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Yeah, they called to follow up. I said we were still hearing it, and they’re sending up ear plugs. I said in good faith that we’d give it a try tonight. There’s a Facebook group for our sailing and a lot of people have brought up the noise. We’re in a sky suite, port side, closer to aft elevators. I did read (maybe in this forum) that it’s worse going east/west, which we are right now, and it is a little choppy. So we’ll see! Hoping Caribbean waters will be smoother and the problem will stop. (PS, The sky suite is still SO worth it. Retreat has been so beneficial for us.)

On the Beyond now in 9219 - creaking and popping sounds happening every .5 second from all over room, particularly the veranda. Seas are slightly rocky, but I’ve been on 10 cruises and many of them rockier and never had this issue. It kept me up all night. I politely brought it up to Retreat concierge and they sent out a maintenance guy. He looked at the room for about 2 minutes and determined it was the divider between the balconies. It was not, he left and it’s still happening. Trying to weigh out the value of bringing it up again.

Update: we just got our approval confirmation!! For future reference, I saw on another social media site that our original upgraded room 9190 was right next to a magic carpet sky suite, the ones that jut out from the side of the ship, so the view would be obstructed. That would be fine by me, however I noticed they have a large window on their balcony that has a direct view into our balcony and room. I called celebrity and they were happy to move us to another room in the same category.

Hi there! I’m also on a Dec 1st cruise on the Beyond. Three of my bids went expired with one locked on pending on Friday. Many say it can be a good sign but there’s really no guarantee until we (hopefully!) get that approval email.

Ship: Beyond Length of Cruise: 10 Nights Cruise Sail Date: December 1, 2023 Date email offer received: September 11th Captain’s Club Tier: Select Booked through Celebrity Direct OR via TA: TA - Direct Current Cabin: Infinite Veranda Bid? Yes/No: Yes Bid Offers Aqua Class Veranda - $250 pp Sky Suite - $1535 pp (minimum bid) Aqua Class SS - $1605 pp (minimum bid) Notification Date: n/a Accepted / Rejected: Aqua Veranda and Aqua SS showing expired, Sky Suite showing pending, locked from modifying since Friday. Fingers crossed. I know these were high numbers to bid on but it’s our honeymoon so we decided to splurge at a chance to experience Retreat 🤞

Give it a few days! It’ll usually hit your card first but even that can take a few days from when it locks. Some people have reported that they had their offers locked and still didn’t get it, but I think the vast majority do. Fingers crossed for you! I’m in the same boat (haha) as you, with a locked pending offer, I’ll be on beyond December 1st!

Hi! Yes, for some reason the link from the manage my reservation page is broken and has been for a while. You can also access it by clicking the drop down under “Manage Trip” (visible when you click the three lines on the top left of the mobile celebrity page)

I’ve seen other bidders in this thread get an email letting them know there’s other bidders that have outbid them, and they can choose to increase their bid if they want to raise their chances of getting the upgrade. Some of them ultimately decided to not increase the bid and still got the move up.