According to Celebrity there are two purposes to the MoveUp program.
One is to increase revenue, which is fairly straightforward.
The other is to allow people to experience a higher level cabin than they normally book. They’ve found that after experiencing the higher level cabin 20% of the people start booking that level.
Not knowing how this is factored in makes the whole process less straightforward for those of us trying to figure out how it works.
Funny how cruise lines, airlines, hotels, etc. use the term “nominal fee”, which is supposed to mean that it’s so small it’s a fee in name only, to gouge their customers.
I expect they followed the rules doing it every week, but you suggested you had never seen one at all. I was just noting that there were regular visits, so Edge cruising it was not an unusual event.
NCL has recently discontinued it, but Pride of America has been cruising the Na Pali coast every week for years. It was one of the highlights of the cruise.
I could eat five meals a day, but it might interfere with making sure I get all fifteen alcoholic drinks in. You have to have priorities. 😉
Regardless, I’m just saying that you might also think about the opportunity cost of not eating in the MDR when deciding whether to pay for a meal at a specialty restaurant.
Just for a little context on the distances. The video posted earlier from a tv station showed the ship’s track, this is from a screenshot of it.
This is from the Geospace app. It shows that the outcropping at the bottom is about 550 feet wide at the widest.
I’m not quite clear, if your cabin wasn’t yet assigned why did you want to move? And if GTY was the only class available what non-GTY cabin were you expecting to move to?