Hey there! Welcome to Disney cruising!! it's awesome. Truly magical from start to finish. I went ahead and checked out all the excursions too so when we are able to book them I know just what we want to do. One thing that really helped me was to go to youtube and type in the
disney cruise and the name of the excursion. You won't believe how many people upload their videos or vlog about their trips! it gave me a very good idea of what I definitely was interested in and what I thought I might pass on. One thing that really stuck out to me about the caves that I saw REPEATEDLY was that people said the waterway journey to get to the baths is very very rough and expect to get sea sick. People had recommendations on where to sit on the boat to try to minimize this but I knew right away that could be a problem for my son. Then when I saw the videos of the baths I realized it is very adventuresome to get too. Lots of climbing, tight squeezes, definitely need to be fit. I undergo my third (and hopefully final) disc fusion in my back this July so our cruise would put me just a little past a year from that. Although I hope to be good as new, I knew this was just too much. We are looking at a few scuba/beach options, one involves a pirate ship that I know will just make my son get excited. We would like to check out one of the islands possibly but from what I have seen online unless you are really looking for a lot of duty free deals there isn't much else on St. Thomas to draw us in. We just want to see some tropical paradise and enjoy family. Hopefully make some new mouse ear friends too!
The FE (fish extenders) is so much fun. You pick the night that works best for you and channel your inner Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the Blue Fairy and go drop off a gift in the pockets of our boat mates that introduce themselves here and let us know they would like to be involved. It's so much fun because you never know which night of the cruise a family is dropping off goodies to you. When we get lots of families on this board someone who had managed it before will probably volunteer to organize it. You typically let them know a few things about yourself other than your room number such as Disney Characters you love. It lets other families try to personalize their gift to you if possible. We didn't do it on our first cruise but did on our second. You only have to drop off gifts one night. I wish I knew that last time. I thought you had to bring gifts for each room for every night. And I went all out. I had a gift for every family member. I had a huge duffel just for FE gifts. It's those little details sometimes it's good to have.....
Welcome to the cruise!!
Tiffany