Hopefully this won't come up but.....

[DISNEYFAN3260]

We're 53 days out from our trip on the Fantasy, which we booked at least 18 months ago with an OBB that has to be used by November. It is paid for and other family members are traveling with us in two other staterooms; they are also PIF. We have prepaid tips, purchased discounted gift cards for our onboard spending, paid for DCL transportation, purchased airfare, etc., etc. We have two staterooms for our immediate family of 6, each with an adult and two children assigned (me in one, my husband in the other). Changing dates is not an option due to the various schedules of our total party of 10. It was almost impossible getting this organized in the first place!

But now there is a slight possibility that my husband will not be able to travel for work reasons, and I may not know for sure for a few weeks. IF he can't go, we've decided the rest of us will still travel since everyone is paid up, etc and we've been planning for so long. But what happens with his stateroom since he is the only adult booked in it? I would still be a party of 5 with myself and four teens and would want to keep two staterooms, but I can't be listed on both reservations, correct? What would my options be without incurring major additional costs, which I can't afford at this point.

Hopefully this won't happen because I have a feeling it will be a disaster to address, but if there is even a remote chance I want to be prepared now and do whatever possible to alleviate the issue. I know I'll get helpful info here on the boards, even though I'm pretty nervous about what I may hear. TIA.

 

[jdb in AZ]

You mentioned extended-family members traveling with you in other staterooms. Do they have an extra adult who could transfer to your reservation -- just on paper. Mickey doesn't do bed check.

I just re-read your predicament. There's only two people in each of the other staterooms, right? Shifting an adult from one of the other staterooms wouldn't work because then they'd have the single-supplement to deal with. sorry.

 

[houseofduck]

You mentioned extended-family members traveling with you in other staterooms. Do they have an extra adult who could transfer to your reservation -- just on paper. Mickey doesn't do bed check.

I just re-read your predicament. There's only two people in each of the other staterooms, right? Shifting an adult from one of the other staterooms wouldn't work because then they'd have the single-supplement to deal with. sorry.

But, maybe one of the children in your room could swap with one of the adults in another room?

 

[DISNEYFAN3260]

You mentioned extended-family members traveling with you in other staterooms. Do they have an extra adult who could transfer to your reservation -- just on paper. Mickey doesn't do bed check.

I just re-read your predicament. There's only two people in each of the other staterooms, right? Shifting an adult from one of the other staterooms wouldn't work because then they'd have the single-supplement to deal with. sorry.

Actually, one room has three adults and the other room has a single adult already. I never thought about that because I've never been in this situation before. So I could possibly just place the third adult from the one stateroom as the reservation holder on our second room? (Aka, "swap" him with my husbands name on the res?) And there would be no additional charges for him, since we're already paid, right? I know we're technically losing all the money we spent for my husband to sail, but if that is really the only way to do it, what's done is done in this case.

 

[com_op_2000]

Your husband on his reservation is the first person reservation. If you change/cancel the first person on a DCL reservation, then the whole reservation will have to be cancelled and rebooked at the prevailing rates.
You may want to just move/transfer one adult from the 3 adults room for one of the children in your husband's room.

 

[DISNEYFAN3260]

Your husband on his reservation is the first person reservation. If you change/cancel the first person on a DCL reservation, then the whole reservation will have to be cancelled and rebooked at the prevailing rates.
You may want to just move/transfer one adult from the 3 adults room for one of the children in your husband's room.

In that case, I would not remove his name, but just add another adult? But wouldn't that cause problems at checkin because they would assume he is still sailing? Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

 

[eskimoinparadise]

If your husband can't go, there's no need to do anything to drop him from the reservation (no-shows happen). Try putting someone else in the party in your room, and move yourself to another room.

 

[com_op_2000]

In that case, I would not remove his name, but just add another adult? But wouldn't that cause problems at checkin because they would assume he is still sailing? Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

If you try to add a person to a room then you run into the possibility of that life boat station being over the limit and not allowing the addition. If you transfer/move a person from one room to another then you are not adding a person to the room thereby the life boat issue is mute.

 

[DISNEYFAN3260]

If your husband can't go, there's no need to do anything to drop him from the reservation (no-shows happen). Try putting someone else in the party in your room, and move yourself to another room.

I was just concerned that if I do nothing that there will be a problem at checkin since there will be 2 minors booked in the room without an adult sailing, on paper anyway.

 

[lanejudy]

I was just concerned that if I do nothing that there will be a problem at checkin since there will be 2 minors booked in the room without an adult sailing, on paper anyway.

That sounds like a valid concern, and I think I read a similar situation maybe a year or so ago but I don't recall how that ended up. I'll try to find it.

You don't mention the ages of the kids -- I suggest checking if you can swap one of the other adults with one of the kids, just switching which room each is registered in. That would put 2 adults in your DH's room, and no problem if he can't make it. But it could be challenging if fare differences are involved. By chance are any of your kids 18 or 19? The older teens can be booked into a stateroom without a parent.

Good luck and enjoy your cruise!

 

[Quellman]

We're 53 days out from our trip on the Fantasy, which we booked at least 18 months ago with an OBB that has to be used by November. It is paid for and other family members are traveling with us in two other staterooms; they are also PIF. We have prepaid tips, purchased discounted gift cards for our onboard spending, paid for DCL transportation, purchased airfare, etc., etc. We have two staterooms for our immediate family of 6, each with an adult and two children assigned (me in one, my husband in the other). Changing dates is not an option due to the various schedules of our total party of 10. It was almost impossible getting this organized in the first place!

