The Cabin Bedroom – The Fantasy
If you have never been on a cruise, it is really hard to conceptualize what the cabin you will be staying in actually looks like. If you rely totally on the pictures is provided in the ads for the cruise, then you are in the mindset that the cabins are lavish, spacious, and filled with natural light. In some cases, this may very well be true. But in the majority of cases, not so much. It is in your best interest to keep in mind that the pictures are there to entice you to book passage. As so, they will show you pretty much what you want to see.
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The Cabin Bedroom – The Reality
The first thing to keep in mind is that even though cruise ships are enormous, they have to accommodate not only their paying passengers but their crew and staff members as well. As such, the cabins that are available for the passengers are not always as large as one would like, and not all of them have a window. Unless you book a large cabin, with a window, and pay the large price that goes along with that luxury, your cabin will almost assuredly be very cramp and very dark. The cabins available on most cruises are barely able to accommodate a queen sized bed, let along much of anything else.
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The Bathroom – The Fantasy
Along with a spacious, bright cabin, most first-time cruise passengers assume the bathroom will be one of, well, pretty much luxury. They see the pictures in the brochures, and they think that what they see, is what they get. They envision an overly large shower, with a glass door, and possibly a rainfall showerhead. Also present in the bathroom, they see their own luxurious hot tub, which would, in turn, make the bathroom pretty significant in size. Rounding out the vision is the marble countertops and backsplashes around the shower and the hot tub.
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The Bathroom – The Reality
The actual bathroom present in the cabin, which in some cases there are none – but rather a community bathroom, is far from the one they have envisioned. At first glance, the bathroom is barely on the level of some of the youth hostel offered ones. There is not beautiful marble countertops or backsplashes. There is no hot tub, and the shower is not a shower in the sense of what one would usually refer to one. There is no shower stall, instead, the entire bathroom is essentially a shower. The showerhead is usually installed above the commode, and there is nothing to keep the water from flying and splashing all over the room.
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