Stateroom Availability as an Indicator

[gotomu212]

Hi fellow cruiser! Hope we get to sail. I never actually searched for the discount for myself for it because we are a family of 5 so never can use the *GT rates but the Dis discount listing still show it available for our cruise so maybe they pulled the discount today or could be it is only available now for certain party sizes. If they pulled the discount, I hope it is because they have sold enough rooms and not because they are planning to cancel

There are still 14 extended aft verandahs for your cruise-and those usually get snapped up FAST. Depending on your booking price those might be worth moving to. They could be keeping capacity low, especially if they can’t sail with a full ship in the beginning, but I’m surprised there are so many extended staterooms available.

 

[To the honeypots]

I think you're right about the DCL site setting a limit as to how many cabins they return in the search. I never saw more than 8 in any category when I was looking at different sailings across various dates. From that, I decided that when it returned less than 8, I could trust the number to reflect the true number of remaining cabins for that deck/category. NCL does the same thing, (displaying 15 max if I recall). I have a trick for figuring out the true number with them (to gauge my chances of scoring a cheaper upgrade through their bidding system), but the trick doesn't work with DCL, unfortunately.

I did notice that most of the Restricted availability is gone now for the specials. In fact while we were considering a specific date it disappeared, so we quickly booked it on the next sailing. Today that one is gone too.

Also the price of the remaining cabins seems to have increased. Or, more likely, since the restricted rate cabins are gone, we're now seeing the 'unrestricted' rates." I'm hoping that seeing the Restricted cabins gone and the higher rate on the remaining cabins is a good sign that they're getting the traction that they're looking for, and selling those cabins. I'll check back from time to time and see if those 8's turn into lower numbers...

From what I was told by a CM once, 8 rooms in each category are released on their site at a time. They also start releasing on the port side first and then move to starboard.

 

[fdefulvio]

I’ve noticed that port always shows a lot more availability. Searches only return results that match your party size. We’re a family of 5, so searches only return cabins that accommodate 5. For true availability, you need to enter 4 or less passengers.

 

[MomOTwins]

There are still 14 extended aft verandahs for your cruise-and those usually get snapped up FAST. Depending on your booking price those might be worth moving to. They could be keeping capacity low, especially if they can’t sail with a full ship in the beginning, but I’m surprised there are so many extended staterooms available.

We actually ended up upgrading to concierge for the first time so our funds are locked up--no switching for us now. Looking forward to it though--we are in a cat v and there are still a lot of one-bedrooms so we may upgrade to one at port if there is a good offer. It is definitely a mostly-empty cruise from the looks of things. I can't tell if that is a good thing (i.e., because DCL could more easily implement social distancing at dining etc. on our cruise) or a bad thing (not enough people to justify the cost of sailing).

I did see that the Disneyland announcement alluded to other announcements coming soon. Hope that means we get some real news from DCL on their reopening plans.