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I wonder if they can see that and figured they better take your money now. Not hard to program to see a trend both up and Down. Or do they actually use real time alerts. The last 3 weeks have been disaster for the industry and tossed a monkey wrench into the upgrade program. With my luck will get the balcony and end up in Canada instead of Bermuda. Enjoy your Haven cabin. You know what they say "once in the Haven, your never going to book anything less "

 

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Thanks! Looking forward to it. As for if they "see" my bidding activity I honestly have no idea haha. Anything is possible, but based on the activity today it seems more likely they just chose to do a batch today. Probably based on the high number of cabins still available, historical sales data, and a solid dose of conservative forecasting last-minute October sales from the hurricanes.

Just to let you know... keep an eye on current prices when you bid for upgrades. Yesterday I was able to do my own "upgrade" for almost $200 less than the minimum bid accepted on the H4 cabin I "upgraded" to.

 

 

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Good tip. I was watching that pretty closely. Comparing the all-in with drink pkg tips/taxes, my winning bid plus my original cruise price saved me 30% off the cheapest Haven category and 40% off the H5 (based on current prices).

Of course there's a chance that they'll drop the prices further and my savings will decrease.

Great to know with time to enjoy. Kinda like Carly Simon's anticipation song. We're 31 days out and waiting. Lol, not bidding on a Haven. I bet they might have a buyer/bidder ready for your cabin and took the offer without waiting too long. As we can only bid on balcony or mini suites, they might sit longer. I keep twinkling the bid. Up, down and around they go.....

 

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I started much higher actually. At 80 days we were offering $780 pp. Since the 40 day mark (and all the hurricane news), I've reduced the bid $10 pp each day. We were willing to pay more to have the bid accepted early - with each day that passed, we knew it was less likely they were going to sell those cabins and have to take a bid. We were also less willing to pay for the "early upgrade" privilege as those days slipped away :)

Congratulations! We are waiting on our similar offer in November. Did you feel that you got one of the better H5 locations in your perspective as one of the first H5s accepted or do you feel they are still holding back better locations hoping for higher offers?

Seems to be kind of random - It's down to 7 H5s now - I tend to think of the deck 16 H5s as the premium locations, and 2 of those disappeared since this morning (16110 and 16126). Now you can't say for sure that they weren't booked outright, but it seems unlikely when there have been 11 H5s available every day for the past 80 days (yes, I checked every day), and on the day I'm upgraded it drops to 7 available. Seems more likely they did 4 upgrades.

Maybe NCL considers 16110 and 16126 to be less desirable deck 16 cabins, but I can't really figure why. I think it's more likely just random selection.

I'd also assume that the offers they processed today probably WERE the higher offers - the ones left in their system are probably on the lower end. If they're holding any back, it's with the hope that the people who are paying outright last minute will be able to choose a "premium" cabin.

Just received our upgrade notification today (sept 27) for our Oct 29 Breakaway cruise (32 days out)

We upgraded from BD "bump" balcony 10876 to an H5 Haven Courtyard Penthouse Suite for $690 per person. The minimum bid was $400 pp.

My $770 pp bid for an Aft Facing H6 Penthouse was rejected, though my mock bookings showed this as sold out many days ago.

As of the mock booking I did this morning before my upgrade there were 11 H5 cabins available. Currently my mock booking shows 8 available. I suspect a minimum bid on this category may well be successful, but my girlfriend and I had already set aside a decent chunk for the upgrade in case it was required since we realllly wanted Haven.