Bad Guarantee Room Experiences

[CCC3]

Have you had a bad experience with a guarantee room? I toy with booking one every now and then, thanks to all the great stories about booking a balcony guarantee & ending up in a great suite...but what about the bad experiences?

 

 

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[Merion_Mom]

Have you had a bad experience with a guarantee room? I toy with booking one every now and then, thanks to all the great stories about booking a balcony guarantee & ending up in a great suite...but what about the bad experiences?

 

 

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Using the search term "guarantee", I found many threads. Here is a sampling. There are more.

 

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2630904

 

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2640306

 

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2633071

 

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2592152

 

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2607890

 

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2607315

 

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2574010

[CCC3]

There is a lot of good info there, thank you.

 

 

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[TaterSalad]

I have booked many guarantees because I know I'm okay with whatever room assignment I receive. After 35 cruises I have never received an incredible upgrade. I have received upgrades from lowest level inside guarantee to the highest category inside but never to outside or balcony. I know it happens but not normally and you shouldn't hope for it.

[CruisingNole]

I booked a GTY OV balcony once on Oasis about 1 month prior to sailing. Was assigned deck ten, stateroom was literally as far forward of the ship that you could possibly get. Very, very quiet. We got a good deal and had no complaints. Would I have preferred a mid-ship stateroom? Sure. Did the stateroom I received impact my vacation negatively? Not at all.

 

If you need an accessible room or have kids perhaps it's a different story for you, but for 2 able bodied adults, we were fine.

[CCC3]

Thanks, everyone. Just wondered if anyone had gotten a stateroom, via guarantee, and it was far, far less than what they desired (location, category, whatever)

 

 

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[ONECRUISER]

Never had bad guarantees, but every one of assigned rooms I changed to better or much better room location. So lucky other rooms in my Cat were still available...

[LuCruise]

Never had bad guarantees, but every one of assigned rooms I changed to better or much better room location. So lucky other rooms in my Cat were still available...

Same thing. I certainly I got my room assignment, I called and switched location (as long as same category, you can do that). Guarantee booking worked out wetin both cases.

 

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[SC_Cruiser24]

We booked a guaranteed JS on Freedom 2 years ago a couple of months before sailing and ended up with a Owners Suite (assigned a few weeks after booking). I would book another JS guarantee, but I haven't seen one since.

[Itchy&Scratchy]

yes, we did. On our very first RCCL cruise our TA had us in a guarantee room on the Independence of the Seas. It's been awhile, so I don't remember where it was (a lower deck, aft), and loud noise began at 4 am - we seem to have been behind some kind of a service hallway. Banging, rolling metal carts, dishes, other mechanical noises. It was pretty bad. I had my ear plugs with me, and they didn't help much.

Now I never book guarantee, but instead carefully inspect deck charts and pick a cabin nowhere near any white areas, pools, restaurants, sport decks, etc.

[camofwilliamsburg]

I am very picky where I stay on the ship. I don't mind interior but I do mind location. I do not like a quad cabin for the two of us...I do not like the bunks jutting out. I also do not like being next to any cabin but a double. Too many times there are kids next door and they wake up early and cry or play loudly in the cabin and it disturbs me. Also, my biggest pet peeve...I will not take an adjoining cabin. The sound does travel through that door. I do not take elevators, so being on a very low deck on a big ship means too much walking to the pool deck. Also being too high means walking to the dining room is too much at one time.

 

So You can guess, I do not take guarantee cabins. I have, and actually hated the cabin, was told cannot change and I cancelled the cruise and booked on another date!

 

My point of this is, if location does not matter you can get some great upgrades. If it does, then better to take a cabin even at a lower category and not chance being assigned a cabin that will not work for you.

[lazydayz]

Our latest guaranty will be our last. Booked a balcony on the Enchantment and it was right by the lobby on 7. Morning announcements blared in and people congregated early and late right outside our door. Tried to switch it before the cruise but no luck. So a bad cabin assignment can happen and you might be stuck.

[Chipmoose]

We've booked 2 or 3 guarantee cabins and haven't really had a bad cabin, but never gotten an exceptionally good one either. They have been far aft or fore, and there are advantages to that sometimes (often quieter and you get to walk off your meals). But I always under estimate how patient I will be waiting for the cabin assignment, it never happens fast enough for me!