Roccoforte Posted December 4, 2012 #1 Share Posted December 4, 2012 While dining at the Captain's table on a recent Princess cruise, we asked what the occupancy of the ship was. He looked surprised and said 100% occupancy - we never sail with an empty cabin. Can this be true? And does this apply to Oceania. Just wondering, since it looks like there are still cabins available on next weeks Riviera sailing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacheco18 Posted December 4, 2012 #2 Share Posted December 4, 2012 While dining at the Captain's table on a recent Princess cruise, we asked what the occupancy of the ship was. He looked surprised and said 100% occupancy - we never sail with an empty cabin. Can this be true? And does this apply to Oceania. Just wondering, since it looks like there are still cabins available on next weeks Riviera sailing. LOL -- great spin. That is clearly the goal of every sailing but it is unlikely that it is met 100% of the time. Probably true on prized and infrequently sailed itineraries (eg Black Sea), crossings (which are cheaper) and holidays. I doubt any rep from any cruise line would readily admit that a sailing has empty cabins but a good travel agent can tell you the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimandStan Posted December 4, 2012 #3 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Princess now uses the Carnival logic on Occupancy, whereby if three or four are sailing in a cabin "built for two" then they claim 150% or 200% of occupancy for that room. Under that system, even saying that a Ship was sailing at OVER 100% of Occupancy would not necessarily mean that every single cabin was booked. As pacheco18 says, they can make statistics say what they want them to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orchestrapal Posted December 4, 2012 #4 Share Posted December 4, 2012 On previous Oceania cruises on R ships we have been told what the occupancy was in real numbers, 614 once and 621 another time as well as full several times. They don't bluff or seem to think it's a secret.;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted December 4, 2012 #5 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Agree with all of the above. I have certainly been on cruises with vacant cabins. Often at the pursers desk, there are signs advising the contrary. They do not want to have a lot of people trying to switch. Often there are legit reasons that they will move people as when there is an engineering problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawaiidan Posted December 4, 2012 #6 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Of supply and demand. If a ship is thought of as not selling out and has a surplus of cabins the price is thus impacted. Therefor it is in the companies best interest to tell you and imply that high demand for their porduct always fills the ships.. and earily booking this important is you even want a cabin... Sales 101...create a time sensitive offer.... that you must act or get left out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floridiana Posted December 5, 2012 #7 Share Posted December 5, 2012 The Statendam was fully booked on our Panama Canal cruise. I know because we met a couple who had an undesirable cabin (noisy location) and who could only switch after the husband of another couple had a medical evacuation. There are probably other cruises which are fully booked but certainly not all like the Princess captain claimed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyQuinn Posted December 6, 2012 #8 Share Posted December 6, 2012 There were 1020 passengers on the recent inaugural transatlantic crossing on Riviera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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