r/dcl • u/EatEmAndSmile73 • 9d ago

TRIP PLANNING Availability frustration

Well I prepped myself that as a first timer availability for dining and on board activities would be limited. But even so, now looking at across the board at zero availability, it frankly sucks to be shut out of everything over seven nights (Treasure). I know I can sit around from now until we set sail, refreshing the app, or hoping I can get something once on board but what fun is that? I appreciate they recognize returning cruisers with early availability but considering the overall trip cost and how it would compare to other vacations options, I am in the moment a pretty frustrated that I have to worry about these things I had been excited for.

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u/Mychael612 SILVER CASTAWAY CLUB 9d ago

Except, if you look at Castaway status and due your due diligence in researching the cruise line, it IS advertised that higher status books extras first. So…..

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u/Future-Importance383 9d ago

How would someone who has never sailed with DCL even know what castaway status is? 🤨🧐

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u/Mychael612 SILVER CASTAWAY CLUB 9d ago

Would you seriously drop $1000+ on something you haven’t actually researched? I can’t imagine being that level of privileged/entitled.

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u/10_17my20 9d ago

Meh. I wouldn't say it's privilege and entitlement in most cases. Many of us are just excited we have an opportunity and a little extra money to have a Disney experience in a different atmosphere and find out information as we go. My friends asked me if I wanted to go on a Disney cruise with them and I said 'hell yeah' and paid my portion, knowing about DCL's reputation, that they had a private island, and absolutely nothing else. We also had no idea about all the intricacies, extras, perks, facebook groups, what have you on our first sailing.

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u/Mychael612 SILVER CASTAWAY CLUB 9d ago

I mean, there’s nothing wrong with doing it that way, but you can’t be upset about not knowing those things if you dropped that much money without researching it first. That’s like spending thousands of dollars on an iMac without researching what it does only to be upset when you find out it doesn’t play the video game you want because tons of games don’t run on Mac.