SUPERDOUGER Posted January 10, 2019 #1926 Share Posted January 10, 2019 going on the cruise Saturday out of Port Canaveral Epic. i have inside room have bid $285 on a balcony PP. I still have not heard anything. i have bid even more for the spa and mini suite options. got one more day..... be interesting to see what happens! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disneykins Posted January 10, 2019 #1927 Share Posted January 10, 2019 I have an inside on Epic and bid on a Spa Balcony. If I get the bid do I get the spa pass for the whole cruise too? Thanks, Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chips Ahoy! Posted January 10, 2019 #1928 Share Posted January 10, 2019 5 hours ago, disneykins said: I have an inside on Epic and bid on a Spa Balcony. If I get the bid do I get the spa pass for the whole cruise too? Thanks, Tony Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awreaper Posted January 10, 2019 #1929 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Got the upgrade offer email at about 60 days out. We are in mini-suite and bid on 5-6 different Havens. My bids were all on the low end rated as poor and showed as "pending" until today. We are 48 hours out and just go the emails from Norwegian showing the bids were rejected. The Havens were showing as sold out on NCL.com for a couple of months prior to today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erdoran Posted January 10, 2019 #1930 Share Posted January 10, 2019 3 minutes ago, awreaper said: Got the upgrade offer email at about 60 days out. We are in mini-suite and bid on 5-6 different Havens. My bids were all on the low end rated as poor and showed as "pending" until today. We are 48 hours out and just go the emails from Norwegian showing the bids were rejected. The Havens were showing as sold out on NCL.com for a couple of months prior to today. Identical situation with us for last summer's Bliss sailing except we started in Haven, CY PH. We were invited to bid on DOS and 2 BR PH suite. At 60 days out actually someone else got an upgrade to the 2 BR who bid perhaps $60 more than we did. That same day the remaining two 2 BRs disappeared off the site and the entire Haven showed as sold out. We bid in the poor to low end good and stayed pending until the 48 hr rejection. Board wisdom was that even if Haven is sold out, NCL likes the bids in hand in case of cancellations, which do sometimes happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janis_no1 Posted January 10, 2019 #1931 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Is it just me? We leave on January 17th (breakaway 10 day Caribbean) and haven’t received an upgrade offer? not when I log into my account anyway. maybe because we booked through our travel agent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckabobo Posted January 10, 2019 #1932 Share Posted January 10, 2019 5 minutes ago, janis_no1 said: Is it just me? We leave on January 17th (breakaway 10 day Caribbean) and haven’t received an upgrade offer? not when I log into my account anyway. maybe because we booked through our travel agent? I too am on the 1/17 Breakaway sailing. TA participation varies, if you go to the Messages tab of your NCL account and don't see a link to the offer - indeed your TA must not participate. I never received an email to participate, but occasionally see a banner on my NCL account regarding the upgrade option, as well as a message in my NCL portal account. A large swath of upgrades have already happened for the 1/17 breakaway sailing, seemingly all inside/ocean view -> various balcony/mini-suites. Suite/Haven upgrades have not yet happened according to a group thread for this sailing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janis_no1 Posted January 10, 2019 #1933 Share Posted January 10, 2019 3 minutes ago, Chuckabobo said: I too am on the 1/17 Breakaway sailing. TA participation varies, if you go to the Messages tab of your NCL account and don't see a link to the offer - indeed your TA must not participate. I never received an email to participate, but occasionally see a banner on my NCL account regarding the upgrade option, as well as a message in my NCL portal account. A large swath of upgrades have already happened for the 1/17 breakaway sailing, seemingly all inside/ocean view -> various balcony/mini-suites. Suite/Haven upgrades have not yet happened according to a group thread for this sailing. Thanks Chuckaboo. Wow so we have a group for this sailing. I’m just now looking up the excursions! We did book our journey only recently and am currently in Guatemala on a tour, so haven’t had as much time as I’d like to get “on board” earlier Jayne~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phaedrus78 Posted January 11, 2019 #1934 Share Posted January 11, 2019 2 hours ago, Chuckabobo said: I too am on the 1/17 Breakaway sailing. TA participation varies, if you go to the Messages tab of your NCL account and don't see a link to the offer - indeed your TA must not participate. I never received an email to participate, but occasionally see a banner on my NCL account regarding the upgrade option, as well as a message in my NCL portal account. A large swath of upgrades have already happened for the 1/17 breakaway sailing, seemingly all inside/ocean view -> various balcony/mini-suites. Suite/Haven upgrades have not yet happened according to a group thread for this sailing. Not that I’m doubting what I’m reading, but it seems like they’d want to do it the other way around doesn’t it? Moving people to the Haven frees up balconies and minis, which could then be filled by insides and ocean views... max profit for NCL. The more I try to figure out the whole process, the less I know. 