xcell Posted December 19, 2018 #1801 Share Posted December 19, 2018 If your declined -- what does it say? Expired? My friend got "unable to confirm your upgrade advantage request" No upgrade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timf2001 Posted December 19, 2018 #1802 Share Posted December 19, 2018 5 minutes ago, xcell said: If your declined -- what does it say? Expired? My friend got "unable to confirm your upgrade advantage request" No upgrade? Yes, that is the denial message. No upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllAmericanAmy Posted December 19, 2018 #1803 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Just some data ... I'm booked on Breakaway 1/6/19 11 day Western Carib which departs in 17 days. I am booked on IF sailaway rate with cabin not assigned yet... I've been sporadically tracking ALL avail cabins in certain/specific categories on a certain website that lists ALL cabins. 3 days ago inside cabin I1 category had 44 avail. cabins at $799 pp. Today, all those cabins are removed/hidden/allocated or something. Thoughts? Higher categories still show many, many cabins avail (ie: BB = 44 BA = 61 H5 = 12 M9=17 close to 190 balcony cabins avail). FYI for anyone monitoring price drops, the # of cabins avail in many of the categories I'm tracking is substantially unchanged for over 2 months on what is known to be a very slow/soft week in the cruise & travel industry. Pricing has held at almost exact same amount with only variance being the amount of perks in a promotion which always is extended past deadline on this cruise. Today is the first I've noticed a price drop in a few categories (coinciding with the removal of the 5 or 6 perks "free" with high cabins)... and the price drop on average is $100 pp. (for example: BA was $1459 pp is now $1379 pp with fewer perks. H5 was $3999 pp now $3899 pp with fewer perks). I'm not making a specific point.... just putting info out there for people curious about how much to expect a cabin to drop if booking outright and/or if attempting to use pricing as an indicator on bidding for upgrades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckabobo Posted December 19, 2018 #1804 Share Posted December 19, 2018 46 minutes ago, AllAmericanAmy said: Just some data ... I'm booked on Breakaway 1/6/19 11 day Western Carib which departs in 17 days. I am booked on IF sailaway rate with cabin not assigned yet... I've been sporadically tracking ALL avail cabins in certain/specific categories on a certain website that lists ALL cabins. 3 days ago inside cabin I1 category had 44 avail. cabins at $799 pp. Today, all those cabins are removed/hidden/allocated or something. Thoughts? Higher categories still show many, many cabins avail (ie: BB = 44 BA = 61 H5 = 12 M9=17 close to 190 balcony cabins avail). FYI for anyone monitoring price drops, the # of cabins avail in many of the categories I'm tracking is substantially unchanged for over 2 months on what is known to be a very slow/soft week in the cruise & travel industry. Pricing has held at almost exact same amount with only variance being the amount of perks in a promotion which always is extended past deadline on this cruise. Today is the first I've noticed a price drop in a few categories (coinciding with the removal of the 5 or 6 perks "free" with high cabins)... and the price drop on average is $100 pp. (for example: BA was $1459 pp is now $1379 pp with fewer perks. H5 was $3999 pp now $3899 pp with fewer perks). I'm not making a specific point.... just putting info out there for people curious about how much to expect a cabin to drop if booking outright and/or if attempting to use pricing as an indicator on bidding for upgrades. Been watching the 1/17 Breakaway Sailing... and regarding your observation of all inside cabins no longer available. At least 3x in the last 3 weeks, Intermittently inside, ocean view - have gone from many available to "Guaranteed Room" Only... then in 1-2 days, back to you being able to choose rooms.... after it goes back to allowing you to choose, the same or roughly the same quantity is available. Not sure why specific rooms selection seems to be blocked certain days, but watch for your cruise to show them available again - as others have pointed out upgrades often happen from haven/suites on down - though with a slow cruise week it is always possible if they have an excessive amount of higher category rooms they could do some lower tiers first as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tw in OR Posted December 19, 2018 #1805 Share Posted December 19, 2018 I'm also watching this cruise (Breakaway 1/6/19) We upgraded to an OC guarantee a month or so ago and it was just assigned an O1 yesterday. I had hoped that the removal of that option would mean that maybe we'd be upgraded to a balcony. No dice! We paid $749 on the 20% off to latitudes members fare and got 3 perks. BX is now $699. The minimum bids we have access to are jumping all over the place, minimum on balcony varying from $25-50 ea. There are about 500 cabins booked as interior or ocean view and by the time 40 or so balcony cabins upgrade to the available spots above them, there could be around 240 balcony cabins for those lower category passengers to bid on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romalley99 Posted December 19, 2018 #1806 Share Posted December 19, 2018 15 hours ago, bbnjcruiser said: Has anyone ever gotten an accepted offer to move from H4 to H2? If so what did you bid? I've gone from Balcony BA to H2. I bid a small bit over the minimum ($1550). It's seriously all a game, and no rhyme or reason as to why they accept certain offers. I am currently waiting to get an answer about my current bids from my H5 Cabin to either H4, H3 or H2. We shall see, I sail on the Escape December 28th. Fingers Crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcell Posted December 19, 2018 #1807 Share Posted December 19, 2018 1 minute ago, romalley99 said: I've gone from Balcony BA to H2. I bid a small bit over the minimum ($1550). It's seriously all a game, and no rhyme or reason as to why they accept certain offers. I am currently waiting to get an answer about my current bids from my H5 Cabin to either H4, H3 or H2. We shall see, I sail on the Escape December 28th. Fingers Crossed. If your in a H5 -- you will have better luck than me, I'm in a B2, hoping for a H4, would settle for H7 but would love a H4. I'ma family of 4, so I won't be getting the H5 if you get upgraded. At the end, I'm happy to be just cruising! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romalley99 Posted December 19, 2018 #1808 Share Posted December 19, 2018 3 minutes ago, xcell said: If your in a H5 -- you will have better luck than me, I'm in a B2, hoping for a H4, would settle for H7 but would love a H4. I'ma family of 4, so I won't be getting the H5 if you get upgraded. At the end, I'm happy to be just cruising! Keep an open mind. Like I said above, I was in a BA and got my close to minimum BA-H2 bid accepted. This was on the Gem, which came with a private hot tub on the balcony too...... Was certainly NOT expecting that, but boy was it a treat! Wishing you luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcell Posted December 19, 2018 #1809 Share Posted December 19, 2018 I think it's harder for cabins of 4 to be upgrade than cabins of 2 (as I have been reading). My friend's bid for Dec 21 was denied even though his bids were good. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessykaw Posted December 19, 2018 #1810 Share Posted December 19, 2018 I had to contact NCL because the credit card I had on file to cover my bid was stolen. When I went to look at my bids, they had moved from poor to fair. I moved the slider and all the minimums had dropped. I lowered my bids. However, NCL had me cancel my bids to remove the card I had cancelled. I had to start the bid process over with my new card and all the minimums were back to the original starting prices. It seemed odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davencl Posted December 20, 2018 #1811 Share Posted December 20, 2018 (edited) When on the bid page several of us have noticed when loading or reloading the page the bid range jumps up and down. It seems there is something broken with the site. I would disregard the page when it shows a lower than "normal" bid range. Sailing on Breakaway Jan. 27 for 11 day cruise. Have bids in for H4 and H5. Edited December 20, 2018 by davencl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllAmericanAmy Posted December 20, 2018 #1812 Share Posted December 20, 2018 6 hours ago, Tw in OR said: above them, there could be around 240 balcony cabins for those lower category passengers to bid on. sounds good to me - I'm ok wherever, but nice to win an upgrade soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllAmericanAmy Posted December 20, 2018 #1813 Share Posted December 20, 2018 6 hours ago, Chuckabobo said: Been watching the 1/17 Breakaway Sailing... and regarding your observation of all inside cabins no longer available. At least 3x in the last 3 weeks, Intermittently inside, ocean view - have gone from many available to "Guaranteed Room" Only... then in 1-2 days, back to you being able to choose rooms.... after it goes back to allowing you to choose, the same or roughly the same quantity is available. Not sure why specific rooms selection seems to be blocked certain days, but watch for your cruise to show them available again - as others have pointed out upgrades often happen from haven/suites on down - though with a slow cruise week it is always possible if they have an excessive amount of higher category rooms they could do some lower tiers first as well. Strange games they play with our minds! It's probably just to keep us guessing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nola26 Posted December 20, 2018 #1814 Share Posted December 20, 2018 I have scanned the thread looking for any posts on the 12/23 Pearl. The website says only Insides available. I bid to move from an Inside to an Oceanview, but so far not accepted. I did not bid on the balcony offer. Has anyone posted of an upgrade on this sailing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romalley99 Posted December 20, 2018 #1815 Share Posted December 20, 2018 (edited) Got our upgrade! Sailing: Escape 9 day 12/28 (New Year's Cruise) # Sailing: 3 Original room: Haven Courtyard Penthouse (H5) Upgraded room: Haven 2 Bedroom Family Villa (H4) Upgrade bid: $665p/p (Bid Started at $500p/p) Upgrade date: 12/20 Declined bids: - Haven Deluxe Owners Suite (H2): $1200 (started at $750) - Haven Owners Suite (H3) $950 (started at $750) Edited December 20, 2018 by romalley99 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BostonGal35 Posted December 20, 2018 #1816 Share Posted December 20, 2018 we too got our bid for 12-28 sailing on Escape. Went from a Balcony on Deck 11 to a Forward Penthouse Suite. Bid $1000 pp; which was either poor or fair. had that same bid on the 2 bedroom, the courtyard suite, and the aft suite. