LuAnn

With many looking for information on specific cabins on Solstice I thought it might be good to have a form of sorts for everyone to post basic information on each cabin that is easily read and searchable.

 

Hopefully if future cruisers will cooperate we can eventually obtain information on most every cabin and possibly get it as a sticky. Below is the information that I have noticed many wanting to know about the cabins. Please add any pertinant information that I might have missed. I will add a post after this one with just the questions that you can "Reply To" and add your information without copying and editing this first post. I hope to eventually get the basic info in a table and will try to post that periodically within the thread.

 

Please name your post with the title "Cabin # xxxx" so that those searching for information on a specific cabin can locate those easier with the search this forum option by using the cabin number that they need info on.

 

After the questions please add any comments concerning location - close to elevators, far from specific venues, etc. Also, post links to your photos of specific cabins or attach photos to the post.

 

 

Deck - 8

Cabin # - 8260

Class –

Starboard or Port Side - Starboard

Bed near?(balcony or bath) –Balcony

 

Quiet Cabin (With comments on problems. Note if connecting. ) –OK-quiet

 

Balcony View - Give comments on view, noting if location of any obstructions was an issue. – You do look straight down to the life boats.

 

Balcony Size? Normal or oversized for class? - It is the first balcony after the "hump"...not on the angle as shown in the initial deck plans.

 

Was wind a problem? No

 

If an aft cabin, was soot a problem? N/A

 

Any specific problems with this cabin? No

 

Any other comments?

I did not like being "behind" the hump...as it meant that we could not really see forward, at all. But it was close to the aft elevators and very easy to get to the pool area, the buffet area and any of the other areas mid ship or aft.

Just back from the Oosterdam for the T-Day cruise! Probably not the best "test" for the Any Time Dining experience. We have used this form of dining on Princess many times, but this was our first time using this format on HAL.

 

So...this is not a fair test. But even with a "reservation" we were in a huge, long line, with no possibility of having a dining time anywhere close to our reservation time.

 

My concern was that HAL did not address the problem. Corp. office had scheduled 200 + new crew members to board on the day of our cruise in SD.... and I think many of them were dining staff personnel. So...we had the Perfect Storm. 200 + new crew members, large family groups for the holiday and the poor staff over worked. I would have liked HAL to at least address the problem with on-board passengers, so that the "newbies" who had never cruised with HAL would know that this was a "one-off" and not the norm. Many new cruisers told us they would not sail with HAL again, based on this experience. Better to "head them off at the pass'???

 

I think that this format can work...in fact, I have seen it work on Princess. Since both cruise lines are under the Carnival "Umbrella" I think it might be appropriate if HAL and Princess worked together on this format. I was told, by the Hotel Director on HAL on a previous cruise, that the various cruise lines are seperate, and they do not share soft-ware, ideas, cross-training etc. I'm not sure that this is the best way to handle new processes...why re-invent the "wheel"???

 

We had a great time and the food was excellent! But we ate all of our dinners in the Lido...a first for us...but a chance to experience a new venue and way to "dine".

 

I appreciate that HAL gave me a chance to meet with the Captain, the CD, the Hotel and Guess Relation Directors as a "group" leader. While I was certainly not that, I was the passenger who arranged the Meet and Greet with HAL for CC. And I tried to "poll" our CC members re their in-put for this cruise.

 

I think it is wonderful that HAL does this type of interaction with their passengers...it certainly proves that they are open to in-put and feed-back from their passengers!! LuAnn

is awesome...in fact I was just there yesterday AM! If you are a zoo member you get a free entrance pass for a year so it's easy to go and just see a "slice" of the zoo each time.

 

It is considered the best zoo in the world (remember I am a SD native ;)) but that would really take an entire day out of your schedule to get down here, see the zoo and get back to LA..probably better to save that for a time when you sail out of SD...next time!? :D LuAnn

Are you sure you don't want to rent a car? LA is not at all like NY City where there is so much safe, public, convenient transportation! Everyone in So. Cal. drives their own car...everywhere! :o Mainly because our publie transport is so poor and limited and also because everything is so spread out. Perhaps the freeway systems are somewhat daunting but I think you can now get rental cars with GPS systems...that should make it far easier to find those special places you want to see! I think Enterprise has an office very close to the San Pedro pier...you might want to consider them...pick one up at LAX and then return it to the pier? LuAnn

sorry I left off a few things...cabin is, I believe a 2A and there was some creaking in the wall next to the balcony window 1 night so between the creaking and the door whistling that night was a little "nosiy" :D Thanks for all your hard work on this! LuAnn

Deck 8

Starboard side

Balcony was standard size

Bed was by the balcony

Balcony view...looking straight down you did see the lifeboats but not a problem when sitting on the balcony

Wind...a big problem with the door to the balcony.."whistled" all the time and didn't really close correctly. Had maintenance in to fix it but that only worked for 1 night.

Just back .....Had 9140 CC on RT Hawaii on Infinity..no problem (except the ceiling "Squeeked"...nothing to do with the deck above..."book it, Danno!" LuAnn

Eggs Benedict!!!!!!! Right on !!!!

This was a long time ago but I left with out my birth control pills! I was in a panic..was waiting outside the ship's doctor's door when he opened after sailing....he gave me a big smile, opened up a cabinet and low and behold..every kind of birth control pill known to women! What a relief!