SpeedNoodles Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 5 minutes ago, SuperStarian said: I’m not sure if this has been done or not. Have you tried modifying the bid, maybe increasing it by $1, then updating the payment information? It's too late for that - all of those options are now unavailable. SuperStarian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperStarian Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 I provided the screenshot because there are a few pages I found which allows you to check upgrade status, but this one allowed payment entry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedNoodles Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 3 minutes ago, SuperStarian said: I provided the screenshot because there are a few pages I found which allows you to check upgrade status, but this one allowed payment entry. Yep, I checked everything. This game is over. What crappy timing. WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRMO12HD Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 So excited! Just received (and submitted!) my first RoyalUp offer. I'm currently in an Interior Promenade on Freedom OTS 4 Night 29Nov-3Dec. Submitted close to the minimum bids on Oceanview Balcony (min bid $45; my bid $55) and Spacious Oceanview Balcony (min bid $55; my bid $65). I would be very happy if I won one of them, but not disconsolate if I didn't. I like my current cabin location, so it's win/win, as far as I'm concerned! SpeedNoodles, Neesa and Big Red 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baked Alaska Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 I recall there was a web address for Royalup. Can someone refresh my memory please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishernrex Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 Over the moon excited! Upgrade accepted to the Grand Loft Suite!! KLA, SpeedNoodles, Ampurp85 and 11 others 8 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrznTxn Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 Congratulations!!!! Neesa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRebecca Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 I have to share my experience from July 2019 that's similar to@SpeedNoodles . I placed a Royal up bid and was notified we won but the card was declined. I was able to immediately resolve it and provide a new card to secure the bid we'd won. I don't remember all the details but I know that I was immediately able to resolve it with the information provided to me from Royal or the the Royalup folks. Congrats to all who won and happy cruising! Neesa, Mineobi, SpeedNoodles and 2 others 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neesa Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 @Baked Alaska this is the one I have recorded, is this what you were referring to? www.royalcaribbean.com/booked/cruise-room-upgrade Come on, let's all pull for @SpeedNoodles always so helpful to all of us on here, let's manifest a successful upgrade for her Ampurp85, absolutebrilliance, SpeedNoodles and 2 others 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baked Alaska Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 37 minutes ago, Neesa said: @Baked Alaska this is the one I have recorded, is this what you were referring to? www.royalcaribbean.com/booked/cruise-room-upgrade Come on, let's all pull for @SpeedNoodles always so helpful to all of us on here, let's manifest a successful upgrade for her Yes, that's it. Thank you! Come on cruising gods, give Speedy her upgrade! Neesa, AlohaLivin, wstephensi and 2 others 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishernrex Posted October 16, 2021 Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 Agreed! Good luck @SpeedNoodles. I swear it's a love/hate thing. I thought for sure we weren't getting the upgrade and have driven my DH nuts for the last week or so.... Now he's driving me NUTS!! SpeedNoodles, Baked Alaska and Neesa 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedNoodles Posted October 16, 2021 Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 4 hours ago, PRebecca said: I have to share my experience from July 2019 that's similar to@SpeedNoodles . I placed a Royal up bid and was notified we won but the card was declined. I was able to immediately resolve it and provide a new card to secure the bid we'd won. I don't remember all the details but I know that I was immediately able to resolve it with the information provided to me from Royal or the the Royalup folks. Congrats to all who won and happy cruising! Did they call or email you when it was declined? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRebecca Posted October 16, 2021 Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 Best I can recall I got an email that I responded to via phone. I distinctly remember having the ability to easily correct the situation but the exact details are fuzzy. Sorry for the missing details (or brain cells) I just know they made it easy to resolve. SpeedNoodles and WAAAYTOOO 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlohaLivin Posted October 16, 2021 Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 3 hours ago, SpeedNoodles said: Did they call or email you when it was declined? Hi! I think back on almost every circumstance I ever had that was similar (since unfortunately most of us have had our card numbers compromise a few times…) the vendor (whether Amazon or someone else) always reached out about the card being declined and asked for an updated card. I would think there should be someone, somewhere, to contact at RCL to get the card updated as cc issues have become a rather common occurrence in our current society. But if there’s not, surely they will reach out to you! Don’t give up hope we’re all sending super positive vibes your way. SpeedNoodles, Neesa and WAAAYTOOO 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedNoodles Posted October 16, 2021 Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 Thanks, you guys! This community is THE BEST!!!!!!!! Linda R, Neesa, Baked Alaska and 5 others 4 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Red Posted October 16, 2021 Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 22 hours ago, RKennedy1279 said: So today