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Yes, we are on for dinner. It will be you 2, Sue & Dave, Dave & Alise and Dave & me. Enough Dave's for you? LOL. Reservation is in my name for 8:30. Restaurant address is 4041 North West 7th St. Looking forward to meeting you. :)

 

Meet and greets are as follows:

 

Most likely we will gather in the atrium right after boarding for drinks and to see everyone arrive. Sail away (right after the safety drill) we will be at the aft pool/bar area. On the first sea day we will meet at 2:00 in the Liquid Night Club. We will have the white elephant exchange then. On the last sea day we will meet at 1:00 in the Liquid Night Club again. We will do the cabin crawl that day.

 

Can't wait! :D

Thanks, Heidi. "Enough Dave's for me?"... are you kidding? We are more than happy to be a part of the Dave Sausagefest!! What is the name of the restaurant? Will the reservation be under the name "HeidiHo?" How will we know that it is you'all, & not some other Dave wannabes? You will know me, because I will be the one NOT wearing my leiderhosen...though Susie does think it's s-e-x-y. (waxing my legs for pre-cruise preparation is not my idea of a fun time - can I get a big "Amen," to that, ladies?)

Would someone please post the details (what time, where & who-all is attending) of the other pre-cruise dinner at Bayside? Maybe we will be able to stop by for a drink & meet everyone - no need to increase the reservation... we wouldn't stay long. Thanks.

Can't wait to meet everyone.

Bags packed... ready to get out of this frozen tundra! We have a 6 pm flight to Miami.

Heidi - Are we still on for dinner tomorrow night? Who all is going?

Would you please re-post info on sail-away gathering, Meet & Greet and Cabin Crawl?

Thanks.

Really getting excited now!

I will see if we can get a reservation for about 8 people at the cuban place. We should make it quite late though like at least 8:30, maybe 9:00. What do you think, Sue and Fritz & Susie? We will need to eat no matter what. We will probably be starving by the time we get to the hotel.

Heidi; please count us in on your reservation. Thanks.

Dave really wants to try the Cuban restaurant near our hotel. Fritz & Susie, Kathy & Frank, and anyone else are welcome to join us! As Heidi said, our flights get to FLL at 6:30. By the time we get luggage, get to our hotel & get checked in, it will probably be close to 8 pm before we get to the restaurant. That will be fine for us, because coming from the West coast, it's actually 5 pm our time! :D

 

I really dont think we'll make it to Bayside for pre-cruise activities. It's just going to be too late, and I dont think we want to take a taxi over there after travelling all day.

 

From reading reviews of the DR Altos de Chavon tour, it sounds like fun. They have music & dancing on the boat on the way back -- & rum! :D

 

Fritz & Susie, you sound like our kinda folk! That 5-Dave sausagefest can't hold a candle to The Susie Club! Just Another Dave has been holding out on us!! We had no idea he was a cross dresser! He needs to ditch The Daves and come join The Susies! But even though we are cowboys from The Wild West, we are NOT rednecks! We embrace all walks of life -- well, except for vegetarians. We dont have much use for peeps of that ilk. You're not vegetarians, are you????

A Cuban restaurant sounds great - please count us in. If we get too hungry before 8:30 we will probably check out the nearby Catch of The Day restaurant. Either way, we will meet up with you all at 8:30.

The Susie Club definitely sounds like more fun than the 5 Dave Sausagefest. Just want to set the record straight... Alise's Dave is NOT really a cross dresser! (at least, that's what he told me)

Definitely NOT vegetarians here! We will eat anything with, or without a face, that moos, oinks, chirps, quacks, bleats, honks, flies, swims, waddles, hangs from a tree or grows out of the ground.

Welcome, Fritz & Susie!! Glad to have you onboard! Don't worry, you don't have to be an official Cupid to hang out with us. You just have to be fun and kind of cool! So the question is: are you fun & cool?? :p

 

Cupids are just a group of us that sail together around Valentine's Day. Get it? Valentine's Day - Cupid. We love meeting new people, and welcome everyone to join with us on the ship and off.

 

We already have The Five Daves, but since your wife is Susie and my name is Sue (but my dad calls me Susie), maybe we could start a "Susie Club" and give a little competition to all these Daves we have onboard! Fritz, if you change YOUR name to Susie, we'd have 3 members! Food for thought.....

