Cruise Ship Cabins - What to Expect From Inside Cabins

Although for many people the enjoyment of a cruise is dependent on being able to look from their window and see the sights, there is no small number of travellers who will be more than happy to take an inside cabin over any room with a port hole or window, for any number of reasons. Inside cabins tend to cost less than those with a window - just as you would expect to have to pay extra for a hotel room with a view - and this in itself is enough for some people to decide that an inside cabin will do just fine. But there are other, equally valid reasons to choose an inside cabin.

For many people, a problem with seasickness is not a bar to actually going on a cruise. As with any form of sickness, there are differing levels of seasickness. For some people it will be triggered by any kind of bumpy trip - and although cruise ships take a specific line to avoid this, it still happens - whereas for others it will be a matter of not looking at the sea or the outside scenery while the ship is moving. Taking an inside cabin will be an excellent way of avoiding this trouble. Without a window, there will be a greater chance of being able to sit in your room and feel almost as though you were on dry land. This is ideal for anyone who is worried about getting motion sickness.

The extra money for an outside cabin is often predicated on the fact that people will pay more for a view. So if you take an inside cabin there is every chance that the level of comfort and the accoutrements will be almost, if not exactly, the same as those given by an outside cabin. Big screen TVs are a common feature for an inside room, and will generally carry a wide range of channels, featuring sport, news and entertainment, as well as the usual in-house (or on-ship) channel that gives information on upcoming attractions and broadcasts the increasingly popular lectures given on many cruise ships. DVD players are also often provided, and these can be used to view a film from the library (another innovation that has started to spring up on cruise ships, making it more and more as though the ship is a self-contained town or city all by itself.

One thing that you will find that marks an inside cabin down in luxury terms from a comparable hotel room and reminds you that you are in fact in a cruise ship cabin, is the size of the bathroom. To ensure the best maximisation of space, an ensuite bathroom is rare unless you spring the extra cash for a luxury cabin, and you can expect a shower but no bath. Generally it will be a fairly cramped shower (space constraints again!) and you should expect this, but if it lacks anything else, then you can rightly feel a little robbed.

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