all my offered expired except one. How long after this does it usually take to know if in fact we got the room we put the bid on? Also trying to decide if I should tell my wife or surprise her when we get to the ship if we get the upgrade. Any thoughts? From what I have seen as soon as 5 days before sailing till right up to the day of sailing. Ours happened 3 days out around 3pm in the afternoon. I believe it works like a domino affect, they take care of the higher rooms 1st, then work there way down. So that they fill the rooms the most efficient way possible. AHollyS and Neesa 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathbees Posted October 16, 2021 Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 19 hours ago, fishernrex said: Upgrade accepted to the Grand Loft Suite!! Just wrapping up our cruise on Odyssey after enjoying our RoyalUp to a grand loft. Gotta say this was thrilling beyond belief. We truly enjoyed every aspect and the suite was awesome. I got many a good nap on the balcony this week. Enjoy and congrats!! SpeedNoodles, WAAAYTOOO, IRMO12HD and 3 others 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrznTxn Posted October 16, 2021 Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 JS does not get the hour early perk. In some ports you do have a “Suite” line which skips the rest of the riff raff. AHollyS and WAAAYTOOO 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teddy Posted October 16, 2021 Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 Interesting. I just noticed that all our current Royal Up bids say they can be modified up until 3 hours before sailing. SpeedNoodles, AlohaLivin and IRMO12HD 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyCruiser Posted October 16, 2021 Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 I received my first-ever Royal Up offers from RCL. We recently reached Diamond status. I went ahead and made some bids to upgrade from our Ocean View Balcony. I was surprised that the offers from RCL come so early - we received the Royal Bid emails on 10/12/21 and 10/13/21 for our Odyssey sailings on 12/4/21 and 12/12/21, respectively. Sounds like we will be waiting for a while to find out if we "won". -Jackie B IRMO12HD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda R Posted October 16, 2021 Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 43 minutes ago, IndyCruiser said: I received my first-ever Royal Up offers from RCL. We recently reached Diamond status. I went ahead and made some bids to upgrade from our Ocean View Balcony. I was surprised that the offers from RCL come so early - we received the Royal Bid emails on 10/12/21 and 10/13/21 for our Odyssey sailings on 12/4/21 and 12/12/21, respectively. Sounds like we will be waiting for a while to find out if we "won". -Jackie B I rec'd Royal Up offers on my 2 Dec cruises about 10 days ago. Yes, a long wait. Maybe they hope to get more offers with adding more time to do it? IRMO12HD and IndyCruiser 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurenb0380 Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 Have an ocean view balcony on the Symphony for 10/30 put in bids on 10/7. Today my bids for 1 bed owners suite and 2 bed owners suite are expired but my Grand Suite is still pending. Fingers crossed! I bid a bit over minimum and all we’re considered weak. PRebecca, IRMO12HD and WAAAYTOOO 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRebecca Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 I have a low offer in on a 2 bedroom ATS. I don't expect to actually win the bid, but am still trying to determine if we really want a 2BATS over a crown Loft. I'd Ike the crown loft with Star amenities WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
absolutebrilliance Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 What does it mean if your bids change to “upgrade unavailable”? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamilyCruiseFan Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 17 hours ago, Laurenb0380 said: Have an ocean view balcony on the Symphony for 10/30 put in bids on 10/7. Today my bids for 1 bed owners suite and 2 bed owners suite are expired but my Grand Suite is still pending. Fingers crossed! I bid a bit over minimum and all we’re considered weak. This happened to someone in our traveling party on our most recent cruise last week. All offers expired except one but they could no longer modify or cancel the offer anymore. This happened a few weeks prior to the departure. We kept waiting and it was about 3 days prior to the cruise that the offer was officially accepted! I've heard others say the same. Good luck! I'd say you may have gotten it! Give us an update when you find out! IndyCruiser 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamilyCruiseFan Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 On 10/15/2021 at 12:35 PM, RKennedy1279 said: So today all my offered expired except one. How long after this does it usually take to know if in fact we got the room we put the bid on? Also trying to decide if I should tell my wife or surprise her when we get to the ship if we get the upgrade. Any thoughts? Go for the surprise! This happened a few weeks before our cruise for someone in my traveling party but it wasn't until about 3 days prior to the cruise like 2:30 pm we noticed the room numbers changed on our reservation that they were notified of the upgrade from junior suite to owners suite! IndyCruiser, Neesa and IRMO12HD 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baked Alaska Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 16 hours ago, PRebecca said: I have a low offer in on a 2 bedroom ATS. I don't expect to actually win the bid, but am still trying to determine if we really want a 2BATS over a crown Loft. I'd Ike the crown loft with Star amenities The Crown Loft suite comes with Sky amenities. The Royal Loft and Star Loft suites are the loft suite with Star amenities. Neesa and IndyCruiser 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yesiamthere6 Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 Around a week before my October 2nd Symphony of the Seas sailing two of my three bids showed expired. I could no longer modify my grande suite pending room. Kept doing mock bookings online so I knew