Bumping this to see if anyone else has had recent experiences being able to send in their concierge requests prior to PIF? I know the official messaging is that you need to, generally, but it still seems messed up to me that they offered this basically meaningless extension if they do in fact require you to PIF before your booking date, when they moved the booking date even earlier and early booking is one of the big draws of concierge.
We got our reminder email this week letting us know to submit requests for our upcoming Wish cruise. It didn't say anything about making sure to PIF first. We have not PIF yet...I don't really want to pay early if we don't need to, but I'm also nervous that we'll submit our requests and they'll be ignored if we haven't.