Hints On Booking Cruises

A lot of cruises you can sit on the balcony for as long as you like, do have cabin service or you can go to the buffet restaurant and bring your food back and you wouldn't need a passport for a cruise round the UK.

So you are sorted!

 

Most cruise companies that 'allocate' cabins only do so if you have picked their special offer of a much reduced price. Otherwise you are able to tell them which cabin you want before actually booking it. I would never book a cruise without picking my cabin. Their travel agent should have advised them.

I have a cruise booked this winter and was able to book one of a number of the choices I had made. It was the class of cabin I was willing to pay for, on the deck I wanted, midships (the least movement noticeable just in case of heavy seas - most ships have stabilisers nowadays) and on the side of the ship I wanted (facing the coast so we have a view whilst sailing).

 

Do windowless cabins exist? Sounds more like a prison cell.

 

Take your Alexa with you to tell you

Some ships have inside cabins but not many.

Sea sickness is very rare. Modern ships have stabilisers and the ships get very accurate weather reports and can usually avoid bad sea conditions - but not all. I have done somewhere near 40 cruises - both working and for pleasure - with only one that gave me seasickness for two days.

They work pretty well and the ship's doctor or shop can always provide seasickness tablets if necessary.

They do tend to be smaller but not that small. Some people like them because they are a lot cheaper and they spend all day on deck or ashore.

There tends to be less vibration in those cabins as they are almost always midships, which is the steadiest part of the ship. Imagine it as a pivot scale around the centre. e.g. a seesaw

Modern ships have very little vibration as they use Azipods in which the drive propellers sit. These are not fixed directly into the framework of the ship, as in the older systems, but in a type of suspended pod. These make the ship much more manoeuvrable as the pods can be pivoted in order to change direction. Thus not requiring tugboats for moving them in and out of port.

Even in the old ones the vibration, usually only at the stern, only became noticeable when being driven at higher speeds. Nowadays that doesn't happen as there is a legal limit on going fast because it uses a lot more fuel and is not allowed because of a more deleterious effect on the environment. Most modern ships are much cleaner, environmentally wise, than older ones.

 

That happens on small boats. Cruise ships are somewhat different.

No, but I reckon I could do the job OK

As I said in post 34