Don't wait for Royal Up email.......

[miyanc]

So I don't believe I am an expert.  I learn more and more everyday.  Today after paying rcl to switch from neighborhood gty to a specific room in the central park I mentioned (to my wife)we should be set until we get the email from royal up. She goes online and there it is.  I have asked and commented on here and about royal up.  I am not going to read thru all the comments, but in each incident every comment I can recall refers to getting the email.  Many people commenting that not everyone gets the email and hence a royal up offer option.  Sure enough if you go to the royal up website and put in last name and res number, there it is.  For me its even there under my XN not the current room we have.  

 

here it is. 

 

https://www.royalcaribbean.com/booked/cruise-room-upgrade  

 

Now I will wait for the system to realize I changed catagories and maybe the costs and choices will change.  

[Biker19]

3 hours ago, miyanc said:

Now I will wait for the system to realize I changed catagories and maybe the costs and choices will change.  

Unlikely - you are in the same category, so the upgrade choices and costs should be the same.

[miyanc]

30 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

Unlikely - you are in the same category, so the upgrade choices and costs should be the same.

we shall see, and again wonderful input.  

[Ashland]

At times we've gotten the email offer and at others I've just gone directly to the website. As far as when you can bid it has varied....some ... yes...at 30 days some as far out as 90 days.

[scottjeanne]

I just tried for a sailing in November and this is the message I received:

 

Please ensure your sailing is within the next 30 days
Please ensure there are no errors in the information you entered

 

So I cannot access it until 30 days prior.

 

Edited August 19, 2022 by scottjeanne
spelling error

[TechDiva]

18 minutes ago, scottjeanne said:

I just tried for a sailing in November and this is the message I received:

 

Please ensure your sailing is within the next 30 days
Please ensure there are no errors in the information you entered

 

So I cannot access it until 30 days prior.

 

My cruise is in less than 30 days and I get this message ☹️

[Mdta]

Try entering it again after that message. Sometimes that works for me.

[vjmatty]

15 hours ago, Biker19 said:

Unlikely - you are in the same category, so the upgrade choices and costs should be the same.

 

Even when I have upgraded to JS from Large OV Balcony over a month before sailing, the Royal Up minimums have not changed.....in fact the site never acknowledged the paid upgrade.  I am thinking it is better to do all of your paid upgrades before your first Royal Up bid.

[Biker19]

10 minutes ago, vjmatty said:

I am thinking it is better to do all of your paid upgrades before your first Royal Up bid.

Your experience might be an outlier. Most of the time, when you change categories, after a few days Royal Up catches up with the new reality and a new set of bid options become available.

[vjmatty]

5 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

Your experience might be an outlier. Most of the time, when you change categories, after a few days Royal Up catches up with the new reality and a new set of bid options become available.

 

Could be.... it was also shortly after the restart so maybe the system hadn't been updated in a while.

[BecciBoo]

Offer emailed last week, made my bid, we are now 38 days out, just want to hurry up and find out if my bid was accepted.  Seems like the last time, I knew well before the cruise, but with so many saying, "I didn't find out until day of the cruise".  It will be murder waiting so long.  The ship is currently almost sold out completely.  I couldn't upgrade even if I wanted to online.

[swmichigan cruiser]

I just got  a Royal Up email offer for a cruise we canceled about two weeks ago. 

[flyguyjake]

We have 3 rooms on our upcoming Sept cruise. We are 35 days out as of today. The suite allowed an upgrade bid from owners to royal, the other 2 rooms got the 30 days message. Does anyone know if suite upgrades are awarded quickly?

[Biker19]

1 hour ago, flyguyjake said:

Does anyone know if suite upgrades are awarded quickly?

Most upgrades are likely to happen at the same time - ask in the Roll Call thread to see if anyone got an upgrade. 

[Tagsalong]

Got this via e-mail yesterday, 3 days before cruise.

 

We have reviewed the RoyalUp bids for your upcoming sailing onboard Mariner of the Seas^®, and while we have not selected your offer yet, the team onboard the ship may choose it for upgrade based on availability at departure time.

You will be able to modify or cancel your bid(s) up to 2 hours before departure on embarkation date. If you do not receive any communication by departure time, your cabin has not been upgraded.
 

[Ashland]

4 hours ago, flyguyjake said:

We have 3 rooms on our upcoming Sept cruise. We are 35 days out as of today. The suite allowed an upgrade bid from owners to royal, the other 2 rooms got the 30 days message. Does anyone know if suite upgrades are awarded quickly?

Our last UpBid from GS to OS came 5 days before we sailed.

[miyanc]

14 hours ago, scottjeanne said:

I just tried for a sailing in November and this is the message I received:

 

Please ensure your sailing is within the next 30 days
Please ensure there are no errors in the information you entered

 

So I cannot access it until 30 days prior.

 

Mine is 45 or so and I have access to royal up

[hmorrow]

On 8/19/2022 at 8:56 AM, scottjeanne said:

I just tried for a sailing in November and this is the message I received:

 

Please ensure your sailing is within the next 30 days
Please ensure there are no errors in the information you entered

 

So I cannot access it until 30 days prior.

 

I got an email, and i'm 60 days out.....

[BecciBoo]

Maybe some will reply to my question???

How long before departure did you get word you were accepted?  For our first I'm pretty sure it was 2 weeks out.

 

Day of Departure

1 week out

2 weeks out

3 weeks out

Or longer 

Not a long discourse just the amount of time please.  Thanks

Edited August 21, 2022 by BecciBoo

[sanchica27]

We just got ours today and we sail in 5 days!

[BLiles1961]

Hi, Becciboo! We received our upgrade 2 days out, because I remember that we had enough time to change out our luggage tags before the drive to Galveston the day before the cruise. Happy sailing!

[birdylady]

On 8/19/2022 at 9:56 AM, scottjeanne said:

I just tried for a sailing in November and this is the message I received:

 

Please ensure your sailing is within the next 30 days
Please ensure there are no errors in the information you entered

 

So I cannot access it until 30 days prior.

 

 

On 8/19/2022 at 10:15 AM, TechDiva said:

My cruise is in less than 30 days and I get this message ☹️

My sailing is 33 days out and I keep getting this message.  Folks on my M&M thread said they already got their email.   Does anyone know what makes a booking eligible or not eligible to bid for a Royal up?

Erika

[vjmatty]

4 minutes ago, birdylady said:

 

My sailing is 33 days out and I keep getting this message.  Folks on my M&M thread said they already got their email.   Does anyone know what makes a booking eligible or not eligible to bid for a Royal up?

Erika

 

If you booked with a big box agency like the one starting with C and ending with O

[Biker19]

30 minutes ago, birdylady said:

Does anyone know what makes a booking eligible or not eligible to bid for a Royal up?

The default is to be eligible, except if booked with some TAs that don’t participate. 

[TechDiva]

1 hour ago, birdylady said:

 

My sailing is 33 days out and I keep getting this message.  Folks on my M&M thread said they already got their email.   Does anyone know what makes a booking eligible or not eligible to bid for a Royal up?

Erika

I was actually able to get into the Royal Up system.  The weird thing is that even though I am the primary person on the booking, I wasn't able to get in until I used my boyfriend's last name (I only decided to try it on a whim).