Is this rationalization for having a small cabin or do most people just not spend that much time in their cabin? How important is cabin size to you.

After having sailed in cabins ranging from minimum inside cabins on Sovereign of the Seas to minimum outside cabins on ships like the Nordic Prince and Majesty of the Seas - to larger outside cabins on ships like Seabreeze, QE2 and Sagafjord and last year a standard suite on Seabourn, I can say that the MOST important thing to me is that it is outside.

I find that I usually adapt to the size of the cabin and take it for what it is...I mean I take up the same amount of room in a cabin whether it is 120 sq ft or 227 sq ft.

At the end of the day - the itinerary, staff and fellow passengers are what determine whether I had a great cruise - not the cabin size.

To Karen and I, the cabin size has never been a factor in our booking a cruise. We have had teeny-tiny cabins (Nordic Prince and Southward) and some rather roomy cabins (Norway and Grandeur). We even did a quad in a small cabin once.

Our point in cruising is to cruise every year and do at least one foreign land cruise each year. If we spend too much on amenities and such, we take away something somewhere else. I know this sound like bragging or arrogant (I don't mean it to be) but we have traveled to 44 different countries/island in our 28 years of marriage and we would much rather add another country than have a larger cabin.

By the way, the size of the ship doesn't matter either but we want to try them all. We've done 16,000 to 140,000 GRT ships and love them all.

But i want an Cabin Size, not smaller than 13 Square Meters, this is Standard on the ASTOR.

Celebrity has an Minimum of 16 Square Meters,
this is better, but not so important.

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Location is much more important than cabin size. Location vs Size? What do you think?

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I agree. I spend little time in the cabin, but I like it to be convenient to lifts, stairs and the dining room in which I am eating!
I also like it to be quiet, and isolated from heavy passenger traffic. Oh, and also the disco, etc. noise! Am I too picky?

Is anything available in the bilge?

...Ken

[ 08-15-2003: Message edited by: Salt Sailor ]

I have lived my life with the thought that every hour I am sleeping is an hour of life I'm missing and I find myself (in my old age) grabbing a power nap if I stay in the room too much. Cruises to Karen and I are not restful; we go from around 8:00AM to about 2:00AM and going to the room is deadly.

Choices on anything in cruising is strictly "whatever pops your corn", personally. I wouldn't argue a single point in any of the posts above.

Happy cruising everyone.

We had a balcony on our cruise last month on the Navigator of the Seas and the room was not large, but noticably bigger than on the Monarch. The balcony really added to the enjoyment of the room.
We did spend more time in a room with a balcony than in an inside room.

Layout I believe is of prime importance.

Even a small cabin can appear spacious when properly furnished and laid out. A queen size bed for example takes no more space than do twin beds - visually the queen bed dominates the cabin - split the bed and you have walk-between, sit and chat space- visually more space.

A cabin we had on the QE2 proabably had almost the same sq.ft. as a Cat. C on a HAL ship - we were and felt cramped, constantly 'dodging' each other - poor furniture placement.

I do spend time in my cabin: usually lying in bed watching TV or reading when I need downtime from socializing.

110sf net: not including bath or closets is adequate.

Bibb, I am with you. The less expensive cabin booked, enables me to afford more cruises and other types of vacations too.

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You do not need a big expensive cabin to enjoy a cruise. You do not need a port hole, window or balcony either.

Over the years cabins are getting bigger. Even the smallest on modern ships are perfectly adequate, in my opinion.

However, the whole point of luxury is that if you pay more (some times a lot more) you do get something more comfortable. Perhaps the cabin become 25-50 more comfortable, but you are required to pay 100 per cent more for it!

Cabin upgrades on ships operating from UK ports are particularly expensive

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You do not need a big expensive cabin to enjoy a cruise. You do not need a port hole, window or balcony either.

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Well, I think this is something personal that you can't just generalize. I can imagine that there are people who can't enjoy a cruise when they have to spend their personal time in a, in their eyes, claustrofobic shoebox. Think about people who live in big houses/ farmers who live in all freedom- just to mention some examples!
Every passenger enjoys his or her cruise on it's own way.

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We still say our most dissapointing cabin was the very tiny one that HAL ripped us off with having booked 14 months in advance on Ryndam.

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Originally posted by Eric:
.......... We still say our most dissapointing cabin was the very tiny one that HAL ripped us off with having booked 14 months in advance on Ryndam.
Eric

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Originally posted by RobHolland:

When booking 14 months in advance, there's normally no doubt the company will rip you off! ……….
I can imagine people want the security of being booked on a certain cruise but taking a big chance can save a big amount of money. Furthermore, there are so many offers all the time that another cruise (-same region/company/sisterships?) isn't hard to find.

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Did you book this cabin or did you book a guarantee in the cabin category?