Ugh! What have I done! Odyssey upgrade is under the windjammer!!

[dleahy4444]

I was so excited when I received the email that my Royal Up bid on the Odyssey from a OV balcony to a OV with large balcony was accepted, until I saw the room assignment 13652, under the costal kitchen and windjammer areas. I’m an extremely light sleeper. How much of an issue will this be? Does anyone have any experience with this stateroom?

[Starry Eyes]

15 minutes ago, dleahy4444 said:

I was so excited when I received the email that my Royal Up bid on the Odyssey from a OV balcony to a OV with large balcony was accepted, until I saw the room assignment 13652, under the costal kitchen and windjammer areas. I’m an extremely light sleeper. How much of an issue will this be? Does anyone have any experience with this stateroom?

Sorry, no experience with the stateroom.  When is the cruise?  Are there by chance any other available staterooms in that category?  If so, call and ask to swap.

otherwise, shop for earplugs and watch in case other cabins come available.

[dleahy4444]

1 minute ago, Starry Eyes said:

Sorry, no experience with the stateroom.  When is the cruise?  Are there by chance any other available staterooms in that category?  If so, call and ask to swap.

otherwise, shop for earplugs and watch in case other cabins come available.

The cruise is next week 2/20. It is at capacity and no inventory is listed at all on the RCCL site. I will try calling just in case it is possible. If not, I’ll see if I can switch once we are onboard 

[reallyitsmema]

24 minutes ago, dleahy4444 said:

I was so excited when I received the email that my Royal Up bid on the Odyssey from a OV balcony to a OV with large balcony was accepted, until I saw the room assignment 13652, under the costal kitchen and windjammer areas. I’m an extremely light sleeper. How much of an issue will this be? Does anyone have any experience with this stateroom?

 

I have stayed on deck 13 on Anthem and had terrible issues with noise from above.  We were on the hump in a JS near the elevators though, which if you look at the same area on deck 14, is directly under the kitchen that services Coastal Kitchen.  You look to be past that area and are under the carpeted area of Coastal Kitchen.  I think you should be okay.

[Starry Eyes]

9 minutes ago, dleahy4444 said:

The cruise is next week 2/20. It is at capacity and no inventory is listed at all on the RCCL site. I will try calling just in case it is possible. If not, I’ll see if I can switch once we are onboard 

Worth the phone call, though I suppose any other cabins in that category may have also been filled via RoyalUp.

 

Looking at the deck plans, I’m guessing it is  under CK rather than WJ; I would think that would be the better of the two.

[binro01]

I always advise if cabin location is important to you, never book a guarantee cabin and never participate in RoyalUp. It's the same thing.

[Seamingo]

6 hours ago, binro01 said:

I always advise if cabin location is important to you, never book a guarantee cabin and never participate in RoyalUp. It's the same thing.

Interesting way to look at it. I’d never thought of it that way, but you are absolutely right.

[dleahy4444]

9 hours ago, reallyitsmema said:

 

I have stayed on deck 13 on Anthem and had terrible issues with noise from above.  We were on the hump in a JS near the elevators though, which if you look at the same area on deck 14, is directly under the kitchen that services Coastal Kitchen.  You look to be past that area and are under the carpeted area of Coastal Kitchen.  I think you should be okay.

Thanks so much

[dleahy4444]

9 hours ago, Starry Eyes said:

Worth the phone call, though I suppose any other cabins in that category may have also been filled via RoyalUp.

 

Looking at the deck plans, I’m guessing it is  under CK rather than WJ; I would think that would be the better of the two.

Thanks. I’m going to call. I looked at the deck plan for 14 as well, just couldn’t figure out the location 

[dleahy4444]

7 hours ago, binro01 said:

I always advise if cabin location is important to you, never book a guarantee cabin and never participate in RoyalUp. It's the same thing.

You are right. I took a gamble. When I put in the bid there was a lot of availability on other floors and only 2 were on 13 so I thought I’d be ok. Didn’t turn out that way

[Starry Eyes]

7 hours ago, binro01 said:

I always advise if cabin location is important to you, never book a guarantee cabin and never participate in RoyalUp. It's the same thing.

In a sense for those who care about cabin location RoyalUp might be a bit worse bet than a guarantee on Royal Caribbean.  Many (not all, but many) guarantees are assigned a couple weeks or more before the cruise, thus there might be other cabins in the same category to swap or one might even pay for an upgrade.  Many (not all, but many) RoyalUp assignments, on the other hand, come just days before the cruise, often all the other cabins in the category are also gone (normal way or assigned to other bidders) and with RoyalUp completed it may be too late to buy an upgrade, too. I realize Royal can wait until the last minute to assign gty leaving them in the same situation.  

[dleahy4444]

I think there are regular OV balconies that were not filled due to Covid capacity issues so if it is really bad I’ll ask to be downgraded back to a regular balcony and just lose what I bid to upgrade. Ordinarily I would just put up with it but lately I’ve been plagued with noise. We are from NY where there have been houses going up on either side of us for the last 4 years. This January we came down to Florida for the winter. They day we arrived they started construction on the condo building! I have no luck! If you see me in the casino walk away!

