Upgrade fairy or devil?! FF to EE

[dateacher]

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Are you planning to blog?

 

No, too busy checking my account. The reality is, whatever we get is fine. We booked this at the last minute with a discount online TA so I am not expecting much.

[Lizzie68]

We have been absolutely over the moon with the upgrade fairy recently.

 

We went on Volendam for a 22 night cruise in November - Melbourne to Singapore. We had booked a C grade guarantee. I am not completely sure why. We usually book an FF guarantee to hopefully get us to main deck. However, when we were booking this cruise onboard we were doing just that and then my DH suddenly said to the person on the desk how much would a C grade be. It was about three or four hundred more and much to my surprise he said right we will have that. The reason for this was he thought it wouild be better for me and keep me central on the ship but reasonably near to activities as I am on sticks these days. I was surprised and he never thought but left the guarantee in place.

 

Three weeks before we left we were assigned a C grade cabin (which we expected) two days later we were offered an upsell to a veranda which was actually very expensive, the day before we left we had a second upsell offer which was cheaper but still out of our agreed range of what we would accept. When we reached Sydney I logged in on the computer and discovered a email from HAL saying they had given us a complimentary upgrade to a verandah.

 

We were so pleased as this was unofficially an important cruise. We had intended to do something big in two years to celebrate our golden wedding but had realised from doctor's remarks that in two years I probably will not be able to do a big long haul trip so we decided to do it early. Of course HAL did not know that but it was marvellous for us.

 

Thanks for sharing that, it's a lovely story with a very happy ending! But I do hope that in two years you will still be able to travel far and wide.

[RuthC]

... When we reached Sydney I logged in on the computer and discovered a email from HAL saying they had given us a complimentary upgrade to a verandah.

 

We were so pleased as this was unofficially an important cruise. We had intended to do something big in two years to celebrate our golden wedding but had realised from doctor's remarks that in two years I probably will not be able to do a big long haul trip so we decided to do it early. Of course HAL did not know that but it was marvellous for us.

"Marvelous" is just the word for it, Angela. I am so happy for you that you received an upgrade that was good for you. I bet having that balcony in the area you were sailing was lovely.

 

I hope you are able to get around for years to come.

[arzz]

Not sure if I will blog or not - depends - might be nice to just cruise ... But if I don't blog there will be a comprehensive review posted when I return.

 

I wish I could figure out how to post full size photos as I have several from Asia that are worth posting and could have a few from this trip also.

[Lizzie68]

Not sure if I will blog or not - depends - might be nice to just cruise ... But if I don't blog there will be a comprehensive review posted when I return.

 

I wish I could figure out how to post full size photos as I have several from Asia that are worth posting and could have a few from this trip also.

 

I do hope you blog, arzz - I enjoyed your last cruise and land trip.:)

Edited December 19, 2014 by Lizzie68