Airconditioning in staterooms?

[msr709]

How good is the airconditioning in the rooms? I understand that the restaurant can get chilly but what about the rooms? Do you have control of it? TIA

 

[Sue (mom of 3 boys!)]

You have control of your room temp w/ a thermostat. We found it quite comfortable.

 

[tkd lisa]

How good is the airconditioning in the rooms? I understand that the restaurant can get chilly but what about the rooms? Do you have control of it? TIA

It's just a dial thermostat, kind of like some hotel rooms. You can turn it colder or warmer, but not set it at 72. If you want it kept a particular temp, you might mention it to your stateroom host.

One other thing is if you have a verandah, leaving the door open does seem to mess up the control (not to mention bring in lots of humidity!).

For me, the control was fine. I don't like it particularly cold (my house is usually a/c'd down to 78), and I could keep the stateroom the way I liked. The theater and dining rooms were a different story! BRRRR!

 

[aprilgail2]

For me we could never get it cold enough...I keep the A/C at home on 60 and the room didn't get anywhere near that.

 

[crzy4magic]

I have read many people complain about being cold on the Magic, but our experience was exactly the opposite. If you are sailing in the summer, with the sun beating down on deck 9, extreme humidity and tempatures in the 90s every day the cabins on Deck 8 become unbearably warm in the afternoon. It is espescially a problem dressing for formal night in these conditions. The hallways on deck 9 were horribly warm every afternoon and evening - as were the atrium and lobbies on deck 4 near the doors to the outside deck.

As a previous poster said - the ship has a hard time keeping up with the incoming humidity - keep the verandah door closed. Once the heat/humidity (the humidity was worse than the heat to me) gets into your cabin it takes until 2 or 3 in the morning before the room is cool again.

On our cruise we found the only comfortable areas of the ship in the afternoon were the areas that you are most concerned about. Beat Street, the Disney theater, luminieres and parrot cay were where we went for relief from the heat and humidity.

 

[HooKooDooKu]

During the day, we've always been cool enough in the room, but there have been times when it felt like the A/C could only just barely keep things cool enought for us. But then again, we always get a Veranda and I think it's been the heat coming through the glass and the radiant heat from the sun warming the room up a little extra.

On the other hand, we've never had any problems getting things too cool at night (makes morning picture taking difficult when you step out of that A/C room into the humidity of warm morning tropics... camera completely fogs up).

 

[tvguy]

We cruised in December, never had a problem keeping the cabin at a comfortable temperature (except if we left the verandah door open too long).
Public areas were comfortable, I say that because DW is always cold, and even she was comfortable. She is well known at her work for sitting outside on a 100 degree day at lunch time, in a sweater, having a hot cup of soup, so she really reallly really is cool most of the time.

 

[cnj]

We told our room host that it was too hot, because it was on the coldest setting and it was still really hot (august). Within 30 minutes, there were two electricians there and they had to get a ladder and go into the ceiling. They turned the air down to I believe 70. I am sure that if I would have said 66 or 68, they would have put it on that.
They said it had been on 72. That is on the coldest setting. It felt way hotter than that. :sunny

 

[christinou]

On our cruise in 2004, they room just was too warm for us, they also had electricians coming in to fix it, I think that we lowered it to 65 which is what we wanted, and it was great, if you are not happy ith anything in your room, just call and they will fix it.

 

[msr709]

Thank you everyone for your replies. I like it cool. I keep the heat at 60 when I'm home in the winter! The airconditioning is on all summer at 65. So I like it cold, can't sleep in the heat. Thanks again all!

 

[msr709]

Thank you everyone for your replies. I like it cool. I keep the heat at 60 when I'm home in the winter! The airconditioning is on all summer at 65. So I like it cold, can't sleep in the heat. Thanks again all!