now...as soon as I recover from the eye drops...
Should be plenty safe, never had a problem in any of the hundreds of times I've stayed there, or felt insecure.
I generally dress in shorts and flowery colorful shirts in the day, then put on slacks and a Disney shirt in the evening (sneakers)...there are no formal nights on this cruise.
it is not required to dress up for dinner, I just do it to look nice.
...and a pirate outfit if you want to dress up for Pirate night.
I generally dress in shorts and flowery colorful shirts in the day, then put on slacks and a Disney shirt in the evening (sneakers)...there are no formal nights on this cruise.
it is not required to dress up for dinner, I just do it to look nice.
...and a pirate outfit if you want to dress up for Pirate night.
Ironically when your cell phone died I was commenting how surprised I was that my cell phone hadn't died and how I believe that they'd recently put a booster in our building.
By the way...one of my jobs here at work is not to put up with any BS like they were trying to give us there with fees on top of fees...
ONE MORE IMPORTANT THING...BE SURE YOUR CELL PHONE IS OFF-LINE WHEN YOU BOARD THE SHIP OTHERWISE YOU MIGHT INCUR HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS OF INTERNATIONAL CELL PHONE CHARGES IF YOU SHOULD GET A TEXT, DOWNLOAD UPDATES (AUTOMATICALLY), GET MAIL...
I HAD TO FIGHT THIS AFTER MY LAST TRIP GETTING FL REPRESENTATIVES INVOLVED IN MY FIGHT WITH VERIZON UNTIL VERIZON AGREED TO DROP MY CHARGES TO A MORE REASONABLE $25.
By the way...one of my jobs here at work is not to put up with any BS like they were trying to give us there with fees on top of fees...
ONE MORE IMPORTANT THING...BE SURE YOUR CELL PHONE IS OFF-LINE WHEN YOU BOARD THE SHIP OTHERWISE YOU MIGHT INCUR HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS OF INTERNATIONAL CELL PHONE CHARGES IF YOU SHOULD GET A TEXT, DOWNLOAD UPDATES (AUTOMATICALLY), GET MAIL...
I HAD TO FIGHT THIS AFTER MY LAST TRIP GETTING FL REPRESENTATIVES INVOLVED IN MY FIGHT WITH VERIZON UNTIL VERIZON AGREED TO DROP MY CHARGES TO A MORE REASONABLE $25.
Uncle Lupe
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This is great that this is working out for you guys. But I did get a chuckle out of this thread. It reads like a bromance is starting! 