Do GTY assignments and Upsells still start about 2 weeks out?

[kangforpres]

Hi-

 

29 days until sailing on the K-dam on 05-07-22 from Vancouver. We have a GTY VH on a casino offer. I'm assuming the Upsells ad GTY assignments still start about 10-14 days out?

 

Thanks, 

 

Paul

 

 

[CruiserBruce]

Upsells are typically done further in advance...sometimes months in advance. GTYs can go out anytime under 30 days, with most under 21 days. Our GTY on KDAM in Feb-March came in at 17 days, perhaps because were were on a B2B, and they needed to lock up the same cabin for two cruises.

[vswan]

I sail on the KDAM this Sunday on a casino offer. Just got the offer to move from a VH today for $199pp to another balcony cabin. Figured for $400 we can look at a lifeboat.

[DaveOKC]

We got our March 27 sailing upsell offer on March 2 ( and quickly accepted it!).

 

[bartexas]

We got an upsell offer today for our cruise departing 5/15, so about 2.5 weeks.

[ninefishes]

We got an Upsell offer yesterday morning for our Rotterdam sailing May 8. So it’s 12 days for us. 

[DaveOKC]

Our March cruise was 4 weeks out for an upsell.

 

[Tracey/Thom]

We got an upsell offer, via email, today - so about 10 days out for us.

[cccole]

So, DaveOKC accepted his upsell offer...anyone else who has responded accepted their offer?  

[IPB4IGO]

6 minutes ago, cccole said:

So, DaveOKC accepted his upsell offer...anyone else who has responded accepted their offer?  

Last Friday we accepted an upsell from a Verandah to a Neptune Suite on our 5/29 cruise. We declined an upsell offer we received a couple days earlier for our 5/15 cruise. So we'll have an Oceanview northbound to Alaska and a aft-wrap Neptune for the southbound trip.

[cccole]

IPB4IGO - an aft wrap seems like an awesome upsell.  Enjoy, Cherie

[seagypsea]

On 4/8/2022 at 11:33 AM, kangforpres said:

Hi-

 

29 days until sailing on the K-dam on 05-07-22 from Vancouver. We have a GTY VH on a casino offer. I'm assuming the Upsells ad GTY assignments still start about 10-14 days out?

 

Thanks, 

 

Paul

 

 

I'm on your cruise.  I just received my GTY cabin assignment this morning, April 28th.  No upsell offer in sight yet.

[nancynana9950]

If the booking was made through a big box store would the upsell offer come from Holland or the agent for the store?

[erin78]

For our cruise departing 5/1, we received an upsell offer on 4/19, which we ignored. We then received one on 4/26, which we accepted. Waiting for the second one saved us $250 per person compared to the original offer.

 

Edited April 28, 2022 by erin78

[molly2kit]

May 7 departure.   Received upsell offer April 21, Thursday.  Have not accepted it. Hoping for another but if it doesn’t come we are in a great room already

[lderochi]

May 15, got an email this morning to go from a Verandah to a Neptune or Signature suite. I’m taking it. 

[DaveOKC]

3 hours ago, nancynana9950 said:

If the booking was made through a big box store would the upsell offer come from Holland or the agent for the store?

Neither - as big box stores do not pass on upsell offers (or so I have been told).  And HAL does not go around outside TAs for this.

 

[IPB4IGO]

I just received the second upsell offer on our 5/15 cruise. It's about 20% better than the first offer, which we received a week ago.

[DaveOKC]

11 minutes ago, IPB4IGO said:

I just received the second upsell offer on our 5/15 cruise. It's about 20% better than the first offer, which we received a week ago.

Thanks for the update on the upsell!  20% is nice, but you run the risk of not getting a second chance so to speak, plus often the better upsell cabins go first.  Did you take the second offer?

 

[albingirl]

4 weeks, then 3 if I don't take the first, then 2 weeks.  Price goes steadily down.  I wait till the end.  Sometimes I don't get any upsell offers.  I always book the cabin I can live with.  Bottom line, make sure you do that.  It's nasty to be in a loud area, like under a galley kitchen.  Ouch.

[IPB4IGO]

3 hours ago, DaveOKC said:

Thanks for the update on the upsell!  20% is nice, but you run the risk of not getting a second chance so to speak, plus often the better upsell cabins go first.  Did you take the second offer?

 

No, I didn't but only because we really want to try an Oceanview cabin for this 7-day cruise.  We prefer longer cruises, so if we like the Oceanview, we can afford to cruise more often!

We did take an upsell to a Neptune Suite on the 5/29 return cruise from Alaska. An aft-wrap Neptune Suite was just too tempting.

[bartexas]

23 hours ago, cccole said:

So, DaveOKC accepted his upsell offer...anyone else who has responded accepted their offer?  

We took ours. The available room was in a comparable location to our original room. When we originally booked, the only Neptunes available were guaranties, so we opted for a Signature in the location we wanted. This trip is our “consolation” prize to ourselves after canceling our Baltic Cruise on Oceania in a Penthouse Suite… we’re still spending thousands less than we had originally set aside.

[DaveOKC]

5 minutes ago, bartexas said:

We took ours. The available room was in a comparable location to our original room. When we originally booked, the only Neptunes available were guaranties, so we opted for a Signature in the location we wanted. This trip is our “consolation” prize to ourselves after canceling our Baltic Cruise on Oceania in a Penthouse Suite… we’re still spending thousands less than we had originally set aside.

Good strategy IMO.  I like to book a Signature suite and then watch for upsells.  On the Vista class ships this has worked almost every time for us, as there are alot of Neptunes on those ships, so they often cannot sell them out.

[lderochi]

Looks like a lot of people took the Upsell on my May 15. There were plenty of Neptune Suites available when I called, 2 days later they were sold out. 

[BlackJack2]

On 4/28/2022 at 12:32 PM, DaveOKC said:

Neither - as big box stores do not pass on upsell offers (or so I have been told).  And HAL does not go around outside TAs for this.

 

Booking our cruise through a big box store - Is there a HAL phone number to call for upsells?