The "Joy's "of an inside cabin!!!!!!....

[Randyk47]

My darling wife has made it easy for us....she has a form of mild claustrophobia so she's only totally comfortable in an outside cabin. Doesn't have to be a suite but she prefers a verandah. Terrible burden for me but I guess I can stand it.

 

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[FlorenceItaly]

Since you asked.....The "joy's" of an inside cabin for me is being able to take twice as many cruises.

 

Yes, I would love a suite, and could have one BUT, in MY situation I would be taking fewer cruises.

 

Marie

 

HAL - MAASDAM - June 2004/Canada/New England

RCI - Mariner of the Seas,

Sept 2004(CC Group Cruise)

RCI - Rhapsody of the Seas

October 2004

 

 

RCI Majesty of the Seas - Spring Break, March 2005

Celebrity Mercury, April 2005

Caribbean Princess, Sept 2005

(CC Group Cruise)

 

[cruisecrasy]

Anyone notice that there are fewer upgrades on guarantees these days - last 2 HAL cruises - no upgrade at all. Don't get me wrong I got what I paid for - no complaints BUT, that said, it is achangin'! Talked to others noticing same thing and not just on HAL either. Happy cruisin' all

[wander]

With our travel budget and being retired we can easily afford the PH for 2-3 week cruise and that's it for the year. Suites - well probably a month or two of travel. Outside cabin - two or three months. Inside cabin - four months by the world cruise or a combination of other cruises. (Even more is possible if we get really good deals.) For US, not speaking for anyone else, the choice is total no brainer - we go with the inside cabin. Then we travel about four months a year with some combination of cruises, exotic land travel (such as Borneo) and routine land travel (Europe).

 

Have we ever had an upgrade - Yes. Do we ever "expect" them - never.

 

Someday if we are still cruising and cannot get around the ship as easily or do not do shore excursions - then a larger room with balcony will be our choice since more time will be spent in our cabin. Besides, the money we now spend on shore explorations will help cover the additional cabin costs.

[kruise54aol.com]

i cruise whenever i can and my budget allows it,i usualy book and inside cabin and sometimes i have had the upgrade fairy find me and have received and upgrade to an outside cabin but you know what its an inside cabin for me, i only use it for sleeping, dressing and relaxing and if someone can afford a suite go for it is my motto, but give me the simple life an inside cabin is fine for me happy cruising everyone.

[iluvcruzin]

I haven't been in a inside cabin for about 15 years. Thats about to change.

 

I booked my upcoming cruises in reverse. I'm in suites/balconies for my 2005 cruises. I decided since I've already done this itenerary before and I wanted to do a budget cruise, I booked inside. However, I did book a midship in the highest inside category. I do not want a upgrade & hope I don't recieve one.

 

Once you turn the lights off at night.. I doubt if you can tell if you're inside or out (if you close your curtains that is).

 

Here's to saving $$ on a inside!

 

Maureen

 

MS Maasdam 10/30/2004

Princess Sun 2/27/2005

Mariner of the Seas 10/16/2005

 

[Cracker Ken]

We do insides too. Quite simply, I can afford more cruises with an inside cabin. On the HAL ships, we like getting one of the large inside cabins I call "sideways cabins" (those having a side door in the middle of the room). One of our cabin stewards called them "inside suites." They are very roomy. We don't book guarantees because we want to select the cabin we want, and stay there. Also, we get good exercise going up and down the steps into steerage.

 

Ken

 

Rotterdam 5/03 NE/C

Zuiderdam 8/30/03 E. Carib.

Veendam 11/22/03 W. Carib.

Ryndam 12/21/03 Mexico

Celebrity Mercury - 5/04 Alaska

Next - Caribbean Princess - 9/04

[Santa Fe Jim]

Last year, I booked a B verandah guarantee and that's what I got. Was perfectly happy with it. Then a few months later I got an uncontrollable urge to cruise again soon. That wasn't in the budget (a euphemism for my checking account wasn't as high as I'd like it), so I booked the lowest cat available at the time -- an L guarantee. Sounded fine, since I go mainly to eat and drink and read and write and sleep (things I don't do enough of at home). Turned out I got an upgrade to an F outside. Thought "Oh, that was nice of them". Actually being in an F outside on A deck at the stern wasn't much of an improvement, if any. Window was caked with salt so that I couldn't see anything except whether it was night or day, or how high the waves were. My bed apparently was attached to some mechanism in the thruster, since I was acutely aware of every split-second the thruster was being used. I will be a bit choosy about "upgrades" in the future. But I'm open to anything above Main deck.

