Best side for a cabin

[smoosh28]

Getting ready to bok our first cruise. Looking at the 7 days on the Legend out of Tampa in November.

 

We want a balcony and are wondering if one side of the ship is better than another. Views coming into ports, etc.

 

Any help greatly appreciated !

[ChefSusan]

Getting ready to bok our first cruise. Looking at the 7 days on the Legend out of Tampa in November.

 

We want a balcony and are wondering if one side of the ship is better than another. Views coming into ports, etc.

 

Any help greatly appreciated !

You'll want to be on the port side of the ship - the even numbered cabins. Best views sailing to each port of call, and you also get the gorgeous sunrises every morning!

 

I'd vote for a balcony on either the Upper or Empress decks - you'll have cabins on all sides, and won't have to deal with noise from the public spaces (casino/lounges/Lido deck...)

 

Best of luck and enjoy your first balcony --- once you book one, you can never go back to anything else!!!

[firefly333]

Port side books up first, because people assume port side will be the side facing the ports, but with these newer ships, sips often back into the ports, Iv even seen it in Galveston.

 

I vote port side, (left), but its not guaranteed to always be the side facing the port these days like it used to be.

[conchead]

Save the confusion...Book Interior ;)

[dan40]

I've never seen a port anywhere in the world that only has one side.

 

Port means left, NOTHING ELSE. and it has not meant anything but the left side of the ship for 4 or 500 years. Same goes for starboard [right side of the ship is ALL that it means.

 

Cruise ships constantly change which side is tied up to the dock SO THAT THEY CAN SELL BOTH SIDES OF THE SHIP EQUALLY.

[MrCo9]

If there is nothing to see but clear calm seas (And there's NOTHING wrong with that) from your balcony, you can always head up to the BIG balcony at the top of the ship.

[EastTex]

You'll want to be on the port side of the ship - the even numbered cabins. Best views sailing to each port of call, and you also get the gorgeous sunrises every morning!

 

 

Stick to the kitchen Chef...that's where your talents lie. If you're sailing southbound the port side indeed gets the sunrises. When you're returning and sailing northbound, the starboard side of the ship gets the sunrise.

[TexasTodds]

Stick to the kitchen Chef...that's where your talents lie. If you're sailing southbound the port side indeed gets the sunrises. When you're returning and sailing northbound, the starboard side of the ship gets the sunrise.

 

 

That's what I was thinking also...depends on where you are going, and where you have been!

[MrCo9]

On the Legend, Cuba will be on the port side as you're headed to Grand Cayman. Cozumel will be on the port side and the Yucatan Peninsula on the starboard as you approach Cozumel. You'll be facing the sea between Cozumel and Belize and Belize and Roatan. As you pass the Yucatan Peninsula on the way back to Tampa, Cozumel and the Yucatan will be on the port side. I don't know if you pass close enought to see them, but that is the side they'll be on.

[smoosh28]

Thanks for the input.

We ended up booking an aft-balcony