Tell me your Balcony Guarantee stories!

[UGACamper]

I'm rolling the dice with a balcony guarantee casino rate on the Horizon... see what I did there?! 

 

Anyone have any success stories? Anyone get premium rooms with a guarantee? All ships welcome!

[jas1178]

1. Immediately over the speaker cluster of the piano bar.  Enjoyed singing "Sweet Caroline...." until late from the comfort of bed 🙂

 

2. Directly over the disco...vibrated out of my bed until late.

 

There were other less exciting stories, but don't do unless you are good with the WORST POSSIBLE ROOM.

[bahacca]

Were these balcony rooms, jas? I thought Vista and Horizon had similar layouts. I did guarantee on Vista because it looked like the only possible crummy ones would be directly under Lido. We were given deck 6. Price dropped and I got moved up to deck 7. Of course, we are supposed to be on that ship as I'm typing this, so no actual review of what I got.

[skrufy]

1 hour ago, UGACamper said:

I'm rolling the dice with a balcony guarantee casino rate on the Horizon... see what I did there?! 

 

Anyone have any success stories? Anyone get premium rooms with a guarantee? All ships welcome!

 

12 minutes ago, jas1178 said:

1. Immediately over the speaker cluster of the piano bar.  Enjoyed singing "Sweet Caroline...." until late from the comfort of bed 🙂

 

2. Directly over the disco...vibrated out of my bed until late.

 

There were other less exciting stories, but don't do unless you are good with the WORST POSSIBLE ROOM.

The only experience with a guarantee balcony was on the Miracle in 2017. Originally had an OV. Wife said let’s switch to a balcony. I was not aware that it was a guaranteed one and said go for it. Two weeks later it was assigned and that’s when I found out it was an obstructed one. To my surprise it did not have an obstruction per say. The obstruction was the last lifeboat about 20 or so cabins away. The cabin was towards the rear of the ship, very quiet. Getting upgraded to premium cabins are very rare, almost non existent.

[jas1178]

3 hours ago, bahacca said:

Were these balcony rooms, jas?

 

Yes they were.