MoonMan81 Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 Hi All, Hoping someone can put my mind at ease. I'm seeing several reports online of people getting bumped from their cruise at the very last moment. I've booked a GTY-XB for the very first time - Oasis, this summer in Europe. Is this a common theme now - getting bumped due to overbooking? Reputable cruise blogs seem to be reporting that this phenomenon is increasing (apparently in cruise line communication to investors this was stated, wanting to increase occupancy %) Anything I can do at this stage to help prevent this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cedricmr Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 We did 9 cruises with RCI. Always in GTY... never a problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaMG Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 @MoonMan81, it is absolutely NOT a common thing and you should not have any worries whatsoever about your GTY booking. When you consider the huge numbers of cruisers out there who are making gty bookings, the issue with bumping is infinitesimal. As with everything else, the bad stuff gets reported and blown up out of all proportion, while nobody bothers to mention that the vast majority of gty bookings go off without a hitch. The only way to sort of prevent it would be to book a specific cabin number but that will probably be more expensive and even then doesn't give you a 100% guarantee because stuff happens that can mean a cabin needs to be taken out of inventory and if the cabin in question happens to be the one you booked... Cactus527, PPPJJ-GCVAB, PeloAl and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bretts173 Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 1 hour ago, MoonMan81 said: Hi All, Hoping someone can put my mind at ease. I'm seeing several reports online of people getting bumped from their cruise at the very last moment. I've booked a GTY-XB for the very first time - Oasis, this summer in Europe. Is this a common theme now - getting bumped due to overbooking? Reputable cruise blogs seem to be reporting that this phenomenon is increasing (apparently in cruise line communication to investors this was stated, wanting to increase occupancy %) Anything I can do at this stage to help prevent this? Not reputable cruise blogs, just someone trying to overdramatise the situation to get hits. Very rarely happens and even when it does most times people get a call in advance offering compensation to swap out. PeloAl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 1 hour ago, MoonMan81 said: I'm seeing several reports online of people getting bumped from their cruise at the very last moment. This happened one time on one cruise in Australia due to reasons unrelated to selling too many cabins. PeloAl and Cactus527 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobroo Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 Call whomever you booked the cruise with and change your reservation to one where you select a cabin. Problem solved and anxiety gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampurp85 Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 Short of paying more to book a room of your choosing, there is nothing to be done. As others stated those sources aren't reputable and are using the same instance to prove their point. There is no phenomenon of people showing up and not getting rooms. It is probably 3 whole instances out of possibly a million sailings. WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottD Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 This one instance that you're speaking of had nothing to do with the rooms being GTY, it was a freak incident with the ship, and nothing to do with rooms not being available due to overselling. They HAVE oversold ships before, but they give very advance notice, and it, again, doesn't specifically affect GTY room holders. You'll be fine, I have a GTY for July and have zero worries about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonMan81 Posted January 7 Author Report Share Posted January 7 Thanks everyone for taking the time to reply, appreciate your feedback. Looks like I have become a sucker to fake-fear mongering. Thanks, Hopefully all goes well ScottD, PeloAl, KristiZ and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan79 Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 Those “several reports” were all from the same isolated incident OCSC Mike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike n Ky Posted January 8 Report Share Posted January 8 On 1/7/2024 at 5:02 AM, MoonMan81 said: Hi All, Hoping someone can put my mind at ease. I'm seeing several reports online of people getting bumped from their cruise at the very last moment. I've booked a GTY-XB for the very first time - Oasis, this summer in Europe. Made me nervous as well...but we sail on the 27th and once we did the online checkin we were able to see our cabin when we put our set sail pass in our Iphone wallet...it's in the barcode at the bottom. We now have our cabin showing up in our online login as well. So, basically it was assigned 45 days from the cruise on our set sail pass. FionaMG 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaMG Posted January 8 Report Share Posted January 8 1 hour ago, Mike n Ky said: Made me nervous as well...but we sail on the 27th and once we did the online checkin we were able to see our cabin when we put our set sail pass in our Iphone wallet...it's in the barcode at the bottom. We now have our cabin showing up in our online login as well. So, basically it was assigned 45 days from the cruise on our set sail pass. Just to mention for anyone reading this thread who doesn't know, Android users can use a bar-code scanner app to see their cabin assignment. The cabin number will be the last digits after the -. ScottD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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