Groups Charters

[ASIWISH]

Please remind me how you find out if there is a group//charter in your cruise?

 

specifically, the Nov 10 Niew Statendam

[Crew News]

2 hours ago, ASIWISH said:

Please remind me how you find out if there is a group//charter in your cruise?

 

specifically, the Nov 10 Niew Statendam

 

This should work: 

September 2019 Update: HAL Dry Docks, Charters andGroups onboard.

Edited October 3, 2019 by Crew News

[CruiserBruce]

If there were a charter, you wouldn't be allowed to book onto the ship. It would only be available to the group chartering. 

[Gigi1977]

I think OP meant groups on board.  .  .   ? 

[ASIWISH]

That’s correct, @gigi1977 !

 

Thank you for the quick response.

[Cruzaholic41]

12 hours ago, CruiserBruce said:

If there were a charter, you wouldn't be allowed to book onto the ship. It would only be available to the group chartering. 

Not true because partial charters do exist. 

[RuthC]

31 minutes ago, Cruzaholic41 said:

Not true because partial charters do exist. 

On HAL, those would be called 'groups'. A 'charter' is the full ship. 

[Cruzaholic41]

1 hour ago, RuthC said:

On HAL, those would be called 'groups'. A 'charter' is the full ship. 

HAL could call it a peacock but it doesn’t change the meaning. Partial charters do exist regardless of what terminology this particular cruise line chooses to use. 

[lindaler]

Some groups like the road scholars have very little impact and most would not even notice. Some groups like the UFO group has impacts like using the whole upper level of the dinning room at early seating. Each group is different.

[Aquahound]

4 minutes ago, lindaler said:

Some groups like the road scholars have very little impact and most would not even notice. Some groups like the UFO group has impacts like using the whole upper level of the dinning room at early seating. Each group is different.

 

I think it depends on the group.  A smaller group who only has a meeting room reserved can have little to no impact.  However, a larger group that has lounges, dining rooms, etc, reserved, have parties thrown for them, and who had to book through their group sponsor (in other words a partial charter as mentioned earlier) can be very impactful to the non-group participants.  I've read horror stories of groups like the Bears who partially chartered a ship and the other guests had no idea what they were going in to.