Cabin Review

We had selected room 6234 due to it being handicapped accessible. I had looked on line while dealing with Carnival and booking this room, and was especially interested in the 'bowling alley' balcony that the ship plan showed. It turns out that the balcony is approximately thirty-three feet long by seven feet wide. On the balcony were three normal deck chairs, one chaise and two small tables, with plenty of room for more seating. Still, we had this great balcony, but, it was not wheelchair accessible. There was a six inch lip that made it impossible to use if you could not walk over the lip. The cabin was located Port side, aft, right after the stern elevator bank on deck six, the Empress Deck. It has a large bathroom featuring a wheelchair accessible shower with fold down seat, fixed shower head and, selectable tap or hand held shower head. There was an issue with the toilet, though. While it flushed, at least in our room regularly, it seemed to maintain a stench throughout our journey.

The room features more than adequate storage. It has four drawers in dresser, and one shelf, below the safe. It also has well as self in the cabinet below the television set. Note that the television is not a flat screen, but is an older CRT tube set.

Closet has limited space for hanging clothes, but two large shelves for folded clothes as well as storage for shoes, etc at the bottom. It does have a second hanging bar, but, it is located so close to the top self on the right hand side as to be useless.

Seating in the room consists of two small arm chairs and a small table, as well as a stool for the vanity. The vanity itself is of good size and has an adequate mirror and lighting. Also, the room had plenty of room to bring in a mobility cart and park it without hindering your ability to walk around in the room. The room also featured a King size bed (two twins pushed together, per our request) with two small end tables. End table had a lamp. There was plenty of lighting, but limited electrical outlets for 120 watt voltage. One outlet located at the vanity, for hair curlers, etc, and one in the bathroom for razors. There was a hair dryer in the vanity, in the top drawer on right. For those traveling with a mobility cart, these outlets are an issue. They were located such that you could not park the cart and use them with out blocking you traffic flow. So, we had to take out the battery each night and put it on the vanity to allow it to charge.

As to the safe, the directions are not real clear. I could not get it to work, even following their printed directions. It turns out that you have to put in the card you choose to use, with the magnetic stripe facing upwards, not downwards.

Our room stewards were Rodriguez Kelvan from Dominican Republic and Frederico from the Philippines. They did their best to meet our every need, and to entertain use with the towel creatures they made every night. But, there was one issue that they could not fix. You could see the stains in the carpets, stains, obviously from age. But, it became apparent that the room also contained large amounts of mold. It affected my wife's breathing, and the only way we could attempt to help her was to use the door stop to prop open the balcony door during the day, to let the room air out.

Note that the speaker system for announcements does not work in staterooms. The speaker is under the vanity and, while the television does go to mute when they make an announcement, you cannot hear it, as the speaker does not come on in this room. As it turns out, that they shut off the Televisions for the announcement, but, do not pipe the announcements into the rooms, except emergency announcements, because the majority of the guests are not in their rooms, according the Guest Services. So, unless you are out and about, the Lord only knows what you are missing.