11 people on Illum Cruise

[Aisling]

When we did an Illuminations cruise a couple of years ago, I could have sworn the max. number of people allowed on the boat was 12.
This time, I was told it's only for 10. The problem is that we have 11 in our group. One is a little peanut of a girl, my 5 year old niece, and I'm hoping we'll be allowed on with 11 since she's so small she hardly counts as a person. Sounds bad, but you know what I mean!
Anyway, does anyone have any ideas of my chances that one of my group will have to be bumped from our cruise? Do you think there's a drop of flexibility? I know there has to be a limit for safety reasons, but if anyone has some info for me, I'd appreciate it. I'm going to call wdw and ask, but thought I'd ask here in the meantime.
Hope someone can help.

Pontoon Boats: Only 4 pontoon boats are available for this cruise. The cost is $150 plus 6% tax for the boat (this includes the pilot). Each pontoon boat will accommodate up to 10 adults or 12 passengers if some of them are children. The cost is not determined by the number of passengers, so sharing a cruise is good idea if you want to reduce cost.

Edited to add this from the Illum sticky thread. I see it's outdated information, since the cruise now costs $250, but I'm hoping the number of people is the same as this quote says.

Note to moderator: a reminder to change the new price info.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I don't know for sure that they won't make an exception, but when I called back and asked for verification on the max # of passengers for our cruise last October they told me 10.
I don't know anything about boats, but the pontoon boats they are using are new. Maybe they are smaller than the old ones? I think they might be a little different shape because there were some discussions about the marinas/docks and the way the boat decks line up.
Good luck! It is confusing to plan things when the rules keep changing.

 

[Twinprincesses]

I just went a couple mondays ago and we had 11 ppl. 2 of them were 3, 4 were between 9 & 11 and the rest were adults. They never said anything but we were prepared to have one person left off in case they said anything. We still had plenty of room on our boat even with 11 ppl.

 

[Aisling]

Thanks, I feel a lot better!

 

[aengus]

I believe its 10 adults and 2 children max capacity. You should be all set.