I am curious as to how many of you agree or disagree with that perspective?

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But it depends on the length and type of cruise. 2 weeks +, or lots of sea days = spend more time in cabin, want bigger.

A few days to a week, port intensive, no sea days, then it doesn't matter to me.

Verandah is nice, but I wouldn't pay a lot extra just to have one.

How many of those people Joe, were on 1 week cruises, as against those on longer trips? A small cabin for more than a week with sea days would be claustrophobic to me, but I can manage a few days.

Has to be an 'outside'!

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Oh, excuse me - see which ones you mean at the bow of the ship on the Verandah deck - Cat. N No, these are not single cabins - unfortnately HAL no longer has them, except I believe on the Prinsendam.

Did you book a Guarantee and pay for an N cat. hoping to be upgraded? If so, sorry you didn't get an upgrade, as HAL's cabins really are a good size. I know a couple who always booked a Guarantee and were always upgraded, except on one cruise, they had the foward most cabin and every time the anchor was dropped thought it was going to come through the room. That time the Guarantee didn't work.

We did not book a guarantee & in fact booked a so called special offer 14 months in advance of sailing & allocated what was then (in the 96 brochure) shown as a J grade ( large inside stateroom it says) I can assure you these three cabins are tiny & now known (97 onwards as N grade standards).There was about 1 foot each side double bed, you could not open bath room door if a drawer was open or the cabin door if someone was sat on end of bed, very uncomfortable!. All other inside cabins are large 182 sq ft i/c the ones shown as M & N grade in the 96 brochure & we would much have prefered to be in one of those down in the bowels of ship.I also once saw a picture of a standard N that did not look much different to an M, I just put it down to printers error! They are tiny & uncomfortable & in a line that is purporting to be 5* should be reclassified as singles.

Americans we met had booked after us in the same category but were moved up to Deck 2 - no rate increase - that cabin was at least twice the size of ours.

I tend to believe that we Canadians get ripped off too!

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Originally posted by Green:

I tend to believe that we Canadians get ripped off too!

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Although on N Sun I booked a 'balcony guarantee' and got the BA top balcony grade, I wonder if that was considered an upgrade from the lowest balcony cabin BE or not? Only seems to be a difference of how high you are, which makes no odds to me, the cabin is the same in size and amentities although on brochure prices around a difference of £400 pp! Ouch! If it was an upgrade then it's the first time I've had one, but didn't mean a lot.

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Originally posted by empressport:
Having gone transatlantic on the QE2 in category M5 inside, I can honestly say: No, size didn't matter to me!

I returned to the cabin when I wanted to lie down/sleep otherwise I was out and about.

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Empressport,
Do you remember which cabin you had on the QE2? I'm also in an M5 this December, and just curious what to expect (I know it will be small!). My cabin number is 5206, and it looked to be the largest of the M5's from what I could tell, but who knows for sure?

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Originally posted by eroller:
and it looked to be the largest of the M5's from what I could tell, but who knows for sure?

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Well, for one, Cunard probably does... IF there is anyone who will tell you, that is...

And then there are the people who have one of those original deckplans of QE2, the kind that shows the actual shape and size of everything, and even furniture locations...

I find modern deck plans to be absolute pains in the neck... To start with they are not to scale, the shape of something on the deck plan is not the shape in person, and so on... I fact I am beginning to wonder, aside from finding out deck and general area of the ship, what the darn things are even used for!

AND... There IS a cruise line that puts out a deck plan the way it SHOULD be done... Well, actually I must retract that... Not a cruise ship, a liner. It isn't the QE2, in fact it's a more genuine liner than the QE2... And yes it is in service today.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about click here.

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Originally posted by Cruiseny:

And then there are the people who have one of those original deckplans of QE2, the kind that shows the actual shape and size of everything, and even furniture locations...

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I do have several of those detailed QE2 deck plans, published during her many years of service. This was my primary reason for choosing the cabin I did, although there is no substitution for being there in person!

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Originally posted by empressport:
Ernie, I was in 5161 which looks like the smallest of the cabins with two lower beds. Your 5206 definitely looks larger. If I could figure out how, I might post a pic.

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Looking at some 'older plans' it looks like 5206 has had an extra corner added into it since the original days, making it now larger that the others?

Which trip in Dec Ernie? The 'Maritime History' crossing on 15th?

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Originally posted by PamM:

Green in Canada do you get a price reduction/refund if the cost of the cruise goes down?

Pam

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Pam, there’s no easy answer ……there are soooo many variables. It seems too that booking practices in the UK are quite different to those in Canada and probably the States.

Personally we book with an Agent who deals directly with our chosen Cruise Line. We buy from the Line, through the Agent, just what we want – frequently it’s Cruise only which, of course, includes Port and other taxes. We are not obliged to buy the Line’s insurance or (if offered) its air. The Agent can and does arrange our insurance, air, and any hotel nights or transfers we may require.

Can't speak about balcony cabins, never had one but I'd say that the higher you go, the higher the price - much like the decks on many ships.

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Originally posted by eroller:

I do have several of those detailed QE2 deck plans, published during her many years of service. This was my primary reason for choosing the cabin I did, although there is no substitution for being there in person!

Ernie Roller
Atlanta

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