We waited 24 days for one assignment. It is a type of unassigned room that you can book for a much cheaper rate. Obviously you seem to like your cabin. A Guarantee Stateroom or Cabin on a cruise is actually a room assigned by category at the time of booking. kristina. Reply to this topic; Start new topic;A guaranteed cabin on a cruise is one of the best options for people who are looking to save some money. If you scan the barcode on your SetSail pass it may reveal your assigned room. We had a GTY for Jewel Artic/Fjords cruise this past June. The Royal Caribbean app says Deck -, Stateroom GTY, Muster -. I have two November cruises and I have updated the check-in time 3 times on each; from 3pm to 1pm and then again to 12pm/11:30am. I'm pretty sure I've seen that once cabin is assigned I'm subject to that cabin category for any potential repricing, which means a repricing becomes much less likely with the significant savings for booking a GTY. On the phone, they made it sound like there were two separate GTY balconies: neighborhood view balcony and ocean view balcony, with the OV being more expensive. to 5:30 p. In fact we’re ready to book immediately if we can get the. The customer service is the absolute worst. Hi, foremost start cruise with RCL. January 23, 2016. So we just got our room via the bar code trick and we are as aft as can be for a regular balcony. There is no such thing as a GTY with a promise of no obstruction. Room assignments may be determined at any time after your reservation has been completed and paid in full up to the day of sailing. We booked a GTY because it was almost $300 cheaper. In the worst case, the ship will guarantee the category that you have booked your cabin in. We will discuss these guarantee (GTY) staterooms, why you should book one, and a drawback that you can concur. Once my room is assigned (which I have read can be anytime between now and sail date this February), where will I be able to see my room number? Is this located somewhere in my cruise planner?78. . Also you do not need to use Apple wallet, as soon as you see a muster or deck assignment even though cabin still says GTY, you can use any QR scanner app and it will provide the result. The poor Windjammer bananas are now being used as chair-saving devices. Share. On 6/30/2023 at 7:14 AM, AshleyDillo said: Download a barcode scanner app on your cell phone. We are on the March 6'th sailing and just got our room assignment - 13158 (2D) which is a connecting room. . 2. Royal Caribbean International ; Guarantee Room Category - Cruise Planner 11/1/22 Behind the Scenes Update. Hi, I usually pick my cabin but this time we got a great rate to adenine suite category guarantee. For anyone unaware, you can usually find your cabin assignment after you check-in 45 days out before it is officially assigned using the "Bar Code Trick. The line is known for operating the world's biggest cruise vessels — ships so big that some have nearly 3,000 cabins each. #9. Ports of Call Photos. One time on Adeventure of Seas I did a GTY and was assigned a room a few weeks later; a couple weeks after that my wife was looking at our reservation and noticed the room had been changed from the initial assignment. 1. Unlock Your Deals Today. 2. News. 1 hour ago, bar1068 said: I have a trivial question on these guarantee cabins. Posted March 16, 2022. Amazing, Funny & Totally Awesome Cruise Photos. But why did they imply the movement resulted in a “quick” gty assignment for party B? Royal could theoretically have held that cabin (or any other) and released the assignment just before the cruise. Fast forward to this week and we got our room assignments which were Central Park View - which is what we expected so that's fine. Some time ago RCI renamed the GTYs, I assume to make it more obvious: Z -> ZI (I inside) Y -> YO (O for ocean view) X -> XB (B for ocean view balcony) and XN (N for neighborhood balcony on O class). Members. ft. Share. GTY Stateroom Assignment Question. Would she have to wait until the room number technically replaced the "gty" on the boarding pass, or does the info show up for TAs without using the "bar code trick". Royal Caribbean ; Royal Caribbean Discussion ; GTY Stateroom Assignment Question GTY Stateroom Assignment Question. Hi everyone! I booked a b2b back in July for a cruise in January 2020, both cabins were guarantee in August I found out the cabin numbers. The upgrades to other categories happen because sometimes they will offer an upgrade to someone with a specific room number in your GTY category so that you can get your GTY. Quote. Cabin assignment has not been made yet and still showing GTY. Guests can decide when they would like to dine between the hours of 6:00- 9:30 PM (times vary by ship) each evening; much like a regular restaurant, however, we strongly encourage reservations to ensure the best. I called and they said it can be right up to cruise date before assigned. Posted August 15, 2017. . -GTY so looks like