This is a tour of cabin 5233 on Carnival Panorama.
It’s one of only four Havana Suites on the ship.
Not to be confused with Havana Cabanas, which are more common.
Those are less expensive and quite a bit smaller.
A Havana Suite is top-of-the-line with a nice bedroom area…
Plus a living room area with a sleeper sofa and a desk.
And that living room area opens up to a patio that has a little swing that my wife absolutely loved!
And another thing that makes a Havana Suite much more desirable than a regular Havana Cabana...
Is a much larger bathroom, with double sinks.
And most importantly, a huge shower large enough for two people to share.
Some cruise ship showers are SO uncomfortably small!
If you hate that as much as I do, you should book a Havana Suite just for the shower!
And how about that rainfall shower head?!?! Nice!
In the bedroom area, you’ve got a very large TV on the wall…
And there’s actually a second TV in the living room area as well.
And the living room area just flows right in to the bedroom area.
There’s a curtain you can close to separate them.
Now one of the great things about a Havana Suite is the location.
Just step out on to your patio, open your gate, and you are just a few steps away from the best thing that Carnival Panorama has going for it:
The Havana sun deck and pool area.
This is one of the greatest things that Carnival has come up with in a long time.
If you like to relax on a cruise, away from the crowds, the screaming kids, the noise…
You would totally love the Havana pool area.
It’s located at the very back end of the ship.
So, from this area you have a very nice view of the ship’s wake...
And an unobstructed view of everything behind the ship.
There’s a completely uncrowded swimming pool back here.
As well as two uncrowded whirlpool hot tubs.
The reason that it’s so uncrowded back here is that most passengers don’t have access to this area.
The Havana pool area is for the exclusive use of passengers who have booked a cabin in the Havana area.
So, the vast majority of Carnival Panorama’s passengers aren’t allowed in.
I’ll give you a view of it from a different angle. This is looking down, from above.
From this angle you get a better idea of how the Havana area sits down closer to the waterline, so you have a nice feeling of being close to the water.
And there are some other Havana cabins on the decks above the pool area, but I don’t like those as much.
I tried one of those on Carnival Horizon and decided that I really prefer the Havana suites...
Which are down at the same level as the pool…
So it’s very easy to get to the pool or to one of the Jacuzzis from your suite, without having to take any stairs.
It would be very hard for me to go back to any of the older Carnival ships now after getting used to cruising this way.
Being able to relax back here in the Havana pool area where it’s never crowded…
There’s never any kids…
As a 62 year old guy, this is my idea of cruise perfection.
And let me show you something especially cool!
Notice this button on the wall, right here.
The button is labeled service, and these are found throughout the Havana pool area.
If you push the button, it sends a notification to the smart watch on the wrist of the servers at the Havana bar...
And within a few minutes, one of them will drop by and take your drink order.
And then a few minutes after that, they’ll be back with your drink.
If you book any kind of Havana cabin… even an inexpensive interior Havana cabin…
You’ll have access to the private, uncrowded Havana pool area.
But if you’ve worked hard all your life, and saved well over the years…
Book the Havana Suite to get the best Havana cabin of all!
Let me give you one last tip.
If you’re a non-smoker and you hate the smell of cigarette smoke…
Book a Havana Suite or a Havana cabin on the port side, not the starboard side…
Because there’s a smoking area just upwind of the starboard side Havana cabin patios.
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