Adventure In The Great Wide Somewhere

So the downside (the only one, actually) to the honor of your home state serving as a homeport for the Disney Cruise Line is while you're saving on the airfare to Florida, this means that you aren't going to Florida. Wait, no Florida? Let me repeat myself. You aren't going to Florida. Which means you lose the bonus trip to Walt Disney World "while we're in the neighborhood." Making the most of DCL out of Galveston, we scheduled a week long cruise over Thanksgiving and a six night cruise on May 4, 2013. On August 20, 2012, just before the Magic arrived in Galveston and less than nine months until our May 4 cruise, the DIS-ers who had eight night cruises booked for spring 2013 received one of two emails. Bad news first: Half of the eight night cruises turned into back to back four night cruises with only a single stop in Cozumel, Disney helped move these cruisers to the remaining eight night dates, six night dates, let them stay on the original f...

"What's the Sitch?"      We need to take our first family vacation to Walt Disney World in under a day Background: Several days after the pixie dust settles a Disney Parks survey appears in the junk filter. After the obligatory evaluation questions, I peruse the options and rapidly select seven and eight night itineraries leaving from my home state of Texas. Months later, Disney Cruise Line reveals Western Caribbean Galveston itineraries. I feel like Belle, yearning for the adventures yet to come! The fireworks at the end of that magical day? A little pixie dust as our itinerary transformed into a Bahamian cruise, complete with a single day in Port Canaveral including Walt Disney World Park Hopper Tickets and Disney Cruise Line Bus transfers. But just like Cinderella with her pumpkin carriage, I need to respect that this trip to WDW had a strict curfew; if I return to port after the clock struck midnight, the Magic would be quite ...