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"There are two cabins on Promenade Deck worth noting. (Get your deck plans out) #171 used to be the dance studio during the very early Vistafjord days, and has a very strange shape. Immediately aft, is #173. I don't know what it used to be, but it is the only cabin I have ever seen where the bathroom is actually down a small, steep flight of steps. A rush call after a big night, or in heavy seas could prove to be deadly!"
[ 01-10-2003: Message edited by: Keitaro ]
Today the cabins are 'modules' built of site and simmply dropped in to the hull. They all tend to be the same size and shape, within the grade.
Have other cruise talkers encountered cabins with strange features?
Not only were the cabins different shapes and layouts but they had varying decors as many had been refitted at different times! As well as this the bathrooms we also different shapes ranging from almost lockers to being quite spacious, but again with many different decors and fittings from irregular updates.
One last difference that was most amuzing was the floor at the each end of the ship and whether your cabin was going uphill or downhill due to the curvature of the superstructure, also for the outside cabins the outside walls at the bow of the ship could be severly angled! especially those on lower decks!
But i must admit, these differences gave the ship great character and she was very loved here in Australia! She is deerly missed by many fans!
RRP Fairstar (scrapped in 1997)
I met someone on a cruise, when I was a teenager, who was at the bow-end of a lower deck, and yes, one wall slanted WAY outwards, about 60 degrees off horizontal, toward the ceiling. Even more so at one end of the cabin compared to the other.
I vaguely recall hearing water hitting it from the other side.
Unfortunately, the bathroom had very thin walls. He said something about one of his exploits, his mother in the next cabin could hear him boasting, and in she came! I think he got "grounded" when they got home.
Got the PC working again...at least for the time being, so I thought I would say hi to everyone.
I would much prefer to stay in a real cabin than one of those modules they put in the ships now. My favorite cabin layout was one used on old liners, such as Queen Mary. In parts of the ship the cabins are two-deep along the hull. The second cabins in had a narrow hallway that ran between the outside cabins to the side of the hull. At the end of this hall was a porthole, thus another "outside" cabin. If you look at a set of the deckplans you will see what I mean. A clever move on the ship builders and desigers. They used this concept on many ships. I aways thought that these cabins were probably better than the cabins with their walls to the hull as they would tend to be warmer on the cold north Atlantic and still afford an ocean view.
Happy New Year to all!Michael534
I think its lucky to get one, what CruiseDiva said about #171, I think it would be cool to have a cabin in the old dance studio or bow-end of a lower deck !
Just think of all the odd rooms Chandris liners had, they used cargo space and rebuilt rooms, there old first class were split into two tourist cabins. Don't like this modules cabins idea one bit
Ðraikar
The folk in 171 described it as: "like living in an aircraft hanger." Although on the deck plans it looks to be about the same size as some of the suites, in reality it seems to be twice the size! Maybe it's the layout or something. BTW The door isn't where it's marked on the plans.
The single lady in 173 was delighted as she got it for the single cabin rate because all the singles were full. She said the stairs seemed a bit odd at first but not a problem. They didn't seem that steep to me and again the cabin looked bigger in reality than on the plans.
Regards, Colin.
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