no assignment yet Link to comment Share on other sites. ME booked two rooms in a Gty Neighborhood Balcony also I've come obsessively checking since a room submission ever for. 5. Posted December 21, 2022. However, the exact stateroom, number, and location of the stateroom on the ship will be allocated by us (at our discretion. Might not be enough time to bid on a Royal Up after receiving the assignment. As of late I have mostly heard about gty assignments happening close to the sailing. Balcony: 52 sq. January 2, 2014. MEI travel agents will be talking with Royal Caribbean tomorrow regarding the itinerary questions. Same here. If you view your set sail pass - the barcode usually has your room at the end - use a qr scanner to id it. I could not be more wrong. Cruise Lines “P – Z”. My only issue with it is that it has an adjoining room door. Share More sharing options. This is probably a long shot, I’m trying to get some insight on what room/room categories are assigned to Muster Station B13 on Voyager of the seas! We have a WS-GTY but don’t have our room assignment yet, and I’m getting excited to see what suite category we get. Thanks for your reply! Yeah, I have seen that too!! but when I called the CS to see if I can change that, they told me the GTY is cheaper than the "Choose your Own". Geoff P. Learn about interior cabins, balcony rooms, cruise suites, and oceanview staterooms. We have a gty booked for Oct 28. I booked two interconnected rooms and paid an egregious amount of money. We received notification of our room assignment in September. If you don't have access to the set sail pass yet, then you probably haven't had your cabin assigned yet. Anyone know general odds of staying where it is? Does it USUALLY stay what it is showing in apple wallet or does it often change?Various trip ships allocate GTY rooms differently relying on the your of available cabins and that departure date. Luck of the draw as to when they get assigned. . Someone on my September cruise pointed it out to us and it worked for everyone on the thread. At times we may offer you the option of making a ‘Guarantee’ (GTY) booking. Share More sharing options. . We are on the March 6'th sailing and just got our room assignment - 13158 (2D) which is a connecting room. By BikerBear50, Thursday at 10:32 PM. April 16, 2016. 4. Royal Caribbean International. We were just issued our GTY Balcony cabin on the Radiance of the Seas and it’s a category 3D. 53. @RG-IE, if it is possible to move, it will have to be within the exact. That price difference was insanely huge enough that I said, bye bye balcony. Ok. That means you don't have an assignment yet. I have got the cabin assignment few weeks ago, as i didn't like the location of the cabin i have got , I have call RCCL in order to switch to another room at the same category. More relevant: A couple months ago, we received a balcony gty assignment on Harmony 5 days before sailing. June 6, 2016. . Apr 26, 2023 #10 Upgrades aren’t super common with GTY. Occupancy. So if you booked a guaranteed balcony cabin you’ll save yourself some money off the standard balcony price but could end up with any balcony cabin on the ship; at the front, aft (rear of a ship) or in the middle. Posted October 20, 2022. Join. Since you got a GTY for the 1st time, if you booked from the US and aren't aware, you can ask to switch to any available cabin in the same exact category. Location-Michigan. Many will argue that you should just accept the room assignment for that is part of the contract. Guests sent an invitation who are in an accessible room may bid on upgrades. Royal Caribbean International; Cruise Critic Community. Still waiting on room assignment (understand it could be up to day of sailing) - but just curious to hear experience of booking this category. Cruise Lines “P – Z”. m. This was a successful bid. I used to be a cruise agent so I know a little bit about what can and can't be done. Pittsburgh, PA. 3. Hi, first time boat are RCL. Read Less. 6k. 1. Simply put, GTY or guarantee just means that you are booking either a certain type of room or minimum category of room on a cruise. In my emailed invoice it also lists it as simply GTY. giannini3 • 1 yr. Thanks to all that keep posting their data. But last evening, I got another email with a new room assigned to us (and I almost asking you toward reassign us). The other assignment came within 4 hours. ago. Hallo, I usually pick my cabin but dieser time we had one huge rate for a suite category guarantee. Favorite Cruise Memories. , LJay0301 and asquared17. GTY cabins are not always the bad cabins as some like to claim as we have done a suite GTY and ended up with a 2 bedroom grand suite. Anyone want to wait with me???If you are a GTY when can you find out your oom assignment? We just booked last week and do not have luggage tags?. One tip off is that when you see a muster station,. Guarantee room. Noticed our set sail pass has an. We booked a guarantee D