missyoh8 said:
I called today for prices on upgrades. The ship seems pretty open to me, I hope it is a small crowd!
Back to my homework.
Missy
GoofyDrivesACar said:
Do they have any good deals going with the upgrades???? I am guessing not. ...
We're like most folks - and we love a bargain!
Only difference with us is I think we drive a hard bargain on things and "fish" throughly...
Or, at least we try to...
Last time on the 16th sailing they had a wide open ship with DOUBLES and TRIPLES available to book in 12 to 4 (except cat 5). AND, they had quads in about half the catagories from 11 to 4. Then at about 4 days or a week or so before the sailing the Disney on line reservation system showed the ship as sold out. We all wondered how on earth they had sold out the ship with less then a week to go? We speculated at length on all sorts of things. In the end we think the ship sailed undersold... and that the stories drift all over the map - in part to conceal
DCL marketing methods IMO. So my final opinion based on verious sources (some contradictory) is that the ship sailed with 2000 passengers... less then the capacity of 2600. It had a number of cabins sold to cast members. More then normal but not dramaticly so. I heard that CAST could buy a veranda for $600 or 700 per person from someone - but that was 2nd hand info and should be considered a "rumor" only. Pardon me for continuing a potentially unfounded rumor.
SO... DO I think the ship was sold out? I tend to think it had every cabin sold. I asked around and was told there were no cabins to transfer to once aboard... but I do know of at least one person who DID transfer their cabin. Not sure why they got it though. On our last sailing in 2005 we got a cabin transfer.
So... did I also mention the system showed we could BUY an upgrade from a 12 guarantee to a 9 for $250? Naturally we jumped on it but after about 15-20 mintures on the phone the CM came back to apolagize. They had an error on their system and the $@50 upgrade was not available and inventory control would not approve it. I spoke to two managers and got no relief. Oh well.
On our past sailings we had ONE opportunity to upgrade at the pier and the $250 offer that was not real sounded like the right amount for a pier side upgrade froma 12 to a 9. And as I recollect it was about 5 or 6 to a veranda. THAT is much cheaper then booking in advance - but we've only seen it once in 4 sailings - and on one of the 4 we did not ask as we had been given a free upgrade from a 9 to a 6 on that sailing.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Tom
PS.... my latest "bargain"... a near 4' diameter inflatible bumper boat with electric motor and electric water pistol for the pool or ...???.... ocean? I saw this at the local Sharper Image for $90 and thought I would not mind having 2 of these for our pool... but $180+ tax was a lot. Then I saw them marked down to $40 and thought - now I'll get them. But without the kids around. When I went back a whole stack of them had sold over nite. RATS! Then last nite I saw them on ebay throught the Shareper Image outlet auction. I picked one up (like new - refurbished) for .... afre you ready?..... $17.95 ... plus shipping of $5.95! This think is a huge and somewhat heavy box. What a bargain. And on a second note... my latest NON-bargain was todays Christies' auction of Star Trek studio props (the 1st time ever done).
The 8' long model of the Star Trek Enterprise from the Movie series sold for only $240,000 as did the Klingon Bird of Prey starship. And Dr McCoys' space suit from the Original Series sold for $120,000. I was in the market for a Klingon costume... but it went for a lot more then I was willing to pay... about 8,000. I have a nice non-studio Anakin costume that has cost me about $300 so far... and Alicia has a skin tight Padame costume that cost me only $30. Very authentic given the price. CLearly they are not Halloween grade. So... $8000 was out of my "bargain huntin'" budget. I might have gone $400 or near 500. What was I thinking?.... since 3 costumes sold for 8,000 or so. Now a 2nd consideration was for a set of 3 vulcan honor guard costumes which sold for $4500. That was only $1500 per costume... but again, it was beyond my budget and not really on my wish list. At this point all I'm likely to get is a Christies auction catalog of the Star Trek sale for $60.
will begin next week.
, but there is always next year!! I sure hope Indiana comes to the Dome this year, we might have a chance to win that game. I am really interested in the "Mike-a-rita", as I love lime Margaritas, but I bought the other (original) flavor because I figured LaRue would like that better.
I'm trying to choose things that I can repeat like shoes and skirts to minimize what I take. I'm sort of a "plain jane". I wear that same jewelry everyday. I live in my flip flops, and have a very simple hairstyle. Seriously, I'm going to try to get by with 2 suitcases, a garment bag, and carry on for all 4 of us ! I'm sure many of you think that's just crazy, but we have managed with less than that on prior vacations....so well see!
. You know there really isn't a lot of places to pick any up in 
I made LaRue a 6oz original tonight, and darni it....it looked pretty good, and I haven't seen or heard much from her since. 
