Starry Eyes

Unlike the newer Celebrity ships, your connecting door will be inside the cabin. As I recall, on Allure the connecting doors are close to the bathroom/entry. That means there’s impact on the size of your cabin’s furniture, and probably less noise transmission than if the door were across from your bed. I’ve been assigned connecting cabins multiple times from gty bookings without any major issues so far. Often times your neighbor is hoping you will be considerate as much as you hoping they will be. In any case, your TA has chosen the best option currently available. You can do mock bookings to see if a better cabin in your category comes available and if so call your TA to ask for a free swap.

There’s still plenty of time before your Nov 6 cruise. We have a gty booked for Oct 28. Though we can detect an unofficial cabin number in the barcode, we still do not have an official cabin assignment. We are not concerned though; 99.9% sure the cabin assignment will be official sometime in the next 18 days. Then we will be able to print luggage tags. If not, we will have the porters check the manifest before we hand over our bags. I suspect your assignment will also appear before your cruise. And air out that “sour luggage”, LOL. Autocorrect can be funny.

Even with the “Stay Awhile” program offered in some European cruises, passengers still must be out of their staterooms early, as stewards need yo prep those staterooms for new guests. From the original post, the OP does not want to vacate the stateroom early. The stay awhile program might cost more than the “even for a small fee” the OP imagined. Personally, I want to board a ship early on embarkation day and access my cabin relatively soon thereafter. That means I must vacate the cabin early at the end of the cruise so it can be prepped for the next cruise. Judging by the rush of people to their cabins as soon as they are available on embarkation day, many people want early access to their cabins. I suspect the current system will remain, even if the op does not like to get up early.

Another option to consider: find another adult to join your group. That adult could stay in the balcony with two teens. You, your wife. and other two teens are in the suite. That way the teens in the balcony (which is not adjacent to or across the hall from your suite…it is probably far away) are actually supervised by an adult. The teens might hate that….

Since ships have been at full capacity, we have not won a RoyalUp bid for a suite on Oasis or Quantum Class. The minimum bids are also much higher. We moved from a JS to a GS on Mariner last month. I think my odds are very slim for Wonder in Nov and Dec.

Fully acknowledging Royal can manage each cruise differently, I’ll still share the timeline for my for my 11/5 XB booking. At check in 45 days out, no official assignment though cabin # was coded in bar code. Cabin was assigned at 30 days…midship deck 12 My Wonder December cabin is still unassigned. Yours too? If so, happy stalking.😀

Yes, you have to be officially assigned a cabin before you can ask to swap to a different cabin in the exact same category. Many of us use the bar code trick to get an early clue what our assignment when we still do not have an official cabin assignment. It is not an official cabin assignment, so one cannot expect to change cabins based on a bar code. I like using the bar code trick to satisfy my curiosity and to help guide my RoyalUp bids (if we love our the cabin # in the barcode, we might cancel or decrease some RoyalUp bids; OTOH if we are unenthusiastic about the cabin # in the barcode we might add or increase some Royal bids). Both RoyalUp and Gty are best for people who are not picky about location. Those who have specific cabin location needs or desires are better off selecting their own cabins if possible.

People are typically offered the opportunity to bid on more than one category of cabin. For example, a person in an inside cabin might be offered the opportunity to bid on promenade view cabin, virtual balcony cabin, spacious inside cabin, oceanview cabin, spacious oceanview cabin, neighborhood balcony cabin and oceanview balcony cabin. They can bid on all, some or none. A person booked in an inside cabin is unlikely to find suites on their lists of bidding opportunities at this time.

Mariner also has a Johnny Rockets. It is, of course, another casual, lower cost venue, but one should be able to use that as part of the UDP if desired. We don’t opt the UDP on Mariner, but it works for others.

If you get the better assignment, I know you will have earned it (though we know it doesn’t really work that way😉)

I’ve booked a fair number of gty lately and none of my official assignments lately have come before check in. My two November gty cruise assignments (including a Wonder cruise) only show in the barcode; officially those cabins are not yet assigned. It could happen sooner, I suppose, for our Wonder GGG Dec deals, but I am not stalking the app.

No, when you place your bid you agree to accept the upgraded cabin you are assigned. Your previous cabin likely has been assigned to someone else. Maybe. You might be able to switch to another cabin in the exact same category IF any better ones are available…but do not count on that because frequently once RoyalUp upgrades come through, no more cabins in those categories are available, so you are locked into the cabin you are assigned.

I cannot check in on the app while on a cruise. I’m on a ship now. When I follow your instructions (which are quite and exactly what we all would have tried in the past, lol) as if to edit checkin for each of my upcoming cruises, I receive an error message “check in has checked out.” Are you using a VPN?

Fall 2013: Extra point for solo (I’m not certain if the official starting date, perhaps near start of October, 2013)

Indeed. “Nothing exciting” sums up Nassau for people who have been cruising for 20+ years.

Yeah, the first part is all background…folks like you exist and they’d be savvy cruisers. So it’s the last bit that seems off…have you in recent years selected a fall cruise out of NJ “just” because that cruise went to Nassau?

Also do you know anyone who has been sailing for over 20 years, lives on the west coast, and selects a cruise out of NJ “just because” it goes to, um, oh boy, Nassau?!? Hmmmmmmmm….

You behaved duplicitously on the other thread. On this thread you have whipped around accusations of lying with little or no basis. Having observed your behavior, I have no reason to trust the accuracy of your report of your phone call. “Multiple levels of management”…does that mean you got moved from CSR trainee to fully trained CSR to CSR supervisor, LOL? You called because you had read the CC threads, so you knew (or should have known) it probably was a propulsion issue. You knew more than the CSR’s; that’s happened to me plenty of times. No reason to be mean.

You are making a lot of assumptions about a conversation you did not hear. Furthermore, you do not know the current status of that engine. That email says the engine will need maintenance; I don’t think it says the engine is currently “down.” You do not have to assume everyone is lying

Are you having difficulty with reading comprehension today? Or are you so angry you have lost all ability to reason? Let’s review what I posted. The ship is seaworthy; I believe that is true. I suggested the ship can make the max speed it needs this week in the conditions this week. Why would you doubt that? The Captain and HD may reasonably think that is what concerns a passenger on the current sailing. That’s far from dishonesty at every level…stop being a drama queen.

Or the Captain and HD simply thought they were re-assuring a passenger on the current sailing that the ship was completely sea worthy and could make the maximum speeds needed on the current voyage with the expected wind and sea conditions.

Well, that picture does not tell us if one of the four engines needs maintenance, and that certainly would not be the hotel director’s area of expertise. Maybe you could corner the chief engineer next.

From Royal in another Cruise Critic thread “For more context, one of the ship's four engines requires maintenance which impacts our speed. While this impacts our ability to deliver on the original itinerary, we're confident that it will still be an exceptional cruise vacation.”

LOL, that’s almost exactly what I said to DH when I carefully read that cruise contract. Yours was Princess last year. Mine was NCL in 2003. I reset my expectations about itineraries.

Your immature post only reinforces my previous point