If I have two reservations can I bid only once through RoyalUp℠and if accepted, cancel the second reservation and move the guests into the upgraded cabin? A. 00 and see who wins. As an example, on a recent sailing I received a minisuite upgrade offer, but a quick call to the cruise line confirmed that I could move to the mini suite for free as the prices had dropped. We have received several RoyalUp emails for each leg of our B2B on the Liberty. ago. After reading around on Cruise Critic I saw that some people noticed their bid increments could change as the cruise got closer. 16. We found an oceanview GUAR at a reasonable price and in 2 days got an assignment on the 2nd deck of a pretty standard oceanview room. See full list on royalcaribbeanblog. (I’m leaning more towards it won’t be). I'm just over 3 weeks away from my cruise. If you bid $200, you are committing to $400. It was actually less money that we were paying for the Grand Suite. RCI cannot guarantee that both reservations will be upgraded. Hello! I know there are many threads on here relating to Royal up bids but I was unable to find any information on the status changes of a royal up bid. 00 for the upgrade, so the old fashion upgrade will only be an extra 232. Right now, I've bid about $50 pp over the min bid on the JS - and $60pp over the min bid on the GS. You will be able to modify or cancel your bid(s) up to 2 hours before departure on embarkation date. Some people will continue to get that message and be within the 30-day time frame. Participate in mandatory advising each semester while enrolled at Central Piedmont. CheapMess. Won our bid for the one bedroom grand suite at $245 per person. My original bid range was $650 at the lowest, $900 at the maximum. I just wish they would deny my offer or counter so I can bid on an OV room if they're going to deny me a balcony. 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. They bid half way between the lowest and the highest bid. If due to a category change, there are any RoyalUp bids you’d no longer want active, cancel them immediately. We apologize for the trouble, our team is aware of the outage and we are working on resolving the issue as quickly as possible. In just a few simple steps, you could score a fantastic upgrade. See my post above #6651 quoted from the RoyalUp Terms and Conditions. They don't have to have availability because they're only offering up for bid if something opens up. All my bids are now expired except for my bid for an OV Balcony. Submit your “intended major” to Central Piedmont Academic Advisor/Royal Up admissions counselor once you complete 30 transfer credit. Kept checking for notification with no response. you can open your confirmation email you got when you first bid, and click on modify/cancel, when it gets to the next page I no longer have the option to modify or cancel…. The higher one does not necessarily take priority, no. Seems RoyalUp is a really good idea since the ships aren't at full capacity. But I checked my bids and they are all still pending and no cancellation emails. The reason why I’m sharing my experience is because prior to and after the upgrade, I had a ton of questions that I’ve been trying to look. Posted July 12, 2021. ) KLA , WAAAYTOOO , PPPJJ-GCVAB and 3 others. Bid for Grand Suite shows expired Bid for Junior Suite shows pending Called Royal and they have no idea what the expired term mean, Royal up is outsourced to an outside company which handles the upgrades. Then Balcony RU to > JR Suite $400. However, our pending status resulted in an email stating that our offer would be “reviewed onboard. In total, I spent $1800 for my husband and I to have an unobstructed balcony on the Liberty after the RoyalUp was accepted. As you get closer to your sail date, the Royal Up status may change. Posted December 8, 2022. So I quickly went online to cancel The Key. You get to keep the promotions you already have based on the stateroom category originally booked. That still has me scratching my head… I believe they limited the upgrades to one step up 🤷♂️Or did you get an invitation to participate in RoyalUp, and those are the minimum bids? You have a great cabin, but for $90pp, I would switch to a grand suite in a heart beat, with all of the additional perks. I also tried grand suite (1BR). I was awarded the Panoramic ocean view today, 3 days prior to sailing, so 80 bucks total for the upgrade. Accepted Bid Tree. This works great for a family of four; you. 41. To receive an email invitation to bid on a stateroom upgrade guest must be opted-in to RCI Marketing e-mails. . I guess we'll find out in a few weeks. Inside RU to > Balcony $200. I purchased a Jr Suite GTY and was assigned a Jr. 6k March 6, 2013 #23 Share; Posted September 13, 2019. We can’t even re-bid on the expired rooms. Surprisingly, I bid a little higher on the same rooms that was available, and I ending up winning a grand suite on the quantum. 