Smallest Cabin?

[seattle013]

Per CNN, Life At Sea Cruises now offers "Cabins [that] run the gamut from 13 square feet..."  That's a little less than a 7' x 2' cabin they call their "virtual cabin." I hope this is a typo on CNN's part, or that's just room for a tiny bed!

 

See https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/3-year-cruise-mv-gemini/index.html .

[LH25]

LOL-I think it is a typo, another story says they are 130 square feet.  Still small!

[pdmlynek]

4 hours ago, seattle013 said:

Per CNN, Life At Sea Cruises now offers "Cabins [that] run the gamut from 13 square feet..."  That's a little less than a 7' x 2' cabin they call their "virtual cabin." I hope this is a typo on CNN's part, or that's just room for a tiny bed!

 

See https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/3-year-cruise-mv-gemini/index.html .

Most like meant 13 square meters.  Using feet is archeic.  

[wcook]

Meters, feet… same thing, no?

[Joebucks]

2 hours ago, wcook said:

Meters, feet… same thing, no?

 

You're doing it wrong. You're supposed to scream cutback. 

[cruisemom42]

18 hours ago, seattle013 said:

Per CNN, Life At Sea Cruises now offers "Cabins [that] run the gamut from 13 square feet..."  That's a little less than a 7' x 2' cabin they call their "virtual cabin." I hope this is a typo on CNN's part, or that's just room for a tiny bed!

 

See https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/3-year-cruise-mv-gemini/index.html .

 

I'm sure it's a typo but it is funny nonetheless. Reminds me of an old Monty Python sketch.

 

"Ah look at us now; cruising is so luxurious. Who would've thought when we were young that we'd be cruising in a suite on such a beautiful ship. Why I remember in the good old days at sea, we used to have to cram 6 people in a small cabin with two bunks and no bathroom."

 

"You had bunks?  LUXURY!  When WE used to cruise, there were 8 of us huddled in a lifeboat with only a tarpaulin to protect us from the elements."

 

"A lifeboat? Consider yourselves lucky!  We slept in the engine room and had to get up every half an hour to stoke the boilers. Then we got to eat a piece of moldy bread, had to clean all the cabins by noon, and only earned tuppence a day."

 

"Tuppence?  That would have been heaven for us!"

 

 

[ldubs]

Clearly they meant cubits.   

[quercus alba]

On 3/3/2023 at 3:25 PM, seattle013 said:

Per CNN, Life At Sea Cruises now offers "Cabins [that] run the gamut from 13 square feet..."  That's a little less than a 7' x 2' cabin they call their "virtual cabin." I hope this is a typo on CNN's part, or that's just room for a tiny bed!

 

See https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/3-year-cruise-mv-gemini/index.html .

 

Roughly like "hot-racking"--e.g. sharing the berth with another sailor on a submarine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_racking

[BaumD]

13 Sq meters = 140 sf

[hallux]

On 3/3/2023 at 4:37 PM, LH25 said:

LOL-I think it is a typo, another story says they are 130 square feet.  Still small!

I guess they either were looking at double-occupancy cabins or never looked at the Studio cabins in NCL's fleet.  Those cabins are 100 sq. feet.  I think Royal's on the Quantum class are of similar size (inside or balcony).