balcony, and ended up in a D on deck 7 which was an adjoining room. Otherwise it will show -GTY still. Now we have the Royal UP emailRoyal Caribbean International ;. If you booked with a travel agent, you have to go through your travel agent to contact Royal Caribbean to upgrade you. . Posted February 12, 2020. The booking is pretty much last minute and the cruise is in 2 and a half weeks. April 1, 2005. Of course your room number can change. For all who know so much about the ins and outs of RC - what does that mean if in a certain catagories you can only choose a guarantee cabin. Some ships have a lot of interiors low and towards the front/back. Fun and memorable cruise. So a few. Though we can detect an unofficial cabin number in the barcode, we still do not have an official cabin assignment. Either way, Royal Up will cure the problem. Royal Caribbean International ; GTY Not assigned and GTY category is SOLD OUT!. I thought it was strange that on our new. The deck plans are great tools to understand the stateroom locations and get an idea of the cruise ship's layout. Open the app, click on show set sail pass and then click on add set sail pass to apple wallet and it shows with a bar code, the last 4 digits are the assigned cabin to the reservation. There are several available for all platforms in the app score. I use two devices, pull up the code on my iPad then scan with my phone. Royal Caribbean International ; Guarantee Room Assignment Please Read: COVID-related Discussion. As a seemingly fellow "prepare as much as possible before leaving" type, I also get a bit anxious without my own luggage tags printed and personally secured before I leave home. I know that GTY cabins are not given "final" assignments until two weeks before sailing. Posted May 23, 2018. Posted May 23, 2018. 27. Stateroom: 182 sq. RCIfan1912. Royal Caribbean Discussion. Our SetSail passes now indicate Deck 11 and our muster location, but under stateroom it still indicates G. Posted April 9, 2018. If you booked ocean view balcony guarantee you will not get a boardwalk or Central Park balcony. If that is you, Great! If that is someone else, you would move into their room assignment. Well that is not going to be the case on this trip. You can still win your royal up bid for the balcony even though you have your GTY room assignment. It’s important to note that when booking a stateroom category with a GTY room assignment, you are not able to change your location once assigned. Up to 5 guests. I was attributed a room few weeks ago back my cruise on Jun 26. this was outstanding information. I have ne. It may show a room assignment there. There you can see all the numbers on the bar code with the last 4 or 5 digits being your room number. How long does it usually take for them to assign GTY rooms - 1st time i've thrown the dice and let them pick all 3 of our Allure rooms and i'm itching to find 'better locations' and snatch them up lol That is of course unless they accidentally assign D1's instead of inside GTY's ;)2. If ever one pops up that you like better, promptly call and ask to swap (call your travel agent if you used one or Royal if you booked direct). There are stories of people winning Royal Ups after already being on board the ship, so you still have a chance on the Royal Up until the last minute unless you cancel. Commands: !ShakespeareInsult, !fordo, !optout. GTY can be assigned as far as months or as close as days. GTY Balcony Assignments Alaska. The even numbers will probably be on the starboard side. I was assigned a room few weeks ago once my sail on Young 26. 388. Posted November 1, 2022. #21. More sharing options. I'm iffy on them depending on room category. I know that GTY cabins are not given "final" assignments until two weeks before sailing. On a side note, I was offered Royal Up 70 days out and put in a bid. Your assignment will be within the selected category. Final payment was Tuesday. But it makes sense that they may delay this until closer to the sailing date. However, they will only be upgraded if an accessible room in the bid category becomes available. Royal Caribbean International ; GTY Staterooms Please Read: COVID-related Discussion. When do ME find out what suite/cabin we are getting? Is it when I what check-in, which are in April? Some one told me is when I construct my final payment. Cabin Size: 1,001 sq ft. Scan the bar code with a QR scanner from another device and that should also show you the numbers. 