 

SFJ

[Bry]

The only cabin choice that I can't understand is the basic outside. When I'm going on a cruise where I'm just going to sit around (the caribbean, for example), I really prefer to have a balcony of some sort so I can relax and watch the sea go by in "private".

 

On a port intensive cruise, I'll just take an inside as I'm unlikely to spend much time in the cabin.

 

The outside seems like the worst of both worlds--more expensive than the inside, but you don't get the balcony to relax on.

[Orcrone]

Bry,

 

Some people need to see the daylight for their own internal clock. Otherwise, they'll sleep the day away. It's more pleasant having natural light come in. It is also relaxing watching the sea go by as you're sailing.

 

1/1990 - RCCL Song of America

4/13/2003 - Carnival Inspiration

10/30/2004 - Maasdam

 

Till sailing on the Maasdam

[heartofamerica]

I've only been on two cruises - one on Celebrity Horizon with in an oceanview cabin, and one on the HAL Zuiderdam on an inside. I spent such a small amount of time in my room on the Horizon that I didn't really care if there was a window, or if the room had a bathtub (haven't taken a sit down bath in 30 years), so I booked a guarantee N category on the Horizon. We were assigned a K category cabin, but I would have been satisfied with the N category. The room was just fine...roomy, comfortable, and quiet. The only "downside" I found was that the total darkness made it hard to tell if it was day or night. But I fixed that by tuning the TV set to the ships camera, and letting the soft music lull me to sleep. If I woke up, I'd glance at the TV...if it was black, it was back to sleep. If I saw a hint of the sun, I'd get up and go enjoy a cup of coffee on the top deck.

 

I don't feel that anybody in a suite is a snob...Indeed, I met many fine folks on the cruise who were in suites. My daughter found some kids her age to run around with who were in suites. On my future Caribbean cruises, I'll have no problem booking an inside cabin. If I cruise Alaska, then I'd pop for a verandah, since there is considerably more scenery that can be enjoyed from your room.

 

Bottom line, I really don't care where I sleep...just as long as I'm on the ship!

[Gregg20]

On our first cruise we had an inside cabin on the Destiny and wasn't bad but we obviously didn't have anything to compare it with. Our last 2 cruises were on the Zuiderdam and we had a verandah cabin each time. Now we're spoiled and will probably never settle for an insider.

It's so sweet being able to watch the sun come up during your first coffee.

[RevNeal]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> It's so sweet being able to watch the sun come up during your first coffee. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

 

Some people don't rise that early unless they MUST.

 

Greg+

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[Orcrone]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Some people don't rise that early unless they MUST. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>You're assuming that people are getting up early to see the sun rise. They could be seeing it rise before going to bed.

 

1/1990 - RCCL Song of America

4/13/2003 - Carnival Inspiration

10/30/2004 - Maasdam

 

Till sailing on the Maasdam

[kruise54aol.com]

that sounds like me i see more beautiful sunrises before i retire for the evening on a cruise. some how they seem more beautiful while on a ship

[Globaliser]

Of course, an inside cabin has [I]some[/I] disadvantages - [url="http://messages.cruisecritic.com/2/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=927093444&f=408097554&m=242100422"]there are some things you can't do[/url]. [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

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[joeinwpb]

[img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]I restrict my stateroom to go no higher than just a stateroom with a balcony. That leaves me with a few bucks to visit Señor Frog's.

Roadguy: My bananas just came in. Now I don't have to borrow. [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] LOL

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[RevNeal]

Globaliser,

[img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] hehehe ... even in an inside cabin it is possible to HEAR your neighbors! That was true on the Nieuw Amsterdam. I had a couple next door -- newlyweds in their 50s -- and did they EVER have some loud evening (and morning, and afternoon!) "activities." It wasn't just the rythmic "thump thump thump" against the wall that left me laughing, it was the sound of moaning, groaning, and (yes) shouting coming through the A/C vent!

