Connecting cabins on Eclipse question

[RedVelvetEverytime]

Hi, I have tried the search function already but couldn't really find any specifics except for suites. I have sailed RCL 7 times previously and have had connecting cabins there which some quiet and some noisy. What I'm wondering as this is my first Celebrity sailing is what the connecting balcony cabins are like, I'm in 7151 post dry dock. Has anyone stayed here (have checked the thread already so far no one has posted)?

 

If any one has pictures I'd be most grateful! Thanks in advance! [emoji2]

[Essiesmom]

It's like any other balcony cabin. If you don't need it connect, you won't know it is 'different.' Cabins on the first four Solstice class ships do not connect with an inner door, but through the outer 'vestibule'. I realize that it is hard to visualize if you haven't seen it, but in these pictures, the cream door is the cabin door, and it opens inward to the cabin. the 'wood' door is the one that opens toward the corridor, and creates a little vestibule.

 

 

[RedVelvetEverytime]

Thank you very much! I think it makes sense and I'm sure it will make a lot more when I get aboard :-)

[spearmint]

It's like any other balcony cabin. If you don't need it connect, you won't know it is 'different.' Cabins on the first four Solstice class ships do not connect with an inner door, but through the outer 'vestibule'. I realize that it is hard to visualize if you haven't seen it, but in these pictures, the cream door is the cabin door, and it opens inward to the cabin. the 'wood' door is the one that opens toward the corridor, and creates a little vestibule.

 

 

It is quite neat, really. In the top photo, notice the cream door. It accesses the cabin, and is inset by a couple of feet from the actual hallway (see also the second photo). This is true for all cabins.

 

But for adjoining cabins, there is a difference. Notice in the top photo, instead of a wall inset, there appears to be another wooden door at right angles to the cabin door; it has a handle, a viewing peephole and hinges out by the hallway. This door closes forward and meets its mate (see the second photo). The result is that the wooden doors now are out at hall level and they become the room(s) doors; there is a small area behind the wooden doorsand the cream cabin doors (the "little vestibule" mentioned by Essiesmom)which makes the two cabin doors inside, so to speak. By keeping open the cream cabin doors, you have adjoining rooms.

 

Also, out on the balcony, each balcony is separated by a glass divider which is hinged part way out from the wall. The divider can then be folded back against itself making the two balconies adjoined as well.

 

Hope this helps you to make sense. The trick is to realize what you are seeing in the two photos; otherwise an explanation can be difficult to visualize.

 

Bill

Edited February 24, 2015 by spearmint