365. Room assignments are determined after your reservation has been completed and paid in full. Our usual junior suite was $2044 per person, the GTY oceanview was $399 per person. Promenade balcony is like having a reserved seat to people watch, which you can get for free near pretty much any elevator area. A Guarantee Stateroom or Cabin is an unassigned room on a ship. I had just GTY until the "90 days before your sailing date". It was a $4k difference between guaranteed and selection. Several-Eagle4141 • 1 hr. It could happen very soon (uncommon), a few weeks before sailing (pretty common) or the week of sailing. ago. First time cruiser. Changed from GTY to "Select a Room". August 21, 2002. . So, we switched from an inside guarantee (we had already been assigned a room) to an oceanview guarantee because of a price drop a week ago. I'm going on a cruise on the Carnival Liberty in a few days, and, because I didn't want to spend big on a model of the ship, I decided to 3d design my own! Printed and painted by yours truly. Only 17 days until we sail and we are still waiting for our inside gty assignment and our ocean view gty assignment. . If not, the porters at the pier can tag your luggage. . It is like gambling. . Reactions: holula. e. #56. 7am on the Odyssey this morning. Fingers crossed for a "full suite", but will be just fine with a JS if that's what we get! Link. ago. The odds of getting connected rooms when doing a guarantee booking are not high. Another option is to put that room back into the gty pool and see what comes out the second time. When we booked guarantee (twice for Mariner) I used UK site to see all rooms and then saw which I liked best. There are only 2 Central Park, and 9 boardwalk cabins showing as available right now, but a ton of ocean view cabins. New York. Posted May 28. I just did the barcode trick with my set sail pass and we’re on the same floor as the adventure ocean. Posted October 11. The cruise I just booked this past Monday for Oct 2024, room was assigned last night. We ended up in an oversize balcony they considered obstructed. When do I find unfashionable whichever suite/cabin we are bekommt? Are it when I do check-in, which is in April? Some one told me its when I make get final zahlungen. This isn’t the past. Ports of Call Photos. Unseren cruise is included June. Logo Store; Find Your Roll Call; Meet & Mingle; Guidelines; Community Help Center;. It did list a muster station though. This turns out to be an inside (connecting) promenade view cabin. Going on Oasis out of Miami in December. When we got our room assignment, I called Royal and switched. Scan the bar code with a QR scanner from another device and that should also show you the numbers. Royal Caribbean International. Read barcode and room 11549 appeared. Maybe we would have had better options. November 11, 2004. We loved it. Posted September 24, 2022. (I’ve never done this before. Muster - EO3. 6. We got our room assigned about a week ago. End of Story. But last night, I gets another email with a new room assigned to us (and I never asked theirs to reassign us). Finished check in to am the now have a deck assigned when MYSELF check my sea spend but does room number. But it also has some implications and a drawback in some cases. RCCL Fan. We cruise fairly regularly but have not taken the guarantee option till now. 1. That being said - I know the minimum room would be the Junior Suite. E-docs just say GTY category J4 so prob won’t know until 11/16 ( day before) I guess. January 6: checked in, room showing balcony GTY January 12: put in bids (after two reminder emails from RCCL!) January 20: the OS and GS1br/2br showed expired, JS showed pending January 24: received the balcony GTY room assignment - 11th floor - category 5D January 27: officially awarded the JSHigh, I usually pick my cabin but this zeit we got a great rate for a suite category guarantee. . We booked a GTY Junior Suite. True, but the luggage tags won't automatically update with a change of stateroom. I did the same thing. You're never in your room! But I am curious where they will put us. Learn about the ships size, staterooms, and public areas. Hello, We have sailed three times on Anthem and have always done GTY rooms and our rooms have all been fine. Ahoy, Looking for knowledge from anyone who might have experienced similar. Then it updated me to have a category code. Dinner at Coastal Kitchen, based on availability*. Deals. This is our first guarantee cabin on RC. and first time booking GTY cabin. I only hit review and don't add to apple wallet. We ended up in an oversize balcony they considered obstructed. Assuming they are oversold by only your unit (which is unlikely), here is how that would resolve -- they will take the highest bid from the JS's and move them up. Posted January 23. One tip off is that if you don't see a muster station on your set sail pass then you almost definitely don't have an assignment yet. By Curt From Canada February 22, 2020 in Royal Caribbean Discussion. It says we are on Deck 10, muster station B13, suite class. The last numbers after the dash will be the room number if one is associated. On our last one, we had balcony guarantee. Posted January 26, 2022. There is a more expensive room option with an interior window view of the promenade or central park, but within the interior. So it's a minor upgrade, not quite a suite, but we did get a little bit above the "minimum guaranteed". I thought surely they would have