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Well, the DCL Alaska cruise/category stateroom  I'm been keeping an eye on went up again this morning.  By $500!!  That's a lot of dough.  Still cheaper than the other weeks though and I have some wiggle room - but not a lot, afterall, we need us some gold panning & whales - so have to make sure we have enough $ left over to do something when we get there.  :)  

Oh well, DCL is still not out (yet), the other two cruise time frames I have been watching didn't go up at all.  I guess the 8/9th being one of the cheaper cruise times would book more, huh?   So far there isn't even a meet & greet for 8/2nd.   8/2nd is priced higher, but is a better time frame for me.    I get a bonus at the end of July + with my work schedule 8/2nd works much better - even if it is more $.   But there is no meet & greet to see if they will have fun things.    I know it may sound silly - but if I'm going to pay for the disney magical feelings, I want my DDs to get to do the fish extender exchange.  

OK, I have a WWYD question...

David and I were looking at Carnival cruises last night and we could book the same cruise, same days with Carnival and save about $500. We are really tempted to switch to Carnival. That is a lot of money. If I cancelled with Disney then I could take what I have already paid them and completely pay off the Carnival cruise. We are really torn b/c we like the look of the Disney cruise better (not a floating Vegas hotel) BUT $500...that's a lot of money.
We could go on exactly the same excursion with Carnival to Atlantis that we were going to do with Disney and we would add the swim with the Dolphins. :) We wouldn't get a pirate party or Castaway Cay and I would miss Animators Palate. :( But $500 is $500.

What would you do??

If it were just John and I going, I would do Carnival and apply the $ elsewhere.  We would be going more for adult time and romance.   We have seen the characters at WDW.   If I were taking kids - I would pay more for the Disney enviroment.

But that is just me.

Have you looked at Royal Caribbean?  How does their prices compare for what you want?   They seem to be a nice balance between Disney & Carnival from the reviews I've read.  

            

        

I looked at RC and they don't sail out of Port Canaveral on the day we want to sail. So it's either Disney or Carnival. Carnival has the identical sailing date and time so it would work perfectly with our airline tix.

Yea Deb, I am leaning the same way. If the boys were coming I wouldn't even question changing but with it being just us, we can do the same excursions and get a massage on that ship just as well as on Disney. I don't like the style of decorating on the Carnival as much, but really, should that stop me from saving $500? LOL I will that nice split bath though... It's hard for me to cancel the Disney cruise b/c I really would love it but when I look at the Carnival site I don't see how I can justify the extra $$. Plus, we will be at Disney for five nights before the cruise so it's not like I'm not getting my Disney fix. :)