huntersh2

Ok then. Can you be a little more aggressive next time 🤔 😉 Thanks !

7 days. March 1st to March 8th. 

 I've never lost before because thousands of people on this site over the last 3 threads have given us the numbers they have used that have worked to secure them a successful bid in a certain category or room type. So then you play around with those numbers to successfully attain me a win. 

However,  I've never seen anyone use garden villa numbers before so was curious if anyone has at this point...secured one through the bidding process that would care to share or are even on this site.

**Another words using the site for what it is meant to be. A place to ask questions and receive answers. So I was seeking out anyone who had won a garden villa and what they had to pay to upgrade. For me to buy directly into the 3 bedroom garden villa, that is around 10000 ft² ,would cost me $19,500. So instead I was trying to get a number in which people were using successfully to win the garden villa via bidding process. 

Thanks all and as I stated before Good luck all!!

Shaun

What is the going rate to get from Family Suite Large Balcony to 3 bedroom Garden Villa on Dawn? Anyone done it yet. I have never lost at bidding yet so need some tips. It says 1700 minimum on my upgrade. Thanks all! Good luck!

49 minutes ago, Hockeydad1972 said:

They will let you upgrade for the price you see on the NCL website vs the price you paid

Ditto that

I know easily worst room in Haven. On newer ship I heard they only put like 4. I heard even on Escape only 4 H9s cause such a downer for Haven. I went from H4s to Spa. !!! Wow!! Best part is passes. Just buy em..

4 hours ago, Kenny1080 said:

Just called NCL, they states that since I had upgraded, I would not get another chance to bid on an upgrade. I guess they may have changed the rules on this, can anyone confirm this with their experience?

It's TRUE. I was in mid ship balcony and when prices dropped in April and I didn't want to play the wait and see if I'm upgraded game so I upgraded to an H9 Spa .... thinking I could then parley that into an H4 or owners suite etc. Wrong. I never was offered another upgrade.  If you upgrade direct, you no longer get put back into the 'upgrade game'. Too bad! Made me sad. 

48 minutes ago, Krazy Kat said:

Departing on the Getaway on Saturday.  Received email first thing this morning (Thursday) that my bid was accepted.  Going from a mini-suite large balcony to a Haven 2 bedroom.  Bid was in upper-poor range.  Before the cruise "disappeared" and showed sold out on NCL, there were about 35 open cabins in the Haven.  

Upper poor so 1250 ish?

11 minutes ago, Lara1008 said:

 

We sail this Sunday on the Bliss in a mid ship Balcony cabin and got notified today that they were unable to approve our requests for upgrade.  We bid on 3 Haven Staterooms, all $2k ($4k for the both of us) and got rejected.  And the Penthouse bid was considered a 'Strong' bid.  I think being the week before Easter Sunday our ship is legitimately sold out and just offered upgrades in the off chance of last minute cancellations.  

Agree w 100% because 4k for Courtyard is a very good bid. I see bids going off at 1500 for Courtyard and heard on ship as low as 670 pp. So def cause Bliss, prob sold out as you said and lastly cause Easter and Spring Break for most all of Northeast/ New England.

I just got Off Getaway and I was one of a small few (talked up a storm with everyone in Haven Bar and Courtyard. The Getaway, Breakaway and Escape have tons of inventory and almost all. At least 95% of everyone spoke w and heard talking bid in, so keep this in mind. I would have never paid 1900 more for spa if I could do again from (full price paid) mid ship balcony. Never again.....people got in H4s for price I paid. Or 100 more. Crazy !! So if that much inventory..I'd study hard and bid accordingly. People winning spa for 1350 more. From balcony..and as it goes on should get less to bid once April vacas are done in USA. Late April/May's judge accordingly.. good luck all

1 minute ago, AdoraBelle said:

 

4/7 out of NOLA, but I notice a lot of April and May sailings are having price drops.

