There will undoubtedly be GT cruises at least. Keep checking.
This...my wife and I's cruise on the Fantasy in March was madness.
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Not to capacity, no. Capacity means all of the possible guests in all of the possible rooms. Bigger families sailing vs. smaller families and more adult couples and solos sailing will generate a very different feel in crowds, even on sold-out cruises.Do the ships not usually sail close to capacity? Definitely noticed it on Castaway Cay...had a hard time finding chairs. But the whole cruise was sort of a mess missing our port at Grand Cayman & taking 3x to dock at CC. Pool deck was slammed with 4 days at sea
Booked a placeholder but thinking I'll have it refunded with pricing for 5 in one stateroom close to 5k for 4 night sailings. That's a bit much.
I completely agree
I won't speak for the OP but I liked the post because I agreed with it in this: many of those cruises were off season which usually have fewer kids. The d+ deal was 3rd 4th guest free, which meant a lot more families pulling kids out of school in jan/feb which meant crowded and loud ships with larger families than usual for that time of year.
Exactly plus a lot of firsttimers. Normally there is a healthy mix of returned cruisers and firsttimers, now it seemed when they asked in the theatre (I did two MDAS and one Pixar during the offer) that about 80-90% were firsttimers and it gives a very different vibe: people not knowing what they are doing, people not being familiar with cruise etiquette etc. Normally the experience of the returned cruisers kind of helps the newbies to get their stuff together but now it was just a madness. As far as lines, skipping lines, screaming all over the ship but also leaving empty cups and plates in hallways and at other places were you are not supposed to leave them I have never felt more sorry for the crew than those three cruises, especially the b2b MDAS.
So are they “a very different type of families” or families that just don’t know the ropes yet, cruising-wise? I mean, all of us were first-timers once.
I feel like you're trying to make something out of nothing.
Well, to go back to what you meme’d earlier, what is it that “everyone is thinking but not saying”?
They obviously meant-gasp-poor people who ordinarily can’t afford a Disney cruise. The same vibe as someone staying at GF who gets irritated at the lowly masses who dare to come gawk and dine at their resort. They can say “first time cruisers” or whatever but this is what they meant and it’s gross.
If you've kept up with the posts about those sailings you'll see that there have been tons of posts about how loud and packed those sailings were. The gif was ironic because there has been a lot of discussion about it, ie a lot of people saying it. For example, I was on the first MDAS sailing right after new years and was surprised to find the Dream was at over 3,700 guests. I didn't think that many families would pull the kids out of school like a week after Christmas vacation. When I checked the boards when I got back, I read all the posts about how successful the d+ offer had been.
I think the comments in that arena were exaggerated, anyway. I'm Platinum but usually sail among a lot of first-timers because I'm a teacher and have to mainly sail during school holidays. Those cruises tend to have less experienced cruisers on them and a lot of kids on them. I've seen occasional annoying behaviors but nothing that would ruin a cruise. For example, on my Magic cruise last week (summer and a lot of GT rates), the family ahead of me did the "whoop whoop we're cruising" type of yelling as they walked through the plexiglass gangway to board, which I found annoying and not appropriate. But it was just one family out of many, and they didn't do it for long. Oh, well. There weren't people yelling throughout the cruise. Most people were very polite.
I don't put words in your mouth, please don't put them in mine.
