Guarantee Status vs. IGT/OGT/VGT

[catsrgr8]

I realize there's been a system to reporting here a long time but I think sometimes it could be helpful to know the number of people in a party and maybe ages of any minors. For example, It'd be interesting to see if families with 2 younger kids are with any higher frequency put into category 4 when booking VGT, compared to a party of two adults VGT.

Yes and I’d wonder if first timers get better rooms, or worse. Also does it matter when you book your VGT, like if you’re one of the first to book that rate do you get a better room?

 

[n2mm]

Yes and I’d wonder if first timers get better rooms, or worse. Also does it matter when you book your VGT, like if you’re one of the first to book that rate do you get a better room?

I find it very random. When I have gotten a cat 4 it been the 2 adults, same for my daughter . I’m platinum. I recently got a basic room too. There is no rhyme or reason. It’s truly luck and availability. On my cruise this week I was given a cat 8 instead of the lower cat 9, but for the second cruise I got a cat 9. The second cruise is very filled, so hardly any rooms left. I think availablity is the biggest factor. Also it appears to me that connecting rooms get filled first.

 

[KiwiSam]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 05B (Deck 6, Mid)
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 18
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Very happy, we have stayed in a similar location in the past and love it!
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/A
6. What ship are you sailing? Magic (Puerto Rico)
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Wednesday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? 11am EST
9. What month is your cruise? November
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? Two months (very last minute for us!)


*I added questions 10 and 11 after the recent feedback. Feel free to disregard for future posts if no one else finds this useful!

 

[magsnwonderland]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 05D (Deck 6, Fwd)
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 9
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" We're happy - it's not a big upgrade or anything, but we don't have any complaints about the room and we really wanted connecting rooms so the kids can sleep in one and us in the other.
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? connecting!
6. What ship are you sailing? DREAM
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Friday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? 4pm ET
9. What month is your cruise? November
10. Castaway Club? first time on DCL
11. How long ago did you book? July (3.5 months before sailing, but we cancelled a regular booking (one 4B room) to rebook two rooms at the VGT rate so we've been planning this cruise since August 2021)

Anecdotally, the category specific GTY rooms were assigned on Monday/Tuesday this week and they mostly reporting getting cat 4 rooms, so those of us who book VGT are mostly getting cat 5.

 

[LosAngelesRunner]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 05A (Deck 10, Aft)
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 7
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Happy! Got starboard side which I love for the view of Castaway Cay, and just a quick trip up to Cabanas and the pool deck. Really thrilled even though we didn't get a bump to the larger Category 4 rooms.
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/A
6. What ship are you sailing? Dream
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Monday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? ~1pm ET
9. What month is your cruise? November
10. Castaway Club? Gold
11. How long ago did you book? September (about two months before sailing)

 

[reneaterry]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? GTY
2. What category and room # did you get? 9c deck 2 forward
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 30
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" We booked a gty 9d got 9c where forward and mid meet so we're happy. Never been on deck 2 before.
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? Adjoining
6. What ship are you sailing? Magic
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Tuesday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? 12pm central
9. What month is your cruise? December
10. Castaway Club? Gold
11. How long ago did you book? Beginning of October

 

[AndACatWillFollowYouHome]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? GTY 07A
2. What category and room # did you get? 04E (Deck 8, Aft)
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 18
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Happy - I think! Very excited about the extended verandah. I'm sailing with my sister (and no kiddos), so having the loungers is an unexpected bonus. A little nervous about reports of soot and really heavy vibrations in the aft cabins.
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/A
6. What ship are you sailing? Dream
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Wednesday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? ~5pm ET
9. What month is your cruise? November
10. Castaway Club? First-time cruiser!
11. How long ago did you book? Beginning of September

 

[mickeymom22]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 07A (Deck 5, Aft, Nav Verandah)
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 12
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" "leftover", we know the risks with booking GTY, we don't mind the Navigator's Verandah but would prefer not to be on Deck 5. You win some, you lose some!
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/A
6. What ship are you sailing? Magic (Puerto Rico)
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Tuesday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? 11am EST
9. What month is your cruise? November

Two of my favorites: The Magic and Puerto Rico!

We have stayed in a Deck 5 Navigator Verandah room on the Magic before and loved it. Our cruise was very windy and chilly so the Navigator Verandah was perfect. It blocked the chilly wind and we could still enjoy being out there.

Happy Cruisin'!

 

[swimmer mom]

We just returned from the Oct 29-Nov 3 sailing on the Dream. This was our third Disney cruise, but our first doing guaranteed status. I booked a VGT room and it was $1000 cheaper than picking the room we were assigned. I reported earlier here that we were assigned our room 17 days out, a category 5B. Our room was fantastic. We were mid-ship, deck 8. We were on the port side. The room was super quiet, right by the mid-ship elevators. When I looked on the deck plans, I was concerned that we were too close to the elevators, but it was the perfect location. There was a wall separating us - the stateroom four days up from ours was visible to the elevator bank and that one may have been noisy. If there was a wait for the elevators, I would often walk up the three flights to Deck 11 or walk to the Forward or Aft elevators. I would absolutely do a VGT again.

