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Congratulations - enjoy!

Just an FYI... We're booked in a JS and had submitted 4 RoyalUP bids for GS thru RS - all bids showed "SUBMITTED" when I checked daily until exactly 24hrs prior to our scheduled sailing departure time: Received 4 emails (one for each bid) advising that our bids were unsuccessful, and when I checked the RoyalUP webpage all bids showed "EXPIRED" - no surprise here, since none of that higher stateroom inventory ever became available after we booked our JS.

It's probable, but not a GTY 😎

While waiting patiently, suggest that you check daily for an opportunity to self-upgrade... An OS became available about a month before our cruise last month for the same price differential as our RU bid, so we self-upgraded from a Spacious OV Balcony.

Congrats - enjoy!

Congrats - well played!

Just received the RoyalUp email 24hrs before sailing that our minimum bid for the Royal Suite (which has NEVER been available to book) was unsuccessful. Oh well, we'll just suffer... haha Let's get on that boat! (sorry, Ship!) 😎

I just got off the phone with the RCL Service Desk and confirmed: Internet is not complimentary on Navigator nor any other Vision, Radiance, Voyager or Freedom class ship. However... Since it was our RCL vacation planner's misinformation & mistake to cancel our Internet Pkg when we booked a suite upgrade, the RCL Service Desk comp'd us enough OBC to cover the cost to reorder it - so we scored free internet for our cruise! 😎

Hmmm OK I will call RCL and let you know - don't want to spread misinformation...

For us the additional interior & balcony space of a GS vs JS, as well as access to the SL vs DL, is worth the price of a reasonable RU bid. And FYI internet is included for GS & higher - even on older ships. For our upcoming cruise on Navigator, the RCL vacation planner reminded us of that and reimbursed us for the cost of the VOOM WiFi Internet Pkg we had originally purchased for our Balcony stateroom after we self-upgraded to a suite...

Keep checking the RCL website for a lower price to self-upgrade, perhaps try calling them to see if they can get you a better price. Otherwise, hope you receive a congratulatory email soon that your RU bid was accepted!

FYI Three days after we self-upgraded from Spacious OV Balcony to OS, received an email from RCL saying they cancelled all of our previous RoyalUP Bids due to our reservation change and need to submit a new Bid for upgrading to RS – with a new bidding range: · Royal Suite: $280-$1750pp

Indeed, good advice! Glad to hear you got that sorted out - so which stateroom category did you upgrade from and to?

Makes sense - and you probably still saved overall vs the cost if you had originally booked a JS. Congrats!

😎 And the point I'm trying to make on this RoyalUp forum is that self-upgrade is another option to keep in mind: You may not have to wait for the RoyalUP genie to grant you your wish at the last minute. Keep checking for available inventory on your cruise and you may be able to make that upgrade happen yourself!

...in fact, GS is the highest category we've had on any Royal Caribbean cruise.

Suites have been completely sold out ever since we originally booked a Balcony GTY back in the spring for our 7nt on Navigator of the Seas, but an OS just became available so we called RCL to upgrade from our current Spacious OV Balcony - only paid $239 more than our RoyalUP bid! Looking forward to seeing what an OS is like, since our highest category on Navigator previously was a GS...

The day after we self-upgraded from Balcony to Spacious OV Balcony, received an email from RCL saying they cancelled all of our previous RoyalUP Bids due to our reservation change and need to submit new Bids – with new bidding ranges, but OS & RS added: · Junior Suite: $65-$700pp · Grand Suite 1bdrm: $115-$875pp · Grand Suite 2bdrm: $155-$1050pp · Owners Suite: $190-$1575pp · Royal Suite: $500-$1750pp

Today all of the inventory I mentioned above for our cruise that was previously only available for 3+ppl can now be booked for 2ppl, so we called RCL and self-upgraded from our Balcony to a Spacious OV Balcony in a great location - for no additional charge! (RoyalUp bidding range would have been $75-$630pp).

Hoping you do, too! In the meantime recommend that you keep checking online to see if a better cabin becomes available at a reasonable price so you can self-upgrade. Example: We originally booked a Balcony Guarantee for our cruise next month, then two days later a Balcony stateroom became available in an ideal location but I could not snag it online. So I called RCCL and they were able to book it for us – only cost an additional $40!

Just received my RoyalUP email 2mos prior to our 7nt cruise on Navigator. Current available booking inventory for 2ppl is limited to Interior rooms (Interior & Interior w/Virtual Balcony Guarantee, and a dozen Connecting Promenade Interior), but for 3+ppl there’s a lot of Interior, OV, Balcony and Spacious OV Balcony rooms; unfortunately no Suites ☹️. We originally booked a Balcony Guarantee, then two days later a Balcony stateroom became available in an ideal location but I could not snag it online. So I called RCCL and they were able to book it for me – only cost an additional $40! Here are the categories and bidding ranges I was offered for upgrades: · Spacious OV Balcony: $75-630pp · Junior Suite: $95-$700pp · Grand Suite 1bdrm: $125-$790pp · Grand Suite 2bdrm: $190-$1400pp We like our Balcony location so not interested in bidding on the Spacious OV Balcony (spacious is only an add’l 5sqft according to the room description on RCCL website?). We’ll be pleasantly surprised if we win an upgrade to a Suite since no available inventory is showing at this time…

One tip I just learned - when you check for remaining rooms available on your cruise by searching with the default 1room/2ppl, it only shows double occupancy staterooms. Instead try searching with 3 or 4ppl per room selected. I tried this for our upcoming sailing: Searching with 2ppl selected only showed 1 Interior available - no OV or higher categories. But when I changed my search to 3-4ppl, suddenly the RCCL website showed a lot of OV and Balcony inventory available for booking. So besides last minute cancellations, this is another reason why staterooms become available for RoyalUP: 2ppl are allowed to upgrade into a room normally reserved for 3-4 guests. Check it out and let me know!

Well played - congrats!