BOOKING
A lot of you have been on
DCL cruises before and booked before, but the booking system has been updated in the last year, and its one of thoose things that at 00:00, you want to do it on automatic pilot, (like a Fire alarm), as mistakes often occur.
I have read all to often people posting they thought they had booked things go to bed and find they have gone in the morning.
First rule.
All shore trips. Save your favorites into saved activities before your booking window, it will speed up the process, and on DCL, seconds mean the difference in getting something or loosing out.
Next rule: 00:00
You can log into the DCL site and your profile anytime, say 10 mins before etc, not to long as it can log you out without activity.
I went in via the
Castaway club part, my cruises, it has your old cruises there and your booked ones and you can click on your reservation number there. Do that its fast, saves you putting in the number, but not before 00:00 Internet time. (UK is now 05:00 as we are on BST).
Your in!
Select if you want Palo, or Shore trips or spa.
On the buttons.
Palo
Three Options
Brunch, tea, Dinner.
Select which one.
Select the
name of the booking, IE Lead person.
A drop down opens up, select 'all' or the names for this meal booking.
You now '
continue' and the next page.
Time slots appear for your meal, as follows:-
Select which one, and continue.
Now you have options here, it will be
'unconfirmed' (see shore trips latter in this post, ) but you can 'confirm' now, and ensure you have it, or select another meal type, your choice.
On my example on the right hand side it shows the confirmed schedule,
Shore trips.
You will get every single shore trip come up, but you can cut these down.
I would toggle on
'saved activities', that will be your favorite only.
But you can do this by
Port or by
activity type.
On this you can see the first shore trip for Copenhagen showing, if you wanted this you would
click on it.
Then at the bottom, select the people in your group going, either all or by name.
Select continue.
Times/days come up if an option.
Select and continue.
And then in all cases
You must save and confirm or they will remain unconfirmed IE not booked.
Here you have an example of
confirmed (booked) items and also
Unconfirmed (not booked items).
After this
My cruise plans should show everything booked.
Last tips,
Never use the 'back' button.
Do not allow someone else to have their laptop on and in your reservation.
Do not 'block cookies' to DCL on yuor internet browser.
So I am tempted to download some guide books for this trip.
I'm ready to get out of here and head to FL next weekend. 
That sounds like an answer I would give.
