As my cabin sorry stateroom

Split into two areas, I thought was good, first from the door to the right - the bathroom and dressing area and then into the main “living” area.
Overall comfortable and spacious - approximately 163ft according to the Princess website, with plenty of storage. (at least I thought so, for one person on a 12 day trip, but I don’t take much!)
Bed… hmm the bed was a bit “Goldilocks” for me

Two bedside cabinets with two drawers and shelf each. I did have a problem a few nights, maybe it was a little bumpy as the drawers flew open, scaring the life out of me! The bedside lamps, with very annoying twisty turn off (we all had problems with them) it either twists around and around and doesn’t turn off, or twist and the light close off so quickly with a pop, you aren’t sure if you had blown the bulb, so end up twisting it again to check! In fact, the bulb did blow in my parents room and even exploded in my grandparents room

Large hanging open space more than enough for me – I counted 30 hangers I only needed about 6, I must have used the man’s share of the hangers!


Next to the wardrobe a large cupboard with about six shelves one of which houses the safe (nice and easy to use, I’ve never bothered with the safe before, I don’t possess anything worth nicking!) I just used it for the fun of it, mainly locking my chocolates away every night!
Desk/vanity whatever you want to call it, a large mirror with spotlights above, with three drawers. Fitted hair-dryer, I tried it once, OK, I guess - it got my hair from wet to dry! Two (US) power sockets to the side (why are they always placed so low it is hard to plug items in?) I couldn’t find the spare adapter before we went, so I had to trek down the corridor to charge stuff, until I discovered the sockets for the bedside lamps were Euro fittings.

Fridge to the side, stocked with a bottle of water and 4 sodas (I can’t remember if there were there to start with, I think I checked first and it was empty


TV above the fridge, fitted slightly wonkily to the wall. I think channels 47-49 relayed info from the ship, weather, position etc/webcam. Channel 50 showed anything that was broadcast on the big screen up on Lido Deck (Movies Under the Stars) other channels had the usual movies, US TV shows, news and sports etc, picture quality was poor, the menu had been disabled so you couldn’t adjust the brightness/contrast and colour. Reception was OK, not that we were anywhere remote, but in-house stuff, the picture was worse! There is a daily “Wake show” with the Cruise Director, mainly pointless as he basically read the info direct from the Princess Patter/port info sheets – showing them on screen but all you could see were white sheets of paper! The only interesting part of the show was that it was hosted from different areas of the ship you don’t usually see.
There is a small circular table placed in the room in the stupidest place, against the wall between the desk and walkway leaving about a foot to negotiate around. Another item I shoved in the corner in the wardrobe space!
Bathroom - shower, toilet, hand basin pretty much what you’d expect! Three open shelves to the side, I didn’t take much so there was plenty of space for my stuff. A shaving point, large mirror with spotlights so probably not a fantastic light for applying make-up maybe explaining some of the orange looking people

The toiletries provided are all branded as Lotus Spa (ship’s own) - shampoo, conditioner, body lotion and soap, but no shower gel! As I was travelling light I almost didn’t bother packing my own, but luckily added a small bottle in my case last minute. They are usable but nothing special, found the shampoo a little drying, the eucalyptus scent made me feel like a koala

I found the shower a little small, smashing my elbows, regularly


The towels, were tiny and you could barely wrap them around yourself, without them falling off if you tried to move or even breathe. I won a large magnetic clip, so ended using it to hold the towel together and keep it in place, not its intended use I am sure!! The hand towels were so small, I couldn’t wrap one round my head to dry my hair as I really don’t like to use a hair-dryer

My parent’s and grandparent’s cabins were at the front of the ship on the same deck (also inside, exactly the same, though a different category, zero difference) but seemed very noisy in the evening, you could hear the music thumping from three decks below, so maybe that made a slight price difference, I have no idea. Unless they all had very noisy neighbours!
My friend’s cabin was on Plaza Deck 5 outside; she had a picture window, that was purely the only difference.
