Hawai’i 10 Night Cruise to Vancouver

I wonder if they are holding back rooms for capacity because of covid ? Or if it is like last time and this cruise just booked even quicker as it all but booked in full on opening day !
Such a popular cruise you would think they would offer it more
 




Thank you!! I am crossing all my fingers and toes for tomorrow morning.
If you're booking on-line I would try well before the published 8 AM. 8 AM is when the phone lines get answered. I'm on the west coast and I booked my room on-line at 4:20 AM local time (7:20 Eastern).

Best of luck!
 
Yep, being on the west coast is a doozy on booking day. I preferred the midnight opening time they used to have.
 
Got in easily with Gold booking on a GTY 11C with early dining, just 2 adults = $5190. This is for the Hawaii to Vancouver 10 night.

Platinum had 11C pick your room for $400 less, oh well at least we got in for about 5K which is just within our budget.

So this thread will exist as a kind of time capsule for the cruise that happened 2 years late!
 
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I kept trying. Website was acting like it was in 2018. Availability kept changing. There is a good amount of GTY availability as of 15 minutes ago.

I booked a 7A GTY. I'm not very happy though that it's $600 more than it was yesterday for the same room. I am going to compare to a land only vacation as we get closer.
 
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I kept trying. Website was acting like it was in 2018. Availability kept changing. There is a good amount of GTY availability as of 15 minutes ago.

I booked a 7A GTY. I'm not very happy though that it's $600 more than it was yesterday for the same room. I am going to compare to a land only vacation as we get closer.
I was booked on the last cruise that got canceled and I spent months comparing land only to cruise. Course depends on what kind of a land you do. Here you have many options you can do budget Airbnb style or go to luxury route ( Aulani high end rooms, fine dining etc. )

For us the cruise was a better option mainly because it was my mother’s dream to go to Hawaii and she is elderly. So she’s not able to island hop on flights after spending 24 hrs getting there from Europe. It really comes down to what you wanna do. If the main goal is to experience Hawai’i you’re basically wasting five good days floating on the ocean and money as land can be done cheaper; including island hopping. For my kids, DH If you wanted simple Sea days on Disney ships we would do port can wrap sailings and only pay a third. For many that’s what they want.

We might do this cruise as that type of getting from A to B is best for my mom. If it was just me and my family of teenagers and husband we would do land. Mainly because it would be tons cheaper for us in the end, we would invest much more time on Maui ( stupid how here there’s no overnight) and those five sea days is a lot of “wasted”vacation time for us. And plus with Southwest now flying getting there and back my flight is not an issue cost wise

My mom is retired, has all the Time in the world and I’m making the time for myself to escort her.
 
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I was booked on the last cruise that got canceled and I spent months comparing land only to cruise. Course depends on what kind of a land you do. Here you have many options you can do budget Airbnb style or go to luxury route ( Aulani high end rooms, fine dining etc. )

For us the cruise was a better option mainly because it was my mother’s dream to go to Hawaii and she is elderly. So she’s not able to island hop on flights after spending 24 hrs getting there from Europe. It really comes down to what you wanna do. If the main goal is to experience Hawai’i you’re basically wasting five good days floating on the ocean and money as land can be done cheaper; including island hopping. For my kids, DH If you wanted simple Sea days on Disney ships we would do port can wrap sailings and only pay a third. For many that’s what they want.

We might do this cruise as that type of getting from A to B is best for my mom. If it was just me and my family of teenagers and husband we would do land. Mainly because it would be tons cheaper for us in the end, we would invest much more time on Maui ( stupid how here there’s no overnight) and those five sea days is a lot of “wasted”vacation time for us. And plus with Southwest now flying getting there and back my flight is not an issue cost wise

My mom is retired, has all the Time in the world and I’m making the time for myself to escort her.

Thanks for your thoughts. We were booked on it too. So disappointed, but with so many crazy things this year, I guess it's not the worst. For us, we had never really looked at Hawaii land when we booked the cruise in 2018 and very much mentally locked into doing the cruise so never really debated it (but we endlessly debated changing room category). However, we have now had to research doing Hawaii land a little because of the cruise so now its in the back of our minds. I didn't even know the names of the islands before. If there was a compelling reason (cost, better/easier vacation) we would probably look at a land vacation. We had been starting to think about a 2021 Hawaiian land vacation.

However, since I posted my previous comment, I did a few quick comparisons. We're in a 7A for 760/night. We were into Aulani for about 400/night (with a 5 night deal, before resort fees) plus food, transportation, parking it would likely be somewhere in the 600-700 range. So it's not really all that much different. On the surface at least. Maybe another resort might help. I'll try and track down how much our quote for Hilton Hawaii Village was (I think that's what it was called).

We love cruising. We had become addicted and had hit peaking cruising (for us anyways). We had 4 cruises booked between 2020 and 2021 - now all cancelled. Hawaii with a cruise was what we had been dreaming towards. But now we feel a little like we were forced to quit cold turkey and don't feel quite so compelled to do one as before. We'll see. :)
 

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