Rooms or cabins?

When did it change to a "room"? It was always a cabin on a ship and for me still is? rooms are in hotels aren't they?

When did it change to a "room"? It was always a cabin on a ship and for me still is? rooms are in hotels aren't they?

Not changed in our ‘cabin’

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Perhaps the same persons who up come rather than forth come or travel from a train station rather than a railway station.

When did it change to a "room"? It was always a cabin on a ship and for me still is? rooms are in hotels aren't they?

When they became floating hotels, with a hotel manager in charge (the captain merely points it in the right direction).

When did it change to a "room"? It was always a cabin on a ship and for me still is? rooms are in hotels aren't they?

I know that Fred Olsen calls them "rooms", which always makes me wince whenever I see any of their adverts, but I thought that P&O still called them cabins? Or has there been a recent change that I've missed?

When you hear people referring to their room or their cabin it tells you a bit about them. They also speak of floors and not decks. The people selling cruises also seem to call them "Cruise Holidays" in case people think the cruise is not the holiday but the way of getting there and it seems to be exactly where they started which is disappointing.

Regards John

When did it change to a "room"? It was always a cabin on a ship and for me still is? rooms are in hotels aren't they?

Nothing has changed Jean. They are still cabins and always have been. Just as they are still ships and not boats! Funny how different things can grate. My pet hate is when people put ‘the’ in front of ship names. We are going on Aurora soon - not ‘the’ Aurora :')

I thought it was a stateroom.

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I thought it was a stateroom.

 

 

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Not on P&O.

Maybe it's just Cunard?

Sorry. Didn't realize I'd mistakenly ended up on P&O.

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Maybe it's just Cunard?

Sorry. Didn't realize I'd mistakenly ended up on P&O.

 

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Do not worry it's not an actual booking - that would be a senior moment.

Lol John

Bugs me when people say "on the boat".... When they get that big they are SHIPS not boats !!!!!!!

Captain Cook had a state room... it was where he attended to affairs of state. He slept in a cabin.

Stateroom and Cabin are pretty much the same. Back when there was no bathroom and the beds were upper and lower bunks attached to the bulkhead, those were definitely not staterooms.

Things changed when the purser’s desk became guest services and stewards became room attendants. And ships became buildings built on top of flat bottomed barges.

It’s alright, though, as long as I can be on the ocean.

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Call them whatever you want for me - I say cabin, but if you want to call it a room that’s fine too. Just enjoy your cruise or your holiday or whatever you want to call it x

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Stateroom and Cabin are pretty much the same. Back when there was no bathroom and the beds were upper and lower bunks attached to the bulkhead, those were definitely not staterooms.

Things changed when the purser’s desk became guest services and stewards became room attendants. And ships became buildings built on top of flat bottomed barges.

It’s alright, though, as long as I can be on the ocean.

 

 

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At the risk of sounding pedantic (as this is a thread about P&O which, although ultimately owned by Carnival, is a British brand) P&O has never called them staterooms or rooms, only cabins. And stewards are still called stewards, not room attendants. We have yet to be fully Americanised ;)

Do not worry it's not an actual booking - that would be a senior moment.

 

Lol John

Now, that is funny! LOL

At the risk of sounding pedantic (as this is a thread about P&O which, although ultimately owned by Carnival, is a British brand) P&O has never called them staterooms or rooms, only cabins. And stewards are still called stewards, not room attendants. We have yet to be fully Americanised ;)

Look out! We’re creeping up on you!

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I have just checked my booking and I'm definitely staying in a cabin but I did tick the do not upgrade box so no stateroom or room for me ! ;) :') :)

I agree with other posters that you book to go on a ship not a boat ,them orange things hung over the side are called boats. (tender/lifeboats)

Both of the above ,ships and boats travel along the surface of the water so why did someone decide to class a submarine a boat ? :confused: :)

At the risk of sounding pedantic (as this is a thread about P&O which, although ultimately owned by Carnival, is a British brand) P&O has never called them staterooms or rooms, only cabins. And stewards are still called stewards, not room attendants. We have yet to be fully Americanised ;)

I noticed the phenomenon starting a few years back when they started calling it "Bingo" instead of Housey Housey.

Regards John

The burning question is, do the chambermaids get a share of the tip pool?:eek:

They are cabins, decks, ships, big boats are submarines, it is a railway station not a train station and it is twenty eighteen not two thousand and eighteen ( 2018 v 200018)

You can put a boat on a ship but you can’t put a ship on a boat.

I guess I've watched too many programmes about cruise ships being built,last time on Britannia I just saw the cabin as a container fitted out to live in!

Ha ha, didn't expect so many great comments. It's a cabin, not a flaming room! And yes to decks, not floors!