when sailing resumes

[Sharon Mayberry]

When sailing resumes, how many passengers do you think will be allowed on the Fantasy , and how do you think they will decide on who sails, from a sold out cruise ? What about families with multiple staterooms booked ?

 

[JoJothemonkeygirl]

Following...my May cruise is 85% full...Wondering the same

 

[tvguy]

When sailing resumes, how many passengers do you think will be allowed on the Fantasy , and how do you think they will decide on who sails, from a sold out cruise ? What about families with multiple staterooms booked ?

That may not be an issue if enough people decide to postpone their cruises. Otherwise, I would suspect it would be first booked, first confirmed. Likely with incentives IF anyone has to be bumped

 

[Cruising Engineer]

Following...my May cruise is 85% full...Wondering the same

Where do you find the current percentage of rooms booked?

 

[Bjn10]

I’m more curious how they decide especially for people who had to rebook a cancelled cruise

 

[FigmentSpark]

All I know is for our March 2021 Fantasy cruise there hasn't been a 4 a/b/c/d/e available for a long time (maybe since spring). And from summer on, nothing with a verandah for 5 people, except concierge. So either it's full or they're blocked off. I can say that a few weeks ago, I was able to change from second seating to first seating, so I'm not convinced that the ship is just that full.

 

[Snowwhyt]

I’m more curious how they decide especially for people who had to rebook a cancelled cruise

If I were to throw out a guess, it would be by reservation number. This way a person whom had booked early would have the early choice.

 

[DisneYE]

Natural selection.

Lots of people will cancel based on the restrictions DCL puts in place such as:
Masks at all times
No buffet
Reduced capacity shows, pools, bars, kids clubs
Excursions only via DCL.... etc.

These examples alone will get so many ppl to cancel on their own, it'll go below 50% naturally, no need to figure out who to exclude

We ourselves will cancel if they only allow to get off the ship at a POC thru a DCL excursion.

All the other ones we're fine, but no freedom at the ports is a big no-no for us.

 

[_auroraborealis_]

Socially distant pudding wrestling, winner take the cruise.

 

[mevelandry]

I'm expecting 75% capacity or less, among the whole industry. IMO, there will be enough cancellations by guests themselves but worst case scenario I wouldn't be that surprised to see DCL offering to "postpone and receive an extra credit".

 

[Clojel]

I'm expecting 75% capacity or less, among the whole industry. IMO, there will be enough cancellations by guests themselves but worst case scenario I wouldn't be that surprised to see DCL offering to "postpone and receive an extra credit".

I agree with this...both the 75% capacity and the incentivized cancellation. I also would guess that they'll start holding back the lower category rooms, if they haven't done so already. My guess is that even if the SHIP is at 75%...you're still going to see 100% capacity at the concierge and higher level rooms. They're going to need to make $$.

 

[BartmanLA]

A lot of this is going to depend on how they "calculate" the ship's occupation, if they need to set aside a specific amount of staterooms to equate the percentage of capacity they will sail at it's one thing, but on some cruises they might find those numbers skewed due to the way the ship is filled. For example I've sailed on 2 West Bound Panama Canal cruises (2017 & 2019) the ship was "sold out" in that all the staterooms were booked, YET the ship was way below capacity, in fact it was at around 75% of total guest capacity, normally the Wonder can hold approximately 2700 guest at full capacity, yet on the WBPC's they ship usually sails with around 1800-1900 guests total, yet every stateroom is occupied, mainly this is due to the fact it's a 14 night itinerary and most parents can't bring kids along for that length of time so the ship is primarily adults (couples), with a certain number of kids on board too. So on a WBPC the ship is "full" as in all the staterooms are occupied yet the ship is only sailing with around 70-80% of capacity. That's a conundrum in how they'll calculate to sail with fewer guests on board.

 

[ChiTownZee]

Following...my May cruise is 85% full...Wondering the same

How did you find out your cruise is at 85%?

 

[JoJothemonkeygirl]

How did you find out your cruise is at 85%?

No official website...just home alone in a very quiet house and did the math!