Captain's Quarters

[Barbossa]

Has anyone seen pictures or read a description of the Magic/Wonder's captain's quarters? I would guess that it's similar to the cap quarters of a large naval vessel: room for a desk, decent bunk, private bathroom, stockade (kidding). Definitely not the Walter E. Disney suite.

 

[DrCavin]

Recently someone posted that they saw the Captain coming out of his stateroom & were surprised it was a "normal" cabin.. Don't know the details on size or what it contains...

 

[virginiamama]

I heard that the location of his stateroom was a secret (security issues), but he does have a nice open deck area. Hmmm...

 

[Barbossa]

Recently someone posted that they saw the Captain coming out of his stateroom & were surprised it was a "normal" cabin.. Don't know the details on size or what it contains...

Are they sure it was his cabin?

 

[Ski-and-Sea]

Are they sure it was his cabin?

 

[DCL Repeaters]

Are they sure it was his cabin?

I think you may have something here!! The senior staff's quarters are on deck 7 forward behind a secured door.

 

[Barbossa]

That makes sense. We were in 7014 and we did see a lot of officer traffic in our hallway. I actually complained to one of them because someone was painting one of the center utility rooms and our cabin was filled with noxious fumes. Whether he did something about it or not is unknown. To DCL's immense credit, the problem was taken care of immediately. (We also complained to our room host, guest services etc. The fumes were borderline deadly.)

 

[DrCavin]

Are they sure it was his cabin?

Maybe it was just another service he provides, must keep his customers happy..

I did a quick search & couldn't find the thread that mentioned it.....

 

[Barbossa]

Maybe it was just another service he provides, must keep his customers happy..

As I understand it, cruise ship captains are very good at thruster control.

(Huddled in fetal position waiting for the moderators to arrive... ::cop: )

 

[askme]

As an ex-crew member with more than 5 years of DCL experience I can confirm that there is no way you will ever see a DCL Captain coming out of a Guest Cabin, unless accompanied by another officer. Meaning there was some kind of emergency in there that had to be dealt with. The Captain has very spacious living quaters, unlike any of the guest rooms, but definately not like the Tow or Wqalt Dinsey suites. He spends many months on board in a HIGH stress position and according to me, probably deserves a ittle space after 20 to 30 years at sea.

As for senior officer rooms, well you will be surprized to know that they are actually spaced out through out the ship, mostky due to space constraint when the ship was designed for maximum guest utalization. So as a senior officer you could be on Deck 2, Deck 8 or any other deck depending on where can=bins have been allocated for your department!

You may note I do not devulge exact locations of Captains Cabin, answer to this - " Even though I am an ex-Crew Member devulging this info would probably be compromising DCL scurity and even now I would not want to do that! Just have to much respect for DCL as a company to let them down ever!

Sorry for carrying on so much!!!!??

 

[Barbossa]

As an ex-crew member with more than 5 years of DCL experience I can confirm that there is no way you will ever see a DCL Captain coming out of a Guest Cabin, unless accompanied by another officer. Meaning there was some kind of emergency in there that had to be dealt with. The Captain has very spacious living quaters, unlike any of the guest rooms, but definately not like the Tow or Wqalt Dinsey suites. He spends many months on board in a HIGH stress position and according to me, probably deserves a ittle space after 20 to 30 years at sea.

As for senior officer rooms, well you will be surprized to know that they are actually spaced out through out the ship, mostky due to space constraint when the ship was designed for maximum guest utalization. So as a senior officer you could be on Deck 2, Deck 8 or any other deck depending on where can=bins have been allocated for your department!

You may note I do not devulge exact locations of Captains Cabin, answer to this - " Even though I am an ex-Crew Member devulging this info would probably be compromising DCL scurity and even now I would not want to do that! Just have to much respect for DCL as a company to let them down ever!

Sorry for carrying on so much!!!!??

Thanks much for the interesting info. There's no doubt that a cruise ship captain has an extraordinary responsibility to keep his ship and its passengers and crew safe. It's fitting that his quarters (and I would guess his compensation) reflect that level of responsibility.

As I'm sure you know, my comments about the captain and passenger's quarters were strictly tongue-in-cheek. We sailed on the Magic last month and found every member of the crew to be extremely professional and courteous, more so than other cruise lines we've taken.

 

[Billinaz]

Its right behind this door......

 

[Barbossa]

Its right behind this door......

That looks like a general exit available to crew and passengers. What deck?

 

[outahere]

I've often wondered where the senior staff cabins are. If you look at the front of the ships, there are, what appear to be, fairly large verandahs on decks 6 & 7, which do not show up on the room charts. It would make sense that the captain have a cabin near the bridge, and since the bridge is on deck 8, I'm guessing his cabin is somewhere in the front on deck 7.

 

[tvguy]

Sorry, been watching "The Deadliest Catch".....none of THOSE Captains has a cabin!!!!

 

[Buckeye Gal]

I'm going to be a party pooper and side with AskMe. With all of the craziness of this world, I don't think we need to know where senior crew, much less the Captain, lays their head down to sleep.

IMO, it completely makes sense that they would be scattered throughout the ship. It would be completely irresponsible to house all of them in one area of the ship..God forbid that if there were an emergency (fire or whatever), I know I would not want to know that all the senior officers were clumped together and in a bad scenario.

Just my opinions......

 

[HooKooDooKu]

I've often wondered where the senior staff cabins are. If you look at the front of the ships, there are, what appear to be, fairly large verandahs on decks 6 & 7, which do not show up on the room charts. It would make sense that the captain have a cabin near the bridge, and since the bridge is on deck 8, I'm guessing his cabin is somewhere in the front on deck 7.

Looking at Deck Plans and comparing them to external pictures of the ship, I can't find any verandah cabins that are not accounted for. But if you look at Deck Plans for Deck 7, you will see a large gray area at the front of the ship.
(I'm guessing that picture in another post was one of the two doors at the end of the hall way at the front of Deck 7). Before you even get to the curved section under the bridge, there is enough room for 16 standard size cabins in this area. And you can also see on external pictures that there is a curved verand at the front of Deck 7. I would think that since this area is off-limits to guests and it's right below the bridge, that the captain's quarters would be SOMEWHERE in that area.

 

[outahere]

Looking at Deck Plans and comparing them to external pictures of the ship, I can't find any verandah cabins that are not accounted for. But if you look at Deck Plans for Deck 7, you will see a large gray area at the front of the ship.

I agree that the information should not be made public. If you look at the deck plans for decks 5,6 and 7, there are gray areas at the front of each deck. Seems like a likely place to me.

 

[DrCavin]

Sorry, been watching "The Deadliest Catch".....none of THOSE Captains has a cabin!!!!

Thread-Jack....
I love that show! They are really taking a pounding catching opilio crab!!

 

[jrabbit]

On Huricaane Hillary Day (was supposed to be Cabo day on the EB 2005 Repo) we chatted with Cruise Dirrector Rachel and she said that she could NOT open the door to her Verandah. So I KNOW that she had an outside room