Booking for several families?

[dlin2011]

What's the best way to book rooms for 6 families going together? One person is paying a portion of everyone's room. Does that one person need to book them all? Or can one person work with a travel agent to book them all, then each family can call to make their other payments?

 

[PrincessShmoo]

What's the best way to book rooms for 6 families going together? One person is paying a portion of everyone's room. Does that one person need to book them all? Or can one person work with a travel agent to book them all, then each family can call to make their other payments?

When traveling with a large group, it's often a better idea to use a TA to be the center point. That way you don't wind up being the "heavy" when it comes to "time to make a payment" or "get your online check in done".

 

[willowsnn3]

We have 3 rooms booked for May. One daughter booked her room and I booked one for myself & one for my other daughter. I paid the $200 deposit for each room I booked. My room has all my info & the other has my daughter's info as person responsible for payment.

Ack! Sorry I was thinking of the resorts not a cruise.

 

[Anchors Away 2016]

When traveling with a large group, it's often a better idea to use a TA to be the center point. That way you don't wind up being the "heavy" when it comes to "time to make a payment" or "get your online check in done".

I agree with Shmoo. We had three family units going. We used my sister's TA to arrange things. Having said that, we still got all the control we wanted. We told the TA which rooms to book, which flights to book, etc. Plus we booked all of our own on-board activities.

But when it came to payments, the TA took care of everything. They sent each family a bill that was appropriate for their share (even though my mother was staying in the same state room with my sister's family) and when my mother wanted to pay part of each families' bill, the TA took care of applying that and let us know how much was left for each family to pay.

It made it a lot easier to keep track of, and if there was an issue with a family not having paid yet, the TA would have been on top of it.

 

[CM Dad]

One person is paying a portion of everyone's room. Does that one person need to book them all?

I don't think DCL cares who pays for a room. As long as they have the reservation number and information about the guests traveling in the room. Each family could book these on there on or one person could book all of the staterooms. The two times we traveled with our kids and grandkids, we had 4 or5 staterooms and I just let our TA handle the booking. She got us all staterooms in the same area. The first time it was the Walt suite and the three verandah staterooms next to it, and the last time was 5 inside cabins in the same hall.

 

[Laundress]

We usually travel with extended family and 3 cabins. Found TA was the way to go. Reservation is connected but everyone has control of their situation.

 

[hanna-nana]

Was definitely going to use a TA. Good to know everyone can make payments as they wish. Would this all work the same with Costco? That cash back card would be nice.