We booked an inside guarantee cabin at short notice for this 7 night Middle East cruise and were pleasantly surprised to have been given an outside cabin on Deck 8, as were are friends also travelling on this cruise.
Since we were driving up from Muscat, we decided to park at the cruise terminal inside Port Rashid which wasn’t an issue, although we did need to provide a copy of our passports and vehicle registration to the port security office in the terminal.
We were informed we could board from 3pm and the cabin would be available from 8pm and arrived at 8pm to a very quiet terminal. The staff checked out the passports, particularly interested in my wife’s who is only eligible for a UAE “visa on arrival” based on the status of our GCC residency and advised that we would need to pay 115 dhs prior to arriving in Abu Dhabi for the re-entry visa.
Twin/Double bed with two fold down beds, flat screen tv, minibar, safe, hairdryer and en-suite. The twin supposedly converts into a double, but they beds don't actually attach, and there isn't a double matress cover to hold them together so the beds always split apart, very very annoying.