May Med Magic - May 15 2010 - Meet thread - Part 2

[Travelbee]

You can also go to the Cruise Magnet thread (link on the web site), find one you like and ask Jordak to customize it for you. He turns them around quickly. I asked him to make the one with the wine bottle and glass and he had it done the same day.

He made the same one for us!

Weather update - showers in Barcelona through Saturday now. I REALLY hope they won't interfere with the sail away party. Disney is hands down the best at this. But sunny and 70's for Malta, Tunis, Naples, Rome!!! Maybe we won't have to pack as many sweaters as expected.

Rain may be a blessing because it may help knock off some of the ash cloud...

Two more days for us!

 

[pixiedust519]

I've been tracking the same flight from JFK to BCN that we are taking 5/13 and all day today it showed delayed and now it has been cancelled! The same flight that our friends are on from Philadelphia to BCN is still showing delayed for today. It was supposed to leave at 6:35 and now it says 1am. Yikes.

I wish that ash would go away!!!

 

[jlwhitney]

I am curious about what people are doing at each port e.g. private, DCL, on your own, etc? If you are interested, please post your port excursion itinerary.

I promise I am truly interested and this is not only a shameless attempt to get closer to my final forum post guess (99)

Heres our plan:

Malta: DCL blue grotto, might walk into valletta afterwards if we have time
Tunis: No idea what yet
Naples: DCL Sorrento and Pompeii
Citivecchia: Doing Rome on our own
La Spezia: Cinque Terre on our own
Corsica: Les Calenches
Villefrance: Monaco, Monte Carlo and Eze

 

[k8e]

I am curious about what people are doing at each port e.g. private, DCL, on your own, etc? If you are interested, please post your port excursion itinerary.

I promise I am truly interested and this is not only a shameless attempt to get closer to my final forum post guess (99)

These are our plans:
Malta: walking tour of Valletta in the a.m. then uphotomalta tour with nanaguide
Tunis: DCL Sidi Bou Said & Carthage
Naples: shared tour of Amalfi Coast/Pompeii
Rome: DIY Rome
La Spezia: DIY Cinque Terre
Ajaccio: DCL Les Calanches
Villefranche: DIY Monaco/Monte Carlo-Eze

 

[*~PiXiEpAl5~*]

Not sure if we will have time, but we are brining Bang, Bunco, Yahtzee and Cribbage.

BTH

Hi Gang, I see some are bringing board games. That sounds like a lot of fun. Would definitely be interested. However I've never heard of some of the other games always will to learn though.
I can say I love bunco and yahtzee. Can't wait to meet and play.

 

[gg.leigh]

Here is the list of people that might be attending the fountain in Barcelona on May 14th.

First show is at 9 pm. Would be good to get there early - 8:15 to 8:30 pm. (Jeff has added this to the Dis Meets section on the website)

Let me know if I have missed you.

The Eurostar Grand Marnia group will be meeting at 7:30 PM in the lobby.

Sayhello (Eurostar)
Jeff Spencer
Tripodjw (Eurostar)
Pixiedust519
MPS516
Leelee9878
Nanaguide
Dawne577
BTH
Taras
AlohaJoe23
K8e
Pinmeister
Abird
Sarahgirl (Eurostar)
Jedijill
Pixiepal5 (Eurostar)
Kehonuamemano
Trampslady
dfsc

We would like to join. Are there anyone staying at Novotel Barcelona City? We are actually leaving Tuesdays for Barcelona

I am starting to freak out a little bit with the packing. Not to mention I don't have all the excursion stuff signed up. I guess worse case is to go with DCL for excursions....

We are done with making FE, much to my surprise! I just have to remember to print out the FE list before Tuesday so I have the list with me.

 

[tripodjw]

The good news is that the ash seems to be receding a little. BBC breakfast news just reported that all airports except a couple on portugal now reopened and there are just some delays of an hour or two on TA flights due to having to fly round the ash (like AlohaJo23 had). The TA flights to SPain may not even need to fly around as they would be coming in south of it anyway.

Keeping the old fingers crossed.

This week guys - we sail THIS WEEK!

