Availability

[Racdan]

Hi Everyone

 

We are going on the Spanish Serenade cruise from Barcelona on the 16th November and just wanted to ask all of you Cruise Critic members who seem to have a wealth of information a question regarding how booked the cruise could be.

 

A couple of weeks ago the web site was showing availability in all categories apart from inside cabins, it then changed to all but the Penthouse suits to guaranteed, I have just noticed it has now changed to waitlist for all categories apart from some Penthouse and A1 concierge. Is this because they have had a sudden flurry of late bookings or could they have made a special offer to a large group?

 

I would appreciate your thoughts.

 

Many thanks

 

Racdan UK

[LHT28]

could be all of the above

When you see availability it could be just one cabin in that Cat or several

They may discount some cabins to preferred agents & clients

[pinotlover]

They could have ran a nice time limited Cruise Only sale ( no air) in their European markets also. They have done it before. We in the US would never have seen the pricing.

[Chris86]

The November 1 Rivera has been wait listed for all categories and they now seem to be offering up sell to existing bookings. Our November 2 Marina was pretty available then suddenly wait-listed so its anyone's guess.

[JimandStan]

The November 1 Rivera has been wait listed for all categories and they now seem to be offering up sell to existing bookings. Our November 2 Marina was pretty available then suddenly wait-listed so its anyone's guess.

I laugh and laugh at the continuing series of folks who believe that the occupancy which we see Online is actual.

 

Not to put too fine a point on it, there IS a strategy behind what they let us see.

 

Otherwise, the Revenue Dept would continuously be at the mercy of the card (cabin?) counters among us.