Upgrade Bid

[Coastmonkey1]

We are booked in Yacht Club on MSC World Europa first week in July on B2B cruises. We have a Yacht Club balcony booked for both cruises, we received our upgrade bid email last week and we have put in a bid slightly over the minimum for the Duplex Balcony with whirlpool. We have done a few cruises in Yacht Club usually just in a balcony cabin and have never availed of the bid upgrade option before but wanted to give it a go this time. 

I just have a few questions that I would like some assistance with:

1.  How likely is it we will get the bid upgrade by just bidding slightly over the minimum (£40)?

2. When do we find out if the bid has been successful?

 

We are quite happy with the cabin we have booked just wanted to try the bid upgrade to see how it works. I would be grateful for anyone who has done the bid upgrade thing to see how it worked for you, if your bid was successful and how far in advance you got notification that it was accepted or declined.

 

Thank You in advance.

[JamieLogical]

It's hard to say how likely you are to win your bid. It depends on a lot of factors that will be specific to your sailing(s).

 

As for when you will find out, that can really happen any time up until about 48 hours before sailing.

[Tierun]

Everything with upgrade bidding is a crapshoot. I’ve read reports of people getting upgrades the day before embarking and many see the upgrade charge hit their credit card before they get official notification.

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[phred119s]

We sail in a month. I bid slightly over the minimum and got the upgrade notification this morning. 

There have been a few cruises where we have bid at varying price points over the minimum where we did not get the upgrade. The notification that our bids had not been accepted has always come the same day of the cruise.

[cruiser man 60]

We didn’t participate in bidding as they wanted £800 each for YC from Aurea, however we got email Tuesday confirming free upgrades to YC 😀

[Coastmonkey1]

Thanks all for your replies. I have just gotten confirmation this afternoon that the bid on our 2nd cruise has been successful 77 days out. Still waiting to hear the status of the upgrade for our first cruise 70 days out. Hopefully we get the same response fingers crossed.

[morpheusofthesea]

Don't know exactly but here is a post from another social media poster. "They accepted our offer and put us in the YC Deluxe balcony! So for the price of ONE YC person my wife and I are getting in (total cost $2600, the "rack rate" for that room is $5300)! Happy birthday to me!" Under title "Bidding upgrade to Yacht Club." This was 2 weeks before the sailing. During our disembarkation, we were escorted to the gangway by our butler. In the elevator he told us that the Yacht Club was almost sold out on the next cruise. There were 2 cabins available and one was the Royal Suite. So it appears everyone that bid got upgraded to the YC with only 2 left on embarkation day. So perhaps it is not too wise to nibble too early on those upgrade emails until 2 weeks before the sailing date ?

" Will be cruising on the World Europa from Barcelona on 27th of this month. First time in YC. Won a bid from a Bella interior cabin to a YC interior but have ended up with a deluxe cabin suite! Paying around $1300 per person in total, such great value." (another poster)

[trojan3000]

Throwing in a bit more than the minimum can up your odds, but it's still a bit of a gamble. I didn't participate but my cousin did and got the confirmation.

[80sGal]

On 4/26/2024 at 1:54 PM, cruiser man 60 said:

We didn’t participate in bidding as they wanted £800 each for YC from Aurea, however we got email Tuesday confirming free upgrades to YC 😀

When this happens for free, do you still need to accept it or are you automatically moved?  And if it is by acceptance, you know the cabin before you commit?  First time on MSC coming up.  Currently have Aurea balcony in a preferred location to my liking, an upgrade would be nice though!  

[Coastmonkey1]

Thank you all for the comments and just to update you. We just had our bid accepted now for our first cruise (64 days out). So now booked in to Duplex Suite for our 2 cruises.

[cruiser man 60]

12 hours ago, 80sGal said:

When this happens for free, do you still need to accept it or are you automatically moved?  And if it is by acceptance, you know the cabin before you commit?  First time on MSC coming up.  Currently have Aurea balcony in a preferred location to my liking, an upgrade would be nice though!  

Not sure , I assume you could ring & ask to be downgraded back if you’re original cabin in still available.

We were in Aurea , were invited to bid for YC for minimum of £780 pp against advertised prices of extra £1500 pp.

However we didn’t bid but somehow got email with free upgrade confirming new cabin number etc

[80sGal]

1 hour ago, cruiser man 60 said:

Not sure , I assume you could ring & ask to be downgraded back if you’re original cabin in still available.

We were in Aurea , were invited to bid for YC for minimum of £780 pp against advertised prices of extra £1500 pp.

However we didn’t bid but somehow got email with free upgrade confirming new cabin number etc

Interesting.   Okay good to know.   I'm imagining any YC would be better anyway ... but I'm sensitive to noise so I like to choose what's over and under my cabin.  Thanks for the reply!  

[Momto3girlsintheCarolinas]

On 5/1/2024 at 10:52 PM, 80sGal said:

When this happens for free, do you still need to accept it or are you automatically moved?  And if it is by acceptance, you know the cabin before you commit?  First time on MSC coming up.  Currently have Aurea balcony in a preferred location to my liking, an upgrade would be nice though!  

 

 

We had a guaranteed inside stateroom, but it had not been assigned.  I got an email that we'd been assigned to a balcony.  They gave us a room number and that room number is on all the paperwork (We leave in a week).  I have not seen an upgrade charge on my credit card.  I don't expect one, since I never "accepted" or "confirmed" anything.  They just assigned our stateroom as a balcony with a specific room number.

 

I hope that helps.