Claireywalsh
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Oct 29, 2014
I’ve often toyed with the idea of doing a pre trip report but something always crops up but this time I’ve decided I’m going to give it a go as I feel like I have so much planning and organising to do it might actually help me get things straightened out and make some room in my head for other essential stuff!!
So here goes - we are a family of 3 from Chesterfield in the UK - myself, Claire, 35 year old wife/mum who is lead Disney fan in the family. My husband Sean, 39, who complained when we first met about our first trip together to Florida but now has his own appreciation of all things mouse. And last but not least Maddison, our almost 11 year old daughter who has no idea what life would be like without the influence of Walt cropping up into our every day life
We are booked onto the 26th of August sailing to Alaska on the beautiful Disney Wonder and this will be our third Disney cruise.
We have sailed to Alaska before on the Wonder in 2015 and said pretty much straight after debarkation that we would be back. This summer is the last one before Maddison starts senior/high school so we decided this would be a great time to go and started planning the trip last year when the sailings were released.
As it’s quite a long flight over we decided we would make the most of it and tagged a few days on before the cruise to explore some more of Canada as we literally only had a few days in Vancouver and Whistler last time.
Our itinerary currently looks like this.
Wednesday 14th August - drive down to Gatwick airport and stay over as it’s about 4 hours away from where we live.
Thursday 15th - fly out to Calgary.
Its about a 9 1/2 hour flight and we should arrive around 2pm.We have organised a transfer to our first hotel. We will then pick up a hire car the day after.
We then have:
2 nights in Banff
2 nights at Moraine lake
1 night in Jasper
2 nights in Clearwater
2 nights in kelowna
2 nights in Vancouver
Then it’s cruise time!!
We have all the hotels booked for our stops but I have yet to start looking at excursions and things to do at each location. Any hints/tips/things to avoid/key info will be greatly appreciated as I want to try and get stuff down!! This time in 19 weeks we will be in Banff!!
So here goes - we are a family of 3 from Chesterfield in the UK - myself, Claire, 35 year old wife/mum who is lead Disney fan in the family. My husband Sean, 39, who complained when we first met about our first trip together to Florida but now has his own appreciation of all things mouse. And last but not least Maddison, our almost 11 year old daughter who has no idea what life would be like without the influence of Walt cropping up into our every day life
We are booked onto the 26th of August sailing to Alaska on the beautiful Disney Wonder and this will be our third Disney cruise.
We have sailed to Alaska before on the Wonder in 2015 and said pretty much straight after debarkation that we would be back. This summer is the last one before Maddison starts senior/high school so we decided this would be a great time to go and started planning the trip last year when the sailings were released.
As it’s quite a long flight over we decided we would make the most of it and tagged a few days on before the cruise to explore some more of Canada as we literally only had a few days in Vancouver and Whistler last time.
Our itinerary currently looks like this.
Wednesday 14th August - drive down to Gatwick airport and stay over as it’s about 4 hours away from where we live.
Thursday 15th - fly out to Calgary.
Its about a 9 1/2 hour flight and we should arrive around 2pm.We have organised a transfer to our first hotel. We will then pick up a hire car the day after.
We then have:
2 nights in Banff
2 nights at Moraine lake
1 night in Jasper
2 nights in Clearwater
2 nights in kelowna
2 nights in Vancouver
Then it’s cruise time!!
We have all the hotels booked for our stops but I have yet to start looking at excursions and things to do at each location. Any hints/tips/things to avoid/key info will be greatly appreciated as I want to try and get stuff down!! This time in 19 weeks we will be in Banff!!