Is My Ship at 100% Capacity, or Not?

[Nikkimouse76]

Is there a way to find out if my ship is sold out or not? I'd like to know how booked it it. TIA.

[SeaShark]

Is there a way to find out if my ship is sold out or not? I'd like to know how booked it it. TIA.

 

"Sold Out" is an elusive concept. Keep in mind that even if every cabin is booked with 2 people, that the ship will not be "full". There would still be a number of unused 3rd and 4th person berths. A ship that is "Sold Out" is one where the booked passenger count = lifeboat capacity.

 

Cruise ship capacity is determined by the number of seats available in the lifeboats for both guests and crew. It is not determined by cabin availability.

 

Cabins can be made unavailable simply because of excessive 3rd and 4th guests in the vicinity (as that area's lifeboat will be full).

 

 

They always aim for selling out (2 guests in each and every cabin), but even that is far short of capacity.

 

There really is no way to tell without having the specific number of guests and crew, their emergency lifeboat station assignment, and lifeboat capacities available.

[rvsullivan]

Cruise lines protect this data pretty carefully. Curious as to why it matters? They are usually pretty full, hence the last minute discounting and upgrades that happen every week.

No public source of this info that I've ever found.

[roger001]

It is unusual for a ship to not sail with the maximum permissible number of persons on board. As mentioned, some cabins may be unused though. That is when last minute cabin upgrades are offered to already booked guests. When you have all the persons permitted on board, you can now, if some more expensive cabins are still empty, upsell them at a reduced price (but still making a little bit more money in doing so), which then leaves some of the less expensive cabins now vacant during the sailing.

[Nikkimouse76]

Cruise lines protect this data pretty carefully. Curious as to why it matters? They are usually pretty full, hence the last minute discounting and upgrades that happen every week.

No public source of this info that I've ever found.

 

I was curious as to how crowded the ship would feel, etc. I haven't cruised in forever or with children, so this time is very different than the last time I cruised.

 

I guess I hadn't thought about the fact that a cabin does not have to be booked to max capacity in order for the ship to be 'sold out'.

[kmurph22]

You can get a sense of how full the ship is by starting a booking. Select the ship and sailing on NCL's website and look at different categories as if you were going to book them. The website will show you rooms that are still available. It may not show you every room, but if you see 8 - 10 rooms listed in each category, you can deduce that the ship is not very full at this point. If many categories are sold out, or only show 1 or 2 rooms available, it's pretty full. Not an exact science though.

[Multi-Cruiser]

I was told by a crew member once that they always leave 1 or 2 cabins empty in case an occupied cabin becomes unusable during a voyage for some reason.

 

 

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