My cruise is showing on Princess site as "not available" so I assume it is sold out or they are finagling with cabin assignments and have frozen new bookings. Not sure, as I am sailing on Princess for only the second time, so don't know the ins and outs very well.
I have received multiple emails from Princess over the past 4 weeks to bid for an upgrade. I currently have a balcony cabin that I picked. So I'm happy with it, but wonder what is the likelihood that Princess would give me a "free" upgrade since my account is marked as willing to accept these, since they keep sending so many emails about bidding, or is that just their way? The only upgrade I would be interested in bidding on at this point is a deluxe balcony. For a short 10 day cruise it's not worth it to me to pay several hundred dollars for a mini suite.