Inside cabins, are they so bad?

[jeanlyon]

Oh I'm sorry,, but that's rubbish. We always go for an inside, refuse to pay more money for a window or balcony. I never, never sit in the coffee bars. I prefer to be either on the Prom Deck or the stern, or if there is a covered roof, then poolside. Are you trying to say that those with an inside or a window are so fed up with their cabin that they take up camp in the coffee shop?

 

Now let's put this in perspective. If you went to a hotel instead, are you saying that you would spend loads of time in the hotel, sitting on the balcony? I wouldn't. I would be down on the beach, or seeing the area, or doing some activity. What's the difference? The ship is a floating hotel. Why would you want to be in your cabin. I like to get stuck in to activities, go to a lecture, swim, sunbathe - whatever. The cabin is there for sleeping and changing and showering. Pfffftttt

[Host Sharon]

We don't, we would rather not go than have an inside, unless to be really honest it was SO cheap it would be rude not to!

One thing we have noticed is all the people that have nowhere to go because they hate their cabin so much are taking up seats in the bars & coffee shop reading, knitting, playing cards, soduku or whatever & those who wish to actually buy a drink have nowhere to sit.

 

Have you considered that it is not that they hate their cabins, but wish to be in a social atmosphere with other passengers to talk with ??

[SeaSickGill]

We don't, we would rather not go than have an inside, unless to be really honest it was SO cheap it would be rude not to!

One thing we have noticed is all the people that have nowhere to go because they hate their cabin so much are taking up seats in the bars & coffee shop reading, knitting, playing cards, soduku or whatever & those who wish to actually buy a drink have nowhere to sit.

 

What are you on about - are these people not just making use of the public areas - do you go up and ask them if they are sat there because they are too poor to have a balcony??? Some people, especially the elderly like to do things like that!

By the way my next cruise on Azura has cost me less than £64 per night (incidently,the cost of a chinese meal for two in Chinatown or a night at the Travelodge) on A deck, so yes it was rude to refuse.:)

[jeanlyon]

LOL - I think we all agree. No way will I pay loads more money if I can book an inside for half. I'm not too proud to have an inside!!

[SeaSickGill]

LOL - I think we all agree. No way will I pay loads more money if I can book an inside for half. I'm not too proud to have an inside!!

 

Hey but just be careful not to use the public areas;)

[tartanexile81]

We agree with Quercus that we'd rather not cruise than have an inside cabin and it's certainly not because we have nothing better to do with our money. Each to their own. It's more expensive that an inside agreed, but I personally just need to wake up to natural light or it really knocks my body clock out and I feel quite claustrophobic. I also just love to get up in the morning, go onto the balcony to check the temperature and decide what I'm going to wear that day!! Another reason which may be peculiar to me is I like to sit on the balcony in daylight before dinner to put on my make-up, titivate my hair etc - oh yes and enjoy a glass of bubbly as I'm getting ready :D!

 

We love the hustle and bustle of the cafes, bars and restaurants and meeting people on a cruise but on a sea day, there is nothing better than having some quiet time on the balcony reading with a coffee, getting the binoculars to spot other ships (aren't we sad??) or just snoozing.

[SeaSickGill]

Sounds lovely - makes you wonder though how people went on the the olden days (1990's) before balconies became the norm:)

 

I wish I could put my make up on sat down somewhere - I'm so short-sighted I have to have my face squashed up against a mirror

[lancashire_cruisers]

We've stayed in all grades of cabin during our cruising adventures, the more expensive grades (balcony and higher) whilst our daughter was too young to sleep in a bunk bed and the more 'value for money' grades now that she's older.

 

We did a 35 night cruise last year in an inside cabin, it was fine and we didn't feel like we were holed up in a cave:D.

 

The grade of cabin doesn't matter to us as long as we're on a cruise ship and I think the cruises on which we've had insides have been much more sociable affairs as we've been out and about (or hogging the public areas as someone else so eloquently put it:cool:)!

 

At the end of the day it's purely personal choice and I'd rather cruise multiple times per year in an inside than have a higher grade cabin and cruise less frequently.

 

Debbie:)

[wilson2579]

We book inside cabins as it allows us to have a few holidays a year.:) Never slept so well.:D

[jeanlyon]

WHy do I have this feeling that those who have balconies, take their own booze aboard, just sit on their balcony having adrink, don't go to the bars and the only time they' meet anyone at all is at dinner? I'm probably wrong, but it sounds like it!

