Mrs. Chernabog

Half for kids???????? Show me where??????? Not true

I'm taking a guess that the poster has probably only priced cruises with two adults and children in the cabin. So, seeing the "half price" for the 3rd and 4th passenger, the poster thought that was the child price and came to the conclusion that kids are half price. :confused:

To that poster: (with some exceptions) all 3rd and 4th passengers in a cabin pay the same rate whether adult or child. Some cruise lines is about half for the 3rd, 4th, 5th passenger, on some lines it's more and maybe some less.

And, for what it's worth, if you use DVC points, the number of points needed for children is half the number of adult points needed for some cruises. Therefore, the "half for kids" is indeed true.

I'll join in a bit and agree. I know why they do it, it just stinks. Looking throughout the school calendar for 2011/2012 and trying to figure out a good time to go on a disney cruise. And every time there is a holiday to where he wouldn't have to miss school the prices shoot up.

 

As I said, I know why they do it and if I owned a company I would probably do the same, doesn't make it easy for us though.

 

Doesn't Disney have the "kids sail free" specials every now and then or is that another line?

There were some kids sail free dates for the Alaska and Mex Riv cruises this year.

I think that is another line. If Disney offered kids sail free, Disney would lose half its income.

Disney does offer kids sail free sometimes. :rolleyes:

Quoted from the 2nd Qtr earnings report posted on the DISboards:

"Asked about the revenue from the Disney Dream, Rasulo refused to break out the revenue individually. He did say they were very pleased with bookings and that marketing and launch costs for the Dream were between $15 and $20 million. Guests expecting cruise discounts in the near future will be disappointed to learn that, currently, the three DCL ships are over 95% booked for the current (3rd) quarter, 86% booked for the fourth quarter (which ends in early October) and 60% booked for the first quarter of 2012 (the last three months of 2011)."

DCL is out of our range for next year at least. It will cost $6200 for the five of us on the Magic next spring break.

If anyone is going to drop their pants and be commando, you would want it to be a young buff guy! :D

no kidding!