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Cruisin’ Disney Style

disney_wonderIt’s time to hate me.  In one week I’m going on a Disney Cruise.  It’s a short one, three nights, but it will be three nights without kids and husband – I’ll happily take it!

A couple months ago, an acquaintance of mine (and amazing woman), Maria Bailey (founder of BSM Media), asked me if I wanted to go on a Disney Cruise to the Bahamas.  I had heard rumblings ever since I had started this blog that Disney had a habit of inviting mom bloggers on vacation (on their dime!), and naturally I was insanely jealous.  But now it’s my turn.

The other bloggers coming along on this trip are:

  • Don’t Try This At Home – Melanie
  • My Brown Baby – Denene
  • Skimbaco Lifestyle – Katja
  • Traveling Mom – Kim
  • To Think Is To Create – Arianne
  • My Teen, The Alien – Maria
  • And a special thanks to Melanie – I read her post about the cruise and totally scraped that blogger list from her site instead of looking up the links myself. :-)

    So, we’ll be getting on The Disney Wonder early for a private lunch with some Disney people, and then heading off for a day in Nassau and another day on Castaway Cay, Disney’s private island in the Bahamas.  I’ve read reviews and a lot of people have said that the trip is worth it just to go to the private island!

    In typical Amy fashion, I somehow got the idea that we were going to Bermuda, so that’s what I told everyone when I went home over Christmas break.  But that wouldn’t make much sense, since their private island is in the Bahamas!  I checked over all of my old emails about the trip, and nobody ever mentioned Bermuda.  I have no idea where I got that from.  But we’ll definitely be going to the Bahamas, which will be warmer than Bermuda.  I don’t like really hot weather, but it will be welcome given the chill NYC has been in lately.

    SegwayWhen we’re in Nassau several of us will be taking a tour on Segways, those two-wheeled things that you steer by leaning.  I’ve always wanted to go on one!  We’ve taken cruises before, and our excursions have usually been more active – kayaking, biking – to counteract the effects of the ridiculous amount of eating that goes on.  But I’m in the mood for lazy.

    I have to admit, it does feel a little weird to be going on a Disney Cruise without kids, but I’m guessing they want us to be able to focus without the distractions of kids.  I have absolutely no problem going away without my kids, but it’s usually to a casino, or on a “grown up” cruise.  In fact, I spend a lot of cruise time in the casino, and The Disney Wonder doesn’t have a casino!  But I love Disney, so I can’t wait, and I’m glad that I’ll be able to try the ship out on my own.

    This trip will make my “work week” next week very crunched – I have to get all of the Famplosion.com stuff done in the beginning of the week so that I don’t have to worry about it on the ship!  I love working from home and controlling my own schedule, but it takes a level of time management that I haven’t used in a while!

    Originally posted on Selfish Mom

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    7 Responses to “Cruisin’ Disney Style”

    1. To Think Is To Create on January 18th, 2009 4:47 pm
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      Can’t wait! And a lazy excursion is exactly what this tired mind and body could use right now… :)

    2. Amy on January 18th, 2009 5:17 pm
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      @To Think Is To Create – Hi Arianne! I’m sitting here trying to figure out what bags to bring. I hate that they take your luggage the last night of the cruise, it always makes packing that more difficult – unless I just want to put all of my make up and styling stuff in the big suitcase and scare small children on the way home. :-)

    3. Tracy on January 19th, 2009 11:14 am
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      Be prepared for 4 million kids everywhere! My family did this a year ago November. The ship is gorgeous, the rooms beautiful, especially if you have one w/ a balcony, the food is fantastic, but it is so crowded in the public areas because they constantly have the characters out for photos, it’s insane.
      Castaway Cay is gorgeous, & we wished we stayed there a few days! There’s a lot to do there. Only problem was that the water, even in early Nov was freezing, which we couldn’t figure out.
      I hope you have a great time!

    4. Amy on January 19th, 2009 11:21 am
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      @Tracy – I do have a balcony, yay! I’ve heard a lot of people say that they could just go stay at Castaway Cay the whole time, it sounds amazing.

      I like that they have the characters out and about. I remember when I was little, the characters were just walking around Disney World. You’d turn a corner and there they were. But when I went back as an adult, we had to wait in a long line to meet Mickey! There’s something wrong with that.

      Anyway, I’ve been signed up for a stingray adventure at Castaway Cay, which I’m guessing is in the water but I have no idea – all I know is that I get to feed stingrays!

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