Ready2SailAway

Ah good point, just posted on the Celebrity MoveUp forum - thanks! (Celebrity is part of Royal Caribbean Group, and both Royal's RoyalUp and Celebrity's MoveUp bidding programs are managed by Plusgrade)

Around 2wks prior to sailing...

Although not a guarantee, that's a very good sign! Another guest on our cruise reported the same thing in the morning ~10days prior to sailing, then received a confirmation email their bid had been accepted that same afternoon...

22Sept2022: Booked an RS for Celebrity Solstice 5nt 2Jan2023 sailing. MoveUp to PS available 25Oct2022, happy with RS so only made a minimum offer, bidding range $500 – 1,250pp. 31Dec2022, 2days prior to embarkation day – my bid still showed Pending and unable to Modify or Cancel, but with a comment “The time period to modify or cancel your offer has passed.” Clicking on “Don't miss out! Click here to see other upgrade options on your upcoming cruise and to make an offer” jumped to the Welcome to Celebrity MoveUp bidding webpage, with a comment “Not eligible for upgrade.” Received the email from Celebrity that “our offer to upgrade to a Penthouse Suite wasn't accepted.” 1Jan2023, 1day prior to embarkation day – my bid showed Expired. No worries, the RS with The Retreat experience was awesome!

22Sept2022: Booked an RS for Celebrity Solstice 5nt 2Jan2023 sailing. MoveUp to PS available 25Oct2022, happy with RS so only made a minimum offer, bidding range $500 – 1,250pp. 31Dec2022, 2days prior to embarkation day – my bid still showed Pending and unable to Modify or Cancel, but with a comment “The time period to modify or cancel your offer has passed.” Clicking on “Don't miss out! Click here to see other upgrade options on your upcoming cruise and to make an offer” jumped to the Welcome to Celebrity MoveUp bidding webpage, with a comment “Not eligible for upgrade.” Received the email from Celebrity that “our offer to upgrade to a Penthouse Suite wasn't accepted.” 1Jan2023, 1day prior to embarkation day – my bid showed Expired. No worries, the RS with The Retreat experience was awesome!

Call your TA or a Celebrity vacation planner...

...and while you're on the phone, it won't hurt to ask if higher category inventory is available and if the additional cost is reasonable - might be less than a MoveUp minimum bid!

You can change your assigned MoveUp stateroom if inventory is available within the same category - call your TA or Celebrity vacation planner and ask if you can switch...

Went online and tried the MoveUp link this morning but said too early for our sailing. Now just received an email from Celebrity with our MoveUp offer! We'll see...

Cool - we're sailing on the Solstice 2Jan2023 so hoping we'll see a MoveUp offer soon! We've sailed on Royal Caribbean numerous times and are familiar with the RoyalUp program, so interested to see how the bidding process works with Celebrity...

Yes indeed! If inventory is available in the same category, you may be able to change your stateroom... As I mentioned above, when we won our RU from JS to GS for last Aug sailing and saw that it was connecting, we immediately called our RCCL vacation planner and she was able to switch us to a non-connecting GS.

As soon as we won our RU from JS to GS for last Aug sailing and saw that it was connecting, we immediately called our RCCL vacation planner and she was able to switch us to a non-connecting GS.

Now that's how dishes get done! Congratulations