Rare Tree_skier Posted February 14 #8226 Share Posted February 14 2 hours ago, Engineroom Snipe said: Quick, go to the Casinos, you are on a roll! Sadly I’ll probably give the casino enough to make up the difference. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Engineroom Snipe Posted February 15 #8227 Share Posted February 15 1 hour ago, Tree_skier said: Sadly I’ll probably give the casino enough to make up the difference. 😭 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starry Eyes Posted February 15 #8228 Share Posted February 15 (edited) 15 hours ago, Gtex said: I have never bid on an RC upgrade before. Hoping for an ocean balcony instead of a Boardwalk balcony in March. I am confused. When do they let you know your cabin number? Will we just find out when we get to the cruise terminal? What about our luggage tags? Will they send them a couple of days before the cruise? If you win the upgrade, you will receive a congratulatory email. Approximately the same time your new cabin number will appear on the app and in the cruise planner. You will print your luggage tags. Your eDocs will probably need to update for the new luggage tag to appear; that may be a few hours or overnight. Edited February 15 by Starry Eyes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gtex Posted February 15 #8229 Share Posted February 15 4 hours ago, Starry Eyes said: If you win the upgrade, you will receive a congratulatory email. Approximately the same time your new cabin number will appear on the app and in the cruise planner. You will print your luggage tags. Your eDocs will probably need to update for the new luggage tag to appear; that may be a few hours or overnight. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare travelberlin Posted February 15 #8230 Share Posted February 15 (edited) If you get the upgrade, do your bookings like restaurant reservations, the Key, etc, get changed to your new cabin automatically? Edited February 15 by travelberlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starry Eyes Posted February 15 #8231 Share Posted February 15 (edited) 4 hours ago, travelberlin said: If you get the upgrade, do your bookings like restaurant reservations, the Key, etc, get changed to your new cabin automatically? Though you cabin number changes, your reservation number remains the same and cruise planner purchases should remain intact. If you win at the very last minute, sometime loyalty items are not in the correct cabin on day 1. So similarly I would suspect if you ordered something from the cruise planner scheduled for cabin delivery at start of cruise, it might not be in the right cabin on day one if you win an upgrade at the last minute. I’m sure they would sort it out for you. Edited February 15 by Starry Eyes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BORN A BOWLER Posted February 27 #8232 Share Posted February 27 I am traveling alone and if I bid do I get charged for one or is it for double only. Thank You Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare travelberlin Posted February 27 #8233 Share Posted February 27 49 minutes ago, BORN A BOWLER said: I am traveling alone and if I bid do I get charged for one or is it for double only. Thank You You get charged for 2 people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starry Eyes Posted February 28 #8234 Share Posted February 28 4 hours ago, BORN A BOWLER said: I am traveling alone and if I bid do I get charged for one or is it for double only. Thank You Every RoyalUp bid entered is doubled (as if there are two guests). That happens if there is one occupant or four. Strange, yet true. Just adjust your bid and enter it knowing it will be doubled on the confirmation page when you enter your CC #. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatrixOperator Posted March 18 #8235 Share Posted March 18 We are GTY…the barcode suggests we are on deck 2! Two? goodness….I got nervous, and bid on a balcony. Deck 2? Noooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morecruisesplz Posted March 18 #8236 Share Posted March 18 15 hours ago, MatrixOperator said: We are GTY…the barcode suggests we are on deck 2! Two? goodness….I got nervous, and bid on a balcony. Deck 2? Noooo Whats wrong with 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatrixOperator Posted March 18 #8237 Share Posted March 18 Well, I have never stayed so low on the ship to be honest. I educated myself though and I did read that it's less movement, so whatever it is will be just fine. I don't know if I can do GTY again though - the anticipation is killing me! 😃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUgwoz Posted March 18 #8238 Share Posted March 18 Curious of experiences with Royal Up on Icon Sailings. The ship has been sailing at reduced capacity, and my sailing in May still has some categories with as many as 50 cabins available. Curious if there has been a better success rate and if acceptance of bids were announced earlier than just a day or two before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennysDad Posted March 18 #8239 Share Posted March 18 11 minutes ago, SUgwoz said: Curious of experiences with Royal Up on Icon Sailings. The ship has been sailing at reduced capacity, and my sailing in May still has some categories with as many as 50 cabins available. Curious if there has been a better success rate and if acceptance of bids were announced earlier than just a day or two before. What date are you? I'm May 4th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Engineroom Snipe Posted March 18 #8240 Share Posted March 18 52 minutes ago, MatrixOperator said: Well, I have never stayed so low on the ship to be honest. I educated myself though and I did read that it's less movement, so whatever it is will be just fine. I don't know if I can do GTY again though - the anticipation is killing me! 