Dream special rooms - now that we see the pictures! ** Index now in Post 7 **

[PearlySwan]

I think this picture gives a better perspective of the forward facing Cat 9A porthole staterooms. It's easier to see the placement of the portholes, but what I can't figure out yet is if these are the larger portholes or the medium sized portholes. HallsofVA any input there? I want to think they are the larger portholes because we are booked in 8504.

 

[justmestace]

I think this picture gives a better perspective of the forward facing Cat 9A porthole staterooms. It's easier to see the placement of the portholes, but what I can't figure out yet is if these are the larger portholes or the medium sized portholes. HallsofVA any input there? I want to think they are the larger portholes because we are booked in 8504.

They'll be the same size as the Cat 8C's on the sides of the ship forward. Those are plainly visible in quite a few of the pictures on here.

 

[HallsofVA]

I think this picture gives a better perspective of the forward facing Cat 9A porthole staterooms. It's easier to see the placement of the portholes, but what I can't figure out yet is if these are the larger portholes or the medium sized portholes. HallsofVA any input there? I want to think they are the larger portholes because we are booked in 8504.

They'll be the same size as the Cat 8C's on the sides of the ship forward. Those are plainly visible in quite a few of the pictures on here.

Thanks for the picture! I think it helps give good perspective, but not so good of a result.

I think the windows up front are actually going to turn out to be the medium size ones, as on the 9A rooms in the back or the 9B rooms down below. I had also hoped they'd be the large ones, and I could almost get there by comparing the height of the ribbon to the height of the windows on the port and starboard sides, using the picture below as reference. Even on the picture below, the side forward portholes appear to be slightly bigger than the ribbon across the front, but I wanted to justify that as the difference between upright versus slanted windows. But the picture above seems to confirm that the portholes do not completely fill the space under the ribbon panels, thus I'm going to have to say that they are medium sized.

That said, the two 9A rooms on the port and starboard side of the ship do appear to have the same size portholes as the Cat 8C cabins next to them, so they look like bonus bargains! With the corner rooms, we may get additional space, but only a small window.

Having 8006 booked on our Dream cruise, I of course hope for the larger windows, but I won't be disappointed if they turn out to be the medium ones I'm anticipating them to be.

 

[ibouncetoo]

Andreas posted some more pictures, since the sun finally came out!

Here's the thread that has the link to his photos
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=38853481&posted=1#post38853481

There are some extreme close ups!

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[justmestace]

Andreas posted some more pictures, since the sun finally came out!

Here's the thread that has the link to his photos
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=38853481&posted=1#post38853481

There are some extreme close ups!

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AWESOME! Thanks for posting this!

 

[HallsofVA]

I don't have time to go through the new pictures at the moment and post an updated analysis with pictures, but just wanted to post some quick feedback/updates to some of the topics discussed in this thread thus far from a very quick review.

1. The daylight pictures show that they are in the process of placing the verandahs on the 5E rooms. It looks like they have some of the support arms in place on the starboard side rooms, and have some actual panels up on the port side rooms. From the pictures, it looks like they have extended the verandahs out to the edge of the boat covers, which makes them larger than on the deck plan and will enable the Deck 5 folks to look down and not just up and out. On the port side pictures the railing looks a bit high, but hopefully that's just a perspective thing since the photo is taken from the ground.

2. We had quite a few posts talking about the workplatform that had been in front of the royal suite. There are several closeups that show the platform having been moved to the end of the concierge rooms on Deck 12, and being used.

3. The funky looking doors (brown with small porthole window) on the three unpublished verandah rooms on Deck 10 forward by the wings have been replaced with regular doors. I had come to realize that the funky looking doors were the temp. construction doors, so I wasn't terribly surprised to see them replaced. I assume they are also replacing the temp. doors on the concierge rooms on Deck 11 port side, since previous pictures still had many of them in place on those rooms.

