Bid up - usually how far in advance ?

[soloadventurer]

Just wondering how in advance do MSC send out bid-up emails - obviously if there is capacity lol

[TCruzin]

Hi Soloadventurer

My email for the bid came on August 2nd and the cruise is on October 2nd.

 

[styles27]

We sail 11/14 and we received the offer about a month ago so for us it was 3 months ahead of cruising. We didn’t bid because we were upgraded for free last cruise on MSC in 2019 so fingers crossed it happens again. 

[mscdivina2016]

2 hours ago, soloadventurer said:

Just wondering how in advance do MSC send out bid-up emails - obviously if there is capacity lol

I have offer to bid for December Seashore.

Steve

[PRH]

We got ours a week after booking a November cruise in August.  Not sure when they make the decisions—2 weeks prior to sailing?

[soloadventurer]

Thanks everyone ours is in a few weeks, so probably won’t get an email lol

[jgallagh1944]

We're on the Divina out of Port Canaveral on this coming Sunday, September 19th. We received the upgrade bid e-mail the beginning of August, and submitted a bid at that time. We modified our bid a couple of weeks ago increasing our offer to hopefully improve our prospects. We were notified this past Monday, September 13th, that our bid was accepted and we have been upgraded to YC. The waiting time to hear from MSC can be a little nerve racking as it gets down to a week before cruising because you don't want to book restaurants, drink packages, or internet (all included in YC) until you know if your bid is accepted. Our first cruise on Divina a few years ago was in the YC and it was absolutely fantastic. Looking forward to a similar experience this coming Sunday.

[styles27]

12 minutes ago, jgallagh1944 said:

We're on the Divina out of Port Canaveral on this coming Sunday, September 19th. We received the upgrade bid e-mail the beginning of August, and submitted a bid at that time. We modified our bid a couple of weeks ago increasing our offer to hopefully improve our prospects. We were notified this past Monday, September 13th, that our bid was accepted and we have been upgraded to YC. The waiting time to hear from MSC can be a little nerve racking as it gets down to a week before cruising because you don't want to book restaurants, drink packages, or internet (all included in YC) until you know if your bid is accepted. Our first cruise on Divina a few years ago was in the YC and it was absolutely fantastic. Looking forward to a similar experience this coming Sunday.

That’s awesome have a wonderful safe cruise! Our one time on Divina we were given an upgrade to YC from an aft balcony and it was amazing.  
We weren’t notified until the day before our cruise.
 I received an email with the room change. Didn’t even realize what YC was at that point but it turned out to be the best cruise experience for us. 
 

Please come back and review when you get a chance! 

[TCruzin]

I cannot believe it. Received the email @ 5:15am this morning stating we have been upgraded to YC Deluxe Suite. We were in a handicap cabin on the 10th floor because my partner has mobility issues. We were placed in a YC handicap cabin on the 15th floor. We are sailing on 10/2.  

[sheltielover256]

We are 16 days out and bid accepted a couple of hours ago. I bid just $5 over the min bid for yc deluxe suite. 

[styles27]

27 minutes ago, TCruzin said:

I cannot believe it. Received the email @ 5:15am this morning stating we have been upgraded to YC Deluxe Suite. We were in a handicap cabin on the 10th floor because my partner has mobility issues. We were placed in a YC handicap cabin on the 15th floor. We are sailing on 10/2.  

Great news!
Did you bid or get upgraded for free?

[Kruizin'Kath]

We received our upgrade email this morning for our 9/25 cruise. We bid the minimum and were delighted to get the upgrade.

[TCruzin]

Bid the minimum too and was upgraded.

[kidless]

We have Divina in October and Meraviglia in November booked. We received email to bid for both right after final payment. October we didn’t bid on because we have Yacht club balcony and none of upgrades even showed available.
 

We only have interior yacht club on Meraviglia so we were excited to get the offer and wanted to bid.  The  minimum bid was to high for us @$765 a person. If we bid minimum plus what we already paid we were only saving $200 total for cabin. Really didn’t feel that was a good deal. So we will stick with our inside and are just happy to be cruising! 

[soloadventurer]

Email this morning.

 

Min £950pp for YC Suite 

 

Min £215 sealed windows suite

 

we’ve a good balcony with free drinks so i think I’ll just leave it lol