From what I can tell, I think there will be a lot of open rooms. As one who booked OGT, I've been watching the rooms available to book (i.e. ones you can actually select in a category) to see what might get assigned.
As of this past weekend, there were only 10 oceanview rooms. That's not a lot, however, if you look at the verandah rooms, my estimate has it over 200 available.
The process is not easy, I actually created a chart with each room that is listed in each of the verandah categories and then went on DCL's site and input every single room (exept 5A and 4A as there were too many rooms to go through - maybe by this weekend I'll do those).Anyhow, DCL only lists a maximum of 8 rooms when you go in to select a category, but you can enter all the other rooms. I know that 5E only had 1 room, 5672. For 5 B, C and D, and 4 B, C, D, and E, my count was well above 160, and that was NOT with the 4A's or 5A's like I said. But those alone add a minimum of 8 each, so another 16 bringing us to around 175 +/- for sure. I would have to think there is at least 25 more rooms between those two categories. Heck, there are a good number of 4E's for this Saturday's sailing.
So, it looks like we may not be as crowded as some cruises. I'm thinking a lot of people don't travel that late in summer and I think the FL kids are back in school by the time we sail. So if we figure 200 rooms with an average of 3 per room, we could be looking at sailing light by 600 passengers. Great, the line for the AquaDuck may only be an hour long.
I'll try to post tonight the amount of rooms in each category that I showed available (just double checked the 5 B-D and 4E's this weekend).
They are planning on a mild hurricane season so I am hoping for the best. The Cruisers that sailed during Irene stated they could not dock at Castaway Cay. That would be a total downer! 
Hmmmm, I was thinking about asking at the port about upgrading to a 4B or 4A. With almost 40% of 4A's still open, maybe it won't cost an insane amount to upgrade? When I booked, a balcony was $1,000+ more than the 8C that I booked. I simply couldn't justify that much of a price difference. With almost 40% of 4A's still open, maybe it won't cost an insane amount to upgrade at port? I'll keep my fingers crossed!
I wanted to add that Hurricane Irene hit the same time last year.
Not all verandah rooms are ocean view? We are on deck 6. I know it is not the top notch deck but we only paid 7K for 5 of us. 2 of my kids are 12 so they are no longer cheap rides.
The ocean view rooms have one or more porthole windows. Inside rooms would have no windows/ocean views (unless you consider the televised secret porthole an "ocean view").
From what I can tell, I think there will be a lot of open rooms. As one who booked OGT, I've been watching the rooms available to book (i.e. ones you can actually select in a category) to see what might get assigned.
As of this past weekend, there were only 10 oceanview rooms. That's not a lot, however, if you look at the verandah rooms, my estimate has it over 200 available.
The process is not easy, I actually created a chart with each room that is listed in each of the verandah categories and then went on DCL's site and input every single room (exept 5A and 4A as there were too many rooms to go through - maybe by this weekend I'll do those).
So, it looks like we may not be as crowded as some cruises. I'm thinking a lot of people don't travel that late in summer and I think the FL kids are back in school by the time we sail. So if we figure 200 rooms with an average of 3 per room, we could be looking at sailing light by 600 passengers. Great, the line for the AquaDuck may only be an hour long.
I'll try to post tonight the amount of rooms in each category that I showed available (just double checked the 5 B-D and 4E's this weekend).
