Guaranteed Cabins are a Bigger Risk than You Might Think!

[@umctiger254]

Not worth a few dollars saved, IMHO. For me, it's best to have the room 1000% set in stone when booking. and planning 12 to 18 months out, you can have the needed flexibility to shop a few potential weeks in the calendar if the room you're looking for is not available on one cruise vs another. For the limited time I am in my cabin, I want those precious hours as quiet as possible 😊

[@ThaSista]

I do guarantees and I also choose my cabin. It depends on if the location is important i.e. traveling with friend or family. Otherwise I don’t care. I can sleep through anything and motion doesn’t bother me. If I were to get a call that the ship was oversold I’d take the FCC. Good episode today!

[@cruisingfromtheozarks]

Thanks! Good reasoning. I had a cabin under the gym once and now I’m much more careful about where my room is! (It was a spa room and most of them were under the gym 🤷🏼‍♀️)

[@moonpupstr1]

I usually will book an interior cabin early and a few occasions I have been bumped up to either a higher deck or one with a porthole or on rare occasion a window.

[@cruisingfromtheozarks]

Since I choose my cabin for the location, I never put in for upgrades for fear of getting in one a bad location. Have yours worked out for you?

[@hilaryrobertson2279]

I booked a guaranteed balcony on Royal Caribbean once and I will never do it again. It's not worth the savings. My cabin was fine and not noisy but it was the most forward cabin on the deck and it was a very long walk to everything.

[@Hoosierallocations]

i do guarenteed interior every cruise and have gotten an upgrade on every cruise book super early wait for price to drop ask for upgrade

[@cruisingfromtheozarks]

You can get the same upgrades with any cabin (not just guaranteed ones) if the price drops (and the line allows for that), but those are becoming fewer and fewer as prices are rarely dropping due to high demand. My last few cruises all went up quite a bit from when I originally booked almost 2 years prior. For sure keep checking, but I haven’t had any luck with my last 4 cruises as they all went up.

[@cynthiaivers1708]

Never would do a guarantee unless cruiseline was giving it to me for free.

[@leeannkleine6120]

I never book a guaranteed cabin. Like you, I want to be surrounded by other cabins, and I like my quiet time. That alone is worth the extra cost. Sometimes, you just can't put a price on your sanity!

[@car7605]

I usually choose my own cabin location, due to previous cruises bad experience… this time I personally chose it, my only concern is the NCL solo lounge the deck below mine, but I figured it shouldn’t be an issue, right ?

[@cruisingfromtheozarks]

I wouldn’t think that it would be a party spot, just a nice place to relax and possibly meet others.

[@car7605]

@@cruisingfromtheozarksthat’s what I tought. I never cruised solo so I couldn’t know. Thanks for replying