avonladyb

The cruise is not free: you get about a 20% discount off the Fun Saver rate, which about equals whatever the cheapest choose your own room rate is. We are going to the May 12 sailing of Magic out of Port Canaveral. We moved our dd to Orlando over Christmas (from Oklahoma), so we are using it as an excuse to go early and spend time with her, lol. (The money we are saving on Disney this trip would pay for most of another cruise, lol: way to go Disney girl for getting hired on your first audition! Free entry to the parks and huge discount on hotels).

Congrats to your boyfriend on the win.

We mostly drive to Galveston from Tulsa area: about an 8 hour drive plus stops. New Orleans is 2-3 hours more. We've only flown for the longer cruises we couldn't do out of Galveston (Hawaii and Alaska), but now that we've done most of those several times over, and our daughter just moved to Orlando, we are looking into more cruises out of Florida. After I exhaust our points for free flying, we'll have to fly, or drive 18 hours. But for now, I've got enough for 2-3 rt flights for the 2 of us. :)