Diez (10) Noches Calientes en la Riviera Mexicana/17 de abril 2011 (4.17.11 Wonder!)

[Susiesark]

Same here Susieark!! Back home, picked up puppy and have been washing. And yes THANK YOU EVERYONE for the fun and fabulous FE's!!! DD loved the "fun fish loot". We're booked on a late August 2012 on Fantasy (East Carib)... Anyone else booked onboard???

Sad, but also glad to be home.

We're booked for 6/16/12 on Fantasy Eastern, but late August might work out better, school wise. I'll have to check on prices. I also booked dummy cruise. I wouldn't mind MR again. Spoiled by the 10 day, though.

 

[True Romance]

Back home, with mixed feelings. Good to be home, but so much work ahead, and now I have to do all the washing and cleaning. Have to start planning a new cruise so I have something to look forward to. What has everyone else booked for the future? I would have loved to stay onbard for the REPO.
And THANK YOU and HUGS for all the WONDERful FE gifts. You guys are awesome. What a treat to find something something every day!

Welcome back everyone. We also did booked a dummy date. Hoping to sale in May of 2013.

So fun to meet a lot of you and bummed I missed out on some people.

Trying to catch up and email and life for a bit. Still would love to chat with you guys.

What was everyone's highlights and low points of the trip?

 

[Gino USMC]

Hello everyone. We had a great time. Thank you everyone who put stuff on our FE. We loved them all. I cant wait to start my trip report.

 

[Susiesark]

Hello everyone. We had a great time. Thank you everyone who put stuff on our FE. We loved them all. I cant wait to start my trip report.

Gino, I saw you and your bride just once, just before we left the port. Where did you guys hide out (need I ask!)?
Were you on the FE list? Sorry if I missed you.

 

[Gino USMC]

Gino, I saw you and your bride just once, just before we left the port. Where did you guys hide out (need I ask!)?
Were you on the FE list? Sorry if I missed you.

We werent. Just a few that dropped by. I didnt know about the fe's. We were at the quite cove pool, bingo and art auctions if we werent in the room...

 

[kjwemett]

Does everyone have their sea legs back? Not excited this morning to be back at work but have such lovely memories. Had such a good time meeting all of you that I did get to meet. Miss running into you already. Gino looking forward to you TR.

 

[LiserAnn]

I'm still rocking and rolling! Hopefully be back to normal tomorrow. I'm very sad and missing the ship...and friendly faces! It was nice to meet those of you who I met, sorry to have missed meeting everyone else; there was just so much to do. Plus my little one caught the bug that almost quarantined our ship which kept me in the cabin on the long cabo day and today my oldest is home with the same bug!!! Bummer!

Also, thank you so much for the FE gifts. They were all wonderful.

Helen, I never hooked up with you to get our lanyards but I would still like to pay you, please PM with your mailing address.

Thanks again!

 

[Susiesark]

DH was quarantined for 2 days at the begining. Almost missed PV. Glad we got trip insurance. Hope to get a small refund.
Bed was rolling in the night, and I thought I was on the ship. Turned out to be the cat jumping on the bed.
Looking forward to planning my next DCL vacation. Hope I'll see some of you again!

 

[lymommy]

Back to reality... this sucks! When we hit the port I had to check my phone.... how many crazy messages I had from work that has changed so many things... ARGHHH!!! Back to work today with a splitting headache and a hungry stomach Wishing I was back on the ship!

It was nice meeting everyone... Tyler had so much fun getting the FE gifts everyday. Thanks so much!

 

[szubieta]

I great big THANK YOU for all the FE gifts!! It was so much fun seeing things in the FE everyday and will think of you all often for making this cruise even more special.

 

[Susiesark]

I great big THANK YOU for all the FE gifts!! It was so much fun seeing things in the FE everyday and will think of you all often for making this cruise even more special.

Yuck-I don't like your signature saying 11 days since your cruise. Makes me want to cry. Did you rebook on board?

 

[szubieta]

Michelle are you home yet? How is your puppy?

 

[Double Trouble]

Just wanted to thank everyone for making this our best cruise yet! The girls are ready to live full time on the ship...it really did feel like home after 10 days. And, the friends we made were the icing on the cake (or should I say the Chocolate on the Mickey Bar!). Everything about this trip was awesome for both kids and adults alike (except for maybe that singing show). We're booked for the 7-day version of the same cruise next spring break (first week of April) and have a couple of place holders as well. Now if I can only find some money to pay for them!!

