How come DCL isn't selling out?

[cvjw]

I was just checking out the *GT rates for the winter and spring. Almost every short Fantasy sailing is on the list. Obviously they aren’t selling those short sailings for full price fares. And they aren’t included with the Disney + offer.

 

[Cfabar1]

I've often wondered why they don't make Fantasy a 7-day, 3-day, 4-day itinerary ship. Every other week have a 7-day for those who want to do a 7-day on a ship that actually has decent adult spaces but 3 and 4-day cruises the other week for those who don't want to take a 7-day but prefer a ship that isn't the Triton class.

I wonder how this would impact crew recruitment. I have imagined that crew prefer to either be on a 3/4 night or 7 night itinerary so they are used to the process/logistics of their work (and my guess is they prefer the 7 nights over the 3/4 nights).

 

[Cfabar1]

I’m a bigger supporter of
9/5
then
4/5/5

DCL must have data about cruisers that makes them feel the chances of a cruise longer than 9 nights is extremely unlikely to happen. Anything longer than 7 seems to be a "very special" itinerary, a repositioning cruise, or something needed to even a schedule out in another way.

I’m still surprised they didn’t sail a 7 night from Port Everglades. Have the Dream do the 7 nights from there and the Destiny do the short 3/4 night rotation.

They may end up there - but I suspect they think they can get higher profit in one way or another by doing the 4/5/5 approach they have decided to start with.... What is interesting about PE is they are putting the new ship on the longer rotation... They seem to be viewing PC and PE as one big port in essence...

PC 3/4 night cruises on new ship
PE 3/4 night cruises on old ship
PC 4/5 night cruises on old ship
PE 4/5 night cruises on new ship
PC 7 night cruises on new ship

Put together, you have your option of 3/4 night and 4/5 night itineraries on both classes of ship - Triton and Dream (and Magic for some of th time while a Dream ship is in Europe).

What further expansion does, we shall see... We are booked on the Magic out of PC in 2025... Does the magic ever return to Florida? We shall see. I can't imagine that Disney will not do a grand farewell for the Magic when they decide to retire her- I would think it could be a highly lucrative promotion to have a "farewell tour" for that vessel - maybe for a year or two...