How to find if there are any large Group on any salings?

[tango223]

:confused: Is there a way to find out if there is a large group which has booked your particular sailing? I want to schedule around that and wanted to know if there was a way to find out. I tried to google it, but got tooo many pertinent sites to look at.

[PudgiPoo]

I think the only way you can be certain is if you ask C&A about a cruise you want to book. There are so many TAs that do group cruises you would never be able to know for sure. I think you could ask C&A if a large number of rooms have been set aside for a group. I don't believe I have ever been on a cruise that did not have a group of some kind onboard. I have seen sororities, police officers, families, dancers, etc. They do not take over the ship, but they are large groups. This is the CC info on it on group cruises. http://www.cruisecritic.com/cruisestyles/area.cfm?area=37

[want2seaitall]

Honestly, I just google it, as you've already mentioned. Just type in the date, and ship. If you don't see anything within the first page of results...you are good.

[lady_cruiser]

Honestly, I just google it, as you've already mentioned. Just type in the date, and ship. If you don't see anything within the first page of results...you are good.

That does not always work. I am on a group cruise (400 plus) and googling our date and ship does not give anyone a clue as to our group sailing.

 

FYI - January 18, 2009, RCL Voyager of the Seas, Sail-a-Way with C.J. and Debbie Ray. (D.J.s on a local radio station - 99.9 FM).

[Scooter-n-GB]

I Googled and found this quite quickly.

 

http://www.cajuntravelmachine.com/ktdy2009/index.htm

[lady_cruiser]

I Googled and found this quite quickly.

 

http://www.cajuntravelmachine.com/ktdy2009/index.htm

 

Well, are you going to join us? We have a private party every night, with a different theme nightly. How did you google it, not by the ship's name and date only?

[fann1sh]

If you're sailing with Holland America, visit the HAL board. There's a "group cruise" thread - http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=563764

[FUN33]

:confused: Is there a way to find out if there is a large group which has booked your particular sailing? I want to schedule around that and wanted to know if there was a way to find out. I tried to google it, but got tooo many pertinent sites to look at.

There are few things worse than being stuck on a ship with a group that is more than 50% of the passengers. It happened to us once and it was a nightmare.

 

I wrote the cruise line to ask if we could be advised of large groups on cruises we were considering and was told "no".

 

Some groups can be very nice and some can be very offensive. If anyone finds a way to determine large group bookings in advance, PLEASE POST IT.

[Toto2Kansas]

Here is another site to try for large groups on ships.

http://shoretrips.com/common/groups2.asp?grpsrch=GRPNAM

[Cruisin' Chick]

I think the only way you can be certain is if you ask C&A about a cruise you want to book. There are so many TAs that do group cruises you would never be able to know for sure. I think you could ask C&A if a large number of rooms have been set aside for a group. I don't believe I have ever been on a cruise that did not have a group of some kind onboard. I have seen sororities, police officers, families, dancers, etc. They do not take over the ship, but they are large groups. This is the CC info on it on group cruises. http://www.cruisecritic.com/cruisestyles/area.cfm?area=37

 

There are few things worse than being stuck on a ship with a group that is more than 50% of the passengers. It happened to us once and it was a nightmare.

 

I wrote the cruise line to ask if we could be advised of large groups on cruises we were considering and was told "no".

 

Some groups can be very nice and some can be very offensive. If anyone finds a way to determine large group bookings in advance, PLEASE POST IT.

 

Here is another site to try for large groups on ships.

http://shoretrips.com/common/groups2.asp?grpsrch=GRPNAM

 

I think C&A (if I'm assuming right and you're referring to Crown and Anchor) won't help with non-RC cruises.

 

There was a world tourney of bingo happening on my second cruise. Sorry if I offend any bingo players, but having at least a third of passengers who were addictive types (a lot of eating, drinking and gambling, and they looked it) on the same ship was not my idea of relaxing. You had to keep making sure you weren't standing near a dining room or the casino when they opened.

 

Shore trips will just be a start. But if a group hasn't booked their excursions through them, they won't be listed there. I guess the best thing is just try googling, and keep narrowing down the number of links posted by using more qualifiers. If some group has a website and has booked a cruise, it may just well pop up there.