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A DREAM is a wish your heart makes – a First-time Cruise pre-trip report complete On the cruise !
Dates:
of entire trip – Wednesday, October 9, 2013 – Saturday, October 19, 2013
Cruise departs on Sunday, October 13, 2013 for 4 nights in the Bahamas arriving back in port on Thursday, October 17, 2013
Getting There:
driving from St. Louis area! This should be interesting with the younger cast going
Accommodations:
before cruise – standard studio at AKV–Kidani
After cruise – savanna view studio at AKV-Kidani with a current waitlist at BLT
During cruise - Category 07A - Deluxe Oceanview Stateroom with Navigator's Verandah (this apparently has a partially obstructed view, but was a little cheaper too than the regular navigator verandah so we’ll see how it works out)
Cast:
Me, Kelly (33 at trip time) – planner extraordinaire! First time cruiser!
DH, Mike (33 at trip time) – direction expert! First time cruiser!
DS(1), Dylan (will turn 6 the week before we leave) – water slide lover & Best Big Brother! First time cruiser!
DS(2), Lukas (will turn 3 just 2 weeks before we leave) – hopes to be potty trained to go down the slide and in the kid’s clubs with his big brother. First time cruiser! (see a theme there)
Guest appearances by famous PPs!
Cam (Cam22) & her DH Luke – they’ll be visiting the world before we leave for the cruise for F&WF and we hope we can meet up with them at some point before they head back home on the 12th
Melissa (honeybee723), her DH Chad & DD Hope – they’re coming on the cruise with us and we’re all going to MNSSHP the day we get off the ship!
Reason for Trip:
You read the part about First Time Cruisers right?! Well, why not?! We decided now was the time. Dylan will start kindergarten in August and he has fall break in October (originally I booked the week before thinking that’s when break would be, but they pushed it back a week and luckily I was able to rearrange everything just back a week). He will miss one day, but I think he’ll manage without it. We were hoping to save up some of our DVC points, but you can see by where we’re staying before & after that didn’t happen. We’re all so excited to be going on the “big Disney boat” as the boys call it.
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Signing on now! Can't wait to hear all about it - especially now that it's 2 of you (you and Melissa)! You will LOVE cruising with Disney, and wonder why it took you so long!
I'm so excited for you all! It's fantastic that you'll be sailing with Melissa and her family and meeting up with Cam and Luke before the cruise. My first cruise I did a before and after stay at WDW and loved doing it that way. Good luck with the potty training!
Hooray!!! You've started this already! I think if I'm going to do a PTR/TR, I'll probably get started about a month before we leave, so right now I'm just going to study along with you. It's so funny about the kid's ages because Hope will be smack in the middle of the boys. For some reason I thought Dylan was still going to be 5, but I was off by a week. They can all watch out for each other in the clubs.
YAY!! You started your new PTR!! I can't wait to read all about your plans. DH and I did a Disney Cruise for our honeymoon in 2007 and loved it. Now if I could just get him agree to do another one when the boys are older.
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You've started this already! I think if I'm going to do a PTR/TR, I'll probably get started about a month before we leave, so right now I'm just going to study along with you. 
They can all watch out for each other in the clubs.
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