One room v. two rooms

[sanglee23]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know how much Disney charges for using an extra room? So for example, what would be the difference in cost between five people (two adults, three kids) in one room versus six people (two adults, four kids) sharing two rooms? If one room could fit six people, Disney would just charge for one extra kid. But since two rooms are required, I'm wondering how much more adding a sixth person would cost, i.e. whether it's just the cost of an extra kid or if there's an extra charge for using two rooms.

I heard somewhere that each room must be charged the cost of two adults. So if two kids equals the cost of one adult, then theoretically, there should be no extra cost for using an extra room, right? Or am I wrong? Thank you for indulging a rather complicated question.

 

[blu3]

You would have to buy the 2 rooms. Each would be the cost of it like it would be any other room. So it requires the first 2 people in the room to be charged as adults and then the rest charged accordingly.

So if you split out the six that requires 2 rooms (using easy numbers) it would be breakdown like this:

Assuming room is $1000/person for first 2 adults then $500 for each kid

Room 1:

Cost of 2 adult (covers 1 child) = $2000
Cost of 2 kids = $1000

Room 2:

Cost of 2 adult (covers 1 child) = $2000

Total = $5000

If you did the single room w/ 5 using same numbers it would be:

Room 1:

Cost of 2 adult = $2000
Cost of 3 kids = $1500

Total = $3500

That is the way I understand it anyway!

 

[sanglee23]

Thanks for the reply! OK, I see what you're saying. So basically, the extra cost that's incurred by having four kids instead of three is the difference in price between two adults and two kids (plus the cost of the extra kid).

Scenario 1 (if you could have two adults and four kids in one room)

Room 1
Two adults: $2k
Four kids: $2k

Total=$4k


Scenario 2 (using two rooms)

Room 1
One adult: $1k
One kid at adult price: $1k
One kid at kid price: $500

Room 2
One adult: $1k
One kid at adult price: $1k
One kid at kid price: $500

Total=$5k

 

[blu3]

Thanks for the reply! OK, I see what you're saying. So basically, the extra cost that's incurred by having four kids instead of three is the difference in price between two adults and two kids (plus the cost of the extra kid).

As I understand it, that's correct.

 

[Cheerio]

When we looked to book, we weren't sure if our oldest would be coming, so we priced one room with 2A 3C and then two rooms which we were charged for 2A 1C in each (you pay adult fare for the first two people in a room) the difference was about $1500.

 

[lanejudy]

With 5 passengers in a room you have limited stateroom category options. Spreading out to 2 rooms, especially if you book connecting rooms, gives you considerably more space even if you "downgrade" to a lower/smaller category. For example, you could book 2 9D's instead of needing 1 8A, or even 2 interior cabins which have no options for 5.

Play with some options at different category levels. Depending on the ages of the kids, you could do an inside stateroom across the hall from a verandah.

Enjoy your cruise!

 

[belac]

Keep in mind an adult must be listed in each stateroom with children. Can not have children in one room without an adult. So each room would have to be "Adult and 2 children". Don't know if that changes the price structure or not. We tried once to get our families sandwiched between a connecting SR with kids in middle, TA said no way Adult had to be listed as Lead - then do what you need, there aren't bed police... LOL

 

[sanglee23]

Thanks for all the replies. Yeah, I can definitely see certain advantages to two rooms (and it's not like I have a choice anyway), but I was just curious about the difference in cost. I was hoping that DCL would see two adults in a room as the "minimum" so they would accept two kids as being equal to one adult. No dice, I guess.

Cheerio, what percentage of your total cost is $1,500? I don't know exactly how DCL prices kids as a percentage of adults, but I'm assuming it depends on the age of the child. For a five year old, it looks to be about 2/3 the cost of an adult.

 

[Maggie'sMom]

The cost difference can vary depending on when you book. The staterooms are priced depending on the inventory available and there aren't as many family staterooms (the ones sleeping 5) than there are staterooms sleeping 3 or 4. If you are booking on opening day, the cost difference between a family stateroom sleeping 5 and two smaller staterooms will be different than if you are booking later and the inventory of family staterooms is more constrained. If a lot of the family staterooms are already booked, there can be cases where two inside staterooms are less expensive than one family veranda stateroom.

 

[lanejudy]

The first two passengers are charged full fare, regardless of age.
Passengers 3-5 are lower price, even for adults.
Teens (I think ages 13-17) are priced the same as adults.
Children (ages 3-12) are further reduced, but I'm not sure if it's a flat % of the adult "additional passenger" fare.
Infants (ages 6 mos - 2 yrs) are 50% of the child fare.

So, no, 2 kids doesn't equal 1 adult in any version of the pricing structure.

Enjoy your cruise!

 

[Amandine]

I just went through pricing this out in numerous ways for our family. What I found was that for our specific cruise, 2 adults in an interior cabin worked out to about $3000, and then each child added to the same cabin was $900-$1000. (There was, much to my surprise, not a difference in price between the fare for my 8 year old and my 14 year old when we tried pricing them both as 3rd and 4th passengers in the room, and there was only a minimal difference between their price and that for the 3 year old.)

But as others have said, with 6 people you'd' *have* to have 2 rooms (unless you sail concierge level), so for our specific cruise that would have been a base price of $3000 per stateroom, so $6000, plus the $900-$1000 for the additional 2 kids, for a total of around $8k.

Disney makes it really easy to use their search-for-a-cruise function to play around with different sail dates/room options, so that's the best way to see what your specific pricing would be. It doesn't lock you into anything. I found it super-useful in trying to decide how to divide us up between rooms.

 

[sanglee23]

Thanks again everyone. That's a good point about supply and demand regarding the rooms. In theory, due to the low supply of rooms that sleep 5 people, they would be booked more quickly, creating a larger demand and raising prices more rapidly.

I've actually already booked a cruise for this fall, but am interested in this issue for possibly booking future cruises. FWIW, on my cruise this fall, a five-year-old is priced about 2/3 of an adult, and two-year-olds are priced about 1/3 of an adult. A baby less than a year old is priced the same as a two-year-old so I think any child under three gets the "infant" rate, which is close to what lanejudy mentioned.

It looks like there's some discrepancy in what people have found for the prices of 12-14 year-olds. I have a long way to go before my kids are in that range, though.

 

[waltsdouble]

We, 4 adults and one five year old, sailed last fall in a one bedroom concierge suite. This year the same group is sailing in a one bedroom concierge suite and an adjoining family suite for $700 more than last year's cost.