Elevator Noise - Maasdam

[JBCall]

Does anyone have experience with outside cabins across from the elevators on the Maasdam. My wife and I just booked our first cruise (Montreal to Boston - May 13).

 

I just started wondering if we would be hearing the elevator and people returning to their rooms all night? Do we need to bring earplugs?

[elmorejj]

We have, in the past, been in many cabins across from the elevators due to my DHs disability and we have never once heard the elevators. Once in a great while we might hear someone talking as they get off the elevators, but not often....jean:cool:

[gizmo]

I have have had cabins close to the elevators and like elmorejj there was no problem.

[RuthC]

All night? :confused: This is HAL---there's few people at the second show, and then even they head off to bed. By midnight all the mice come out to play and there's no one left up to see them. ;)

(that's a joke, folks)

The elevators are in alcoves away from cabin doors. There's no noise.

[tumeroll]

The only time you will really hear the elevators is when the ship is in a big storm and the elevator cars bang against the side of the elevator shaft as the ship lists from side to side but otherwise all is quiet.

[Copper10-8]

The only time you will really hear the elevators is when the ship is in a big storm and the elevator cars bang against the side of the elevator shaft as the ship lists from side to side but otherwise all is quiet.

 

You bet, that's the same time you have to barricade your balcony doors to keep them from slamming open and shut. Time for a bungee cord perhaps;)

There are no elevator noises - you can leave the plugs at home:)

[Krazy Kruizers]

We have had cabins near the elevator alcove - never heard anything - not even in a storm.

[Druke I]

Have to agree with the comment about hearing elevators during heavy storms.

 

On Maasdam, 11-95, heavy storm West of the Azores, we could hear the elevator cars banging about in the forward elevator bank. Our cabin on Main Deck forward flooded, along with some dozen others, when water entered the hull via the hawsepipe (anchor chainway). Luckily, there were other cabins to which we could be moved.

 

On Golden Princess, 9-02, also West of the Azores, cars banging about in the forward elevator bank - bow-slap spray raining down on our balcony on Caribe (#10) Deck, and several windows along Prom Deck shattering due to ship's flexing while fighting for headway.

 

Travel can be an adventure.

[jcg]

We were on the most recent Maasdam cruise and had a DA guarantee. That gave us a cabin # 652, right at the hallway near the elevator. We never heard any elevator noise. We did hear folks talking in the hallway, especially in the morning or in the evening after the last show. The talking did not last long and was not bothersome. That talking would have been heard by anyone in their cabins, not because we had a cabin near the elevator.

 

Jan