u/FrankieMint

I'm booked in an inside cabin on NCL Spirit and I've been getting "Upgrade Advantage" messages every week or two. The general advice I've seen here is not to bid, but instead look at prices online and call my agent if prices drop. I'm only interested if there's a significant price drop, so I'm grazing and looking for deals.

My question is about efficient grazing. I do this on the NCL site without logging on, making sample bookings for a balcony and backing out after I see the prices. I'd also like to see how many balconies are unsold total, but on the NCL webpage the number of available balcony cabins is broken up by deck and within each deck by forward/middle/aft.

Is there an easier way to browse and see shipwide cabin availability? I'm not wedded to the NCL booking tool, it's just the one I'm most familiar with.

EDIT: I've just learned that Costco Travel doesn't require login until later in the booking process and displays available balcony cabins deck-by-deck, an improvement over what I've been doing.

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