ISO cruise expert - 1000 questions

[DanceisArt]

1. How far in advance can you book a cruise?

2. What state room fits a family of 6? (2 adults, 2 teenagers, 2 children)

3. If I did 3 days at Fort Wilderness, then the cruise, can I leave my camper in Fort Wilderness parking lot?

4. Where can I get average prices at? For early June?

5. How many days is the cruise?

 

[PrincessShmoo]

1. How far in advance can you book a cruise?

2. What state room fits a family of 6? (2 adults, 2 teenagers, 2 children)

3. If I did 3 days at Fort Wilderness, then the cruise, can I leave my camper in Fort Wilderness parking lot?

4. Where can I get average prices at? For early June?

5. How many days is the cruise?

1. As soon as the cruise line opens bookings - some times it's a year or more.
2. Only the Magic and Wonder have rooms that sleep 6. And those are the Concierge Royal Suite and Concierge 2 bedroom suite. Many families try to book connecting rooms, if they are over 5 people.
3. Don't know, you'd have to contact the resort to ask.
4. What do you mean by "average prices"? If you mean historical prices for that time of year there's cruise fish that can give you that info.
5. Cruises are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, or 14 days long, for the most part. Depends what you want to do.

 

[mmouse37]

Some 11 days cruises as well. Depends on where you want to go. If you want Caribbean, DCL has many 7 day cruises to Eastern or Western Caribbean with some longer Southern Caribbean cruises (at certain times). Or, you can do shorter 3, 4 day cruises to the Bahamas or 7 day cruises to the Med or Alaska, etc.

Check out the DCL website for tons of info on itineraries and pricing.

MJ

 

[gismo1554]

1. How far in advance can you book a cruise?

Your looking at basically 18 months in advance. They released the 2017 July-September cruises in May this year and the 2017 Jan-June cruises in October last so that gives you a bit of an idea on dates. Unfortunately DCL don't stick to a release date so you have to keep an eye out (or just watch the boards)

2. What state room fits a family of 6? (2 adults, 2 teenagers, 2 children)

Unfortunately very few. You are better off getting 2 rooms either interconnecting or opposite each other. For example you could do a verandah room and an inside room and put the teenagers in the inside one maybe? I believe on paper you have to also put 1 adult but they don't have to actually sleep in there with them (depending on the ages obviously)

3. If I did 3 days at Fort Wilderness, then the cruise, can I leave my camper in Fort Wilderness parking lot?

You'd need to check with Fort Wilderness.

4. Where can I get average prices at? For early June?

I would literally go in to the DCL website and search for next June and see what prices come up. This will give you a clear idea of the prices you are looking at.

5. How many days is the cruise?

All depends on which one you choose. From Port Canaveral they do a whole range of lengths from 3 nights to 14 sometimes so its best to have a look. Typically, if you are looking at going and returning from Disney its going to be either 3, 4 or 7 nights but this isn't always the case. I would recommend a 4 night if possible at least as I think 3 nights go way too quickly.

 

[Sytrace]

1. How far in advance can you book a cruise?
You can book now for June 2017 sailings but the dates and itineraries have not been released yet for 2018.

. What state room fits a family of 6? (2 adults, 2 teenagers, 2 children)
I would go for a verandah stateroom and then put the teens across the hall in an inside cabin.

3. If I did 3 days at Fort Wilderness, then the cruise, can I leave my camper in Fort Wilderness parking lot?

I would imagine that you could park the camper in the huge parking lot near the horses and where the busses come in while you are gone. People take Disney transportation to and from the port all the time so it would make sense that guests who have stayed at the resort and took Disney transport to the port would be able to leave campers as well. But of course, I would call and ask the resort directly.
However, you could always take the camper out to Port Canaveral and park at the terminal too.
Here is the website for pricing ideas to park at PC : http://www.portcanaveral.com/Cruise/Directions-Parking


4. Where can I get average prices at? For early June?
You could go and look at the prices now for June 2017 to get a clear idea of how much it will cost based on cruise length of your choice. For example, 3 and 4 Night cruises are on the Dream out of PC and 7 night cruises out of PC are on the Fantasy. If I recall correctly, there is a 10 night and an 11 night Southern Carribbean in June that is on the Fantasy as well.

5. How many days is the cruise?

 

[wcw57]

 

[aggiedog]

4. "Average prices" just tend to go up closer to the sail date, FYI.