Sept 18 2010 WB TransAtlantic Pirates/Capt Jacks Re-Repoing Repossession Cruise Pt.9

[KrisannB]

Every DIS'er (and their traveling party) will be getting a Lime Green, Glow in the dark Wristband as a gift.

What do you need to do to get yours?

Send me a PM! (if you cannot send a PM email me at akblair@charter.net)

and put in the following information:

DIS name, cabin number (please update when known for GTY) and the size you need for each cruiser - sizes are guarenteed through August 6 - we will be ordering extras in all sizes and will be first come first serve after August 6 - but please fill in your sizes even if after August 6!

The sizes are:

LARGE - 8 3/8" MEDIUM - 7 3/8" SMALL- 5 7/8"
these are in inches - and I do not know how to convert for non-USA people.

Here is the size info from the maker:

Wristbands come in three sizes: large, medium, and child. The large bands are 8 3/8" around and will fit most adults and large-framed teenagers. The medium bands are 7 3/8" around and generally fits ages six and up, including most teenagers and small-framed women. The child bands are 5 7/8" around and typically fit children 4-6 years old. Wristbands are not intended for children younger than four years old.
This gift was made possible by the following people:

KrisannB
acourtwdw
birkner
cali_cruiser
disney sweetie
DisneyFreakNo1
dolphingirl47
eeyorelvr10
epcot1stfave
goofygranny
LittleDisneyLovers
luvdamouse91
Magic Me
paulcrsb
steamboat_will
steffy
su_kraft
TChrist05
terapin
TheCooksLuvDisney
Tinkerbell1
totally angelic
Tru
UKANGEL
vakamalua
Witherbark
yukongirl123
Dizneyholic




If you have any questions please PM me!


Also if you would like to have your bands sent to you before the cruise send me a PM with your name and address - all I ask is to be reimbursed the cost of postage plus 25 cents for envelope/label. I will mail them out as soon as they get here (before the end of August)

Krisann

 

[sandiedvc]

Howdy all!

Here is the list of the people who are confirmed for Afternoon Tea on Sept 25 at 3 pm:

Su_kraft
sandiedvc
sezmo (Sarah)
sezmo (Elizabeth)
Steffy
DiaLady
Bareacuda
Belle1997
Tinker1bell
Birkner
Terapin
Terapin (Tru)
Walt & Di
goiu
HallsofVA
HallsofVA (Ramona)

This will be the afternoon of one of the formal dining evenings.

Please review your plans. If you have decided that you will not be attending, please let me know so that we can keep the seats filled!

If a time conflict or anything else pops up when we are on the Magic and you won't be able to attend, please let me know. Room 7622- I will have my fish extender up for notes- or just give me a call! Thanks!

I will be sending a PM to everyone on the list, as I am not sure everyone is able to keep up with the reading!




If you wanted to attend, and we had already filled the seats; you have a couple of options. I do have a waiting list with 3 names on it. I could add you to the list in case we have openings. I will try to keep the tea as filled as possible!

When we board the Magic, you could go to Rocking Bar D (I think) when we board the Magic where they are taking Palo reservations and try to book the same date and time of the Ladies Tea. (please let me know if you are able to do that. Room 7622 Kathy Allen Thanks!)

 

[Buckeye Gal]

While in Barcelona Thursday night, several of us are planning to meet at Praktik Rambla Hotel to walk over to the Metro Station or buddy up in taxis to go as a group to the Font Màgica light show.

€ € € Transportation costs are on you! € € €

If you would like to join the group (good idea for safety reasons), here are the details:

What: Magic Fountain Light Show; first show at 9:30 pm
When: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Time: 20:15 aka 8:15 pm
Gathering Location: Praktik Rambla Hotel located at Rambla de Catalunya, 27
"Sign Up": Of course you can change your mind about going, but so we have a good idea of who we should look out for, it would be great if you sign up for the Event on our website and note if you'll be at the hotel or meet at the fountain.

Alternative Gathering Location: If it's more convenient to go directly to the Magic Fountain, you can try to meet us up there.

Exactly Where?: Southeast end of the walkway over Avenguda de Rius i Taulet (at the SE end of Avenguda de la Reina Maria Cristina); this is the north side of the fountain

<Google Map to come>

I'll take a purple grape colored umbrella with neon yellow ribbons hanging from the top of it and have it held up in hopes you find us. So look for the umbrella held high in the sky.

Alternative Date: There are others who are planning to go Friday after the DIS Meets at the Hard Rock Cafe as well, however, they will not be meeting at Praktik Rambla Hotel.

