Question about Category: W Suite - Guaranteed

We have a cruise booked for Nov 26, 2017. I see that they are offering guaranteed suite cabins.

Here are the prices of the cabins:

S2 $2949

S1 $3144

Category W $3534

CS $4909

RS $6574

PS $10104

If I understand W category, if you book one of these cabins you could get any suite, from a S2 to who knows what.

My question is, why would I pay $3534 for a W if I could end up with a much less expensive S2?

Or is the W for CS and above?

We are currently booked in an S2 (which we booked for right around that price), just curious. Thanks!

The W could be anything from a S2 up. Your chances of anything higher are always a gamble. Even if a reliable deck plan shows all S2's booked someone else might try the W guarantee and move up leaving you in their empty cabin. If you are happy with your cabin don't take the bait.

It's a roll of the dice. Are there S1 available, how about CS. The one time we have done a Suite Guarantee there were 3 S2s available & we were 3 couples traveling together; we all upgraded to the guarantee and in less than an hour we were assigned to the 3 available S2 cabins.

There is a chance that you could change to the guarantee and be assigned to the cabin you had but now you paid more; or you could get lucky and end up in a CS. Are you a gambler??

Very odd that the guarantee is priced higher than the S2's and S1's - probably a glitch in the program Celebrity uses for setting pricing. Would be beyond foolish to opt for the guarantee with the pricing you posted.

Call for pricing... something's wrong there.

Thanks everyone. I think I figured it out.

I didn't use Celebrity to do the pricing (I NEVER do, too cumbersome). The site I used took into consideration my residence and age and automatically took the reduction. But the W doesn't take that into consideration. So if you remove those discounts, the W is actually a little less than the S2.

On X website, the W is cheaper than the others, which does make sense. Next time I'll check X before I post! Sorry.

PS Yes jelayne, all of those cabins I listed prices for are available.