 

Excursions: the excursion Heidi is talking about in La Romana is called Altos de Chavon River Boat tour, and is booked through Carnival. It sounds fun (we are booked on this one also) - you can read about it on the Carnival website. We are going to Jack's Shack in Grand Turk and Eagle Beach in Aruba. My hubby doesn't really want to do a sunset cruise in Curacao, but if lots of our group are going to, we might join in.

 

Everyone is spread around this time, but we are staying at a Fairfield Inn about halfway between the airport and the port. Heidi and Dave are at the same hotel. There's a big boat show that weekend, so lots of the hotels near port were booked a long time ago.

 

ONE MONTH! Getting excited for this cruise!

Hi All!

Thanks to Ryan, Dave, Heidi and Sue for your replies to my questions - it helped a lot.

We just booked our air & hotel - prices are ridiculously HIGH - thanks a lot, Big Boat Show! We are staying near the airport at the Crowne Plaza (very close to the Fairfield Inn Airport South). I am thinking... that due to our later arrival & close proximity to the airport, we probably will be unable to join the group at Bayside for dinner on Friday. Anyone, staying near the airport, want to do a Pre-Cruise / Valentine's Day / Happy Hour(s) / Dinner Get Together??

Heidi - Please sign us up for the Meet & Greet, White Elephant Exchange & Cabin Crawl. Also, would you please give me more details about the excursion in the DR... (i.e. what is included, time, duration and price) I am unable to access shore excursions on the CCL website (probably a problem caused by being a Mac user)

Sue, I will consider changing MY name to Suzie so I can be part of the "Susie Club" - probably a lot more fun than being a part of the "5 Dave Sausagefest" lol (maybe Alise's Dave would let me borrow some of the clothes he used for his cross-dressing karaoke act?)

Starting to get excited!

Well hello Fritz & Susie this is Dave (the good looking one) glad to hear you are thinking of cruising with us again. Alise or Al as some call her is hoping you will join us and the rest of the Cupids gang. We remember how funny it was when Fritz was detained by Carnival security because they thought he was a celebrity and they wanted his autograph.

I guess we are all bound to have that happen once in a while.

 

If you are planning on coming let us know and maybe we could do some excursions together.

Hi Dave, Alise & all the other Cupids!

We have booked this cruise!! We have spent the last several days reading this board, and if the posts are any indication of the Cupids group going on this cruise... I think Susie and I will have a great old time. Hey Dave (the self described "Good Looking One"), I recall you also telling me that you were the most fun of all the Daves too... there seems to be some disagreement here on the board!

I have a few questions: (please bear with me if they have already been asked & answered on previous posts)

1) What does it take to become an Official "Cupid?" Does it cost anything extra? What are the Perks? Do you get anything special if your name is Dave? (I would consider changing Susie's name!)

2) Is there a roll call list of participants and list of activities scheduled for the group?

3) Will Dave (the one that belongs to Alise) do his cross-dressing Karaoke act again.

4) Is the pre-cruise dinner on Friday 2/14 open to anyone (Cupid or Notpid)? If so, please put the details on the board, as I cannot do facebook.

5) What is everyone doing in the ports? Any more info on the Sunset Cruise in Curacao?

6) Where is everyone staying pre-cruise? Near the Port? Near the Airport? FLL? Bayside?

Sorry for all the questions... we are so EXCITED to be cruising with Dave & Alise again & hanging with the rest of the Cupids gang. Sooo little time to get everything in order. Thanks for any help you all can give us.

Hi,

We sailed on a Carnival cruise in 2011 with a couple who said they were part of a "Cupid" group on a previous cruise. He was a really nice guy who was a retired firefighter from Nebraska, Dave, I think was his name. He said there were a whole bunch of Daves in the Cupid group, but he said he was by far the best looking one of the bunch. :) Wife was Alise or maybe Alice or Alex(?). Is this the same Cupid group? Is Dave booked on this cruise? They were a lot of fun and we had a gay old time last time we cruised with them.

We're thinking of booking, but want to be sure "fun Dave" is going to be sailing on this cruise. Anybody know? Dave, are you out there lurking?

Inquiring minds want to know.......we're itching to book!