Do connecting cabins allow more noise?

[jewelhux]

Hi,

 

We are on the Allure sailing for the 24th and we are in a connecting cabin (ocean view with larger balcony). I am wondering if it will be noisier than if we had a standard cabin. Will we hear the neighbors more easily because of the connecting door?

 

Thanks for any feedback.

[payitforward]

I've had it both ways. There have been times where I could hear the people in the cabin next to me, and times where I never knew if they were there or not (friends).

[topnole]

Yes. Easier to hear neighbors with connecting cabins.

[Goodtime Cruizin]

Never has been an issue for us.

[JamesEM]

We had noisy neighbors and our cabin guy placed blankets between the doors and I put Duck Tape along the seam, helped but we knew when the cabin was occupied, never again.

[Dennis#1]

Hi,

 

We are on the Allure sailing for the 24th and we are in a connecting cabin (ocean view with larger balcony). I am wondering if it will be noisier than if we had a standard cabin. Will we hear the neighbors more easily because of the connecting door?

 

Thanks for any feedback.

 

Most of the time, we had no problem with connecting rooms and could not hear the people in the next room.

 

There was one exception. On one cruise on the Freedom, we had a very very very loud snorer in the connecting cabin. Did not know someone could be that loud. After the first night, our stateroom attendant put 3 or 4 layers of heavy duty duck take over the door openings (top, bottom and both sides). This mostly solved the noise problem. We still would have heard the snoring, even if we did not have a connecting room. Even the couple in the stateroom across the hall made some comments about the loud snoring.

[wales4ever]

No difference

[Clarea]

Hi,

 

We are on the Allure sailing for the 24th and we are in a connecting cabin (ocean view with larger balcony). I am wondering if it will be noisier than if we had a standard cabin. Will we hear the neighbors more easily because of the connecting door?

 

Thanks for any feedback.

If the neighbors are noisy, you will hear them much better through the connecting door than if there was no connecting door.

[dadofjessie]

Hi,

 

We are on the Allure sailing for the 24th and we are in a connecting cabin (ocean view with larger balcony). I am wondering if it will be noisier than if we had a standard cabin. Will we hear the neighbors more easily because of the connecting door?

 

Thanks for any feedback.

 

We were on the Celebrity Millenium in an adjoining cabin and we could hear EVERYTHING that the couple in the other room was saying. They were not speaking with voices louder than conversational tones and it sounded like they were in the same room as us.

[shipgeeks]

When we have a connecting cabin, we just hang a couple of garments on the connecting door. That seems to muffle any sound.

[John Reid]

The answer to your specific question of being able to hear neighbors more clearly is always yes. Whether they are noisy or not is a different issue.

[pattak619]

Had a connecting cabin ONCE never again

[geomancer]

This is something I hadn't thought of.

 

Rushed in to check my two reservations, and thankfully neither is a connecting cabin. Phew!

[katiel53]

I've been in connecting cabins a couple of times. Both times I could hear the neighbors next door more than in a non-connecting cabin. I have also noticed that in one of them, and I can't remember the ship, but there was no love seat/sofa in the room because there was no room for it with the connecting door. There was a chair instead.

 

I would not choose a connecting cabin unless it were my family in the next cabin. JMO

[voyager70]

You definitely hear your neighbors more in connecting rooms. The connecting door isn't nearly as soundproof as the regular wall. Whether it is enough to be an issue depends on how loud your neighbors are. Personally I avoid connecting rooms if at all possible, as I had neighbors so loud one time in a connecting room I could literally hear & understand just about everything they said.

[Cruise a holic]

We always try to avoid connecting cabins if we do not have family traveling with us- we also do not like to be next to connecting cabins as often kids who do make lots of noise are in the adjoining cabin.

[Wehwalt]

I simply won't take a connecting cabin due to the likelihood of noise.

[NatsFanOnBoard]

Just a reminder as well that people often post with difficulties in booking connecting cabins because one side of the pair is often already booked. Folks, if you don't need connecting cabins, please do everyone a favor and try not to book them. I realize sometimes it is inadvertent, and sometimes that may be the only option available in the cabin category, but you'll be helping out the family travelers if you try to leave those open.

[birdie16]

I would say it depends on how noisy your neighbor is. I have had very noisy neighbors in both types of cabins. Although, with the connecting cabin I also had a man open the door on us...that would never happen in a cabin without a connecting door. (Of course this happened because the cabin steward forgot to lock the doors.)

[Wingman2010]

I did a Balcony GTY on my recent Harmony cruise and was assigned a connecting cabin. After reading about people's experiences, I called RCI and requested a change (which was granted)....

[mimi_j]

My husband always jokes I can hear a pin drop - connecting cabins have never been an issue for us.

[mcatmcat]

Not an issue for me but you can hear them.

 

 

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[ValerieJo]

Just got assigned a connecting cabin on Navigator. Good thing I can't hear crap anymore. :')

[bigsky]

Our last cruise, first and last time we have a connecting room!!!! Never again....heard everything.

[StormySeas]

Oh my! I just checked my reservation and looks like we got a connecting room! will be calling to see if that can be changed! thanks for all the information