😄 13 days till my cruise, still no word. I’m getting antsy. I’m not optimistic, I don’t see a ton of availability anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckabobo Posted January 11, 2019 #1935 Share Posted January 11, 2019 45 minutes ago, Phaedrus78 said: Not that I’m doubting what I’m reading, but it seems like they’d want to do it the other way around doesn’t it? Moving people to the Haven frees up balconies and minis, which could then be filled by insides and ocean views... max profit for NCL. The more I try to figure out the whole process, the less I know. 😄 13 days till my cruise, still no word. I’m getting antsy. I’m not optimistic, I don’t see a ton of availability anymore. This ship isn't 100% full (though getting there) and the talk i've seen going back and forth of those that did get upgrades - and others that track upgrades out of a hobby apparently - is that indeed if upgrades are to happen all at once... it happens top down most expensive first, to least. However when there is more ship availability to play with, last minute cruise bookings are more likely to sell cheaper interior/ocean view rooms - so having some of those available before the suites etc are filled first can also be profitable for the cruiseline. But then to make things even more confusing, since the upgrades of inside/ocean view happened a few days ago - for several days on NCL and 3rd party sites - inside/ocean view rooms have not been available for purchase.... showing sold out - given they just upgraded a bunch of these people that seems odd - though what is also likely at play is the people who booked a sail-away rate - NCL upgraded inside rooms that paid a pick-your-room rate, to make room for all the sail-away-rate inside rooms they sold. Again much conjecture and anybody's guess, upgrades as you see described throughout this thread are complicated :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadgerBadger Posted January 11, 2019 #1936 Share Posted January 11, 2019 We are on the Epic on Saturday, Jan.12. We booked an inside several months ago, got an offer to bid at 70 days prior to sailing, and bid in the middle range on several catagories: spa mini suite, mini suite, spa balcony and balcony. We got an email this morning that our bid on the balcony, B2, was accepted! Very excited!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallnthensome Posted January 11, 2019 #1937 Share Posted January 11, 2019 3 minutes ago, BadgerBadger said: We are on the Epic on Saturday, Jan.12. We booked an inside several months ago, got an offer to bid at 70 days prior to sailing, and bid in the middle range on several catagories: spa mini suite, mini suite, spa balcony and balcony. We got an email this morning that our bid on the balcony, B2, was accepted! Very excited!! So at how many days out from your cruise now is this day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greatwhitenorth1 Posted January 11, 2019 #1938 Share Posted January 11, 2019 13 minutes ago, tallnthensome said: So at how many days out from your cruise now is this day? If it was this this morning then it was 2 days out as they are leaving on Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ceilidh1 Posted January 11, 2019 #1939 Share Posted January 11, 2019 32 minutes ago, BadgerBadger said: We are on the Epic on Saturday, Jan.12. We booked an inside several months ago, got an offer to bid at 70 days prior to sailing, and bid in the middle range on several catagories: spa mini suite, mini suite, spa balcony and balcony. We got an email this morning that our bid on the balcony, B2, was accepted! Very excited!! I thought you could only bid up two categories? When we had an inside we were only given the option to bid on either oceanview or balcony. Now I have to book minimum balcony so I can bid on Haven. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadgerBadger Posted January 11, 2019 #1940 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Cool Cruiser is correct. We were officially “2 days to cruise” when we received the email about our bid being accepted. I was expecting an email that our bids were expired... but it said the balcony bid was accepted! The mini suite and the balcony are the 2 categories up from an inside. They are available in both spa and non spa, when bidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3catnight Posted January 11, 2019 #1941 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Ceilidh1...the Epic has no ocean view cabins, so you can bid up from inside to balcony and mini suite (regular or spa). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Nclgetawaymenhoney Posted January 11, 2019 #1942 Share Posted January 11, 2019 1 hour ago, ceilidh1 said: I thought you could only bid up two categories? When we had an inside we were only given the option to bid on either oceanview or balcony. Now I have to book minimum balcony so I can bid on Haven. LOL Epic is slightly different when bidding from inside cabin. Epic does not have any ocean view cabins so you can put in bids "2" categories or metas up, meaning again epic only inside can bid for balcony, spa balcony (1 category or meta up) and mini suites, spa minisuites (2 categories up) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Nclgetawaymenhoney Posted January 11, 2019 #1943 Share Posted January 11, 2019 2 hours ago, Chuckabobo said: This ship isn't 100% full (though getting there) and the talk i've seen going back and forth of those that did get upgrades - and others that track upgrades out of a hobby apparently - is that indeed if upgrades are to happen all at once... it happens top down most