If a cruise is not sellilng well?

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We are on the Caribbean Princess 12 day British Isles August 1-13 cruise out of Southampton, England.

 

The Olympics starts July 27 in London.

 

I have been checking Princess website and the same 6 cabins in my category have been listed for the past couple of months. The only categories sold out are the top two suite categories.

 

Has Princess ever cancelled a cruise if it is not selling well or will they reduce the price to get people to cruise?

[Shogun]

Hi There

 

Princess has a sale on just now for 4 days for UK folks so you may well find higher number of Btrits than normal on cruises out of Southampton.

 

yours shogun

[D&N LUV 2 TRAVEL]

One thing I have noticed with Princess is that if a cruise is not selling that quickly they will have past passenger promo sales but you have to be diligent and check your cruise prices weekly. Do not rely on your TA to do this, you need to do it and then contact your TA with the info.

This past year I received discounts at the end of May, June and July for our Feb/12 Cruise totalling $600 for our cabin. The cruise now is basically sold out.

[paul929207]

Princess will not cancel the cruise.

 

Keep in mind that they often sell guarentees. With these, while a cabin is sold, as of now it is not a specific cabin.

[Pam in CA]

Don't worry. One way or the other, the ship will be sold out or almost sold out, even if they have to have a "Flash" sale.

[highheel girl]

No way would they cancel.

It will be full. ;)

[Loonbeam]

A cruise will almost never ever be cancelled. Modified maybe, but unlike hotel rooms, if the line cancels a trip they need to do SOMETHING with the ship it can't just stay at a berth for 10 days.

 

The exceptions are maintenance and disinfection issues, but even those usually result in modification, not cancellation.

[DrivesLikeMario]

Be assured, they will not cancel. I watched that same cruise last year like a hawk during the same time frame. I waited & hoped it would be completely empty and I could jump on it at the last minute. Well, it remained empty for quite awhile, then in the last 6 weeks, it filled up to beyond sold out - they had a waitlist for it even! It seems like this is pretty much the norm for the British Isles cruises - they fill up at the last minute.

[Sox Fan Cruiser]

Our panama canal cruise last April was only 2/3 full. It was the last sailing out of Alcapulco and a lot of folks didn't want to sail from there because of the safety issue.

 

Other than there being less passengers you wouldn't have known it. The itinerary was the same and all the onboard activities were the same. It was great!

[caribill]

I have been checking Princess website and the same 6 cabins in my category have been listed for the past couple of months.

 

Princess only lists up to six cabins in a category, even if more are available.

 

So, you cannot tell from that list of six if the category is selling well or not, just that at least six cabins remain. It could be that a number of cabins have been sold in that category over the time period you have been watching.

[DrivesLikeMario]

You can try looking at inventory at that website that is like Travel o city.

[chipmaster]

Besides a disaster, marketing isn't so bad they will miss gauge demand so badly that the ill-will and costs of cancelation exceeds the cost of a sale to fill cabins. Nothing like dropping price to make demand meet supply.

 

The fact you see the "same" 6 cabins on a web site I will believe means nothing as to what is really available. People who book a category gurantee and likely the 6 cabins are representative and nothing else.

 

 

We are on the Caribbean Princess 12 day British Isles August 1-13 cruise out of Southampton, England.

 

The Olympics starts July 27 in London.

 

I have been checking Princess website and the same 6 cabins in my category have been listed for the past couple of months. The only categories sold out are the top two suite categories.

 

Has Princess ever cancelled a cruise if it is not selling well or will they reduce the price to get people to cruise?

[caribill]

You can try looking at inventory at that website that is like Travel o city.

 

and the result will be the same, a max of six listed in each category

[jrzebird]

The only time I've seen a cruise canceled is if they changed it to a charter, and that is done long before sail date.

[DrivesLikeMario]

and the result will be the same, a max of six listed in each category

 

I just pulled up 9 available cabins, no problem at all.

[caribill]

I just pulled up 9 available cabins, no problem at all.

 

From the Princess site? All 9 in the same category?

[MTElkwhistle]

It will be full, its the school holidays.

[DrivesLikeMario]

From the Princess site? All 9 in the same category?

 

No, from the one I said you could do that on - Travel o City. It's the one you said I couldn't pull up more than 6 cabins on. :confused: