Laszlo Posted November 1, 2018 #1176 Share Posted November 1, 2018 (edited) 16 hours ago, Tw in OR said: I called NCL general reservation number to ask to be sent an invitation to bid. The agent had never heard of the ability to request this. Her info said that it was "random" who gets the invitation, and out of her control. We are at day 67. I guess I'll wait a bit more, will probably just upgrade directly--expect the price to drop a bit. Has anyone with a cruise past Jan 1 received an invitation? Keep in mind not everyone gets an invitation to bid? Who did you book with? If it was Costco or another TA who does not participate in the program you will not get an invite to bid Edited November 1, 2018 by Laszlo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katiecat Posted November 1, 2018 #1177 Share Posted November 1, 2018 3 hours ago, amscene1 said: 1-800-625-4309 thank you 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kruzns4me Posted November 1, 2018 #1178 Share Posted November 1, 2018 On 7/2/2018 at 3:04 PM, JamieLogical said: Yes. It's highly unlikely bids have been processed already, so bidding should still be open. Bids usually aren't processed until, at minimum, one week prior to sailing and sometimes they actually cut the 48 hours out pretty close. My bid on my last cruise was processed about 50 hours prior to sailing? holy bat sheet superman........................well - I guess since I am 46 days out I have some waiting to do Ricky!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kruzns4me Posted November 1, 2018 #1179 Share Posted November 1, 2018 5 hours ago, DelanaeK said: We bid just over the minimum offer for a balcony from an oceanview on the POA cruise and didn't get it. Oh well, I know that's a ship you're not on much since there's a port every day, so it's not a huge deal I guess. Yea - we have a midship balcony already - bid on a mini suite just over min as we are being budget conscious on this one - tons of mini's left on this cruise though so keeping fingers crossed................we shall see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelanaeK Posted November 2, 2018 #1180 Share Posted November 2, 2018 29 minutes ago, kruzns4me said: Yea - we have a midship balcony already - bid on a mini suite just over min as we are being budget conscious on this one - tons of mini's left on this cruise though so keeping fingers crossed................we shall see! Good luck! We are sailing Saturday and I got the response late this morning, so you do have some time to wait, lol. I just started checking on the bid maybe 2 weeks ago since I had heard it can take until 48 hours before the cruise to get an answer, and that was exactly right in our case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPOCMAN Posted November 2, 2018 #1181 Share Posted November 2, 2018 Just got offer to bid at 72 days out on epic sailing today. Didn’t receive an email to bid. Was doing daily check on MYNCL and saw it available as a banner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare HBCcruiser Posted November 2, 2018 #1182 Share Posted November 2, 2018 1 minute ago, CPOCMAN said: Just got offer to bid at 72 days out on epic sailing today. Didn’t receive an email to bid. Was doing daily check on MYNCL and saw it available as a banner. Yes, and you may need to scroll through the banners to find it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosaints43 Posted November 2, 2018 #1183 Share Posted November 2, 2018 Where are the banners? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JillK Posted November 2, 2018 #1184 Share Posted November 2, 2018 53 minutes ago, nosaints43 said: Where are the banners? Just be aware that if you booked with a TA, you may not get a banner ad. We are booked via TA and got an email at the 80 day mark but never have seen the offer anywhere on my NCL.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heelfan94 Posted November 2, 2018 #1185 Share Posted November 2, 2018 11 hours ago, nosaints43 said: Where are the banners? When I log into My NCL and go to the My Vacation Home tab, there are offers that you can click through using arrows midway down on either side of the screen. One of them says something like Let's Get You Upgraded. I can't remember for sure because mine is gone now. If you see the upgrade banner click and it will take you through the different options available. There is a lot of info on this and other threads about how to approach it. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare HBCcruiser Posted November 2, 2018 #1186 Share Posted November 2, 2018 11 hours ago, nosaints43 said: Where are the banners? These are the banners. Scroll by clicking on the arrows on either side of the screen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayteecat Posted November 2, 2018 #1187 Share Posted November 2, 2018 Escape NYC to Florida Bahamas 12/28, only 56 days to go!!! My boyfriend's first cruise and my second, my parents and I did one of the family suites on the Dawn to Bermuda back in 2009. I don't think we quite got the offer to bid at 80 days, but we did get it and I was excited to take part in the process as I've read so much about it here. My parents have only sailed Haven the last few times and my mom doesn't do the bid process, so she was exactly zero help! We're in a regular old balcony on deck 11 towards the aft of the ship, which we're perfectly fine with if we don't get an upgrade. We put in bids of $150 pp for a spa balcony, mini-suite and spa mini-suite, which were rated bottom of Fair for the spa balcony and mini-suite and the top of Poor for the spa mini-suite. Others have lamented they don't think a good balcony location is worth sacrificing for a larger bathroom, but I do think it will be useful for the two of us. I also know BF would enjoy the spa as he is a regular sauna-goer at home, so if we get into the spa for less than the $273 pp it costs for 9 days we would definitely come out with a win there! Doing some mock bookings yesterday, it looks like the spa balcony and mini-suite inventory is still quite wide open which is good, but many balconies left as well. It will definitely be interesting to track that over the next few weeks and see how much ends up selling, I'm not sure how popular the NYE intineraries are because they are quite expensive! I'm guessing a price drop would remedy that but this is all just conjecture. I didn't look at how well the insides and oceanviews are doing so if they're sold out then chances of bumping them up to balconies might certainly work in our favor. I'm having a lot of fun trying to guess how all of these elements work in our favor, and will definitely report back with the results! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody378 Posted November 2, 2018 #1188 Share Posted November 2, 2018 Someone on my cruise was upgraded to a haven room for a bid of $200 each from a balcony. They are first time NCL cruisers and just booked the week before. Looks like no rhyme or reason to who gets upgrades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heelfan94 Posted November 2, 2018 #1189 Share Posted November 2, 2018 11 minutes ago, woody378 said: Someone on my cruise was upgraded to a haven room for a bid of $200 each from a balcony. They are first time NCL cruisers and just booked the week before. Looks like no rhyme or reason to who gets upgrades. This story negates any progress I thought I was making in figuring this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayteecat Posted November 2, 2018 #1190 Share Posted November 2, 2018 They must have really wanted to move that cabin! On my sailings the lowest level Haven room has a minimum bid of $500 pp. But what a great first experience for them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare richstowe Posted November 2, 2018 #1191 Share Posted November 2, 2018 31 minutes ago, woody378 said: Someone on my cruise was upgraded to a haven room for a bid of $200 each from a balcony. They are first time NCL cruisers and just booked the week before. Looks like no rhyme or reason to who gets upgrades. Wow ! Good for them . 18 minutes ago, heelfan94 said: This story negates any progress I thought I was making in figuring this out. That's what they want .😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamflames Posted November 2, 2018 #1192 Share Posted November 2, 2018 Sailing on the Epic on Sunday. Had 2 bids in, have not received any emails about my bids and when I log into myncl there are no upgrade banners anymore. Cruise looks fully booked but seems strange not to have heard anything either way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenOfZoom Posted November 2, 2018 #1193 Share Posted November 2, 2018 5 minutes ago, teamflames said: Sailing on the Epic on Sunday. Had 2 bids in, have not received any emails about my bids and when I log into myncl there are no upgrade banners anymore. Cruise looks fully booked but seems strange not to have heard anything either way? I'm on the same cruise, have three bids in. I still get the banner when I login. I've done bidding on at least five cruises and have always received and email either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heelfan94 Posted November 2, 2018 #1194 Share Posted November 2, 2018 (edited) 12 minutes ago, teamflames said: Sailing on the Epic on Sunday. Had 2 bids in, have not received any emails about my bids and when I log into myncl there are no upgrade banners anymore. Cruise looks fully booked but seems strange not to have heard anything either way? My banner disappeared when my bid was processing. I hope that's the same for you. I saved the bookmark where I could modify my bids so I could check. ETA that it could also disappear if it was declined I suppose. Edited November 2, 2018 by heelfan94 More info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenOfZoom Posted November 2, 2018 #1195 Share Posted November 2, 2018 16 minutes ago, teamflames said: Sailing on the Epic on Sunday. Had 2 bids in, have not received any emails about my bids and when I log into myncl there are no upgrade banners anymore. Cruise looks fully booked but seems strange not to have heard anything either way? Ok received one unable to confirm upgrade email 5 minutes ago.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KurtMo Posted November 2, 2018 #1196 Share Posted November 2, 2018 On 11/4 Getaway in spa balcony, just got "unable to confirm upgrade" email on spa mini-suite, spa haven, courtyard haven, and have forward penthouse. All bids were in "poor" range. I am happy with my current cabin, so all good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamflames Posted November 2, 2018 #1197 Share Posted November 2, 2018 24 minutes ago, QueenOfZoom said: I'm on the same cruise, have three bids in. I still get the banner when I login. I've done bidding on at least five cruises and have always received and email either way. Just got rejection, bid 125 for inside to balcony and 150 to mini suite, both on the edge of poor/fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormiB Posted November 2, 2018 #1198 Share Posted November 2, 2018 4 hours ago, kayteecat said: Escape NYC to Florida Bahamas 12/28, only 56 days to go!!! My boyfriend's first cruise and my second, my parents and I did one of the family suites on the Dawn to Bermuda back in 2009. I am on the same itinerary the week before you on the 12/21 sailing. We also put in a few bids for upgrades. I am hoping we get notified earlier than 2 days out as the cruise looks not that full at this point when I do mock bookings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare JamieLogical Posted November 2, 2018 #1199 Share Posted November 2, 2018 2 hours ago, woody378 said: Someone on my cruise was upgraded to a haven room for a bid of $200 each from a balcony. They are first time NCL cruisers and just booked the week before. Looks like no rhyme or reason to who gets upgrades. Can you tell us what ship and sailing this is? I have never heard of a minimum bid for a Haven being under $400. I have heard of people winning with a minimum bid, but never given the option to bid that little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRgymnast Posted November 2, 2018 #1200 Share Posted November 2, 2018 Agreed! The lowest possible bid I've seen for Haven from a balcony is $400 for a Breakaway/Breakaway+ ship. This is prob a Jewel class ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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