Apparently some others thought it was funny too because, after one particularly long and loud marathon late one night -- which ended with what sounded like a howl -- I could hear applause coming from two cabins over. [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Yes, this was on HAL. [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

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[RevNeal]

Doug closed the smoking thread before I could make my suggestion ... it's critical, and helpful, and especially for inside cabins or outside cabins that don't have access to outside and fresh air.

This happened on the Statendam. We had an outside cabin, but no balcony and no ability to access outside fresh air. Our cabin had a pronounced smell of smoke. Sniffing around, it became evident that the smell came most especially from the bed spread. I went down and talked to the front desk about it. They called the Hotel Manager -- Fritz -- and I spoke with him about it. I've had him as Hotel Manager on 3 cruises thus far ... excellent guy. Almost before I could get back to my cabin our steward was in, removing the bed linens and the bed spread and re-making everything.

Just as he finished Fritz showed up. He smelled the old spread and scowled. He then smelled the new bed spread and nodded his head. He then smelled around the cabin and stopped at the couch, where he sniffed and scowled again. "This is very bad." He then explained to me that they didn't have any extra couches available, but that they were inquiring around to find out which cabins had smokers in them and that they would see about swapping one out.

Sure enough, the next day -- during the afternoon -- we got word that they were swapping out our couch with one from another cabin. Our "new" couch smelled just fine, and the one that smelled of smoke was moved to a cabin where (according to his steward) the guest was chain-smoking. I'm not sure the fellow even knew his couch had been swapped out with ours. [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

SO ... IF you have trouble with smoke smells, you might want to see about having at least your bed spread swapped. That reduced the problem and, within a day, we couldn't smell anything at all.

In an inside cabin, or a cabin without a balcony and -- hence -- outside air, the problem of smells CAN BE a major one.

Greg+
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[oceandrive]

I just book the cheapest inside cabin on the Westerdam 1/9. Nowadays with the newer ship, these is no bad cabins. Smaler ones but not bad. This is my own opinion. I'm happy with an inside cabin. quiet and dark at night. The closed circuits TV shows you the outside conditions. It's like a window. And guess what ? I save so much money at I booked TWO weeks back-to-back. Still cheaper than a one week Suite. Everybody disembark, I stay !

Happy new year and happy sailing everyone !

[RevNeal]

It was interesting to read this "blast from the past." I enjoyed it. Some thoughts came to me as I read:

1. Most importantly, inside cabins are cost effective if one is cruising alone with a single supplement. I'm in a J category inside cabin on the Oosterdam next month, and the cost is less than a thousand dollars. To book a outside with verandah would have cost me a good 6 or 7 hundred more. This is a "quicky" cruise, to try out a new ship. :) I wanted to save money.

2. Christopher and I like to take very long cruises. The price of a balcony cabin on 21+ day cruises can be too painful to imagine for someone who has to pay for his cruises on the installment plan! So, another "joy" of the inside cabin is that it enables those of us with less financial liquidity to still get to take the longer, more exotic cruises.

3. In addition to long cruises, I also like cruising more than once a year ... to afford multiple cruises inside cabins are a god-send.

Do I love having outside cabins, and cabins with a balcony? Absolutely, and I've booked A and B category outsides (they used to be called "mini-suits" up until a few years ago), and in Nov of 05 I'll be in an SS category for 2 weeks on the Westerdam.

[iluvcruzin]

This is an old post. As a follow-up to my "pre cruise" post, I found the inside cabin I stayed in on the Maasdam to be just fine. We were in the highest category inside cabin and I requested no upgrade. It worked out perfectly for us and was much cheaper. If I have the opportunity to do this again I would. However, on my next planned cruises I'm sailing with others who prefer the verandah's. In these cases I'm only paying for 1 passenger but if I'm paying for 2 or more.. inside is fine with me.;)

[viennacruiser]

We will be going in our first suite in March, I started my cruising experience with my sister ,we were in bunk beds in an inside.
My DH and I have done outsides, so this is a big jump for us, we can only get away twice a year so saving on an inside would not help us to crusie more often.
Nancy and Mike