Rare mking8288 Posted June 20 #26 Share Posted June 20 FWIW, lately (as in ... within the past year) NCL ships are mostly sailed full and near capacity (not lifeboat max) and partnering with travel agencies to sell unsold ones in bulk (i.e. out of NYC) on bundled discounts, Haven are the first ones to be "sold out" via direct sales and upgrade bids at weeks out, not last minute. Then followed by remaining suites & club balconies, leaving sometimes balconies & oceanview for bidders to eagerly await their email, up until embarkation day. Our friends recently bidded on their 7 days Bermuda "Joy" upgrades from I/S to Balcony in mid May, and it did not go thru (already in the poor to fair range, not anywhere near the minimum or barely into the "poor" zone on the meter) The busy summer with families traveling to popular destinations, including cruises - the odds are most likely not good to hope for a steal in bidding up, unless you see a good # of unsold cabins at 2 to 4+ weeks out remaining in the inventory (via mock booking, best done on 3rd party TA sites) Traveling in the Fall and/or hurricane-prone ports, the probability of scoring should swing more. As others said, you can ended up with an undesirable deck & cabin location ... or, luck out & beat the odds with an angled/large balcony or oversized family oceanview view on Deck 5 midship with a "nominal" bids - once "assigned" you can't reject or refuse, and, your travel insurance need to/will be auto-recalculated depending on who you insured with. Good luck ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrt.mom Posted June 22 #27 Share Posted June 22 Happy to say I just got my upgrade offer for an October sailing on the Sun! I'm booked in an ocean view solo room and they offered a chance to bid on a balcony and a "club balcony", whatever that is...do any of you know? The description of the room was sort of nebulous...🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrumpyNor Posted June 22 #28 Share Posted June 22 10 hours ago, jrt.mom said: Happy to say I just got my upgrade offer for an October sailing on the Sun! I'm booked in an ocean view solo room and they offered a chance to bid on a balcony and a "club balcony", whatever that is...do any of you know? The description of the room was sort of nebulous...🤔 The club balcony cabins on NCL was called "mini-suites" until a few years ago, but as the name often gave the impression of being a "suite" it often caused misunderstandings about what was included in the price. On most NCL ships they are slightly larger than a regular balcony cabin, often with a significant larger bath room. That being said - the Sun is known to have the nicest/largest club balcony cabins in the NCL fleet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greeby Posted July 14 #29 Share Posted July 14 On 6/14/2024 at 9:13 PM, grouchomarx said: Love this story! On 6/14/2024 at 9:09 PM, MrsK said: We got our first taste of the Haven just recently with an upgrade bid. We bid the minimum and got it for that. Never expected it to happen though. I will also say that we were doing a transatlantic from Miami to Southampton with NO ports of call in the middle of January....not a very popular cruise. The passenger count was quite low so upgrades came easier. We are on that same cruise in Feb 2025 With one stop in the Azores. This gives me hope 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoLoca2208 Posted July 15 #30 Share Posted July 15 On 6/22/2024 at 3:22 AM, jrt.mom said: Happy to say I just got my upgrade offer for an October sailing on the Sun! I'm booked in an ocean view solo room and they offered a chance to bid on a balcony and a "club balcony", whatever that is...do any of you know? The description of the room was sort of nebulous...🤔 I've never stayed in a "club balcony", but remember reading that those cabins are a little bit bigger and have a bath in a bathroom. Re. the upgrade, our offer was just accepted 50 days before the sailing. We were booked in the inside cabin on deck 12 on Getaway and bid the minimum for a balcony. They gave us a balcony on deck 14, next to a spa, so we are happy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shidah Posted July 16 #31 Share Posted July 16 On 6/16/2024 at 8:16 PM, roddy good boy said: I got the invite about a month ago, for a Sept cruise. Those Haven bids are still really high. Do they ever lower the minimum required bids? For example, if no one actually bids on those higher categories? Haven sails full typically, people willing to buy it outright. Chances of getting it on an upgrade are slim to none. And no they don’t comedown, hundreds of people will bid at those levels. You can bid the max, and not get the room since to my first point, Haven has been selling out. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIMPIT Posted July 18 #32 Share Posted July 18 Can you bid for for more than one type of cabin ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asawi Posted July 18 #33 Share Posted July 18 1 hour ago, LIMPIT said: Can you bid for for more than one type of cabin ? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrt.mom Posted July 18 #34 Share Posted July 18 You can only bid on the upgrades they offer you, but on all of them if you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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