Stateroom hopping after booking

[Dug720]

Me! I'm still trying to move several of our crew but with adjoining rooms it's super hard! Hope at PIF date things open up.

Adjoining rooms are pretty easy since that just means next to each other or across the hall from each other.

Now, if you mean a door in between - which is CONNECTING - that makes it more of a challenge.

 

[braysmommy]

Yes, I do to and it has saved us thousands! On our Panama Canal a cancelled booking, made opening day, after final payment and rebooked a VGT room saving us almost 3,000. Last year on Southern I had booked oceanview when gold could book the day before they were made public. Next morning I looked and cabin category one below ours was 2,400 cheaper, a price glitch, so we quickly changed it before DCL figured it out.

 

[disneyholic family]

After booking our latest cruise a month ago, I decided to start checking stateroom availability several times a day because I wasn't 100% sure on the choice we made. I have found a more desirable room location in our category open up sporadically and quickly switched to claim that room online. So far I have jockeyed my way twice this month to much better real estate at the same price. I never thought to do this in the past because I assumed rooms didn't change up so frequently, but during this month long obsession I've witnessed at least a dozen previously sold rooms in our category quickly open up and then get claimed. Anyone else play this game?

i did it once when i wasn't totally happy with the original location....
and i did succeed in getting us closer to the midship elevators (what i was aiming for)...

 

[cheermom2four]

Yes, Ive driven my TA crazy. On our upcoming cruise, we booked two cabins right up front and put all the people we wanted in them upfront just in case there wasnt room later on. They were both inside rooms. Then I changed one of them to a window view and the other was still an inside. Then we changed again as my dh said no to anything but a verandah cabin as he needs the outdoors readily available a few steps from getting out of bed (claustophobic a little). Then our staterooms were too far apart so I changed yet again to connecting verandah rooms once two connecting cabins opened up as our kids are with us and even though they are adults (3 of them) we wanted to have connecting so we could open up the divider on the verandah and between the cabins. I'm happy now and wont be switching as its hard to find staterooms that connect AND hold the amount of people per stateroom that we need. My TA thank goodness was a good sport even though she said I was the first to change my mind so many times. Once or twice but never the amount I have.

 

[dtrain]

Seems I'm not the only one! I should probably note some specifics for perspective. This is for the Oct. 15th Halloween on the High Seas Wonder cruise out of San Diego, and when I wanted to book it during our cruise in January there were NO Verandahs available as per the agent on The Fantasy. I was surprised since the sailing was over 9 months away but it is what it is. He suggested booking an Oceanview at the time and I decided to just buy the $250 placeholder and try my luck when I got home. Eventually I saw an AFT obstructed verandah white wall 06A appear (6150) and grabbed it by calling DCL. I didn't really want to be so far back AFT but it was the only one. That's when I started this craziness and realized that I could now move rooms through my reservation without assistance. I have jumped forward a couple rooms in 06A, then switched to a Navigator's Verandah a few rooms forward and up a deck (07A is $300 cheaper and we're fine without having a fully open balcony) and again further forward. I've managed to work my way up to 7620 with a Navigator's Verandah which I think will suffice for us being a little bit removed from severe AFT and it's at a price point we're comfortable with. It was nice to have the Place Holder benefits available and I can't see myself ever not buying it from now on. So yeah, that's where I'm at but still lurking in case something better comes up.

 

[texasgingerbread]

Adjoining rooms are pretty easy since that just means next to each other or across the hall from each other.

Now, if you mean a door in between - which is CONNECTING - that makes it more of a challenge.

Oops, I mean connecting. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Dug720]

Oops, I mean connecting. Thanks for the clarification.

It's ok. It's a common mistake - that leads to a lot of arguments at hotel front desks when someone gets what they asked for - adjoining - but they really wanted connecting.

 

[dtrain]

From what I can find, it seems that I've actually scored a Secret Verandah room by getting 7620 on the Wonder! This has been an amazing month of room jumping and I'm now finished as this appears to be the best deal around for a budget Veradah!

 

[Mil leech]

Kind of a strange question. If there are cancellations, does the website update all day or is there a certain time of day to look like first thing in the morning. Wondering how crazy I have to be as my PIF date is 11 days away so I am stalking the website.