Princess Cabins

[marthas harbour]

Can anyone tell me what the different categorys mean? Such as BC and BD? Can't work it out. How do you know the size as some vary in sq footage?

[serene56]

LOCATION - the better locations costs more money.

[marthas harbour]

Thanks for your response, thought it could be that. Just wondered how you could tell if the cabin you had booked would be on the larger size? If you can?

[serene56]

what i do is look at deck plans and pick certain cabins= most are exactly alike. Its the balcony that I go by. But on Princess deck plans you cant tell what balconies are bigger.

So i read on the princess boards what to look for- that is how we found a BB C753 or C752 Huge balcony for the same price as the BB on the side. Only one neighbor. Our own hallway.

(we had that on the Caribbean Princess)

 

for the crown we found E731 which is a mini suite that costs only 149 more then the BB and it has a very long balcony.

 

By reading those princess boards the cabins on the Caribe deck are the ones that come highly sought after. The balcony is bigger. its covered. Some decks have balconies that are completly opened and can be viewed from above.. (those wont work for me)

 

What ship were you considering

[LuvTheGoodLife]

following refers to 'side' balconies only, i.e. those on starboard or port sides of any ‘Grand’ class ship (Grand, Golden, Star, Diamond, Sapphire, Caribbean, Crown, Emerald etc)....

 

Baja deck balconies are sized 9 ft. wide x 5 ft. deep and have full ceiling overhang. Lido, Aloha, Riviera (found on Caribbean, Crown, Emerald, Ruby only) decks have the same balconies. You can stand at the railing of these balconies and look down on to part of the Caribe deck balconies and all of the Dolphin deck balconies.

 

Caribe deck balconies are sized 9 ft. wide x 9 ft. deep and have ceiling overhang over the first 5 ft. Standing at the railing, you will overlook Dolphin deck balconies below.

 

All of the cabin interiors/bathrooms of the balcony cabins are the same with respect to size (unless it is a handicapped cabin).

Dolphin deck balconies (all balcony cabins are actually mini-suites and thus bigger than regular balcony cabins on the interior with sitting area, 2nd TV and bathtub/shower combination instead of the small shower stall found in the regular balcony cabins). The balcony is sized 9 ft. wide x 7 ft. deep and has no ceiling overhang as protection from sun or rain.

 

Emerald deck has several mini-suites each side with fully covered balconies. The last mini-suite cabin towards aft end on each side has extra wide balcony – approximately 7 ft. deep x 18 wide, according to someone who stayed in one of these. Emerald deck also has some regular balcony cabins near the front that have the balconies set back under the roof and back from the railing. You look straight out to the water but cannot look down on the water. The walking track goes past these balconies and walkers can see you on your balcony. I do not have any measurements for these Emerald deck balcony sizes.

Hope this helps. Enjoy your cruise!