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[Troysers1]

Does anyone have experience or know if it is possible to get two iterations of Royal Up bids?  I am not asking about bidding on multiple options, but whether one can bid a second time on their successful first RU bid.  For example, I booked a inside guarantee, and received an email (75 days out) allowing me to bid on ocean view, obstructed balcony, balcony, and larger balcony cabins.  If I successfully won an upgrade to a balcony, would there be any chance to then possibly be able to bid for a suite?

 

Somewhat related to my situation, has anyone received increased options closer to cruise date?  I was hoping I might have received an option for two for one cabins as part of the Royal Up email (and would have been very happy if this was my only RU option). We are four in the cabin (booked it because it was basically not much more in price as airfare to Hawaii) and there are still plenty of unsold cabins, so wondering if we might get the two for one option as we get closer to sailing date.

[firefly333]

Most cruises are going out full, especially newer ships, so royal up is a gamble at best.

 

Often they dont give you a answer to if you won a royal up until very close to the cruise. There rarely would be time to sign in and place a new bid on a yet higher category. The royal up would have to reset and havent seen this happening recently. 

[Biker19]

48 minutes ago, Troysers1 said:

  I am not asking about bidding on multiple options, but whether one can bid a second time on their successful first RU bid. 

That option seems to have gone away - there were reports of that pre-COVID, but none recently.

[PIR8LUVR]

I don't think so. I got a Royal Up for the lowest category I put a bid on. I checked multiple times to see if I could place new bids on the higher category rooms, but the system would not let me. I do know that the cruise was sold out, so I was grateful to get any upgrade.

[bstreep]

I don't believe so.  We received our upgrade about a month before our sailing (mid August), and we have no option to upgrade further.  We got a really crappy upgrade on our NCL bid, been trying to improve it, to no avail.  $2K to improve it. Sucks.

 

Be careful bidding.  Plan on getting the crappiest version and location of the cabin you are bidding on.

[orville99]

Our son got an upgrade from an ocean view to a balcony for a good price on Odyssey a while before the sail date and tried to go back in to see if he could bid again on a suite, but the system would not let him bid again, so it looks like it is one and done on bids. There have been reports that the ability to bid on certain categories depends on where you start out. i.e., if you are in a balcony you can bid on suite categories, but if you are in an interior you may only have visibility to bid up to a balcony.

[Troysers1]

Orville 99: I can confirm that having an interior guaranty only gave us the option to bid on an oceanview or a balcony cabin.

 

bstreep: As opposed to thinking I will get the worst upgrade, I go in with the mindset that I am not going to get anything with bidding with Royal Up.

 

What I am hearing from the responses (and thank you for them), is it is unlikely that a two cabins for one offer would be received.  I priced out how much it would be to just pay for the upgrade from a guarantee interior to a guarantee balcony and it was only $150 more than the bid I had placed, so I just went ahead and called RC to pay for the upgrade.  Originally they were quoting me more then the price I was seeing on the website, so I talked to a supervisor in the hopes she could reconcile the amounts for me.  It turns out she calculated a price increase that was less than half of the price I had calculated or the Royal Up bid I had placed, so I booked it on the spot.

 

The funny thing is when I look at my reservation, it asks if I want to bid on a higher category cabin, but only provides the same options as when I had the interior guarantee.  I am hoping that they just need time to make the adjustment, so if I was to receive a RU offer, it would be for something higher than a balcony.