Thanks to all for the great FE gifts and a special shout out to Kristi, Connie, and Helen (and others) for stepping up in the organizing department and making this whole thing happen! You guys are amazing!

Anyway, after a 5-hour drive home yesterday, picking up the dog, wading through 2 weeks of mail, doing 7 loads of laundry, cleaning the pool, and then (after a short sleep) getting up at 3:00 am to go fly 4 times today, I'm still hanging on to my cruise "high"...it was that good. Even found a few minutes today to do some surfing of the cruise sites looking for that next deal. Our best to all and hope to see you again! I'll be lurking on the boards if anyone is out there.

 

[Susiesark]

Just wanted to thank everyone for making this our best cruise yet! The girls are ready to live full time on the ship...it really did feel like home after 10 days. And, the friends we made were the icing on the cake (or should I say the Chocolate on the Mickey Bar!). Everything about this trip was awesome for both kids and adults alike (except for maybe that singing show). We're booked for the 7-day version of the same cruise next spring break (first week of April) and have a couple of place holders as well. Now if I can only find some money to pay for them!!

Thanks to all for the great FE gifts and a special shout out to Kristi, Connie, and Helen (and others) for stepping up in the organizing department and making this whole thing happen! You guys are amazing!

Anyway, after a 5-hour drive home yesterday, picking up the dog, wading through 2 weeks of mail, doing 7 loads of laundry, cleaning the pool, and then (after a short sleep) getting up at 3:00 am to go fly 4 times today, I'm still hanging on to my cruise "high"...it was that good. Even found a few minutes today to do some surfing of the cruise sites looking for that next deal. Our best to all and hope to see you again! I'll be lurking on the boards if anyone is out there.

Paul, you & Dana & the girls are all so stinkin' sweet. It was a pleasure meeting you. And I keep jumping over to the DCL site to see if I can find something I must do. I'm hoping for another great deal with Kids Sail Free. Hope someone gives a shout out when they see it come up. I'll miss all my friends here, and hope to see you again.

 

[CasaMartinez]

Hello to all!!

Boy I can't believe how much I miss the cruise. Last night I kept waking up thinking I was still on the ship with all the rocking and rolling. I was still riding a high today but after a couple of hours back at work it started to waste away.

I booked a 5 day Bahamas cruise for 7/13/12 and a 7 day Caribbean over Thanksgiving for 2012. Won't be able to do both but I guess I have awhile to decide.

I know there were many who got sick (including my son Aiden). Hopefully everyone still had a good time. Kel - I was so sorry to hear that your daughter got sick on her birthday. I hope you guys still had a great time.

I must say that this was an awesome group and I had so much fun meeting you all. The FE's were really great! The boys loved it and I feel like I got so many nice souvenirs. It was amazing.

Helen, I never hooked up with you to get our lanyards but I would still like to pay you, please PM with your mailing address.

Thanks again!

Yes, sorry our paths never crossed.

Thanks to all for the great FE gifts and a special shout out to Kristi, Connie, and Helen (and others) for stepping up in the organizing department and making this whole thing happen! You guys are amazing!

Thanks, I had a lot of fun prepping for this cruise and now I'm sad that it's all over. Paul - It was great hanging out with you and your family. I loved running into everyone on the ship.

May our paths cross again. In the meantime..god bless you all.

 

[Amwill]

I can't believe its our second day back to reality. This morning the kids woke up and asked to go to Beach Blanket for breakfast. I had to tell them that we weren't on the cruise anymore and they had a choice between cereal and pbj. I was just as heartbroken as they were.

Welcome back everyone. We also did booked a dummy date. Hoping to sale in May of 2013.

So fun to meet a lot of you and bummed I missed out on some people.

Trying to catch up and email and life for a bit. Still would love to chat with you guys.

What was everyone's highlights and low points of the trip?

We also booked a dummy date. We are hoping to cruise to Alaska in 2013 or possibly take their Christmas cruise out of Galveston Tx in 2012. Right now Virdis wants to Galveston so we can see his family before/after the cruise, but I want Alaska. Don't tell Virdis but seeing the inlaws is not a vacation.

