Breakaway

[Venus4NU]

I am bummed.  Booked an inside cabin which was free through Casino-At-Sea.  (Free if you call $650 in taxes and administration fees as free).  Submitted my offer for upgrade to an ocean view, balcony and spa balcony a month ago.  Depart next Saturday and called today to switch to a balcany and skip the whole bidding processes only to find out the ship is sold out except for inside cabins.  The whole bidding process won't even be an option now.  Kicking myself because I meant to call the week of Christmas and upgrade to the balcony for a Christmas present to my husband.    Also, I should have booked the cruise for the week after.  I thought sailing the week of Valentines day would be romantic.  I think every other person thought that too!  

 

Going to spend the next week convincing myself that everything will be ok and I can take the extra money and spend it on excursions or whatnots.   

 

Some day I will learn my lesson on procrastinating!

[Funky Fusion FoodsJ]

What is your cruise date?

[dbrown84]

1 hour ago, Venus4NU said:

I am bummed.  Booked an inside cabin which was free through Casino-At-Sea.  (Free if you call $650 in taxes and administration fees as free).  Submitted my offer for upgrade to an ocean view, balcony and spa balcony a month ago.  Depart next Saturday and called today to switch to a balcany and skip the whole bidding processes only to find out the ship is sold out except for inside cabins.  The whole bidding process won't even be an option now.  Kicking myself because I meant to call the week of Christmas and upgrade to the balcony for a Christmas present to my husband.    Also, I should have booked the cruise for the week after.  I thought sailing the week of Valentines day would be romantic.  I think every other person thought that too!  

 

Going to spend the next week convincing myself that everything will be ok and I can take the extra money and spend it on excursions or whatnots.   

 

Some day I will learn my lesson on procrastinating!

You might have been shocked when they quoted you the upgrade price.  It used to be pretty cheap (and a standard price) to upgrade CAS comped cruises, but I was quoted $1600 (for one person) to upgrade from inside to balcony on my Jan 11 cruise.  They used to charge $140 per person for the same upgrade

[Kirchoff91]

Listen, make the best of it. 

[BirdTravels]

1 hour ago, dbrown84 said:

You might have been shocked when they quoted you the upgrade price.  It used to be pretty cheap (and a standard price) to upgrade CAS comped cruises, but I was quoted $1600 (for one person) to upgrade from inside to balcony on my Jan 11 cruise.  They used to charge $140 per person for the same upgrade

The upgrade has been simplified. It is the difference between the double occupancy cost of the cabin at time of booking to the current double occupancy cost of the requested cabin class. They only way to avoid the double occupancy surcharge for requested room is to be a Ruby or Elite member where they will only charge the cost for a single upgrade. 

[dbrown84]

40 minutes ago, BirdTravels said:

The upgrade has been simplified. It is the difference between the double occupancy cost of the cabin at time of booking to the current double occupancy cost of the requested cabin class. They only way to avoid the double occupancy surcharge for requested room is to be a Ruby or Elite member where they will only charge the cost for a single upgrade. 

ahh, that at least makes since, although I'd say it more simple (and cheaper :)) before when it was just a standard $50 to upgrade to OV and $140 to upgrade to balcony.  Luckily, I'm totally happy with insides