 

[tripodjw]

Final list of Entrants for the Page number sweep. I'll check in on Saturday morning and announce the winner and find them onboard to give them their little prize. Good luck!

peterpanstout – 36
rashdecision – 30
Jeff Spencer – 89
Prinny27 – 27
DopeyFan1966 – 86
jedijill – 46
Christyvoltron – 103
moneyhappy – 40
AlohaJoe23 – 34
ebony – 55
kehonuamemano – 99
rguinness – 66
Sayhello – 54
MPS516 – 56
amackay – 53
HelenMartinez – 47
emmalouisenicholson - 39
jojo6617 - 43
sarahgirl - 45
pixiedust519 - 61
dawne577 - 75
Greg M - 57
Pinmeister - 77
disneycruisegal - 78
ICollectBelle - 92
abird - 67
Welsh Girl - 49
taras - 71
abdmom - 42
leelee9878 - 34
mmickeya - 44

 

[taras]

I've never heard of these. Back in my day it was Risk, Clue, Monopoly, etc. Though we did play a game called Masterpiece, that might be like your Modern Art game. Nevertheless, sure, if we can find time.

Great! I selected these because they're easy to learn, and except for Lluna Lena, don't take a lot of time to play. If no one has time, that's OK. I have no idea how busy the cruise will be.

Carcassonne is a short strategy game - you draw tiles and fit them together according to what they look like to build a map. As you place the tiles, you put knights, robbers, and farmers on the map to get a score.

Modern Art is a little bit like Masterpiece. It's a bidding game. You try to buy low and sell high at auctions, then predict (or manipulate the market) to determine who will be the most valuable artists at the end of the year.

Lluna Lena is a new one for me, it's a light, cooperative role-playing game where all but one person plays hikers who have been lost in the woods. The other person plays a pack of werewolves who try to turn the hikers into more werewolves before they can rescue their friends and escape the woods.

The other game I'd forgotten is Jungle Fever - you flip over cards, and if they match, you have to be the first to grab a wooden rod. Certain other cards change the rules or direction of play.

If adrianhon brings Catan, that's a classic, award-winning resource game - you gather resources, trade them with other players, and build towns, roads, and armies.

Watch out though Jeff, engineers are easily hooked on games like Catan and Carcassone

 

[taras]

Awesome - me and my girlfriend would definitely be up for playing a game or two! I might bring along Settlers of Catan if I have room in my luggage and people are interested...?

Sure, I'd play Catan!

 

[taras]

I am curious about what people are doing at each port e.g. private, DCL, on your own, etc? If you are interested, please post your port excursion itinerary.

We're doing all of these on our own.

Valetta: Explore the town, see St. John's, swim if the weather is good
Tunis: Bardo museum for sure. Considering Dougga or Bulla Regia by taxi if it looks like there's time (but probably won't be).
Naples: Herculaneum, eat pizza, buy limoncello
Rome: Ostia Antica and fast Rome favorites (Pantheon, Trevi, Navona, gelato shop near the Pantheon, candied oranges from the sweets shop at Termini), maybe a small museum
La Spezia: explore Pisa, climb the tower
Ajaccio: Find some corsican food, see a couple Napolean sights. We'd go to one of the adventure parks if someone has extra room.
Villefrance: TBD. Maybe the beach if the weather is good, otherwise sights in Monaco

 

[DopeyFan1966]

I am curious about what people are doing at each port e.g. private, DCL, on your own, etc? If you are interested, please post your port excursion itinerary.

I promise I am truly interested and this is not only a shameless attempt to get closer to my final forum post guess (99)

Here is our itinerary:

1. Malta - Jeep Safari (DCL)
2. Tunis - Bardo Museum, Carthage, Medina, Sidi Bou Said (DCL)
3. Naples - Private tour with MoneyHappy
4. Rome - Private tour with FloridaPrincess (Driver in Rome)
5. La Spezia - haven't decided yet. I want to do Cinque Terre and my husband want to do Lerci's Castle and Dinosaurs
6. Ajjacio - Beach Break (DCL)
7. Villefranche - Private tour with MoneyHappy (Travel Tour Prestige)

 

[tripodjw]

I am curious about what people are doing at each port e.g. private, DCL, on your own, etc? If you are interested, please post your port excursion itinerary.

