Guarantee Status vs. IGT/OGT/VGT

[wdw4life]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? IGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 11A 7127
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 19
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Don't love it. Definitely feels like a leftover.
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? Wednesday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? Midmorning PST
9. What month is your cruise? April 2025
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? 2 months

 

[Pinkjgray]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? IGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 11A 7127
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 19
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Don't love it. Definitely feels like a leftover.
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? Wednesday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? Midmorning PST
9. What month is your cruise? April 2025
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? 2 months

Oh, no! Why don’t you like it?

 

[wdw4life]

Oh, no! Why don’t you like it?

It's pretty far aft which is my least favorite placement. Who knows though, maybe I will end up loving it!

We are doing a back-to-back and just decided to add this on to our original cruise a couple of months ago. So we get what we get. lol

 

[mpark90]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? GTY Verandah
2. What category and room # did you get? 4B 7632
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 24
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Happy with it! No obstructions from the balcony and one of the bigger rooms
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? Around 19:30 UK time
9. What month is your cruise? May 2025
10. Castaway Club? Gold
11. How long ago did you book? Around 4 weeks

 

[LandonM170]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 04A; 10618
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 24
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" I'm very happy! I got a family verandah room with a full view on the Starboard side!!!
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? Somewhere between 9:30am and 1:45pm CT
9. What month is your cruise? May 2025
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? 80 days (104 days out from sailing)

 

[Pinkjgray]

What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 04A; Deck 10
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 24
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Yes!
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? 12noon - 3p
9. What month is your cruise? May 2025
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? January 2025

 

[CanadianDVC2024]

What category GTY cabin did you book? OGT
2. What category and room # did you get? Deluxe Oceanview 7506
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 24
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" No, absolute worst case scenario.
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? 12noon - 3p
9. What month is your cruise? May 2025
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? March 2025

 

[Pinkjgray]

What category GTY cabin did you book? OGT
2. What category and room # did you get? Deluxe Oceanview 7506
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 24
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" No, absolute worst case scenario.
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? 12noon - 3p
9. What month is your cruise? May 2025
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? March 2025

Oh, no! What’s wrong? Is it the location of the room?

 

[CanadianDVC2024]

Oh, no! What’s wrong? Is it the location of the room?

Unfortunately yes. When we booked we saw there was 17 midship deluxe ocean view rooms available and 2 forward ocean view rooms available. We knew there was a slim chance we’d get one of the forwards but we thought the odds were really good we’d get a midship room. We got one of the two forward rooms.

 

[Pinkjgray]

Got it! I’ve never stayed in a forward stateroom before, so I’m not sure what to expect. I’m just glad my view will be unobstructed. You might be able to request an upgrade at the port. I’ve seen other threads mention people getting one for around $150 fee.

 

[Flossbolna]

Unfortunately yes. When we booked we saw there was 17 midship deluxe ocean view rooms available and 2 forward ocean view rooms available. We knew there was a slim chance we’d get one of the forwards but we thought the odds were really good we’d get a midship room. We got one of the two forward rooms.

We would love your room. We got one of the midship ones on deck 2. you got a Family deluxe oceanview which is considerably larger and has a really great rainshower. It’s not one of the restricted view ones at the very front. We were in 7510 for a med cruise and it was our favorite stateroom ever.

 

[CanadianDVC2024]

We would love your room. We got one of the midship ones on deck 2. you got a Family deluxe oceanview which is considerably larger and has a really great rainshower. It’s not one of the restricted view ones at the very front. We were in 7510 for a med cruise and it was our favorite stateroom ever.

7506 isn’t a deluxe family oceanview. It’s just deluxe ocean view.

 

[Flossbolna]

7506 isn’t a deluxe family oceanview. It’s just deluxe ocean view.

Sorry, I just saw that it was the same size as the ones next to it.

 

[Pinkjgray]

What makes it a Deluxe ocean view stateroom?

 

[Flossbolna]

What makes it a Deluxe ocean view stateroom?

All rooms besides the smallest interior staterooms on Disney are deluxe. The special thing is in the word family. Those are longer and if they don’t have a verandah, they have a very large porthole. They can sleep 5, often they have a murphy bed just before the window (or verandah) as the additional sleeping surface.

Your 4a category is the same as an oceanview deluxe family stateroom, just with a verandah, not the porthole.

 

[Pinkjgray]

All rooms besides the smallest interior staterooms on Disney are deluxe. The special thing is in the word family. Those are longer and if they don’t have a verandah, they have a very large porthole. They can sleep 5, often they have a murphy bed just before the window (or verandah) as the additional sleeping surface.

Your 4a category is the same as an oceanview deluxe family stateroom, just with a verandah, not the porthole.

Thank you! These past few months on the DIS board have been very educational.

 

[lorimay]

What category GTY cabin did you book? OGT
2. What category and room # did you get? Deluxe Oceanview 7506
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 24
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" No, absolute worst case scenario.
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? 12noon - 3p
9. What month is your cruise? May 2025
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? March 2025

We have this category booked on The Fantasy for Sept. #8006 is our room number. This is a bigger room, from my understanding Disney doesn't put the exact square footage on the website listing. There is a wall angle in the room, but a lot of extra floor space. I looked at a lot of reviews and you tube videos.
We booked a back to back for September and wanted to stay in the same room, so this was about the only option left for us.
These two cruises we booked came out randomly a few months after original booking dates. The rooms went so fast by the time I saw them available and got the OK from my husband to book most of the rooms were gone.
It's a new category and room style for us to try.
Let me know what you think after you sail please.

 

[JBinORL]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? GTY Verandah
2. What category and room # did you get? 5A 10558
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?" Not really happy, but them's the breaks when doing VGT GTY. Prefer decks 6-8, more aft/midship to be closer to adult stuff
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? 3PM ET
9. What month is your cruise? May 2025
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? January 2025

 

[TheOneWithTheTriplets]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? IGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 11B 5635 and 5637
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?" Thrilled to be next door to each other, curious how being on deck 5 will go in terms of noise. We've never been on a deck that included public spaces before.
5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? Yes, next door
6. What ship are you sailing? Magic
7. What day of the week was your cabin assigned? Monday
8. What time of day was your cabin assigned? Noon Eastern
9. What month is your cruise? April 2025
10. Castaway Club? Silver
11. How long ago did you book? 45 days

 

[bethy]

1. What category GTY cabin did you book? VGT
2. What category and room # did you get? 4B 8592
3. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 11
4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover?" Yes, I'm very happy, have never been in a Family Verandah room before. Hubby would prefer to be a little more Aft near the drink station. But he'll be fine.
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? Around 2pm ET
9. What month is your cruise? APRIL 2025
10. Castaway Club? Gold
11. How long ago did you book? February 2025