Welcome Joanie and Tom! You will have a ball.

Editing to give an official welcome to Marcie and Tom! A birdie tipped me off a few days ago that it was in the works.

Marcie and Tom,

Carol and I are so envious. You are doing FUN 2 and then staying on the ship to do the round So America . Great planning. You were going to Florida any way for So Am now you work FUN 2 into. What a planner. Looking forward to a terrific time. Who brings the chips and cards. I think Tom as he will need them for a few times after FUN 2.

I ALWAYS try to remember to bring duct tape Todd, you never know when it will save the day or someone's luggage (usually ours)!

Karen, Pat and I will be in 863.

It has been a long time since we've sailed with some; less time for others. We're looking forward to seeing old friends again, naking new friends, enjoying the cruise and just having a grand old time!

Tom and Marcie too!!!! YYIIPPEE!!!!

Marcie & Tom

The Mariner deck 8 seems to be listing starboard with FUNsters :D

This cruise just keeps getting SWEETER!!!

Karen, please add our good friends to the list:

Bryan & Judy~ 827
Nick & Diane ~ 833

I can't wait to meet your friends, Betty!

Yikes I cant stand it. How can you all get together without Ken and me. We talked this morning and Ken and I are going to fly in the night before the ships sails. One night is better than nothing with so many LCT'ers gathered together.

Yeah we will get to see everyone! Some the night before on the 3rd and we can get on board before sailing on the 4th and see everyone.

Ngaire & Ken, this is the best news of all! Maybe when you get on board we can hold you captive and not let you off :D

Oh Ngaire, that will be so much fun! I will take one one and a half days over none!!!

JACKPOT!!!

Awesome news Ngaire & Ken!

WOW this is really turning into a huge group and sounds like a lot of FUN! :D :app: Thinking.......

Keep thinking JoAnn!
Now if we could just get Robert and Paul on this cruise!

Deciding??????

Just saw the post from Ngaire!!! This is great news!! Even the night before the cruise will be fun!

Ngaire... now you know how we all felt when you were initalliy planning HO DOWN.... we were all thinking the same thing..."Can't have a party without me"

:lct:

This is has been so amazing to be a part of and we aren't even on the ship yet!

Alice and I will be in early and attend the dinner or whatever is going on pre-cruise. We are probably going to fly down on the 31st. We might fly into Orlando, see the new "Wizarding Wolrd of Harry Potter" that opened last month at Universal Studios. Then head south and do an Everglades tour.

For excursions, we are going to be very scuba dive or snorkel focused.

Key West: We've done the Fury Catamaran Snorkel before. We'll do that again if I don't book a dive.
Cozumel: Scuba Diving
Belize: Still open to being "propelled out of the mouth of the cave", but I think I'm close to convincing her that "Absolute Paradise" would be better. Or scuba diving depending on what we do in Santo Tomas the next day.
Santo Tomas: Hoping for Tikal
Costa Maya: Scuba diving

The Matassa's miss a dinner and get together the night before?? ....surely you jest.

Of course we'll be there.

Does anyone know how many people Prime 7 seats? I thought it would be fun if maybe we all reserve on the same night, maybe our sea day as we would be sure no one would be out on late excursions.

If anyone has any interest, I can start a post to sign up and we can see how many people and how many tables we would need to reserve.

Alice and I are interested.

I Googled it and found there are either 70 or 74 seats in Prime 7, depending on which website you look at

So are Marc and I

I will start a post to see how many we might have sign up.

Hi everyone. This cruise is going to be too much Fun2 miss. Please add Tom and Mona to the list, cabin 872.

We're looking forward to seeing everyone again, some people we haven't cruised with since MUSH.

We're in for the pre-cruise dinner and we'll be watching to see if a pre-cruise hotel consensus develops.

Can't wait. Tom and Mona.

Tom, I am so glad to see you and Mona signed up!

This just keeps getting better and better!

I missed seeing Mona when you were here in Brussels so we have catching up to do!

Was wondering when you would sign up Tom. We are seriously considering this, along with Dick and Nancy and will make our decision this weekend. Wooohooo!

Welcome Tom and Mona...sure happy you'll be with us !

JoAnn, it would be so great to have you, Frank, Dick and Nancy along. We'll keep our fingers crossed that it works out. Tom.

OK- Karen we are in, as well as our friends Dick and Nancy (although they could end up not coming, who knows). Cabin numbers tomorrow.

Yes - we will come a day early
Yes - dinner night before
Yes - add us and Dick and Nancy to Prime 7 dinner.

They will use Regent air from LAX so have no idea yet if Regent will put them on a redeye or bring them in a day early, will let you know as soon as I do.

This will be one great party for sure.

Yippee JoANN!

Great news JoAnn.

We may want to look at booking hotels sooner rather than later. Next year's Orange Bowl is January 3rd. I have no idea how that affects the hotel situation in FLL since the game is in Miami, but if big teams are involved, it could. I'm sure there's plenty of capacity, but hotels may play games with the pricing.

Just a thought.

Forgot about that John and I was looking at a couple of hotels and thought prices seemed a little high - but I would guess that the sooner booked the better.
Even the Embassy suites was over $200. We usually like Pier 66, so am going to check that out immediately.

Good point.

Maybe we can all bunk at Joanna and Tony's, and Betty and Larry's. LOL :p

Good morning! This is Viv (John & Tonya's friends). Greg & I booked this trip early this year. We tried to get some of our local Ft Laud friends to go ... but no takers. We thought we'd be alone.... but this is turning into quite the party!! Looking forward to connecting with old friends and making new!! I checked excursions this morning... and they are not up yet. Greg & I live locally in Ft Lauderdale. If anyone needs restuartant/hotel/ etc recommendations... please let us know. Happy 4th of July weekend to all. Greg & I are in 735.

Karen - our cabin # is878, Dick and Nancy 880.

Welcome to LCT Viv and Greg, look forward to meeting you.

Hi Viv and welcome to you and Greg! I will be your neighbor, 2 doors down from you.

PS If you would like a picture under you name, feel free to send me one and I will install it for you.

We are staying at the Sheraton Fort Lauderdale beach hotel for 2800 Starwoods points and $45 cash.
We stayed there last year and loved it, it's the old Yankee Clipper but has been remodeled.

I looked at that Karen, might join you although we don't have enough Starwood points. will check it out, usually we stay at Pier 66.

Karen - thanks for the photo offer. I am out of town until next week... but will send you a pic of Greg & I from our Med trip last year. Where should I send it? I will send when I get home and get back to my photos.

Viv, you can email it to karen@brownandkeene.com