Hello,
Never been on a cruise and have our 30th anniversary coming up and wanted to surprise my wife with a Disney Dream Bahamas cruise. Have some friends who are going Sept. 13 and they paid $796 for two on the three night trip. 5A verandah whatever that is.
After they called and told us about it, I called DCL.
OK, my budget can handle that, but barely right now. I called and talked to a wonderful lady with DCL and told her what I wanted and she explained what the 5A verandah was all about.
Not knowing that rate was unavailable to me, we were in the process of paying for the reservation and putting it on my Visa card when all this came up. I was paying for it and they then did not want my money. I had already said I will take it and how I would pay. But then is when I found out the penalty for living in Georgia.
The nice lady told me the best I could do for a 5A verandah on that cruise is more than $1,500. So I would have to pay almost double for the same room. That is out of my budget.
She did find something called a 9D with obstructed view for $1,054 but that is still out of the budget for a surprise trip.
So my friends can reserve a better room, with a balcony for $350 or so less than what I can get for an obstructed view porthole. The confusion grows.
Then I looked on here and there are several threads about Fla resident rates. Yeah for Florida...no can do for me.
I understand specials to draw in locals to fill the ship, but they live at the end of the panhandle and their drive to Port Canaveral is further than ours so that part is confusing too.
I am happy for them...sad for me and the surprise that is not to be.
The representative wanted to help me but there was nothing she could do about the rate.
Friends are already booked so we can't put one of them as being in our room to get the rate, and even if we could, I don't think I would because that is simply not honest, as least to me it does not seem very right.
Would Disney really rather sail with an empty cabin (or do they sell out?) than accept a confirmed and paid for reservation at a rate they are already giving?
To me, for them to not want my money, that is like taking points off the scoreboard at a football game.
I'm not bitter, angry or anything like that. I understand special rates and restrictions, but like I said in the title of this post, we have never cruised and are confused.
We could have loved it and may have become life-long repeat DCL customers. Now we are destined, at least for now, to remain in the never cruised category.
Ricky
Never been on a cruise and have our 30th anniversary coming up and wanted to surprise my wife with a Disney Dream Bahamas cruise. Have some friends who are going Sept. 13 and they paid $796 for two on the three night trip. 5A verandah whatever that is.
After they called and told us about it, I called DCL.
OK, my budget can handle that, but barely right now. I called and talked to a wonderful lady with DCL and told her what I wanted and she explained what the 5A verandah was all about.
Not knowing that rate was unavailable to me, we were in the process of paying for the reservation and putting it on my Visa card when all this came up. I was paying for it and they then did not want my money. I had already said I will take it and how I would pay. But then is when I found out the penalty for living in Georgia.
The nice lady told me the best I could do for a 5A verandah on that cruise is more than $1,500. So I would have to pay almost double for the same room. That is out of my budget.
She did find something called a 9D with obstructed view for $1,054 but that is still out of the budget for a surprise trip.
So my friends can reserve a better room, with a balcony for $350 or so less than what I can get for an obstructed view porthole. The confusion grows.
Then I looked on here and there are several threads about Fla resident rates. Yeah for Florida...no can do for me.
I understand specials to draw in locals to fill the ship, but they live at the end of the panhandle and their drive to Port Canaveral is further than ours so that part is confusing too.
I am happy for them...sad for me and the surprise that is not to be.
The representative wanted to help me but there was nothing she could do about the rate.
Friends are already booked so we can't put one of them as being in our room to get the rate, and even if we could, I don't think I would because that is simply not honest, as least to me it does not seem very right.
Would Disney really rather sail with an empty cabin (or do they sell out?) than accept a confirmed and paid for reservation at a rate they are already giving?
To me, for them to not want my money, that is like taking points off the scoreboard at a football game.
I'm not bitter, angry or anything like that. I understand special rates and restrictions, but like I said in the title of this post, we have never cruised and are confused.
We could have loved it and may have become life-long repeat DCL customers. Now we are destined, at least for now, to remain in the never cruised category.
Ricky
The 1993 is the year we got married. 
