Let's use this thread to keep track of IGT, OGT and VGT assignments?

[tonysteph]

Thanks for posting on here about your stateroom assignments. I was starting to think no one was going on this cruise. Can you provide any thoughts on the rooms my family and I receive for the upcoming 3/1 Magic Cruise. I know there are places to review rooms however it seems that they are from 2000 -2010; all prior to any sort of re-imagination of the ship.

-Deck 7.. good right?
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Initially when booking I came across a secret deck/verandah on the AFT of Deck 7.. seems they did away with that. Anyone have any ideas or tips …. suggestions… that would relate to traveling with a 2 year old. Seems he won't be able to go in any the pools, with swim diaper or without, and will be too young to engage in any of the clubs/activity groups…..

Any thoughts are much appreciated. 10 days now!

 

[lmhall2000]

Sure! I see quite a few parents with toddlers climbing up and down the stairs the kids love it I also see parents with their 2 year olds in Diversions when they have trivia or family games...they can dance with the best of them I would think that your two year old could easily do the sprinklers with Donald Duck's nephews I thought they added something like that on Magic? You'll have a blast!

 

[mmouse37]

Thanks for posting on here about your stateroom assignments. I was starting to think no one was going on this cruise. Can you provide any thoughts on the rooms my family and I receive for the upcoming 3/1 Magic Cruise. I know there are places to review rooms however it seems that they are from 2000 -2010; all prior to any sort of re-imagination of the ship.

-Deck 7.. good right?
-AFT - good for those that may get sea sick?
-7629 (IGT)
-7614 (VGT)

Initially when booking I came across a secret deck/verandah on the AFT of Deck 7.. seems they did away with that. Anyone have any ideas or tips …. suggestions… that would relate to traveling with a 2 year old. Seems he won't be able to go in any the pools, with swim diaper or without, and will be too young to engage in any of the clubs/activity groups…..

Any thoughts are much appreciated. 10 days now!

Deck 4 is a great place for kids to stretch their legs (with parental supervision of course). toddlers seem to love to the long expanse of deck. Also, there is a splash area on the Magic that your toddler can play in. In the evening they always have live music in the Promenade Lounge on Deck 3 and there are always TONS of young kids dancing away to the music. It is fun to watch them having such a good time. There are plenty of places to enjoy onboard for all ages.

MJ

 

[tonysteph]

Deck 4 is a great place for kids to stretch their legs (with parental supervision of course). toddlers seem to love to the long expanse of deck. Also, there is a splash area on the Magic that your toddler can play in. In the evening they always have live music in the Promenade Lounge on Deck 3 and there are always TONS of young kids dancing away to the music. It is fun to watch them having such a good time. There are plenty of places to enjoy onboard for all ages.

MJ

Thank you!

I appreciate you taking the time to respond with suggestions on 'focus' areas for a 2 year old.



See you real soon!

 

[gabeoak]

Hi there. Awhile back in this thread someone posted tables data frequencies. So the idea of your charts were very much one of my first thoughts as I worked my way through the thread!! One additional thought I had was to see what *day of the week* rooms are typically assigned.
It seems to me that it's possible that the variation around that magic 11 day mark could be due to weekend or even holidays? Or perhaps a particular ship is assigned on a particular day of the week, typically.

 

[MikeBTN]

Hi there. Awhile back in this thread someone posted tables data frequencies. So the idea of your charts were very much one of my first thoughts as I worked my way through the thread!! One additional thought I had was to see what *day of the week* rooms are typically assigned.
It seems to me that it's possible that the variation around that magic 11 day mark could be due to weekend or even holidays? Or perhaps a particular ship is assigned on a particular day of the week, typically.

It looks like for 7-day trips the Magic *GT rooms are posted the Wednesday a week before embarkation. Works out to 11 days.

As for price difference, for 2 adults & 2 kids (ages 2 & 4), we booked OGT about 45 days prior to sailing on March 1st on the Magic. Assigned 9D room. Current retail is $4300, we paid $3,100, about a 30% discount.