[Quercus]

Oh I'm sorry,, but that's rubbish. We always go for an inside, refuse to pay more money for a window or balcony. I never, never sit in the coffee bars. I prefer to be either on the Prom Deck or the stern, or if there is a covered roof, then poolside. Are you trying to say that those with an inside or a window are so fed up with their cabin that they take up camp in the coffee shop?

 

Now let's put this in perspective. If you went to a hotel instead, are you saying that you would spend loads of time in the hotel, sitting on the balcony? I wouldn't. I would be down on the beach, or seeing the area, or doing some activity. What's the difference? The ship is a floating hotel. Why would you want to be in your cabin. I like to get stuck in to activities, go to a lecture, swim, sunbathe - whatever. The cabin is there for sleeping and changing and showering. Pfffftttt

 

I do tend to think that those who say they only use a cabin to change/wash/sleep therefore spend little time in it so must go somewhere. If people are sitting in the coffee shop not drinking a coffee then there can't have anywhere to go.

When we stay in hotels we spend a fair time deciding which type of room & what location, it will have a sitting area with nice views & we will enjoy them, so yes it is the same for us.

We have never found much of interest on the ship during the day, never been in a swimming pool or on a poolside sunbed, it looks dreadful.

The time spent in your cabin is directly in proportion to the grade of cabin it seems to me, I can see there is absolutely no reason to stop any longer than you need to in an inside, but a nice balcony overlooking the sea is heaven & peaceful too, certainly preferable to spending all day in a bar or crammed together round a pool.

[jeanlyon]

Well i never sit crammed round a pool (apart from Azura) when every pool was like that. There are plenty of lovely places to sit outside on Artemis and I know there are on Arcadia. I never use coffee shops. We love the lectures, the port ones, the special ones. I occasionally play quoits. We like to play table tennis. We also like to sunbathe, preferably on one of the higher decks. no need at all to sit in a cabin.

[Quercus]

What are you on about - are these people not just making use of the public areas - do you go up and ask them if they are sat there because they are too poor to have a balcony??? Some people, especially the elderly like to do things like that!

By the way my next cruise on Azura has cost me less than £64 per night (incidently,the cost of a chinese meal for two in Chinatown or a night at the Travelodge) on A deck, so yes it was rude to refuse.:)

Coffee shops & bars are for people buying drinks & consuming them there, once finished they should move on, someone suggested the term ''hogging seats'' but I wouldn't dream of saying that. I have no idea what grade of cabin people have & wouldn't dream of asking, but if all I wanted to do was read or do puzzles I would think your cabin was the best place if you are staying indoors. People always bring the subject of money into the cabin thing often implying that those who prefer a balcony are somehow snobby about it.

[Quercus]

Well i never sit crammed round a pool (apart from Azura) when every pool was like that. There are plenty of lovely places to sit outside on Artemis and I know there are on Arcadia. I never use coffee shops. We love the lectures, the port ones, the special ones. I occasionally play quoits. We like to play table tennis. We also like to sunbathe, preferably on one of the higher decks. no need at all to sit in a cabin.

We enjoyed the "wings" at the back on Artemis. There really was nowhere on Azura on a sea day, we found a spot at the side of Seventeen one day but that was just once.

[cruiseluvva]

We do use our balcony a lot, but we still go to the various lectures, quizzes etc and even sit on deck occasionally, but we also enjoy the peace of our own space, sometimes we invite friends to come too.

 

And as regards alcohol, yes we take a couple of bottles of champagne but other than that we buy our drinks at the various bars or through room service, although it must be said neither of us are big drinkers. Believe me our on board account is proof we spend on board!

 

At the end of the day, we all do what is right for us.

[Merlin7]

Only once have we had an outside stateroom and never an inside. The outside stateroom on Arcadia was lovely and spacious BUT we both wanted to open the floor to ceiling windows!! Fresh air, knowing the outside temperature for our port of call.

 

A balcony allows you your own personal space, away from the crowds both during the day and particularly in the early morning for breakfast and early evening for pre prandial drinks before adjourning to one of the bars before dinner.

[macca46]

We don't, we would rather not go than have an inside, unless to be really honest it was SO cheap it would be rude not to!

One thing we have noticed is all the people that have nowhere to go because they hate their cabin so much are taking up seats in the bars & coffee shop reading, knitting, playing cards, soduku or whatever & those who wish to actually buy a drink have nowhere to sit.

