Here are a few items I wanted to touch base on:

 

1)SHOWER STALL:

a)There was absolutely NO splashing outside of it. There is a lip around it and the drainage was great. No problems at all. They did provide a bath towel rug to step out onto when you were done and we never once managed to get water on the wood floor. No problems.

b)When you had the light on to the shower (with it being clear glass with a frosted glass strip around the middle), you felt like you were the feature of some peep show. LOL Yes, my husband enjoyed that part. ;) If you are traveling with someone else (other than your spouse or partner), this shower would not work. There is NO curtain to pull. They would have to leave the room.

c)The shower is SMALL. There was NO WAY to be able to reach down and shave your legs ladies. I actually had to turn the shower off, lather up, shave, then stand back up to rinse off. Kind of a pain in the butt.

d)MAJOR ISSUE-You set the water to the desired temperature and the ENTIRE time you are taking a shower it would go from scalding hot water (approximately 7 seconds), to cold water (approximately 10 seconds), then back to your temperature for about 5 seconds. This was a pain in the butt!!!

e)There is a shampoo and body wash dispenser in the shower and in between it there are 2 small hooks that you can hang something small on. I used it to hang my pumice stone on by the rope. I didn’t use the shampoo (I’m hooked on a certain kind and will only use it), however, I did use the body wash and it was nice and smelled good IMO.

f)Another issue I had with the shower was the water line that went from the bottom of the part where it attached to the shower up to the faucet/sprayer (that could be removed to spray yourself off). It hung right where my tush was at and it kept getting hung up on me. LOL

g)The pull cord in the shower for hanging wet clothes on-hmmm, not sure about this. At first we couldn’t find how it attached (then about the 3rd day discovered the piece to attach it was over by the shower head. I never used it because I found it to be in a weird place. You would be hanging your items over top of the shampoo and body wash dispenser, which was just weird to me I guess. So, I hung my items on the grab bar.

h)Never once did our room in ANY way ever become steamed up (and I take hot showers-even in the summer).

 

2)BATHROOM:

a)This bathroom is SMALL. If you are a bigger person, I wonder if you are even able to close the door. The toilet sits kinda sideways.

b)I had a problem with the light. It was motion controlled and if you spent any amount of time in there (and you all know what I mean), the light would constantly go off and you’d have to wave your arms over and over to keep it on. By the 2nd day, my light in my room didn’t even work anymore. I left a note for the steward and it was fixed by the time I returned later that day. However, the light never turned off after that. But I was ok with that. It did have a real door on it, so you could close it and not see the light.

c)The trash can is located in the bathroom and it had to be the smallest trash can I’ve ever seen. Maybe a foot tall and very skinny. Not much fit in it. I always ended up taking it out of the bathroom and sitting on top of the sink counter in the corner. (The steward never did catch on that this is where I wanted it to stay because she always put it back in the bathroom).

 

3)STORAGE:

a)The storage in these rooms is unbelievable. We didn’t even use all of them. From what I can remember we had 4 cubbies down the side, 2 sliding doors under the sink with 2 shelves, 2 doors with storage behind them including a pull out drawer (all under the cubbie), over head shelf above the mirror, table for storage under the tv, square stool to sit on will open up to store items in it, 2 HUGE wall length sliding doors and behind them are places to hang clothes (we ask for additional hangers, it only had 6 in them) and a few shelves under that) and this is also where the safe is located. The safe is VERY EASY to work and we never had a bit of trouble with it. 2 HUGE wicker basket type storage bins under the beds.

b)The only problem I encountered with the plugs in one of the cubbies is that the outlet was installed upside down. If you had an appliance (like my hair dryer) that had the big square box on it at the plug, it was hard to plug in and there was no way you were plugging in anything else at the same time. My husband’s side of the room was not like this and installed correct. But there were plenty of other kinds of plugs for every need you can think of (see pics)

 

4)BEDS:

a)These beds were VERY comfy! Very. I loved the down comforter. I slept GOOD! ;o)

b)2 reading lights per bed above bed (the steward always turned one on when she turned down the bed for the night)

c)No there are no mints on this cruise. L

d)There are 4 nice comfy pillows on each bed along with 3 décor pillows

 

5)The a/c in this room was COLD! Too cold. We actually kept the thermostat up in the red zone because we were freezing. I don’t know if the air ever turned off when we were gone and the card was out of the slot, but it was always cold when we returned.

 

6)Phone was a touch screen and had everything you needed on there from ordering pizza, setting your alarm, making reservations, spa, guest services, shore excursions, room service, cruise consultant, medical center, gift shops, and housekeeping. I found the alarm EASY to use and worked great.

 

7)There is not a hairdryer or fridge in the studios (which I had read before going on the cruise)

 

8)WINDOWS:

a)There is a control by the door to control the blinds on this. When you look out the window, you don’t really see anything but a bright blue color (the lights from the hallway). You can’t really see people walking down the hall or anything…so no spying or people watching from your room. Darn!

b)When someone is outside you CAN NOT see in at all! I even had my husband press his face up against the window and he could not see in. We made a joke that we were going to go up to peoples rooms and press our faces up against their window to freak them out and with them not knowing that even when we did that we could not see in. HAHA

c)When you are ready to sleep, if you close just the blinds, you will still see some light. You have to pull the “shutters” as well for complete darkness.

 

9)LIGHTS:

a)The lighting in the studios are completely awesome. We loved them (as you will be able to tell by the many pictures I took of all the colors as they changed).

b)There is a control as you walk in to turn them on and we discover about the 2nd day that there is a switch right beside the bed that you could reach up and turn them off before going to bed at night instead of having to get up out of bed.

c)There were 4 different “mood” settings you could choose from as well that controlled just specific colors. Or you could just put it on the regular setting and it would show all the colors.

d)Weird thing was, when you were in the shower, its right up against the cabinets and they have round circles cut out in the cabinets which allowed the shower to glow the color of the room as well. Really cool.

 

10)TV AND SCREENS:

The following channels are on the tv:

Channel guide

Safety channel

Shopping info

Shore excursions-Thank goodness for this channel-They had someone on there telling about the excursions offered, with pictures and video and thanks to me watching this, we decided to do a sailboat snorkeling adventure that we LOVED in Nassau instead of just walking to the beach.

Onboard activities (you will find videos of the daily events that happens that the video men shot-like the white hot party, pool contest and so on would be on the tv that night)

Nick Jr

Nickelodeon

Navigational Info (only worked the first 3 days, then the channel was gone)

View from the bridge (pretty neat to see where you were in the morning when you woke up and we were already docked at 6:30am)

BBC world news

CNBC

NSNBC

Fox News

ESPN

E! Entertainment Network

Favorite shows

Window Channel (the same pictures they play on the tv in the Atrium)

 

The channels for your personal info included:

Stateroom steward information (name and phone number)

My vacation planner (which would show you everything you had booked-shows-restaurant)

Account review (for online expenses)

Spa info

Onboard services

Onboard shopping

Bars lounges

Entertainment

Movies

Dining

Port/tours ß-VERY INFORMATIONAL with prices, pictures and a description

Cruise rewards