Costco Travel "opted out" of the Upgrade Advantage, we confirmed this with NCL. This means you will not get any emails for this. The only way you can upgrade is to call into Costco and have them call into NCL and ask about and upgrade. The good thing is that you get ALL of the current promotions when you do an upgrade which you don't get if you do the Upgrade Advantage. I am not sure if the bidding price would be any cheaper as you would have to put a value on the "perks" that you get if you do an upgrade vs the lack of those perks when you do Upgrade Advantage. With Upgrade advantage you keep the promotions you originally had so you really do need to do some research and calculations. That was our experience anyway. We did the upgrade a week ago for a cruise leaving at the end of April.
I had the same question as to why we were not part of the bidding while others were. We bought thru Costco. Thanks.
While I can't confirm, it appears that NCL and others use the third party https://www.plusgrade.com/ to handle the bidding (they are listed as one of the partners) and perhaps there are additional fees that costco doesn't want to pass onto customers to become part of that upgrade advantage program.
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I had the same question as to why we were not part of the bidding while others were. We bought thru Costco. Thanks.
While I can't confirm, it appears that NCL and others use the third party https://www.plusgrade.com/ to handle the bidding (they are listed as one of the partners) and perhaps there are additional fees that costco doesn't want to pass onto customers to become part of that upgrade advantage program.