I also noticed this. I did the same this round. But not that cheap. Good score. I had to pay like 1600 but wanted and bid was close so no chances. Have a great trip. 🙂

13 minutes ago, AdoraBelle said:

I know this is slightly off topic, but the bidding system wanted me to pay very close to what it would cost me for the upgrade anyway, as the MINUMUM bid for an H6. Meanwhile, I noticed there were H6 suites available on almost every deck of my upcoming cruise.

 

Today, I guess their nerve finally broke and there was a massive price drop. I called and paid for the upgrade to an H6 for $500 total, and I got to pick my room.

 

If I had used their bidding system, the MINIMUM bid they would have accepted would have been $1000. It’s still set to that today.

 

Check the prices with mock bookings EVERY day.

Adora what sailing ? Thanks 

1 hour ago, Theresa522 said:

How long does it take to get declined??  I placed a couple of bids over a week a go. Our cruise is April 9th 

Usually Tuesday ish of week travelled so you are a ways out. Say April 2nd. But Tuesday leave date seems odd. So I'm referring to Sat and Sun leaves. For Sun leave I recd mine Tuesday afternoon..around 1pm

1 hour ago, slugg said:

Sure. I can chime in. First, a little about me. I’m a software engineer with a background in mathematics, machine learning, pattern recognition, and reverse engineering. I’ve been doing this for roughly 20 years. Making “all kinds of algorithms,” as you put it, is what I do. 

 

Given a sufficient amount of data, yes, I could reverse engineer PlusGrade’s algorithms and know how to beat it. However, I don’t have the data.

 

It doesn’t maximize NCL’s bottom line, per se. Maybe that’s what the developers intended, but like any software, I guarantee you that there are bugs. It can be exploited, but first we need enough data.

Slugg. Your hired get us the data and solve the algorithm. And get us all the cheat codes for all access Haven!! 😀😀😀😀😂😂

13 minutes ago, Ella2 said:

 

Congrats!  That's a great price and you are going to LOVE it...you will be spoiled.  I've upgraded balcony to Haven on Escape and Getaway and both experiences have been awesome.  Enjoy!

 

Yes wow 680. Thats insanely good. It seems like H5 is at least 800 pp. I've seen as far as 1100 pp. Great price. I paid 800 pp for Haven Spa, which seems like a lesser room. Congrats

2 minutes ago, Sm81 said:

I don’t believe many received upgrades on this cruise as it was definitely sold out, unless they bid in the very high range. I could be wrong, though.

The prices that fluctuated the most were H7 , H4 and H5. Go after H7 and H5. And H4 had the most availability throughout mocking. Like 20 plus rooms 

7 minutes ago, NightOne said:

 

So after being on the cruise I will guess that no one got any upgrades because the ship was already full. (with a lot of kids in 3rd and 4th berths too)

The Haven Aft seems to be bigger then the H4 and maybe even the H3 and H2 right now. After doing this site for over a year and talking to people and following the prices on the mock sites.. I'm seeing that the Aft Haven is requiring #s like 1500 plus pp to win. They are sought after. Big time. So if you have your heart set on that beef up the bids. Even on mock sites the H6 is the price that stays very steady. They know people want that so advice 1500 plus. I bid like 1400 and lost and have seen plenty of losing bids on H6 in that area. Next time 1515 pp. In the March to May area..maybe not needed in Nov

8 minutes ago, Ella2 said:

 

Right, but to follow that logic...Haven rooms can easily be filled with bidders who are likely making high bids...so someone already IN a Haven room HAS a room with a high potential resale value.  And thus, those already in the Haven probably do have a better shot at a higher Haven category than those coming straight from a balcony.

Ella2 agree w u 1000%

43 minutes ago, Ella2 said:

 

Yes, although you may see varying opinions, I believe they DO factor in the TOTAL cost...and if you have paid $14,000 already, I definitely believe your bid will have a MUCH better chance than someone who has paid $2600 for a balcony and bids the same amount that you do.