12. Location-Michigan. So, if there was a $100 minimum, you could not bid $101 or similar. Check on the Royal Up website to determine if you are eligible for an upgrade. We found an oceanview GUAR at a reasonable price and in 2 days got an assignment on the 2nd deck of a pretty standard oceanview room. You have to slide up the segment. JS went from $150 to $50 and GS dropped from $250 to $150. Just google "royalup bid" and you'll see a link where you can enter your name and reservation number, and it should let you bid right now. You may modify or cancel your offer up until 2 days prior to departure, provided that your offer has not already been accepted by RCI and provided your credit card has not been charged. That’s how I manage to upgrade sometime and canceling my RoyalUp bid because. The RoyalUp system is based around paying for two passengers. It took our D concierge about 20 minutes on the phone to straighten it out for us and. The min bid was only $15 and we bid a tiny bit more. We are cruising on Sunday and submitted a bid that was a bit more than I might normally bid, hoping that the low capacity might help. 8. 7 minutes ago, MISSGJ said: Can you receive a Royal Bid Upgrade acceptance right up until boarding also? Yes. We successfully had a RoyalUp accepted for a 5 day cruise on Marnier in late March 2022. title}} {{notification. ago. Perks are only for whomever is booked in the room that wins the bid. Royal Caribbean makes it easy to take a shot. I looked through the (very long) RoyalUP thread for a while but I couldn't find anyone else that seems to have had this issue. 4 days til cruise day! I just checked my upcoming offers/bids and it works but it probably didn't yesterday. It's now three weeks out from the latest cruise I've bid on, a nine day Southern Caribbean aboard Explorer of the Seas. Posted December 14, 2022. In these cases, I don’t consider Royalup an option. Oklahoma City. We booked on OV cabin and bid on balcony and all suite categories except the Royal Suite. For more details about RoyalUp℠, click here. virtual balcony min 25$ pp I offered 70$ pp and is willing to pay more. Thank you so much for passing this along. I went in and added minimum bids for the Grand Suite and the Crown. All that said we got our bid rejection on our last cruise after we boarded. Get support by Phone or Email. Discussion. Currently bid for upgrades on Sept 19th Harmony. Our Royal up bid was accepted two days ago. If a cabin in one of your chosen categories is available and your bid is "right", only one of the bids will be. If your bid gets accepted on Royalup and then you need to cancel the cruise is the Royalup portion refundable. So they did. So you never know. We booked a spacious ocean view balcony and I was very happy with the room we selected, but put in a bid on a junior suite when I first got the Royal Up e-mail. We put it a $100pp on a balcony and a $110pp on the ultra spacious, we won the spacious. That left me with RoyalUp. Just like a Royal Caribbean® adventures — the possibilities are endless. Posted February 8. 883. Quantum of the Seas Royal Loft Suite (Photo courtesy of Royal Caribbean) Royal Caribbean offers a pretty cool bid-based cabin upgrade program called RoyalUp. We just won a Junior Suite RoyalUp bid on the Odyssey of the Seas departing Nov. That makes no sense that my Royalup money is lost forever. March 29, 2017. One is a large ocean balcony and one is a Central Park balcony. The last one that we won was the GS to OS on Jewel in December. Introducing RoyalUp – a new bid-based stateroom upgrade program. Now if only my COVID test is negative. We bid $150 per person for ocean view and $200 for balcony for a 3 day cruise. If someone else does that there will be no ATS available for awarding through RoyalUp. So for those curious about RoyalUp Bids after Covid, I am pretty sure mine was just accepted. Reservations cancel all the time. My bid was right in the middle of the "Fair" category. Suite. 1) some of the categories listed for bid are not actually available. Posted November 15, 2022. The cruise is on the Anthem from Bayonne NJ on December 12…so, five days from embarkation day. I think the vague wording in RoyalUp website understandable confuses some people. All RoyalUp bids are chances and, in most cases, low. There's a Royal Up opportunity to bid on the " Ocean View Suite - 2 Bedroom (No Balcony)" that has two separate bedrooms, two baths, and while it affords suite benefits, they're not as impressive as what you'd get on some of the larger vessels. The other says "Pending. My bid was $105, a very weak bid according to their meter😂😂😂😂. Good luck @tonyfsu21 ! We have placed many RoyalUp bids too, some midway (didn't win), some max bids (also didn't win), and we got lucky on Wonder with a minimum bid!A passenger in an Oceanview bid $100 to upgrade to a balcony. In just a few simple steps, you could score a fantastic upgrade, from Ocean View and Balcony staterooms to the most expansive suites at sea. Notaboat. When I log into the royal carribean web site, there was a link on my home page showing my bid status, but now that’s gone. 5. Royal Caribbean. 