4. The accessible verandah doors and the aft corner verandah doors have something going on with them. At first I thought they were getting wider openings for accessibility, but since those aft doors are no longer listed as being accessible who knows what is going on. I don't remember the doors looking different from the previous pictures, but now most if not all of the accessible verandah doors and the aft doors have a wide piece of plastic over the middle door.

5. I looked, but from my quick glance, it doesn't seem we can confirm anything about the aft verandah dividers. There are some support posts in place that I can't recall if were in the earlier pictures, and they are located well back from the deck railings.

 

[justmestace]

I don't have time to go through the new pictures at the moment and post an updated analysis with pictures, but just wanted to post some quick feedback/updates to some of the topics discussed in this thread thus far from a very quick review.

1. The daylight pictures show that they are in the process of placing the verandahs on the 5E rooms. It looks like they have some of the support arms in place on the starboard side rooms, and have some actual panels up on the port side rooms. From the pictures, it looks like they have extended the verandahs out to the edge of the boat covers, which makes them larger than on the deck plan and will enable the Deck 5 folks to look down and not just up and out. On the port side pictures the railing looks a bit high, but hopefully that's just a perspective thing since the photo is taken from the ground.

2. We had quite a few posts talking about the workplatform that had been in front of the royal suite. There are several closeups that show the platform having been moved to the end of the concierge rooms on Deck 12, and being used.

3. The funky looking doors (brown with small porthole window) on the three unpublished verandah rooms on Deck 10 forward by the wings have been replaced with regular doors. I had come to realize that the funky looking doors were the temp. construction doors, so I wasn't terribly surprised to see them replaced. I assume they are also replacing the temp. doors on the concierge rooms on Deck 11 port side, since previous pictures still had many of them in place on those rooms.

4. The accessible verandah doors are getting wider door openings. I don't remember the doors looking different from the previous pictures, but now most if not all of the accessible verandah doors have a wider middle section (or look like they are getting once since I couldn't tell from a quick glance if that was a temporary opening, or a new wider opening.

5. I looked, but from my quick glance, it doesn't seem we can confirm anything about the aft verandah dividers. There are some support posts in place that I can't recall if were in the earlier pictures, and they are located well back from the deck railings.

Where are you seeing this? Interested because I'll have an HC room on the Dream and the Fantasy. The verandah doors on in the HC rooms on the Magic/Wonder were the same size as all the others.

 

[HallsofVA]

Where are you seeing this? Interested because I'll have an HC room on the Dream and the Fantasy. The verandah doors on in the HC rooms on the Magic/Wonder were the same size as all the others.

Take a look at the accessible verandahs in these pictures. The doors didn't look like this last weekend!

 

[dahuffy]

I think this picture gives a better perspective of the forward facing Cat 9A porthole staterooms. It's easier to see the placement of the portholes, but what I can't figure out yet is if these are the larger portholes or the medium sized portholes. HallsofVA any input there? I want to think they are the larger portholes because we are booked in 8504.

We'll be in 8502 on the Fantasy.

 

[HallsofVA]

I don't have time to go through the new pictures at the moment and post an updated analysis with pictures, but just wanted to post some quick feedback/updates to some of the topics discussed in this thread thus far from a very quick review.

5. I looked, but from my quick glance, it doesn't seem we can confirm anything about the aft verandah dividers. There are some support posts in place that I can't recall if were in the earlier pictures, and they are located well back from the deck railings.

I took some closer looks at the pictures while answering the post above, and realized that we can see some of the verandah dividers! Take a look at the aft picture above, and also at the shot below of the Deck 12 and other forward rooms! It looks like some of the same type of poles that are supporting the dividers on the forward rooms are installed on the aft rooms.

 

[justmestace]

Take a look at the accessible verandahs in these pictures. The doors didn't look like this last weekend!

They have some kind of paper or film over the center, but they're still the same width as all the other doors. The paper just overlaps the two outer sections.


And those aft rooms aren't accessible. The only verandah accessible room AFT is on Deck 9, on the other side of the ship.

