Motion Sickness and Eurodam VQ rooms

[AmyinCT]

Background:

Last minute booking

Only Guarantee rooms left

Took our chances with a VE guarantee (didn't want to risk getting a "Juliet" balcony in VT)

Traveling companion is prone to seasickness

Assigned VQ cabin

 

Has anyone sailed in these cabins? What was your experience with motion on normal days? Rougher days?

 

I know that the higher and more forward you are, the more likely you are to feel the motion of the ship and have experienced it personally in the Crow's Nest on a rough evening. I'd like to understand how it might be in the cabin itself since you spend more time there than any other single location.

 

Last year, my friend was able to manage a very smooth sail in a high deck aft cabin with only the accupressure bands. She had a little trouble one evening when we hit a few hours of choppy seas, but nothing she couldn't handle.

 

She's trying to decide whether she needs to get the scop patch, go with daily preventive meclizine, stick with her accupressure bands or some combination of the above.

 

Thank you for any input / advice you can offer.

[LTC loves to cruise]

The patches work really well and they sell them behind the pharmacy counter. A more natural way, I read this on cruise critic before, is to start taking ginger pills. Start taking them a week before the cruise and on the cruise. Whatever she does, start BEFORE boarding. Also since you can bring soda, throw in some cans of ginger ale. If you don't have anything on board, go to the sushi table and get some fresh ginger. An old recovery room trick is to put an alcohol pad under your nose if you are getting sick. Hopes this helps. You may want to call your doctor and get a couple of zofran pills.