update: Cancelled DCL - Paying more than I ever thought I would - Easter 2017

Many reasons coming together to make this choice but never thought I would ever spend this much on a cruise.
I know how you feel. Ours is booked the week before yours and I have an obb to cut down on cost. I am spending $5000 for the 3 of us in a 5e. I thought with my discount it would be around $4200. I will say with the immediate price increase, I feel like we got a bargain. We're just going to have to tighten our belts and save more.
 

4E Handicap Accessible with the oversized balcony. Disney HA rooms larger and fit more people than many other cruiselines.
An Oasis Junior Suite HA would be $5,542 same week, same # guests.
We might switch but only if my Mom loves this February Freedom of the Seas cruise.

Our April school vacation coincides with Easter in 2017.

I joined Costco yesterday and will switch reservation to get a costco gift card.

I have a DVA and am buying giftcards at Target to fund it.
 
4E Handicap Accessible with the oversized balcony. Disney HA rooms larger and fit more people than many other cruiselines.
An Oasis Junior Suite HA would be $5,542 same week, same # guests.
We might switch but only if my Mom loves this February Freedom of the Seas cruise.

Our April school vacation coincides with Easter in 2017.

I joined Costco yesterday and will switch reservation to get a costco gift card.

I have a DVA and am buying giftcards at Target to fund it.
I'd switch:) You can almost book an additional cruise for the price difference, and the JS on Oasis are orders of magnitude better than a 4E on Disney. The standard JS on Oasis is 287 sq ft plus a 78 sq ft balcony. The HA JS on oasis is 390 sq ft plus a 107 sq ft balcony, and the 4e on Fantasy is 299 sq ft (which includes the balcony).
 
Just to clarify. The Dream Class HA cat 4e, cabin 5552, has at least 420 sqft interior space and a balcony in excess of 200sqft.

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Not to be argumentative, but Disney square footage specs include the balcony. So if that cabin is listed at 420 square feet, it includes the balcony. BTW, I looked up the standard 4E when I quoted my numbers, which is why I included the numbers for a standard Oasis JS.
 
An Oasis Junior Suite HA would be $5,542 same week, same # guests.
We might switch but only if my Mom loves this February Freedom of the Seas cruise.

Well if there's a chance of changing, I'd book that now. It won't be that price forever. Booking Royal through costcotravel.com gives you OBC FYI.

I have a DVA and am buying giftcards at Target to fund it.

Well it sounds like you're going on Disney then.


I would not and COULD not spend nearly 10K on a cruise. If I had 10K for cruising I'd go on 3 or 4 cruises, not one. No one cruise will ever be worth that much to me.
 
... Disney square footage specs include the balcony. ....

1. DCL doesn't separate specs from the standard to HA cabins.
The HA ones are usually at least twice as big.
Have a look at some deck plans.

2. The 4e specs have been wrong on the DCL site forever.

3. Don't really care what DCL indicates. See pics in link.
Trust Bear specs. lol.
 
1. DCL doesn't separate specs from the standard to HA cabins.
The HA ones are usually at least twice as big.
Have a look at some deck plans.

2. The 4e specs have been wrong on the DCL site forever.

3. Don't really care what DCL indicates. See pics in link.
Trust Bear specs. lol.
Since I have neither the capacity to read minds nor the prescience to determine DCLs website incompetency in advance, I have only the published specs to go on, and the published specs for a cat 4e HA cabin on Dream class is 299 sq ft including balcony. Since she link doesn't show any specs, it is of little use. BTW, the link you posted has a virus, so you may want to check your computer.
 
Well if there's a chance of changing, I'd book that now. It won't be that price forever. Booking Royal through costcotravel.com gives you OBC FYI.

Thank you. I didn't know Costco gave OBC on Royal. I would put a deposit on Oasis if I had any spare money.
Even if didn't use DVA for cruise could always use for Disney hotel or tickets in the future.
 
Be thankful you aren't Canadian and have to add another 30% to that price. We just booked Alaska 2016 while onboard a couple of weeks ago. 2A2C in a 10B room because a verandah was NOT going to happen. Adding 30% to our price is scary......
 
Adding 30% is huge. That would have put it completely out of the question for me.

Tell me about it! I'm just hoping our dollar climbs and improves by the time we PIF next April! I figure who needs a verandah (or even a port hole at this point lol) when I can just go from deck to deck checking out all the scenery ;-) If we wanted a verandah we'd be looking at the equivalent of 12 months of mortgage payments
 
I would ever spend this much on a cruise.
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Be thankful you aren't Canadian and have to add another 30% to that price. We just booked Alaska 2016 while onboard a couple of weeks ago. 2A2C in a 10B room because a verandah was NOT going to happen. Adding 30% to our price is scary......
this is one of the reasons why we have booked royal for our next cruise. you can book in Canadian dollars which takes the guess work out of it. when I look at the cost of my rcl cruise $2700 canadain then look at the same week for dcl at $3800 u.s. theres a HUGE difference. plus the rcl sailing is for 8 nights instead of 7. at todays rate I will save over $2200 dollars. dcl should really let people book in Canadian as well but I suspect that even if they did it would still be mind blowing.
rcl, yes please :yay:

eta-forgot to mention the rcl cruise at $2700 canadain includes the tips.
 
this is one of the reasons why we have booked royal for our next cruise. you can book in Canadian dollars which takes the guess work out of it. when I look at the cost of my rcl cruise $2700 canadain then look at the same week for dcl at $3800 u.s. theres a HUGE difference. plus the rcl sailing is for 8 nights instead of 7. at todays rate I will save over $2200 dollars. dcl should really let people book in Canadian as well but I suspect that even if they did it would still be mind blowing.
rcl, yes please :yay:

eta-forgot to mention the rcl cruise at $2700 canadain includes the tips.

Yeah we are dyed in the wool DCL cruisers, but those early 2017 prices are making me do some looking elsewhere as we are Canadian also and the exchange is not in our favour.

For example March 2017...for the week our daughter has March break we could sale RCL Allure of the Seas 7-night eastern Caribbean for $4478 Canadian in a superior ocean balcony stateroom (232 sq ft)

The same week cruise on the Fantasy in a 5A balcony (246 sq ft) is $5777 US...then tack on another 30% with the exchange...then you're close to $7500!

Don't get me wrong we love DCL and Disney...we are DVC members and enjoy our trips to the parks...but those kinds of prices are enough to make me go a different route.
 
I priced out that same cruise and just couldn't do the $9200. So we opted for the Jan 15, 2017 5-night Caribbean out of Miami on the Magic. The kids will have to take 4 days off of school but they are elementary school age so they'll be fine.
 

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