2022 is starting off strong!Ashland. But there is probably no benefit to bid early. One of mine progressed to the "expired and pending" stage before becoming unavailable, and I only now 3 hours after departure got the decline email. And then received another email to "Act Now" and submit bids again on Sunday (7/18). You can share experiences and ask questions. Hi everyone, I'll be sailing in Jan 2022, 4D3N on Quantum of the Seas and was wondering if anyone knew what are the minimum bids from a Grand Suite 1 Bedroom to the other suites? (i. There was a CC poster a few weeks ago who told a story about receiving a email, getting moved from an OV cabin to a spacious balcony, and having never canceled his original RoyalUp bid, he received a RoyalUp acceptance for a standard balcony (he was charged though he lost the free space he’d been given!). So, thinking of using this S$1,300 to bid for suites. Successful RoyalUp Bid. We booked an interior stateroom, and put in what I'd consider fair bids for all the options, namely $150pp ($300 total) for a balcony to $50pp for a promenade view interior. For more details about RoyalUp℠, click here. About a week before our bid was accepted, all of our bids became expired and our winning bid became uneditable despite still being pending. {{alert. e. That's great! We are also going to be on Oasis (3/6). Originally booked a guaranteed interior, offered to bid on several categories up to Ocean View Balcony, which was our highest bid at $150. We are comped in an Interior room & fine with that, but a good deal on a larger room & I could be convinced. If it says pending…it’s still active. 3 yr. The last one that we won was the GS to OS on Jewel in December. The original cost of our balcony room was around $1,100 for two people, then we offered $1,200 per person and won the Grand Suite. If you are eligible, you’ll be able to submit bids for your upcoming sailing. This way I got to choose. The royal up bid is capped at 2 people regardless of the. Our upcoming cruise was sold out, with only an occasional inside gty popping up over the couple weeks, so I did not expect my RoyalUp bids to succeed. Is it worth it to update to a spacious ocean view balcony for $325/pp or $450/pp for Ultra spacious ocean view w/large balcony?What happens with the promotions I already have if I am upgraded through RoyalUp℠? A. Balcony to JS; JS to GS; GS to OS. October 31, 2004. How much do I bid through RoyalUp if my reservation includes more than 2 guests? A. You can't go by current inventory to judge if you will win a bid. . #1. They may still take bids for an ATS just in case another booking changes their mind at the last minute but there is no guarantee that will happen. Oh yes 100% worth it. We have cancelled week-of-cruise 3 or 4 times due to other commitments. Or maybe we would be the beneficiaries. 2. We thought it would be great to move from our balcony to a Junior Suite after a long respite from cruises. AHollyS. You bid on the Royal suite. Just like a Royal Caribbean® adventure, the. Pattycruise , USCG Teacher and Carlos A. Bid whatever YOU feel the cost is worth to YOU. If the Offer is accepted, the difference between the original and upgraded stateroom gratuities (if applicable) will be automatically applied to all guests (the. That price was worth it for us. So, even with ships showing sold out, it can still happen. Well I checked Royal this morning and got my double points. Making a bid on multiple rooms will increase your chances of getting upgraded, but. OUR LARGEST SHIPS. •. Prior to your cruise, you may have the option to place a bid with Royal Up to get a room upgrade. The minimum bid is $50 per adult; the max is $400. 2. Does anyone has any experience of RoyalUp for such a situation? Care to share please? Have booked Balcony room but I should have additional budget of S$1,300 to play with. Although we would almost double our cost, we got such a great deal on this cruise that if we got the upgrade, it still would be a good deal. Then, you’ll be notified via email if your bid was accepted. The lowest bid was $130. BTW, there were no OS showing as available when we. It's all about revenue. We bid on upgrades any time we have a single cruise booked. 