If you've been granted a royal up, how close to departure where you?

[shellster1]

I apologize if this has been asked before. I couldn't find anything this specific regarding royal up. I booked about 8 days ago,. I leave this Sunday. A couple days ago, I received the offer to submit bids, so I submitted 5 royal up bids on 5 different cabin types. I don't expect anything, but I admit, I am hopeful. You never know, right? So question is, if you were granted the upgrade, when were you notified? Wondering if there's still hope for me. It says "pending" on all my bids. Thanks in advance. 🙂

 

[shellster1]

Ah! I wasn't paying attention! My question would be, "How close to departure WERE you, not WHERE you." How embarrassing!! lol

[fpcruiser]

two weeks

 

[HicksRA]

No rhyme or reason. You could be notified as late as check in at the port. 

[Biker19]

30 minutes ago, shellster1 said:

 I couldn't find anything this specific regarding royal up.

Do a title filtered search for either Royal up or Royalup, this question comes up weekly and there are at least that many threads on it. 

[Ashland]

I was notified on a Monday morning for the next Monday cruise....so one week out.

[earn]

Ours was about a month before this time but Been closer to sail date in the past.

[cublet]

Hello,

 

At 7.00 on the morning of departure my bids on Anthem still showed as Pending so I cancelled them. I did not want to go on a luggage hunt.

I asked on board when one could realistically find out when an upgrade was successful and was told  not until two hours after departure. 

 

Regards,

 

Cublet

[barbeyg]

A couple were two weeks out.  One was 3 days.

[Biker19]

1 hour ago, cublet said:

I asked on board when one could realistically find out when an upgrade was successful and was told  not until two hours after departure. 

I don't recall anyone reporting that - the denial email comes around that time.

[cruisegirl1]

I recently received the rejection email about 10PM the first night I was already on board!  

 

M

[Ourusualbeach]

50 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

I don't recall anyone reporting that - the denial email comes around that time.

Same thing.  I have never heard of anyone getting a Royal up after boarding the ship.  On one of my cruises there were a lot of people in the FB group not unpacking until they got that rejection letter later in the evening.