Rooms right at the front?

[Jobelly]

similar to another thread I'm trying to decide between a family deluxe with Verandah for the 5 of us (kids 12,9,3) or for the same price 2 inside cabins (deck 9) or 2 ocean view connecting cabins deck 8 right at the front, this is about £180 more. I can imagine the front ones have amazing views but what is the downside of these rooms? Are they noisy? Also are you more likely to get seasick? I can't remember really getting sea sick before not really been on a boat very long and I had terrible sickness in my pregnancy and my daughter gets car sick.

 

[PlanoNana]

I can't speak to locations but seems to me for your family the two connecting cabins would be great. The "big kids" could have their own "room" and you would have more space, more bathrooms, etc than the family deluxe. Verandah's are nice but I wouldn't want one with a 3 year old since my kids were climbers. We've always had sideways cabins on either deck 5 or 6 on the Magic. Those are way near the "front" and we've haven't felt excessive movement.

 

[Weedy]

I do get motion sickness and have never had a problem on a Disney ship We've been on 15 Disney cruises and have stayed on different decks as well as aft mid and forward. I've never "felt" any difference because of location.
Do pay attention to what is above you. We were on deck 10 midship once and the noise from the pool deck was bad.
I have liked when we stayed all the way forward and all the way aft. There is less foot traffic outside in the hallways. Unfortunately people let their kids run up and down the halls and it can sound like a heard of elephants.
Another vote for 2 cabins.

 

[MickeyEarrings]

Here's my story:

A few years ago we hit some weather on our cruise we heard the hangers banging around in the closet, and some creaking in the walls and/or ceiling, but we went right back to sleep (Fantasy cabin 7650; between aft and midship elevators).

Friends from our cruise group were in 9004, waaaaay up front. She woke up that night in tears, thinking they were going to die. I hear that's the problem with being both up high and far forward.

 

[bumbershoot]

Here's my story:

A few years ago we hit some weather on our cruise we heard the hangers banging around in the closet, and some creaking in the walls and/or ceiling, but we went right back to sleep (Fantasy cabin 7650; between aft and midship elevators).

Friends from our cruise group were in 9004, waaaaay up front. She woke up that night in tears, thinking they were going to die. I hear that's the problem with being both up high and far forward.

Was it a first cruise for both of you?

My first cruise I had no clue about big ships. We were at the front of a ship (Radiance of the Seas). The night we left the inside passage (Alaska) the ship was making so much noise, things were creaking, omg it was just awful. I was so scared

My brand new husband just slept through it. He had been on oil tankers going to Valdez so the water was like glass to him.

We were in the same room but he knew more than I did. I got myself back to sleep by working out in my mind that if doors weren't opening and if things weren't crashing off flat surfaces it was probably ok.


We've since been in the middle of Vision of the Seas, the very aft and the very front of Freedom of the Seas (deck 12? Concierge), twice towards the front of Dream, once towards aft on deck 6 and once on deck...hmm, not sure, an Inside, and we've had a variety of basically normal weather, and I can't tell the difference in the motion.

 

[Starwind]

we have been on the dream and fantasy in room on five forward and nine forward. Both rooms were creaky and the hangers swayed/rattled -- so badly one night on the dream (5 fwd) I yanked them out of the closet and put them on the stateroom floor to shut them up

nine forward on the dream, for our trips anyway, was the loudest in terms of creaky ship noises. but, we knew to expect it as other than being annoying and making sleep occasionally difficult, it really wasn't a big deal: if the ship was about to fall apart there would be some sort of announcement .

SW

 

[Mickeymouseisking]

DH and I really suffer from sea sickness. We've found on all four cruises we've been on that the place we felt the motion the most was in the forward public areas, so we would never book a room there. We just got back from the Magic a week ago and there were times when we were in O'Gil's and in Fathoms when we REALLY felt the waves, much more so than in other areas of the ship. Of course this only matters if you're sensitive to it like us. The posters above me obviously love this location just wanted to give you another point of view.

 

[ladyofthetramp]

We have been the furthest you can get forward-one door down from the bridge-but that was on the Magic on an Eastern. Seas were pretty rough, you could feel it and hear it. We have been forward on the Dream both concierge and not and in a mid-ship cabin. On such a large ship, we didn't notice a difference. Our stateroom host says he notices it, but we did not. If you are sensitive, you may. Given such a large family, vote is for the connecting cabins. You can sum it up in two words- Two Bathrooms!

 

[Jobelly]

Thanks to you all. I'm thinks big the end of August is hurricane season so it might get a little rough so would prefer to be midship if there is the risk. The trouble is we've only just started looking as we had planned to do California so there isn't a choice of OV other than the front or deck 2 but they're not interconnecting.
Will need to have a think!