What is a guaranteed stateroom?
Most often when you book a cruise, you are assigned a stateroom. You know the specific cabin you will be occupying. You will be able to look in your cruise lines brochure at the ship deck plan, and see exactly where the cabin is located. You specify your stateroom guidelines and your Cruise800.com travel professional will do their best to accommodate you. But what about a possible upgrade? An upgrade is probably the most over-used and over-rated word in the cruise industry. If you are assigned a specific stateroom, the odds of getting a free upgrade are remote. What is an upgrade? It means you pay for a certain category stateroom and possibly get a higher priced stateroom. Remember, the upgrade is not guaranteed. What is guaranteed is that you will get at least the type of stateroom you paid for and the possibility exists that you may get an upgrade. But the cruise line has complete control over where that stateroom is located. You may end up right underneath the disco or above the sho
