What is a Fish extender gifts?
Fish extenders (also known as FEs), are hanging gift bags, usually embroidered with the names of the family members traveling together, that are hung from small metal fish, used as mailboxes to receive info and dinner invitations by the cabin stewards, located next to the cabin doors.
What is a FE gift?
Technically, a Fish Exchange (FE) is the process of gifting and receiving presents with other Disney cruisers. The Fish Extender is the actual device hanging outside a cruise cabin door in which gifts are placed.
Why is it called Fish extender?
They are called “Fish Extenders” because you hang something on the fish (or seahorse) outside your stateroom door to give participants a place to leave surprises for you. To participate, you need to do three things: Make or Buy goodies to deliver to the other staterooms in your exchange.
Where can I find a fish extender group?
You can sign up to be part of a Fish Extender group with other staterooms on your sailing via Facebook groups. To find your group, just use Facebook’s search feature to enter your ship name and sail date (example: Disney Dream February 5, 2018).
How many people are in a fish extender group?
Most groups are made up of 10 – 12 cabins. You can choose to give a gift for the whole cabin or give individual gifts to each member of the cabin.
How do Disney Cruise fish extenders work?
Fish extenders are pretty big deals on Disney cruises. In a nutshell, Fish Extender exchanges are organized group gift exchanges arranged ahead of time through a Facebook or DISboards cruise page. The gifts are placed in the Fish Extender holder outside the participant’s stateroom.
How do I join a fish extender group?
How do you I join a Fish Extender (FE) Group for my cruise? The easiest way to join an FE group is to join the Facebook cruise group for your date. Cruise groups organize the FE exchange for your sail date.
How do you join a fish extender group?
Is Disney allowing fish extenders?
Although Fish Extender gifts have been a tradition on Disney Cruise Line for many years, it wasn’t surprising when notice went out on Disney’s “Know Before You Go” page that Fish Extenders are not permitted at this time.