Veranda cabins on Oceania Nautica

[Stella Maris]

Looking at a cruise next year on Nautica. We enjoyed Marina, realize this one is smaller, but that's not a problem. Wondering if anyone has had the B2 veranda cabins, which are either at the front or the back of the ship? How has the sailing been in these?

[no fuss travel]

I have been at the back of the ship. Get a cabin as close to the centre of the ship as possible. Less motion if you are prone to sea sickness.

[JimandStan]

Looking at a cruise next year on Nautica. We enjoyed Marina, realize this one is smaller, but that's not a problem. Wondering if anyone has had the B2 veranda cabins, which are either at the front or the back of the ship? How has the sailing been in these?

The R ships, such as the Nautica, ride like ducks on the water, which is to say that when they move with the motion of the Ocean, they tend to do so slowly and don't spring back to the vertical with a quick, uncomfortable motion.

 

The thing about cabins at the front or rear of a ship that is as small as these are, however, is that you cannot help but be up against some of the more industrial elements of a working passenger ship.

Passengers at the stern, get the vibration of the motors and propellers. Although some find this to be a "white noise" and become immune to it after fifteen or twenty minutes, others are less tolerant.

 

At the bow, there are anchoring noises to contend with; and both "ends" of the ship can count on being shaken more thoroughly than the Gin in James Bonds Cocktail Shaker, for the fifteen or twenty minutes when the thrusters are in use as the ship docks.

 

Still, as is evidenced by the most expensive accommodations aboard also being located at the front and rear of the ship, there are a few compensations to being where the action is.

 

The veranda's of the B2 Cabins that you speak about are twice as large (deeper from the outer cabin door to the veranda railing) than a "standard" B2 at the side of the ship, and they boast views which are nothing short of magical.

 

Here is one Photo taken from the front, and one Photo taken from the back:

The final difference that I will discuss, since it may impact on that view for some is that that the railings of the veranda's in all of the forward and aft facing cabins (including the Suites) are solid structural Steel, as opposed to the open railings of the verandas along the sides of the ship.

 

Shorter people sometimes complain that the height of the solid railing blocks their view of the sea while seated, or lying in the bed.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Chuckler]

We have been in veranda cabins on Nautica and had no problems with noise and even slept through force 10 gales!

[Acrusa]

The B or A veranda on the R ships are better then on the Marina

More draw space better closet position.More comfortable and spacious.