Actually, we had a lower deck room with a window. I really don’t care about the room much. I’d be content with one over the rudder, so long as it was dark. We only went there to sleep. We took Amtrak from D.C. and the caught a cab from Penn Station in NYC to the terminal on 12th Avenue. After the cruise, we stayed in Manhattan for a week and visited the World Trade Center one night. We stayed on the observation platform on top about two hours, watching the traffic flowing up Broadway and enjoying the smell of salt air off the Atlantic. That was the last week of August, 2001.
Ah, prices have changed a lot since then. Less deals in general in travel period for a lot of reasons