Jun 14, 2019 - 95% Sold Out! Also: Adding Berths

Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:00
Subject: 95% Sold Out! Also: Adding Berths
From: JoCo Cruise
To: booked cruisers

95% Sold Out!

In short: thank you! In addition to being our biggest event so far, our 2020 event has been selling at a faster pace than any previous JoCo Cruise—specifically, we are, at this point, 95% sold out! So we thank all of you for joining us for this year's adventure.

Photo by Steve Petrucelli

IMPORTANT: Adding Berths

Because JoCo Cruise 2020 is expected to be filled to "100% occupancy," there will be some restrictions on adding berths (i.e., the number of people staying in your stateroom), similar to ones in place for our 2019 cruise.

If you are planning to add a berth/berths to your booking, and have not already selected and paid for those berths, please read the rest of this section and sign up for the Berth Additions Wait List by July 8th.

Why should someone sign up for this list? Anyone wishing to add berths to their booking who has not signed up on the Berth Additions Wait List by July 8th will need to pay an additional $350 fee per added berth (only assessed if and when we are able to add the requested berth(s) to your booking).

TO BE CLEAR: the above fee does not apply to wait list requests made by July 8th, nor to anyone adding “real” passenger information for an existing “TBD guest” berth (i.e., if you initially paid for a multi-passenger cabin but didn’t have all the passenger information at the time of booking).

What do we mean by "add berths to your booking?" Here's the simplest way to know for sure whether you need to sign up for this wait list:

• Log into your User Account
• Look for where it lists your cabin type and a number—"VB FOR 1", "E FOR 4", etc.

• That number = number of berths in your booking
• If you plan to add any more berths than that, you must sign up for the Berth Additions Wait List

Triple and Quad Staterooms All quad-occupancy staterooms are currently booked, and triple-occupancy staterooms are sold out in almost all categories. If you have made a single- or double-occupancy booking but plan to upgrade to a triple or quad, please join the Berth Additions Wait List . Additional third and fourth berths will be offered to the wait list based on stateroom availability.

Single Occupancy Bookings If you've booked a single-occupancy stateroom and plan to add a second berth, please also join the Berth Additions Wait List . Once we have clearer projections on guest count and know the number of waitlist requests, we will start processing this portion of the waitlist. (This may take some time.) We hope to be able to satisfy all single-to-double berth addition requests, but we need to know how many there will be.

I've joined this waitlist; when will I know if I get my added berth(s)? We're working with the cruise line to determine exactly how many guests we can safely bring. We'll be doing everything we can to accommodate everyone's Berth Addition Wait list requests—we want as many guests as the Sea Cops will allow to attend JoCo Cruise 2020. That said, please note that joining the Berth Additions Wait List does not guarantee that we can accommodate your request.

So again, if you are planning to add more berths to your booking, please join the Berth Additions Wait List by July 8th. Those on this wait list will be the first to receive updates regarding berth availability. Our goal is to satisfy all requests possible.

Club SRO

Once again this year, we are offering a program called Club SRO ("Standing Room Only"), which will be available to a limited number of guests on a first-come, first-served basis. Club SRO is designed for JoCo Cruise guests who don't need or want to attend the onboard main concerts (e.g., people who don't like crowds, nerd-adjacent spouses, sixteen-hour-a-day dungeon masters, etc.).

People who join Club SRO will not have guaranteed seating at the evening main concerts in the ship's Mainstage Theater, and instead have the following options:

• wait until five minutes after "morning announcements" have begun for a given main concert, at which point they may occupy any open seats, if available (JoCo Cruise staff will direct this process);
• watch the show via live simulcast in the B.B. King's Blues Club; or
• watch the main concert later on via the "JoCo TV" menu on your stateroom TV. (All JoCo Cruise main concerts are uploaded to the "JoCo TV menu the following day.)

Club SRO members will each receive a $125 credit to their onboard stateroom accounts.

Further information can be found in the Club SRO section of our FAQ.

If you are interested in signing up for Club SRO on JoCo Cruise 2020, please fill out our online "I Want to Join Club SRO" application . Separate applications must be submitted for each individual seeking to join Club SRO.

NOTE: completing this form DOES NOT guarantee membership in Club SRO; you will be contacted by the Home Office regarding your Club SRO status, and with additional information as applicable. Again, numbers are limited; first-come, first-served.

Salutations / Pronouns

The Nieuw Amsterdam defaults to using “Mr." or “Ms." when addressing guests in written communication, based on the gender listed on one's travel documents. If you prefer the ship use a different salutation from the above to address you in correspondence, please fill out our Salutation Change Request form .

Making these changes is a manual process for JoCo Cruise and the ship. PLEASE do not submit spurious, "joke" or vanity requests to change prefix.

267 days!

THO.

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