Huh? The point is that very few people get a free upgrade to concierge. If paying guests take the space, great. If not, DCL will try to get more profit from the cruise by SELLING these cabins at the port.
I can't even begin to define what "full fare" is on a DCL cruise. The "game" is to get the best price you can for what you want. In my case, that always includes a 10% discount for rebooking while on board--guess that makes me not full fare. But why would I want to give DCL more money that I need to?
From DCL's perspective, an empty cabin is a loss. They will fill every cabin they can. If that means offering restricted fares, CM rates, TA rates or whatever, they will still make money off those cabins. Even if they sell a CM rate at "break even" point, it is likely that the individuals in that cabin will purchase a beverage, a t-shirt, or something else that results in a profit.
it's my understanding that the 10% onboard discount doesn't apply to concierge, but if someone books with an onboard discount more power to them.
a previous poster responded that at the port DCL probably sells concierge for 1/3 of the rack rate....
for our example, let's assume the difference in concierge verandah and the regular verandah is $2,700....so the person would pay just $900 for the upgrade..
so their concierge veranda would be $2,900 rather than $4,700...
of course that's always the case....you pay a premium to be assured of something you very much want.....
i will only cruise in concierge and i prefer a particular cabin so for that i have to pay full fare.....i'm not willing to take a chance that the same cabin will be available at the port...
although based on what i'm seeing, there will be at least 10 one bedroom suites available at the port, and possibly even a royal suite, and all but two of the concierge verandahs are still available...
There will probably be people in concierge that paid less than you and they paid the full concierge rate at the time they booked.
I'm sure my co-worker paid a lot of money for her original verandah room. There were 4 in the room and she likes to be up on deck 9 or 10 in the big family verandah room (4A). She also didn't book with a discount or really early to get a great price. She may have paid the same price for the "free" upgrade as someone who booked concierge very early. One thing I don't like about DCL is that the price is constantly going up, up, up. My cruise for next spring break has already increased $1000 in just 4 months. It's very annoying. I got a good price, but now I feel I can't change the date because the other cruise I want is $1500 more!
i suspect DCL will begin to be more like other cruise lines - prices dropping towards the end.....
except for super peak season, i think they're starting to have some difficulty filling up the Fantasy and the Dream.
Those are two very big ships, both out of port canaveral.
That's a lot of rooms to sell week in and week out, at very high disney prices.
i bet they start dropping those prices as the cruises come closer.
they may start out by offering super discounts to specific groups (florida residents, DVC, etc), but eventually they'll have to heavily discount to fill those ships.
