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I just hope they replace it with something! As someone who has a harmony transatlantic booked entertainment is important to me

Nooooo!!!!!!
Why why oh why?? 
Why get rid of Grease and they keep Cats on Oasis...!!??

Well, it appears that it's just short of 15 days and 20 hours from sail time when they assign the cabin...we got ours and while we would have selected deck 11 or 12 and closer to midship we did get deck 11 but more aft than usual. Not a big deal and it was a savings of $700 plus over an assigned cabin when we booked.

Does anyone else kinda find this game a little fun? I will admit I check probably 5 to 10 times a day but I would open the Royal Caribbean app that many times if I didn't have a GTY suite. It's just a thing I do. 

There's a poster across the street who has been on 4 Utopia 3N weekend cruises since May (including this weekend being his 3rd in a row). He was on the 3N leg of our B2B.
He felt that all 4 had completely different vibes. He said the one in May was like a quiet weekend getaway (I didn't find the volume oppressive but I'd never call Utopia quiet, lol), ours he felt was "adults gone wild with massive drinking" (I definitely thought there were less kids and more of a party crowd but there was nothing crazy where we frequented), last weekend's he said was full of family graduation groups, and this weekend's he described as feeling like Carnival so far with lots of craziness and poor behavior.
I'm just sharing this because I found it interesting and it lent some support to some of my own longstanding opinions.
I've never liked sweeping generalizations... i.e. calling Utopia or all short cruises "party ships" or "party cruises." There are so many variables like where one spends their time or personal opinions/preferences/tolerances in addition to different sailings of the same ship not necessarily being the same that I just don't think it's prudent to generalize going by one review or even one personal experience.
It's also important to me to get some specifics when people say something like "it feels like a Carnival cruise" or "the behavior is crazy."  One example this poster gave for this weekend's cruise feeling that way was how insane the WJ was for breakfast this morning. He didn't say when he was there but the WJ is commonly crazy for breakfast unless you go early. Knowing that was one of his reasons for the overall description lets me know that likely wouldn't be my experience b/c we eat early in the Solarium Bistro.
That may have been some classic rambling on my part or maybe someone with an interest in Utopia cares. I dunno. Just trying to get into cruise mode and keep my mind off my remaining real life annoyances. 20 days to go...

Yes but it has to be the exact same category (as in letter code).
I’m not familiar with JS’s so they may all have the same code but other cabin types like interiors & OV balconies have varying category codes depending on things like max occupancy or mid-ship vs. fwd/aft.
Our interiors are always 4V for example but mid-ship interiors are 2V so I couldn’t switch to one of those.

Here with an update!

Seems Royal is sticking to a 16 day assignment on GTYs (at least with the small sample size from this thread). Officially 16 days out and got our cabin assignment sometime after 7PM Central time. Not sure when exactly but I know it wasn't before that given how often I was checking today. We had a GTY Balcony for this one and got a Large Balcony, so no complaints here.
 
That said, we do have a couple of RU bids in that are still "Submitted", but given this is (presumably) a sold out sailing, I doubt that'll go anywhere. But - the excitement for the sailing now grows more since we have a cabin number!

I've never felt being on a different ship class as the previous cruise was an upgrade or a downgrade. Just a different experience.

Bright orange hard sided 4 wheeled from Amazon. Stands out nicely from all the blacks and blues

I just got my WS GTY assignment for August on Enchantment of The Seas. We got a Sunset Jr Suite on the 7th floor. Absolutely tickled with our assignment. 

Just got our WS GTY Stateroom assignment for Jul1 OV sailing. Also exactly 16 days from sailing at approx 4:30 PST. junior Suite as expected. 

If you own your home you may want to start looking into second mortgage options in preparation.........

That has been my recent experience both when I had one & just going by FB group reports.

Thanks for reporting. Hope the location is ok for you. Fingers crossed for your royal up. 
As you know, we cruise same date as you. I've already checked a couple times today but checked after seeing your email and voila. We have a room too. Didn't expect it on a Saturday evening!
We got interior as per our GTY but room location is ok so no complaints. 

Looks like they do them in bulk and there is some formula. Seems like it hasn't hit all systems yet though. Hopefully all will be in sync soon so you can tell if your royal up is still around or if you have to re-bid. 

I thought of you as soon as I saw mine tonight. I also did not expect it on a Saturday night. I checked several times today and nothing, but after dinner it showed up. Others in my roll call group also got their GTY assignment today. 
 
As for the RU, I don’t know what to do now. Many posts on the RU FB group say that when you get your GTY assignment, your bid cancels and you have to re-bid. But mine still appear to be intact. However, when I go to check my RU bids, it still has me in a guarantee cabin. I will see what happens to the stays tomorrow morning. 

Thanks for reporting. Hope the location is ok for you. Fingers crossed for your royal up. 
As you know, we cruise same date as you. I've already checked a couple times today but checked after seeing your email and voila. We have a room too. Didn't expect it on a Saturday evening!
We got interior as per our GTY but room location is ok so no complaints. 

Thanks for reporting. Hope the location is ok for you. Fingers crossed for your royal up. 
As you know, we cruise same date as you. I've already checked a couple times today but checked after seeing your email and voila. We have a room too. Didn't expect it on a Saturday evening!
We got interior as per our GTY but room location is ok so no complaints. 

Mine dropped again this morning, about 25 bucks but I'll take it. If a junior suite was the same as we paid for a Central Park interior view I think I would do that but it's not even close I don't think. I'll take a gander though right now. 

My TA has a automatic price checker system and applies it pretty much right away.
One time I emailed them because I saw a drop and even I emailed my TA he said the drop was less than the on board credit even I first booked so they didn't apply it. That's a answer TA. 

Our Liberty cruise in September there are no more junior suites left which I found very strange. We have a suite guarantee but everything will shake out. A lot of moving parts with cruise cabins. 

Similar situation. Got a GTY Balcony on my upcoming Ovation sailing in 24 days. Luggage tags are blank and just have space to write in the room and deck numbers.
 
I can't even do a mock booking to check what rooms they are still selling since the sailing no longer shows up anywhere and the suspense is killing me!

This isn't uncommon. If you keep checking you may or may not also see a few actual cabins to choose reappear. As inventory dwindles RC's algorithms handle things however they do.

20 days away. Still waiting for a room but today they took off the ability to pick your room.  i.e. All GTY in my category.  Last I checked there were only 4 left so not sure if it's because inventory is low or they need to assign those remaining rooms (and no switching then since can't see what's left) or both.

I'm in the same club.  We also have a GTY booked for end of June.  I check multiple times a day (hey, as who knows what time they do the assignments) and still waiting.