Balcony on the Empress

[judyzoo]

Has anyone had any of the junior suite aft balconies on the Empress? How was it? The balcony is supposed to be large, but I'm wondering if the cabin is smaller than usual.

 

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[Chuck & Phyllis]

We sailed the Empress 3 or 4 times, once in the balcony cabin now called the junior suite. It's a nice cabin. It's 192 Sq. Ft. not including balcony. The balcony is about 45 Sq. Ft. with two chairs and a table. Devide the cabin in two parts. When you walk in. the closets are on one side with the bathroom on the other. Continuing into the room. the vanity is cat-e-cornered on the closet side. on the bathroom side, two lower births converted into a king as I remember with a night table between the bed and the bathroom wall. Then there is a drapery which can be closed off the sitting area. The sitting area consist of a sleep sofa, coctail table, mini bar and drawers on the other wall. Then the balcony. Nice cabin, book it Danno.

 

Chuck & Phyllis

 

 

[Chuck & Phyllis]

BTW, don't book the aft Jr's cause theres no privacy from above or the sides. The balcony is deeper but partitions slant and at the rail you could literally hug your neighbor. Those above look right down at you. Get one on the side.

 

Chuck & Phyllis

[bermudashorts]

Here is a picture of the balconies on the empress,

when I was deciding which balcony would be best Jimbo sent me this picture.

ill be on the lower balcony in the middle in September

 

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[judyzoo]

Thanks for all your opinions!

 

Bermudashorts, what date are you sailing? We're on Sept. 18.

 

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Dawn Princess 2003

QE2 2002

Royal Princess 2002

Carnival Fascination 2002

HAL Maasdam 2001

Carnival Jubilee 1999

HAL Statendam 1996

VeraCruz 1983

Angelina Lauro 1975

[Chuck & Phyllis]

We're sailing on the 18th also. Doing a cheapie inside bottom of the boat this time (son starting law school).

 

Chuck & Phyllis

 

Doing Voyager on 5/21/04

 

Doing Empress ***** 9/18/04

 

 

[bermudashorts]

Looks like we are all on the same cruise Sept 18th.

Cant get here soon enough for us.

Rest of group is on the bottom deck. But we decided to try our first balcony because of last years fiasco and since its an 8 nighter.

 

Nordic Empress

 

1987 Chandris Galileo

1989 Celebrity Meridian

1991 Celebrity Meridain

1992 Celebrity Horizon

1994 NCL Dreamward

1996 Celebrity Zenith

1998 NCL Crown

2000 Celebrity Zenith

2002 RCCL Nordic Empress

2003 Celebrity Zenith..the trip north

2004 RCCL Nordic Empress

[judyzoo]

Chuck&Phyllis -- Good luck to your son. DH and I both finished law school in '74. It was tough, but worth it.

 

Bermudashorts -- Will you be in an aft balcony? Ours is aft on deck 8. Maybe we won't have any privacy, but we're looking forward to the large-sized balcony anyway.

 

Majesty of the Seas 2004

Dawn Princess 2003

QE2 2002

Royal Princess 2002

Carnival Fascination 2002

HAL Maasdam 2001

Carnival Jubilee 1999

HAL Statendam 1996

VeraCruz 1983

Angelina Lauro 1975

[glgolfer]

We had an aft Cat C ( now JS) on the Empress and would not get one again. The balcony was huge, but the room was very small with NO sitting area. Here's some pictures.

 

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[judyzoo]

PaulWN,

 

Thanks for the photos and comments. I thought that the cabin would be small; it looked smaller than others in this category. RCI people insisted that it's the same size. I didn't believe them, but booked this cabin anyway for the balcony. I'm not sorry (yet), but now I know -- as I expected -- that the cabin will be small. Guess we'll just have to do our sitting on the balcony rather than in the cabin.

 

Majesty of the Seas 2004

Dawn Princess 2003

QE2 2002

Royal Princess 2002

Carnival Fascination 2002

HAL Maasdam 2001

Carnival Jubilee 1999

HAL Statendam 1996

VeraCruz 1983

Angelina Lauro 1975

[glgolfer]

I'm sure you'll have better luck than we did. We were on the NE in Dec 02 and the balcony was soaking wet most of the time so we didn't get to use it as much as we wanted to. The cabin is really much smaller than even a Cat D on the other ships.

We really liked the ship. Be interesting to see how all the changes work after dry dock.

 

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