Does the location of a cabin have any affect on sea sickness ?

[AnnaB]

Are you better off forward, aft or in the middle ?

 

[disneyholic family]

i think if you ask 2 people this question, you'll get 3 opinions....
i've heard and read that midship and aft are the best....
that is, i've never heard anyone say that forward is good (it rises and falls the most).....

as for what i experienced on the Wonder.....
our stateroom was midship and it was wonderful....
i barely felt anything...just enough to rock me gently to sleep...
when we were forward in the walt disney theatre i felt the movement of the ship quite strongly...
and when we were aft in the restaurants, i felt the movement (not as much as i felt it in the theatre).....
i felt the movement the least when i was midship (in our stateroom)....

but i'm sure others will have had different experiences...

 

[Kimber1963]

Midship-deck 6 would be your best bet IMHO if you suffer from motion sickness.

 

[Wonderwoman1982]

Here is that third opinion. I've also been told the LOWER the better, too. We has midship category 9, which is on deck 2. I agree TOTALLY with disneyholic family. The theatre was the worst, and restaurants in back were moving also, but not as bad as the front. If the seas were rocking, our cabin was the greatest place to be motion sickness wise. BUT we cruised during a hurricane last year, so it was quite rough. I ALSO recommend NOT cruising in the middle of a hurricane.

 

[AnnMorin]

We have been on six midship and seven aft. Our next one is 5aft. I really did not notice any difference at all between six and seven or aft or midship. These ships are so big that they are very stable.

 

[disneyholic family]

i just asked my son and he agreed that he felt the movement very strongly when we were forward in the theatre....
he says he was just on the border of getting seasick when we were there for the shows....
and that he felt some movement in the restaurants (aft)....mostly in parrot cay......
on the other hand, we never felt any movement at all in barrel of laughs and wavebands, which are right under the walt disney theatre.....go figure....

as for high or low....i've heard that about lower being better, but our stateroom was on deck 8 midship and i didn't feel a thing in it...just the mildest movement every now and then....

so......not much help eh?

 

[AnnaB]

Thanks everyone! After reading another post this morning I checked to see available cabins and it appears that there is a cabin in the same cat. and sleeps 4 right in the middle of the boat on deck 7. I called DCL but cannot access my ressie due to booking thru AAA. I will have to wait and see if my travel agent can make the change tomorrow.

 

[slmjam]

Eeek! We are booked in Room #7507 which is the forward part of the ship near the elevators. We have never been on a cruise before and I am really worried about the rocking of the boat. Is this location a mistake?

 

[disneyholic family]

slmjam..
gee...i don't know....
maybe you should post a new thread asking about this particular stateroom and asking for advice as to the best stateroom on your category.....
there must be others who've stayed in this area who would know if it's a problem or not....

 

[albiats]

Members of our party that were susceptible to motion sickness were in 5506, which is very far forward on deck 5, and didn't notice much movement. We were in 5648, which is very far aft, and we didn't notice much movement.

I believe DCL has superior engineering and or superior stabilizers, becuase we seldom notice any movement during any of our 4 previous cruises with them.

It's impossible to compare directly, but we were on the Carnival Ecstacy and the tv monitor with the bridge report showed slight to moderate seas, and we noticed considerable motion. On other DCL cruises, the bridge monitor showed moderate to heavy surf and we hardly noticed anything. Both ships were cruising at a speed of about 21 knots.

From a theoretical view, you would have the smallest possibility for motion if you were on a low numbered deck and if you were mid-ship. The low numbered deck would tend to minimize the left to right motion and the mid-ship would minimize the up and down motion.

Since I have a lot of confidence in the DCL engineering, I would take any cabin in the category I was interested in, just for the opportunity to cruise again.

hope that helps

 

[taswira]

Originally posted by disneyholic family
. . he felt the movement very strongly when we were forward in the theatre....he says he was just on the border of getting seasick when we were there for the shows.

The WDW Theatre actually spans 3 decks. I wonder who would feel the motion most, those in the lower front row or those in the higher back row?

As for staterooms, I've been both midship and aft, Cat. 5 and Cat. 7. Both were great IMHO. In May there was a LOT of rolling the last night, but as I walked around the ship it all felt the same to me. I would never want to be forward due to the <I>possibility</I> of rocking, which would bother me far more than rolling (side to side). But unless the seas were <I>really</I> rough, I wouldn't think it would be a problem.

 

[slmjam]

Thanks to all for the helpful information. I was able to get info from Dave as well and think we'll go ahead and stay where we are at.

 

[RIDISNEYLOVERS]

Funny that there are so many different opinions. When DH and I were on our honeymoon on the Disney Magic in 1998 we really felt the boat moving when we were having dinner in Animators Palate which is aft the night before our arrival back to Port Canaveral. We did not get seasick at all, but there was A LOT of movement. We had stateroom 7012 forward and did not feel anything!!

Maybe we are just not suceptible to seasickness, but it all depends on the person.

Lisa