Connecting staterooms and noise

[GPaLarry]

Last Sept. we experienced a B2B Med./Trans. for 18 nights on the Magic in the same room, a connecter. We did not know the folks on the other side for each leg (they changed). On the first one, the family had kids that you could hear, when near the doors during the evening, probably when they were getting ready for bed...lasted maybe half an hour. During the second leg we heard nothing. As reported earlier, it depends on who is there, just like a hotel, on a bus, in a plane, etc. Now, we have booked a connecter for our cruise to Alaska in June with our daughter and her family of 5 next door. We have done this before with them. The sharing of bathrooms, showers, sinks, etc. with 5 women and 2 men getting ready for bed is awesome. I even make funny (to me) signs for the share doors with "Knock once if... Knock twice if..." captions for pictures (mostly Disney) that I scrounge from the internet to keep the girls (7, 11 & 13) entertained when we connect. I also do the regular stateroom doors (4 for this cruise), but that's another story.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Are connecting staterooms noisier than ones that don't connect? Do you hear your neighbours more than if you didn't have that connecting door? We have a connecting room for our Alaskan cruise and it didn't occur to me that the noise would be an issue). Now I'm wondering if I should be worried? lol

I agree with hardis5. It depends on your neighbors. We've been in connecting rooms as well as non-connecting rooms. A few we had noisy neighbors, most not. Regardless if it was a connecting room or not.

In fact, one of our Fantasy cruises, we were in a connecting room. The neighbors on both sides (the connected room as well as the non-connected one had lots of extremely noisy children who loved nothing better to do than run in and out of their verandah doors and jump off the beds. That, added to the guests who preferred to run foot races in the passageway on the deck above added up to an extremely noisy room.

 

[bcwife76]

Oh man, now two non-connecting rooms have opened up on deck 7 (we are currently booked on deck 6), port side (we are starboard) and it's only $300 more.

Decisions decisions.....

 

[anricat]

This just happened to us on our last cruise. We had a connecting stateroom and our neighbors were pretty noisy. I heard some girls (maybe tweenish?) giggling and talking late into the night. I was worried one night that they would wake my DD, they were so loud. I made a couple of pounds on the connecting door and they were quiet after that. I also heard some coughing in the middle of the night. Like loud coughing fits.

My biggest problem though was their alarm clock going off every morning really early. That alone, wasn't the issue, it was that they hit the snooze button repeatedly and let the alarm go on and on before turning it off each time. I counted one time and the thing chimed literally 38 times. The first morning it started going off at 5:45 and continued every 10 minutes until I finally got up and left at 6:30 for a run (my own alarm was set for 6:45 but I just gave up on more sleep by 6:30). I don't know if it continued, but 45 minutes of snooze button is ridiculous in my opinion. This happened pretty much every morning. No more connecting rooms for us!

 

[fairfax]

Like most, we've had good and bad experiences with connecting rooms. The last time we sailed, our neighbors were SO loud, and it seemed like they never slept. I am a pretty sound sleeper, but that was the worst. Fortunately it was only a 3 night cruise. There have also been times where we haven't heard a peep out of our neighbors. I hope for our 10 night we get reasonably quiet neighbors or it will be awful.