Cruise Capacity

[frankh1969]

If all cruise are going to be capped off at 60%, will they stop selling the cruise? Or will the keep selling hoping for more people to buy the suites formore money and cancel all the lower price cabins?

[ColeThornton]

Highly doubtful they would do that but that's just speculation on my part.  No one knows what they are going to do at this point once things get in full gear.

[casofilia]

@frankh1969

 

I will be really annoyed if they tried to "ditch" me as I have booked an Inside cabin.   It would be even more annoying as we have 4 cruises B2B2B2B with 3 in an Inside and the other one in a Suite (because we had a 75% discount because of a cancellation)

[BirdTravels]

2 hours ago, frankh1969 said:

If all cruise are going to be capped off at 60%, will they stop selling the cruise? Or will the keep selling hoping for more people to buy the suites formore money and cancel all the lower price cabins?

In order to turn a profit, the cruise lines have to sell the more expensive cabins and reduce capacity by eliminating the cheaper cabins. Or, alternative, raise the price of the lower price cabins to generate revenue.

 

In the near term, the situation is made worse by the 02 Nov 20 announcement that they will continue to delay final payment until 60 days prior to departure. So, now, 4 to 6 weeks before departure, they will have to start cancelling reservations to meet government regulations. Now, do you cancel the Haven guest who paid $10K and likely to spend a lot onboard, or the inside room who paid $800 who may buy a $10 t-shirt?

[casofilia]

Surely they will have to wok on the FILO principle.

[Trimone]

It’s simple, they will just cancel the customers who didn’t book direct with NCL.

In the ash cloud, Costa kicked everyone of there ships when the cruise ended that hadn’t booked directly with them.

I have never booked a carnival group cruise operator since.

[farmersfight]

4 hours ago, BirdTravels said:

Now, do you cancel the Haven guest who paid $10K and likely to spend a lot onboard, or the inside room who paid $800 who may buy a $10 t-shirt?

 

Dang, there goes my inside cabin AND my t-shirt...

[farmersfight]

4 hours ago, casofilia said:

the FILO principle.

 

What's the FILO principle?

[halberd7]

1 hour ago, farmersfight said:

 

What's the FILO principle?

First In, Last Out.

[Cruise Wonderland]

Nobody knows at this moment. None of the cruise lines have announced their plan on this issue yet. But there is a rather good article on the website Royal Caribbean Blog: "What happens if a cruise is oversold above reduced capacity?" on 16th October.

 

Quote:

There are a few different possibilities I could see happening, but these are all just guesses:

- Who booked the sailing first gets to stay
- Reverse Crown and Anchor Society status
- Airline model: ask for volunteers first, and then start randomly bumping reservations

[beerman2]

With the possibility of quarantine, I would think those booked in balcony cabins get the free pass. I can't imagine staying in an inside with that hanging over me.

 

No precedence so it will be interesting to see the solution.

[hallux]

There's a 4th option - cancel everyone and reopen bookings but limited to the capacity laid out by the CDC.

 

This was proposed on the Royal board, not by me...

[sverigecruiser]

9 minutes ago, hallux said:

There's a 4th option - cancel everyone and reopen bookings but limited to the capacity laid out by the CDC.

 

This was proposed on the Royal board, not by me...

 

I think that cancel everyone is what they will do.  

[MsTabbyKats]

33 minutes ago, sverigecruiser said:

 

I think that cancel everyone is what they will do.  

Yeah...cancel everyone (and raise the prices).

 

When/If cruising starts....there will be many that want to cancel instead of dealing with restrictions.

 

Any other way of passenger reduction will be "unfair" depending on your situation (who booked first, whose tier status is higher, who paid more).

 

 

[Buford T Justiice]

I think they'll keep some lower category cabin passengers to spread passenger traffic on the ship.... but may cancel some lower category cabins  "in the interests of maintaining available cabins for quarantined passengers " 

[tallnthensome]

2 hours ago, hallux said:

There's a 4th option - cancel everyone and reopen bookings but limited to the capacity laid out by the CDC.

 

This was proposed on the Royal board, not by me...

Yea, If they think they can cancel my (our) booking(s) I have had for two years and then start over asking me for double what I had booked for they can kiss off ........ 

[FLAHAM]

9 hours ago, casofilia said:

Surely they will have to wok on the FILO principle.

 

5 hours ago, farmersfight said:

 

What's the FILO principle?

 

3 hours ago, halberd7 said:

First In, Last Out.

More commonly expressed as the LIFO principle—last in, first out.