2k. I bid on a (RoyalUp) GS, and today that bid was accepted. The Royal Caribbean RoyalUp program acts as an auction for unsold cabins. . I'm looking at Royal Up for our 5 day Adventure OS cruise & min bid prices are MUCH lower than on our Apex cruise last month, particularly for suites. I think that would be confusing. Hey guys! So I just snagged a Suite Guarantee, I am assuming its a Junior Suite, and today I can see the following categories that I can bid on: Grand Suite $0 - $700 Grand Suite - 2 Bedroom $0 - $910 Owner’s Suite $0 - $980 Royal Suite $0 - $700 I have never done a. Got notified yesterday afternoon that we got the Owners Suite, so about 5 days notice. It is also refundable OBC which means if its not spent it will get refunded to your card the last day. Guests will receive an email if their sailing is eligible and they will have the opportunity to browse through staterooms available for upgrade on their sailing. We only went from an interior to a promenade view and the bid was something like $15pp. If it’s off season or not a holiday just bid what you are comfortable with understanding what the actual cost of a balcony pp was when you originally booked. This exclusive offer does not guarantee an upgrade. If the vacant suite is an OS, the bid from a person in a GS may not look impressive in isolation, but there is a nice bid for a GS from a JS dweller, and a nice bid for the JS from a balcony dweller, etc. On the RoyalUp for Allure May 8, the 2 Bdrm AQ is very dated and not as shown in the pic. If you win your bid, you will get an email notifying you that your card cannot be processed and it will direct you to a web page where you can put in the new credit card. Dec 17, 2018 - Final payment due. The min to max bid will be depending on a ton of factors never known to us. Meanwhile, if I had placed a bid on a Guarantee Ocean View through RoyalUp, I would have had to bid a minimum of $30 per person for the weakest bid possible. RoyalUp. RoyalUp begins on November 28, 2018. Checking for folks opinions here on our Royal Up Bids. Royal Up is usually available once your final. 2) Passengers should always compare the fare already paid to the desired upgrade. Just before I got the RoyalUp e-mail, I noticed some interiors had appeared (as had other categories) and I was just about to text my TA to try to move us. But this wasn’t welcome news for the couple. On 11/15/2022 at 7:35 AM, Gears said: Just notified we were upgraded (RoyalUp) on our Nov 26th, 5 night Mariner cruise from a deck 2 ocean view to a deck 12 panorama ocean view. The starting bid for a Junior suite is $250/pp and a one bedroom Grand suite is $700/pp. If eligible, guests will receive an email that. Monitoring the status of your bid: You can monitor the status of your bids by going to the confirmation email you received when you placed them initially and click on "Modify/cancel bid". I called C&A and ask to switch to deck 8 as it is a personal favorite; when rep commented about late switch, I told her it was a RoyalUp assignment…it created no issue swapping cabins. I think the chance of winning that bid at $90 is very close to zero. As an example, we could could have upgraded (not RoyalUp, straight upgrade) to a balcony for a steal of a total price recently but we never use our balcony when we have one so we just kept our interior and used the money for things we do value. Keep in mind the bids seem to reflect what the original fare paid was - so let’s say your minimum was $150 a person and you bid $300 ($600) total. We have an ocean view balcony stateroom for our May, 2022 Symphony sailing. We do get copied on SOME of the emails for the RoyalUp program, but not always. In the closing days a few cabin are for sale, probably due the flight cancellations. Just a point of personal reference: we only bid when we are on an Oasis class ship, and then only on a cabin category where there are no undesirable cabins - i. The difference between what I purchased and a Jr suite was $3000. 2 hours ago, rritter25 said: I found out earlier today that I won a RoyalUp from an interior promenade view room to a junior suite! The bid was $320 which was around the minimum bid required. Sailing is 7N Voyager ots on August 21 out of Copenhagen. April 8, 2015. Yep, as long as you are fine with your current room but wouldn't mind an upgrade this is a great option. We always note the price (do a dummy booking) of potential suite upgrades when we book. JS min is like $50 and GS is like $100 and a little higher for GS w/ Large Balcony. The first bid I won was on Anthem from balcony to JS with a near min bid, maybe 10% over min (like 220 on a min 200pp). Yesterday, I noticed that all bids had 'expired' except for the 1 bedroom GS which is still 'pending'. On 5/15/2023 at 2:51 PM, Nikolas said: Hello, I placed 6 bids ( 1 day ago ) on rooms for my upcoming trip on harmony of the seas Aug 12-19 as bidding just opened yesterday. And, with the Royal Up, everyone moves up. Question: Which bid gets accepted in Royalup program? So I made multiple bids in the Royal up program, and I know they just charge you with which ever one you get, but does it go by the “better room” if you make multiple bids. Royal Caribbean’s RoyalUp bidding program involves the cruise line offering guests the chance to bid for an upgraded stateroom category by submitting a minimum bid. RoyalUp, as it's called, enables cruisers to place bids for upgrades into any higher level room. LocationNear Southampton, UK. 2k. We bid on an Ocean View Balcony. #8. As an example, we could could have upgraded (not RoyalUp, straight upgrade) to a balcony for a steal of a total price recently but we never use our balcony when we have one so we just kept our interior and used the money for things we do value. 