😃 I had a GTY interior on the Enchantment in April 2023. Ended up being one of the best interiors I could ask for on deck 3. It was almost the exact middle front and aft and middle side-to-side. It was in a short hallway so very little foot traffic past our cabin, extremely quiet with little to no motion felt the whole trip. The price was much lower than getting to select my cabin at the time and the choices of cabins were limited. I do not mind gambling a bit with interior cabins but I always select my balconies. Talk about getting a great night's sleep. Enjoy your cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatrixOperator Posted March 18 #8241 Share Posted March 18 Thank you! I'm excited 😁 I did bid on a balcony, but I booked this cruise at less than $300 pp, so I'm happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Engineroom Snipe Posted March 18 #8242 Share Posted March 18 1 minute ago, MatrixOperator said: Thank you! I'm excited 😁 I did bid on a balcony, but I booked this cruise at less than $300 pp, so I'm happy. If you get that great price point you like, not having the perfectly located cabin is very easy to handle. As always, be proactive and bring ear plugs and a small white noise machine in case you do not get the quietest of cabins. If you do enough activities and get plenty of fresh air, you will sleep like a zombie anyway. With the money saved, you can have other experiences on the ship or put it towards another cruise. We rarely spend that much time in our cabin except to recharge, shower, and change. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatrixOperator Posted March 18 #8243 Share Posted March 18 You are absolutely right! There to sleep anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lincoln81 Posted March 24 #8244 Share Posted March 24 so far we are 0/6 royal up, I did bid on two (2) different rooms for our upcoming cruise, this is the first time we did GTY interior, never stayed inside, but we figured we'd save a ton of money, I did book a spacious ocean view room and a ultra spacious ocean view, only thing I can bid up right now. I did bid middle of the range on the ultra spacious and I see there is still 3 rooms available on our cruise 50 some days off. so we will see what happens. at the end of the day we will be sleeping in the room, rest of the time we will be on shore or having fun on board. if we get the royal up bid on this we will be saving a lot of money compared to paying to upgrade now, but like the last time we wont be holding our breath! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fla33023 Posted March 25 #8245 Share Posted March 25 I bid for the first time and never received an email saying I didn't win. No big deal of course, but I know people always say you get an email even at the last minute. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doway Posted April 3 #8246 Share Posted April 3 we have bid on 4 different cabins in the royal carribean royalup,we have looked online with cruise companys and have noticed that they all are showing that our cruise on the 12th of april 2024 is fully booked,1 why we can still upgrade 9 days before the cruise starts,is our ship the brilliance of the seas fully booked or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare FionaMG Posted April 3 #8247 Share Posted April 3 3 hours ago, doway said: we have bid on 4 different cabins in the royal carribean royalup,we have looked online with cruise companys and have noticed that they all are showing that our cruise on the 12th of april 2024 is fully booked,1 why we can still upgrade 9 days before the cruise starts,is our ship the brilliance of the seas fully booked or not? The bidding process does not mean, necessarily, that there are cabins available. However, cabins may become available at any point in time, through cancellations or no-shows, right up until the ship sails. By bidding, you are joining the cruise line's go-to list of passengers they can upgrade in such cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetdriver787 Posted April 3 #8248 Share Posted April 3 It’s a programme run by a company called “Plusgrade” who do this and similar programmes for around 200 cruise lines, airlines, hotels, rail companies. It has almost nothing to do with spot availability. The programmes are designed to maximise revenue for the subscribing operator for slow selling inventory at points where it wants to address that balance. It also maximises revenue for late cancelled bookings by applying algorithms that looks at cascades as well as individual upgrades. Where inventory becomes available, the cascade pathway will often result in maximising ancillary revenue to the operator by selecting individual bids that are not necessarily the maximum in that category. It is really just a speculative bid on something that usually doesn’t exist. If you (likely) are unsuccessful then nothing is lost. On the other hand you are contracting to a binding commitment at any point a successful offer is made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miyanc Posted April 3 #8249 Share Posted April 3 It may be in this now 330 page thread, but has anyone booked a gty, been given a room or noticed after 45 day check in that it was a bad or undesired room and successfully bid a royal up? If I remember correctly we sailed on allure in 22 ( all got COVID only waved at ports from the balcony) when the 45 day check-in yielded a bar code there was something we didn't like about the room and for a small fee we were able to pay for an upgrade. But that was by calling cs and switching the booking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Engineroom Snipe Posted April 3 #8250 Share Posted April 3 (edited) 9 minutes ago, miyanc said: It may be in this now 330 page thread, but has anyone booked a gty, been given a room or noticed after 45 day check in that it was a bad or undesired room and successfully bid a royal up? If I remember correctly we sailed on allure in 22 ( all got COVID only waved at ports from the balcony) when the 45 day check-in yielded a bar code there was something we didn't like about the room and for a small fee we were able to pay for an upgrade. But that was by calling cs and switching the booking. I have purchased 3 GTY interior no view cabins in the past three years. I was fortunate on all three to like the cabin placements. I did bid on other rooms in higher categories bud none were successful. My bids were slightly more than minimum. Others have posted you might have a remote chance of switching rooms but the new room must be an identical category to the GTY. With ships filled beyond double capacity in the past year, very few rooms if any are available at 45 days out. I never called my TA to try and change them so I do not know if he could have helped but again, I was happy with the GTY cabin. Edited April 3 by Engineroom Snipe typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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