We wondered how we would do in the smallest of rooms with no windows. So far my main reaction is that it allows us to sleep in better. The room is certainly cozy, but we don’t spend much time there. We are becoming adept at finding uncrowded spots on the ship to camp out, read, blog, etc. Our favorite seems to be the farther reaches of the buffet restaurant on the Lido deck. Most of the time there are at least some sections that are not being used, and so are almost deserted. That gives us a quiet table with floor to ceiling windows.
Our little cabin
Tami would like it if we could peek out the window when we wake up to check on the weather, but it’s not too hard to jog down the hall to find a public window to peer out of.
Down here in the bowels of the ship it is also quite stable. If we were on a higher deck we would feel more motion when the ship gets to rocking. It has also been extremely quiet. There is not much action in that part of the ship! Our cabin is at the end of the hall next to the self-serve laundromat, so we are waiting to see if it becomes noisier as people become stinkier with time, but sofar, sogood! (That’s for you, Keenan).
Don’t you wonder what it was like to be in steerage coming over to America from Europe? I wonder how my grandparents got over to Hawaii from China. Steerage? Or did they work their way over?
That’s a very interesting question, and I wonder too sometimes. Our families came from England and Sweden in the mid-1800’s, and were certainly very poor. Our experience in steerage was certainly luxurious compared to our ancestors’. They let us come up on deck! And we can eat all we want all day long. And someone comes and changes our towels everyday, turns the bed down, and leaves chocolate.