What's a good cat 6 cabin for 4?

[Gillian]

Any suggestions on a cat 6 cabin that sleeps 4 and doesn't connect to another cabin? It looks like most of them are near the elevators, which I don't think is good.

Thanks!

 

[CarolAnnC]

Actually I love category 6 on deck 6 and have tried forward, midship and aft. Each area has its pluses and I did not find anything negative about any of them. The stateroom I had in the forward area, was directly across from the forward elevators. It was an extremely convenient location and we did not have any noise from the elevators at all. I would not worry about that too much.

 

[eva]

I'm glad to hear that. We have cabin 6124, which is just catty-corner the aft elevators (I think). It looks like we are close to a couple of restaurants and the theater, but I really wanted to be closer to the adult pool. Oh well! I'm just glad that we will be on our first cruise ever in just 201 days!

 

[RDT]

We've been in 6538 twice now--we think it's perfect. Our teenage kids are very comfortable in the bunks, no sweat. Midship puts you close to everything, and starboard gives you a great view of Castaway Cay when you dock there.

 

[Gillian]

Thank you

RDT - In 6538 did you hear noise through the connecting door? That's one thing we are trying to avoid. For now we are in 6048, which is the furthest non-connecting cabin from the midship elevators that we could get. I really don't like being near elevators, even though Dave says it's not noisy

I guess the castaway cay view depends on the day. We were lucky enough to have a great view in september on the Wonder, even though we were on the port side. we loved that location, midway between the aft & midship elevators, but there are no quad cabins around there & next time we will be 4.

 

[RDT]

Gillian--

We DID hear some noise through the door, but mostly at the expected times--when we were moving in, when we were coming back from the shows at night, that kind of thing. I only remember hearing their TV once.

Our experience is that the noise problem is the opposite wall--the wall that the beds run along. The beds in the adjacent cabin also run along that wall, and so from 10:30 pm to 9:00 am or so--overnight--you've got most of the activity in the two adjacent cabins along that wall. (Snoring, baby's crying, clonking against the wall in the middle of the night, etc....)

We were in 6538, with a connector to 6536. The family next to us in 6540 (part of our group--my business partner's family) have a small baby--Dave.

We heard way more from Dave than from the folks in 6536, and that was during the overnight period. (Of course, we love Dave, so we just ignored it...)

I guess the best course of action is to get a room with no connecting door, and hope for quiet neighbors.

We've noticed that if we are reasonably quiet, our neighbors seem to get quiet. We don't have the TV on much, and if it is, it's not on loud. We don't make a lot of noise in our stateroom, just because we know we have close neighbors. It seems like people figure it out, and respond in kind after a day or so. . .

On an earlier cruise we were neighbors to a couple who were dedicated to various hijinks on their verandah. We were also next to a retired couple once, and the gentleman (nice man, as I recall) used the verandah for smoking his cigar.

Both of those situations were a bigger annoyance than the noise through the door or from baby Dave.

RDT