EastYorkDisneyFan
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- Sep 14, 2006
But isn't Disney's overall business families. They market the parks to families. Why does the cruise line have to be different?I think it's a combination of a few factors:
1) Disney is associated with being a cruise for kids and with a lot of kids. That assumption drives away the adults without kids or those who want to cruise without their own kids. Disney needs to better market themselves to adults without driving away their bread and butter - families. Not saying it's easy, but to be competitive they should.
Do other cruise lines change up their itinerates every year?2) The itineraries are too repetitive. While no new countries are being discovered, Disney could do a better jobs of getting to a variety of the ones that exist. Vary the number of days - the longer crises seem to be selling in Europe (until the PIF date arrives) - why not try longer cruises here that can hit ports new to Disney
Again as Ill asked before do other cruise lines that sail in Europe change itinerates every year or do they do the same one?3) Even in Europe, the 7 nights are the same. We will be in Europe 2013 to visit family and I would love to do a Disney cruise - we did the Med in 2010. The 7 night cruise hit the same ports. Even in Europe there is nothing different for a 7 night cruise.
4) They are over-priced. Carnival, Norwegian and Royal Caribbean both have new ships and lots to offer for kids. Carnival is doing a lot to revamp their "party" image. Disney is charging a lot of money to go to the same places year after year. All 3 lines can offer Disney a run for their money.
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True they do cost more but they dont have things that other cruise lines do to make money like a casino or charging people for every drink they get on board even at self serve drink stations. Im sure they would love to be able to charge as much as the lines you mentioned but at the same time they dont want to put a casino on board to make up the difference.