danakane

47 minutes ago, Mariastreby said:

I definitely would bring it up. They know these noise issues have been happening in various cabins since it was built. You paid good money for a sound night’s sleep.
 

If you’re in a Sky Suite, I had hoped they weren’t having issues. We will be in one on the 9th deck also in April. Can’t remember the number right now. Port side, toward the front elevators. Where is your cabin located?

Yeah, they called to follow up. I said we were still hearing it, and they’re sending up ear plugs. I said in good faith that we’d give it a try tonight. There’s a Facebook group for our sailing and a lot of people have brought up the noise. We’re in a sky suite, port side, closer to aft elevators. I did read (maybe in this forum) that it’s worse going east/west, which we are right now, and it is a little choppy. So we’ll see! Hoping Caribbean waters will be smoother and the problem will stop. 
 

(PS, The sky suite is still SO worth it. Retreat has been so beneficial for us.)

On the Beyond now in 9219 - creaking and popping sounds happening every .5 second from all over room, particularly the veranda. Seas are slightly rocky, but I’ve been on 10 cruises and many of them rockier and never had this issue. It kept me up all night. I politely brought it up to Retreat concierge and they sent out a maintenance guy. He looked at the room for about 2 minutes and determined it was the divider between the balconies. It was not, he left and it’s still happening. Trying to weigh out the value of bringing it up again. 

On 11/8/2023 at 9:43 AM, danakane said:

• Ship:  Beyond
• Length of Cruise: 10 Nights 
• Cruise Sail Date: December 1, 2023
• Date email offer received: September 11th
• Captain’s Club Tier: Select
• Booked through Celebrity Direct OR via TA: TA - Direct
• Current Cabin: Infinite Veranda 
• Bid?  Yes/No: Yes
•  
• Bid Offers
• Aqua Class Veranda -  $250 pp
• Sky Suite - $1535 pp (minimum bid)
• Aqua Class SS - $1605 pp (minimum bid)
• Notification Date: n/a
• Accepted / Rejected: Aqua Veranda and Aqua SS showing expired, Sky Suite showing pending, locked from modifying since Friday. Fingers crossed. I know these were high numbers to bid on but it’s our honeymoon so we decided to splurge at a chance to experience Retreat 🤞

 
Update: we just got our approval confirmation!! 
 

For future reference, I saw on another social media site that our original upgraded room 9190 was right next to a magic carpet sky suite, the ones that jut out from the side of the ship, so the view would be obstructed. That would be fine by me, however I noticed they have a large window on their balcony that has a direct view into our balcony and room. I called celebrity and they were happy to move us to another room in the same category. 

Hi there! I’m also on a Dec 1st cruise on the Beyond. Three of my bids went expired with one locked on pending on Friday. Many say it can be a good sign but there’s really no guarantee until we (hopefully!) get that approval email. 

• Ship:  Beyond
• Length of Cruise: 10 Nights 
• Cruise Sail Date: December 1, 2023
• Date email offer received: September 11th
• Captain’s Club Tier: Select
• Booked through Celebrity Direct OR via TA: TA - Direct
• Current Cabin: Infinite Veranda 
• Bid?  Yes/No: Yes
•  
• Bid Offers
• Aqua Class Veranda -  $250 pp
• Sky Suite - $1535 pp (minimum bid)
• Aqua Class SS - $1605 pp (minimum bid)
• Notification Date: n/a
• Accepted / Rejected: Aqua Veranda and Aqua SS showing expired, Sky Suite showing pending, locked from modifying since Friday. Fingers crossed. I know these were high numbers to bid on but it’s our honeymoon so we decided to splurge at a chance to experience Retreat 🤞

9 minutes ago, gottaluvit said:

Sailing on Beyond next Monday 11/13.

Currently in a solo infinite verandah on deck 6.

Bid on both Aqua and Concierge as soon as bidding opened a few months ago.

checked on my offers this weekend, Aqua shows expired, and Concierge is locked. 
the Move Up FAQ’s state I should be able to cancel or modify my bid up to 48 hours before sail date?!

Some are saying this means I’ll likely get the upgrade, however my CC hasn’t been charged yet. The waiting game!

What do the experts on here think?!?!

Give it a few days! It’ll usually hit your card first but even that can take a few days from when it locks. Some people have reported that they had their offers locked and still didn’t get it, but I think the vast majority do. Fingers crossed for you! I’m in the same boat (haha) as you, with a locked pending offer, I’ll be on beyond December 1st! 

1 hour ago, Presd said:

I’ve recently placed a move up bid, after receiving an emailed move up offer.  I’ve now been following this thread.  So many have commented that they can see their offer as pending.  I don’t see anything.  If I log in directly to Celebrity, the move up button does not work (tried on different browsers).  I can only click on the email I’ve received and modify my offer. Anyone else face this issue?  
if I click on the original email offer, I do see that my offer was received.  Is it here that you eventually see pending?

Hi! Yes, for some reason the link from the manage my reservation page is broken and has been for a while. You can also access it by clicking the drop down under “Manage Trip” (visible when you click the three lines on the top left of the mobile celebrity page) 

56 minutes ago, Classynfun1 said:

Here is an interesting one. So I have a move up bid in for a November 22, 2023 cruise. Originally, I bid on three categories but canceled one bid. I now have two categories with bids. If I click to modify one of the bids, I get taken to the slider page where I can move by bid up or down. For the other bid, if I click to modify, I get take to a page I've never seen before. It contains my current bid amount, an open box to add a new bid (won't accept it unless it is higher than the current bid), tells me how much time is left on the countdown clock until the offers are reviewed, and tells me how many others are bidding on the same category of stateroom. Has anyone ever seen this before? Here it is below (minus the picture of a stateroom - but this is exactly what I see on the page).

 

            1W, 2D, 0H left to review                                        8 Bidders

Your current offer per passenger

$XXXX USD

Increase your offer to increase your chance of getting upgraded.

Your new offer (per passenger)

$                                                                              USD

 

Review Offer

 

I’ve seen other bidders in this thread get an email letting them know there’s other bidders that have outbid them, and they can choose to increase their bid if they want to raise their chances of getting the upgrade. Some of them ultimately decided to not increase the bid and still got the move up.