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8 minutes ago, loman said:

I , for one do not participate in this program for the simple reason as i dont want a cabin under the pool deck . This would seriously impact my happiness, as the deck chairs get dragged around in the early hours of the morning.

I select my cabin and stick with it . 

 

Others dont mind getting less than desirable cabin locations though.

And i suspect they will most likely be the ones left over for the royal up program.

Although some may get lucky and snag a good location.

Good luck to you . 

 

I believe there is so truth to this, I've heard that they only bid off the less desirables too!! Now that I think about it, our last trip was our first time bidding and not only did we have plumbing issues but we were on deck 2 so we heard all kinds of "ship sounds".. BUT overall it was still a great room, beautiful trip. Like it wasn't the worst. *shrugs* 

5 minutes ago, miyanc said:

We book gty. Often it's the difference in going or not.  We are very agreeable with most things. Good room or bad. I should be knocking on wood.  I have had bad luck while picking my room myself and good luck letting them do it.  Maybe you get a bad room and get fcc out of it.  Maybe you only loose if you end up spending more for your room plus royal up compared to what it would have been if you booked the room straight away.  

This is our 2nd time booking GTY, we like the idea of saving money and we are new to cruising so we're trying to figure out if we are picky or not about our cabins LOL last trip was last year on Freedom, we book GTY interior AND won our RoyalUp bid for an ocean view!!! Im starting to think that bid win was a fluke. 

3 minutes ago, Jetdriver787 said:

Depends on what you are bidding from and to? At this stage any upgrade is likely to come (if at all) around 3 days before sailing. First you would likely know about it would be a debit on your credit card flagging up. You then get an email telling you yea or nay. 
 

It’s a speculative bid so definitely don’t stress. The answer is usually “Nay!” but like the lottery, you might get lucky.

I received a 6th floor GTY interior.. And honestly, Im not mad about it at all! We're kind of excited to try an interior for the first time... HOWEVER (lol) if we can win this bid and get upgrade to spacious ocean view or something in that realm that would be the icing on the cake!!! I just stress about it because I get really into planning these trips and I just NEED to know a definite answer about where im sleeping or ill be on YouTube for hours looking at all the "could've beens" and "maybe we wills" lol

So I apparently decided to torture myself by choosing to wait for the Guaranteed room over selecting my own, but hey why not save a few bucks?! But now, I'm waiting on pens and needles for the RoyalUp bid. We are leaving May 4 on Independence and though i've been assigned my 6th floor room... Im praying every second that I get this upgrade!!!! What do you guys think, like is it likely to get an upgrade and when do you find out if the bid is accepted or not???