Barcelona Hot Spots Pin Point Map

 

[chunkster20uk]

No Mac vs PC war but a bit of history from my perspective or a walk down memory lane.

Though we are not Mac people, John and I spent a lot of time with Burrell Smith in the early stages of the MAC design as the PAL device that John invented was used in the early MAC's. We have a very early 1984 MAC in the garage that John carried all over Europe on a sabbatical in early 1985.

John also spent a great deal of time in Boca Raton in the late 1970's and early 1980's with the IBM team lead by Don Estridge, if I remember the name correctly.

He also was very involved with DEC PDP 11 designs in Massachusetts. If you happen to remember the book "The Soul of New Machine" by Tracey Kidder, you might have read about John in the story. Tracey Kidder signed the book to John with the quote, "The socket is no longer empty.

My mother was a mathematician/computer programmer for JPL in the 1950's so I have always been exposed to computers. John worked on computers from his time at UCB.

John wrote an assembly language called PALASM which was used to program the PAL devices.

So, to make a long story short, there is a place for both computers. I just personally don't like Steve Jobs so don't want to support his products. Apple had wonderful products, just not for me.

Just my thoughts....
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DEC PDP 11, I worked on a few of those when I first started at Compaq.

I agree that there is a place with both computers, one thing I do find odd is that most other computer manufacturers don't do more in terms of styling of their computers, people do like nice shiny things!!

 

[granmaz]

OK, so here we are at last!!

 

[KrisannB]

I went to answer a post and could not - the mod did give a link to here this time!

Now to remember what I was going to post about!

Krisann

 

[UKANGEL]

Typical! Just as Im about to reply to lots of things!



Thanks for the photo offer Noel & John, will let Mark know as I reckon we may need to take you up on that


Kaz, your docs must ahev taken a detour I reckon!


Can't remember the rest but hope you're all having a good day....better than mine anyway!

 

[DisneyVegas1]

Making me Mark XXX

 

[Hoagie Pie]

YEAH!! We are here - do you think this will be the last before the cruise?

 

[tweety0227]

On our last disney cruise, we were a little disappointed in the table service. Our servers asked us how their service was, and pressed us to tell them what they could do to improve. So we pointed out a couple of things that we noticed. One was that they sometimes forgot some of our orders. They were better after that.

 

[orlandothebeagle]

YEAH!! We are here - do you think this will be the last before the cruise?

I bloomin hope so!!

 

[Futurist]

YEAH!! We are here - do you think this will be the last before the cruise?

I'll bet you it's not, not the way this group loves to chat!

OTOH, many of us are going to start traveling soon (and some already have), and that may s l o w u s d o w n - at least a little!

 

[Futurist]

Hi all, I'm repeating this question because I'd really like your thoughts. Forgive the repetition!

There's another thread devoted to whether anyone has felt pressured by CMs to give them an "excellent" rating on the satisfaction surveys at the end of the cruise whether they deserve it or not. (BTW, you can find that thread here.)

I don't want to repeat that discussion here, but I would like to ask a related question: Given that Disney needs feedback on their service, how can they get it without being irritating or intruding on our fun? Here's my post from that thread:

QUOTE:
Disney (and all service providers) needs feedback to make sure they can improve their service, and the closer to receiving the service, the fresher our impressions are, and the more reliable the feedback. Yet the very act of asking can intrude on our pleasure as guests.

Next, Disney (and other service providers) rewards and promotes those servers who rate well, and, I would hope, works with and provides more instruction to those who don't rate well. This means that the servers are under pressure to get good scores, and some of them (especially the less confident ones) turn around and put pressure on the guests they are serving to give them good scores. This is OK if they deserve it, and not if they don't, but again, can be irritating in either case.

How can Disney find out who is doing well, who needs more instruction to do better, and what DCL can improve without being intrusive or irritating? Remember that it needs to be done while it's fresh in our minds.

If you were Disney, what would you do? And, as a paying guest, how would you like to give feedback? What have you seen done elsewhere that works, or that you like? What, in your opinion, doesn't work?

This is a difficult problem, and one that's not unique to Disney, but if we can come up with a better way to help Disney improve our experience, and help us have more fun, ultimately we will benefit from it most!
END QUOTE

I would very much be interested in your thoughts on this, especially from those who are repeat cruisers!

Thanks,
Richard

 

[TotallyAngelic]

YEAH!! We are here - do you think this will be the last before the cruise?

Definitely not .... we will get into double figures before we cruise for sure with all the excitement

 

[birkner]

Hi all, I'm repeating this question because I'd really like your thoughts. Forgive the repetition!