 

As for the availability for a 3BR Garden Villa...not very likely that there will be a last minute cancellation on one of those, since there are only two, but you never know.  Certainly worth a bid just in case if you would like to give it a shot.  They are AMAZING...did one on the Dawn 8 years ago...and it was definitely worth it.  This was long before the upgrade program.  Good luck!

Per Jaime logical....she says what you previously paid means 0....cause NCL already has that money. It's where your coming from aka balcony or H9 spa suite and their potential resale values and how much you bid.

Therefore, in essence what you previously paid does come in because you already paid more for H9 then a balcony. 

However the way I understand it someone who paid 289 pp on a casino  room (balcony) and someone who paid 1199 pp on a balcony and the casino bid 1000pp on the Haven or Suites and the straight up balcony person bid 850 pp the casino person would still win cause 1. Their room has same value for resale and 2. Their bid is more. 

The casino person  still wins even though their gross total  paid is less.......they paid 289 pp (600 for better math) for their balcony room and there 1100pp bid (2200) is a total of 2800 for the upgrade ..

And the reg balcony person paid 1199 pp at 2400 total and 850 pp at 1700 total for a grand total of 4100 .... so 4100

2800 is less the 4100 but the 2800 still wins cause the room is same resale and the casino person bid more..

Weird but true

3 minutes ago, Nclgetawaymenhoney said:

It pays to continue to check prices, enjoy your h9!!!

Thanks NCLgetawaymenhoney. Your absolutley right. I had a spread sheet. Haha. Done weekly with price reviews from day one til now and with how many are left in each category so that I can bid appropriately.  Haha 🙂 Good luck all.. and thanks so much. Shaun

And this round I sold out...and this time I just called up and purchased  Haven out right. We love it so much and the prices were coming down for next weeks Getaway cruise so I just said what the heck and called. My bid was only 200 less then the price and wanted to try out an H9 so just bit the bullet and called and bought the dang thing.  I know I know... I'm sorry. Haha. My bid was for 850pp..we really wanted the H9 to try out a whole new category, for us. Other bids were 1100 H6. 910 H5. 880 H7. And 1050 H4. Hope this helps. Good luck all. 

15 minutes ago, fredajean said:

Has anyone ever won a bid who did not purchase NCL insurance?  Just wondering if this could impact your chances of winning a bid since it's a few hundred dollars less in their pockets.

Have never purchased and have won. And won good ones like H4 so I don't think that has any sway either  way

11 minutes ago, paperposter said:

I did a search thru Costco and found that only inside cabs left for my sail dates

 

Maybe that's all that's left. 1st 2nd and 3rd weeks of April are April break for schools across the US. Mine is April 14th week. Rhode Island. So yes it will be busier, w kids and families 

On 3/16/2019 at 5:56 PM, bubblesnh said:

How do you find out how many cabins are left on a particular sailing?

Do a Mock  buy on. 3rd party site like Cruise 411 or even on NCL site. Just open up and try to buy another room like you were a regular old customer trying to buy a room. Look in the category you are curious about and see how many rooms are left in that category. 

2 hours ago, x2tpd said:

We got denied 2 of 3 offers and haven’t heard on the other so .... 

What was the 3rd offer ?

4 minutes ago, HippoSail said:

Oh cool. Congrats. We had received a free upgrade last week and I haven't see any new emails or anything on my NCL. The original emails for the bidding list my old stateroom. Not a big deal, happy to have been upgraded for free. 

A free upgrade into Haven? Never seen that before 

4 hours ago, lonzwinery said:

Received my bid rejection email yesterday for tomorrow's (3/16) departure on the Bliss. Our original booking was for a standard balcony room with 2 people on the reservation, category DB. Total cost was $2892. I bid $1620 each ($3240 total) for an aft Haven room. The bid was in the "good" range. I did not bid on any other rooms. I figured it was a long shot, since all the Haven rooms were showing sold out. Oh well! Looking forward to hitting Miami Beach today! We got in yesterday morning, so that we could get 2 full days on Miami Beach before the cruise tomorrow! Looking forward to it! 🙂

Wow those seem like very good bids. Wow. Sorry. Enjoy her