Last year, I surprised my husband with a cruise in a Virgin Caribian on his thirtieth birthday.
It was difficult to keep the journey secretly from him at first, but saving the bill for this vacation could be a tougher. To keep the costs, it can be managed, booked an internal room.
Although I really wanted to get a sea room, I couldn’t justify an additional $ 1100 spending for a slightly larger area with a window.
However, after months, I received an e -mail from the Virgin level upgrade program that gives me an opportunity to provide bids in the sea room (and other higher levels of higher levels) much less.
With a little search and luck, the upgrade of the room I originally wanted for only $ 80 was recorded.
I offer above the minimum – but not a few or more
It is important to make a competitive offer.
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The bidding window on the promotions differs from the trip to the trip, and closes as soon as you fill any remaining cabin stock. In my case, I opened the system two months ago, and put my bids after a few weeks.
I knew that I did not want to leave the minimum bidding, because I imagined that many travelers do it only when the “upgrade” mail arrives only to find out what is happening.
In these cases, you can overcome competition by only making few bids. However, leaving the margin very small can be risky.
After reading about the experiences of other showcases in various cruise journey forums, I also felt confident that I would not need hundreds above the minimum just for success.
For our journey, I successfully offered $ 80 to the sea cabin with the minimum width of $ 45. I also made an unsuccessful offer of $ 280 in a limited room of maritime terrorism, which amounted to at least $ 275.
I was happy with Sea-VIEW ROOM, which contained a large opening and the lowest minimum bid prices for more than $ 200.
If we looked back, I had good possibilities in getting that room because we were at the lowest level in the cabin and the majority of the Voyages rooms are sea balconies with balconies.
This means that most of my colleagues travelers-the offers of the offers I were competing with-did not even try to show off sea. For them, it was possible to reduce the classification.
Above all, I remained patient and ready to enjoy our journey even without upgrade
From the start, I knew that we had a great time on the plane regardless of the cabin we finished.
Nisha Sharma
Although there is an opportunity to listen early, we discovered our promotion only one day before our journey’s departure.
From the beginning, though, I knew that we had a great time on the plane regardless of the room we have finished. After all, the bidding upgrade system is a gambling.
Fortunately, one of the best things on a cruise, is that your journey is what you make from him – and you can spend a lot of time (or little) in your place of residence.
