This is a cabin tour of Cabin 12182 on Royal Caribbean's "Anthem Of The Seas"
and while at first glance this might look like pretty much a standard cruise ship cabin
there were some very smart design choices that were made when they created Anthem Of The Seas
and there's some little things that they did in this cabin
that I want to show you that are very very clever.
I guess we should first address the elephant in the room
who is not actually an elephant
It's Tramp from the Disney movie "Lady And The Tramp". He's accompanying us on this cruise.
The first thing I want to show you is these drapes in the cabin.
The drapes are on a two-track system so that when you close the drapes
The right drapes can overlap the left drapes and you can get a perfect seal.
which blocks out all the light.
So, if you'd like to take a nap during the day or if you like to sleep well past sunrise in the morning
you can block all that light out because they were smart enough
to put two tracks in for those drapes. Most cruise ship cabins: they just have one track.
The drapes meet in the middle and you never really get a very good seal there
and some light spills through and it'll wake you up.
While we're down here at this end of the room, I want to show you another smart thing that they've done.
Look next to the bed. There is an electrical outlet there.
This is fantastic news for people who sleep with a CPAP
or also just if you want to plug your electronics in there to charge at night
or whatever you want to plug in there. You've got a plug next to the bed.
I've never seen that before on any of the previous cruises that we've taken.
Now, let's go in here to this closet.
You'll notice there's a safe there and the safe has a keypad
so instead of some of the older cruise ships
where you have to swipe some kind of card through there
here you can just assign it a code.
And that's pretty standard on most newer cruise ships.
But here's what i like about this closet:
See how that closet is way far away from that other closet?
So that if I need to get into MY closet when my wife and I are getting dressed
and she wants to get into HER closet at the same time: it's no problem.
We're like 12 feet apart there. We're not bumping into each other.
While we're speaking of storage, take a look at these drawers over here.
I'll open this one. You notice we've got a hair dryer in there.
Now watch what happens when I just give this thing a light push closed.
It closes itself softly the rest of the way!
I've never seen that in a cruise ship cabin before.
Down below, we have the refrigerator. Look at this!
Here's something else I've never seen on a cruise ship cabin!
It's kind of hard to see in this light but that is a combination lock right there.
Just like you have on the safe.
And so, because it's a minibar
and there's booze that's stored inside there
If you're traveling with kids and you want to lock them out of the refrigerator
so they can't get to the booze or buy the expensive Coca-Cola that's in there...
You can just set a combination lock on that refrigerator and keep the kids out.
Now, I want to focus on this desk area for a second
and the first thing to point out:
Let's say I'm sitting at the desk there, on the chair.
Notice that there's still an awful lot of room behind me for someone to pass by.
The problem we've had on some of the other cruise ships we've stayed on
is they put the desk next to the bed
so that if you're sitting at the chair using the desk there
There's not enough space there. You totally block it, and nobody can get by.
So, this was a much smarter design putting the desk over here.
And there's still plenty of room behind that chair for my wife to get by when I'm sitting at the desk.
I'm going to close my laptop lid here for a second
to show you all these connections.
You have two 110 volt plugs here, American style.
Plus 2 USB, and then a 220 socket over there.
But between these two USB and these two AC outlets here
You can charge an awful lot of electronic devices at night while you're sleeping.
And this was a smart design because they put these far enough apart
that if i plug a battery charger in here
It doesn't block this. You can still use that.
A lot of the cruise ship cabins I've been at the plugs have been so close to each other
that when you go to plug something like this into the socket
it blocks the other. So, this was a very smart design.
Now I want to show you something on the computer itself here.
I just went to speedtest.net a little while ago and
They have very high speed Internet on this ship.
We have a 175 millisecond ping time, which is incredibly fast for a cruise ship ping!
Download speed of 4.45 megabits per second
and upload speed of 3.24 megabits per second.
Very, very solid scores!
The Internet here on Anthem Of The Seas
is just about the fastest that you're going to find on any cruise ship in the world.
Now, this is a very little thing... but it's really a smart idea.
The "makeup room" and "do not disturb" sign... it's magnetic.
So, it just sticks right to the door so you can just attach it like that
of course, to the outside not the inside!
That's way better than using a door hanger that hangs from the door handle
because those tend to get blown off sometimes as people pass by in the hallway.
This magnetic sign is a much smarter idea. Such a simple thing!
Now, let's take a walk into the bathroom
and I'll show you a couple of interesting little features.
The shower itself is big enough to be "not uncomfortable"
I mean it would be great if it was bigger...
but it's not as bad as the tiny showers on the Princess balcony cabins that I've been in.
This shower head here is on a rail, so you can slide it down for short people
and slide it up for somebody who's tall.
And then one of the neat little features
is that these towels have these little hooks on 'em.
So you can hang them like that.
That is SO brilliant! Such a tiny little smart idea.
And then another GREAT idea I've never seen on a cruise ship before:
The light in the bathroom.
If i turn the lights off...
that little part in the corner stays on.
It's a night light!
It's so great at night. This light never goes completely off.
It's always on like that, at least.
And then when you turn on the main light switch
The whole thing lights up and you get a lot of light.
Finally, as far as what they supply...
you'll find some body lotion (or hand lotion) there on the left.
There's shampoo, conditioner, and shower gel (which is like a liquid soap)
Plus there's a a bar of hand soap there. So, pretty well supplied.
You don't have to pack a whole lot of stuff.
And as you use these little amounts up
they will be replenished by your cabin steward throughout the week.
And as we say hello to Tramp one more time we're going to work our way over here to the balcony
and get ready to wrap this thing up.
The balcony is, of course, the reason that you book a cabin like this:
for the beautiful view.
But i want to show you something about the balcony door that was very, very smart.
The balcony door slides from right to left
and you have that little handle that you turn there to open it.
A lot of cruise ship balcony doors pivot on hinges
and when you close the balcony door it slams closed and makes a very loud noise.
And throughout the cruise, you're hearing your neighbors balcony doors slam closed.
I'm talking about on a lot of OTHER cruise ships, not this one.
This was a very smart design: having a sliding door.
It's nearly silent. You never hear your neighbors balcony door slamming
because they don't slam!
And notice there on the chairs they have a little ottoman, or footstool.
There's also a little table out here.
Beautiful view! That is the reason to book a balcony cabin.
And if you look this way,
you can see that there's an overhang from the decks above
that provides really nice shade out here so it doesn't get too hot.
And that completes the cabin tour. Cabin 12182 on Anthem Of The Seas.
It's a fairly standard balcony cabin. Category D5.
And a heck of a great value!