Should Cruise Lines Offer More Single Cabins?

Really a business decision. Guessing they have a model for revenue / square ft. If they can generate more income with less passengers - yes. If not, there will just be a handful of token single rooms to accommodate those who go solo. Most lines charge a premium on solo passengers.

although I've only cruised RCCL, Carnival and Celebrity it seems like NCL has some recent momentum and their single policy may be a factor. Some may start off in a single cabin on NCL but over their cruising life they may go on many future cruises with other cabin-mates. Seems like losing the loyalty of these cruisers has some future consequences to some cruise lines -especially Carnival-which isn't making much of an effort to keep these single cruisers. Some of these cruise lines also no longer have a dedicated space for a disco club -like Carnival and RCCL-which also may have consequences for single cruisers

I need to looking into Norwegian! I hope that others lines do the same.

This seems to be the direction that Norwegian is going in. They have suites of single cabins that are not unisex that share a common room, which is unisex. From the little I know of it, they seem to be like mini college dorms. And there's no fee for being a single cruiser, as you will, in essence, be booking a single room. Normally, you would be charged extra for cruising as a single person, as you would normally be booking a double room.

It should be interesting to see if other cruise lines adopt this policy.

Yes. I agree with a lot that has already been stated. There needs to be something done for all the solo travelers. I am taking my 4th solo cruise this September and the only reason I am is because I found a great deal on an inside room. It was originally going to Cuba but the itinerary got changed and they had cancellations. I also know cruise lines like to make lots of money and won't do anything to help solo travelers.

I agree with you, it is all about the bottom line. Since I am single, I either have to go alone as I do most of the time or hope that a friend will go with me!

I have no idea how many they have now, but can't imagine cruising without y wife.

Unfortunately ... as I said in another similar thread, the cruise lines are not likely to make many changes other than raise fares when they are building all these new large ships and filling these ships enough to keep making record profits each year. Dropping or reducing the single supplement will only happen when capacity reaches a point where the ships are no longer as full as they currently are. The cruise lines have no incentive to drop the single supplement so why would they.

I totally agree that more single cabins should be available. I travel alone most of the time and really get annoyed that I have to pay so much. It is bad enough when I reserve an inside cabin, but a balcony cabin is outrageous. There should be single cabins available in every category even if they are small cabins with small balconies to accommodate 1 person.

I am single and have lots of family/friends who cruise but I can never join them as I can't afford to pay double their price! Not only would I cruise more often but I know a lot of others who would too if they had the option of the single cabin that didn't cost double! I think the ships would always be full! Also I'm not fussed about it possibly being an inside cabin, wouldn't be in the room much anyway!