 

You can not be serious :rolleyes:

I hope you are never on a Cruise I am on.

 

How dare those cheeky people sit in Public areas taking up spots that Balcony and Suite people want to sit in because they have a boring inside Cabin.

 

Its people with attitudes like yours that put many people off the idea of Cruising

 

I guess you also reserve a few Sun beds and seats in the Show lounge with Books, Cardigans etc.

[Quercus]

Have you considered that it is not that they hate their cabins, but wish to be in a social atmosphere with other passengers to talk with ??

Yes of course, but from what I see people tend not to socialise but are intent on what they are doing.

[SeaSickGill]

People always bring the subject of money into the cabin thing often implying that those who prefer a balcony are somehow snobby about it.

 

Snobbery? You said it and that's how you sound. We don't all crowd bars and coffee shops, there are great, quiet outside areas too.:)

[Quercus]

You can not be serious :rolleyes:

I hope you are never on a Cruise I am on.

 

How dare those cheeky people sit in Public areas taking up spots that Balcony and Suite people want to sit in because they have a boring inside Cabin.

 

Its people with attitudes like yours that put many people off the idea of Cruising

 

I guess you also reserve a few Sun beds and seats in the Show lounge with Books, Cardigans etc.

 

Cabin grade is immaterial when people are using seats in the coffee bar & not buying coffee & thus depriving another passenger from using the facilities for their intended purpose. If in fact they DO have a boring cabin that would explain why they are there, but you said that!

I don't know why you would think I would reserve sunbeds when I am actually opposing selfish occupation of seating. If my attitude puts people off cruising because they want to act in a selfish manner then too bad.

I don't know why people in inside cabins seem to think that those in Balcony cabins look down on them, how would anyone know what cabin anyone was in, some have a complex about cabins.

[jeanlyon]

Ha ha, on Artemis, I met a very nice lady who was in a suite. She was in the coffee bar most days with a couple of friends. She was hardly ever in her cabin. I guess she was far too sociable :-( (hee hee )

[jeanlyon]

LOL - well said. Not sure I've ever seen folk generalised like that. Those in inside cabins hogging the coffee bar or sunbeds! Hilarious. Wonder how many sunbed reservers have balcony cabins. Need to do a survey!

[u2cruiser]

We book balconies and have had an outside ocean view once on a corporate trip on RCI, when we had no choice. I wasn't looking forward to the ocean view and it was the lowest deck, last but one cabin from the back. It was actually a lovely cabin and really different being so close to the sea.

 

I haven't tried an inside yet. I always think they look quite nice when we pass them on the corridor. I just don't know how I would feel without a window.

 

We booked a portside balcony for the sun on the Westbound Transatlantic and to be honest, it was almost too hot to sit on most of the time. We were crushed into a little shady space for breakfast lol!

 

We spent so much time on deck, and once we got to the Caribbean, sailaways were at 6 and we loved being on deck for it. The result was we hardly spent any time on our balcony. We just had time for a G&T before getting ready for late sitting. We found P&O to have much longer days on deck than other lines which seem to clear the decks much earlier, if that makes any sense?

[davecttr]

For those contemplating a balcony cabin, remember that at least half of them will probably be in the shade and depending on the ships course they might all be! So all those empty balconies on the shady side of the ship are the reason why you can't get a sunbed. What the designers don't tell you is the ratio of free deck space to passenger has gone down as ships get bigger with more decks of cabins added. As I use a cabin for sleeping etc a inside is just fine. Nobody really cares anyway and even when I had a suite nobody found out.

[tartanexile81]

WHy do I have this feeling that those who have balconies, take their own booze aboard, just sit on their balcony having adrink, don't go to the bars and the only time they' meet anyone at all is at dinner? I'm probably wrong, but it sounds like it!

 

You're certainly wrong about us, as we use all the facilities of the ship. On sea days we'll spend time listening to the talks, walking and chatting round the promendae deck, going to the cinema, sitting with a coffee, chatting by the pool, having lunch in the restaurant / self-service etc etc. However we also love thecalmness our balcony provides, as I said, away from the hustle and bustle for a while. Tt's quite nice for us just to have some time to ourselves relaxing which is what holidays are about. And yes, we do have a glass of bubbly as we're getting ready but enjoy meeting people during dinner and in the bar afterwards.