Here's a picture from today's MW webcam that shows a good shot of room 5052 in the bottom left corner of the picture. Also gives a great perspective on how deep the verandahs of those deck 5 Cat 5E rooms could be, depending on where they end up placing the railings!
I guess I'm missing it, which part is the verandah?
I'm horrible at this but your posts have been really interesting!
Look at the picture below. In the bottom left corner you see a little spot of deck, with a white edge around it that looks a little bit like a toilet paper holder on this small picture. That is actually the verandah of the 5E room 5052. This is one of the first shots we've had taken from above, where you can see that they've extended the floor of the verandah out over the tops of the lifeboat bumpouts. They have not yet installed the railings for those verandahs, on either side of the ship, so we don't know exactly where they are going to go, but from the looks of the flooring, I think they may extend them all the way out over the lifeboat covers. Otherwise, the folks in those rooms won't have any view other than out and up.
If you look at the picture below, you can get a better sense of what this space looks like from the side (granted this is the other side of the ship.) The area above the little yellow boat is the area we are talking about. It's hard to get a sense from the side how deep that space is, until you look at it from above, as in the other shot, or from the side, when you see that the Dream has some nice wide hips to her. The space above the boat on this side of the ship is actually the accessible room 5552, so it is twice as wide as the room on the other side that the other poster was asking about, 5052.
I am a worrier. I've been on 2 cruises before, 1 DCL, but never had a verandah. This will be completely new to me. From what I've read on here, the railing is very high. That makes me happy. I booked a category 5 specifically to try to curtail any possibility they might want to climb because of the whitewalls category 6s are supposed to have.
Sarah - Anything in particular you want to know? You can see its outside wall in the aft photos such as the one below. Deck 7 is three up from the bottom. 7689 is behind the white wall to the left of the verandah room on the right side of Deck 7, which is 7688. 7690 is the third verandah room in the middle of Deck 7, and is on the other side of your room.
Why they went to the trouble of putting an inside room in those spots is beyond me, unless something prevented then from including the split bath, thus they couldn't make it any more than a Cat 11. Seems they could have stuck one of the medium size Cat 9 portholes back there without too much trouble and still kept some symmetry to the ship.
We don't have a lot of great shots of the port, or left side of the ship up close. But you can get a general sense of where you are from the picture below, and then take that to a port side picture.
On the picture below, find the little yellow boat. The verandah right above that boat is the accessible room 5552. That room is located right at the forward elevators. Go up two decks from that room to room 7548. Go left 4 rooms to 7556. 7556 is directly across the ship from your room 7058. It's one of the first rooms from the left on this picture. A good reference point when you want to try to find your room on the other side of the ship, is to follow the column of rooms straight up, and you'll see you are right under the back edge of the overhang for the Deck 12 concierge rooms (or the restroom, actually.) Find the same thing on the other side of the ship, and drop down to Deck 7 and there you are!
Thank you VERY much! I so appreciate your taking the time to reply to me on both threads. Thank you again.I answered this one on the "double railing" thread. You really should not have any problems at all. It will be a great spot. Check out my reply on the other thread.
I also posted a picture I took back there this summer.
While you were on the other ships with the forward facing cabins, did you receive a note in your cabin that asked you to please shut the shades at nighttime due to the bridge needing to have darkness to see (does that makes sense).Or I thought perhaps...somewhere on this thread or a similar one....that maybe they added it as non-glare, or non-reflective, or a type of sunscreen for the rooms themselves. Your theory sounds more plausible, but I've been on other ships with forward-facing rooms that did not have any type of covering, too. Hmmmm.......
In MAY 2011 on the DREAM and in MAY 2012 on the FANTASY, We also have that stateroom number 5546. Did you also know that there is not a connecting door to either rooms 5544 or 5548.
And my friend what is the other one.......Oh....oh.... let me guess, 5552 [A] or 5524, wow, thats 2 more And now how many non-connecting on forward port-side is there my friend ? 
...............beap....times up , 3. You are great , keep up the good INFO. 2-U
