Well I've made a complete mess out of things- but atleast I know we'll be on this cruise. LOL
I didn't realize so many repeats of the WB repo were going on this cruise!
I also wasn't sure if we'd go on this cruise because wow the flight costs so much x 5 people = so expensive!
The summer cruises were way out of our range. NO way I'm paying that much for 5 of us in cat 11's... plus the high airfare. We're just not rich enough for that!
But I'd rebooked onboard 5 rooms with dummy dates on the repo- then changed 2 rooms to 12/26/09. That left 3 rooms to mess with. It's so hard to tell your TA what to try to book you in the mayhem it has to be this morning- when you aren't even sure of prices. The main problem is that I wanted to try the 11nt southern dec 2010 instead (because summer cruises too costly, april or sept TA's during school year) but I had no idea how much it would cost. I went ahead and told them to book 2 rooms (transferring existing ressies ofcourse) to the 11nt southern and only ONE room to the TA- thinking maybe we could somehow swing going alone and figuring out a way for the kids to stay, go to school, etc.
HOWEVER then I get online and see the outrageous prices for the 11nt southern- no way i can justify that! For the cat 7 and cat 11 we'd asked them to try to book- online it was showing both rooms (5 people) at $19,250. That's ridiculous IMO. It wasn't much savings trying 2 cat 11's either (the one cat 11 with 3 ppl was $9052.75- that's crazy IMO)
So then I got all freaked out thinking I can't afford that- we might as well go for this cruise for all of us (plus long story but I think I will be homeschooling all 3 kids by that time anyway. I'm going to be starting to homeschool the younger two very soon- long long story) -but ofcourse I can't reach my TA at the moment. They are very busy with all this! So can you guess what I did?
Well if you guessed I went online and booked the rooms- you'd be right.
Only thing is I have no idea what the TA may have booked us for the ONE room they were supposed to be booking for us on this cruise. Also my online bookings took $300 deposit per person and ofcourse isn't transferring ressies to get the onboard credit and 10% discount and such.
And if that wasn't bad enough... I booked one room for 3 cat 11, then turned around and tried to book the other cat 11 for 2 people- and it only said avialable was cat 10- so I booked 2 people in the cat 10. Then I couldn't remember for SURE if it was a cat 10 or cat 11 I'd just booked at that price- so I go back thru the reservation process to compare the price to know if I booked a cat 10 or cat 11- and saw cat 11 available again for a considerable savings! (I really do not care to pay more for a cat 10 over 11 and besides we may have an easier time getting 2 cat 11's next to one another. I have no idea if cat 10 and cat 11's are near one another LOL)
So I booked yet another room, cat 11 for 2 people- but I neglected to notice my husband's name on the cardholder part before hitting to charge my card- tried to backpage to change that and it wouldn't let me. It's saying the reservation has been charged so I'm not sure if they were able to charge the card with his name when his name isn't on the card-or if that one will get bounced back/cancelled when that deposit pymt doesn't go thru.
and now I sit and wait. I can't get thru to
DCL to try to find out if the cat 11 pymt went thru and to cancel the cat 10 reservation.. and can't reach my TA to see what's up with anything they've booked. I'll have to fix this later obviously- but for now.. atleast I know we'll be on this cruise. Now to save up for those airfare prices. LOL
With the high prices for the summer cruises and the 11nt southern- I'm getting completely "priced out" for disney cruises I'm afraid. If that is a sign of how much it will cost to cruise on disney, I fear we won't be able to cruise much with them. It's crazy amounts. we aren't the rockefellers. LOL