If you are young and lovey dovey and money is a problem there is nothing wrong with an Inside Cabin . Especially now with out side cameras piped right into your cabin where you can turn on the TV and see what the weather is doing outside, before you leave the ship in a port, or just wanting to go outside on deck.
Today there are plenty of balcony cabins which was not the case in earlier cruise ships.
Small or large cabins was the factor then.
There used to be a joke about a small cabin it went like this: "My cabin is small, but sometimes it works out in your favor. For example, when I came out of the shower, I took a bad slip and fall, but fortunately I didn't get injured, because I landed on my bed."-Tom
There is so much to do on a typical cruise ship that you only go into the cabin to sleep anyhow.
It's nice to have a private balcony and I've done that as well, but it's much more expensive.
When you’ve got the running trots from the combo covid/norovirus, and the bathrooms are overflowing...you’re gonna miss that balcony. Oh, and if you’re hanging it over the side...make sure you’re not doing anything “into the wind”.š
Talk about claustrophobia! I need a way OUT..
You can just draw waves on the walls.šššš
Just like I predicted!
Cruises for The Vaccinated Only!
U.S. Cruise Lines Will Require Passengers Be Vaccinated Before Boarding
https://www.travelandleisure.com/cruises/victory-cruise-lines-requiring-vaccine
I have never taken a cruise, and friends and my own son rave about the experience. But given the reports on the air quality above a cruise ship as worse than Beijing in particulate matter makes me think it doesn’t really matter where you are on the ship. I think I’ll just lounge on the beach.
I was, she wasn't. Adjacent to the elevator shaft, who could blame her. Thirty + years ago, should have stayed home.
Lately, I won't go smaller than a Grand Suite. Unfortunately, the Liberty is just small enough to not get the full suite amenities due to only having two specialty dining options (and no Coastal Kitchen).
Hopefully, that will change when Royal Caribbean moves the Anthem of the Seas to Galveston.
-PJ
Ex and I went on 2 cruises. One of those “listen to a time share presentation and get a cruise for 500 bucks”
And it was. 500 total. Took 2 hrs for the presentation and free rooms to boot for the day before. Anyway. Wife is semi-claustrophobic. Got to our room, down in the bowels of the ship. She was a little nervous already. Walked in our tiny room. “Hey, a window!” Pulls back the curtain and.....nothing but a wall. Uh Oh. But she got used to it. Kinda. Heck we went again. Other than the gas getting there it was cheaper than living at home!
You should have a ping list and I’d like to be in it if you do one.
One is treated differently if one is booked in a suite.
On Disney cruises, I prefer the āinsideā cabins.
They have fake port holes with really cool classic Disney classic scenes constantly running on them.
-randomly, Peter Pan flies up, peeks in, winks at you and flies away.. stuff like that.. it also represents the actual time of day (sunrises, sunsets..)
On the outer rooms with real portholes, you see water... itās not always pretty.
6 reasons Iām happy booking a windowless āinsideā cabin on a cruise ship.
The one bad reason do you hear water running?.
Bride and I went on 1 cruise. Oasis of the Sea. We were young and in love. ( still are but not as young). I spent the money on a balcony, one of the slightly larger ones. Anyway, we arenāt into buffets, we donāt eat that much. We mainly ate in the restaurants rather than the dining halls.
The Stewart, or whoever it is that looks after the rooms and guests was great. You would never see him until he would just pop out and see if we needed anything. We would have a big smile on his face as we would head back to the room.
Long story short. We had a good time but since we donāt gamble, donāt shove massive amounts of mediocre food down our pie holes, we spent lots of time in our room. There really wasnāt that much to do on the ship. So we had a week of ummm exercise. Balcony was great. Good time but did that been there but probably will never do it again. Wife did see a shark chase a guy out of the water on that trip after we left the ship in FL. It was right in front of the life guard. Never seen a life guard run up and down the beach screaming get out of the water so fast and so loud. I missed it. šµ
Thatās an entire different story about stupid people.
Every three or four years Mrs Afterguard and I go cruising the Virgin Islands both US and British. We usually do it for 7 nights and have an absolutely wonderful time! We go to all the places we want to go and stay as long as we want. Of course the “ships” we cruise on are usually less than 50 ft long and are sail powered. We buy our own provisions and cook our own food and the sunrises, days, and sunsets are spectacular. No crowds onboard. It is paradise! It’s expensive so we can’t do every year, but it’s worth it. I cannot imagine cruising with 2000 or 3000 stinky people. Lol.
When we book an inside cabin we turn the television to one of the ship’s outside camera channels and turn the sound off. We leave it like that over night. Makes for a dim night light and when the sun comes up it tells us gently it’s time to rise and shine.