WesternBroncoCruiser Posted March 8, 2021 #1 Share Posted March 8, 2021 The wife and I are looking to squeeze in a third cruise next year and we have put a deposit on the 16 Night August cruise to Canada New England and Greenland Cruse on the Caribbean Princess. Since this is squeezing in a 3rd cruise in 2022, we booked an obstructed view on the emerald deck . This save us $1800 over a standard Ocean View. I found a web site that shows the views out the windows and we picked E307 which is in between the life boats, so less obstructed. However it is over the casino. Has anyone sailed in these cabins who can tell me if you hear noise from the Casino? What time of day night? Was it super loud or barely audible? We have time to change to another cabin, and are trying to gauge if this is necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtnesterz Posted March 9, 2021 #2 Share Posted March 9, 2021 We usually go for the obstructed view cabins. Deck 8. Looked up your window view, good choice. The only noise I can imagine coming from the casino is ringing if someone wins. I don't think I've ever heard someone win. Joking aside, we've never had a problem with any noise on deck 8 with several sailings and as you know, there is a lot going on on deck 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternBroncoCruiser Posted March 12, 2021 Author #3 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Thanks, I have heard of noise on ships when a cabin is located below a service area when the carts are rolling out in the morning or they are arranging deck chairs, but never when the room is located over something, so I am hoping we are good to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mud_Shark Posted March 12, 2021 #4 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Can you provide the link for the website that shows the views from the obstructed windows? We are in one for November and have just picked based upon the room map on Princess. Not sure how a site could have views from all the rooms unless someone has access to all the rooms, but anything might help. Thx Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternBroncoCruiser Posted March 12, 2021 Author #5 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Here you go. They have members post pictures and then they add them as they have come in, I think? Maybe the person has an in with the industry, but based on the fact that pictures seem to be taken at different times in different ports, I think they are grass roots taken and submitted by traveler. Hope this is OK with CC, if not please remove link: https://www.cruisedeckplans.com/DP/deckplans/ov.php?ship=Caribbean-Princess&cabins=E101-E121 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mud_Shark Posted March 12, 2021 #6 Share Posted March 12, 2021 fantastic - thanks. But our room view is not as good as I had hoped. But you can see some of the water and sky from it - so you can see the weather - which is probably good enough for us. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternBroncoCruiser Posted March 12, 2021 Author #7 Share Posted March 12, 2021 With Princess having the free cabin upgrades right now, call your TA or Princess and see if you can move to one of the less obstructed ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare donswife Posted March 13, 2021 #8 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Keep in mind that the Emerald obstructed view cabins in the 100's have people walking by on the upper part of the promenade deck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caribill Posted March 13, 2021 #9 Share Posted March 13, 2021 7 hours ago, donswife said: Keep in mind that the Emerald obstructed view cabins in the 100's have people walking by on the upper part of the promenade deck. Hard to see inside during the day, but at night easier when you have lights on inside the cabin. However the upper part is often closed off at night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JF - retired RRT Posted March 13, 2021 #10 Share Posted March 13, 2021 On 3/12/2021 at 8:11 AM, WesternBroncoCruiser said: Here you go. They have members post pictures and then they add them as they have come in, I think? Maybe the person has an in with the industry, but based on the fact that pictures seem to be taken at different times in different ports, I think they are grass roots taken and submitted by traveler. Hope this is OK with CC, if not please remove link: https://www.cruisedeckplans.com/DP/deckplans/ov.php?ship=Caribbean-Princess&cabins=E101-E121 Originally started by @Renmar. He asked for pix and posted them. Eventually, got to big for just one man and moved it to its current location. AFAIK all the pix are contributed by cabin "owners". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mud_Shark Posted March 13, 2021 #11 Share Posted March 13, 2021 I may ask for a different room if or when I need to call Princess on other matters. Not really dissatisfied with our view compared to most of the others. Maybe could increase the scope of the unobstructed portion of the view a bit, but our view is functional. The ones in the 100 block do appear to offer more of a view. A few that look good on the Princess ship diagram actually look into a utility room rather than directly outside. Glad we didn't pick one of those ones. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinpasco Posted March 15, 2021 #12 Share Posted March 15, 2021 We usually book obv rooms when destinations are more important than the room. We try for a room mid lifeboat as there is minor view blockage. Sounds counterintuitive but you are not looking at mechanisms from 2 lifeboats when booking between boats. The link shown here is spot on. Our favorite room is E215. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyp247 Posted March 17, 2021 #13 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Going on the 10,day Canadian New England cruise. I was on the web page that shows photos of each rod’s obstruction. We got E406, almost no obstructions I. This cabin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crackin cruisers Posted April 10, 2022 #14 Share Posted April 10, 2022 @wendyp247 I know it’s been a year, but how was the obstructed view in E406 in your opinion? Based on the images on the website listed earlier, it did seem like a good compromise. We are considering the same cabin on a future cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crackin cruisers Posted September 20, 2022 #15 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Has anyone on this board sailed Caribbean Princess in cabin E406? How was the view? Any photos you’d be willing to share? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Essiesmom Posted September 20, 2022 #16 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Did you check the links above? There is a pic of the view from E406 on CB. EM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crackin cruisers Posted October 2, 2022 #17 Share Posted October 2, 2022 I did. It seems much better than many of the others and I want to confirm if it’s really that good or if there’s a ‘gotcha’ or an error. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedferg Posted October 2, 2022 #18 Share Posted October 2, 2022 20 hours ago, Crackin cruisers said: I did. It seems much better than many of the others and I want to confirm if it’s really that good or if there’s a ‘gotcha’ or an error. Thanks We just returned from Caribbean Princess cabin 416. Decent view as shown on links. However, this is our first OV and it was fine, Balcony would have been $1400 more. Port intensive itinerary, one sea day, we decided OV would be adequate and it was. Therefore the 'view' was not as important as daylight was. Promenade was just one deck down if we wanted to be 'outside'. So, I would not sweat the view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crackin cruisers Posted October 21, 2022 #19 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Thanks for the reply. Glad you enjoyed your trip. Our itinerary sounds similar to yours, so we will be sticking to our plans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitcrazy Posted October 21, 2022 #20 Share Posted October 21, 2022 On 3/12/2021 at 8:11 AM, WesternBroncoCruiser said: Here you go. They have members post pictures and then they add them as they have come in, I think? Maybe the person has an in with the industry, but based on the fact that pictures seem to be taken at different times in different ports, I think they are grass roots taken and submitted by traveler. Hope this is OK with CC, if not please remove link: https://www.cruisedeckplans.com/DP/deckplans/ov.php?ship=Caribbean-Princess&cabins=E101-E121 Thank you so much for this WBC. I just booked E706 and I am absolutely delighted with the view ... virtually no obstruction!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Hag Posted October 21, 2022 #21 Share Posted October 21, 2022 On 10/2/2022 at 4:43 PM, Tedferg said: We just returned from Caribbean Princess cabin 416. Decent view as shown on links. However, this is our first OV and it was fine, Balcony would have been $1400 more. Port intensive itinerary, one sea day, we decided OV would be adequate and it was. Therefore the 'view' was not as important as daylight was. Promenade was just one deck down if we wanted to be 'outside'. So, I would not sweat the view. Those obstructed OV cabins really are convenient. So easy to just nip down one deck to the promenade. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coaster Posted November 20, 2022 #22 Share Posted November 20, 2022 On 10/21/2022 at 6:27 PM, kitcrazy said: Thank you so much for this WBC. I just booked E706 and I am absolutely delighted with the view ... virtually no obstruction!! Just booked E706. Looking at this site and it seems this cabin has a great view. Is the picture correct? https://www.cruisedeckplans.com/DP/deckplans/ov.php?ship=Caribbean-Princess&cabins=E701-E718 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VibeGuy Posted November 20, 2022 #23 Share Posted November 20, 2022 Yes. There are several obstructed OV cabins where it’s just a little bit of hardware instead of a giant mass of orange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renmar Posted November 20, 2022 #24 Share Posted November 20, 2022 56 minutes ago, coaster said: Just booked E706. Looking at this site and it seems this cabin has a great view. Is the picture correct? https://www.cruisedeckplans.com/DP/deckplans/ov.php?ship=Caribbean-Princess&cabins=E701-E718 Yes the pictures are correct. I took about 70% of the obstructed view cabin pictures and made sure they were all correct before I transfered my website to the current website. E 706 is a good one with just a little obstruction. Enjoy your cruise. Theo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruisin Kay D Posted November 20, 2022 #25 Share Posted November 20, 2022 Thanks to Renmar for his efforts!! It is such an important help when planning my cruises!! (Going on our 31st Princess cruise soon!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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