There's another thread devoted to whether anyone has felt pressured by CMs to give them an "excellent" rating on the satisfaction surveys at the end of the cruise whether they deserve it or not. (BTW, you can find that thread here.)

I don't want to repeat that discussion here, but I would like to ask a related question: Given that Disney needs feedback on their service, how can they get it without being irritating or intruding on our fun? Here's my post from that thread:

QUOTE:
Disney (and all service providers) needs feedback to make sure they can improve their service, and the closer to receiving the service, the fresher our impressions are, and the more reliable the feedback. Yet the very act of asking can intrude on our pleasure as guests.

Next, Disney (and other service providers) rewards and promotes those servers who rate well, and, I would hope, works with and provides more instruction to those who don't rate well. This means that the servers are under pressure to get good scores, and some of them (especially the less confident ones) turn around and put pressure on the guests they are serving to give them good scores. This is OK if they deserve it, and not if they don't, but again, can be irritating in either case.

How can Disney find out who is doing well, who needs more instruction to do better, and what DCL can improve without being intrusive or irritating? Remember that it needs to be done while it's fresh in our minds.

If you were Disney, what would you do? And, as a paying guest, how would you like to give feedback? What have you seen done elsewhere that works, or that you like? What, in your opinion, doesn't work?

This is a difficult problem, and one that's not unique to Disney, but if we can come up with a better way to help Disney improve our experience, and help us have more fun, ultimately we will benefit from it most!
END QUOTE

I would very much be interested in your thoughts on this, especially from those who are repeat cruisers!

Thanks,
Richard

Repeated reply from thread 8
Personally, I think it should be done online but I do realize not everyone has access to online services.

They might have those persons not willing to participate in an online survey, receive a phone call asking those questions.

Somehow it is so impersonal to just mark your comments down either on a survey or a piece of paper. I have heard of people who mark negative things for no other reason than they are just unpleasant people. To think that a person could loose his or her job over one such a survey seems inefficient to say the least

DCL should do more follow up phone calls, especially to first time cruisers to see what their experiences were and how they could improve. They could do a random selection of persons in all categories to call to get much more feedback than they get in a survey. Questions like did you rebook on board, if so why or if not, why not etc. I think people might tend to be more forthcoming on the phone.

Just my thoughts...

 

[Steffy]

Just checkin' in!

to add newbies! We are going to have the time of our lives....

 

[got2travel]

I do not mind being asked to fill out a survey. However, I do mind being pressured to fill out a survey. If I feel pressured, then I will most likely provide a less than stellar review.

My issue with the DCL surveys is that I often do not have enough space to enter my comments. I felt the need to comment on my room steward on the last cruise. She did a decent job but I NEVER saw her. In fact, the hotel manager had to call on day 3 to arrange a time of when our steward could come by and meet us. Even after that, I think I only saw her 2 other times. I would see the other folks working our area, I just never saw mine. The room was always taken care of satisfactorily but this was the first cruise, on any line, that I did not have any interation with my room steward. I did leave this on the comment card, and tried to stress that she did clean our room well, but I just thought it was unusual to never see her. That was a lot to squeeze into the 3 or so lines that DCL gives your for comments.

I know people rave about DCL and that unique Disney service. But sad to say, I have yet to experience it. Not to say I've had bad service, but I have had much better, more attentive and friendly service on 2 other lines. The only thing that brings me back to DCL is the chance to cruise with my friends.

 

[Candy Apple]

Well, I go to lunch and come back to a closed thread. I'm glad I got my short multi-post in right before that, much to the chagrin of my hungry son who kept asking when lunch was!

 

[minimousefan]

Hi Everyone,

HAY I ordered by Mickey Mouse Club House T shirt on Saturday from Zazzle so i can join in with the club house mickey t shirt wearing on 28th september

its ARRIVED!!!



right from the USA ... that is Amazing so if any one is thinking oh its too late now well don't its cool and really quick!!

jason

 

[minimousefan]

Hi everyone

so in terms of meals looking at Navigator V 1 there are a number of themed nights

20th Gibraltar Theme – Prince & Princess Menu

24th At Sea Theme – Villains

26th At Sea Theme – Pirates of the Caribbean

27th Mon At Sea - Master Chef

28th St. Maarten - Tastes of the Caribbean

29th Tortola - Around the World Semi Formal – Captains Gala

what are these what do they entail whats the food, I know that the pirates of the caribbean people can and do dress up .. on the 28th is the mickey mouse club house t shirts (which i guess is unofficial and purely DIS)

so whats the deal with the different theme meals whats so special about the night that is villians or prince and princess menu - will there be characters out that fit the theme?

Thanks
Jason