Reply To: JoCo Cruise Crazy 2: Cabin Numbers aka Where The Party At!
The reason a bunch of us are in Cabin 0 is because cruise ships want to completely fill all their berths, because that is how they make money. And they know the closer it gets to time, the more people are going to want the cheaper ones more than the more expensive ones. So they keep a bunch of people who are in the cheap to middle range in a kind of room limbo until the cruise line gets to a tipping point and says, “Assign this person to the class they reserved, because we won’t need another room of that class,” or, “Assign this person to a slightly or much more better room class, so we can free up the class they originally reserved for latecomers who are bound to show up.”
Last year I got bumped to a slightly better room of the same style, but I have had friends who got bumped from a room with a view to a room with a veranda. So yes. The longer you go without a room assignment, the better, because there is still a chance you’re going to get something better for free.