Cabin Review

Our room has a closet on one side at the entrance - hangers and some open shelves at the end and at the other end a ladder. The ladder is to get into the upper bunks - we have a room for four. The disadvantage of this is that my grandson put something under the bed and then stood up quickly and hit his head on the corner of the upper bunk really hard and almost knocked himself out. He had a lump on his head and a bad headache from it.

Then there is the TV area which has a top shelf where the bedspreads are kept. Then the next level is a small fridge and the TV. (which has ESPN, CNN, Fox News, and TNT) Then is a shelf with the ice bucket. Then there are two deep drawers and some shelves where we are keeping the beach towels. At the foot of that bed there is a stool.

Twin beds each have their own little porthole shaped reading light, and a little table - just a table - no shelves or drawers. Between them is a window which looks out on the mechanism to launch the lifeboats, and we can see part of the promenade deck. When we tender, the crew comes up the ladder outside our window to access the lifeboat/tender.

On the other side from the TV is the desk/vanity with a mirror and hairdryer, two deep drawers, and the plugs. Above this is the cabinet with the safe and a shelf above that.

The bathroom has a shower, sink, small medicine cabinet behind a mirror, and a toilet. There appear to be two trash bins made of metal and recessed into the shelf under the sink and there's also a metal holder for a container for sharps. The shower curtains had batten rods the full length of the curtain from each hanger, so the curtain hangs straight and does not blow in and stick to you. There was a cord to hang wet things in the shower. It did not retract like it was meant to, but it still worked to hang things on.

I was trying to figure out how to work the shower. I did not see that the temperature control was on the side, and I was only turning the water pressure knob, when the hand held shower head came off the stand and sprayed all around - which since I was standing half out of the shower and had the bathroom door open also, that meant that the bathroom mirror and the closet doors also got some spray. Anyway I had a nice shower when I finally got the temperature turned down.

One major annoyance was that there was absolutely NO WAY to get the announcements in the cabin. You either had to keep your cabin door open or go open the cabin door to hear them. Even the important announcements like the lifeboat drill - no way to hear them. So I missed the announcements about the lava flows when we went around south of the Big Island.