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FPJC03 Posted December 20, 2018 #1817 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Just got our upgrade email from NCL for our 3/10 Getaway Western Carib cruise. Here are my bids: $450 for H9 Spa $500 for H7 Forward $500 for H5 Courtyard We are currently in a mini-suite midship cabin on deck 11. If we don't get it, we will be ok with our current location. Wish us luck.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcell Posted December 20, 2018 #1818 Share Posted December 20, 2018 I see all the Haven rooms for the Dec 28th Escape, except H3 are sold out so I guess I missed out -- boo -- but congrats everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcell Posted December 21, 2018 #1819 Share Posted December 21, 2018 I f all the rooms are sold out (more or less) why is the upgrade banner still up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romalley99 Posted December 21, 2018 #1820 Share Posted December 21, 2018 7 minutes ago, xcell said: I f all the rooms are sold out (more or less) why is the upgrade banner still up? Nobody gets declined until 48 hours prior to sail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadiancruiser23 Posted December 21, 2018 #1821 Share Posted December 21, 2018 Going out on Getaway Jan 6th and am wondering if anyone has got an upgrade..Looks like lots of everything available for cabins.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllAmericanAmy Posted December 21, 2018 #1822 Share Posted December 21, 2018 21 minutes ago, xcell said: I f all the rooms are sold out (more or less) why is the upgrade banner still up? Possibly still rooms being allocated / rearranged. It's all rather weird IMHO... on my 1/6/19 sailing the inside cabins disappeared for approx 24 hrs, only to find out it's because they were assigning them to those of us that booked guarantee/sail-away cabins. I've now been assigned my cabin # ---- not as pertaining to any upgrade I've bid on, just my original booking. What I find interesting is that there are NO inside cabins listed as bookable by specific cabin #- only guarantee status available. BUT they have dropped the price of the inside cabin to $429 pp from $539 pp 2 days ago. lol Talk about a deal - for a 11 night cruise! They must have also allocated a lot of guarantee balcony cabins too- one category I was watching had 60+ cabins, today it has 37. My point being... who knows what they do and why they do it. I'm just quite sure THEY know what they're doing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexddd Posted December 21, 2018 #1823 Share Posted December 21, 2018 8 hours ago, xcell said: I f all the rooms are sold out (more or less) why is the upgrade banner still up? Data collection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mking8288 Posted December 21, 2018 #1824 Share Posted December 21, 2018 (edited) Good news, bad news - Jan 6, 2019 Escape: West Carib 14 days out of NYC: Bid for Spa Balcony expired (was never out of the Poor range, but was close to Fair at times) Bid for Balcony upgrade - processing as of yesterday afternoon, then, "upgraded" - on the URL link for "Modify Your ..." and confirmed by logging into MyNCL dot com to check, banner/pop-up had disappeared. But early evening, new stateroom assigned, upgraded to a "BB" Deck 13 Midship, Port side, ahead of forward elevators/stairs ... official email arrived a short while later, last night, lastly, charges posted to CC. Very good for 2 of us (original sleep up to 4) going to a balcony that sleep up to 4, the extra sofa & fresh air always welcomed but not a "must". Santa came a bit early to deliver this early - 17 days to sailing, 15 days to the "cutoff" for accepting or "unable to ..." (not really predicting myself that we would get this, nice, GTY assigned upgrade until around the New Year) At beginning of this week, inventory still show total # of balconies in the triple digits - good news for anyone booked & bidding from Insides and/or Oceanviews to upgrade. Checked this morning, # of available balconies are still very "substantial" still more than double digits. Count for Family oceanviews, sold out earlier in the week, went up by 1 this morning to 11. About a week+ ago, someone else on the Roll Call reported getting upgrade to a mini-suite. Hmmm, I think we probably "overpaid" & could've lowered our bid for a balcony GT - would wait till everyone is closer to the sailing for getting the "poor" bids accepted. Best "Solo" deal now for new booking is for a SailAway Balcony, all things considered, unless the "freebies" are important. To avoid "bumping" up the bids for many others, few if any Haven bids accepted yet (as posted and/or shared on Roll Call) - going to withhold the $ amount we bidded, each sailing-ship-itinerary is unique & different, IMHO. Good luck to everyone else pending, including those on next Friday's Florida/Bahamas Escap saiing. Edited December 21, 2018 by mking8288 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nola26 Posted December 21, 2018 #1825 Share Posted December 21, 2018 On 12/19/2018 at 10:03 PM, Nola26 said: I have scanned the thread looking for any posts on the 12/23 Pearl. The website says only Insides available. I bid to move from an Inside to an Oceanview, but so far not accepted. I did not bid on the balcony offer. Has anyone posted of an upgrade on this sailing? Got my rejection email today, $30pp bid, min was $25. Now focused on Bliss 2/23 Inside to Balcony or Spa Balcony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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