Switching rooms with my Mom?

[KellySaysFloss]

We are sailing on the Beyond next month and my husband booked 2 Aft sunset verandah rooms - one for us and one next to us for my Mom. There is a chance that her bed will be near the balcony - which she doesn't want, and we think ours is next to the couch. So, my question is, has anybody ever switched rooms (both booked by the same person) once onboard and was the process easy - new room keys, etc? We would goto guess services as soon as we confirm the bed placement, we wouldn't just switch rooms without notifying anyone. Thank you 🙂 

[jelayne]

What cabin #s.  Easy way to determine is cabins with a square or triangle have the bed by the bath.  The cabins are units if 2 and alternate bed by balcony, bed by bath.  Find a cabin with a square or triangle and count from there.  
On the Beyond deck plan using deck 8 as an example, cabins 8334, 8343, & 8339 have the bed by the bath. 

[KellySaysFloss]

I am just curious if anyone has done this before and if it was possible and if it was a giant hassle... We know that one room has bed next to balcony and the other does not, but I just wanted to ask if anyone has been in the same situation. We will just figure it out when we get onboard 🙂 

 

[kwokpot]

25 minutes ago, KellySaysFloss said:

I am just curious if anyone has done this before and if it was possible and if it was a giant hassle... We know that one room has bed next to balcony and the other does not, but I just wanted to ask if anyone has been in the same situation. We will just figure it out when we get onboard 🙂 

 

Yes. We have done this and it isn't an issue. You can go to Guest Relations and get extra keys for the other rooms. So you would use the new keys to get into and out of the cabin and your original keys when ordering drinks, disembarking the ship at the ports, etc. In other words the new keys are solely for getting and out of the exchanged room. Everything else you need to use your original keys. So it means you'll need to carry 2 sets of keys. You can add a label to the new keys to make it easier to indicate which key is for room entry only.

 

Having said that if the sole reason you might want to change rooms is bed placement then TBH waiting until you get onboard is a stupid way to do it since you can know RIGHT NOW what the bed placement is in each room and make you decision NOW. Just look at the Celebrity deck plans and look at your rooms and look at where there's a nook or notch in the cabin walls. If the little nook is near the window then the bed is by the window. If the little nook is closer to the middle of the room, then the bed is by the bathroom. This method is 100% accurate.

There can be many other reasons you want to change rooms with other people you're traveling with that may necessitate you being in the room until you decide, but bed placement is something you can know now. 

 

Edited February 21 by kwokpot

[CardowMD]

The extra key cards used to be marked Extra, we got an extra key for my mom’s cabin so we could get in and check on her. I was just looking thru Cruise cards and found a couple of these… unfortunately mom is no longer around to cruise with us, but she introduced us to cruisingin 1994. 

[Tudy]

We recently switched cabins with friends of ours who were traveling on a B2B with us. We added another B to our cruises, they did not. Their cabin was available for the 3rd cruise, so we switched for the first 2 so that we did not need to change rooms after the second cruise. (Does that make sense)?

 

I called our travel agent and he called Celebrity and switched. Easy-peasy, at least for us.

I recommend finding out what the bed placement is, and if necessary call your TA or Celebrity, if you booked direct, and have it switched before you cruise. It's easier that way.

 

If your cruise docs are already available, you will need to ask to have them updated so that your luggage tags are correct. If you all are traveling to the port together, this is not as important because you can each print out luggage tags and just swap.

 

[lynncarol]

My husband and I have done this before with our adult kids.  No problem at all if it is in one booking.  Just go to Guest Services to switch rooms. 

[kwokpot]

1 hour ago, lynncarol said:

My husband and I have done this before with our adult kids.  No problem at all if it is in one booking.  Just go to Guest Services to switch rooms. 

In the OP's situation if they are they same room type it makes it easier to have the ship officially switch rooms. In my situation last year on the Solstice it was a bit more complicated. I was traveling with my sister and her husband. I had a casino complementary Veranda which I had my sister as the 2nd occupant. My husband had a casino complimentary Concierge Class room that included a classic beverage package and free wifi, and my husband added my BIL to his room. So I needed to switch cabins with my BIL. Given the cabins types and benefits were different and the benefits are assigned to the individual that was initially booked in the cabin, we couldn't have the ship officially switch two passengers. So we ended up just getting extra keys for me and my BIL to use to get in and out of our new cabins, but use our original key cards for all other transactions.  

[lynncarol]

@kwokpot ---you make a good point.  If the persons changing cabins have different status onboard, then you are correct, just get extra keys for the cabins and use your original ones for drinks, charges onboard and etc. 

[sharpie13]

On 2/20/2024 at 4:15 PM, kwokpot said:

Yes. We have done this and it isn't an issue. You can go to Guest Relations and get extra keys for the other rooms. So you would use the new keys to get into and out of the cabin and your original keys when ordering drinks, disembarking the ship at the ports, etc. In other words the new keys are solely for getting and out of the exchanged room. Everything else you need to use your original keys. So it means you'll need to carry 2 sets of keys. You can add a label to the new keys to make it easier to indicate which key is for room entry only.

 

Having said that if the sole reason you might want to change rooms is bed placement then TBH waiting until you get onboard is a stupid way to do it since you can know RIGHT NOW what the bed placement is in each room and make you decision NOW. Just look at the Celebrity deck plans and look at your rooms and look at where there's a nook or notch in the cabin walls. If the little nook is near the window then the bed is by the window. If the little nook is closer to the middle of the room, then the bed is by the bathroom. This method is 100% accurate.

There can be many other reasons you want to change rooms with other people you're traveling with that may necessitate you being in the room until you decide, but bed placement is something you can know now. 

 

Exactly!  We’ve done this once and it wasn’t an issue.