Thanks to all for the great FE gifts and a special shout out to Kristi, Connie, and Helen (and others) for stepping up in the organizing department and making this whole thing happen! You guys are amazing!

Yes, the FE gifts were amazing. My kids loved running to our cabin to see if we received an FE for the day. Once we got home my kids decided to leaving some FE gifts for their uncle, who lives with us. They each left him a gift on the floor of his bedroom door. Unfortunately they didn't tell him about the gifts before he walked out of his room and tripped over them. It was funny and sweet at the same time.

Hello to all!!

I know there were many who got sick (including my son Aiden). Hopefully everyone still had a good time. Kel - I was so sorry to hear that your daughter got sick on her birthday. I hope you guys still had a great time.
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No one in our family got sick on the cruise. But Virdis has come down with something now that we are back. Luckily he has taken the rest of the week off, but he is sick in bed coughing up a lung. If it weren't for his illness, I'm sure he would be on the disboards and the DCL site looking for the best fares and cabins for our next cruise. Pray for his speed return to health.

It was such a pleasure to meet all of you. For many of you are paths crossed several times (Kristi, Gabriela, Cayla, Jennifer W., and Susie) and for others we saw in passing. My family and I had an amazing time. We look forward to cruising again and hope that we see you again on another cruise or somewhere else.

 

[True Romance]

Since Brennan insists on watching Dora right now and won't let me watch the Royal Wedding, I thought I would take the time to write my thoughts on the cruise.

We had a fantastic time on the cruise. It started out a little rocky with my kids misbehaving at the port and driving me nuts. I wanted to socialize but they kept tugging on me telling me how bored they were. Also I woke up the day before with the beginnings of a cold. Luckily I was able to stop by a Vons on the way to the port to stock up on some meds. I loved seeing everyone in the port at check in and talking to fellow DISers in line. Susan, I had to laugh at that pushy lady who cut in front of you in line to get into the port. She totally pushed past us on the gangway to get on the ship, leaving her family to apologize as they were trying to catch up with her. I kept seeing her the whole cruise. My kids were cranky the first day and I had to leave the Welcome Aboard show as Brennan just would not sit still and the people behind us were getting annoyed. To top off the rocky start Isabelle got sea sick and vomited all over the entrance of Animators Palette when my husband was taking her back to the room. So if you saw that during 2nd dining, I apologize.

I was not going to let the first day bring me down, and our vacation started as soon as we dropped the kids off in the club on day 2. Luckily the kids really loved the clubs and spent a lot of time there. Even Brennan at just under 3 had a great time there. We loved all the ship activities, especially Bingo, the Character meets in Studio Sea, eating, Who wants to be a Mouseketeer , the drinks of the day, the shows, the Mickey pool, and did I mention eating. Kevin and I also got to see some of the adult shows in Wavebands at 10:30pm.

We did the zip lining in PV with Paul, Dana, Amy and kids. Had a great time and would highly recommend it. Did the Tesoro Resort in Manzanillo, was extremely crowded and I am kicking myself for the waste of money. Took a water taxi around Cabo and then did the beach in front of Billygans, crowded with the bump & grind spring breakers—but it was cheap and the kids loved playing in the ocean. Nothing like spending Easter listening to Katie Perry and Sir Mixalot watching people doing jello-shots. The kids loved the tender rides in Cabo to see the pelicans and seals.

I think the highlight of the trip for me was knowing so many people on the ship. I loved running into all of you and chatting. I think Kevin was annoyed with me at the end because he kept loosing me since I would find someone to talk to. Getting to know all of you before the cruise and then finally meeting and talking in person was great. Ann-Marie, Virdis, Gabriela, and Vitor—thank you for being such great table mates. We really enjoyed getting to know you guys. Danny was saying on the way home how he is going to miss Elijah. We will have to meet up again. Paul, you were definitely the man around the ship. We saw you everywhere. It was great talking to you guys and Sierra and Savanna are great girls. Would love to see you guys on DCL again sometime. Susan, Sandy, Dany, Karen, Helen, Connie, Penny—glad I ran into you girls several times and had the chance to talk. Kel, hope you are having a fun time still in SoCal. We will need to meet up in Discovery Kingdom a few more times. Michelle, wish I ran into you guys more. It seems like a saw some of you a bunch of times and others never ran into.

