The real issue is this:
From a customer satisfaction viewpoint, Disney would be better-served by not even offering the early boarding, if they are not willing to do it for everyone with me.
I am also platinum on American Airlines. When I travel, even though my family are not platinum, they have priority boarding with me. And, I can take them into the airline club at the airport, even though they are not members.
I too have the highest loyalty status on 2 separate airlines, one of those being well over 2 million miles so far. Everyone traveling on my reservation is allowed to pre board with me, not on other reservations I have paid for even though they are a part of my company. In he club rooms, look carefully at the small print, for 1 airline I am allowed to bring in 2 guests and the other 3, not all of my friends. Most significantly, for first class upgrades, I most always receive one but they do not upgrade my wife or daughter when flying with me, so I normally decline.
Entitlement? Seriously?
Some days when I read this forum I just have to shake my head. This is supposed to be a place to post questions, share information without feeling like you are going to be attacked, Shame on you people!
I did not perceive the original post to be a question of how I felt about
DCL strictly adhering to recognizing only those traveling in the same cabin at the highest CC level. My answer if that is what is asked would be, I am ok. When I travel with other couples or families, whether on DCL or other lines, we normally plan our boarding to either be together or send someone ahead to make dinner or show reservations (not DCL) while some of us do other things like tour Disney Studios before boarding in LA.
I guess this is just another example of why Disney's loyalty program lags behind most other lines. On every other line we routinely sail, significant others inherit the loyalty level of the one with the most cruises. I guess we're the lucky ones on Disney - we both made platinum together since we always sail on Disney together. On the other lines she's sailed more than me on some, and I've sailed more than her on others, but we both have the loyalty tier status of whichever one of us has the most sailings.
The other lines we have sailed have considered us the same level when traveling together, however my wife who does at least an additional cruise a year with her sisters is a higher level on 2 different lines than I and when I make reservations without her I am considered lower. Truth be told, I was making a reservation for her and immediately signed out and back on under her name and she received the greater level which by the way did not offer a whole lot of difference.
Does anyone know what the average guests per rooms needs to be to hit capacity? we moved our daughter to our room this year before the PIF date, but were warned that if we waited longer that she may not be able to be added and wouldn't be able to cruise.
So yeh they would like to sail at capacity, just not sure what they need to average to get there. My guess would be something like 2.5 per cabin, but just a guess.
It is not just capacity, it is guests per muster station. We have done some last minute cruises where we actually have to move our room in order to add a person, not due to room size but capacity for the area. It is truly a jigsaw puzzle for booking, if all the up to 4 person staterooms in an area book to max early, they have to sail with empty cabins in the same area to make lifeboat numbers work. If they would let me, I would prefer to evacuate to a raft rather than an extremely crowded lifeboat, alas, not to be, regulations are regulations.
On our last Northern European cruise (2015) boarding went extremely fast, from the first number to our number (6) it was a matter of a few minutes. Yes we were traveling with friends so while we had platinum boarding, we were visiting with them until their gold status number was called. Maybe just because the terminal was smaller but seemed to be calling numbers one right after the other.
