How full is ship booked?

[stroza]

I will be on the caribbean princess on 5/1. I was wondering if there is anyway to find out how full the ship is booked? Is there a website somewhere that will tell me how many cabins are still available?

 

Thanks!

[cherylandtk]

You can count on the ship being fully booked; they will make every effort to fill any unsold cabins, but there is no website to give you exact numbers.

[JLC@SD]

I will be on the caribbean princess on 5/1. I was wondering if there is anyway to find out how full the ship is booked? Is there a website somewhere that will tell me how many cabins are still available?

 

Thanks!

 

They are trying to fill it up.....I just got an email offer from Princess for your cruise that is pretty low (int for 300...mini for 750)....and I am sure at these prices the ship will fill up.

[Pam in CA]

Just about every Princess ship sails full. That doesn't mean every bed available in every cabin but rather every cabin is booked. Many times, cruises are fully booked months in advance. Sometimes, closer to sailing.

[kuldalai]

The Cruise Lines all have very sophisticated yield management systems that see that most regular cruises all sail with very high load factors. (Placement cruises are the exception where the line will sell all it can at low fares , but the load factors are more like 50 - 60 %) .

 

With regular cruises they play around with all sorts of Guaranteed Categories, and upgrades to various pax at last minute, usually moving windows to any available balconies, any insides to windows, and that leaves insides to sell at rock bottom fares . A sort of cascade effect, with the ships inevitably sailing with high load factors .

[Iamcruzin]

I will be on the caribbean princess on 5/1. I was wondering if there is anyway to find out how full the ship is booked? Is there a website somewhere that will tell me how many cabins are still available?

 

Thanks!

You can try and call Princess and ask. Last year close to sailing I called to get a head count of how many teens would be sailing on that same itinerary. At the time I called they told me 15. Two of them were mine and one was a friend of ours that we were traveling with. By the time we sailed there were 18. They should be able to tell you total passengers.

[NJRonbo]

I get a generalized idea by going to the Princess site and book the cruise I am already booked on.

 

You can browse each cabin category and view how many waiting lists exist.

 

For instance, my upcoming Crown cruise has waiting lists in just about all the categories which tells me that it's going to sail full.

[PSCruiser]

So glad to see that all posters here gave correct info - the cruise lines do what they need to do to cruise essentially full every time, it is their business model.

Every time this kind of thread comes up, the posters come out that have a story where their ship was only half full because the theater wasn't crowded or something. While under exceptional circumstances it could happen, most of it is just bad information. I'm always amazed onboard how often I overhear some "cruise expert" expounding completely wrong info on basic facts, such as ship size or what class of ship a certain ship belongs to.

[Grego]

I get a generalized idea by going to the Princess site and book the cruise I am already booked on.

 

You can browse each cabin category and view how many waiting lists exist.

 

For instance, my upcoming Crown cruise has waiting lists in just about all the categories which tells me that it's going to sail full.

 

There is an exception to this and that is that some TA's may have a block of cabins reserved that won't show as open but might be released close to the sailing if they can't book them which will skew the count.

[Pam in CA]

There is an exception to this and that is that some TA's may have a block of cabins reserved that won't show as open but might be released close to the sailing if they can't book them which will skew the count.

While true, TA's usually release their cabins after final payment, which is 75-90 days before sailing, depending on the type of cruise and time of year.

 

Going by the total # of passengers can be misleading because during the holidays or school vacations, more families cruise and sometimes sail 3-4 in a cabin.

[navychop3]

You can try and call Princess and ask..................They should be able to tell you total passengers.

 

Able to, sure! Motivation to, probably not.

[HS2BS]

I'm on the same May 1 cruise and booked 2 days ago. Try using **********.com for the info that your looking for.

[gingera]

I will be on the caribbean princess on 5/1. I was wondering if there is anyway to find out how full the ship is booked? Is there a website somewhere that will tell me how many cabins are still available?

 

Thanks!

 

 

Usually full....