Hi, would apprciate someone to tell me how bad the inside cabins on the greek island 4 day cruise .I'm rather nervous actually about this part of the Discoverer tour as I hate small confined spaces.I realise now that at the least I should have booked an outside cabin?Maybe a sleeping pill will be needed ,Ha Ha.I'm not worried about rough seas and not fussy about how old the ship is ,but just how small are these cabins??Thanks maybe NZ nurse you could enlighten me??

We had an inside cabin on our Greek cruise. I did not find it a problem as we spent very little time in our cabin. The first couple of cruises that we were on we had an outside cabin but found that we did not spend enough time in our cabin to jusyify the additional expense. Most of the time there is nothing to see outside your cabin except endless sea or darkness.

The inside cabins are so much better for sleeping especially when you have a husband who insists on getting up with the sun and throwing open all the curtains.

It's a personal choice, but inside cabins have no natural daylight and it's like being in a large walk-in closet.

If little time is spent in there, and you don't mind not viewing fabulous scenery while in port either in the early a.m. or afternoon/early evening, then choose inside. Naturally once you are asleep, it doesn't matter.

I think Roxy's description is a good one, an inside cabin is like being (I would imagine) in a walk-in closet. I can't imagine not even knowing what the day looks like when I wake up in the morning.

I have never traveled in an inside cabin & I simply wouldn't contemplate it.

To each his own.

Hi Janine, From what I saw from a fellow travellers cabin,it was about the same size as an outer one with the only difference being no porthole. I chose an outside cabin as I do not like confined spaces and by being able to see out a bit it seemed less confined. The 2 round portholes we had were tiny but still made me feel less confined.

I had an outside suite on the Perla a couple of years ago with a fabulous view of the capstans and maintenance deck with all the equipment strewn about. It was a real treat to hear the thunderous noise of all the rope hauling and banging around that happens early in the mornings. The portholes were too filthy to see out of anyway. If I had been in an inside cabin, I wouldn`t have known the difference.

Caitie:

Caitie, I hope that isn't the case on our cruise, or my husband will have flashbacks to being in the Navy, deployed on a carrier, with his berth under the flight deck!

Just before sunrise, the Marines would all start running and exercising on deck, then the deck crew would start dragging chains, etc across the deck as they released the helicopters for the day.

Mrs. Toad: Ahh, but it`s amazing what inconveniences you can overlook when you`re on vacation in a foreign country. Our cabin was supposedly an upgrade and by hotel standards it was awful in many ways, (terrible beds, smelly bedding, water/heating/cooling/refrigeration problems)but we didn`t care too much. We were in Greece! And Turkey! Somehow the adrenalin rush compensates and you just have to find a sort of farcical humor in it.

Caitie, the industry counts on people like you. That's how they get away with this nonsense and laughing all the way to the bank.

Brenda

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a fabulous view of the capstans and maintenance deck with all the equipment strewn about.

Wow! Did you have to pay extra for that?

Two years ago we cruised in Burma. As we flew into Kalemo we were surprised to find our TA and his wife waiting to board our plane for their return flight to Rangoon. Service beyond expectations really, flying from Canberra to Kalemo to check that two Clients arrived safely! In reality they had been on the cruise that we were about to take and had realized that we had been allocated a cabin next to the mooring deck and had arranged for us to be moved.

At breakfast every morning I found it difficult to look our replacements in the eye - if one can look two people in the eye. But a great TA.

Brenda: I walked into that situation with my eyes open, fully aware that the alternative was to do an independent trip and ferry around the islands, schlepping luggage, or spend three times as much and go with an operator such as T****, who uses a yacht, I think.
A year earlier, we had done a Land tour of Greece and declined the opportunity to cruise because we had learned that Louis Cruise Lines pretty much has a monopoloy in the area. We instantly regretted it and ultimately succumbed for the sake of seeing important sites such as Ephesus and Knossos. No regrets, (the staff were terrific, food quite okay) but it could have been a more pleasant ship experience.
Tangata: No, just lucky!

I'm following this discussion avidly. I'm off in several weeks on the Aegean Odyssey... I've asked for an outside superior cabin, we are to be on the Cristal and I can't wait to see how I'm spending my 7 nights onboard!

Hi, You have to remember that if you go on a cruise to stay in the cabin then you are in the wrong place. Most people use the cabin to sleep and change cloths. A port hole does make a difference in the feel, but you don't stay there and look out all the time. Sometimes the outside isn't that much more. Most people remark that they sleep better in an inside cabin. All older ships have small cabins.