Obstructed Views

[MamasNomad]

I’ve tried to search for the answer to my question but haven’t been able to find anything. Is there a way to see what the actual view is from a balcony?

 

We currently have cabin 7166 booked for an Alaskan cruise. I found one YouTube video that very briefly showed the balcony and it looks like the view slightly out and down is of lifeboats and a bunch of white containers. Doesn’t appear we will have any visibility directly down to the water.

 

TIA for any advice and/or guidance.

 

Cheryl

[cruisestitch]

It would help to know which ship.

[MamasNomad]

Sorry....Millennium. But my question goes beyond the specific ship as tomorrow, as an example, I could be looking to book a cabin on a different ship.

[Anita Latte]

You can work your way through this site. People have uploaded pictures of their staterooms. You can pick your ship and your deck and then on the right, you can select "cabin pictures" and then be able to pick individual staterooms. What is nice is that all the different ships that are basically the same ship are all listed. So the Millennium menu includes whatever has been uploaded for all the M class ships.

 

https://www.cruisedeckplans.com/DP/deckplans/deckbydeck.php?ship=Celebrity-Millennium&deck=7

[san diego spartan]

We had a partially obstructed balcony cabin on Eclipse in December - if you looked straight out it was fine - not obstructed. However, you looked down and out the life boats were there - so you couldn't see directly down if that makes sense. It was fine and we enjoyed plenty of time on the balcony, but this time around we decided for a totally unobstructed balcony cabin.

[MamasNomad]

You can work your way through this site. People have uploaded pictures of their staterooms. You can pick your ship and your deck and then on the right, you can select "cabin pictures" and then be able to pick individual staterooms. What is nice is that all the different ships that are basically the same ship are all listed. So the Millennium menu includes whatever has been uploaded for all the M class ships.

 

https://www.cruisedeckplans.com/DP/deckplans/deckbydeck.php?ship=Celebrity-Millennium&deck=7

 

Thanks Anita. I'll check into the price to join to be able to access the pictures.

[Anita Latte]

I'm not a member and I can see all the photos...

[MamasNomad]

We had a partially obstructed balcony cabin on Eclipse in December - if you looked straight out it was fine - not obstructed. However, you looked down and out the life boats were there - so you couldn't see directly down if that makes sense. It was fine and we enjoyed plenty of time on the balcony, but this time around we decided for a totally unobstructed balcony cabin.

 

That makes total sense. Thanks !! We normally wouldn't worry too much about not having a direct line of sight down to the water but, this being an Alaskan cruise, we've read a lot about possibly seeing whales, etc along side the ship.

[Anita Latte]

Don't use the map to try to access photos...use the menu on the right. You have to click on "Cabin Pictures" and the big long list comes up and you select the cabin you want to see.

[MamasNomad]

Don't use the map to try to access photos...use the menu on the right. You have to click on "Cabin Pictures" and the big long list comes up and you select the cabin you want to see.

 

Great, thanks. I was trying to use the deck map to access pictures :D

[NantahalaCruiser]

I use a combination of:

- the sticky posts on CC,

- deck plans using cruisedeckplans.com

- and images of the ships themselves

 

On M-class ships, most of the middle (between the aft and forward elevators) of decks 6, 7, 8 and 9 are narrower than decks 5 and below - as you can see looking at both the deck plans and pictures of the ship.

 

Thus any cabins in this narrower portion on those four decks, including your cabin, will be partially obstructed when looking straight down at something - lifeboats, equipment or the roofs of deck 5. But this is definitely only a minor obstruction of your overall view and is less noticeable from deck 9 than from deck 6.

 

And also, by looking at pictures of the ship you can see that the middle cabins on deck 9 have partially obstructed views looking slightly forward or slightly aft due to the diagonal beams supporting deck 10. A major annoyance to some and only a minor annoyance to others. Finally, depending on where you are cruising, the overhang of deck 10 over the middle deck 9 balconies can be an annoying obstruction. We found this out the hard way when sailing through some of the Norwegian Fjords since the overhang blocked our view of the upper half of several of the waterfalls.

 

Hope this has been helpful.

[dodger1964]

If it was an "S" class ship the answer would be easy...there is NO place where you can see directly down to the water like you can on the "M" class ships.

[NantahalaCruiser]

If it was an "S" class ship the answer would be easy...there is NO place where you can see directly down to the water like you can on the "M" class ships.

True, but the balconies on the straight portion of the hump has only a slight obstruction when looking straight down - only about a quarter of the width of a lifeboat.

[MamasNomad]

I use a combination of:

- the sticky posts on CC,

- deck plans using cruisedeckplans.com

- and images of the ships themselves

 

On M-class ships, most of the middle (between the aft and forward elevators) of decks 6, 7, 8 and 9 are narrower than decks 5 and below - as you can see looking at both the deck plans and pictures of the ship.

 

Thus any cabins in this narrower portion on those four decks, including your cabin, will be partially obstructed when looking straight down at something - lifeboats, equipment or the roofs of deck 5. But this is definitely only a minor obstruction of your overall view and is less noticeable from deck 9 than from deck 6.

 

And also, by looking at pictures of the ship you can see that the middle cabins on deck 9 have partially obstructed views looking slightly forward or slightly aft due to the diagonal beams supporting deck 10. A major annoyance to some and only a minor annoyance to others. Finally, depending on where you are cruising, the overhang of deck 10 over the middle deck 9 balconies can be an annoying obstruction. We found this out the hard way when sailing through some of the Norwegian Fjords since the overhang blocked our view of the upper half of several of the waterfalls.

 

Hope this has been helpful.

 

Very helpful, thanks. I'm staring at pictures of the actual ship and "assigning" cabin numbers :'). Normally I don't worry too much about the view down however my hubby has had this Alaskan cruise on his bucket list for over 40 years. I'm trying to make it as spectacular and memorable as I can.

 

Cheryl

[Fogfog]

helpful

[phoenix_dream]

That makes total sense. Thanks !! We normally wouldn't worry too much about not having a direct line of sight down to the water but, this being an Alaskan cruise, we've read a lot about possibly seeing whales, etc along side the ship.

Trust me after 6 Alaska cruises, the likelihood of whales that close to the ship is slim, slimmer, and slimmest. I wouldn't worry about it one bit.

[cb at sea]

It's sort of like looking out the front windshield of your car...you can certainly see the road....AHEAD of you. That's how the view is when the lifeboats are below you...you still have an unfettered view...but you can't look directly down. Not a big deal, unless you're counting barnacles on the hull!

[gerelmx]

You can see many pictures of the Solstice class ships in this thread

The GRAND TOUR of Celebrity Eclipse & S-Class Ships in Pictures and Video - Part 2