Royal Up Bid

[AshleyDillo 2,933]

16 hours ago, JennyB said:

We are currently booked in 2 balcony cabins. If I submit a bit for a Grand Suite-2 bedroom AND win...what is the penalty for cancelling the two cabins we have now?  I'm nervous to bid, in case we win and then don't know what kind of penalty we might incur for the new 2-bedroom suite...

I don't believe you would be able to cancel the other room and expect those people to be added to your Grand Suite 2BR.  That would cause a repricing of the room to add people.   

[mworkman 1,668]

We got our rejection emails....again. 😂

[SpeedNoodles 1,669]

I'm still waiting for my rejection email ... 3 days until sailing.

[mworkman 1,668]

I knew we would receive the rejections emails as there were nothing available to upgrade too.

[SpeedNoodles 1,669]

4 hours ago, mworkman said:

I knew we would receive the rejections emails as there were nothing available to upgrade too.

Our ship has been sold out for over a month, but several people from my sailing reported that their bids were accepted last Friday. But since I didn't get an acceptance email then I'll assume rejection.  And that's ok.

[JennyB 295]

On 6/18/2019 at 9:00 AM, AshleyDillo said:

I don't believe you would be able to cancel the other room and expect those people to be added to your Grand Suite 2BR.  That would cause a repricing of the room to add people.   

shoot.  ok...

[Mikey 0]

Cruising in about 18 hours and still have yet to hear if my bid was accepted or not. Status says pending still. 

[mworkman 1,668]

@Mikey You'll get it tomorrow, if not late tonight.

[Abingjudo 0]

Still waiting for our rejection email and we sail tomorrow.  Do they always send an email to confirm if it was rejected or not.  When I look on RoyalUp it still shows as pending

[mworkman 1,668]

56 minutes ago, Abingjudo said:

Still waiting for our rejection email and we sail tomorrow.  Do they always send an email to confirm if it was rejected or not.  When I look on RoyalUp it still shows as pending

They will send you an email to let you know.

[RestingBird 381]

Just put a "bid" in, on Mariner, about a month out.  OV balcony now, bid on a GS.  There are at least 10 left...I'll take that as a good sign we'll get one, depending on how many people ahead of us bid on them.

8-26-19 just got off Mariner today, didn't "win" the bid.  But we were totally fine in our regular balcony cabin.

[cobra614 58]

Anyone get an accepted bid for symphony sailing on July 27th? My 4 weak bids are still pending.

[fonemanbob 364]

Got an offer for Anthem on Sept. 12 2 weeks ago.  Not going to bother as no balcony or suites are available and that was per phone calls to RC and our TA.  Already in a balcony and won`t get double points so not worth the effort or the money.  Leaves money in the pocket for dinners, drinks, and casino.  And the heart break of a dear John letter.  

[Pro24 7]

On ‎4‎/‎12‎/‎2019 at 8:41 AM, coneyraven said:

Where did you see the status of your bids?

When I click on the link, it says "please ensure your sailing is within the next 30 days" (which it is not) --- how did you get in from March for a May sailing???

[AshleyDillo 2,933]

32 minutes ago, Pro24 said:

When I click on the link, it says "please ensure your sailing is within the next 30 days" (which it is not) --- how did you get in from March for a May sailing???

Sometimes it becomes available early.  My September 1 Allure sailing is available through the link..we also got an email inviting us to bid.  Others on my sailing were not able to get through on the link, so it's not available for everyone.

[Lovetocruise2002 7,929]

2 hours ago, cobra614 said:

Anyone get an accepted bid for symphony sailing on July 27th? My 4 weak bids are still pending.

I'm on that sailing and I noticed that the sailing "sold out" a few weeks ago.  Meaning, it doesn't even show up anymore if you want to do a mock booking.  However, the same thing happened with our Anthem sailing last week and people were still getting bids accepted right up until the last minute.  You never know.  With Royal there is not much rhyme or reason lol.

[OwassoDeb 2]

We just received a Royal Up offer from our JS to bid on GS, OS and the Royal Suite on Majesty.  Since this is a small ship without many of the "Suite" amenities, would it be worth putting in a bid?  What would be the benefit other than we would have more space?  My concern is we would end up over the smoking area.  I can't justify the upgrade cost for the OS or RS but would consider the GS.  This is the first time we have received an offer so all insight is appreciated.

