Does anyone have experience with bidding for a cabin upgrade?

We sailed on the Norwegian Dawn 10-night southern Caribbean itinerary this past February. We booked a family mini-suite with balcony. Put in a minimum bid ($600/pp, $1,200 total) on a 2-bedroom family suite with balcony, and to my great surprise, we actually got it.

nice article!

Thank you!

I've bid, but have never received an upgrade. I'm pretty sure it is because I bid too low.

Well done Sarah

Here's the article we ended up with on the topic! https://cruiseline.com/advice/cruising-101/beyond-the-basics/secret-cabin-bidding-process-cruisers-don-t-know-about

Well said and a shorter version...only thing I've found that really benefits us (as well as "them") are those NCL CRUISENEXT COUPONS...because of a certain extra we go out of our way to purchase onboard. this immediately offsets it, and when we use 2 per every cruise, well...I actually had to work out a kind of "spreadsheet" with little arrows and such to keep track of em. Its become serious money. Better than upgrades IMHO.

Bummer dude. We were on Anthem last November and were able to upgrade simply because there was a drop in price. So looks like they have now adopted the NCL way which in my opinion benefits only the cruise line. My advise or my 2 cents worth (which in these days of inflation and taxation buys little) book the cabin you want right from the start

Norwegian Bliss sent us offer, we responded with $25 more p/p, then couple weeks later upped our bid to $50 more each . We already had a balcony cabin, tried to upgrade bid to suite. Just before embarkation, received email that our bid was not accepted. Didn’t have to pay anymore, but it was worth a try.

RCI just revamped their program in either the later part of 2018, or early 2019, and it it now called "RoyalUp"

We had an opportunity to bid on an upgrade from a Junior Suite on Majesty to one of the larger suites. The email came from the cruiseline about 25 days out from sailing, and offered us a minimum bid of $150/pp for the first 2 people(if there are any more in your room, you dont pay for them) Winning bids are Dependent on loyalty status (Crown and Anchor) and bid amount, so say if a Platinum C&A Member and a Gold C&A member bid the same amount on the same upgrade, the Platinum member will be awarded the upgrade.

Hope this helps