Kariba Posted December 22, 2022 #1 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Hi there fellow cruisers, any experience when waitlisted for a cruise. Ie. do loyalty categories Ie. Gold with Cunard count , or simply put , in a line, first in ,first out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted December 22, 2022 #2 Share Posted December 22, 2022 I think it may be people who keep ringing up and bothering them, and also people who keep checking the website for themselves. Anecdotal, not personal experience, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare RJChatsworth Posted December 22, 2022 #3 Share Posted December 22, 2022 I have found being on a wait-list a bit of a joke on more than one occasion recently. Even though being on the wait-list I have checked the Cunard website daily and have seen cabins I am wait-listed for come up. I have immediately rung Cunard and booked the cabin. Cunard had told me previously that there were others ahead of me for the category I had requested. They agreed that by checking the website I had jumped the queue. When I asked how this could be I was told that when passengers cancelled a booking the section processing the cancellation regularly posted the vacant cabin back on to the Cunard website without checking the wait list. Reservations seemed well-aware of this practice and offered no excuse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tv24 Posted December 23, 2022 #4 Share Posted December 23, 2022 We had booked Britannia Class on a May crossing on the QM2 with wait listed for another class. This past week our TA notified us that we Queens Grills was available, so we took it. We are still wait-listed for Princess Grill, which is our preference. So the wait list for this type of an upgrade can work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlesspinney Posted December 26, 2022 #5 Share Posted December 26, 2022 It's NOT reliable! For six months we were number one on the waiting list for a paid upgrade to a Q4,5 or 6 from a Q7. Now when I call we are number two. Cunard travel advisors can't explain it saying it's all done out of the UK and they have no control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankp01 Posted December 27, 2022 #6 Share Posted December 27, 2022 We were on a wait-list for a QV balcony, for quite a few months. I kept checking the website, religiously, to see if anything came up. Finally a guarantee balcony became available. I'm not crazy about guarantees, but we grabbed it. A week later I received a notification that we had cleared the wait-list. What I don't know is if the wait-list was also a guarantee cabin. In any case, we had our agent cancel the wait-list request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Windsurfboy Posted December 27, 2022 #7 Share Posted December 27, 2022 We are waitlisted for well over a year for our return from Capetown in April for QG. I've been checking Cunard website. QGs have come up which have all been portside, which we didn't want as Starboard gets morning sun, so stuck to our PG. However our wait list request was any QG which have been available , but not a dickybird from Cunard, so relying on waitlist waste of time. Just keep checking website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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