6k. Lowest bid to upgrade to Star Class is $900 PP for the ATS 2 BR. ago. So for a very overly simplistic example, if there are 2 bids for a RS, and a GS bid $600 and a JS bid $500. USA. Here’s my take: RoyalUp is considering your pending bid, and they’d rather you did not alter it while they do so. Then last month, got a $200 per person upgrade from a 1 bedroom grand suite to a 2-bedroom. Bids are usually good until 48hrs before sailing. We bid agressively, hsuband really wanted the room. Prices are similar for my 10/3 Odyssey sailing. A lot of people on my cruise are already getting notified of their winning bids, but mine says “pending” and I can’t edit or cancel it. For example we have a CLS for our August Allure cruise and. The bids required to do that are anyone's guess. Royal will look at the entire set of available cabins and RoyalUp bids and accept the combination of bids that will make them the most amount of money. A. Location: Minnesota. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment . (Balcony) Checked the royal up link. Posted July 13. Initially booked bargain basement guaranteed interior stateroom on the 1/28 Nav, put in simultaneous bids of $30/$60 total for an Ocean View, $40/$80 total for a "Spacious" Panoramic Ocean View, Ocean View bid expired, got the Panoramic room, comparing rack rates seems to be about $80 savings from legit upgrade. Called RCL to see if I could and they told me no unless I received the Royal Up email. Location: Outside Orlando, FL (Near Matt) Posted June 10, 2022. *. I just used her last name and our reservation to put in a very very small bid just to see if it may work even though we already have been randomly upgraded from interior to a. “Great news! We also want to invite you to participate in our RoyalUp program, where you can bid on an upgraded stateroom for your sailing. Posted October 4, 2021. 55 minutes ago, SouthShore 5 said: Good Morning, I received an email that we are eligible to bid on an upgrade. Related:. August 14, 2008. August 2, 2011. Now that sailings are at full capacity and inventory on the website often shows multiple stateroom categories as sold out, are there any recent success stories out there?Yeah. The Loyalty Ambassador and Concierge and Hotel Floor Supervisor worked. I am sure I won't bother to bid for an upgrade. Thank you! I can't say for certain but my guess, based on my own experience, is that they award them highest to lowest bids starting a couple weeks out and do a few every day to leave room for any new bookings. Request was made 8 December 2021. In January we bid (just over minimum) for a Crown Loft Suite on Oasis and got it. Solariati • 1 yr. The RoyalUp℠ upgrade program provides booked guests with an opportunity to submit an offer (an “Offer”) to Royal Caribbean International® (RCI) to upgrade from the original RCI stateroom category purchased to a higher stateroom category (the “Program”). We didn't participate because the only cabins available for upgrade from our balcony were 'mini-suites' and suites in the Haven and the 'dial' indicating whether a potential bid was a good one, didn't turn 'green' unless we bid at least $350 pp. We sail on April 23rd and haven’t heard anything from RoyalUp. get a better cabin for a few hundred dollars more than my original cost which was many hundreds less than. The RoyalUp program seems to state quite clearly that I can cancel or modify my bid up to 2 days prior to the sailing. I just received the email for the RoyalUp. For it to maximize potential revenue for RCCL, they will always need to have a much wider bucket of offers to choose from. On 3/4/2020 at 9:00 PM, RWDW1204 said: Just got our RoyalUp email today, 59 days out. ago. It likely won't go through, but after a week with his parents, our son would probably benefit with his own bedroom. Members. I'm wondering if they've changed the terminology to avoid issues with guests thinking their bids are being accepted when they have not. And I can’t even bid on. This is done so that there are bids to fill through the line of succession. Suite GoldenBalconyROYAL UP - YOUR UPGRADE IS A BID AWAY Welcome to RoyalUp. Good luck !! Quote;. We are considering placing a bid through Royal Up for our upcoming cruise on Oasis, and I'm wondering if anyone won a bid and ended up regretting it? It seems like you might end up with the lesser desired rooms in a higher category, like those with noise issues or an. Up until yesterday, the status showed as pending which I thought was the default status until either accepted our. RoyalUp Status. It was amazing. The minimum bids had been reduced $35 to $90 pp. ” Depends on capacity, how bad you want the upgrade, and how much you’re willing to spend. You can't combine