Upgrading on day of boarding ship.

[GALATEA]

Hi.can anyone let me know if its possible to ask to upgrade as we board.and if so do we do it before we get on the ship or at the dock side.we are off on The Independance Dec.17th xmas cruise.

Thank you. :)

[Sunkissed Mommy]

Very slim to none chance. In the last two years every cruise I have been on (even different lines) have had a sign out that says the ship is full and there are no upgrades available.

 

In the weeks before the trip they are slowly upgrading people based on C&A status and Revenue Department does a few as well. If you don't get a call in advance (which is also rare) don't count on it.

 

Seeing as how your on a Holiday cruise the ship will probably sail full with no room for upgrading people.

[firefly333]

My oasis I got off last saturday said full, no upgrades on a sign at the purser's desk.

[Marie51]

Almost no chance and if there happens to be better cabins avaliable you will have to pay for it.

[TEXASMUNK]

There was a day when you could "negotiate" an upgrade at check-in time. But so many folks found out about it, that it became overused...thus it was eliminated. Now, any cabins that are available, RCI makes outbound calls and tries to sell the highr grade of cabin..sometimes with a discount, but mostly at the "rack rate"

 

Oh, for the good ol' days!

[Aquahound]

I agree with everyone else. Slim to no chance. First, they don't do it at check-in anymore, so that's out. They tell you to inquire on board. Second, every single RCI cruise I have been on in the last couple years has had a sign at the pursers desk saying the ship is full and there are no upgrades.

[The Big Booper]

The only way you can upgrade at the pier is thru the Pier coordinator's desk and that is not free but the surcharge is far less then you would have paid.

 

These are cabins that become available at the last minute such as somebody getting sick with a day or two go or people getting snowed in when flying to the port.

 

This is a separate revenue department and no discounts of any sort are available. You pay the incremental price.

 

We did it in Dec 2010 on our holiday cruise on Explorer out of Bayonne when 500-600 people were snowed in at London Heathrow for days and couldn't arrange alternate transportation. Pricing was very high on this 14 night holiday cruise; an inside balcony was going for $1,500 pp and a D2 for $2,900 pp. The upgrade price was $450 pp and we took it. They don't care what discounts you got when you originally booked (residence, senior, police or fire, etc.) you just pay the incremental price.

 

While the supervisor was filling out the paperwork her assistant said that she had been working at that location for 7 months and this was the first time she had seen all these empty cabins. We knew about the problem because of all the chatter on the roll call thread about the impossibility of getting out of London because the airport management couldn't deal with the snow on the runways. We were at Cape Liberty early that day because we knew what was going to happen. Dozens of us converged on the desk after we had checked in and gotten our Seapass cards.

 

But don't count on it.

[gerif]

The only way you can upgrade at the pier is thru the Pier coordinator's desk and that is not free but the surcharge is far less then you would have paid.

 

These are cabins that become available at the last minute such as somebody getting sick with a day or two go or people getting snowed in when flying to the port.

 

This is a separate revenue department and no discounts of any sort are available. You pay the incremental price.

 

We did it in Dec 2010 on our holiday cruise on Explorer out of Bayonne when 500-600 people were snowed in at London Heathrow for days and couldn't arrange alternate transportation. Pricing was very high on this 14 night holiday cruise; an inside balcony was going for $1,500 pp and a D2 for $2,900 pp. The upgrade price was $450 pp and we took it. They don't care what discounts you got when you originally booked (residence, senior, police or fire, etc.) you just pay the incremental price.

 

While the supervisor was filling out the paperwork her assistant said that she had been working at that location for 7 months and this was the first time she had seen all these empty cabins. We knew about the problem because of all the chatter on the roll call thread about the impossibility of getting out of London because the airport management couldn't deal with the snow on the runways. We were at Cape Liberty early that day because we knew what was going to happen. Dozens of us converged on the desk after we had checked in and gotten our Seapass cards.

 

But don't count on it.

 

Something similar happened when the volcano erupted and people couldn't fly from Europe. However, as noted, barring an unforeseen disaster, don't count on it.

[cruisinfanatic]

Now, any cabins that are available, RCI makes outbound calls and tries to sell the highr grade of cabin..sometimes with a discount, but mostly at the "rack rate"

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since when.

Carnival does it, but never heard of RCL doing it.