expensive first, to least. However when there is more ship availability to play with, last minute cruise bookings are more likely to sell cheaper interior/ocean view rooms - so having some of those available before the suites etc are filled first can also be profitable for the cruiseline. But then to make things even more confusing, since the upgrades of inside/ocean view happened a few days ago - for several days on NCL and 3rd party sites - inside/ocean view rooms have not been available for purchase.... showing sold out - given they just upgraded a bunch of these people that seems odd - though what is also likely at play is the people who booked a sail-away rate - NCL upgraded inside rooms that paid a pick-your-room rate, to make room for all the sail-away-rate inside rooms they sold. Again much conjecture and anybody's guess, upgrades as you see described throughout this thread are complicated 🙂 Patience, this makes perfect sense to me, and I've been successfully with my upgrades all three times received my upgrade from 3 to 5 days before sailing. My last cruise was just like yours above in that they ran out of insides and ocean views about 2-3 weeks prior and moved up lots of those people at about 2 week mark and waited until haven until 4 days before sailing. Good luck and remember each sailing is 100 different, you cant compare a Xmas sailing upgrade with a sept hurricane season upgrade, completely different availability and pricing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ceilidh1 Posted January 11, 2019 #1944 Share Posted January 11, 2019 1 hour ago, Nclgetawaymenhoney said: Epic is slightly different when bidding from inside cabin. Epic does not have any ocean view cabins so you can put in bids "2" categories or metas up, meaning again epic only inside can bid for balcony, spa balcony (1 category or meta up) and mini suites, spa minisuites (2 categories up) Aaahhh makes sense now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FPJC03 Posted January 11, 2019 #1945 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Booked on Getaway on 3/10 in mini-suite. Bid on H5 Courtyard Haven and H9 Spa suite for $600 and $500 respectively offers. Checked on occupancy and both categories are 90% EMPTY so far. I know that it is 8 weeks until sailing but both bids are in the upper level of POOR or lower level of FAIR offers. Might decide to increase the bids if more cabins get occupied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner22aa Posted January 11, 2019 #1946 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Has anyone seen any upgrade offers come out yet for the 20 Jan sailing of the Escape out of NYC. Patiently waiting up here in frozen Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stampincrazyinTX Posted January 11, 2019 #1947 Share Posted January 11, 2019 13 hours ago, Chuckabobo said: This ship isn't 100% full (though getting there) and the talk i've seen going back and forth of those that did get upgrades - and others that track upgrades out of a hobby apparently - is that indeed if upgrades are to happen all at once... it happens top down most expensive first, to least. However when there is more ship availability to play with, last minute cruise bookings are more likely to sell cheaper interior/ocean view rooms - so having some of those available before the suites etc are filled first can also be profitable for the cruiseline. But then to make things even more confusing, since the upgrades of inside/ocean view happened a few days ago - for several days on NCL and 3rd party sites - inside/ocean view rooms have not been available for purchase.... showing sold out - given they just upgraded a bunch of these people that seems odd - though what is also likely at play is the people who booked a sail-away rate - NCL upgraded inside rooms that paid a pick-your-room rate, to make room for all the sail-away-rate inside rooms they sold. Again much conjecture and anybody's guess, upgrades as you see described throughout this thread are complicated 🙂 I noticed that your sailing (1/17) isn't even showing up anymore on NCL this morning so I'm guessing it's sold out? Did anyone get an upgrade that you know of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenOfZoom Posted January 11, 2019 #1948 Share Posted January 11, 2019 2 minutes ago, stampincrazyinTX said: I noticed that your sailing (1/17) isn't even showing up anymore on NCL this morning so I'm guessing it's sold out? Did anyone get an upgrade that you know of? There were a bunch of non-Haven upgrades recently and then nothing for the past few days. NCL has been doing site maintenance so the sailing often disappears and then comes back... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phaedrus78 Posted January 11, 2019 #1949 Share Posted January 11, 2019 2 hours ago, stampincrazyinTX said: I noticed that your sailing (1/17) isn't even showing up anymore on NCL this morning so I'm guessing it's sold out? Did anyone get an upgrade that you know of? My 1/23 sailing on the Epic has disappeared as well, gone as of late last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwolever Posted January 11, 2019 #1950 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Hi All, Has anyone noticed that categories normally show as "sold out" but when they get in to normal upgrade time, certain categories start showing as "not available." Thoughts? are those potentially being processed through upgrades? A day or two later they will also show as "sold out." Seems reasonable, but I'm just curious if people have also noticed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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