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There was only the dressing table top and the area under the television with a tray for glasses so these could get a little cluttered. There is a small fridge under the television area with an ice bucket which was filled with fresh ice every day. We never had to ask. You could also order fresh fruit to be delivered to your cabin every day but we didn’t take advantage of this as it was always available in the buffet most of the day anyway.
The bed was of the usual high standard and very comfortable. The sheets and pillows lovely and soft. There was a fresh pillow slip on both the top pillows every day and the sheets were changed regularly.
There is one armchair and a straight chair for use at the dressing table. Above the dressing table is the hairdryer which was powerful unlike the usual standard of dryer on ships and in hotels. However the cord was messy and got in the way of the electric sockets.
Two US style sockets which were placed so close together that it was impossible to use both with a plug converter at the same time. Thankfully we had purchased the Swiss travel multi-converter with double USB ports so you could re-charge two items like Kindles or laptops at the same time if necessary. We used it for our e.cigs. For the mobile or camera batteries it had to be one at a time.
The walk in wardrobe beside the shower room is absolutely brilliant with plenty of hanging space and shelves so this more than made up for the overall size of the cabin.
The shower room is also small. In fact it is probably the smallest shower we’ve ever had. Shower curtain was weighted at the bottom so not too clingy but definitely not as good as a glass door. Some toiletries were provided. Bathrobes provided on request and although they were supposed to be ‘one size to fit all’ there was a big difference in the two we got. The smaller of the two barely wrapped round me and the larger was the same on OH so I got that one and he just used the his own.
The balcony has two chairs and small table. There is an overhang on this deck which does not bother us as we don’t sunbathe. On this trip there was little sun anyway. Although we did have some nice evenings after some pretty awful weather during the day so we were glad to have the opportunity to use the balcony. On previous cruises on Grand Princess we had staterooms on lower decks Caribe and Dolphin, where the balconies are overlooked from above but Deck 12-Aloha as well as the 2 decks above, 14-Riviera and 15-Lido, as well as 11-Baja below us were not.
I must mention our stateroom attendant Ricardo, from Mexico, who was excellent. Our cabin, and especially the shower room, was always cleaned to perfection and towels changed whether we left them on the floor for changing or hung them on the rail. As I’ve mentioned before we never had to ask for anything because he did his job so well.
would have been nice!
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