How do I tell which way the beds face when choosing a room on the DCL site?

[wdwfan]

I'm looking at the DCL site and I'm wondering how to tell which way the beds face? Is it that if you have a connecting room, the bed will be against the opposite wall of the connecting door? I'm really trying to get a forward facing bed since I'm pretty sensitive to the motion of the ship. Thanks for any assistance you can give me.

 

[bksaffle]

If you are "standing" in the hall and the door is on the Right, then the head of the bed will be on the left side of the room, and if the door is on the Left then the head of the bed is on the right side of the room. The little indentation on the deck plans are the doors (blue arrow on the photo is a "Door").

 

[darnheather]

It depends on the stateroom category. Are all connecting rooms a single category? I ask because our room the bed faced the door.

 

[BestVacaEver]

That is super helpful, thanks for posting this

 

[FigmentSpark]

Check this site:

https://www.cruisedeckplans.com/DP/deckplans/cruiseline.php?line=Disney

Click on your ship, then your deck and it should have a little arrow in the stateroom showing the bed direction (see instructions). I can't guarantee it's right, but if it is, then it should be helpful.


Edit: Sorry, the arrow points to the connecting rooms only, but I just assumed the beds faced the connecting room. Huh.

 

[Sytrace]

Check this site:

https://www.cruisedeckplans.com/DP/deckplans/cruiseline.php?line=Disney

Click on your ship, then your deck and it should have a little arrow in the stateroom showing the bed direction (see instructions). I can't guarantee it's right, but if it is, then it should be helpful.


Edit: Sorry, the arrow points to the connecting rooms only, but I just assumed the beds faced the connecting room. Huh.

This is FANTASTIC! Thank you I checked it out and if you click on the cabin number it will show you the layout of the room itself.

 

[Sytrace]

It depends on the stateroom category. Are all connecting rooms a single category? I ask because our room the bed faced the door.

It looks like the inside cabins have the beds facing the door.

 

[wdwfan]

Thank you so much for all of the helpful information. We're on the Wonder Alaskan Cruise Aug. 7, 2017. We booked a 9b, deck 2, cabin 2052. If I'm looking at the chart correctly, my bed might be facing forward, which I'm really hoping it does.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Thank you so much for all of the helpful information. We're on the Wonder Alaskan Cruise Aug. 7, 2017. We booked a 9b, deck 2, cabin 2052. If I'm looking at the chart correctly, my bed might be facing forward, which I'm really hoping it does.

Yes, it has the headboard on the aft wall of the room.

If, on the deck plans, you see this , that's the wall you're facing when you lay in bed.

 

[wdwfan]

Yes, it has the headboard on the aft wall of the room.

If, on the deck plans, you see this View attachment 163301, that's the wall you're facing when you lay in bed.

Thank you for verifying that for me!! I'm so relieved!!

 

[mcd2745]

This brings up a pet peeve of mine. How hard is it really for DCL (and every other cruise line, for that matter) to have specific, detailed, info (including one of those panoramic "VR tours") for each individual room on their websites. To have one generic description for an entire category of rooms that can have some real significant differences within that category, is poor form. Ok, sorry...mini-rant over.

 

[TeaBee]

I'm looking at the DCL site and I'm wondering how to tell which way the beds face? Is it that if you have a connecting room, the bed will be against the opposite wall of the connecting door? I'm really trying to get a forward facing bed since I'm pretty sensitive to the motion of the ship. Thanks for any assistance you can give me.

The beds are on the opposite wall of connecting doors. The door was immediately across from the foot of the bed in our 5c cabin.

 

[professorandmom]

It looks like the inside cabins have the beds facing the door.

I was in 7509 on the Wonder - and the headboard was along the same wall as the couch...unlike the photos of inside staterooms where the headboard is on the far wall of the stateroom (foot of the bed facing the center of the room)...

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I was in 7509 on the Wonder - and the headboard was along the same wall as the couch...unlike the photos of inside staterooms where the headboard is on the far wall of the stateroom (foot of the bed facing the center of the room)...

7509 is an inside, handicapped room. The configuration is different in that room.

There are also some "sideways" rooms on the Magic class ships that the bed/sofa relationship is different.

 

[DynamicDisneyDuo]

This brings up a pet peeve of mine. How hard is it really for DCL (and every other cruise line, for that matter) to have specific, detailed, info (including one of those panoramic "VR tours") for each individual room on their websites. To have one generic description for an entire category of rooms that can have some real significant differences within that category, is poor form. Ok, sorry...mini-rant over.

In theory, it wouldn't be super hard. In practice, it's not really feasible to do a tour of EACH room. Maybe one per category. It would take a long time to do the recording and/or take pictures. Then you have to have server space to store all those files and bandwidth to host them.

 

[professorandmom]

7509 is an inside, handicapped room. .

At the time 7509 on the Wonder was not handicapped. My post was to share that not all inside rooms have the bed facing the door following up on Sytrace's post...just trying to help

 

[RedSox68]

This brings up a pet peeve of mine. How hard is it really for DCL (and every other cruise line, for that matter) to have specific, detailed, info (including one of those panoramic "VR tours") for each individual room on their websites. To have one generic description for an entire category of rooms that can have some real significant differences within that category, is poor form. Ok, sorry...mini-rant over.

Oh boy do we agree. I love descriptions that say "some oceanview rooms may have obstructed or partial views", but they tell you nothing about the stateroom you actually pick so you have no idea what the view is.

I never thought about which way the beds face -- is there a particular benefit to them facing a certain way?

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Oh boy do we agree. I love descriptions that say "some oceanview rooms may have obstructed or partial views", but they tell you nothing about the stateroom you actually pick so you have no idea what the view is.

I never thought about which way the beds face -- is there a particular benefit to them facing a certain way?

Not really. It's just that some people do better facing forward when their bodies know they are moving.

 

[Quellman]

The beds are on the opposite wall of connecting doors. The door was immediately across from the foot of the bed in our 5c cabin.

8682 on the Dream and I assume the Fantasy have the bed on the same wall as the connecting state room door. This is a corner aft handicap room. It may be similar for the others as well.