Question about infants and Cabins ?? HELP

[Dumbo55]

hi everyone what a great site, I was wondering if you could help I will be travling with a family of 5, but one being an infant 9 months Well I want the cabin in cat 5 or 6 but there sayin i need cat 4 which is like 3000 dollars more. I was wondering if anyone had this problem and if theres ways around this? the infant would really be eating anything but baby food?
any suggestions
Thanks

 

[depomas]

Although infants only pay port charges, they qualify towards the number of occupants per room. You could try two connecting cabins, like 10's or lower, as this is relatively cheaper than a cat4, also you will have two rooms, with more space, and two toilets, baths, etc.

You will almost definitely neet a playpen set up in the room, and you will have NO room left in a Cat..4 with that..

Hope that helped...

 

[michamato]

I just got back yesterday traveling with a 4 year old, 2 1/2 year old, and 8 month old.
I stayed in a cat 6, with a navigators verhandah. I had two connecting rooms with the door in the middle. I needed every space of those two rooms. I put the baby in the pack and play with me, and I put my two girls in the room next to us with the door open. We used the bathtubs at the same time almost every night, and the potty's. I couldn't of done it with one room, the napping time alone would of killed us.
I would DEFINATLY suggest two connecting rooms, and the baby and 2 1/2 year old only did pay port charges, they just split your family up and say one adult one child in one room, and one adult, two children in the other. Price it out, you can stay in connecting inside rooms to lower your costs.
Hope I helped too!

 

[minniemouse1]

DCL has porta cribs that they provide for the infants. If you are traveling with family you could register the baby in their cabin then you could still get a cat 5 or 6. You can also ask the cabin steward to take the coffee table out of the room and it will give you extra space esp if you are planning to leave the crib up all the time. The stewards will take the crib down and put it up everynight if you don't specifically tell them not too.

Our uncle registered his infant in our room. The cabin steward said that they don't care where everyone sleeps as long as the life boat is not over capacity and an infant would be held in a lifeboat therefore not taking a seat. We are also registering our infant in another room on our upcoming cruise in April. She will sleep in our room but her KTTW card will have the room next to us on it.

 

[Dumbo55]

thanks i wish i could unfortally traveling with groups of 4
good idea though thanks

 

[Tink n Poohbear]

Hi Dumbo55

We have the same problem. We started planning the cruise while I was pregnant with our second child. Turns out we were blessed with a 3rd child too! That meant our family went from 3 to 5 and we could no longer get the cabin we had planned on. We looked into getting 2 cabins or the Cat 4, and the Cat4 turned out not to be much more than the 2 cabins. We were afraid if we tried 2 cabins, we may not get connecting. Could have been a needless worry, but that was one of our concerns. Good luck!

 

[debm]

You WILL get connecting if that is what you book. Just pick your rooms at time of booking. "Adjoining" only means "next-to". You must ask for "connecting".

 

[Dumbo55]

hi i was getting almost 1000 cheaper on the 2 cat's 10 instead of the cat 4 so i dont know what to do, has anyone stayed in the cat 10 before

 

[banderson]

DCL may not allow this (you'd need to check), but I can assure you that the bed in a Cat. 8 is more than big enough to sleep you, your spouse and your 9-month old. When my kids were that age, they slept with us more often than not anyway.

We just stayed in a Cat. 8 on the Magic and if I had had a 9-month old with me, he/she would have probably slept in the bed with us whether or not he/she had his/her bed anyway. The staterooms are not big to begin with and I'd feel more secure having my infant sleeping between me and my husband than on/in a ship-supplied infant's bed/crib.

 

[Dumbo55]

i also have 2 other kids so they wont let us

 

[banderson]

I had assumed that you had two other kids besides your 9-month old. I had also assumed they would use the bunkbeds leaving just your 9-month old without a place to sleep.

So, if I understand correctly, DCL has confirmed that they will not let you make do with a Cat. 8 and have your infant sleep in the bed with you and your spouse? That's too bad. Yet another example of how a lot is set up today to accommodate families with one or two children, but not more, I guess.

Good luck, but I guess this means a higher category room.