assigned our room by now, as for several days there have been no rooms for 4 people availa. " Method 1. There was a thread sometime ago where it happened to someone. On 9/24/2022 at 9:25 AM, Reigert2008 said: With GTY rooms you may not even find out your cabins until the week of your cruise. Because GTY and Royal Up are different independent programs, there's also the really, really, rare chance that you could "win" a bid that turns out to be a downgrade from what you got assigned from the GTY since the GTY is for a certain category or higher. The gty assignment for our sailing this month came at about 4 weeks out. So I scanned the bar code and last 4 digits were 7. Hi Everyone. From what I have read, it is rare for the ‘unofficial’ assignment to be charged. #20. Post COVID Shutdown GTY Room Assignments - Limited capacity sailings Post COVID Shutdown GTY Room Assignments - Limited capacity sailings By adclay33 June 23, 2021 in Royal Caribbean Discussion Royal Caribbean. Royal Caribbean International ; GTY Not assigned and GTY category is SOLD OUT! GTY Not assigned and GTY category is SOLD OUT! By HanFamily, June 22, 2018 in. Well. There is no notification when it occurs, you just. At 45 days my edocs became available and showed deck number and gty for room. We are now 22 days from sailing. So if you book an insider guarantee, you will get at least an inside room or better. Though it has worked for us other times, the barcodes trick did not elucidate those two cabin numbers any sooner; there was no identifiable lag before those assignments were visible in the app. in Royal Caribbean Discussion. . The last six digits are supposedly the deck & room number. Very unlikely neither C&A nor RCI rep can tell you anything if the cabin is not assigned. THE main change that signals a GTY room number is the issuance of a muster station, even if the room number still states GTY. I was surprised to see that we had already been assigned a cabin so early. TIA!! Feels great to be back!!Curious to hear about early cabin assignments with gty balconies! Just booked symphony for January 2024 balcony gty for 4. co. they may have assigned it but not updated it on the site. would/could we expect our room assignment. We have booked a W-Deluxe/Suite Guarantee room for a Harmony 2/25/17 sailing. We did GTY for an ocean balcony for our November cruise on Harmony. . Method 2. An onboard sales person told us that something like 10% of rooms cancel within a month of the cruise and that is when they start assigning the GTY rooms. Hi, I usually pick my cabin but this frist we obtained a great evaluate for a suite category guarantee. I can also verify the the "Apple Wallet" hack worked. Electronic_City6481 • 1 yr. You can still select a specific category (for example 9B), but you cannot select a room. Hi All! Since we decided to order with Royal I have not spent much time on the DCL thread. Guarantee Room Assignment. Royal Caribbean Blog. A few weeks after booking we were assigned Deck 12 near the front of the ship. I prefer the first cabin they designate us, and does really like. At the time (3 weeks ago) they were sold out of double-occupancy Ocean Balcony rooms. Audrey V. I sail on December 16 and still haven't been assigned in the cruise planner my room. we got our room assignment a couple of weeks ago and they were really close together, but I noticed. In the best scenario, they will upgrade you to a higher category. Still no room to be assigned to us 5 days before sailing!! We had booked the guarantee cabin many times on Royal Caribbean and always be assigned a room very quick. After a few days of barcode showing "-GTY" it is now showing a cabin number, and I'm really happy with the location. IIRC, it was two days before sailing. Using the “Key” for a GTY room. For starters, there is an eye-popping number of cabins available on many Royal Caribbean ships. 1. I know its been said and asked. I have booked diamonds in gty and never felt it made a difference. CatB replied to CatB's topic in Royal Caribbean Discussion. . On the 30th of January we booked a boardwalk balcony View guarantee cabin on wonder of the Seas for the August 14th sailing out of Barcelona checking on cruise planner today I see they have assigned me a cabin number it also appears to be not a boardwalk View cabin but a Central Park View cabin which in my mind is a bit of an upgrade because it's more centrally located for Less "ocean motion. Put a bar code reader app on your smart phone (they're free) and read the bar code. When requesting to get reassigned to a different room, does the reassigned room have to be in the same category? Also, what is the category ranking? Is a 1B, 2B or 3B a higher or lower category (that’s all the balcony categories that’s left). LocationFresno, CA. 😂. I will say, this was an experiment for. Posted June 25, 2022. If your GTY is listed as a category specific GTY than I would guess that would be the likely. GTY Cabin logic. My question is at what.