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Legend 7A cabin info needed

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gogetter

By gogetter
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How obstructed probably depends on where the lifeboat is in relation to your particular cabin, and whether you have a lifeboat or a tender there.

I'd take an obstruced balcony anyday over a window, since at least you can get out and get some air in your cabin. Even with a boat sitting there, it's still your private outdoor oasis. With my balcony, I still went out on deck to see us pulling into or out of port (ok, who am I kidding, I was never up early enough to see us pulling into port LOL).

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Usually it's up to the cruise gods. In gogetter's case, he booked a guarantee (GTY) cabin, which means you book a category, and they give you whatever cabin in that category or higher, but not lower. If you book a "GTY", you should do so expecting to get the category booked, and treat an upgrade as a surprise. Many times people will book a GTY and feel let down that they ended up in that category.

When you book, your TA should also ask if you want an upgrade. This is recorded in the booking. In our case this last time, we wanted the cabin we booked so we told the TA no upgrades. This isn't to say we would have gotten one, but if the cruise line wants to move people around, it helps them to know which people want to be moved up.

They do this so they have lower priced inventory to advertise and sell as the cruise date gets closer. If they sold out all the cheap cabins, and still had plenty of mini-suites, their newspaper ads saying "Depart in 4 weeks, from $1999" wouldn't be very effective. But if they can open up some inside and window cabins by moving those people to the higher grade cabins then they can advertise "from $599". Ideally they would like to sell the higher priced cabins for the higher price, but they really make their money by having people on board, so they move people up and re-sell the cheaper cabins.

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