I'm so excited that I booked our first ever Disney cruise this morning!!!!
I went online to look at prices and staterooms one more time before deciding if I was going to book it myself or if I was going to use a TA. When I looked, there were only 2 category 6 staterooms showing as available, so I panicked and booked one after a quick check of the map of the ship. I put in all my info & credit card # and clicked on 'charge my card.' It sent me back to the main reservation page. Sigh. I called DCL to see if it had charged me and booked the room, but the agent saw nothing. He said sometimes when it's busy the system will have a glitch like that.
So I went back in to try again, and the room I chose was not showing as available any more. I wonder if maybe someone else was booking it when I was and that's what caused the glitch? Either that or my attempted booking pulled it out of their system - the agent I called said that's possible and it might show up later. So when it came down to booking, I wasn't in love with the only other cabin it showed as available in our category. When I booked it, I didn't choose that cabin, so our reservation shows as "guaranteed." A TA I was talking to said that means they guarantee that we'll have either category 6 or better.
So this is my question - if we have a "guaranteed" stateroom, does that give us a better chance of an upgrade? Or does that pretty much just guarantee that we'll have the cruddiest category 6 room they've got? Is this something I should try to undo and get a specific stateroom attached to our reservation, or should I play my odds and see what I get? Will there be "bad" rooms our there that I really don't want to be stuck with?
Also, this has me looking at - as a back-up - changing to a category 5 room. What are the pros and cons of a cat 5 room versus a cat 6? Should we spend the extra money (I think it was $100) to change to a cat 5? Or is there not enough difference between a 5 and 6 to spend the extra money?
Help! Newbie feeling overwhelmed!!! ;-)
I went online to look at prices and staterooms one more time before deciding if I was going to book it myself or if I was going to use a TA. When I looked, there were only 2 category 6 staterooms showing as available, so I panicked and booked one after a quick check of the map of the ship. I put in all my info & credit card # and clicked on 'charge my card.' It sent me back to the main reservation page. Sigh. I called DCL to see if it had charged me and booked the room, but the agent saw nothing. He said sometimes when it's busy the system will have a glitch like that.
So I went back in to try again, and the room I chose was not showing as available any more. I wonder if maybe someone else was booking it when I was and that's what caused the glitch? Either that or my attempted booking pulled it out of their system - the agent I called said that's possible and it might show up later. So when it came down to booking, I wasn't in love with the only other cabin it showed as available in our category. When I booked it, I didn't choose that cabin, so our reservation shows as "guaranteed." A TA I was talking to said that means they guarantee that we'll have either category 6 or better.
So this is my question - if we have a "guaranteed" stateroom, does that give us a better chance of an upgrade? Or does that pretty much just guarantee that we'll have the cruddiest category 6 room they've got? Is this something I should try to undo and get a specific stateroom attached to our reservation, or should I play my odds and see what I get? Will there be "bad" rooms our there that I really don't want to be stuck with?
Also, this has me looking at - as a back-up - changing to a category 5 room. What are the pros and cons of a cat 5 room versus a cat 6? Should we spend the extra money (I think it was $100) to change to a cat 5? Or is there not enough difference between a 5 and 6 to spend the extra money?
Help! Newbie feeling overwhelmed!!! ;-)