there were at least five grande suites available. I was notified four days before sailing that we had won the grande suite. Ten hours later my credit card was charged. Odd, that I was notified first then charged. Started with a free casino balcony room. Bid $975 each for hubby and myself for the grande suite. Cancelled my internet package as that comes with the Grande Suite. Just under $2200 (instead of $7,000 online) we experienced the suite life. It was absolutely wonderful. Lots got the junior suite for a minimum bid. WAAAYTOOO and Big Red 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losmabies Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 So we sail on 22Nov2021 and I submitted all my RoyalUp offers about 2 weeks ago. Earlier this week all of my offers showed expired except for one which shows pending (we have 2 cabins and submitted the same offers for each and both have the same RoyalUp status). The one pending is for a spacious balcony room. When I tried a mock booking it shows all balcony rooms sold out. So I can’t even tell if there are actually rooms left or if I missed out already and we will be keeping our original rooms. Has anyone ever experienced something like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlantix2000 Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 26 minutes ago, losmabies said: So we sail on 22Nov2021 and I submitted all my RoyalUp offers about 2 weeks ago. Earlier this week all of my offers showed expired except for one which shows pending (we have 2 cabins and submitted the same offers for each and both have the same RoyalUp status). The one pending is for a spacious balcony room. When I tried a mock booking it shows all balcony rooms sold out. So I can’t even tell if there are actually rooms left or if I missed out already and we will be keeping our original rooms. Has anyone ever experienced something like this? Yes, many, many threads including this one include posts discussing pending and expired RoyalUp bids. Yes, all the balcony rooms may be sold out on your cruise but yes you may still get one. How? The people currently in those balcony rooms may be moving up to better categories based on their own RoyalUp bids. If you do get accepted, your first clue may be a credit card charge. If you are not accepted, your bid may not show as expired until after you have boarded. All you can do is wait and see. losmabies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yesiamthere6 Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 Losmabies, I would also add that in these uncertain times there are a lot more people having to cancel at the last moment. So Royal’s third party, I believe, are keeping a lot more “alternatives (pending)” for all that uncertainty. I do believe all the rooms in that category are sold-out because if rooms were available Royal would keep trying to sell online at a premium price until closer to sail date. Even though all rooms are showing “booked” there’s still a chance for you. losmabies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 Wish me luck Neesa, WAAAYTOOO, Big Red and 2 others 2 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaydaBug Posted November 13, 2021 Report Share Posted November 13, 2021 I just booked my cruise 2 days ago for sailing dec 5th. I went onto royal up site and put in my name and ID number and it just says make sure you are within 30 days and check that the information input is correct. Am I not eligible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampurp85 Posted November 14, 2021 Report Share Posted November 14, 2021 20 hours ago, VaydaBug said: I just booked my cruise 2 days ago for sailing dec 5th. I went onto royal up site and put in my name and ID number and it just says make sure you are within 30 days and check that the information input is correct. Am I not eligible? Yeah this happens sometimes. I was never eligible for a RoyalUp and I think it had to do with my room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyD Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 I have bids in on Royal Up for Harmony of the Seas in March. Today, I went in to look at them, and I see this message under the "bid bar" for each of my bids: Pricing above reflects a 25% discount to normal bid pricing. Act fast as this promotion is only valid until Jan 31, 2022 Any idea what that means? Does that mean they are treating my bid as 25% more? Or the bids they accept are 25% less than what they would have been? I am soooo confused Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshleyDillo Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 I haven't seen this before. I read it to mean that the minimum bids they are accepting are 25% lower than they usually would set for that particular category. Only way to really confirm that is true is to have recorded what the minimum bids were before this new language was added! WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nessachelle Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 It means your minimum bids are 25% lower than they were originally. I have the same message and in the categories this message appears on the minimum bid has dropped by 25%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyD Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 Thanks AshleyDillo and nessachelle! I wonder why it expires at the end of the month... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nessachelle Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 (edited) On 1/14/2022 at 4:26 PM, BeckyD said: Thanks AshleyDillo and nessachelle! I wonder why it expires at the end of the month... I am hoping it means they will start accepting offers at that time. I have seen several people state that they have receive their Royal Up's around the 2 week mark here recently. For my sailing January 31st will be around 2 weeks before sailing. Fingers Crossed! Edited January 17, 2022 by nessachelle Clarification Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natalfaz Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 Hello i had a royal up email, i have interior room, is ir normal no junior suites are showing for bid? The maximum is balcony ocean view. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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