What is the earliest you have been assigned a GTY cabin?

What is the earliest you have been assigned a GTY cabin? We sail in December and have just booked a DE cabin on a Saver fare. I love the excitement of seeing which cabin we will receive, is logging in to the cruise personaliser daily a little OTT at this stage?!

What is the earliest you have been assigned a GTY cabin? We sail in December and have just booked a DE cabin on a Saver fare. I love the excitement of seeing which cabin we will receive, is logging in to the cruise personaliser daily a little OTT at this stage?!

You don't generally find out until a few weeks before you go.

We were told we might not find out until a few days before, and most likely it would be 4-6 weeks, in fact we were allocated our cabins several months before sailing, so I think it is totally random as to when you find out.

What is the earliest you have been assigned a GTY cabin? We sail in December and have just booked a DE cabin on a Saver fare. I love the excitement of seeing which cabin we will receive, is logging in to the cruise personaliser daily a little OTT at this stage?!

We have booked saver fares with guarantee cabins several times and it does seem to vary but usually 2-3 weeks before however one booking for a December cruise was allocated in August only a couple of weeks after booking.

I also log in too many times to check and it becomes a bit obsessive but exciting when the cabin number suddenly appears.

When the August allocation appeared I couldnt believe my eyes and had to keep rechecking as we had been upgraded from the lowest grade guarantee suite to the largest penthouse suite on Azura! No such luck on any bookings since but we do usually get a slight upgrade.

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We booked a Late Saver last year for Guarantee grade on a Deluxe balcony. Booked 12 weeks out and allocated the grade the day after booking- admittedly TA said that ship was getting full and only 3 cabins left to book so that probably explains why

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences. sammybonny - amazing - I will be logging on frequently after your story!

Booked a DE on Ventura for this summer in Feb and was allocated a cabin 3 days later (DB grade)

Not my cabin number but I'm obsessively checking my CP multiple times waiting for the Limelight acts to come up!! It says 90 days and we're on 89 now, come on P&O!! [emoji6]

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We have only once booked a guaranteed so not a lot of experience but I rang to book directly with P&O and 15 minutes later our Personal Cruise Specialist called to tell us that he had a cabin number for us. We booked in December for a May cruise. We were upgraded from a balcony on Azura to a superior balcony.

Not my cabin number but I'm obsessively checking my CP multiple times waiting for the Limelight acts to come up!! It says 90 days and we're on 89 now, come on P&O!! [emoji6]

 

 

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Ha! They must have been reading, the acts are all up now [emoji4]

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Hi

I think we are on the same cruise, Ventura 9th of December.

We also have a gty Saver fare booked, HE grade.

Knew from the start we would be in for the long haul when it came to allocation of cabin no.

We are not worried where we end up really so happy to wait, not got a choice really though.

I can understand not allocating them until after full payment has been made, but to leave it until as long as they do is a little extreme. Makes me wonder if they still leave it as long if a sailing sells out months before sail date?

Only ever booked 1 other cruise on a Gty and that was a 3 day on the Grand Princess. Had the room no in less than 5 days. As far as I can tell P&O are the only ones to make you wait so long to find out.

We do have a roll call set up but it's very quiet at the moment.

Have booked a Guarantee Balcony on Aurora for the first time; since I retired I can go outside school holidays. Don't really care where I am on the ship as long as I have a balcony, but anticipation is good..

See you onboard minikiss! I will join the roll call.

Well, less than a week after booking and 8 months before sailing, we have our allocation. It's a DD cabin in a good position for us. Really pleased!

Do I now check daily to see if it changes...?!

Hey that was quick.

Still waiting on ours and guess we still have a long wait to go before we know.

Glad to hear you got a good cabin though.

Jules

The cruise personaliser seems to have changed for guarantees. You used to get

Deck : to be assigned

Cabin: GUA

Category : eg balcony GD, or Inside PD etc

Now the third section is empty and shows neither the type of cabin or the grade booked. Anyone else experienced that?

We have only ever been assigned a cabin a few weeks before sailing so interesting to hear that others are getting them earlier. It does add to the anticipation.

Being a complete anorak I have also noticed that the lower grade attractively priced cabins disappear for while then come back on sale. Presumably they bump someone up and then resell the cabins.

Oh for a crystal ball.

This is how ours looks at the moment.

Deck Plan

Deck: TO BE ASSIGNED

Cabin: GUAR

Category:

I'm guessing that will be filled in when we get the room allocation which makes sense to me. As we have 229 left not expecting anything to be filled in just yet.

Jules

Yes it makes perfect sense that they will only fill in the deck and cabin once they are allocated but the category is different. You have paid for a specific minimum category and that used to show in that section.

In the "olden days" of cruising a guarantee meant just that, you would get on the ship but could be allocated a cabin anywhere from the smallest inside to (in theory) a suite. Guarantees are now sold by a specific category eg inside, outside, balcony etc and then by specific minimum grade within that category related to location. Thats the bit that now appears to be missing.

A guarantee cabin used to be so much more fun in the old days as you could dream of being allocated something special, though it rarely happened. Now I suppose you can at least guarantee the minimum grade you want.

We're booked on the Britannia on 28th May and I have to confess that I'm checking to see if our cabin has been allocated at least twice a day, so if ONCE is obsessive...:D