 

[HallsofVA]

They have some kind of paper or film over the center, but they're still the same width as all the other doors. The paper just overlaps the two outer sections.


And those aft rooms aren't accessible. The only verandah accessible room AFT is on Deck 9, on the other side of the ship.

You are absolutely right about those aft rooms! Sorry! Still had the old deck plan in mind when I saw that, especially since I saw the same coverings on the other accessible rooms on the ship but not on any other non-accessible ones. I wonder what they're doing to those doors, that they aren't doing to the other doors??

That's what I get for trying to take a quick look when I should have been working!

 

[justmestace]

You are absolutely right about those aft rooms! Sorry! Still had the old deck plan in mind when I saw that, especially since I saw the same coverings on the other accessible rooms on the ship but not on any other non-accessible ones. I wonder what they're doing to those doors, that they aren't doing to the other doors??

That's what I get for trying to take a quick look when I should have been working!

What I would HOPE they are doing, is making them easier to open! I have limited range of motion in my shoulders (among other problems) and opening those doors is miserable.

And I wish those rooms back there were all still HC. There aren't enough HC rooms, in my opinion, and I don't agree that those larger balconies should be in the same category as the rooms next door, with smaller balconies. But I'm betting DCL will figure that one out soon enough, and make a special category for them, like the other cruise lines have. Some lines call those "Premium Balconies" and charge more.

 

[justmestace]

HEY....wouldn't it be nice if they made the HC doors like a "regular" door....open, close...instead of a slider?? That's one thing I DO like about the balcony doors on other lines. They are so much easier for me to open.

But then, they'd also be easier for a child to open, too.

 

[KS929]

I took some closer looks at the pictures while answering the post above, and realized that we can see some of the verandah dividers! Take a look at the aft picture above, and also at the shot below of the Deck 12 and other forward rooms! It looks like some of the same type of poles that are supporting the dividers on the forward rooms are installed on the aft rooms.

Also check out the picture below…

On deck 8, you can see that there's also some dividers up there already….

 

[KS929]

… nvm

 

[elgerber]

In all the times this week I looked at the picture of my aft balcony, 7192, I never realized that the balcony has plexiglass, till you guys pointed it out!!! Thank you so much! That is so wonderful! Now, let's get a divider up out there!

 

[Piecey]

1. The daylight pictures show that they are in the process of placing the verandahs on the 5E rooms. It looks like they have some of the support arms in place on the starboard side rooms, and have some actual panels up on the port side rooms. From the pictures, it looks like they have extended the verandahs out to the edge of the boat covers, which makes them larger than on the deck plan and will enable the Deck 5 folks to look down and not just up and out. On the port side pictures the railing looks a bit high, but hopefully that's just a perspective thing since the photo is taken from the ground.

From this picture...

It appears to me that they will extend out deeper than the other verandahs, but not all the way out to the edge of the bumpout. But again, I'm terrible at stuff like this and trying to interpret. You seem very good at it!

If these turn out to be as deep as they appear do you think they'll become very popular? I can't decide if this makes those rooms "diamonds in the rough" or not. I think for me personally I'll prefer it... looking straight down always made me slightly nervous!

 

[KS929]

From this picture...

It appears to me that they will extend out deeper than the other verandahs, but not all the way out to the edge of the bumpout. But again, I'm terrible at stuff like this and trying to interpret. You seem very good at it!

If these turn out to be as deep as they appear do you think they'll become very popular? I can't decide if this makes those rooms "diamonds in the rough" or not. I think for me personally I'll prefer it... looking straight down always made me slightly nervous!

looks like they already got the dividers in on this side! lol

 

[Piecey]

looks like they already got the dividers in on this side! lol

Yeah!

I just saw this one-- those are very tall supports for the 5E verandahs!

*eta*
Annnnd finally saw this one. I think we can safely say those 5E rooms are going to have deeper verandahs!