Lovetocruise2002

Definitely!

I was on the fence too for the UDP for FR at the end of the month. When they fixed my CP last night and I logged in to see the C&A offer, it was $103.99 (4 night). I did not ask hubby, I just booked it lol

Me too! The Type A in me was getting kind of nervous.

I agree! Both our Med cruises were so special! Sure is! Ummm...I think yours truly booked it first lol Mine are mess too. My Wonder and Utopia model is the smallest of all my OA class ships. OY is tiny compared to AN. And IC is way smaller than my first 4 OA ships. Royal and cost cutting.....

I wanted to follow up on this. My messed up reservation finally got fixed yesterday. That whole process took two and a half weeks. If I did not have TA, I honestly would not have known where to reach out to. My initially calling was a dead end. In the end, someone from the actual Miami office had to take care of it. The ticket to Royal IT was useless. I ended up with a brand new reservation number, they price protected it, but I had to redo my check in. My check in time disappeared and I had to take a much later one. Hopefully it won't matter much. Still no cabin number. My TA tried to get them to assign one yesterday, but the sailing is now closed, so it's wait and see. Also, my RU bid automatically cancelled and I do not have the option to re-bid at the moment. We still don't really know how this happened, but my pre-cruise purchases are done and I am happy! Now back to checking obsessively for my room assignment.

Omg! Hubby would eat a dozen of those too! Where did you find those? CL?

You are right. I actually see that error message for all 8 of my upcoming reservations. I can get into the cruise planner just fine for all but one, the messed up one. But I really need to get in since the sailing is in 3 weeks and I don't want to pay on board pricing.

My reservation that I made exactly two weeks ago it still not linked properly. In fact, when I, or Royal IT goes to link it, someone else's name shows up in the cruise planner. My particular situation is getting ridiculous. They claim they have been working on it, they even cancelled the reservation and gave me a whole new number, and someone else's name still shows up in the cruise planner. Meanwhile, I keep getting emails saying to make sure I secure my onboard purchases because my cruise is coming up soon.

We last sailed FR in August 2022. Great ship for a short sailing.

I have decided that after reading through your week I need to try Peach Tea and Monkey Business asap.

Yes! FR June 30th. I almost booked Jewel since we are flying to FLL anyway and it was cheaper to sail Jewel, but Hubby said no way. No Flowrider. Good luck to you too and keep us posted!

No idea to the answer to your question, but in our case, I think we sail the same day, just different ships, all balcony and suites are “sold out” since two days ago. No word of RU or GTY assignments from the FB roll call group, that is why I was wondering.

This talk of the timing of GTY assignments and Royal Ups have me wondering something that I have never bothered to think about until now... I wonder if Royal does Royal Ups first or GTY assignments first? Logically, I would they they would RU first and then GTY gets whatever is left over. That would make them more money. But then on other forums, there are many who say not to bid until you have your room assignment.

Since this is my first try at GTY, I cannot say for sure. However, when I won both my Royal Ups, it was within the 2-3 week mark and my cruise docs and luggage tags were updated almost immediately after. I was assuming the same would happen with the GTY assignment.

Yes and no. The docs are complete and it says GTY. The luggage tags are blank where the cabin number usually is.

For those keeping track….we are 23 days out and no one in the FB has received their GTY assignment yet. At least no one who posted.

Fine…I will be honest, I check more than once too Reading on different forums, some say you are emailed, but I don’t have much faith in Royal emails. Many say the Apple bar code trick is gone, some say your muster station will appear before the room assignment, so who knows.

I have won a royal up twice only. First time was from Sky to star. All minimum bids to star started around $800-$1000pp. Higher minimums for the lofts. We won on a bid just over the minimum coming from a crown loft. Second time was from Sky to Sky and that was a lot lower. I cannot remember our winning bid now, but it was lower than the star one. Right now I have two sailings coming up where I am in Sky class. The bids to star begin around $700-$800 for the ATS. I am currently booked in a crown loft. So I would guess that to go from Sea to Star is even higher and that makes sense. There is no rhyme or reason to it. So many factors in RU that I basically just bid what I am comfortable with and hope for the best.

I asked my FB group for this sailing at the end of this month, and no one who has booked a GTY has a room assignment yet. I also placed two minimum bids for RU just for fun so I will see what happens. But I agree with you, the suspense is sort of fun, but for a planner, it makes me nervous. I even dreamt about it last night!

Same! We have our first suite guarantee as well for the end of this month and we still don't know yet. I check every day lol

I need to try this

Cost saving? lol As you know, we did not like it either.

We booked a GTY suite (WS-GTY)and on my “manage reservations” it says “guarantee owner’s suite”. Wishful thinking lol, royal IT

Don't be shy. Need to know who I am looking for March 2027 Also...now I want to try Monkey Business. December...

Bliss usually charters an Oasis class ship