I promise I am truly interested and this is not only a shameless attempt to get closer to my final forum post guess (99)

We're doing the following:

Malta - Explore Valletta ourselves as its all very compact
Tunis - DCL excursion - 1/2 day Carthage and Medina, then pm we'll spend an hour or two exploring area around dock there's supposed to be some interesting fish restaurants
Naples - DCL excursion - Hike Vesuvius and Pompeii (I've been to Pompeii before and really wanted to go up Vesuvius, the schedule for this excursion suited us and is paid for by some of our OBC)
Civitavecchia - Hanging around Civitavecchia - seeing the small number of sights there and will do some shopping. Willikely spend the afternoon kicking around on the almost empty ship. (I think we are going to be one of the few people not going to Rome)
La Spezia - Again hanging around in the port area, there's museums and a marina to chill out in.
Ajaccio - Explore town ourselves, visit the Napoleon sights (some are open some are not)
Villefranche - Going by train or bus to Monaco - walk the F1 circuit, see the sights. Head back to Villefranche and if we have time we will mooch around the old town/beach there.

 

[dvcspain]

jeff, i love your magnet!!!!!!

can i have one?, i love it.

today all the airports are working in spain, but they said the volcanic cloud is goint to cross our country today, but they don't know if is going to be a problem.......so waiting

 

[emmalouisenicholson]

Villefranche - Going by train or bus to Monaco - walk the F1 circuit, see the sights. Head back to Villefranche and if we have time we will mooch around the old town/beach there.[/QUOTE]

My OH is desperate to go round the F1 circuit as well

I have been trying to research if there was a Bus or something that goes round it etc.. but don't seem to be able to find anything

Do you have any more information that you could share?

Thanks!

Emma

 

[tripodjw]

My OH is desperate to go round the F1 circuit as well

I have been trying to research if there was a Bus or something that goes round it etc.. but don't seem to be able to find anything

Do you have any more information that you could share?

Thanks!

Emma

I don't know if there's a bus.

Basically we've just highlighted the route of the circuit on a streetmap of Monaco that i printed from the monaco tourist website.

It's about a mile and a half to 2 miles walk but it goes past some of the main sights (casino, marina). We used the bbc circuit guide to check we were marking the correct roads on our map.

I'll see if i can scan it and upload it somewhere

 

[emmalouisenicholson]

Malta - Dolphin swim at Mediterraneo Marine Park (organised privately)
Tunis - DCL excursion - not sure which one yet (possibly the Beach Break)
Naples - Nothing planned as such. Think we will explore the Port area & enjoy the boat
whilst many others are visiting Pompei etc..
Civitavecchia - Taking the train to Rome for DIY visit (Colesseum, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Pantheon etc) Meeting other DISers to walk to the Train Station
La Spezia - Taking the train to Pisa for DIY visit (Climbing the tower)
Ajaccio - Explore town ourselves & possibly 1/2 day on the Beach depending on the weather and/or a trip on the Petit train
Villefranche - Going by train or bus to Monaco - see the F1 circuit, Casino etc.. Explore Villefranche on our own if time

 

[emmalouisenicholson]

I don't know if there's a bus.

Basically we've just highlighted the route of the circuit on a streetmap of Monaco that i printed from the monaco tourist website.

It's about a mile and a half to 2 miles walk but it goes past some of the main sights (casino, marina). We used the bbc circuit guide to check we were marking the correct roads on our map.

I'll see if i can scan it and upload it somewhere

That would be marvellous if you could!

 

[Welsh Girl]

There is an open top red bus that you can just jump on and it will take you on a tour of Monte Carlo and Monacco. Think it was about 15 euro's. You can jump on and off it when you want and there are plenty of stops!! If you chose to stay on the bus the tour would take about an hour( not getting off to explore) and it does go along the F1 road

That would be marvellous if you could!

 

[MPS516]

Some 100 pages or so ago someone was asking about the on board booking policies. We received a promotion a week or so ago and figured everyone was getting it as well. Did not see any discussion so I thought I would highlight: Can book as many rooms as you like with the number of rooms up to the number of people in your existing party receiving the 10% discount and OBC. Reservation may be shifted to another cruise date or itinerary within the pre payment window established for each cruise.

So even though we have but a single room this trip, we can prebook up to 4 rooms for a future cruise and can all be under the same single name with other guests to be determined.