Cabin or Stateroom?

Just thinking of our first cruise and confused the difference between a cabin and a Stateroom?

Is it just a UK/US language thing or is there a difference in the rooms?

Just thinking of our first cruise and confused the difference between a cabin and a Stateroom?

 

Is it just a UK/US language thing or is there a difference in the rooms?

No difference.

Same/Same no difference .

Sad , many now just call it a Room ☹️

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Just thinking of our first cruise and confused the difference between a cabin and a Stateroom?

 

Is it just a UK/US language thing or is there a difference in the rooms?

I believe the term "stateroom" was introduced by the cruise line industry to get away from the lesser "class" image of a "cabin".

Basically, it's the same thing.

Cunard uses "stateroom" routinely. Other cruise lines - not so much.

Cunard uses "stateroom" routinely. Other cruise lines - not so much.

And some use "suite" if there is any significant extra space.

Cunard uses "stateroom" routinely. Other cruise lines - not so much.

RCI and Celebrity refer to the rooms on their ships as staterooms as well.

Just thinking of our first cruise and confused the difference between a cabin and a Stateroom?

 

Is it just a UK/US language thing or is there a difference in the rooms?

Some places call a ground beef patty a "hamburger", while others call it a "steakburger". Cabin? Stateroom? Makes no difference. They're both the same thing.

As others have said, "cabin" and "stateroom" mean the same thing. "Stateroom" is a holdover word from the Golden Days of Ocean Travel, I believe. This was the era when ships such as Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, Ile de France, Bremen, Rex, United States, Kungsholm, Rotterdam V, etc. sailed the seas.

I believe that Captain James Cook had a small cabin for sleeping, on the Endeavour, and also a much larger "stateroom" for meeting people and making plans- a sort of office.

Sometimes,, we even call them "rooms"! Lol!

Originally, a "stateroom" was a room or suite of rooms in a grand mansion of the aristocracy used for entertaining (and impressing) a head of state back in the 17th and 18th century. My guess is that a "stateroom" was initially used to define shipboard accommodations in First class of ships of the grand old transAtlantc ocean liners, while lesser accommodations were probably just "cabins". As time progressed either/or is the term for your "room" on a ship.

Until the jets killed seaborn trans-Atlantic passenger service, there were two, and sometimes three, classes of accommodations. First Class, called that, (they had staterooms); then there was Cabin Class (in Cabins) , and finally: Steerage- in larger compartments accommodating six, eight, and sometimes more, same-sex passengers.

The airlines today have pretty well mimicked this - with at least three, sometimes more classes of accommodations. There is First Class, Business Class, and Coach - with some differentiation for those Coach passengers willing to pay for "more space" - or whatever different lines calls the less cramped seats.

I call it a cabin because I like cabins.

My guess is that a "stateroom" was initially used to define shipboard accommodations in First class of ships of the grand old transAtlantc ocean liners, while lesser accommodations were probably just "cabins".

It goes back further than that. The first recorded use of "stateroom" was in Pepys' diary in 1660. Back in those early days of sailing ships, the crew did not have private quarters and only one, sometimes times two cabins were called staterooms. Those being for the superior officer and the like. Thus, the "state" part comes in meaning of stature, status.

Thank you fileyboy for posting this thread, (And, welcome to Cruise Critic, as well.) Your question is turning into a nostalgic thread. And, that is not bad!