Originally posted by ivanova
Apparenlty corporate sponsors have already been allowed to book staterooms on the Magic for May-Sept 2005, with AT&T booking 100 rooms on the FL to CA repositioning cruise. (I wonder if Disney board members got early cracks at ressies too)
It's conceivable that Cat 11 might be all that's left for us noncorporate types by the time they open up bookings next week.
I wouldn't worry about this.
First, I would point out that Jim Hill never wrote that this is a fact. He clearly presented it as an unsubstantiated "whisper." Jim Hill wrote:
<blockquote>For weeks now, there have been whispers about when it was actually going to happen. Little whisps of stories would leak. Juicy little tidbits like: "AT&T has already booked 100 rooms for the trip out to Los Angeles" and "Disney's other corporate partners are being offered first shot at the rooms on that cruise."</blockquote>
Next, AT&T dropped sponsorship of the Indiana Jones ride at
Disneyland and Spaceship Earth at Epcot, so AT&T no longer even qualifies as a "corporate sponsor." That really casts doubt of the validity of the AT&T "whisper."
Also, keep in mind that corporate events tend to last days, not weeks. Corporations can ill afford to put a significant number executives or high achievers onto a cruise ship for two weeks, with very limited communication capabilities.
Finally, there are 877 staterooms on the Disney Magic. Even if 10% or 20% of the rooms are used for group bookings, there will be plenty of staterooms available for conventional bookings.
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