Sold out cruise

[JRLINK3]

Just wondering....if a cruise is full, would it seem like you are in a constant sea of people? I'm sure there's enough places for people to fan out at, but are there different times of the day where it would seem worse than other times?

 

[StuartMI]

I guess we'll find out next week

 

[KelNottAt]

Our cruise was sold out in May 2003. I couldn't tell, though. There was plenty of elbow room everywhere. The only time things got a little tight was at Shutters (the photographer's shop) on the last night.

Kelley

 

[tvguy]

We were on the 12-27-03 NYE cruise, which was sold out.
Only time we were aware of the crowd was on disembarcation day. They started letting passengers off at 8 am, and it took until 10:15 am to get everyone off. The line was 45 minutes long on the ship to get off. Once in the cruise terminal, it only took about 10 minutes to clear customs and immigration, pickup your bags, check them at the airline counters at the port, and get on the bus to leave.

 

[CM_Mom]

We were on a sold out cruise last May and the crowds really weren't a problem even on debarkation. Sometimes there were lines for pictures and sometimes there weren't.

The trick to avoiding lines in the restaurants is to arrive about 2-5 minutes AFTER your seating time. The don't start seating folks until exactly 6:00 or 8:30. Since you have an assigned table it doesn't matter if you're the first one there.

We were always able to get good seats in the theater and really enjoyed the cruise - enough that we're going back in January.

I think what you have to remember is that DCL planned the ship to sail at full capacity so you NEVER have the forever waits like you did at WDW before the fast pases.