Is this "Early Booking"?

[FFerret]

So....

I've got our first cruise lined up in early Dec this year; booked it the first week of April. Is that considered "early booking?" Only reason I'm asking is that it looks like only early bookers get that rare DCL upgrade. I can hope, right?

Thanks!

 

[Jrsy Boy]

We booked in August for travel in June and our reservation shows "Early Booking Savings" included in the price. I don't know how far out is considered "Early Booking" but check your reservation, see if it says there.

 

[DrCavin]

So....

I've got our first cruise lined up in early Dec this year; booked it the first week of April. Is that considered "early booking?" Only reason I'm asking is that it looks like only early bookers get that rare DCL upgrade. I can hope, right?

Thanks!

We booked our May '06 in Oct '04 about the first day it became available. Sorry but booking early does not seem to help with getting upgrades.. They seem to be just random....

 

[FFerret]

I appreciate it, you two

I went to go look on my ressie to see what it says just now, and found out DU is having a great promo for this week. But it look like prices for the week I'm going have just now gone up (very recent), and my travel agent says I've done better with the Early Booking. So apparrently I did get it

 

[goofymama]

So....

I've got our first cruise lined up in early Dec this year; booked it the first week of April. Is that considered "early booking?" Only reason I'm asking is that it looks like only early bookers get that rare DCL upgrade. I can hope, right?

Thanks!

We booked in March 2004 for our May 2004 cruise and got upgraded from Cat 9 to Cat 5. Nope, early booking has nothing to do with surpirse upgrades!

 

[FFerret]

Ah, well--I can still hope

 

[logan1_2000]

Early is a relative term. Booking the first day that new cruise embarkations are released for sale to the public is definitely early booking, but so is booking the same cruise three months later for maybe 10% more than the original price--because at that point you might still be more than a year and a half out,and the price will go up several more times. You say you booked in April for December. Is that April of 2005 for December of 2005? I booked in 2003 for the cruise I took two weeks ago, and on that cruise I booked for 18 months from now--and that cruise has been available for many months so it was a little hard getting a stateroom in the area we wanted--but we did get one.

My only upgrade was on a cruise I booked exactly 60 days prior to embarkation, so yes, it is random, and the best advice is to book the stateroom you want, in which you will be happy. An little factor seems to be lower demand might make for more upgrades, trying to make more staterooms available at the lower prices by bumping guests up to higher staterooms that are still available.

 

[tvguy]

We got an upgrade, booked 11 months in advance, but after reading these boards, Disney has done a wonderful job of hiding how they decide who gets an upgrade.
I really think it is a random draw.