That would be awesome!! I know a lot of people didn't like having solid verandas.
No, according to the website, certain categories will have white walls. This is off of their website.
A Deluxe Oceanview Stateroom with Verandah is classified as Categories 5A - 5E, 6A and 6B located on Decks 5 - 10, as follows:
Category 5A: Decks 9, 10
Category 5B: Deck 8
Category 5C: Deck 7
Category 5D: Deck 6
Category 5E: Deck 5
Category 6A: Decks 8, 9, 10 (whitewall verandahs)
Category 6B: Decks 5, 6, 7 (whitewall verandahs)
Personally, it still looks like there are metal walled verandahs to me, though it does appear that they may be lower than they are on the current ships. What looks like the top of the metal wall part is at the same level as the bottom of the porthole in the nearby rooms. Unless DCL has stretched the portholes to the floor of those cabins, then there is still 2 feet or so of wall below the porthole, which means that the metal verandah would be at least a few feet high as well.
We can all hope and dream for plexiglass verandahs... and most will have them it just depends on the category you book.
But according to the official stateroom explanation of the Dream's Staterooms on the DCL site:
"A Deluxe Oceanview Stateroom with Verandah is classified as Categories 5A - 5E, 6A and 6B located on Decks 5 - 10, as follows:
* Category 5A: Decks 9, 10
* Category 5B: Deck 8
* Category 5C: Deck 7
* Category 5D: Deck 6
* Category 5E: Deck 5
* Category 6A: Decks 8, 9, 10 (whitewall verandahs)
* Category 6B: Decks 5, 6, 7 (whitewall verandahs) "
I totally get that but it would not be the first time the DCL website has been wrong. They might have changed after posting on the site. They could be saying it is a whitewall due to the two feet at the bottom. We won't know for sure until January. But it would appear to be half solid wall and half railing.
Talked to DCL a coulple months ago about an upgrade, and she specifically asked me if I had wanted a SOLID WALL or plexiglass, so unless the persons I talked to have it wrong as well... There will be solid walls.
And I'm not sure about this thread, is it a bad thing or good thing that there would not be any solid walls???
All those portholes in the primer red, those look like the porthole in the solid wall verandas. That's why those rooms are lower category than the other veranda rooms.
you're right. Where the Cat 7 cabins are on the current ship are now Cat 8 Family Oceanview cabins on the Dream.
Beginning January 2011, all metal walled verandahs on all three ships will be Cat 6. While it appears there may be hope that the verandah wall isn't quite as high as it is today, I don't see any way you're going to get out of having a metal wall verandah of some sort if you've booked a Cat 6 (unless you get upgraded, of course.)