Cabin Review

We stayed in room 2429, Category FM, Cove Balcony in the Family Harbor area on deck 2. There are only 4 rooms in this category on the ship & we got the last one when we booked. The room had plenty of room for our family. Storage space was minimal so bring things like an over the door shoe holder to help you stay organized. It was nice to have usb plugs built in for charging our electronic devices. Room temp was great & the fridge was ready to chill our water (no having to ask the room attendant to remove mini bar items). We chose this area mainly because the family we were traveling with needed a room for 5. The Family Harbor Lounge (FHL) was really nice since we were traveling with the kids. They enjoyed the simple breakfast, soft-serve ice cream machine, and PS4 (Trials Fusion - race game & Kung Fu Panda games). They were well behaved enough to use the FHL by themselves while we took a few extra minutes to get ready. That being said there were a few kids who were being quite disrespectful in the FHL…garbage & food everywhere, trowing pillows & cushions, abusing the ice cream machine, etc. We were on a couple of excursions with 2 naughty boys (pre-teen age) and they seemed to be ok when they were with the dad & grandma so my guess is that age, peer-pressure & lack of supervision brought out the worst in them. SO, what I’d suggest is that if anyone stays in the FH area please do everyone a favor & talk to your kids about being respectful otherwise it’s these types of amenities that are going to be lost for everyone. Besides families w/kids my age I also see this as a great place for a parent to hang out with a young one who’s an early riser while the other parent sleeps or gets ready.

Now, that being said there was one thing that was horribly wrong with our room and that was the noise! I had heard a few people on CC comment about noise, but thought it can’t be that bad, right? Oh boy was I wrong! I’ve never had issues sleeping before, although I’ve only had rooms on floors 6-8. After seeing the plans I now realize that we were under the kitchen galley and I’m not sure what specifically, but it was loud, loud, loud, esp at night and all night. I had a fan, white noise, and earplugs and I could still hear & feel the banging. Thank goodness my kids slept through it, but this made for a long trip w/no sleep for me. I’ll never stay in a room like this again, and if it hadn’t been for the other couple traveling with us having a room in the same FH area, I would have asked to move rooms. Odd thing is that their room, an oceanview ~4 doors down, didn’t have any noise issues.