T Minus 30 Days To Cruise

JMarsden92 March 13, 2011
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The anxiety is starting to get to us now.  We are now starting to prepare for our Back 2 Back cruise in April aboard the Disney Dream.  Usually I would already have asked my wife to have at least half of the packing done, but she has been busy making our Fish Extender gifts, and getting the T-Shirts finished for the other cruisers.

We have been showing our daughter videos, and photos of the ship.  We finally got to see a video of an inside stateroom like we will be staying in.  The rooms square footage is smaller than the last ship we were on, so we are wondering if they found a way to shrink the size of the mattresses, or if they had custom made furniture designed for this ship.

The virtual porthole is where the challenge waits.  My wife is a bit concerned about the virtual porthole being on at certain times, and hopes that there is a On/Off switch.  Have you been on the ship, and what did you see?

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Dolphins On The Disney Cruise

JMarsden92 March 6, 2011
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The last time we cruised on the Disney Cruise we caught a very quick glimpse of dolphins.  We have always heard about people seeing dolphins while cruising, but I have never been lucky enough to get a good view of them.  Is there a specific time, or area that the dolphins go to?  Should I bring a pair of Nikon, Bushnell, or Steiner binoculars with us?  Do binoculars help?

I would really like to show my daughter dolphins, and would appreciate any help in doing this.

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My Daughter Has Concerns

JMarsden92 February 26, 2011
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For several years we were told that our daughter has eczema.  Knowing this we are cautious about everything we do that might effect her.  Going on a cruise in a little over a month brings this back to light.  My wife is questioning the doctor, and if we should change doctors because he is saying she doesn’t have eczema, and yet I don’t think you just lose eczema.  Correct me if I am wrong.  Going on the cruise there will be sun, and moist air for the most part, but there will be some dry times, and that is the times that we worry about.  What is the most common eczema treatment that you have heard of?  I know I also don’t want to have to see the ship doctor because they charge big numbers for that, and I don’t think they accept medical insurance.

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Cruise Eating

JMarsden92 February 26, 2011
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Disney Cruise food is excellent.  I am sure if you have been on a Disney Cruise that you know this as well.  There is always something good at your table, and the deck parties bring even more dangerous eating to the situation.  We leave for our cruise in @40 days.  While this is great we have all been concerned that we are going to come back looking like “Augustus” from Willy Wonka.  This concern comes because after cruising Disney 3+ times we know the kind of food that they serve, and how much we “CAN” eat.  We have decided that even though we are on vacation we will have to breakdown, and attempt to use the fitness center on the boat.  Here is how I plan on getting around all of this… I will make sure that my pre workout supplement consists of lots of good food, and I will just have to workout just a bit more to get it off after.

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Disney Cruise Findings

JMarsden92 February 21, 2011
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We are set to cruise in @45 days.  A few weeks back we went to our local county offices and had our passport cards ordered.  This was just a drop in the bucket of @$200.  (That was a sarcastic comment by the way.)  Well, the other day I was chatting with a person in our cruise group that was telling me that she didn’t have a passport.  I told her to quickly call Disney and verify the real answer.  I then told her to give passport control a call to verify.  What I have come to find is this… If you are on a closed-loop cruise you do not have to have a passport.  A closed-loop cruise is any cruise that departs, and returns to the same port.  What they do tell you is that you must have a passport book in order to leave the foreign locations if there is some sort of travel emergency and you need to fly out.  Being that I will stay wherever I am if I am sick, or something I wasn’t getting the passport book.  I got the passport card thinking that it was required to have some sort of passport.  I also wouldn’t fly out simply because I wouldn’t have that kind of money laying around to pay for flights.  Unless I am dying… I am not flying.  (No… I am not afraid of flying.)

What I am actually finding from several people I talked to is that the cruise companies would rather you have a passport for many reasons, but having the passport also reduces their amounts of paperwork because of it being a major document.  Well, now I am stuck having a passport, and being @$200 lighter on money.  Isn’t life grand?

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