In this video you can discover the 9
times that an inside cabin could be the
best choice for a cruise. Hi I'm Gary
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An inside cabin is a perfect choice if
you're looking to cruise as
inexpensively as possible, perhaps
you're on a tight budget or actually you
want to spend as little as possible on a
cruise so you can go on as many cruises
as possible. Inside cabins will be the
least expensive or the cheapest of any
cabin on board, and you can even find
deals from anything from $75 up to $100
a day - which is going to include your
cabin and all your food and
entertainment. So it's a pretty
inexpensive way of cruising. So if you're
on a budget and you want to make sure
that you can go on a cruise, but spend as
little as possible but still have access
to all of the facilities then an inside
cabin is a great choice. The great thing
about an inside cabin is you're likely
to have access to everything on board
that even people in the premium cabins
have. Now there's a couple exceptions to
that, for example on Cunard there are
some restrictions based on the grade of
cabin with Princess Grill or Queens
Grill, then some ships have for example
Royal Caribbean has the Haven which has
some facilities that are only available
to people in their Haven area. But
generally speaking you are likely to have a
low fare and access to everything that
everybody else has onboard. Another good
reason for booking an inside cabin is
you want to free up as much money as
possible to pay for the essential costs
and the required costs of cruising. If
you go on a cruise you normally have a
lot of extra costs once you onboard:
gratuities, Wi-Fi, excursions and of
course drinks - so that can mount up to
quite of money. So you want to free up as
much money as possible for those things,
and if you're going on a cruise
which is going to places like Alaska for
example where excursions can be pretty
expensive you want to free up as much
money as possible so you can go to the
spa ,you can gamble, you can go on
excursions and you can still have your
overall cost of your cruise being pretty
manageable. So that's a really good
reason for choosing an inside cabin: as
low as possible on the accommodation and
food and free up as much money as
possible to have a great time on other
things that you want to do on your
cruise. Inside cabins are also a great
choice if you're traveling solo, although
there are
increasingly solo cabins at all grades
onboard cruise ships, it's still
relatively limited. So you'll find if you
go on a cruise ship you're often paying
50% surcharge and up to 100%
surcharge, so actually going an
inside cabin if you're traveling by
yourself is a great option - because even
if you're paying the full whack you're
paying a 50% or 100%
surcharge
it's still much more manageable than
going in a balcony or a suite where the
costs are enormous. If you're traveling
solo now some cruise lines like
Norwegian actually have created specific
solo areas, so although they're inside
cabins they've created a little area
where you can actually have solo
cabins and a little lounge and other
facilities, but if you're traveling solo
inside cabins are a great option to try
and just make the cost of cruising so
much more manageable. If you're looking
to have better sleep an inside cabin
could be a great option.
As inside cabins have no windows so of
course they're very dark and if you've
chosen a great location it can be
incredibly quiet and dark, so it's a
great place if you like to have a really
nice deep sleep. This is something you
may especially want to consider if
you're traveling to places where there
is almost no darkness, so if you're
traveling to Norway or Iceland or even
Alaska in the season - there's almost no
darkness so actually having a cabin with
a balcony or a suite which has lots of
windows you might actually find that
it's pretty light in your cabin. So an
inside cabin is a great choice. Of
course if you're a party animal and
you're gonna be out and want to sleep
during the day, an inside cabin is
great because again it's gonna be nice
and dark and quiet. So if you're looking
for a nice dark quiet space and inside
cabin could be a great choice, but very
important of course when you're choosing
your inside cabin make sure that you're
choosing one in a quiet spot on
the ship. The key thing to do is look
for inside cabin that's surrounded by
above, below, left hand side, right hand,
opposite by the cabins - so you are in a nice
quiet spot of the ship and you can get
that sleep that you're looking for.
Inside cabin is also a great choice if
you're on a big resort ship and you
actually know that you're not going to
want to spend time in your cabin, because
you're going to be out enjoying a resort.
So if you've got one of those big mega
ships where there is so much to do, there
all sorts of attractions and rides and
water parks and things to do and actually
you're not going to be want to spend
time in a cabin (because you're going to
want to be out enjoying a resort ship).
Now of course you might decide if you're
on a smaller ship which doesn't have
that, you actually might be spending more
time in your cabin so you might want a
balcony - but if you're on a big resort
ship and you know you're going to be out
all the time in the day and in the evening
enjoying all the great attractions and
nightclubs the facilities, then an inside
cabin could be a really good choice
because you just aren't going to spend
virtually no time there - just getting ready
and sleeping is the only time you're
going to spend there, take a look at an
inside cabin. Linked to that another good
reason for taking inside cabin is if
you're on a very port intensive trip. So
every day you're going to be in a port
and when you're on one of
those cruises where you arrive into the
port very early and you stay very late
(increasingly cruise lines are trying
to stay longer and longer in ports), so if
you're basically on a seven-day cruise
or even longer and every single day
you're on a port you're getting there
basically at breakfast time or even
before breakfast and leaving late in the
evening, an inside cabin could be a
great choice because actually you're not
going to want a balcony or
have a window to actually look at the
scenery, because pretty much when you're
awake you're going to be in port. So very
port intensive trips could be a
great reason for having an inside cabin,
especially if you're not that bothered
about watching coming into port or
leaving port or if you are happy to
go up on deck and take a look at sailing
and sail out from there. Now if you're
not in a rush to board the ship or get
off the ship, an inside cabin is also a
great choice. These cabins tend to be
some of the last that will board a ship
and some of the last that get off a ship
on disembarkation day, so if you're not a
big rush or not bothered about getting
on the ship early or getting off the
ship late an inside cabin is a great
choice. Of course if you cruise a lot
on one particular cruise line, even
if that's an inside cabin, you will build
up loyalty and as you work up loyalty
you start to get things like priority
embarkation and disembarkation, so
actually even sailing in an inside
cabin as you build up loyalty (which is
based on number of nights not on what
cabin you're in) you start to get all of
those perks as well. So don't let that
put you off an inside cabin. If you know
you are going to be loyal to one Cruise
Line. I would also say an inside cabin is
good if you travel
light. So obviously a suite or balcony
cabins, which tend to be bigger, there's
often much more storage space. But if you
are a relatively light cruiser,
particularly going on a nice warm Cruise
and you're on a cruise line which does not have
strict dress codes and you're
actually able therefore to travel pretty
light an inside is great if you
don't need lots of storage, because
you're a light traveler and you know
need loads of places to put all those dress code
fancy clothes.
An inside cabin is great for people
who like to travel nice and light, and if
you travel light there's another great
advantage because it's one way of
getting around that getting off a ship
late. Many cruise lines if you're able to
carry your own baggage will allow you to
self disembark and they tend to be very
early in terms of disembarking the ship.
So if you can carry all of your luggage off
a ship you can get off really really
early. So that's one way of getting
around it, so if your light traveller an
inside cabin is a great option. Another
great choice for inside cabins is
because, although they're not exclusively
but many of them are, lower down on the
ship. If you are particular worried
about motion sickness and seasickness,
an inside cabin could be a great choice
because they do tend to be much lower
down in the ship as they
tend to be lower down a ship because
of course they don't need to have
windows and have balconies, so get an
inside cabin low down and mid ships and
that's great for people who worried
about seasickness. Now saying that all
inside cabins are not necessarily low
down and you can get inside cabins which
are much higher up on a ship - but if
you're worried about it.. one of the
lowest cabins you can get on the ship is
going to be an inside cabin so it's a great
choice. As you can see there's lots of
reasons for choosing an inside cabin.
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