Capacity trends?

[jnsma]

Does anyone know if there is a place to find how many passengers are on board for each cruise?

I think the biggest concern I have with cruising during this time is how tightly packed people are in the dining rooms for dinner when the ships are full (pre-covid). I trust Disney todo what it can to keep everyone safe, but they are also looking at their bottom line and want as many people as possible.
I’ve read that the initial dream and now fantasy sailings were half full or less. I was curious if that trend is continuing.

Thanks!

 

[Maggie'sMom]

I was on the 9/6 Dream cruise. We had around 1650 passengers.

 

[Fruto76]

I was on the 8/16 and was told just under 1400 guests- and fully staffed. Late dining felt like a local restaurant on a Tuesday at 3:00pm. It was fabulous and service top notch!

 

[jktmom]

Are people noticing that the 3 day weekend sailings have more people than the 4 day weekday sailings now that school is back in session?

 

[Disneyland_emily]

Most cruises have reported to be 1000-1600 heads- since none of them were pulled from sale (& all offered discounts) they were all naturally under whatever ‘limit’ DCL has.

until you start seeing cruises ‘sell out’ or not go to discount ( I think all sep/oct sailings are on cast discount) they probably won’t be ‘crowded’

 

[TheBigErn]

How did they reduce capacity? I booked our up coming November cruise in July 2019. I assume it eventually filled before covid. I never received a request from DCL to cancel and sail on another date. Just curious how they reduced capacity.

 

[2XPCV]

On 9/10 our stateroom host told us 1,034 passengers on the Dream.

 

[lanejudy]

I think low capacity this fall occurred naturally by people cancelling or pushing their cruise further out. I haven't heard of DCL needing to cut back bookings for any of the US cruises, though I believe they did make such an offer for a couple of the early UK cruises.

 

[Maggie'sMom]

How did they reduce capacity? I booked our up coming November cruise in July 2019. I assume it eventually filled before covid. I never received a request from DCL to cancel and sail on another date. Just curious how they reduced capacity.

I don't think you can assume your cruise filled before COVID. I think DCL blocked a lot of rooms off on multiple cruises right before announcing their restart. I'd been watching my cruise and saw plenty of rooms available right before DCL announced their restart plans, then overnight all available inside rooms disappeared and there appeared to be fewer rooms available in the other categories.

I think right now they are relying on people cancelling on their own to reduce capacity. Plenty of people are cancelling their cruises in the near term because they are concerned about the risks of travel, don't want to spend the money on a vacation where they have to wear masks indoors and have limited entertainment options, or can't/don't want to comply with the vaccine and testing requirements.

I also think this is why DCL isn't publishing a capacity limit. They want some flexibility so they don't have to cancel people if they are over a published capacity limit. With testing at the port, there will be people that can't board due to positive tests. If a cruise is slightly over a certain capacity, the number turned away at the port might bring them under that percent, or if they can sail slightly over their desired capacity without upsetting anyone by cancelling them.