Cabin Review

We met out friendly room steward as we go to our cabin and I must say he did a great job of keeping our cabin clean (imagine hand prints on the mirrors and sun cream smudges on the balcony doors!) and stocked with fresh towels twice a day. Our stateroom, room 13021, was a forward portside balcony on the same level as the ship's bridge. We chose this cabin as it was underneath the spa so there would be light foot traffic and certainly no noise in the evenings and it proved to be exactly so (except one of the nights when the cabin below on deck 12 had something that sounded like a wrestling match.

As we were travelling for 2 weeks with 4 people, we had a lot of lugguage (3 large check-in, 4 cabin sized roll-ons and 3 back-packs) yet there was ample space to store our bags between the cupboards and under the bed.

The cabin also came with an electronic safe large enough to keep small laptops and all our other valuables.

I would say that for a family of 4, with the full-sized sofabed set up, space became tight but not impossible. I did knock my leg against the corner of the sofabed a few times trying to get to the balcony door but the stateroom was otherwise what we anticipated. The balcony itself was a typical size (around 50 square feet) to fit just 2 chairs and a small coffee table.

There were only 2 powerpoint plugs in the cabin so we brought our own power strip to ensure we could charge all the tablets, cameras and other electronic items we had.

The bathroom was clean with sufficient space to keep toiletries and other personal effects either on the shelf or in the cupboards. One thing that was very positive was getting the hot water in the shower: it was quick to warm up with sufficient pressure.