Little confused about the complaints about price hiking

[Donna3271]

If I am getting a good product, and I think DCL is, I don't mind paying... BUT... We cruised Alaska summer of 2013 for $6,800. 2A 3/C in a 4A. I want to go again, but the SAME cruise is now $13,000. Even though I can afford it, I can't justify paying double for the same exact thing we just did.

I understand price hikes. We are Disney shareholders. I want them to succeed and make money. I will continue to sail with them, but if I feel a cruise is priced beyond its value, I simply won't book that particular cruise. I am certain someone else will. Supply and demand dictates the market.... Free enterprise for all!

 

[bumbershoot]

people are just venting that they dont find the value anymore

Yep.

Since I shop quite a bit at Trader Joe's, I know that grocery stores CAN reduce prices. TJs does; when everyone else was raising prices and/or making containers smaller, they did raise them, but once their costs went back down, they reduced prices again. It was awesome.

And with "sales" (fluctuations of prices, really) at different stores, I generally get our staples for about the same price as I have gotten them for quite awhile. And I don't get generic brand stuff.

But some ice cream brands...grr. They raised costs and made them smaller, and they haven't really changed since they did that. Ice cream and DCL are the same. They are reducing quality, reducing perks, while raising prices. Silly!

As soon as my 11 year old is old enough for the teen clubs on other lines(12 on RCI and 13 on NCL) I will be trying both these cruise lines. I know he will hate being with the little kids after being in the Edge, and I really don't want to pay for child care after 10pm nor do I want to check him in and out.

Unless it's a low-#-of-children cruise an 11 year old won't be in with anyone younger than 9. And even if that happens, they don't have the 6 year olds playing with the 11 year old; on Freedom and Vision the counselors did a very good job keeping them separate.

My son could have checked himself out if we let him, and he was 10 (and 9 on Freedom).

Can't help ya with the late night stuff.

Also, from our experience on Freedom with tablemates, the teen club doesn't spend a lot of time in the teen club. It's a meeting place, and the rest of the ship becomes their club.

We typically sail in 2 insides for the 4 of us

Wow, lucky!

Of course on RCCL there is no magical porthole that I truly do love.

Some ships have the full-wall screen. No disney characters floating by, but then again, we only remember seeing one on our 4 night on Dream.

I found they have a family room that sleeps up to 6, but you have to pay for at least 5 people. The room is 400 square feet has 1 full bath plus a 1/2 bath. The panoramic view window is 7 feet tall and 25 feet wide and I get to wake up to this view every morning

And for those who aren't used to having 2 insides for 4 people and can work with 120sqft or more less space...they also have Larger Panoramic rooms and normal Panoramic rooms. We have one of the larger ones booked in March on Freedom; it's pie-shaped, and there's only two on the ships that have the bow pano rooms as well, with one being HA. I'm tremendously excited about it.

We stayed in a pano room on Vision last year and LOVED it. Our very first cruise was overlooking the bow helipad on Radiance on deck 7 and we loved that. Combining the two is going to be fabulous.

Liberty has the ice show, yes? Even if you don't know if you'll be into it, go to it. Then have someone in your family (or all of you) go ice skating when it's offered. It's fun, and it shows you how hard that show must be to do!

 

[holula]

The ice show on Royal is one of my favorite things at sea. It's amazing to watch them skate on a moving ship.

 

[Club Disney Chandler]

Whe

Yep.

Since I shop quite a bit at Trader Joe's, I know that grocery stores CAN reduce prices. TJs does; when everyone else was raising prices and/or making containers smaller, they did raise them, but once their costs went back down, they reduced prices again. It was awesome.

And with "sales" (fluctuations of prices, really) at different stores, I generally get our staples for about the same price as I have gotten them for quite awhile. And I don't get generic brand stuff.

But some ice cream brands...grr. They raised costs and made them smaller, and they haven't really changed since they did that. Ice cream and DCL are the same. They are reducing quality, reducing perks, while raising prices. Silly!




Unless it's a low-#-of-children cruise an 11 year old won't be in with anyone younger than 9. And even if that happens, they don't have the 6 year olds playing with the 11 year old; on Freedom and Vision the counselors did a very good job keeping them separate.

My son could have checked himself out if we let him, and he was 10 (and 9 on Freedom).

Can't help ya with the late night stuff.

Also, from our experience on Freedom with tablemates, the teen club doesn't spend a lot of time in the teen club. It's a meeting place, and the rest of the ship becomes their club.



Wow, lucky!



Some ships have the full-wall screen. No disney characters floating by, but then again, we only remember seeing one on our 4 night on Dream.



And for those who aren't used to having 2 insides for 4 people and can work with 120sqft or more less space...they also have Larger Panoramic rooms and normal Panoramic rooms. We have one of the larger ones booked in March on Freedom; it's pie-shaped, and there's only two on the ships that have the bow pano rooms as well, with one being HA. I'm tremendously excited about it.

We stayed in a pano room on Vision last year and LOVED it. Our very first cruise was overlooking the bow helipad on Radiance on deck 7 and we loved that. Combining the two is going to be fabulous.

Liberty has the ice show, yes? Even if you don't know if you'll be into it, go to it. Then have someone in your family (or all of you) go ice skating when it's offered. It's fun, and it shows you how hard that show must be to do!

When we first start cruising DCL it was actually cheaper for us to sail in 2 insides than 1 veranda.

I'm really looking forward to ice skating on the ship. Amazingly enough growing up in the desert we actually had a great indoor ice skating rink near my house so we would go there (or roller skating, gotta love the 80's), all the time.

In all honesty, you are one of the people who has really made me comfortable with our decision to try Royal, you always seem to post a very balanced comparison of the two lines. So to that I say thank you.

 

[bumbershoot]

Whe


When we first start cruising DCL it was actually cheaper for us to sail in 2 insides than 1 veranda.

I'm really looking forward to ice skating on the ship. Amazingly enough growing up in the desert we actually had a great indoor ice skating rink near my house so we would go there (or roller skating, gotta love the 80's), all the time.

In all honesty, you are one of the people who has really made me comfortable with our decision to try Royal, you always seem to post a very balanced comparison of the two lines. So to that I say thank you.

I'm so happy to have helped you, and I hope you enjoy Royal as much as we do.

I grew up in San Jose CA, really hot there most of the time, and we, too, had a great ice skating rink!

 

[Billinaz]

Well that's because the government is clueless.

Just put them on social security and medicare instead of the sweetheart deals they keep for themselves. While we get to go to joes clinic for health care, they go to Walter Reed. When we have to live on social security (which they just wanted to dip into again for their pet projects), they live on a retirement check that rivals the paycheck of the CEO of a mega corporation.