Cabin 9547 mid-ship, not to me its not!

[MomOTwins]

If it makes you feel any better, I have sailed 9 times on a Disney cruise. I have not noticed any difference in the motion dependent on the position of where you are on the ship. If a person is going to get motion sickness, they will no matter where the room is. Moving to a room that is maybe 50 feet "back" will not make a difference. Motion sickness is a funny thing in that it affects everyone different. Some are fine as long as they don't look out onto the water. Some people need to look out to feel better. My daughter has bad motion sickness in cars but has no problem on the ships. I hope you enjoy your cruise.

Except when my room is midship and I start to get seasick, I can go have a lie down with minimal movement and feel better, whereas when I was forward, going back to the room made it so much worse. I think OP made the right call.

 

[mmouse37]

I prefer forward but then again I have never gotten sea sick in 44 DCL cruises. Did not matter where I was onboard.

Glad you found a solution.

MJ

 

[Mainsail Minnie]

Well I booked two mid-ship cabins on the Dream, 9547 and 9543 because Disney listed them as mid-ship. Well when looking at my DCL cruise brochure that I got back in 2011, I got a really good look at where those cabins are. The are front cabins to me. Uggghhhhhh. Now I am going to have to figure out something else. I wonder if DCL placed those in the mid-ship category to generate more money from them. This is my fault, not enough homework on my part when picking my rooms out. But does anyone else agree that these should be labeled as front cabins and not mid-ship?

The aft section of the ship is the largest, by far. The cabin isn't mislabelled. It's just that the forward & midship sections are relatively small compared with the aft.

We sailed an Eastern on the Fantasy over New Years in cabin 8508, almost as forward as you can get, with no motion issues in that cabin (or anywhere onboard- it was a smooth cruise) whatsoever. Three years ago we sailed another Eastern on the Fantasy, and it was a very rocky cruise. We were in cabin 8523, also forward, and the motion was no worse in our cabin than anywhere else onboard. It didn't make me sick at all. My son did get nauseous during dinner one night on that cruise, but we were midship, in Royal Court. We left RC so he could recuperate in bed (no medicine needed), and he soon felt much better, in our forward stateroom.

So no need to assume that a midship or even far forward stateroom will be a problem.

 

[DCLPrincess]

They look pretty mid ship to me. They are between the forward and midship elevators.

I agree, I consider rooms between the forward and aft elevators mid ship.

 

[TRTRguy]

I would consider cabin 9547 a midship cabin on the Dream. It is just Forward of the midship staircase. The forward elevators on the Dream are closer to midship.

 

[onesam319]

If a cabin is not available online, it’s not available anywhere. It might be on hold for three days, it might be cancelled in the future, but no one can book anything but what you can see.

I have not read all the responses in this thread. But I have learned while booking my next cruise that the rooms you see as available when booking on your own are NOT the only ones available. We wanted a starboard side room and all that were showing available were on the port side. We had to call in to make our reservation to use our placeholder and found most of the rooms were still available on the whole deck, not just the block that showed as available on the website.

 

[SL6827]

I have not read all the responses in this thread. But I have learned while booking my next cruise that the rooms you see as available when booking on your own are NOT the only ones available. We wanted a starboard side room and all that were showing available were on the port side. We had to call in to make our reservation to use our placeholder and found most of the rooms were still available on the whole deck, not just the block that showed as available on the website.

Correct. I now have two 9Bs on the Starboard side of the ship. They are not showing up on Disney's site.

 

[Marc D]

I have not read all the responses in this thread. But I have learned while booking my next cruise that the rooms you see as available when booking on your own are NOT the only ones available. We wanted a starboard side room and all that were showing available were on the port side. We had to call in to make our reservation to use our placeholder and found most of the rooms were still available on the whole deck, not just the block that showed as available on the website.

That was covered previously. If more than 8 staterooms are available in a specific category, they only show the first 8, based on the lowest room number. If all of them are port side, no starboard room will show up online.

My answer was based on my understanding of OP’s question if, somehow, some rooms were available somewhere if the wanted category showed as sold out online.