Wish I lived in Fl
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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.Many reasons coming together to make this choice but never thought I would ever spend this much on a cruise.
I'd switch4E 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.
.... the 4e on Fantasy is 299 sq ft (which includes the balcony).
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.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.
http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g478/meatloafsfan/Disney Dream/disneycruiseplusotherstuff532.jpg
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.
I have a DVA and am buying giftcards at Target to fund it.
... Disney square footage specs include the balcony. ....
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.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.
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.
Adding 30% is huge. That would have put it completely out of the question for me.
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.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
eta-forgot to mention the rcl cruise at $2700 canadain includes the tips.