If anyone ever wants to come to the Sacramento area, you are all welcome to come and stay with us. However, I will not turn down you bed, create a towel animal, or leave you a chocolate at bedtime.

We loved all the FE’s, they were awesome and fun. Helen, my kids used your bags to hold all of their gifts in. They are having fun going through all of their treasures at home. Thank you to everyone for such thoughtful and fun gifts. Also thank you to Stacey, Gabriela and Penny for the wonderful birthday presents for Isabelle, that was too sweet of you girls.

I was a tad disappointed in our servers and stateroom host. They did their jobs but did not add the special extra touches that I like on a cruise. Our asst. server asked every single night what we wanted to drink. One of my favorite things of a cruise is to come to the dinner table and have my iced tea waiting for me. Also, we did not get the fun hats made out of napkins for the character breakfast. I did notice about half the restaurant got them and half did not. I felt our waiter had his hands full taking our orders and getting the food out, he did not really have time to be too personal. Our stateroom host I saw like 1 time the entire 10 nights. Again, our rooms were cleaned quickly and well, he just did not add any personal touches. I think for our next cruise I will get recommendations of excellent serving teams for the boards and request them. That makes a big difference for me.

I can’t wait to take our next DCL cruise. We did book 2 rooms for dummy dates, but it looks like only one room got booked. I need to call up DCL today and check on the other room. Hoping to cruise in May of 2013. Also, we noticed last night that we left a toy in our room. Not sure if it can be returned, but I will call and ask. Too bad I can’t meet the ship in San Francisco tomorrow and pick up our toy.

Thank you to everyone for a fantastic 18 months on our meet thread. I am going to miss coming here everyday. If anyone wants to keep in touch you can find me on FB under Kristi McAlpin Howard or my email is kh @ kristihoward dot com Of course, I will continue to be on the DIS boards as well.

 

[Jareds_mommy]

Yes thank you everyone for FE the kids loved coming back to all the treats DD met another little girl named Charlotte from Australia I think. She sure misses her she said she got a FE so I think they must be on the boards here so if Charlotte's mommy is here Cassidy misses her and says hi.
Rae

 

[fourmcds]

Welcome Home everyone (should there be a smiley face there) We arrived home to SNOW! Yup, I said it....when we got home Wed afternoon it snowed here in WA Boy did that make me miss the beautiful weather even more.
Sorry that we didn't get to meet many of you...I kept missing all the events! At the DT, if I acted strange, it was because the girls still did not know about the cruise. Then I just seemed to be off on all the times for the meets. It was great to meet some of you, wish it could have been all.
We too got the 'bug"...my youngest came down with it the day after Lisa's youngest and we were in our cabin.

I read the comment about the servers....we said the same thing...when are the going to figure out that the kids each want coke with dinner? we would usually get our drinks about 20 min after sitting down! And, for the first 3 nights, our asst server was giving the kids DIET coke!!!!! The staff just seemed very flustered to me....but it was still enjoyable. We spent quite a bit of our time in the cove cafe and adult pool while the kids were off having fun.

Thanks for all the wonderful FE gifts, some of you went over the top and are very talented and artistic!

And, Helen....I am with Lisa....please PM me your address and I will get you $$ for the lanyards. Sorry we missed you...

Even with 10 days the cruise seemed to fly by!

 

[Sacdance]

We (husband and I) had a great cruise. We loved all the dancing done in Wavebands and Promenade Lounge and even by Quiet Cove pool! Our servers Terry and Maggie were wonderful. They made dinner enjoyable each night. We liked the games and activities when we could make it. (Won Match your Mate and loved the champagne.) Favorite show was Dreams. We did the Pirate cruise in PV which was fun and cheesy and nicely pirate-y. Lounging in the sun on the island was great too. Manzanillo was interesting but uneventful except for the stations of the cross procession. Cabo was a lazy day at Nikki Beach. Quiet, and full of mojitos! I enjoyed talking with lots of you on board. We booked for Hawaii, exactly one year away today! Hopefully we can re-create some of the good times we had and have some new ones in Hawaii!