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Original Planned Vacaton- 10 Mediterranean Cruise with a few days at Disneyland Paris before hand and a ride on the High Speed train - September 2010.
Well It started back in May 2008. My best friend, the Evil Queen(from now on known as EQ) said that she was planning a 10 Day Mediterranean Cruise for September 2010 and did I want to go along? Well you don't ask this Maleficent (Me) more than once, I jumped on the chance. It would be just us 2 BFF without my DH and DD,DS for this special 40th birthday celebration for the EQ, since I am only 35.
Well she scheduled the trip and put down the $800 dollar deposit. Then she sat down and started calculating and calculating some more...okay so we down grade from category 5 to category 10. Then some more calculating...do we really need to do Disneyland Paris beforehand? Nope...so more calculating.
Finally after months of debates and much sweating on her part. That was it...I'd tried for months to talk her into something simpler and closer to home, near the USA of course. I'm an official international traveller, I have a passport. Spent a summer in Europe touring during my high school years and I've travelled in France, Spain, Belgium, and Great Britain for my job. Never been to Mexico or the Caribbean though and have absolutely never been on a cruise ship. What if my motion issues are just multiplied on a cruise ship?
So after much talking and pleading on my part. She agrees!! So she changes our original plans (above) to:
4 Nights Bahamas Cruise with 5 Nights Land, nice price with just a little bit left owed on it by January 5, 2010 since we'd paid down on the Med cruise. Big money saved, were talking almost $7,000 dollars.
So we are going to the Bahamas and Disney. Yup the Vacation Villains are going back to Disney. Considering we didn't travel at all in 2008 or 2009...due to my DH being laid off and the same for the EQ, it's now time. As soon as that DH is back up and working again, he and the kids can come along...but this one is just for the Girls, Vacation Villian girls that is.
Planned Trip:
3-19-2009 Depart Cincinnati Ohio at 8:50 am and Arrive MCO at 11:01 AM.
Head to Downtown Disney and then check in at Pop Century later on in the day.
3-20-2009 Magic Kingdom on new Annual Passes we will purchase and activate on this day.
3-21-2009 Depart for Port Canaveral and our departur on Disney Wonder
3-22-2009 Nassau, Bahamas and the Atlantis Paradise Island excursion.
3-23-2009 Castaway Cay
3-24-2009 Day at Sea
3-25-2009 Arrive back at Port Canaveral, check back in to Pop Century and spend the evening at Disney Studios.
3-26-2009 Epcot
3-27-2009 Animal Kingdom
3-28-2009 Head back to dreaded Cincinnati, dragging a kicking and screaming Evil Queen behind me all the way
Sounds like fun doesn't it. Well of course it's fun! Throw some natural evilness in that is required of a trip by the Vacation Villians and we'll have a great time! Cackling and all. So stay tuned as we plan and plot all the evilness involved in a wonderful Land/Sea Cruise.
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Cheeser. Maleficent of the Vacation Villians!!!
Partying with the Parrs December 5, 2015:
Last edited by Cheeser; 09-28-2009 at 06:41 PM..
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Wow, what a great trip you have planned. Would have been nice to go to Paris & the Med, but it'll still be wonderful, or is that evil, since you're the Vacation Villains?
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Tina
2009 Feb Disneyland - offsite
2007 Aug WDW - offsite
2005 June DCL West Coast/DL & DCA
2002 April Disneyland - offsite
2000 September WDW/DCL - CBR/Wonder
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The EQ just asked me what excursions we were going to do in Cozumel. I was like "What Mexico?".
Seems she thought we were stopping in Mexico at some point on our 4 day cruise.
She booked the trip, should I worry about her Sanity or just the fact that she turned 39 today?
Senility at 39...who'd have thought it!!!
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Cheeser. Maleficent of the Vacation Villians!!!
Partying with the Parrs December 5, 2015:
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Okay, so I'm reading my newly arrived Passporter Disney Cruise line and I see that it might be cheaper to go on our cruise in January or February instead of March 2009 since that appears to be Spring Break for some schools.
So...call the Evil Queen...she's at home sick with an ear infection...which is almost ironic because I was home sick last Monday with an ear infection....don't think we're playing sick do ya???
Well...so we look...and we changed our reservations again...did I say again.
Yup. Saved $1,000 dollars by leaving two months early...and did I say we were leaving two months early!!!
We leave January 1,2010 for our flight to Walt Disney World, spend that afternoon/evening and the following day at Walt Disney World Pop Century.
Then board the Disney Wonder on January 3rd for our magnificent 4 day Bahamas Cruise.
So....
January 1
Fly to Orlando, Check in at Pop, do DTD.
January 2
Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom split day...doing our favorites at both...including a dole whip for me
January 3
Port Canaveral to board the Disney Wonder for Vacation Villains 1st Cruise
January 4
Nassau Bahamas Atlantis Paradise Island Excursion
January 5
Castaway Cay
Stingray Excursion with plenty of beach time
January 6
At Sea, time for a spa relaxation package
January 7
Dock at Port Canaveral and spend some more time at DTD
January 8
Epcot and Disney Studios split day with big Fantasmic package finale.
January 9
Flight home
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Cheeser. Maleficent of the Vacation Villians!!!
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Woo Hoo! $1000 to spend on the cruise! Well, my DH would say that it's not really extra money, just not money spent. But he's a party pooper!
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Tina
2009 Feb Disneyland - offsite
2007 Aug WDW - offsite
2005 June DCL West Coast/DL & DCA
2002 April Disneyland - offsite
2000 September WDW/DCL - CBR/Wonder
Well let's just set it out there...we cancelled our Cruise.
But we didn't give up...we are just going to go with my whole family for Easter Spring Break! Please see new thread...for all the juicy tidbits
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Cheeser. Maleficent of the Vacation Villians!!!
Partying with the Parrs December 5, 2015:
What Cheeser forgot to mention is that we changed the cruise so many times that I was starting to spin in my office chair. I am not losing my mind....just a bad case of whip lash.
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Melanie
June 1985-off site/March 2004- Pop & OKW
Aug. 2004- Hurricane Charlie POR & FWCG/July 2005- Grand Villa OKW
Feb. 2006-Pop/Feb. 2007- AS Music, WL, AS Movies
Sept. 2011- Disney Med Cruise
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