How thin are the walls??? (we want some privacy)

[MickeyMania]

Okay - so we have invited our mother-in-law (and brothers-in-law) to join us on the cruise... I would think adjoining rooms would be a neat option...but.... How thin are the walls?

Can you hear the person in the room next to you? I am worried that our kids would be too loud for them in the early morning - and the would be too loud for us in the late evening.

Thoughts?

 

[bicker]

I've never been aboard a Disney ship, but based on the cruise ships I have been on, I would recommend NOT requesting adjoining rooms. nuf sed.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

We have never heard voices from the room next door, but you can hear the toilets flushing, water running or closet doors closing. You can hear people talking as they walk down rhe hallways. They ask people to talk quietly after midnight as a courtesy of others.
When we had a verandah we could hear other voices while we were out on it, but never heard the neighbors other than that. We may of had quiet neighbors, I don't know, but we have been 7 times and never had a problem with it.
Hope this helps some,
mom x4,grandma x4

 

[staceymerrill]

make sure that you are not booked in an adjoining stateroom - One with a door separating staterooms.....you can hear absolutely everything between these staterooms...

 

[aprilgail2]

We had a cat 11 last cruise, not adjoining, and we could hear the conversation of the room next to us if we were sitting on the couch without the TV on.

 

[UGAFan0829]

We had a cat. 5 room, that was not adjoining and didn't have a problem. I was a little worried about how private it would be at first, but it turned out fine. The only time that we were able to hear our neighbors were when we were on the verandah at the same time!

 

[kcashner]

We've had issues with hall noise (mainly the result of rude guests being excessively noisy) and a screaming baby in the next cabin.

DCL does ask (see Navigators) that guest refrain from noise in the hall after a certain time....most comply.

You might consider rooms across the hall from each other. FOr instance, you can do a cat 6 and an 11. It might save you some $ as well as gain privacy.

 

[lbgraves]

We haven't had a problem before but also haven't had an adjoining room. We do on our next cruise so I really hope that isn't an issue.

 

[SueEllen]

I have stayed in connecting and non-connecting cabins and never noticed more than running water, flushing and a few bumps and thumps from the other staterooms. You can hear people in the hallway.

I know that some people have reported connecting rooms to be noisy, but we have not experienced that at all.

Sue Ellen

 

[kplatt]

We've had it both ways -- quiet neighbors in a connecting cabin and noisy neighbors in one non-connecting. One cruise had us above the Oceaneer Lab where I could hear their speakers through my pillow.

My pet peeve, though, is the amount of noise in the corridors. And adding to it on our last cruise was a family that booked cabins NOT adjoining. The parents were across the hall and the grandparents and kids were down the hall. Everytime the kids needed the parents they were pounding on their door or standing in the hall crying.

IMHO, a notice in the Navigator is not enough. I would like to see a sign at every elevator bay asking people to be respectfully quiet in the corridors at night.

Off my soapbox now,

 

[slindamood]

We have been on two Disney cruises, both cat 4 aft. We did not notice noise from adjoining cabins except when someone was speaking on their verandah when we were on our verandah. We had no hall noise to speak of, being in the back of the ship with cabins only on one side of the hall.

I don't know if it is a function of aft, but the engines provided a type of white noise so that normal level sounds seemed to be drowned out.

 

[Mickeyhugger]

I'm in the minority here, but I don't remember ANY noise on any of the 3 DCL cruises we've taken, and each time was a full ship. First time was cat 11, the other two were a cat 9. I'm sure there was noise, but not bothersome enough for us to remember.

 

[Jsme]

Okay - so we have invited our mother-in-law (and brothers-in-law) to join us on the cruise... I would think adjoining rooms would be a neat option...but.... How thin are the walls?

Can you hear the person in the room next to you? I am worried that our kids would be too loud for them in the early morning - and the would be too loud for us in the late evening.

Thoughts?

We had adjoiners with my IL's last October. Never was bothered once. Nor did they complain about us. We had problems with the kids next door on the other side of us.

 

[flexsmom]

We've had connecting staterooms twice and I concur that the bulk of the noise we heard was from the passageways. It was nice to have a "larger space" with the door open when we wanted to socialize with our family - and then more importantly to close and lock the door when we were ready for privacy!

 

[M<3'sMickey]

I was in a category 11 last year. We heard the people next door snoring at night. Need I say more?

 

[mmouse37]

Just so everyone is on the same page as far as terms go.....connecting cabins mean that there is an interior door that you can pass through to the other cabin.

Adjoining cabins mean they are just next to each other....no interior door.

DCL uses the terms this way. I noticed that some use the terms interchangeably but that is not correct. Not trying to be a "know it all", just want everyone to understand and use the terms correctly.

MJ

 

[LostGirls]

We had connecting staterooms on deck 7 aft. My parents were in the other room. No problem at all. The people on the other side of our wall we heard more, but it just seemed to be one night. The bigger problem was the noise from the elevator lobby - wouldn't be my first choice of a location if I am ever lucky enough to go again.

 

[pppiglet]

There was a group of kids that would run down the hall every night at 11:00. It must have been their curfew! Other than that, we didn't hear anything from our neighbors except if they were on the verandah. The lady next door on one side of us had a smokers cough we heard off and on when we had the verandah door open and our fellow diser on the other side said she could here my DH singing Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a pirates life for me!

 

[tvguy]

We did hear stuff in the hall, but remember, the walls are steel, so it's unlikely you'll hear much from a cabin next door or above.

 

[bicker]

the walls are steel, so it's unlikely you'll hear much from a cabin next door or above

Steel is a somewhat decent conductor of sound.