 

[gabeoak]

#1. Did you book a IGT, OGT or VGT room, and on which ship? VGT Fantasy 3/7/15
#2. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 12 days
#3. What category (ex: 7a, 4c, 11c or whatever) and room # did you get? 5D #6534
#4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover"- undesirable room/location? It's okay. Close to elevators and overlooks the extended verandah below. Also a connecting room. But, hey. It's a 5D not a 6 or a 7. So not complaining a bit.
#5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/A sort of. My parents booked a room and stated we did not prefer to be connected except for dining. But we were put connecting. I can't tell if either 6534 or 6536 had the upper pull down berth. I saw a photo on flickr that seemed to look like 6536 does NOT have a pull down
#6. How many days before departure date did you book? About 35 days

 

[tiffpaige]

#1. Did you book a IGT, OGT or VGT room, and on which ship? VGT Fantasy, 2/28/15
#2. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 11
#3. What category (ex: 7a, 4c, 11c or whatever) and room # did you get? 5A, cabin 10652, starboard aft
#4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover"- undesirable room/location? Very happy- 20' from the elevator/stairs to Cabanas--starboard side and Aft is what I hoped for!
#5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? N/a
#6. How many days before departure date did you book? About 64

 

[DisneyDiva2006]

#1. Did you book a IGT, OGT or VGT room, and on which ship? VGT Fantasy 3/7/15
#2. How many days before the cruise were you assigned your room? 12 days
#3. What category (ex: 7a, 4c, 11c or whatever) and room # did you get? 5B #8076
#4. Are you happy with your assignment or do you feel like you got a "leftover"- undesirable room/location? I think so....it's our first cruise.
#5. If you booked more than one room, are they close together? They are on the same floor about 15 rooms from one another.
#6. How many days before departure date did you book? About 70 days

 

[baileyhouse]

Hi Everyone-
I just booked a VGT room on the 3/21 sailing of the Fantasy for 6 of us (2 rooms). Looking forward to seeing which rooms we will be assigned.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how they assign the rooms? I have looked online and there are approx 45 rooms available in the VGT category and of those there are 10 sets of connecting rooms. If they don't get filled, do you think they try and connect people who are traveling together? Do they typically fill the nicer rooms (higher category rooms) first?

Thank you!

 

[lin7]

Hi Everyone-
I just booked a VGT room on the 3/21 sailing of the Fantasy for 6 of us (2 rooms). Looking forward to seeing which rooms we will be assigned.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how they assign the rooms? I have looked online and there are approx 45 rooms available in the VGT category and of those there are 10 sets of connecting rooms. If they don't get filled, do you think they try and connect people who are traveling together? Do they typically fill the nicer rooms (higher category rooms) first?

Thank you!

If you book two rooms they will try best to put you near each other and in connecting rooms if possible.

 

[zymurgy1999]

How do you know that there are 45 rooms available in the VGT category. I have seen this referenced in other posts where people know a definite number of rooms in a category and say that they see it online. Where can I find this information?

 

[lin7]

You can check to see how many veranda rooms are available by going through the booking process and selecting for instance 5A and choosing your room number, then you'll see how many rooms there are left in each category

 

[baileyhouse]

How do you know that there are 45 rooms available in the VGT category. I have seen this referenced in other posts where people know a definite number of rooms in a category and say that they see it online. Where can I find this information?

I choose the cruise that I will be sailing on, then I went into the Verandah staterooms category and then proceeded to choose each category and pretended I was going to book a room and when it asked my to choose a stateroom it states the rooms that remain in that category...I literally did this for each category....Does this make sense?

 

[zymurgy1999]

Aha, very interesting, but do you think that they are showing every room that is available? I don't see 45 veranda rooms.

 

[lin7]

They should be showing all the rooms available. You need to go into every category and check the availability.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post images here, but I screen capped all the rooms available. My apologies if this is against the rules

 

[baileyhouse]

They should be showing all the rooms available. You need to go into every category and check the availability.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post images here, but I screen capped all the rooms available. My apologies if this is against the rules

exactly...but missing the 5A and 5E category rooms...which gets you up to approx 45 rooms available currently...

 

[zymurgy1999]

So what happens when I select a category and it says that it not available, rather it is GTY, but it does not give me a GTY rate?

 

[lin7]

opps sorry, I missed the two categories.

 

[baileyhouse]

No idea...sorry