scotty Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 Hi,just a quick question, has anyone else paid to pick a cabin ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPPJJ-GCVAB Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 If this is what your question means: I believe I do pay every time I book a cruise because I ALWAYS choose my room! The “we pick your room” price seems to always be lower by several hundred dollars but I do not want a room Forward therefore I will pay the higher price in order to get what I want. I also have never tried a Royal Up for that reason…perhaps I would IF I knew the room I was bidding on would NOT be in the Forward area! tingtang, Neesa, MaryCanadian and 2 others 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus527 Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 95% of the time, I pay to pick my room. The only time I have done a guarantee, I got my room assigned at final payment and it was just fine. tingtang and Sweety 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter6251 Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 I always choose my own room. My location on the ship is important to me. PPPJJ-GCVAB, Cactus527, tingtang and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy cruisers 2 Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 10 minutes ago, PPPJJ-GCVAB said: I believe I do pay every time I book a cruise because I ALWAYS choose my room! Same here. We always want to pick our own. If we are on the deck beneath the pools, Windjammer, etc. we investigate the deck plans to see what's directly above us and we even see if we can find reviews of the specific cabin to know how noisy it might be. The same would apply for what's next to or beneath us. PPPJJ-GCVAB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biaggio Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 Always pick my room, near the rear elevator. Easy down to dining room and since my wife has trouble walking, a quick shot off the elevator. Next time you cruise, get off the elevator, and walk down to the furthest room, and see if you want to do that several times each day. PPPJJ-GCVAB, Neesa and WAAAYTOOO 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cedricmr Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 Never! we always book in balcony guaranteed GTY we never had a bad suprise PPPJJ-GCVAB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 It's more getting a discount to not pick your room than it is paying to pick your room. WAAAYTOOO and SpeedNoodles 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
She Sails Away Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 Usually. Twice, I have bought a guaranteed room as a trade off to saving several hundred dollars. One time it worked out fine, the othet time, I got aroom above the theater, where they crashed things around from 11-11:30 at night every night. PPPJJ-GCVAB and WAAAYTOOO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newhouse of the Seas Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 We usually pick our own cabin, as we have found the potential savings from doing a guaranteed cabin not to be worth giving up the option to pick our room. Having said that, we decided to "roll the dice" & try a guaranteed cabin for the first time when we sail on Symphony (JS) next summer since it will save us +/- $1K per person (+/- $2K in total). cedricmr, PPPJJ-GCVAB and WAAAYTOOO 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanethegriff Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 Our first cruise in Feb '23 we selected our Ocean View Balcony, we wanted a lower deck and mid ship. This time for our upcoming cruise in February again, we selected GTY Suite. It will most likely be a Junior Suite which means it'll be relatively mid ship. It may not be on the deck we would ideally like but the savings were €600pp (3 persons) than if we picked our own room. I'll be sure to post which room we get in the end and our experience once we're back. WAAAYTOOO, cedricmr and PPPJJ-GCVAB 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanethegriff Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 1 minute ago, Newhouse of the Seas said: We usually pick our own cabin, as we have found the potential savings from doing a guaranteed cabin not to be worth giving up the option to pick our room. Having said that, we decided to "roll the dice" & try a guaranteed cabin for the first time when we sail on Symphony (JS) next summer since it will save us +/- $1K per person (+/- $2K in total). Wow! Nice savings there! Do you mind me asking what price you actually paid per person for the GTY? We got a GTY Suite for €1000pp Inc grats on our next Oasis sailing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampurp85 Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 Most people will pick their room. I prefer aft cabins so in most cases i pick my room. I have done the gty option twice. Once because that's what was left since I booked so close to sailing. And once for an upcoming cruise. There are some factors for whether I would let them pick. It would have to be a shorter sailing, on a smaller class and at least $400+ in savings. PPPJJ-GCVAB, WAAAYTOOO, Neesa and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottD Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 We picked our room the last two times because they were balcony and neighborhood balcony rooms and we wanted to pick our location. Our next cruise is our first GTY room and it's just an Ocean view (no balcony) room...so honestly we don't mind where it is and it was almost 400 bucks cheaper. We will take our chance with it this time ChessE4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug_Texas Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 We ALWAYS pick our own cabin. If you book when the deployments first come out; a) overall pricing is better and, b) spread on GTY often pretty small. Obviously ridiculous pricing on new ships like Star OTS introduced new pricing dynamics. ChessE4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjcruisers Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 We've always picked our room and prefer mid to aft. First cruise we had one in the front, waters were rough and got bounced around quite a bit. No interest in GTY if there is the possibility it could be in the front PPPJJ-GCVAB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steverk Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 U usually choose my own cabin, but I have done gty several times. I've never been disappointed by the gty cabins. I wish I could say the same about ones that I chose WAAAYTOOO and PPPJJ-GCVAB 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanHardlyWait Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 I like the savings of a GTY. Also the surprise of not knowing location. It doesn’t matter what location you pick/pay for. You still may have neighbors who are loud, a leaking toilet, bad smell, etc. Anything can go wrong in any location. None is more special or perfect than another. cedricmr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbrinkm Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 We pick our cabin(s) because we travel with our teens in a separate room and need to be next to their room (or could be across, but we like going back and forth using the balcony). However, we use a TA and get group rates that are lower than the pick-your-own directly on the RCI site, and usually comparable to the GTY cabin prices. My parents are cruising with us in March and did a GTY oceanview first. They were assigned their room early in November. I learned their room number because I booked specialty dining using the app and I saw their room number next to their name (we have linked reservations). THEN, during the week of Thanksgiving, there was a one-day big price drop and the upgrade to a GTY oceanview balcony was only $60 total (not pp) more, so we ended up doing that for them. Same thing happened - when I went to book another specialty dining lunch in the planner, first I saw GTY for them but within a week, they had a room assignment in the reservation page of the planner. My TA reached out and said there were rooms on our floor and asked if we wanted to move them from 6th floor forward, where they had been assigned the second time, to 8th floor aft/mid where we are. So the GTY worked out really well for them. They are just two doors down from us and paid less than we did to pick our rooms. PPPJJ-GCVAB, cedricmr and WAAAYTOOO 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChessE4 Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 8 hours ago, scotty said: Hi,just a quick question, has anyone else paid to pick a cabin ? We always do. We'd never go with a guarantee because the right location makes a big difference for us. We've always used an agent or Next Cruise, and they have always explained the price differences among our choices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villageidiot Posted January 7 Report Share Posted January 7 We will usually pick our cabin but last year I found a great price for a GTY balcony on a TA cruise. Saved about $900/PP. We were happy with the cabin we were assigned. Did a GTY again this February and no problems with the cabin assigned again. For us the savings were worth it as we are usually ok with forward or aft cabin selections. PPPJJ-GCVAB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newhouse of the Seas Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 @Shanethegriff, we booked a 9-night August 2024 sailing on a Symphony JS last week. For this cruise, our price was +/- $2,960 pp w/o gratuities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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