cabin with a restricted view

[memoie]

I have a cabin with a "restricted" view - what exactly does that mean? I can see from the deck plans that the lifeboats are right outside our window. Are they above the height of the window and will we still have some sort of a view? or will we just be looking straight at the lifeboats all the time? Thanks everyone ahead of time.

[AlanAllyn]

It depends on the ship.

[CruiserBruce]

It does depend on the ship. And yes, it means the lifeboat is obstructing some portion of your view. How much will vary by ship, and location on the ship.

[firefly333]

Hard to answer since we dont even know what cruiseline, or as someone else said what ship (which would tell us what cruiseline).

 

ship and category?

[BaumD]

A restricted view can be anything as minor as some rigging outside your window that blocks 1% of your view to a lifeboat or other ship's structure that blocks 100% of your view.

[CruiserChloe]

What ship and in what room? I'm sure someone here could tell you exactly what your obstructed view would be.

[memoie]

Sorry about not including the ship and more details. We are sailing on MSC Opera. We are on Cat 6 cabin #7127 and from the deck layout on their website I can't even find our cabin so am assuming that it must be in a "blank" spot on the deck plan - either that or I'm just not looking in the right place. It seems funny that we would be classed as a Category 6 but have the cabin number of 7127 - don't understand that at all.

[Hlitner]

Sorry about not including the ship and more details. We are sailing on MSC Opera. We are on Cat 6 cabin #7127 and from the deck layout on their website I can't even find our cabin so am assuming that it must be in a "blank" spot on the deck plan - either that or I'm just not looking in the right place. It seems funny that we would be classed as a Category 6 but have the cabin number of 7127 - don't understand that at all.

 

Your cabin is on the Rigoletto Deck slightly aft and adjacent to a life boat.

 

Hank

[LHT28]

Sorry about not including the ship and more details. We are sailing on MSC Opera. We are on Cat 6 cabin #7127 and from the deck layout on their website I can't even find our cabin so am assuming that it must be in a "blank" spot on the deck plan - either that or I'm just not looking in the right place. It seems funny that we would be classed as a Category 6 but have the cabin number of 7127 - don't understand that at all.

Looks like you will looking at the side of the life boat

#7125 you will see something between the boats if you can change

 

On the deck plan just move the cursor in the deck plan up or down

[trish1c]

Sometimes you get lucky & you are between the lifeboats so you get a 6 inch slice of a "view". Othertimes you are looking straight out at the side of a lifeboat. You do get a bit of natural light & can look down to see water.

[Jhawktraveler]

We had one of these on the Grand Princess for our E Med cruise. We don't really spend much time in the room so the restricted view wasn't really an issue for us and saved some money. I had looked at deck plans and tried to get a room that looked like it was between the lifeboats.

[Dayenu]

Once we risked to get a cabin that looked on the deck plan like between 2 boats. Not exactly.

 

There was a boat outside the window blocking all view except the very top, BUT it was positioned so that we could see a little through 3 windows: from our cabin through 2 windows on 2 sides of the boat.

 

I said, I've developed a tunnel vision :p

 

This was a cruise to Alaska, so in Sitka they took the boats down to use as tenders... waking us up at 7 am!

[mrejtac]

I had the same question. But we will be sailing on the Norwegian Pearl, cabin 8568. Any ideas... thanks!

[terri1020]

My only experience with an obstructed view was with lifeboats in front of the windows. Although we got bits of light and a limited view, the thing we did NOT consider was the guys who clean/paint/oil or do whatever they do while sailing. A few times they looked us in the eye...needless to say, we closed the drapes and had NO view. Never again, inside or unobstructed view for us!

[rvsullivan]

7123 and 7125 would have some view. Yours will not.

[rvsullivan]

Pearl 8568 will be looking between the lifeboats and should have some view.