But now there is a slight possibility that my husband will not be able to travel for work reasons, and I may not know for sure for a few weeks. IF he can't go, we've decided the rest of us will still travel since everyone is paid up, etc and we've been planning for so long. But what happens with his stateroom since he is the only adult booked in it? I would still be a party of 5 with myself and four teens and would want to keep two staterooms, but I can't be listed on both reservations, correct? What would my options be without incurring major additional costs, which I can't afford at this point.

Hopefully this won't happen because I have a feeling it will be a disaster to address, but if there is even a remote chance I want to be prepared now and do whatever possible to alleviate the issue. I know I'll get helpful info here on the boards, even though I'm pretty nervous about what I may hear. TIA.

Lucky for you I have an OBB I can move and no work obligations that week either. My wife would have to come along of course, but we'll leave our 2 year old at home out of respect for your kids. But this is something that you would need to talk to Disney about. I hope we hear about your resolution I hopeyour Husbands employer is going to foot the bill for the missed vacation.

 

[DISNEYFAN3260]

That sounds like a valid concern, and I think I read a similar situation maybe a year or so ago but I don't recall how that ended up. I'll try to find it.

You don't mention the ages of the kids -- I suggest checking if you can swap one of the other adults with one of the kids, just switching which room each is registered in. That would put 2 adults in your DH's room, and no problem if he can't make it. But it could be challenging if fare differences are involved. By chance are any of your kids 18 or 19? The older teens can be booked into a stateroom without a parent.

Good luck and enjoy your cruise!

Kids are 16 and 14, so that doesn't help. It sounds so far like the idea to swap one child with one adult in another room might do the trick. That way if my DH can't come, I'll leave him as the main res holder in that room, then just call him a no-show at port. If there is already another adult listed in that room, I can't see how they would create an issue at check in. I suppose they could, based on the fact that another adult was technically now the main res holder but we hadn't paid the higher price at the time to switch it. But I would like to think at that point we could work it out ok. Hopefully I will never have to find out because this won't happen! THAT would be the best solution. Thanks!

 

[DISNEYFAN3260]

Lucky for you I have an OBB I can move and no work obligations that week either. My wife would have to come along of course, but we'll leave our 2 year old at home out of respect for your kids. But this is something that you would need to talk to Disney about. I hope we hear about your resolution I hopeyour Husbands employer is going to foot the bill for the missed vacation.

Thanks for the offer, Quellman! LOL I think I'll hold off on talking to DCL about it until I know something for sure - no need to raise red flags unnecessarily, right?! Unfortunately, my husband is seeking a new employer unexpectedly, which is the reason there may be an issue. If he is offered a job and they just will not allow him to take an immediate vacation, we would not turn down the offer if it is otherwise a good one. Time for a Plan B, just in case. With luck, a new employer will be sensitive to this since it was booked long ago, but we're not finding a lot of understanding in the job market these days in general, so best to be prepared.

 

[SillyInventor]

That sounds like a wise precaution.
Note that children are by default only allowed to leave the ship with an adult, registered in the same stateroom. Even if on of the other stateroom's travelers is a parent. You will have to file a form for that with Guest services where the adult in the stateroom signs that the child is allowed to leave the ship with specific adults form another stateroom. It's a simple form and it doesn't take much time, but it avoids nasty disembarkations when a parent is not allowed to take a child of the ship because on paper they are not in the same room.
Hopefully this all will not be needed and your DH can go with you!

 

[tinkerone]

what if you took one of the adults from the 3 adult cabin and moved him to the teens cabin (in name only) and moved your hubby to the 3 person cabin (again, in name only). the only thing you would be doing is moving names so no one will be out anything and then if hubby doesn't come no one will care. it would be the same number in each cabin so it would not effect the life boat station and it would not cost any extra money for anyone as everything is already paid for in both cabins. at the port or at customer service you could get a key card so the original 3 could still be together.
hope this is understandable.

 

[DISNEYFAN3260]

That sounds like a wise precaution.
Note that children are by default only allowed to leave the ship with an adult, registered in the same stateroom. Even if on of the other stateroom's travelers is a parent. You will have to file a form for that with Guest services where the adult in the stateroom signs that the child is allowed to leave the ship with specific adults form another stateroom. It's a simple form and it doesn't take much time, but it avoids nasty disembarkations when a parent is not allowed to take a child of the ship because on paper they are not in the same room.
Hopefully this all will not be needed and your DH can go with you!

Thanks for this SillyInventor - I have those forms all filled out, but this reminds me to make sure I've included them with my other cruise docs!

 

[DISNEYFAN3260]

what if you took one of the adults from the 3 adult cabin and moved him to the teens cabin (in name only) and moved your hubby to the 3 person cabin (again, in name only). the only thing you would be doing is moving names so no one will be out anything and then if hubby doesn't come no one will care. it would be the same number in each cabin so it would not effect the life boat station and it would not cost any extra money for anyone as everything is already paid for in both cabins. at the port or at customer service you could get a key card so the original 3 could still be together.
hope this is understandable.

It does make sense, tinkerone. If I am understanding some PPs though, doing this switch in advance would cause us to have to rebook my husband's current room at the prevailing rate because we would be changing another adult to the main reservation holder in that room. I agree with you that it seems like it shouldn't matter since it's all paid up either way, but if the policy is that changing the adult on the reservation is the same as cancelling and rebooking, I think I'd better not risk that. Someone please correct me if I've misunderstood anything though. I really appreciate all the help!