Seasick - verandah or not?

[Cameo]

If you are prone to getting seasick, should you choose a room with a verandah or one without. I know fresh air usually makes me feel better, but will the visual of the water make it worse? Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks!

 

[jrydberg]

I would think being able to see outside would help your body to figure out what's going on... as I understand it, best thing for motion sickness is to put the motion in some sort of perspective (look at the horizon being one example). Bear in mind, I have no experience with motion sickness, so take it for what it's worth.

 

[Riodog]

My DH gets motion sickness, he used bonine and did not have a problem. The air is nice, the verandah is quite, and the sound of the waves is relaxing. Try out the bonine before you cruise so you know how it will work and I hope you enjoy your cruise.

Sandy

 

[Muushka]

I am very prone to seasickness and I also too Bonine and was not sick in the least. My husband, on the other hand is also prone to seasickness and Bonine helped a little, but not quite enough. We had a verandah, but he was so sick he just laid in bed and the verandah didn't seem to help. He tried the 'staring into the horizen', but it didn't work for him. To be honest, when the seas were so rough I was hesitant to even go out on it, but we did have extreme weather.

We are in the process of booking another possible cruise next December. We are going CAT 9, hoping that being lower in the ship will not be as rough as the 6th deck. Wish I had better advice!

 

[HooKooDooKu]

Based on what I've read AND experienced...

A verandah room can help, shouldn't hurt.

There seems to be different forms a sea sickness, and one form is when you start getting a sick-feeling headache because your "ears" can feel the motion of the ship, but your eyes tell you everything is still. For this situation, seeing the motion of the boat helps.

We always seem to get sea-sick the first night on the ship, and it's usually when we go see our first movie (no windows but you feel the motion of the ship), or dinner.

Come to think about it, we've been in both inside and verandah rooms, and I don't think our rooms ever contributed to our sea-sickness. We seem to initially get sea-sick when we are in a large open space (theater, dinner, etc) and our eyes say "look, our WORLD is still" but the ears say "we're moving". But when we are in the cabin, it seems like our eyes say "I can't tell if I'm moving or not because I know this little cabin is not my whole WORLD". But when you're in a large space and can't see outside at all, the eyes say "this is my whole world".

Sorry to be rambling on...

bottom line advice, get a verandah room if you can afford it just because it's a verandah (only use sea-sickness as an "EXCUSE" if you want to privately to help justify the cost to your self).

 

[CRB#33]

Oh my gosh HooKooDooKu! You described that so well, I actually felt my stomach turn.

Oh YIKES!!

Praying for calm seas!

 

[TheWog]

The first night is usually a lot rougher because of passing through the gulf stream. That doesn't help at all.

 

[sandygirl]

HOOKOODOOKU
What a descriptive example of seasickness! I found myself shaking my head in agreement as I read. Never heard it explained that way before.
I have only been seasick once out of three cruises. The seas were very rough, we even missed Gand Cayman. I finally bought Dramamine from the ship store. It helped somewhat.

 

[hydster]

On our May 1 Eastern cruise we had booked a porthole room but got upgraded to cat 4 and we were SO glad we had a balcony when our DD got motion sick in the cabin. The fresh air and being able to see the horizon and get everything in tune together so that they all saw and felt the same thing was wonderful. Granted you could go up on deck but she was sick at night in her jammies as was I so it was easier just to sit out on the balcony and wait for her and I to feel better.

We had started the Meclizine 4 days before the cruise and still got horribly motion sick on and off for the 7 days.

Heidi

 

[videogal1]

Originally posted by Cameo
If you are prone to getting seasick, should you choose a room with a verandah or one without. I know fresh air usually makes me feel better, but will the visual of the water make it worse? Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks!

Bonine is less expensive.....
Less fun, though