[Starry Eyes]

14 minutes ago, dleahy4444 said:

Thanks. I’m going to call. I looked at the deck plan for 14 as well, just couldn’t figure out the location 

I think your new cabin is under CK, close to the wall separating CK from WJ. 
Personally I would not be too concerned.  I’d just make sure our earplugs are packed, but we are not too noise sensitive.  YMMV.

Edited February 12, 2022 by Starry Eyes

[dleahy4444]

6 minutes ago, Starry Eyes said:

I think your new cabin is under CK, close to the wall separating CK from WJ. 
Personally I would not be too concerned.  I’d just make sure our earplugs are packed, but we are not too noise sensitive.  YMMV.

I hope you are right. My husband can sleep through anything. I wake up if a pin drops next door, even with earplugs. Made my son crazy when he was a teenager sneaking in past curfew

[Ocean Boy]

I once had a non-solicited upgrade and ended up in a connecting cabin. I could hear snoring in the orher cabin and it drove me crazy. I've been leery of "upgrades" ever since.

[reallyitsmema]

37 minutes ago, Starry Eyes said:

I think your new cabin is under CK, close to the wall separating CK from WJ. 
Personally I would not be too concerned.  I’d just make sure our earplugs are packed, but we are not too noise sensitive.  YMMV.

 

I don't think it is that far and I also don't think they want to go that far as they will be under the hand washing sinks for WJ.

 

To the OP, there is a website that allows you to overlay the deck plans to try to align things to see what you might be under.  You might want to try that.  The area we were below was only noisy at night when they were cleaning that kitchen but it sounded like they were bowling at times, so it was loud.

[dleahy4444]

33 minutes ago, reallyitsmema said:

 

I don't think it is that far and I also don't think they want to go that far as they will be under the hand washing sinks for WJ.

 

To the OP, there is a website that allows you to overlay the deck plans to try to align things to see what you might be under.  You might want to try that.  The area we were below was only noisy at night when they were cleaning that kitchen but it sounded like they were bowling at times, so it was loud.

Thanks for the tip. Do you know the name of the website? I’ll definitely try it

[LGW59]

1 hour ago, dleahy4444 said:

I think there are regular OV balconies that were not filled due to Covid capacity issues so if it is really bad I’ll ask to be downgraded back to a regular balcony and just lose what I bid to upgrade. Ordinarily I would just put up with it but lately I’ve been plagued with noise. We are from NY where there have been houses going up on either side of us for the last 4 years. This January we came down to Florida for the winter. They day we arrived they started construction on the condo building! I have no luck! If you see me in the casino walk away!

In all seriousness, Apple has these special noise cancelling ear buds (not cheap) but from what I have heard they really work wonderfully blocking out noise.  Good luck!

[EdandMary]

I wouldn't necissarily panic as we have had several cabins on various ships directly below the windjammer. There is a dead air separation between those decks which reduce the noise, plus the windjammer is normally very quiet during the sleeping hours.

The bigger noise in being directly under the pool areas where they have the late night music jams, or the running track as that noise doesn't have the dead air space.

It is very apparent in the coastal kitchen when the joggers are running during dinner hours or early morning.

[D4]

If you can’t switch cabins, I recommend bringing ear plugs and/or something to play white noise or calming sounds.

 

You could use a small sound machine or a headband with Bluetooth speakers that is made for sleeping.
 

I use this one and love it.  Only $20

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08BFJYTVV/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

Good luck!

[dleahy4444]

2 hours ago, LGW59 said:

In all seriousness, Apple has these special noise cancelling ear buds (not cheap) but from what I have heard they really work wonderfully blocking out noise.  Good luck!

Thanks ill look into it

[dleahy4444]

23 minutes ago, D4 said:

If you can’t switch cabins, I recommend bringing ear plugs and/or something to play white noise or calming sounds.

 

You could use a small sound machine or a headband with Bluetooth speakers that is made for sleeping.
 

I use this one and love it.  Only $20

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08BFJYTVV/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

Good luck!

Thanks i have a small sound machine that i travel with because the hubby snores. I’m definitely bringing it!

[rockmom]

3 hours ago, dleahy4444 said:

Thanks for the tip. Do you know the name of the website? I’ll definitely try it

cruisedeckplans.com  Pull up your ship, then deck.  On the right side under the deck plan you'll see this:

 

 

[Oceansaway17]

13 hours ago, binro01 said:

I always advise if cabin location is important to you, never book a guarantee cabin and never participate in RoyalUp. It's the same thing.

yup me too.

When booking I take great care to pick a good location away from public locations, elevators, and white space.

Now I have to avoid the front of the ship too.  While on Anthem in November, I was right under the bridge facing forward and still hears the crew area laughter and music at 2am in the morning.  Got it stopped by calling but it came back again in 4 days.   oh well.  I feel the Royalup is enticing but buyer beware.

[dleahy4444]

3 hours ago, rockmom said:

cruisedeckplans.com  Pull up your ship, then deck.  On the right side under the deck plan you'll see this:

 

 

Great I’ll try it thanks!!!