If a cruise is no longer listed is it sold out?

[Hundredacre]

If a cruise is no longer listed when you do a cruise search, is it because the cruise is sold out? Never noticed this before.

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

It can be that it's also close to its sale date, or a chartered cruise for a set group, or dry dock.

Depends what you are looking at and when.

Have you tried using different numbers in your group, if say it's not there on 4 but there on 2 it's filling up. If it's not there at all, is it near the cruise date? If it's just not in the normal pattern IE Eastern Western it could be dry dock.

 

[Hundredacre]

Ok. I tried adjusting the number of people/stateroom. They do not have any rooms left to accommodate 4. Crazy that the ship would already be so full. It is a little 4 night Bahamian next March!

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

Ok. I tried adjusting the number of people/stateroom. They do not have any rooms left to accommodate 4. Crazy that the ship would already be so full. It is a little 4 night Bahamian next March!

Spring Break? Easter?

 

[AndreAggie]

When in March? March is popular for spring break for a good portion of the country. We're in Texas and our spring break is March 13-17 and that happens to be when our cruise is scheduled also.

 

[Hundredacre]

I guess the popularity is due to spring break then. I am surprised though that the cruise did not come up at all with four people, not to say sold out or anything. If I had not seen the cruise before, I probably would not have figured out its existence.

 

[BuzzLightyearInTampa]

Ok. I tried adjusting the number of people/stateroom. They do not have any rooms left to accommodate 4. Crazy that the ship would already be so full. It is a little 4 night Bahamian next March!

It could also be a lifeboat thing. If there are not 4 seats left in the lifeboat that cabin is assigned to, it will not let you book 4 people in there, no matter what size the room. This can happen when the cabins around you are nearly full and there is a higher than usual percentage of people with children (like Spring Break, Easter, etc.).

 

[pjacobi]

A travel agency could have reserved a block of rooms. If they don't fill them, the rooms could go back into regular inventory. Keep checking every few days for availability.

-Paul

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

A travel agency could have reserved a block of rooms. If they don't fill them, the rooms could go back into regular inventory. Keep checking every few days for availability.

-Paul

I thought, they couldn't do this anymore, and wouldn't explain a whole ship going off sale, it did occur in the past. I booked one recommended by a TA here.