 

[Rachel6236]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 05B (Deck 8, Forward)
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 35
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Yep! It saved a ton of $$ to book VGT and our room location seems great.
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? Booked 2 rooms and rooms are connecting
6. What ship are you sailing? Fantasy
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Friday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? 1:30 EST
9. What month is your cruise? December
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? Last month

 

[bamdoo]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT with restrictions
2. What category and room # did you get? 05A (Deck 10, Aft) near elevators
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 12
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" First Disney Cruise, looks good.
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? Booked 2 rooms and rooms are connecting
6. What ship are you sailing? Dream
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Friday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? 3:30 EST
9. What month is your cruise? November
10. Castaway Club? None
11. How long ago did you book? August

 

[Thumper99]

Two of my favorites: The Magic and Puerto Rico!

We have stayed in a Deck 5 Navigator Verandah room on the Magic before and loved it. Our cruise was very windy and chilly so the Navigator Verandah was perfect. It blocked the chilly wind and we could still enjoy being out there.

Happy Cruisin'!

We Love Deck 5 on the Magic!! Gotten the navigator rooms a few times and I love being right near the buena vista theater. Easy access to the aft elevators and cabanas and the drink machine on deck 9 plus very low traffic!! Some of our favorites trips have been on Deck 5!!

 

[meliscan]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 05C (Deck 5, Aft)
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 17
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" A little unsure about being on 5 but I am wondering if we got this location near stairs/elevator because my mom is disabled and they wanted to make sure we could evacuate easily. Sort of wished for a Navigator verandah but that's such a champagne problem/whine!
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/A
6. What ship are you sailing? Magic (Galveston)
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Wednesday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? 9 am PST
9. What month is your cruise? November
10. Castaway Club? Gold
11. How long ago did you book? Four months (We had booked an ocean view 11 months out but we saved money when the GT rates were released in July)

 

[BookishCats]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? IGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 11A, Deck 6
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 16
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Very happy with the location, close to the elevators. Can't beat the $2800 for a 7-day cruise.
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/A
6. What ship are you sailing? Magic
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Tuesday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? 4:45PM
9. What month is your cruise? November
10. Castaway Club? Platinum
11. How long ago did you book? Four months ago.

 

[DisneyBelle_x]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? OGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 08B (Deck 7, Aft)
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 15
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Happy enough, prefer fwd but bigger family size room is bonus
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/A
6. What ship are you sailing? Dream
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Friday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? 7pm ET
9. What month is your cruise? November
10. Castaway Club? Platinum
11. How long ago did you book? Few months ago

 

[CaliforniaMama]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 05A (Deck 9, Forward)
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 9
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Worried about motion, but that was gamble with VGT. Also, no bunk pull down and my daughter wanted one.
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/A
6. What ship are you sailing? Dream
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Friday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? 1 pm
9. What month is your cruise? November
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? about 7 weeks ago

 

[Cheburashka]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 5B (Deck 7, Aft)
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 9 or 10
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Happy. It is not a handicapped stateroom, which was my main worry, and it is non-connecting. It has a very slight obstruction to one side, but not enough to be categorized as a Navigator's verandah, and the railing is plexiglass. It's aft but still forward of the aft elevators, so not so far aft as to have a lot of vibration issues. It's also starboard, so should have a good view of Castaway Cay. The stateroom reports are positive.
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/A
6. What ship are you sailing? Dream
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Friday or Saturday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? ?
9. What month is your cruise? November
10. Castaway Club? Gold
11. How long ago did you book? 7 weeks prior to cruise

 

[ShablamE]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 6A (Deck 8, Aft)
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? About 14
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" To me this feels like a left over, but I know you get what you sign up for. A bit disappointed in this one because we are traveling with another party who had selected a specific stateroom and for months the stateroom right next to theirs remained unassigned so I was hoping that they would see the connected reservations and assign us there.
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/A
6. What ship are you sailing? Dream
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Friday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? sometime before 11pm EST Friday night
9. What month is your cruise? November
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? Originally over a year ago, switched to VGT as soon as those rates were avaiable.

 

[SeanSD]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 05B (Deck 7, Forward)
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 16
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Happy, was little nervous about vibrations at rear of Wonder. Near front elevators/stairs and cabins above and below.
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/A
6. What ship are you sailing? Wonder
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Monday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? Early am
9. What month is your cruise? December Merrytime
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? July (5 months before cruise)

 

[WDWAurora]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 05C (Deck 7, Forward, room 7044)
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 9
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Honestly, it was what we booked. Verandah room. Location was nice in that there were staterooms above and below us. Convenient to elevator/stairs. No complaints.
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/A
6. What ship are you sailing? Fantasy
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Thursday?
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? Early am
9. What month is your cruise? November Merrytime (Thanksgiving week)
10. Castaway Club? Silver, second cruise
11. How long ago did you book? Between 75 and 90 days out