hello everyone and welcome to zach the traveling man this is a stateroom tour of a standard balcony
cabin i'm actually on deck 15 on the carnival mardi gras this is it's inaugural sailing so
the first time this room's ever been stayed in or reviewed so we'll start here at the door the
mardi gras does have the same lighting system that the vista class ships have where you have to have
a key card or some other type of card i actually have just a standard business card here
for my channel it has to be in here so that the lights will stay on otherwise when you open the
cabin door and leave the lights will cut off it also has a new air conditioning system you can
adjust the air up or down with just a simple touch of the button i like to leave my room on
as cool as it'll go and if you want to boost all the way to that cold setting maybe you left it
a little bit warmer throughout the day and you come in and you cut it all the way down to the
coolest setting you can turn on the boost button and you'll hear that the fan does get a little
bit faster the air gets a little bit cooler so that it cools the room down quicker now
as soon as you walk into this room you will notice closets these are just standard closets like on
most of the carnival ships the safe is located in the closet on the mardi gras and it is just about
the standard safe i think it's about the same size as what you see on the other ships you do need to
have either some sort of card you can swipe to lock it here or you can also create a three to
six digit code as well they also have some racks for storage here maybe to put some shoes in
or to fold some clothes and put in here and just act as additional drawers
then in this closet you actually have space to hang some clothes you have additional bedding
if you need it you also have a full-length mirror so that you can check yourself before
you head out for elegant night now right behind the closets right when you walk in the cabin door
you'll find the bathroom and this bathroom is updated and a little bit different than
what we see on other carnival ships first of all look at the shower in this bathroom you
have a full glass door it's a full glass shower on the carnival mardi gras the door opens out
so that you can step in and there's actually a lot more room in this shower
than in other carnival ships i'll get in and go all the way to the back wall and shut the door
just so you can see the amount of space that you have in this shower it's a lot different
than those with the shower curtains that will sometimes cling to you while you're taking a
shower and standing in the other corner you'll see a lot of space in the shower i've been very
very pleased with how spacious the shower is the sink and the sink area is quite small
but here's the sink it is very nice i i enjoy the look and feel of the bathroom i also enjoy
the layout of it it's a little bit different than what we see on the vista and dream class ships
but it is very nice also when you cut the light out in the bathroom it keeps this little night
light on at all times so when you shut the door you see you get some sort of light in there so
if you come to the bathroom in the middle of the night you don't want to turn the light on
and wake someone else in the cabin up you can just open the door and it has the little nightlight on
of course here hanging just outside the bathroom is your snoozing privacy please
sign that's standard for carnival ships and you also have your breakfast menu that you can put
outside for room service you can pick what time you want to eat breakfast what you want to eat
and all sorts of other selections that you can make so now heading into the room the bed here and
i have the configuration two twin beds made into a king bed or what carnival calls a king bed one
of the cool new features of the bedrooms is this little nightstand here you have room you can set
maybe a phone um set some other things i like to set a bottle of water down here at night my phone
and my glasses up here you also have these reading lights on the side which pop out and twist and you
can adjust it to get the right amount of light that you need to read when you're in bed you also
have usb ports here just beside the light so you can plug your phone in or other things at night
you do have controls here right on the headboard so you can control the lights in the room you
can cut the lights off you can also cut a light on that's back here right behind the bed which i like
so you can always cut that on at night to get into bed and then cut it off once you're in the bed
you also have a tv that's mounted just at the foot of the bed which is nice you can lay in bed and
watch tv you'll notice just up above the bed there is the vent for the air conditioner which i really
like because you do feel like you get that cold air blowing over you at night which i particularly
enjoy so right over here we have a sofa in the cabin this sofa actually adjusts to make a twin
size bed of course you're also provided with this room has two carnival towels which you can take
to the beach or to the pool over here you have a pretty large substantial area here to work with
looks very clean and modern and there's a lot here that you can turn on so that you can use while
you're getting ready to go out for elegant night or to go out for dinner or whatever activities
you are taking in on the carnival mardi gras down here below there is a seat that pulls out
uh the seats kind of tough to pull out at first on the carpet uh you can actually take the lid
off of this though and you have more storage so it is nice that carnival is thought of this
extra storage opportunity for you if you have you know you want to put shoes or clothes or
something like that in here and save yourself some space on the floor in the state room you can also
flip this over and have yourself a nice tray if you want to sit on the couch and have drinks
while you watch tv or something like that so uh it's really cool how they've made this what's
supposed to be a little seat uh something you can you know sit on the couch and pop your legs up on
you can just sit here at the vanity any number of things you can do with this here also here on
the vanity slash desk you have a lot of different inputs you have four usb inputs and you have three
electric outlets speaking of electric outlets i know it's very popular to ask if they have
hair dryers in the room and they absolutely do there's a brand new one in this bag here in the
second drawer a lot of drawer space here for the inaugural season they're actually giving out these
mardi gras inaugural season books and inaugural season lanyard so that was nice to see in the
room when i got here they also have provided a couple of bottles of water in the state
rooms these you do have to pay for their 3.95 per bottle but these are 1.5 liters
then they also have shelving up here so if you want to put some things maybe you've bought
momentos in the ports as you sell it along and you want to put those up to display in your room
plenty of space for that now down here below there is a mini fridge so you can put in any bottles of
wine you might bring back from the restaurants just to keep your water cool maybe you brought
sodas on board um it stays pretty cool in here and down here on the bottom you can actually adjust
the temperature of the mini fridge now heading out to the best part of this standard balcony room
the balcony itself you'll notice that on the carnival mardi gras room actually has a sliding
french door instead of having the loud door that bangs shut and swing shut like they have
on most of all their other ships one thing to note about this door is that the air conditioning is
controlled by the door being open or closed so if the door is in the locked position like this the
air conditioner will stay on however once you open it and the door is able to be slid open the air
conditioning in the room will shut off so if you sit out on the balcony and leave your door open
it will get warm in your room very quickly because the air conditioning is going to cut off stepping
out onto the balcony it is about the standard size of a balcony on a carnival ship they do
have different chairs this time i do like the look of these they're a little bit different than those
gaudy blue chairs that carnival typically has on their balcony there's also a little white table
here and then looking off we're currently in amber cove dominican republic this is the 15th floor so
there's only two floors above me i am forward on the ship on the port side so you can see the
bridge up there it's one deck up above and then up above the bridge up there is actually one of the
presidential excel suites one of the most expensive rooms here on the carnival mardi gras
but beautiful views of course from this balcony stateroom i love the look and feel of the balcony
i like how everything is white it gives it a very clean look a very modern look on older carnival
ships this was wood so this is a very nice touch this is all white it's all fresh and clean
so we'll step back into the cabin now and we'll close the door
so that the air conditioning will put on and then one more thing to show you
um well of course you have the child safety lock up here you can twist to lock and unlock
so if you have small children you don't want them getting out on the balcony you can twist this so
that the door won't open you have to actually twist it back so that the door will unlock
you of course have a curtain you can pull the shades back maybe you want to take a nap during
the day i like to keep them closed at night so the sun doesn't wake me up early in the morning
but very nice shades these are brand new so it's nice they're not ripped they're not torn a lot of
times on older ships these will be hanging by just threads at the top so it's nice these are nice new
and fresh and then here is one more reading light if you want to sit on the couch perhaps and read a
book maybe you're sleeping here on the couch that this bed makes you have a light there is no usb
on this light so that completes this review of a standard balcony cabin here on the carnival
mardi gras this is deck 15. thank you all so much for watching this video i invite you to
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