I know oyu've made your decision. I'm still going to answer.
We've done 2 V and 2 not-V. One of those was an inside cabin and the other was one with the BIIIIIIG porthole. All on Dream.
Our first
Disney cruise was a last minute upgrade to V, at $300 extra. Total. $100/night, so about $33 per night per person...worth it. The other cruise we had concierge I booked it without an interim booking, so I don't know what the extra would ahve been, but it wasn't ALL that different.
OH wait. $380 more total. It was 720.22 per night total.
Our second concierge cruise was 689.66 per night, but 4 nights.
And that's when we stopped booking category V, because it just gets too high for *what we want to spend* on things. We like being at sea, so the more sea time the better. And throwing all our money at 4 night cruises when we could have 7 nights, or two 7 night cruises, makes no sense to us.
But all that being said $600 more a night is a lot
It is.
We realized for us the benefit of access to areas with less people both on the ship and if we book a cabana on CC and the ability to request a private table in the MDR will really make our trip much more enjoyable for my husband as he isn’t fond of crowds or strangers.
So....we did the cabana thing on our second concierge cruise, and were MORE involved with our neighbors on the beach than we've been on our non-cabana stays. Unless you stay IN your cabana (which got pretty warm for us) or on the lounges (cloth covered cushions that sweaty people sit on aren't my style), you've got the denizens of the surrounding cabanas. Then there was the safe that woudn't lock and the attendants who said it was fixed but it wasn't.
Had private tables *in the middle of the restaurants*. More surrounded by other people than we've been on non-concierge cruises. Second concierge cruise we requested to NOT have our own table, and it was far more private.
And the lounge has people in it all day long, and they feel the need to talk to each other. And you've got the hosts in your face every time you're in there. Or we did. And we didn't want them there.
As an introvert....concierge is NOT the place I like to be. I like to be a face in the crowd (the crowd that's leaving me alone), not the person someone wants to serve serve serve.....
Just want to set some better (IMO) expectations for ya...