[CruisinUpinLife 99]

27 minutes ago, OwassoDeb said:

We just received a Royal Up offer from our JS to bid on GS, OS and the Royal Suite on Majesty.  Since this is a small ship without many of the "Suite" amenities, would it be worth putting in a bid?  What would be the benefit other than we would have more space?  My concern is we would end up over the smoking area.  I can't justify the upgrade cost for the OS or RS but would consider the GS.  This is the first time we have received an offer so all insight is appreciated.

 

I edited this because you are already in a suite and I misread.

[FManke 1,716]

10 minutes ago, CruisinUpinLife said:

 

Things to consider-with a royal up bid, you will be assigned a room anywhere on the ship...is that ok to you?  You will not get the extra loyalty points that generally come with a suite when you get a suite as part of royal up...is that ok with you?  Are you ok with paying for upgrade knowing these facts?

Besides the loyalty points, you get all other perks that a regularly booked suite would get, yes? 

[AshleyDillo 2,933]

On Majesty the big difference between a JS and GS other than the space that I can come up with would be the included room service option and ability to get the food from the MDR delivered as room service.

[12thman 149]

Got an email the other day saying that I can bid. Question is how much would one pay to go from Crown loft to Star loft? $500,$1000? The price difference if booked is about $5400. Also it's a Caribbean cruise so is it even worth doing? When in port we are only doing one excursion per port so lots of time on the ship. My wife doesn't want to be "one of those people running for the ship" 

[tiny260 1,598]

1 hour ago, OwassoDeb said:

We just received a Royal Up offer from our JS to bid on GS, OS and the Royal Suite on Majesty.  Since this is a small ship without many of the "Suite" amenities, would it be worth putting in a bid?  What would be the benefit other than we would have more space?  My concern is we would end up over the smoking area.  I can't justify the upgrade cost for the OS or RS but would consider the GS.  This is the first time we have received an offer so all insight is appreciated.

I agree with @AshleyDillo, the added room the bigger difference to me, a Grand suite is nice.

[Lovetocruise2002 7,929]

4 minutes ago, 12thman said:

Got an email the other day saying that I can bid. Question is how much would one pay to go from Crown loft to Star loft? $500,$1000? The price difference if booked is about $5400. Also it's a Caribbean cruise so is it even worth doing? When in port we are only doing one excursion per port so lots of time on the ship. My wife doesn't want to be "one of those people running for the ship" 

The minimum bid for us to go from an L1 to TL on Symphony is $1300pp. I did not even consider it. To me that was not worth it. I think I would not pay more than $1000 total for that jump.

[tiny260 1,598]

4 minutes ago, 12thman said:

Got an email the other day saying that I can bid. Question is how much would one pay to go from Crown loft to Star loft? $500,$1000? The price difference if booked is about $5400. Also it's a Caribbean cruise so is it even worth doing? When in port we are only doing one excursion per port so lots of time on the ship. My wife doesn't want to be "one of those people running for the ship" 

My figuring on this is it really depends on how bad you really want to be upgraded, on a recent cruise I was in a Grand suite, Royal up to a Loft Suite with Star class, went on line and found the price for the loft suite, subtracted what I already paid and then offered about 60% of the difference, then about 2 weeks later raised it to about 70%, my point being that if I was going to win the bid and get the room I was going to do it at a discounted rate off the full room price. Otherwise I should have just upgraded to the room at full price because it was still showing available on the web page. But I really wanted to go from Sky class to Star class.

In your case, add up what you are going to or would pay for Deluxe dinning and drink packages, voom, prepaid gratuities etc., on the Crown loft and then add all of the stuff that is included with the Star Loft and Star Class and then make a bid.

Let me say like a lot of other on here, once you've done Star Class it is hard to go back to a regular room.

[12thman 149]

10 minutes ago, Lovetocruise2002 said:

The minimum bid for us to go from an L1 to TL on Symphony is $1300pp. I did not even consider it. To me that was not worth it. I think I would not pay more than $1000 total for that jump.

Sorry yes the minimum bid is $800.00 I was thinking the same that $1000.00 is a fair bid probably not a winning bid as there's only one Star loft that I know of on Allure.