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good to know—thanks. i was thinking about bidding the bottom of “fair”. the sailing is not selling well and you never know what might happen closer to the sail date. either way i have a great cabin. 😀

we've had some rough seas recently and i'm thankful to have a puzzle like this for a change.

here's the info: 12 nights on the Sun offer from our current forward-facing penthouse suite to an owners suite we originally booked a forward-facing club balcony and the second pre-final payment price drop was so good I just went and upgraded our room to a suite. I did not expect to get an upgrade email, but I did, and of course both OS are already booked. the minimum bid is $650/1300 and the max is $1800/3600. even the top bid is less than what the cabin is currently priced at (there's another sailing which has mirrored our prices and that one shows an available OS so I can get an idea of the price from that). we're 110 days from sailing so i don't expect to hear anything until the very end--but I would welcome some bidding strategy. thanks!

t our cruise goes out September 2024 so I am guessing there will be more price drops and open cabins over the next year. tbh, i didn't even price shop once I saw that great cabin open--we love the Pride (prefer the older ships) and Baltimore is a 75 minute drive so it all seemed like something we had to do (especially as we had had to cancel a cruise in May and we were disappointed about that).

there has been a price drop across all categories on my sailing with the latest sale.

we're in a premium balcony on the Pride and all of the suites are sold out.😁i thought about it though, since that's what I did for our NCL cruise this fall. and thanks everyone! oh well, but we're happy with our cabin and with the fare considering the length and itinerary (14 nights/Greenland and Canada).

i saw that my cruise fare has dropped with the current sale. my category is sold out (there are very few cabins in that category), so i can’t run a mock booking. how do i take advantage of the Early Saver price protection of i don’t know the new fare? i called Carnival and the rep didn’t know how to help me. thanks for any info.

i like the club balconies for their great bathrooms (especially on the Sun).

we were originally booked in a Club Balcony on the Sun for November and the fare dropped again last week to the point a direct upgrade made more sense than hoping for an invitation to bid. Club Balcony suites don't have the perks of full suites, which is why I took advantage of the price drop to upgrade.

yep, our next NCL cruise has had 2 drops as of today (final payment day), totaling $1400. i took the first price drop on our mini-suite but rebooked us into a suite on the second one since the difference between our initial fare and the current suite fare was doable. now to second guess myself if i should have instead kept the mini-suite and tried for an upgrade (the cruise is not selling well). ah well, at least this way there’s less anxiety involved.

i booked it—about $1600 total over our original fare for a 12 night cruise. i’m pretty happy.

ah yes, I had forgotten that if you bid on a suite you don't get the perks. thanks for the reminder of all of that--I just switched our cabin. can't wait to see what NCL suite life is like.

our cabin has come down $1400 in 2 price drops since we booked it last October, and with this sale, the suites on this sailing aren't much more than a club suite.i'm pretty pleased.

i was going to try my luck at an upgrade chance later since almost all the suites are still open 10 days from final payment, but this may be a better bet.

so I just did a mock booking for the current "35% off" sale and I see our cabin has dropped by another $600 (a prior price drop dropped it $800). now I am wondering if I should just upgrade into a suite (we have one of the 2 forward-facing club balconies on the Sun) or take the price drop.

thanks! I was interested in knowing if we could arrive earlier than our appointment time and confirmation that we could drop our bags. glad your aunt's bag was found! and the facial recognition this is going to be new to us!

thanks! this sounds like our past embarkations when we had a suite (pre-FTTF). sorry about the wedding delaying your getting on the ship and thanks for the reminder about the priority debarkation--we live 90 minutes away so it's nice being home before noon.

thanks for all the info in both of your posts! and I'm happy to read stuff from recent Baltimore passengers too. 😁

i did a search for this info but I didn't see the info I am looking for. we're sailing the Legend out of Baltimore next month and we have FTTF. there's an image on our luggage tags with "Faster to the Fun" on them, but the boarding passes give us a 1-1:30 pm arrival appointment and the "C" boarding zone. there's no indication that we have FTTF on them. the boarding passes also note that all rooms will be available at 1:30 pm. we haven't sailed post-covid from Baltimore with the new (to us) appointment system and we have never used FTTF before and so I am confused. I don't know when the Legend usually boards these days I now am wondering if FTTF is worth it if we have to wait until 1 -1:30 pm to start the boarding process and all rooms will be accessible then. Baltimore Carnival folks--please help me decide what to do. thanks!

we sailing the Legend out of Baltimore next month and we have FTTF, there's an image on our luggage tags with "Faster to the Fun" on them, but the boarding passes give us a 1-1:30 pm arrival appointment and the "C" boarding zone. we haven't sailed post-covid from Baltimore with the new (to us) appointment system and we have never used FTTF before and I am confused. I don't know when the Legend usually boards and the boardng pass also says that all rooms will be available at 1:30 pm. I now am wondering if FTTF is worth it if we have to wait until -1:30 pm to start the boarding process and all rooms will be accessible then. Baltimore Carnival folks--please help me decide what to do. thanks!

we've sailed the Carnival Pride twice out of Baltimore, prior to the pandemic. the ship may have been older, but that's because of the height restrictions for the Key Bridge--that's the only reason older ships sail from there, and those ships also sail from other ports, including Europe, and have scheduled dry docks to bring them as current as possible. in addition, they were easily our favorite cruises, first because of the crews who were incredible, and second because our fellow passengers were--for the most part--the same friendly, genuine, diverse, and non-pretentious people we knew from daily life in the DC/Baltimore metro area. after a long absence from cruising we're sailing from Baltimore in May on the Pride's sister ship, the Legend, and we can't wait. and we're also booked on the Norwegian Sun in November and really looking forward to sailing NCL again from Baltimore since we know our fellow passengers are going to be awesome people looking to relax and have fun.

I called NCL about this last week and was told it's too far out from my cruise for that option to be available.

i was able to do it last week, but then i had to change it back to the original dates and it needed extra approval and i got a lecture about not doing it again. <rolls eyes>

thanks and I will. i'm already obsessed with this trip because I spent a lot of time stalking the website until the cabin we wanted was available (forward facing club balcony on the Sun--there are only 2 and i kept checking to see if one got released). now I've got another project, lol.

thanks everyone!!!! I knew it sounded wrong and I am glad I posted it here. just saved $800, woohoo!