Starry Eyes

Yes, you have to be officially assigned a cabin before you can ask to swap to a different cabin in the exact same category. Many of us use the bar code trick to get an early clue what our assignment when we still do not have an official cabin assignment. It is not an official cabin assignment, so one cannot expect to change cabins based on a bar code. I like using the bar code trick to satisfy my curiosity and to help guide my RoyalUp bids (if we love our the cabin # in the barcode, we might cancel or decrease some RoyalUp bids; OTOH if we are unenthusiastic about the cabin # in the barcode we might add or increase some Royal bids). Both RoyalUp and Gty are best for people who are not picky about location. Those who have specific cabin location needs or desires are better off selecting their own cabins if possible.

People are typically offered the opportunity to bid on more than one category of cabin. For example, a person in an inside cabin might be offered the opportunity to bid on promenade view cabin, virtual balcony cabin, spacious inside cabin, oceanview cabin, spacious oceanview cabin, neighborhood balcony cabin and oceanview balcony cabin. They can bid on all, some or none. A person booked in an inside cabin is unlikely to find suites on their lists of bidding opportunities at this time.

Mariner also has a Johnny Rockets. It is, of course, another casual, lower cost venue, but one should be able to use that as part of the UDP if desired. We don’t opt the UDP on Mariner, but it works for others.

If you get the better assignment, I know you will have earned it (though we know it doesn’t really work that way😉)

I’ve booked a fair number of gty lately and none of my official assignments lately have come before check in. My two November gty cruise assignments (including a Wonder cruise) only show in the barcode; officially those cabins are not yet assigned. It could happen sooner, I suppose, for our Wonder GGG Dec deals, but I am not stalking the app.

No, when you place your bid you agree to accept the upgraded cabin you are assigned. Your previous cabin likely has been assigned to someone else. Maybe. You might be able to switch to another cabin in the exact same category IF any better ones are available…but do not count on that because frequently once RoyalUp upgrades come through, no more cabins in those categories are available, so you are locked into the cabin you are assigned.

I cannot check in on the app while on a cruise. I’m on a ship now. When I follow your instructions (which are quite and exactly what we all would have tried in the past, lol) as if to edit checkin for each of my upcoming cruises, I receive an error message “check in has checked out.” Are you using a VPN?

Fall 2013: Extra point for solo (I’m not certain if the official starting date, perhaps near start of October, 2013)

Indeed. “Nothing exciting” sums up Nassau for people who have been cruising for 20+ years.

Yeah, the first part is all background…folks like you exist and they’d be savvy cruisers. So it’s the last bit that seems off…have you in recent years selected a fall cruise out of NJ “just” because that cruise went to Nassau?

Also do you know anyone who has been sailing for over 20 years, lives on the west coast, and selects a cruise out of NJ “just because” it goes to, um, oh boy, Nassau?!? Hmmmmmmmm….

You behaved duplicitously on the other thread. On this thread you have whipped around accusations of lying with little or no basis. Having observed your behavior, I have no reason to trust the accuracy of your report of your phone call. “Multiple levels of management”…does that mean you got moved from CSR trainee to fully trained CSR to CSR supervisor, LOL? You called because you had read the CC threads, so you knew (or should have known) it probably was a propulsion issue. You knew more than the CSR’s; that’s happened to me plenty of times. No reason to be mean.

You are making a lot of assumptions about a conversation you did not hear. Furthermore, you do not know the current status of that engine. That email says the engine will need maintenance; I don’t think it says the engine is currently “down.” You do not have to assume everyone is lying

Are you having difficulty with reading comprehension today? Or are you so angry you have lost all ability to reason? Let’s review what I posted. The ship is seaworthy; I believe that is true. I suggested the ship can make the max speed it needs this week in the conditions this week. Why would you doubt that? The Captain and HD may reasonably think that is what concerns a passenger on the current sailing. That’s far from dishonesty at every level…stop being a drama queen.

Or the Captain and HD simply thought they were re-assuring a passenger on the current sailing that the ship was completely sea worthy and could make the maximum speeds needed on the current voyage with the expected wind and sea conditions.

Well, that picture does not tell us if one of the four engines needs maintenance, and that certainly would not be the hotel director’s area of expertise. Maybe you could corner the chief engineer next.

From Royal in another Cruise Critic thread “For more context, one of the ship's four engines requires maintenance which impacts our speed. While this impacts our ability to deliver on the original itinerary, we're confident that it will still be an exceptional cruise vacation.”

LOL, that’s almost exactly what I said to DH when I carefully read that cruise contract. Yours was Princess last year. Mine was NCL in 2003. I reset my expectations about itineraries.

Your immature post only reinforces my previous point

It looks like the OP trying to amplify his own opinion by agreeing with himself but he cannot keep his screen names straight, lol

Yeah, I wouldn’t think Celebrity would want a unified loyalty system. Royal Caribbean is the larger line with a substantial number of P’s. Furthermore if they create a formula to somehow add current Captains Club points and C&A points as they combine the programs, that may create more P and Z because some people have points on both lines. While Royal would note an increase, combining the two programs might flood Celebrity with high level loyalty members accustom to substantial benefits.

You are missing the point. The point is not about weather. It is about your cruise contract . If you read your contract, the cruiseline can change the itinerary…pretty much any time for any reason. If you switch cruiselines, you’ll still have the same issue…potential itinerary change, any time, any reason. If you quit Royal over this be prepared to quit cruising altogether; the other cruiselines would do the same thing to you.

I was a relative newbie to cruising years ago when I booked a fall cruise on a different cruise on a different cruise line with a great itinerary. Well, due to an issue on the prior cruise, we embarked more than a day late. During that time a tropical storm moved uncomfortably close to our original route. We missed the highlights of the original itinerary. In fact, the itinerary was largely up in the air, as it seemed to change so often (thus was before apps, so communications were mostly overhead announcements and paper cruise daily). This was far, far more disruption than missing Nassau, lol. So, we really read the cruise contract. We realized we had no recourse. Never again have we booked a cruise because we just have to see a specific port or be somewhere a certain day. We book a land vacation if we must see a certain place. For cruises we are flexible. If you read your contract, you may understand why we feel this way. Again, that was a different cruise line. I’m not defending Royal.

Odds seem pretty long, especially as we are a party of two and the cabin can accommodate 3+. We did think about the possibility of having the same steward again; that would be cool.

Do you like your cabin? I just used the barcode trick, too. We are sailing on Mariner tomorrow; that gty cabin was assigned weeks ago. We just made another Mariner gty booking 4 weeks later. When I did the barcode trick, I thought I might be looking at the set sail pass for the first cruise, but, no, the barcode indicates they will assign us the exact same, perfectly nice balcony cabin again.