The magnets!

Right, now there is one thing I have found out since booking the Disney Cruise and that booking was the easy bit, the difficult part is all the various activities you have to plan/prepare post cruise and magnets are just one of those activities!

The doors of the Disney ships are metal and over the years guests have adorned the doors with magnets, personalising them and it looks like such fun :-)

Well not to be out done, Lydia and I have spent many a happy hour on photoshop creating and printing, with the help of some fabulous DIS board fans, and here are just some of our efforts:

Next task - The Fish Extender, but that's another story :-)

I've been tweaking! :-)

Well after a quick search online to see if there was any new room availability at the Premier Inn, Dover I was soon booking a family room for me and Lydia to stay the night before the cruise £88.50 inc breakfast :-)


This is great news as the thought of a 5am start the day of the cruise did not appeal to me and I was worried about the whole journey solely relying on the efficiency of public transport :-S


This however meant I had to change our train tickets which was a nightmare as they are an advanced booking I cannot change/refund them. Oh well after a quick search on Virgin Trains I have tickets for the two of us from Stockport to Dover Priory for £22.50 - Bargain :-) The journey is now at 12.23pm arriving at Dover Priory at 4:30pm which is much more civilised.


Repeat after me: I am not doing any more tweaking, I am not doing any more tweaking, I am not doing any more tweaking, I am not doing any more tweaking.....

So much to do, so little time!

I have a lot to organise, but this will not be a problem as I love planning. In fact, planning should be my middle name and this holiday will be planned with military precision :-)

I am a member of a couple of Disney Forums and I have joined various threads dedicated to this cruise. This is great as they have all kinds of stuff planned! A ladies lunch for one of the sea days, lanyards for us to wear, Fish Extender gift goups etc etc etc. I don't think we are going to run out of things to do!

I have ordered the fabric for my fish extender and have started to collect gifts for the members of my group. This is great fun and Lydia is really enjoying the whole excitement that is building. We just need to wait for a damp cold day and I will get the sewing machine out and start making it! Oh my what have I let myself in for :-S

The Itinerary

Day	Port	Guest Ashore	Guest Onboard
Friday	Dover, England	—	4:00 p.m.
Saturday	Cherbourg, France	7:15 a.m.	5:30 p.m.
Sunday	At Sea	—	—
Monday	Vigo, Spain	8:15 a.m.	5:00 p.m.
Tuesday	Lisbon, Portugal	7:45 a.m.	5:30 p.m.
Wednesday	Cádiz, Spain	9:15 a.m.	7:30 p.m.
Thursday	Gibraltar, U.K.	8:15 a.m.	6:00 p.m.
Friday	At Sea	—	—
Saturday	Barcelona, Spain	7:00 a.m.	—

I have booked the following so far:

• Night stay at the Premier Inn, Dover - 29/7/2010
• Train tickets from Stockport to Dover - changed to 29/7/2010
• A manicure in the Spa on Day 2 :-)
• One night Hotel stay at the new Novotel Barcelona City for the Saturday night
• Flights home from Barcelona Airport
• Cruise all paid for :-)

Well that's it we're booked!

It all started with a message from a fellow Disneyholic Joa who gave me the heads up that the Disney Cruise Line site had just released some cheap cat 12 GTY availability on the 8 night Dover to Barcelona Disney Cruise.

I didn't have to think twice and after a quick search on the DCL site I had it booked for me and my daughter, Lydia. 

We haven't been to any of the cities on the cruise and we have never been on a cruise before so this is going to be a real girly adventure - can't wait :-)

Here we are on our last visit to WDW in August 2009



Can't wait to get some Disney Cruise pics :-)