two smaller rooms into one large room if you win the bid. Looking yesterday prices had gone back down on our cruise and we got a guaranteed balcony for $209. Back in September, on Harmony, my highest upgrade choice from a boardwalk view balcony was a JS and they wanted a minimum bid of $300 pp (I passed). If I wanted to bid on that the. In just a few simple steps, you could score a fantastic upgrade, from Ocean View and Balcony staterooms to the most expansive suites at sea. So I got an email that I can RoyalUp to either a Junior Suite, an OceanView-No Balcony 2 BR or a Spacious Balcony room from a regular balcony ocean view room. Baked Alaska; 1 Quote; Link to comment Share on other sites. I received the email for the 12/5 Allure sailing on October 6 and again on November 28. Yet, I placed my bids on Tuesday (7/13) and received confirmation of my bid requests on Wednesday (7/14). I believe the min bid amount was $800-900 per person. Royal Caribbean suggested I bid on multiple rooms to increase my chances of an upgrade. Royal Caribbean’s RoyalUp Bid is a bidding program that allows you to upgrade your cabin to a higher cabin category at a lower cost than a traditional cabin upgrade. Two days later I had a Royal Up invitation in my email my TA advised Royal still had 12 grand suites unsold so I bid $1,800 dollars and yesterday morning bam bid accepted. Royal Up (loss) (bid options) Just for stats. Posted November 28, 2021. The only reason I even bid was because we knew from the bar code trick we were going to be assigned the only spot we really prefer to avoid. I would have. RoyalUp is a stateroom bidding program offered by Royal Caribbean. See the example below - (I did not bid on these) RoyalUp emails are floating into inboxes now. We just received our Royal Up. Then Jr Suite RU to > GS = $700. But forgot to mention that not everyone will qualify for a RoyalUp. In that case, we had an interior, the balcony room was a $75pp minimum and spacious (literally 5 sq ft more) was a $80pp minimum. With more than 2, it is nice to have space to spread out. So let's look at two Royal Up "Tree" scenarios, and why one scenario might get chosen over another, despite someone getting an OS for $100. our Royal up bid for our cruise to Catalina and Ensenada in October was accepted. Disabling the online cancel/modify function, discourages you from doing so. We are booked on Oasis for the 12/19-12/26 sailing next week, got another request to Royal Up bid, issue is we have 2 rooms, what happens if i bid on a 2 bedroom grand suite and we win, we no longer need the 2 rooms since the grand suite has 2 rooms, anyone have that experience?BID YOUR WAY TO A CRUISE UPGRADE. my oct cruise just took a nose dive so i guess no one is booking. I would guess there is a cost to travel agents for working with RoyalUp. The minimum could be $100 (per person) with $10 or so increments. . Posted November 16 (edited) Yeah, we got our Royal Up email last week for our 1/7/23 cruise and submitted a bid. The bid applies for the first 2 people on the reservation, but everyone on the reservation is upgraded to the new cabin if the bid is successful. Bid for an upgrade. DESCUBRE MÁS. $700 ($350/person) for a scenic balcony from an interior on an Alaska cruise. com In trying to answer the question of how to increase your chances of winning a Royal Up bid, the answer is simply luck. I always tell him it will never happen. We did a RoyalUP bid from a JS to a CLS, and they put us in one dead center in the back of the ship with literally no view of the sea. From marketing materials to ship information, begin exploring how you can become an expert on Icon! This is the Icon of Vacations℠ — arriving January 2024. When booking two cabins, we need them to be in close proximity. I had also bid $200 on a "Ultra Spacious Ocean View with Large Balcony", and that was not accepted. Members. Michelle Couch-Friedman. Let’s assume the cruise is refundable. I just got the Congratulations email, got our Royal Up for our July 16 Symphony cruise. I'm a Diamond Plus. #1. In just a few simple steps, you could score a fantastic upgrade, from Ocean View and Balcony staterooms to the most expansive suites at sea. In my experience trying out RoyalUp myself and talking with many other cruise fans, it's quite clear that there is no consistent strategy to actually winning a bid. Received a Royal Up e-mail for our May 03, 2020 Harmony cruise. My cruise is over 40 days away. Royal Caribbean is introducing a new bid-based stateroom upgrade program, known as RoyalUp. Last month, I made a couple of royal up bids for my upcoming cruise on Ovation. You'd get double points if you did a bid from a JS or above. Bid mostly minimums but one got accepted on this thread for a similar amount. On 4/6/2019 at 12:55 PM, F1guynz said: We got an email about 3 months ago saying the Royal Up programme was available in Australia/New Zealand. I wanted a junior suite, but it was more than double.