Ship capacity reductions

[Portolan]

Perhaps I missed this sometime ago, but the new web site lists slightly reduced capacities for each Regent ship.  Not, I would think, a COVID-related thing since it's been understood that pretty much all cruise lines have been or are reducing the capacities, usually consequentially.  You'd think they'd be describing the ships as they hope they will return to in the future.  Or, maybe, it's a permanent decision to block a small number of suites for future quarantining needs beyond the current pandemic when it becomes endemic?

 

If you use the Explore tab to open up each ship, you'll find:

Navigator: 482 passengers, 241 suites (always stated as 490 for as long as I remember)

Mariner: 684/342 (was 700)

Voyager: 680/340 (was 700)

Explorer and Splendor: 732/366 (was 750)

 

Not a lot of "missing" suites or capacity.  Just very curious

[BBWC]

Jason explained this at our town hall on the Mariner. Those are additional crew cabins and the capacity reduction is permanent.

[Pcardad]

16 minutes ago, BBWC said:

Jason explained this at our town hall on the Mariner. Those are additional crew cabins and the capacity reduction is permanent.

Correct - certain entertainers used to be put into guest cabins - they have made minor changes to said cabins and re-allocated them.

[mrlevin]

Have specific cabin numbers been removed from booking engine?  Really curious with respect to Mariner; which eight cabins.

 

thanks,

 

Marc

[Steve Q]

We are currently aboard the Explorer. Our cruise director, Dru Pavlov, told us that there are are slightly more than 600 aboard our sailing. This the greatest occupancy level since the resumption of cruising.

FYI—the Captain’s Welcome will also resume tomorrow.

[TomTN]

We are on Voyager. Told we are at 70%.

[mrlevin]

There are now only TWO Cat H cabins on both Mariner and Navigator.  So, "starting at' price now means even less than it did before.

[Perusal]

On 3/27/2022 at 4:26 AM, Steve Q said:

We are currently aboard the Explorer. Our cruise director, Dru Pavlov, told us that there are are slightly more than 600 aboard our sailing. This the greatest occupancy level since the resumption of cruising.

FYI—the Captain’s Welcome will also resume tomorrow.

On the prior cruise there were 490 passengers including us on board. Was absolutely brilliant!

[Steve Q]

FYI—We we’re also told by Regent a week before our March 25 transatlantic that we would need to wear masks onboard, have a Covid test before our Portugal excursion, require approval to enter Spain, etc. That all seems to have gone by the wayside. There is no mask requirement onboard. No tests are needed for Portugal and the Spain entrance application no longer seems to be required. It’s all been good news. Wonderful cruise on Explorer.

[Pudgesmom]

1 hour ago, Steve Q said:

FYI—We we’re also told by Regent a week before our March 25 transatlantic that we would need to wear masks onboard, have a Covid test before our Portugal excursion, require approval to enter Spain, etc. That all seems to have gone by the wayside. There is no mask requirement onboard. No tests are needed for Portugal and the Spain entrance application no longer seems to be required. It’s all been good news. Wonderful cruise on Explorer.

Interesting. We depart Tuesday on the Splendor for a TA. I wonder if they will drop some of our similar requirements. Not wearing a mask would be really nice.

[EagleScout66]

Where is Dru Pavlov working now? Which ship? Till when?

[Kwaj girl]

10 hours ago, EagleScout66 said:

Where is Dru Pavlov working now? Which ship? Till when?

 

He joined us on Navigator 31MAY 

[EagleScout66]

Do you know for how long?  Thanks

[Dolebludger]

it looks like they are stating capacity exactly at double occupancy in each suite. Perhaps a coincidence, but ——-.

[cruiseej]

2 hours ago, Dolebludger said:

it looks like they are stating capacity exactly at double occupancy in each suite. 

 

Isn't that typical? That's why some cruises can be at, say, 105% capacity — due to third guests in some rooms. For 2019, pre-Covid, the major cruise lines reported their occupancy rates at well over 100%: Carnival Corporation: 106.8%,  Royal Caribbean Group: 108.1%, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.: 107.3%.

[wcsdkqh]

2 hours ago, Dolebludger said:

it looks like they are stating capacity exactly at double occupancy in each suite. Perhaps a coincidence, but ——-.

And your point is?

[Dolebludger]

Nothing, really. Just pointing out the math.

[SWFLAOK]

I thought the point was that the "Ship Capacity Reductions" that were the subject of this original post are a thing of the past a year later. On our cruise in April, we had more passengers than the stated capacity of the ship, which was more than the listed double occupancy of the number of cabins.

Since our cruise companions were each solo in their cabins, there must have been more than 2 in some cabins. It was more crowded in Compass Rose on most nights than we've experienced before on Regent in our nearly 100 nights onboard. It was our least enjoyable cruise, and while we haven't cancelled our next Regent cruise, we won't be booking another until we see how our next one goes. We're already having trouble booking our business class flights for that cruise even though we paid a non-refundable deviation fee. They blame the airlines.