Cabin Review

CORAL DECK - DECK 3

You will have a 3-4 drawer night stand. 4 drawers under the desk and a two shelf cabinet in the room. I counted the number of coat hangers that fit the closet but can't remember right now.

The closet also has an upper shelf and a lower shelf for shoes. It is a two door closet but is not much bigger than a standard utility closet. We bought extra hangers as the ship only provided a few. We did not ask for more because I would rather use the smaller plastic hangers than the larger wooden ones they had to be able to fit in more clothes.

Never enough, which is why we added a portable hanging rack which saved it for us on the 42 day cruise. You will most likely be able to handle a shorter cruise without the extras we felt really helped us survive the small storage available.

There are two plugs at the desk: one 110 US outlet and one with EU type outlet 220. The hair dryer included in the room plugs into the EU 220 socket and was very adequate.

There is an additional 220 socket for the TV which we rarely watched so we plugged in all our electronic chargers and left them on top of the TV cabinet so it freed up the other sockets at the desk/mirror for personal appliances.

If we wanted to watch the TV (closed circuit offerings only) we just plugged it back in.

You can store your life jackets and suitcases under the bed easily. And you can also have room under the bed to store items you don't have daily need for.

The bathroom in our room was pretty sad. Very poor lighting, a broken vanity that only provided a little shelf space. Best to bring a hanging vanity bag for more essentials and your own plastic cup. We also bought a hanging rack and extra suction soap dish for the shower because there was only a single soap dish.

There were two hooks in the bathroom and one in the room. We added several more removeable suction ones and just left them as they looked pretty benign. Others put extra suction hooks on the full length mirror that was also in the room.

We brought too much and about one quarter I never even wore as I settled into washing out a few favorites. Dress during the day on deck and at lectures and Lido buffet was very casual - tee shirts (logo of travel destinations was the favorite chioce) and shorts mainly.

But women really did dress up every night at dinner and men even on casual night often were wearing a sport jacket, but just long sleeve shirts were fine too. The feeling was most felt this was a pretty special time and dressed accordingly. And there were no more casual dining options. So pack accordingly. It does make is special for everyone.

Closet has room for 50 small size plastic hangers. Ship provides a few heavy wooden ones. There is also a tie rack on the closet door but we needed some clothes pins to keep the ties in place on the rod.

Night stand: 3 drawers - 14x14x3.5 (inches)

Desk: one shallow letter drawer and 4 16.5x12.5x4.5 drawers

Cabinet:Two 16.5x25 shelves

Two 15 inch diameter portholes.

Coral deck cabins has 20 inch plus deep shelf above the bed extending to the porthole wall that is carpeted for additional storage, but be sure nothing falls on your head in rough seas (seas got rough but nothing moved or fell)

Each room has a safe in the cabinet which we moved out to the porthole wall shelf because we could not see inside the cabinet to use the code - you set it with your own 4 number PIN. It was heavy and made a good book end for our travel books at the far end of the shelf -- well away from the bed. (!)