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looking for insight on something. DH and I are platinum, we cruise about 2x per year, in all cabin categories up to Spa Mini. Have never sailed Suite or Haven. When I got my upgrade offer, it was for a Balcony OR Mini suite only. No option to bid on Haven. So I did bid on each of those categories, didn't hear yet. Still 75 days out. But I'm wondering how it is determined what upgrades you can bid on..anyone know? I think there are still Haven rooms available, just not offered to us to bid on....

I am wondering the opposite. I see Haven opportunites to bid on, yet there doesn't appear to be any rooms open, so not sure how they are offering it.

i got an email today to bid in the upgrades—I find it interesting that I had a chance to bid on almost every category in the Haven, yet when I do a search to book there is only one room type being offered to book as a new reservation. (NCL March 17 sailing in the gem). Do they keep some back to bid on?

The bidding amount or winning bid doesn't mean anything except for your particular cruise.

 

I read in another thread that the lowest bid for a Haven was $1000 pp. But for a cruise I'm on the lowest bid for Haven is $400 pp. So what one person would bid on one cruise won't apply to any other cruise.

It’s also where your original booked cabin is...a suite will have a less starting bid than a balcony...for me the options start at $2500/pp to upgrade from a balcony to a 3 bedroom haven suite and $25/pp to a mini suite... it also depends on how full the ship is.

How many bid the minimum for all eligible upgrades offered? What did you get?

Scroll back through the posts here for just a few days and you will find the answer to this and many other questions.

Do you know how many pages there are? And someone said 90 days and that didn’t happen...but someone else was gracious enough to answer—in the time it took you to be reply to go look back you could have answered.

I have a balcony state room BB anyone have any experience with those upgrades and what the bids were? Would love the haven but not willing to pay another $3k

I have 89 days left until my cruise...when would one expect to get such an email or whatever?

Firstly, let me say to the OP that I am truly sorry for your loss. I have been there. My husband became severely ill while on our 25th anniversary cruise to South America. We had sailed from Lima and were headed north. We called the medical centre in the wee hours of the morning and the medical staff immediately took action, doing batteries of tests, and after 2 hours I was advised that his condition was life threatening. He required immediate surgery. They also advised me that the Captain and head office administration had been notified and that arrangements were being made to have us set ashore and taken immediately to a really good hospital. The ship came to an abrupt stop shortly after, in a port of call which was not on the itinerary, the Staff Captain himself manned the lifeboat, and an ambulance was waiting on the dock and off we went. We were met by port agents and from then on began a roller coaster four days. Unfortunately, due to my husband's severe condition, he did not survive the ordeal. The rest of the details are not important to this thread. What I do want to say is that the cruise line did charge me for the medical attention my husband received on board - blood tests, ultrasound, X-rays, treatments...which is rightly so....and the total cost was around $2,000. I did have insurance so all the costs I incurred over the four days on and off the ship, were covered (except for translation fees). I was not charged anything for the ship having to stop, or for the transfer to the hospital by ambulance, or for the port agents staying with me 24 hours per day for 4 days, the cruise line must have covered all these costs because I never saw a bill for any of that. They also allowed anyone from the ship (there was still a week left of the cruise) who wanted to call me in Peru to call at no charge. My question would be: if your husband died instantly, what do the $9,800 charges cover? To try and shock him or administer a drug (assuming a heart attack or stroke)? Those charges seem excessive.

 

 

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I can tell you from a medical provider standpoint, you got off cheap for only $2000 for all the tests they did on your husband, I am sorry for your loss and it sounds like your husband got a fair shake, but it was sadly still a bad ending.

As for the OP, I am not sure what the point of her re-posting this thread? It was posted in December? Its tragic and sad, but why repost again? It does sound like she is searching for something, just not sure what? Offers of money? Someone to come in and say they will pay the bill? This is the wrong place, write to NCL. Medical bills are horrifically expensive. When my dad had his first heart attack his bill came to $100,000. YES you read that right and there was no open heart surgery that time. My husband went to the ER for stomach pain and his bill came to over $17,000.

For some one to drop dead that fast, it sounds like cardiac in origin or an anurism. very sad for the bill, but they don't go away just because your husband died.

Congratulations! I am on this cruise and have been waiting to hear something about my bids. I bid on all the havens but it's not looking good. I am still hoping.

1500 pp is poor?! That’s a lot of $$

Looks like flights the day before get in late around 9 so I’ll just stick to a hotel close to the port to avoid the traffic on st Patty’s day!

yuck...ok. Maybe the night before it is!!! What hotel is closet to the cruise port?

what airport do I fly into then? Laguardia ?

The flight says it would come in at 10:30 AM, would I get to the cruise port by 1 pm? Would 3 hours to get there not be enough?

I don't know where you live, but if you have to fly, please fly in the day before your cruise. March 17th is the NYC St. Patricks day parade. You may have a few problems getting to the cruise port depending on where you are staying.

oh good call I didn't even think of that!

oh good, i started wondering if I picked a bad month...thanks! I couldn't convince my husband to do a summer/fall cruise again as we live way up North in the COLD. He sadi he wants to go in the Winter months and unfortunately that's his busy time at work and so March was our best bet.

I have never gone on a NCL or out of NYC we've always done our cruises in Sept out of Florida.

We leave out of NYC March 17-we are doing an Eastern Caribbean cruise that is 10 days in length. The day we leave and 3 more days are at sea....4 days spent on islands in the eastern caribbean (St Lucia, etc) and then our last stop is in St. Thomas and then 2 days at sea home...how much of that will be cold??

thanks I appreicate it!.

I don’t think the Gem has a spa level.

I booked a BB balcony...what will my upgrade options be I wonder?

why when I look it says "book onboard"

I want to get the thermal spa pass, however, it says book onboard? you can't buy online?

When I click on my reservation I just a big picture that advertises the ultimate beverage package and then at the bottom explore, plan things to do...nothing about upgrading.

I am not leaving until March, I imagine I wont have any upgrade options yet. I am not seeing any anyways.

How exactly does this work? Does everyone get a bid email??? How long before you got your bid accepted or denied?