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Hi everyone. We had booked a guarantee interior cabin for the escape back in January. Our cabin has since been assigned to 10405 which is an interior cabin located deck 10 all of the way forward. I am not really nervous about the noise or size of the cabin, but rather the motion. Please let me know how you felt if you ever had a cabin similar to this. Thank you.

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Whatever motion a ship experiences on a specific cruise will of course depend on the weather, the wind, and the seas on that cruise, so no one else's experience will be the same that you wind up having (even on the same ship, and of course the Escape has not even sailed yet). Also, some folks are more bothered by the motion of the ocean than others, so how they felt might not be how you would feel, and what they may tell you on here may be influenced by that.

 

All that said, there is still the general principle that if a ship is pitching (the bow and stern are going up and down), you'll feel that motion more in the bow and stern than you will in the middle of the ship. And when it's rolling (moving side to side), you'll feel that more on a higher deck than on a lower one.

 

Not really sure what else anyone can tell you that will be meaningful.

 

I hope you have a great trip.

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newer ships are more stable then those of old. you may feel it, but not enough to worry about. consider the amount of people that book the very front for the views, or the board posts of those who cherish the aft. I have had an aft cabin, loved it and never thought of the motion... worst case, take the free ultimate beverage package and balance it out!

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newer ships are more stable then those of old. you may feel it, but not enough to worry about. consider the amount of people that book the very front for the views, or the board posts of those who cherish the aft. I have had an aft cabin, loved it and never thought of the motion... worst case, take the free ultimate beverage package and balance it out!

 

True many people book the front of the ship for the great views, but If it gets rough (and I do not care how new or how big the ship is) they move.Up front you get the up and the shuddering when you come down. On one cruise during the show (which is up front and low) it almost knocked the performer off his feet. On my last cruise during the captain & officers questions and answers in the Spinnaker Lounge (just above the front rooms) we hit a wave that cleared the bottles of the shelves. Even the captain commented on that one.

 

You need to be prepared, that it could be rough or it could be like glass

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newer ships are more stable then those of old. you may feel it, but not enough to worry about. consider the amount of people that book the very front for the views, or the board posts of those who cherish the aft. I have had an aft cabin, loved it and never thought of the motion... worst case, take the free ultimate beverage package and balance it out!

 

That's a pretty irresponsible statement, since you have no idea what the weather or sea conditions will be like on the OP's cruise. And yes, modern stabilizers do a great job, but only with rolling -- the side-to-side motion -- not with pitching, the up and down movement of the bow and stern. See, e.g., this article about what stabilizers do:

 

The purpose of stabilizers is to reduce the roll (i.e., the sideways motion) of a ship. .. Unfortunately, stabilizers do nothing to eliminate pitching - - the motion made when the front of the ship goes down and the back goes up and vice versa...

 

http://www.beyondships2.com/faq-stabilizers.html

 

As QuikieGlenn advises above, anyone on a cruise ship should be prepared for water like glass, or very rough, or anything in between.

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We always book cabins in the front (bow) of the ship. Been on 30 cruises and only once did we notice 'up and down' motion....that was on the old SS Norway in 1988 right after a big storm going out of Miami. Never noticed much motion on the other 29 cruises. Depends on the weather and seas but then that's why we like to sail in the Caribbean - mostly calm.

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  • 3 weeks later...
Hi everyone. We had booked a guarantee interior cabin for the escape back in January. Our cabin has since been assigned to 10405 which is an interior cabin located deck 10 all of the way forward. I am not really nervous about the noise or size of the cabin, but rather the motion. Please let me know how you felt if you ever had a cabin similar to this. Thank you.

 

Everyone reacts differently, but we have successfully used wrist bands on a Mediterranean trip and on a cruiseround South America. On the Med: trip [Nieuw Amsterdam] we were on Deck 4 towards the front of the ship.

Hope this will be helpful. [gugoceania]

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Hi -

If you are concerned about motion sickness, talk to your doctor about prescribing the Transderm Scop patch for you to wear behind your ear during your trip. They work for me, with no side effects. They also make some seasick wrist bands that my mother in law swears by, or there is a lady who makes a product called Queasy Beads that is much cuter than the sea bands, with the same concept - .

Good Luck!!

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We were on a Carnival fantasy class ship in roughening seas where they close the pools (to give you an idea). Parts of the evening's shows were altered to make it safer for the performers.

 

Mid ship was a bit like a teeter totter, but the casino stayed open ... of course!

 

We went "budget" on the cruise and had the fore-most cabin on the lowest deck - a porthole. I remember going to our cabin in the evening and we were like pinballs in the hallway to our cabin. My DW actually became seasick and she is a "lake sailor" - something about shorter intervals between crest and trough, but I don't know much about it.

 

Anyway, after a rough night, we had absolutely beautiful, calm seas for the rest of the cruise!

 

Sorry ... probably a bit off topic :)

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